長期吃【止痛藥】會對身體構成什麼影響？

影响<1>加重肝臟负担.
影响<2>止痛藥是舒缓痛的感覺,並沒有治療的功效,若要醫好引起痛楚的病源,止痛藥起不了作用.
影响<3>吃止痛藥時間長了,造成依赖心理,痛楚一出现就會吃止痛藥,再不會弄清楚産生痛楚的原因,令身体情況越來越差,直到病入高肓,無藥可救.烏乎哀哉!

Please pardon me for using English and there are some medical terms you may need to understand.

Let's go back to the question. It depends on what type of pain-killer you are taking long-term.

In general, we can divide pain-killer into three common types: paracetamol, NSAID and opioid.

For the first type, which is paracetamol, example is Panadol, Acetamol, Paramol, etc. These medicine won't do much harm even if you take it long-term, provided that you are not exceeding the recommended daily dose, which is 8 tablets of 500mg. In case your exceed the dose, your liver cells may be affected and in severe case, like more than 7g a day, it is lethal (ie it kills).

For NSAID type of pain killers, eg Ponstan, Indocid, etc, these drug may have various effect to your stomach, kidney, liver and heart. The most common side effect is gastric bleeding which is manifested as stomachache and black stool. In rare case, it may cause oedema ( due to effect to kidney), raised liver enzyme ( due to effect to liver) and abnormal ECG (due to effect to heart). But I should reassure you that these medicines are very safe and side-effect is rare.

For opioid pain-killer such as morphine, the most common side-effect when taking long term is of course dependence. It means you need more and more medicine to achieve the same level of painless state. Other common side effect include constipation and sleepiness.

I hope this information may be helpful to you

長期吃會影響肝功能、引至肝硬化

咁可能係你再痛d個陣..食止痛藥就已經止唔到