A Little Oopsie

I wish I could promise this would be the last one...but I ain't making promises I may not be able to keep, so here's one more knee story.

Have you ever done something really stupid, and you wonder, "How did nothing bad happen to me?"

Right after my knee injury, I began taking an old prescription for Ibuprofen, thinking the higher dosage would surely do something for the inflammation. I didn't take it regularly, and I didn't take it every day...thank goodness.

One morning, when the pain was bad, I reached up for the bottle and just happened to notice the dosage:  one tablet every 8 hours. My heart started racing, and I began to panic. 

"What have I done?!?"

I had been taking two of those pills, a total of 16 milligrams at one time. The one time I took it twice in one day, my nose started bleeding in the middle of the night although I didn't notice it until I saw it on my pillows the next morning. However, I didn't realize at the time that it was probably from the medicine.

For the next several days, I did not take any medication at all. I wanted to get all that out of my system. My doctor said, it wasn't wise to do that, but he didn't think any long-term complications would arise.

Now fast forward to yesterday. I began taking Tylenol for arthritis because that is the main cause of my problems. It has really helped, but all of sudden I had that moment of fear again:  I was taking two pills. 

Was I supposed to take two or just one? 

I grabbed the bottle to look, and of course the print was so small, I couldn't read it, hence the slice for yesterday!

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