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600mg per day is an enormous dose, albeit not especially uncommon. I’d be more interested though in the effects of, say, 200 - 400mg per week.
by Alex3917 8y ago
600mg per day is an enormous dose, albeit not especially uncommon. I’d be more interested though in the effects of, say, 200 - 400mg per week.
- eigenvector 8y agoI recently went to the doctor with a shoulder strain and without even looking at it he prescribed 1000mg daily for 2 weeks then "come back if it still hurts".
- wallace_f 8y agoIt's so bizzare how in order to do this, that person had a barrier to entry of hundreds of thousands in private and public resources getting a license to help you. And they dont really help you. Compare to something like cops, who you have to interact with whether you like it or not, virtually have a license to kill, and are actually selected based on low IQ.
- goldfeld 8y agoThese people are only barely doctors.
- azhenley 8y agoIt isn’t enormous at all. 400mg every 4 hours is the OTC dose (at least in the US). My prescription was 800mg.
- Alex3917 8y ago> My prescription was 800mg. Sure, but it’s not like 800mg is 4x or even 2x more effective than 200mg. Ibuprofen is great, I just don’t really see the point of risking dying and whatever else for what’s at most a very marginal benefit. It’s not enormous in the sense that it’s uncommon per se, but rather in the sense that it’s way outside the efficient frontier on the risk/reward curve.
- Dylan16807 8y ago> I just don’t really see the point of risking dying and whatever else Ibuprofen is not the painkiller where taking 2x the recommended limit has an enormous risk of death.
- Alex3917 8y agoYeah it’s not like acetaminophen where you’re going to immediately die, but if you look up recent papers on NSAID mortality the risk is still a lot higher than previously thought.
- mhd 8y agoThat's the local OTC dose here (Germany), too, although I always got the somewhat strict advise that this shouldn't be kept up for more than four days in a row. Mostly because of renal damage and gastrointestinal issues, if I remember correctly.
- couradical 8y agoHow is that an enormous dose? The recommendation is 2x200mg every 4-6h. When doing competitive athletics, I probably took 1-3g of “vitamin I” a day. 600mg a day is barely above a single dose.
- lbotos 8y agoWhat were you taking it for? Pain reduction? (Curious, no judgement, trying to understand if there was any other reason)
- TylerE 8y agoIt's an anti-inflammatory. Helps with all kinds of things - sore muscles, tooth aches - it's not really pain relief so much as it is things-that-cause-pain relief.
- fuzzfactor 8y ago>How is that an enormous dose? 600mg is over half a gram of pure active ingredient. Namely isobutylphenylpropionic acid, a cheap commodity product. This material is not non-toxic and different people will succumb at different levels of lethality to different doses over different periods of time. Not long ago I lost a friend to liver and kidney failure attributed by her final doctor as due to the 800mg daily recommended by her previous physician over a few year period.
- eaandkw 8y agoClearly you have never been in the USMC. In hind sight it was pretty stupid but I have taken up to 1600mg per day for several days/ weeks in a row. We pretty much call the 800mg tablets grunt candy.
- whatshisface 8y agoWhat is happening that gets everyone so inflamed? If you take a painkiller and go right back to the activity that damaged you you are begging for permanent injury.
- wallace_f 8y agoIt's not very strange. 600mg/day "as needed" is the standard otc dose.
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- gaius 8y agoWear and tear on the knees generally. And yes, many infantrymen do have permanent problems by their 30's.
- eaandkw 8y agoWe usually have an expression that infantrymen age in dog years.
- eaandkw 8y agoWell, on the infantry side of the house thing like forced marches, ground fighting (MCMAP), field training, and live fire exercises all take a toll on the body. Most of the training requires brute force and most of the Marines because they are young don't take care of their bodies as much as they should. The other side of the equation is the fact that complaining about being hurt or injured tends to be looked down on. Everyone pretty much has a suck it up attitude. In my 20 years I beat my body up pretty bad and I am paying for it now. I have had a couple of surgeries on my shoulders. I have bad knees, lower back, and some neck issues that I am trying to rehab and make better but I will never be 100%. I'm just shooting for less pain and more mobility. Oh, and for going right back into the same activity after you injured yourself. That is just the job. The training keeps going. In a wartime situation you would not be able to quit if you get hurt. You just have to keep moving.
- wenc 8y agoI'm not sure if it counts as enormous. I'm looking at my Ibuprofen bottle and it says do not exceed 6 (200mg) tablets in 24 hours unless directed by doctor, so 1200 mg is the OTC maximum recommended dose per day.