4 ms·

Well, I just popped an Aspirin for no reason.

• mlvljr 12y ago
  just don't do to much of it, one dude killed himself with couple dozen taken within a day in the 90-ies (or at least that's what the then Russian media reported; aspirin UPSA was heavily advertised back then)
  • mlvljr 12y ago
    I really hope the above was not downvoted due to you guys taking mentioned amounts of aspirin every day :)
• silencio 12y ago
  Please discuss it with a doctor first if you're considering continuing to do so. My father ended up in the hospital with internal bleeding after he decided to start taking low dose aspirin on a whim because "it's good for heart health". I just straight up don't have it in my home because the last time I did, it predictably didn't work well because I was on prednisone and checking every little interaction gets tedious. Taking more than you need to of most things is kind of pointless. Outside of this particular cause, you can live a healthy lifestyle to help prevent/control hypertension, diabetes, high cholesterol, and other problems that can increase your risk for stroke. There's a lot of ways to get sick or die - no point in stressing too much about one particular problem that is otherwise out of your control.
• stoicy 12y ago
  Aspirin indeed often has a blood-thinning effect. As such it may help reduce the risk of blood clots. That's the best case scenario, and even then it merely treats the symptoms, not the root cause of blood clots. Blood clots and cerebral hemorrhage are the two sides of the coin. By popping an aspirin you shift the odds from blood clots to hemorrhage. If I had to choose one of them, I'd take the blood clot.