Whats the best over the counter medicine for a bad back?

my back is killing me and im taking tylenol. i have a doctors appt next week. is there any thing better over the counter than tylenol for my bad back?

I would advise that you get this taken care of by a quality chiropractor. Chiropractic has been indicated to be the best option for spinal problems such as back pain. Chiropractic is totally safe and very effective. Medication use especially long term use of medications such as those used to alleviate symptoms like pain and headaches have severe side-effects that can cause kidney failure, liver failure, heart failure, increase your chances of cancers, and such medications are known to cause around 20,000 deaths per year.

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NSAIDs (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) such as advil, motrin, aleve, ibuprofen, naproxen, ect. taken for 6 months doubles a persons chances of heart attack, stroke, or other heart related problem. 鈥淣SAID users were dying at twice the rate of nonusers.鈥? Ibuprofen users were 3 times likely to die of cardiovascular problems.

Journal of the National Institute of Cancer published a research study done on 114,460 women that showed women who take ibuprofen for 5 yrs are 50% more likely to develop breast cancer and women who take aprin for 5 yrs are 80% more likely to develop breast cancer.

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Chiropractic looks to correct the cause of the problem not just cover it up with a medication that will ultimately do more harm than good.

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I find that Arthitis Tylenol is good. Give that a try.

Bayer Back and Body definatly..
Its probably the best OTC pain medicine that I have found.

you might try Aleave it has Naproxin Sodium which is a anti-inflammatory drug

Ibuprofen. Don't listen to that other broad about that arthritis crap. I'm a pharm tech I know what the hell I'm talking about.

I don't think there is anything that is good over the counter. I too have a bad back. Two years ago I lost my job because of the injury I received at work and now WSIB has me back in school. Just to let you know my back is bad. I have tried almost everything for it and nothing seems to work even until this day. I was even prescribed Tylenol #3 and perk's.
I do realize everybody's body is different and things may work for you that don't for me. My best advice for over the counter would be either some kind of ibuprofen or Doan's back pills.
Good luck with it, hope you find something.

The last resort for back pain (after finding no relief anywhere or meds that don't reduce the pain sufficiently) is too often the doctor of Chiropractic.. Yet he has gained his reputation by treating this condition.