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Ibuprofen Linked To Male Infertility, Study Says (theguardian.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: Men who take high doses of ibuprofen for months at a time may be at greater risk of fertility issues and also other health problems, such as muscle wastage, erectile dysfunction and fatigue, scientists have found. Research on healthy young men who took the common painkiller for up to six weeks showed that the drug disrupted the production of male sex hormones and led to a condition normally seen in older men and smokers. The 18 to 35-year-olds who took part in the study developed a disorder called "compensated hypogonadism" within two weeks of having 600mg of ibuprofen twice a day. The condition arises when the body has to boost levels of testosterone because normal production in the testes has fallen. Doctors in Copenhagen who led the study said that while the disorder was mild and temporary in the volunteers, they feared it could become permanent in long-term ibuprofen users. This would lead to continuously low levels of testosterone, because the body could no longer compensate for the fall. Details of the study are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
so much for that excuse gents.
I am curious if this effect is limited to ibuprofen or if other NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) such as Aleve (naproxen) or ketoprofen affect male reproduction as well. I'm sure there will be additional studies, but if these effects are repeated, they will likely be discontinued given they already have the propensity for stomach ulcers and other side effects.
So guys with prostatisis are now double screwed.
Ibuprofen was a must for me when I had acute prostatisis.
That sounded great for a second, until they got to ED. I'd love to be cheaply infertile, but I want my pecker to work, if not my gonads.
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Maybe this is why I lost all my sex drive, low testosterone... taking Naproxen-EC 500mg twice a day since a year. I don't care for my fertility, I've a vasectomy :P
First, cell phones kill our sperm and now ibuprofen..
This would have been useful information 20 or so years ago...
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is kinky.
With already lower testosterone levels than men, this sounds like a prescription for Vaginile Dysfunction.
Motrin is a US Army joke going back decades that it cures everything. Also called Ranger Candy cause the joke is the Army Rangers train so hard they take it all the time for your normal injuries and aches
Next month someone will say the opposite. Move along, nothing to see here.
... like me that nobody will date anyway?
Long term relief from an 18 year long headache? Sign me up, please.
I knew someone in high school who took Ibuprofen all the time. I think she took it for headaches and then didn't realize just how much she was taking.
No over the counter drug is probably safe for extended long term use. If you're seriously using it that long, you need to find out what else is wrong.
I have heard a LOT about how nsaids combine with flouride to make men infertile and feminine. This shit is being done on purpose to destroy male power and bring about a new world order.
Ibuprofen has had several advantages because it has such a wide dosage range between minimally effective, maximally effective, and toxic/damaging. Even taking 2400 mg per day (maximally effective prescribed dosage) seems to be well below the point where any organ damage is generally observed. OTOH, for acetaminophen, taking the maximum effective prescribed dosage of 3250 mg/day seems pretty close to the level at which damaging effects are observed in kidneys and perhaps the liver. Now, with this result, are we back to aspirin? **I am not a doctor, but I am willing to have a look. Put your feet in the stirrups.**
I bet they can find a bio-similar drug that avoids the more permanent/serious issues and simply prevents fertility.
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But it let me show my feminine side.
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There's a reason those large 800mg Motrin pills are called "Ranger Candy". I've seen MDs "prescribe" those horse pills scooped out of a cardboard box and into a plastic bag with a large metal scoop. Looked exactly like a kid buying jelly beans in bulk from a candy store.
Wonder if this latest research will affect the mentality in those high-speed low-drag military units where they tend to eat these things like candy.
Sadly, infertility is probably a better alternative than getting hooked on opium from Dr. Pharma.
then it does with people taking excessive amounts of OTC drugs to cope with pain instead of seeing a doctor about that pain. In America unless you're in the top 5% you don't just go see a doctor. You weigh the cost in terms of co-pay, deductibles, time off work (we don't get very much of it) etc, etc. With all those costs you just pop another Advil and hope for the best.
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look, 1200mg is VERY high dosage!
I take 2 200mg pills every day, matter of course, for joint pain (I'm over 50) and at first, I was concerned, but when I read the dosage they were taking, I 'stopped reading there' (as the kids say).
slash is getting so sleazy these days.
the correct headline is: MASSIVE dosage of advil can cause problems. leave out the adjective and the article is a lie.
typical of slash and media these days. accuracy never matters anymore, just clicks. sigh.
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just wondering if the mechanism that makes this work could be used elsewhere. Not that you could just prescribe a tone of ibuprofen, it's got as ton more (and worse) side effects than this in high doses. But I don't think there's been nearly enough research on a male pill.
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Lots of women take ibuprofen during their period for cramps.
who the fuck takes 1200mg of ibuprofen a day? if you need that much, you need to see a doctor.
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If anyone needs pain relief it's the people tricked into watching your videos or reading your bullshit stories!
... a Pill for men.
It little behooves the best of us to comment on the rest of us.
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heart couldn't take it
don't send flowers
There are some non-drug alternatives for dealing with inflammation that have seen positive results from research, namely foods with high amounts of anthocyanins.
As an example: "Efficacy of tart cherry juice in reducing muscle pain during running: a randomized controlled trial":
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2874510/
Joke's on you all. I'm allergic to Ibuprofen. Take that.
1) Why are you taking pain meds when after one look at you, you're obviously a rare specimen of physical fitness? (Think football player)
2) What does impotence have to do with infertility? Granted, you're both, but still?
Sounds like it takes care of two headaches at once.
How about a moderation of -1 pedantic.
No its the highest recommended dosage by manufactures. At the recommendation of doctors I have taken dosages even larger than that.
However when I've taken it at such high dosages it was for acute temporary pain (i.e. injury trauma). However once past the hump which is probably measured in days, or perhaps a week, dosage down to more reasonable levels for a few weeks.
Sure if you take it for months at a time it probably isn't so good for you. Though at a guess if you are, likely the alternative isn't great either. I recall asking my doctor if it was really OK to go beyond the recommended maximum dosage on the bottle, and she said that it happens in the military all the time, so long as your young and healthy (outside of your current injury), and don't do it for any long period of time it shouldn't be a problem.
That said, as a guy, it isn't really all that great to hear this kind of news anyway...
Suck it up, be a man
Pain is just weakness leaving the body
Yes, wouldn't want to disappoint all those women lusting after you. One look at those chins and it's Dirty Grandpa time!
Chris is 400 pounds of dead weight in bed. Without his morning wood, no one can pull him out of bed.
Single study positing a potential risk to male reproductive health? Time to pump more money into pre-natal care and breast cancer research.
Shut up man. One Indonesian lady who said she wanted him purely for a green card was all up on his jock. However, in the end creimer decided he didn't want to go to India.
https://slashdot.org/~Joe_Drag... is a creimer sockpuppet for karma.
Downplay and distract.
Same lame humor, yes. What other evidence do you have?
I don't think it's creimer. He never talks about any of creimer's favorite topics. No compulsive hyperlinking.
He's not causing trouble anyhow.
1) Endless posts that are about two lines long (20 of them in the past two days). This is also creimer's usual style of posting.
2) Repeatedly brings up creimer's pet subjects ("Send mulder and scully to the apple spaceship!"). Granted there's obviously other nerds on slashdot who enjoy these statements, and are socially awkward enough that they throw them out as LOL SO RANDOM humor (like his recent MiB post), but he does it over and over.
3) Poor grammar ("Now with AMD EYPC maybe get 5-7 gpu per node with the rest of the PCI-e for network / disk / ipmi / etc.")
No I am not 100%. But 90%, sure.
Yeah it does smell of creimer's usual open-mouth burp at a social event, doesn't it?
Holy shit, now I KNOW it's you, Chris! You don't even need to burp your foulness, I can smell your stale BO through the screen!
I really truly wonder what drives you, what is your motivation? Did you grow up in such an adverse environment that you simply can't do anything else but be contrarian?
Indonesia and India are ... two different countries, Chris. And how many decades ago was this? You're a geriatric loner who spends his free time making videos about coins and delaying the publication of your haiku.
So the only woman who ever interacted with you just wanted a green card. Hard to believe a football player 4.0 GPA star programmer would be single.
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That's the real question: why are men taking high dosages for that long? If they're in that much pain, they're not going to be real interested in sex, anyway.
On the other hand, if you're taking it for bad headaches... and you regularly work 60+ hour weeks, perhaps you should consider cutting back to 40 hours, and getting enough sleep.... (Or are you actually an indentured servant?)
hahaha I'm not creimer, if some guy on a tech site is full of creimer non-humor autism I'm not really surprised.
I only looked for a second but I only see normal nerd autism and none of creimer's bullshit. I don't even care if it is creimer as long as he's not constantly making up flimsy excuses to post a referrer link.
As far as creimer's motivation? Dude he's full of get rich quick schemes, he gets off on chasing piddly dollars it's one of his autistic obsessions. Anything where he gets a reward and it's tightly coupled with the action that got him it. Like staring at the ground all day for lotto tickets. He reads about all these stupid ways to get rich on the web and then carries that shit back to slashdot where people LOATHE that kind of shit and long for the days when it wasn't a normal part of the internet.
You're some AC switching between 1st and 3rd person mid-sentence, which isn't really very convincing one way or the other.
Plenty of ACs are trolling you and they're all name Chris. Or Lilly. Maybe Joe?
"and they're all name Chris"
creimer-like grammar detected. Chris, try to put some effort into your posts.