Pain killers can cause kidney damage, but only if they are taken in excessive doses for very long periods of time, if you are taking pain killers a per the prescribed information, that means you are taking the normal prescribed dose and you are taking for a fixed period of time for which it is advised and under the supervision of a doctor, then the chances of kidney damage are very rare. kidney damage normally happens in patients who have long joint disorders or prolonged joint pains for which they are taking pain killers and commonly they stop consulting their doctors and keep taking pain killers without medical advise for months or years together and another compounding factor is when they are consulting 2 doctors or 3 doctors and they are taking multiple doses of pain killers which are much more than the prescribed dose and these are the patients who become prone not age with pain killers. Usually the regular use of pain killers, the judicious use of pain killers for short duration does not cause kidney damage.

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