Ibuprofen VS Tylenol VS NeoCitran

I am feeling pretty human today. My cold is mostly gone, my intestines are better, my back is not hurting and hasn't for about a week, and I have figured out how to use tylenol extra strength for my knees.

I stopped using ibuprofen[1] when I was pursuing medical help for my back because all my doctors hate it so much: "it can cause spontaneous bleeding in the brain", "it can cause water retention", "evil, pure and simple"[2], and similar. Fine. Okay. Sure. Gimme that useless Tylenol crap. I'll tape it to my forehead and it will be as much use as swallowing it.

However. I have discovered, by way of neocitran[3], that instead of taking one extra strength every six hours, if I take two just before I go to sleep then it calms the pain in my knees enough that I get a decent sleep, which, all said and done, decent sleep is the BEST therapy for bad knees. So my knees are less painful during the next day, and I don't need more tylenol until sleep. This has improved my disposition no end.

The neocitran I took for the cold symptoms had TWO TIMES as much "active ingredient" as each tylenol extra strength, and aside from calming a lot of the cold symptoms, really helped my knees. So.

I use neocitran because it works, but I don't know who they are using as a taste-tester because that's lemon in the same way as I am Lynda Carter[4].

It is amazing what a difference the lack of pain makes.


[1] - which *works*, dammit!
[2] - Buckaroo Banzai reference for those old enough
[3] - disGUSTing stuff
[4] - she played Wonder Woman back in the day, and not only is she drop dead gorgeous, svelte, and appealing, she is also tall (envy envy envy)