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Aspirin Treatment Report
Most Popular Brands: Baby Aspirin, Aspirin Low Dose, Bayer Aspirin (Show all)
Generic Name: Aspirin
See also: Soma Compound
What is Aspirin?
Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid or ASA) is used for mild to moderate pain, inflammation and fever. In lower doses it is an effective blood thinner and is used to prevent heart problems and stroke. Off label it is used to prevent pre-eclampsia and complications of some autoimmune disorders.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken |
# of patients
Efficacy
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Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General health | 86 |
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5 | |||
| Other | 41 |
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7 | ||
| Support another treatment | 14 |
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2 | |||
| Parkinson's Disease PD | 7 |
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3 | |||
| High blood pressure (Hypertension) | 6 | 0 | |||||
| Blood Thining | 4 | 0 |
See all 201 patients currently taking Aspirin
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Side Effects
Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Aspirin. See all 25 dosages ►
| 1IU as needed | 200mg as needed | 650mg as needed | daily | mg as needed | 0.825 mg daily | 1 mg daily | 5 mg daily | 8 mg daily | 75 mg daily | 80 mg daily | 81 mg daily | 82 mg daily | 85 mg daily | 100 g daily | 100 mg daily | 162 mg daily | 250 mg daily | 315 mg daily | 325 mg daily | 328 mg daily | 350 mg daily | 650 mg daily | 975 mg daily | 3900 mg daily | ||
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1
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1
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4
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1
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1
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4
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1
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1
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1
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6
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136
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2
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4
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1
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2
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7
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1
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1
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14
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1
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2
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3
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1
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
|---|---|---|---|
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Other
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5 | 45% |
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Personal research
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3 | 27% |
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Doctor's advice
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2 | 18% |
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Side effects too severe
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1 | 9% |
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Course of treatment ended
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1 | 9% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
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Patient Evaluations
See all 18 patient evaluations
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- archaeologist
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: none
- Arms: mild
- Chest: none
- Legs: mild
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- archaeologist
- 81 mg daily
- since Aug 18, 2008
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Efficacy
Can't tell
for Parkinson's Disease PD
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
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- chloewolf
- Sex: F
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: mild
- Chest: mild
- Legs: mild
- See profile
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- chloewolf
- 162 mg daily
- since Oct 01, 2008
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Efficacy
Slight
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips It will now cure the condition of essential thrombocytosis, but, it is an effort to keep the platelets from multiplying too fast. Keeping free of stroke or ... See full evaluation
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- cmsf
- Sex: M
- Mouth/throat: mild
- Arms: severe
- Chest: severe
- Legs: severe
- See profile
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- cmsf
- since Oct 21, 2008
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Efficacy
Moderate
for Other
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips During military service in '50's there was an escalated treatment schedule of doubling 2 aspirin several times in order to try to see difference in "arthriti... See full evaluation
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Report created on March 22, 2010.