[TPIN] aspirin cardio and trumpet

[Lenny Buttitta, Jr.]

Black, Tarry and Stools?
Isn't that a Law Firm in Vegas?
(sorry, couldn't resist - no flaming please)

Lenny B.



--- "D. Michael McIntyre" <rosegarden.trumpeter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Saturday 12 August 2006 1:52 pm, Jon Trimble wrote:
> > Hi all, about a year ago I came across an article in Men's health which
> > stated aspirin after a hard cardio workout was bad.  Nothing to back it up
> > so I called the magazine and basically after being bounced from one sector
> > to another, they admitted they made it up.  It still bugs me tho.  Anything
> > to it?  I take aspirin from time to time after a gig.  Anyone have any
> > knowledge of it being harmful and why?
> 
> After a gig, no, no knowledge.  I do have knowledge of how aspirin can be 
> harmful.  I ran into a guy at a fruit stand one time who told an interesting 
> story.  He had woken up one morning and he was producing black, tarry stools.  
> Went to his doctor to find out what was up, and it turned out he was probably 
> less than an hour away from hemorrhaging to death.  Aspirin had eaten a hole 
> in his stomach.  He was taking a regular strength, plain, non-buffered 
> aspirin a day for a long time, and that was the eventual consequence.
> 
> That was enough to turn me off of aspirin unless I eventually get a specific 
> recommendation from my doctor to start taking it.  Scary.
> 
> -- 
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