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Tylenol is surprisingly easy to overdose on and is well known to cause liver damage. This is especially true if you take extra strength tylenol. It is recommend

Tylenol is surprisingly easy to overdose on and is well known to cause liver damage. This is especially true if you take extra strength tylenol. It is recommended to stay below 3,000 mg of tylenol within 24 hours, which is only 6 extra strength pills. If you take a bit extra and get over 4,000 mg per day for multiple days, you can get major issues. There just is not much margin for error with tylenol. I think people often get confused because you can typically take a bunch of ibuprofen pills for pain and there are rarely serious side effects. But ibuprofen and tylenol are much different in this regard, despite the fact that both relieve pain and both can be easily bought in a drug store.

antisthenes 6y ago
> This is especially true if you take extra strength tylenol. It is recommended to stay below 3,000 mg of tylenol within 24 hours, which is only 6 extra strength pills. If you take a bit extra and get over 4,000 mg per day for multiple days, you can get major issues. There just is not much margin for error with tylenol. Huh? To actually think that taking 6 extra strength pills in 24 hours isn't enough margin of error? I mean maybe if the person is completely clueless and doesn't read the medicine instructions. Honestly, if you're in that much pain that you're gobbling up 6-8 extra strength pills per day, every day, you should be in the hospital with an IV hooked up, or addressing the chronic pain issue that's causing it. Or have the doc prescribe you something way stronger.
- cameronh90 6y ago
  I don't know about other people, but for me paracetamol does very little, so if I had even moderate pain I could see why I would be tempted to take too much. On the other hand, UK has OTC ibuprofen+codeine which can fix essentially anything.
  - antisthenes 6y ago
    Right. OTC painkillers are usually not meant for moderate+ pain, at least the stuff available in USA. They're meant for taking you from 3/10 to 1/10. I know most people don't think about it in-depth, but surely we can expect at least some basic logic from them? Like don't swallow pill #6 if the first 5 extra strength pills did nothing.
- jartelt 6y ago
  The directions on extra strength tylenol say: -take 2 caplets every 6 hours while symptoms last. -do not take more than 6 caplets in 24 hours, unless directed by a doctor. It's not too crazy that someone in pain or feverish could think "maybe if I just take an extra pill or two I'll feel better and it will be totally safe..."

antisthenes 6y ago

> This is especially true if you take extra strength tylenol. It is recommended to stay below 3,000 mg of tylenol within 24 hours, which is only 6 extra strength pills. If you take a bit extra and get over 4,000 mg per day for multiple days, you can get major issues. There just is not much margin for error with tylenol. Huh? To actually think that taking 6 extra strength pills in 24 hours isn't enough margin of error? I mean maybe if the person is completely clueless and doesn't read the medicine instructions. Honestly, if you're in that much pain that you're gobbling up 6-8 extra strength pills per day, every day, you should be in the hospital with an IV hooked up, or addressing the chronic pain issue that's causing it. Or have the doc prescribe you something way stronger.

cameronh90 6y ago
I don't know about other people, but for me paracetamol does very little, so if I had even moderate pain I could see why I would be tempted to take too much. On the other hand, UK has OTC ibuprofen+codeine which can fix essentially anything.
- antisthenes 6y ago
  Right. OTC painkillers are usually not meant for moderate+ pain, at least the stuff available in USA. They're meant for taking you from 3/10 to 1/10. I know most people don't think about it in-depth, but surely we can expect at least some basic logic from them? Like don't swallow pill #6 if the first 5 extra strength pills did nothing.
jartelt 6y ago
The directions on extra strength tylenol say: -take 2 caplets every 6 hours while symptoms last. -do not take more than 6 caplets in 24 hours, unless directed by a doctor. It's not too crazy that someone in pain or feverish could think "maybe if I just take an extra pill or two I'll feel better and it will be totally safe..."