Headache Meds??

Hey guys - I need some advice.  I need to know your experience on OTC headache meds.  I usually use Alleve.  Is that OK, or to hard on the stomach?? Thanks in advance

Hey Sean, Alleve is bad...pretty much everything but Tylenol is bad for the pouch because there is no blood flow around the pouch and the new part of intestine.  You just have to be real careful.  The best headache medicine out there (unfortunately also restricted) is excedrin or the generic version of this.  Everyone says not to take this either...but I do sometimes.  I ALWAYS flu**** though.  I'll drink a quart of water or sugar free fruit punch or something with it to dilute it as much as I can handle.  You don't want to make this a habit, because as any guy whose had an ulcer here can tell you...you don't want one.  If you get one headache every 2 weeks or so, then the Excedrin probably won't hurt you if you flush.  If you get them every day, you are going to want to get with your surgeon.  Tylenol doesn't work for me and that's what they default too.   Hope this helps. Greg

Greg -  Thanks.  Whst sbout the liquids or sublinqual?

It's the same as far as I know Sean.  It is the medicine itself not the form of it.  Like I said, if you get a headache only once in a while, chase two crushed excedrin and chase it with as much liquid as you take in for the next 30 minutes.  The flushing will not only help clear the pouch and re-routed intestine but will help get it in your system faster.  Typically my headache is gone completely within 25 minutes and I start feeling relief in about 10 minutes.  My wife is a nurse and when we got married she turned me on to excedrin and nothing works close to that.   If you get headaches more than once a week, I would definitely see if the surgeon has something better that is prescription based.  If you can get a carafate prescribed even better.  This coats the pouch and is an anti-ulcer med.   Bottom line, you don't want anything from the bad med to stick to any portion of the pouch or intestine that doesn't have any blood around it.  I'm assuming your are RNY with all of this advice.  If you are a bander, I'm not sure but don't think the meds area problem since you still have the normal stomach and acid. Hope this helps.

I always used Advil previously but now am not supposed to.  I found some chewable extra strength tylenol (called go tabs).  Some sort of mint flavor but I couldn't stand the taste.  Now I found some extra strenth tylenol liquid that seems to wor****cherry flavor). Brian