I take expired hotdogs, maggots, and clown tranquilizers.
I like mine jello shot style. (2-4 every night, chronic pain management and healthcare sucks in America.)
Rip your kidneys and liver.
Yup, but the alternative is drinking myself to death or getting hooked on fentanyl/heroin.
I try to work hard enough every day that 2-4 ibuprofen put me to sleep for 6 hours.
Ulcer moment
It is a balancing act. Uclers vs acceptable level of sleep deprivation.
Hamburger
FFS people go read one article each on ibuprofen and acetaminophen and you’ll see most of you are wrong
Hamburger style. I’m not picky tho.
And the buns still don’t match in number!
ITT everyone talking about liver damage? It’s tylenol that is harder on the liver. Ibuprofen is harder on the kidneys. Yeah, you can mess with your liver if you take too much ibuprofen, too.
3.2 grams/24hrs max
Some individuals don’t tolerate it at all and get ulcers or bleeding with one dose. I know this because I’m related to one of these people
You’d have to take 16 in a day. Standard pill is 200mg. I can’t imagine taking that many. Most I’ve ever taken is 2.
i took 20 per day for years til aleve started working on me. those i max out at 3/24hrs
Also stomach; NSAIDs like ibuprofen and aspirin can cause stomach ulcers, especially if taken on an empty stomach or with alcohol
Just earlier I was reading about NSAIDs and saw this: “There’s no evidence that taking ibuprofen with food prevents gastric irritation”
I’m sure I can find the article with citation in my history if you care.
Yeah, what I remember is ibuprofen harms the digestive track.
Oh great news, I take both, well kinda. The ones I take are a combo of Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen.
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Tylenol is just the brand, the active ingredient is Acetaminophen.
my personal experience hotdogs are not as effective. could be their overall size difference makes them dissolve slower. and a smidge more filler maybe
My poor european mind cannot understand the industrial bottle of 1000 ibuprofen tablets for a household.
Here they sell you packs of 20 tablets or something like that.
Came here to say the same thing, like WTF, why would you need a jar of 500
Because some of us have had a headache since 1986.
Would you rather buy 15 pills for $15 or 500 pills for the same price? That’s why we buy the mega bottles.
They go bad, though? At least my nice white aspirin pills start crumbling and visibly yellowing after a few months. There’s no way me or even an entire family could swallow 500 until then.
Well I can buy a pack of 16 in Tesco for £0.39
So we’re actually paying pretty close to the same amount per pill, just in smaller packs.
More packaging waste though
Technically… But there’s also a lot of waste from the 500 pack that people throw out half of. It likely evens out.
I don’t think there are many people just chucking pills out. 1000 isn’t much if it’s your go-to pain relief.
Ibuprofen solid tablets take about 5 years to expire (they are also pretty safe to eat expired as well, just might be less effective). So you have to have about 4 a week on average, which is well wihin safe limits even for a single person (and these are more for families).
As an example usecase If you have 3 menstrators in your household that take 4 a day 3 days a month (daily safe max is meant to be 6x200mg tablets) then that’s ~450 a year and you’ll be using them up more than quick enough to not throw any out, and that’s just dealing with cramps alone. Throw in someone with back pain, the occasional headache and sprained ankle, etc, and you can see how quickly a big family could go through them.
Personally I don’t quite go through them that quick (I use roughly 100 a year) but if my household was 1 bigger it would make sense for me too.
Reading this thread, I kinda feel weird.
When I was a child, I use to take tablets for headache (no idea which ones. I was a child.) and almost every time, the headache came back more intense than before, when the effect wore off.
Later, I started understanding that headaches (and other pains) happen for a reason and it is better to find out the reason and fix it, than just turn off the alarm.
So now, even if I get hurt due to something, I say no to pain relievers. This has even saved me from re-injuring a previous injury a few times.
- Sprained ankle / back pain : exercise and yoga.
- Cramps from exercise: next time do proper stretching after exercise.
- menstruation: I have no idea. never had that. sorry. But I can say for sure, people around me don’t tend to resort to taking pills all the time. Even those that have it hard.
- broke a ligament: definitely don’t take a pill, or you won’t realise if you are about to break it again.
Over here, pain management pills seems more like a last resort and not to be used for something that happens regularly. So, reading about it being treated like cereal, feels pretty weird.
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I believe individually packaged tablets actually do help reduce overdoses because you can’t just chug the whole bottle in one go. Yes it’s more wasteful but it does save lives.
Is… Is that a thing that actually happens?
Yeah, afraid so
Well but you do get health care with that, so instead of treating symptoms with ever larger doses of increasingly potent painkillers you have hopes of a more structural solution.
They probably sell them in centimeters or some shit.
The shocking part is, the whole bottle is like $2.
When you buy a bottle of 1000 for around 15 bucks, and it lasts you a decade… Amazing!
Ibuprofen probably isn’t stable for a decade. Then again, apparently no one knows for sure! Studies pick an arbitrary amount of time to test and then call that the shelf life if it remains usable. So far it doesn’t seem anyone has had the patience to test the absolute shelf life of ibuprofen
Advil is the main brand name for this. I always buy a bottle and other pills when I’m in the US. It is way more than I need but what I like is all the US pills look different. I always have a little mixed bottle of Advil, Pepto Bismol (fixes everything stomach related), anti-histamine pills… with me for when I need them. You can mix them all together and still tell the difference between them. That’s what I don’t like about the European blister packs of unidentifable white pills. That and I hate blister packs. It is also cheaper to buy a bottle. But to be clear, I get like a bottle of 50 or 100. Advil is also enteric coated so it is better for your stomach and tastes better (it’s slightly sweet).
That sounds horrible, haha
If it works for you, great, but I’d be super sceptical of the Skittles jar of mixed pills. At least with blister packs you get the drug and dosage printed on the back
But the blister packs we get can’t be tampered with 🤷♂️
The bottles in the US also have safety seals for the same reason
There’s a tamper-proof seal on the bottle
Here in the UK you can’t buy more than two packs at a given time…
You also have to have a license for tv…
For live TV, perhaps they should change its name to subscription because that’s basically what it is at the end of the day.
Hamburger style.
with mustard
Americans may be seeing serious savings in that picture.
I am seeing serious evolutionary pressure on liver genetics.
Nah, Americans are seeing a slight dulling of the pain to get through the day.
Got bills to pay and mouths to feed, there ain’t no safety net to catch ya when your name whatever hurts and needed surgery a decade ago.
Take your pain killers and caffeine and get to work you lazy scum.
Shitty American LPT: switch it up between Tylenol and ibuprofen to spread out the damage to your body.
You’re thinking acetaminophen
That hurts the kidneys, ibuprofen hurts the liver. You are correct.
They’re probably thinking paracetamol
Paracetamol and acetaminophen are two names for the same thing
Lmao yeah maybe if everyone takes it for 100,000 years or so 🙄
Burger: No wrong way to swallow, feels more legit on the 'ol tongue, twice the quantity of “value size”
Hot dog. I’ve always found swallowing pills difficult. The hot dog shape is weaker in the middle and breaks in half more easily.
Hamburger
I have to use hotdog. I have EOE and got a round one stuck in my esophagus for hours once. The hotdog ones break easy. I basically bite it into thirds and can safely take them that way. I could never break the round ones.
