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The ideal way to take any painkiller is to take a dose that completely relieves your pain and to repeat that dose every time the pain just starts to come back. If you are taking your painkiller by mouth or in suppository form, it will take fifteen to thirty minutes to start working. Injections work more quickly. It will then last two to six or more hours, depending on which one it is—check the table.

Doctors often recommend that you take a painkiller only ‘when you need it’ (whatever that means)! People who are told to do this often wait until their pain is excruciating before taking the next dose. This is a very bad way to take painkillers since, if you do this, you will never have good pain control. You will spend most of your time feeling frightened and anxious because you know that the pain is going to come back, and it will take a bigger dose to control it when it does. It is much better to work out how long it is before your pain just starts to come back and to take your painkiller regularly that often.

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Some people can develop an allergy to the synthetic Vitamin Bl tablets or injections.

Vitamin B2, or riboflavin, is found in dairy products and green vegetables, but is widely distributed throughout most natural foodstuffs.

A lack of riboflavin affects the skin and mucous membranes.

Nicotinamide, or Vitamin B7, is also widely distributed in most foodstuffs.

Lack of this vitamin — and usually with an associated lack of riboflavin — produces the disease known as pellagra, and this usually is seen in those whose staple diet is maize and little else.

Vitamin B6, or pyridoxine, is required for the proper functioning of nervous and skin tissue.

B6 has recently been used in relieving premenstrual tension (PMT).

Most of the B-group vitamins form part of the molecules of enzymes in the body, those chemical substances which are necessary for the build-up and break-down of all the body tissues.

Vitamin B12, or cyancobalamin, is formed in the body by the action of a chemical in the stomach acting on another chemical taken in with the food.

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