Pain Annihilation (Nurofen Plus)

Member Name: lulu2004

Product:	Nurofen Plus
Date:	14/01/09 (173 review reads)
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Advantages: Numbed my toothache very quickly

Disadvantages: More expensive than standard painkillers

I've had a lot of dental pain recently as I had been neglecting my teeth and had not visited the dentist in a long time. It was when my tooth began to hurt in such a bad way that it would make me yelp that I needed to get a strong painkiller. The incident that led to me buying Nurofen Plus was one afternoon, as I was standing in the queue for the bank and happened to bite down on a piece of chewing gum on the offending tooth and a blast of pain almost took my legs from underneath me so I muffed a scream and walked out to get some air and found myself instinctively walking towards my local chemist.

When I got to the counter, my guess would be that I was looking grey with pain and I asked the pharmacist for something that would help a bad toothache she held out two boxes and said that she recommended "Nurofen Plus" for bad pain, and as I have used Nurofen before and have found it good, I purchased the box of "Nurofen Plus" at £6.99. Expensive, but had she charged me £100 for something that would work, I think I may well have paid it, such was the pain. If I had been in a better state of mind I would have probably thought that it was too much but I was in agony and feeling like I was going to pass out. I paid quickly and left.

I took two tablets there and then and walked to a Park bench to gather myself together. Remarkably within 10 minutes the pain had subsided and I was able to get back up and go into the bank again and finish my messages in town. There was a nag where the pain was so I didn't forget that it was there totally, but it was certainly a nag I could cope with. Obviously when I went home I rang my dentist to let him know that I needed an appointment sooner than the one I had booked for a few weeks away. And in the mean time when my toothache came back I used the Nurofen Plus to counter-act it. I am not someone who uses very many painkillers as I am lucky to have kept good health in recent years, but I am happy to pop a pill when I really need to and feel very sore although probably are alternative remedies available to Nurofen, I wanted something instant.

"Nurofen Plus" is a mixture of Codeine and Ibuprofen. I know that Ibuprofen is not recommended for people with stomach problems such as ulcers, but luckily that is not something I have suffered from. Also it is not suitable while pregnant or for people with heart problems or breathing problems. Codeine is something I was prescribed after an operation so it must be considered a strong painkiller in its own right. Nurofen Plus can only be sold by a pharmacist due to their stronger nature.

When I have do have a toothache, headache, period pain or muscle ache I try to ride it out and do not generally take anything until it is interfering with my lifestyle, which this was. I don't think it was a placebo effect; the pain was numbed quite quickly; a huge benefit to me as I was out and about and needed to get home safely. Since then, my husband hurt his back lifting a piece of furniture and I gave him two of these and he too thought they were very effective on the pain.

I would recommend these for a very intense dental or muscular pain. Funnily enough I have not chewed chewing gum since that incident.

Summary: Super Painkiller for intense pain