Medications to Avoid

All patients scheduled for surgery should discontinue taking all products containing aspirin and Vitamin E two weeks prior to the procedure.

Aspirin and Vitamin E may cause bleeding and/or clotting problems during and after surgery.

The following is a list of medications to be avoided two weeks prior to procedure:

Advil	Alcohol (24 hrs. prior)	Aleve
Alka-Seltzer	Anacin	Anaprox
Anaproxen	Ansaid	APC
Arthritis Pain Formula	Aspirin	Ascriptin
Ascodeen-30	Aspercream	Aspergum
Aspirin	Bayer Aspirin	BC Cold Powder
BC Powders	Brufen	Buff-A-Corn
Buffadyne	Bufferin	Buffex
Butalbital	Cama Arthritis Pain Reliever	Cama-Inlay
Caprin	Caspirin	Cephalgesic
Cheracol	Children’s Aspirin	Clinoril
Conaterol	Congespirin	Cope
Coricidin	Coumadin	Darvon with ASA
Darvon Compound	Daypro	Disalcid
Doan’s	Dolia	Dolobid
Dristan	Duradyne	Duragesic
Easprin	Ecotrin	Empirin
Emprazil	Equagesic	Excedrin
Feldene	Fiorinal	Flurbiprophen Sodium
Four Way Cold	Goody’s Extra Strength	Ibuprofen
Indocin	Indomethacin	Magsal
Max Powder	Measurin	Meclomen
Medipren	Midol-200	Midol
Midol PMS	Mobigesic	Monacet with codeine
Momentum Muscle Back Form	Motrin	Naprosyn
Norgesic	Norgesic Forte	Nuprin
Pabirin buffered	Panadynes	Panalgesic
Percodan	Percodan-Demi	Persantine
Persistin	Quagesic	Relafen
Robaxisal	Rufen	Sine-aid
Sine-off	Soma with Codeine	Soma Compound
Stanback Powder	Stendin	Stero-Darvon with ASA
Supac	SX-65 compound	Synalgos
Synalgos DC	Talwin	Tolectin
Toradol	Trandate	Trental
Trialgesic	Triaminicin	Trilisate
Ursinus Inlay	Vanquish	Vivo Med
Vitamin E	Voltaren	Wesprin
Zactrin	Zorpin	Gingko
Rogaine	Pepto-Bismol