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  • #32
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,589 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I'm confused.. I was using it on/off for a couple of years with a knee problem. But it was a gel I used, not tablets.

    Worked very well in most cases and meant that I wasn't laid up for a while.


  • #33
    RobFowl
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 11,669 Mod ✭✭✭✭RobFowl


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I'm confused.. I was using it on/off for a couple of years with a knee problem. But it was a gel I used, not tablets.

    Worked very well in most cases and meant that I wasn't laid up for a while.

    Difene tablets and suppositories are prescription only but the gel is available over the counter in pharmacies


  • #34
    Fionnanc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 162 ✭✭Fionnanc


    Jaysus, I hope you got more than difene for your dislocated knee!!!


  • #35
    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    above post deleted.

    Apologies jems. We can't offer individual med advice here.


  • #36
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Bloody Difene, the first port of call for lazy docs.

    Me: Doc, my tendonitis has flared up big time again. Think I need it checked out.
    Doc 1: Nah, it's fine. Have some difene gel

    Me (Three months later), talking to other doc in practice while walking out of office (work based practice so can not change)
    Me: Yeah, I am walking again, about to start running
    Doc 2: Well you are lucky, look to have healed up well.
    Doc 1: Norrie, what happened.
    Me: Oh I ruptured my Ahcillies Tendon, 3 days after you gave me Difene gel instead of investigating how serious my complaint was
    Doc 1: Oh that is a stroke of bad luck isn't it?
    Doc 2: face palm
    Me: (mentally) smack!!!


    Moral of the story children: Just because something reduces the symptoms, does NOT mean that it is treating the problem.
    Get yourself checked out properly before just assuming that everything is fine.
    Remember that, in most cases, you feel pain for a reason


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  • #37
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    norrie rugger wrote: »
    Bloody Difene, Moral of the story children: Just because something reduces the symptoms, does NOT mean that it is treating the problem.
    Get yourself checked out properly before just assuming that everything is fine.
    Remember that, in most cases, you feel pain for a reason

    +1 I am sure that my doctor is on the payroll for the makers of Difene, he feckin force feeds me the bloody stuff. Three years and 5 back operations later and im still eating the damn stuff, i HATE it.


  • #38
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    Caoimhín wrote: »
    +1 I am sure that my doctor is on the payroll for the makers of Difene, he feckin force feeds me the bloody stuff. Three years and 5 back operations later and im still eating the damn stuff, i HATE it.

    hey, how long did you have coordinates as your location.
    If it was after me, then stop stealing my idea.

    It is was before me... a well. More than one person can have the same idea;)


  • #39
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    norrie rugger wrote: »
    hey, how long did you have coordinates as your location.
    If it was after me, then stop stealing my idea.

    It is was before me... a well. More than one person can have the same idea;)

    Long before you norrie, long before.

    The idea came to me in a haze of Difene overdose.


  • #40
    AmcD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭AmcD


    Norrie rugger that is shocking. That lazy doctor gave you pain relief instead of scanning you with his pocket MRI and putting you in a below knee cast for six weeks!


  • #41
    Caoimhín
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭Caoimhín


    AmcD wrote: »
    Norrie rugger that is shocking. That lazy doctor gave you pain relief instead of scanning you with his pocket MRI and putting you in a below knee cast for six weeks!

    Ah in fairness, Norrie has a point. I went to the doctor the other week and as i sat down he already had the prescription pad out, ready to write.
    I told him i just wanted advice not bloody pills but i still ended up going home with a bag of Difene.


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  • #42
    ZYX
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 882 ✭✭✭ZYX


    Caoimhín wrote: »
    Ah in fairness, Norrie has a point. I went to the doctor the other week and as i sat down he already had the prescription pad out, ready to write.
    I told him i just wanted advice not bloody pills but i still ended up going home with a bag of Difene.
    Just change doctor people. If you are not happy with the service change. It doesn't really matter if it is a works doctor or not. Change. If necessary complain and then change.


  • #43
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    AmcD wrote: »
    Norrie rugger that is shocking. That lazy doctor gave you pain relief instead of scanning you with his pocket MRI and putting you in a below knee cast for six weeks!

    As I stated, he treated the symptoms and not the cause.
    No "Norrie, your leg is buggered. Lay off running/rugby/training."
    Just "Rub this in and everything will be fine"
    Free medical so anything to treat the cause culd have been done (if anything could be done), failing that a bit of advice on the problem. Not just dishing out difene.


    Also it is well bloody easy to say change doc. hindsight is 20/20, isn't it?


  • #44
    old boy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,658 ✭✭✭old boy


    plenty of water is required with difene, i am taking it with years on and off.
    an old aquaintance of mine claims that a middling vet is better than any doctor, i also suscribe to his claim.


  • #45
    drzhivago
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭drzhivago


    norrie rugger wrote: »
    Bloody Difene, the first port of call for lazy docs.

    Me: Doc, my tendonitis has flared up big time again. Think I need it checked out.
    Doc 1: Nah, it's fine. Have some difene gel

    Me (Three months later), talking to other doc in practice while walking out of office (work based practice so can not change)
    Me: Yeah, I am walking again, about to start running
    Doc 2: Well you are lucky, look to have healed up well.
    Doc 1: Norrie, what happened.
    Me: Oh I ruptured my Ahcillies Tendon, 3 days after you gave me Difene gel instead of investigating how serious my complaint was
    Doc 1: Oh that is a stroke of bad luck isn't it?
    Doc 2: face palm
    Me: (mentally) smack!!!
    Moral of the story children: Just because something reduces the symptoms, does NOT mean that it is treating the problem.
    Get yourself checked out properly before just assuming that everything is fine.
    Remember that, in most cases, you feel pain for a reason

    Have a more interesting question
    Had you been taking any antibiotics around the time of the snap or have you ever had quinolone based antibiotics

    I have treated a number of patients with achilles ruptures who had recently been on such antibiotics
    Not fair to mention drug names here but it can be googled


  • #46
    drzhivago
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 926 ✭✭✭drzhivago


    old boy wrote: »
    plenty of water is required with difene, i am taking it with years on and off.
    an old aquaintance of mine claims that a middling vet is better than any doctor, i also suscribe to his claim.

    Anti inflammatories not great to be taking long term for numerous reasons

    Some have increased risk of cardiac events


  • #47
    norrie rugger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,656 ✭✭✭norrie rugger


    drzhivago wrote: »
    Have a more interesting question
    Had you been taking any antibiotics around the time of the snap or have you ever had quinolone based antibiotics

    I have treated a number of patients with achilles ruptures who had recently been on such antibiotics
    Not fair to mention drug names here but it can be googled


    Nope, had not been taking any.
    In fairness, he did ask that also. I know that "certain" antibiotics can have damaging effects on the tendon.

    I know what caused the tendonitis but had managed it to the point that this was considered "just a flare up", even though I was pushing for a more indepth exam, as it was a hell of a lot more painful.


    On the topic of Difene, I just brought this example up just to show that the OP should not fall into the trap of thinking that, with no pain, there is no problem


  • #48
    AmcD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 246 ✭✭AmcD


    Well norrie rugger I hope your Achilles tendon is up and running again. For future reference I would probably avoid old boy's suggestion of going to a vet (better than any middling doctor). They put their patients down on a regular basis.


  • #49
    AdMMM
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,472 ✭✭✭AdMMM


    I'm just back from the hospital after going last night with severe stomach pain. Turns out it's just severe constipation, but the Doctor prescribed diclofenac as well as a laxative. Going on what I've read here, my stomach will be hating me for the forseeable future?


  • #50
    robert muldoon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 728 ✭✭✭robert muldoon


    Is difene available in Spain and if it is - how much is it? - it must be a hell of a lot cheaper than in Ireland


  • #51
    Nonoperational
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,401 ✭✭✭Nonoperational


    Diclofenac for constipation/stomach pain? Strange....


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  • #52
    DrIndy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,461 ✭✭✭DrIndy


    AdMMM wrote: »
    I'm just back from the hospital after going last night with severe stomach pain. Turns out it's just severe constipation, but the Doctor prescribed diclofenac as well as a laxative. Going on what I've read here, my stomach will be hating me for the forseeable future?
    You need to talk to your own doctor about this further.


  • #53
    New2Galway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 49 ✭New2Galway


    Edited by Tallaght01 as looking for medical advice.


  • #54
    squeky
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 243 ✭✭squeky


    Edited by tallaght01 as offering medical advice.


  • #55
    happyfriday
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 390 ✭✭happyfriday


    Caoimhín wrote: »
    +1 I am sure that my doctor is on the payroll for the makers of Difene, he feckin force feeds me the bloody stuff. Three years and 5 back operations later and im still eating the damn stuff, i HATE it.

    Oh I can relate to this, been taking it now for 5 years, the first time they gave it to me they didn't even know what was wrong just a 'oh no bit of back pain is it? well here take these and see how you get on'. Then went to another Doc who was actually able to find the cause and now it's 'oh take the Difene, operating right now would be risky etc etc.' Bloody nightmare, I don't even get stomach problems with it anymore I'm so immune to the bloody stuff, hate to think of the damage it is doing!! I try to go as long as possible without taking it, and take it only on the day's that I'm having a 9 or a 10 pain wise!!!


  • #56
    morobar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭morobar


    I've been on at least a half dozen different meds in the last 2 years to treat migraines and nothing so far has worked... then the other day I twisted cartilage in my knee and was prescribed difene.... knee is still sore, but haven't had a migraine at all since started taking it... (usually would be at least 2 a week) so I'm in fricken heaven at the minute!!


  • #57
    tallaght01
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,778 ✭✭✭tallaght01


    I'm going to lock this thread as we end up editing nearly every post because people ask about their own medical conditions.


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