• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    2 months ago

    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.

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      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.

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        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.

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            Technically… But there’s also a lot of waste from the 500 pack that people throw out half of. It likely evens out.

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              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.

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            2 months ago

            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.

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        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.

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        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

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      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).

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        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

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          The typical dosage is 2 for all of them (excluding the rand german pill - the one that you have no idea what it is). It’s also ibuprofen, but you would never know it. Does that help at all with you being skeptical?

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          For live TV, perhaps they should change its name to subscription because that’s basically what it is at the end of the day.

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    Burger: No wrong way to swallow, feels more legit on the 'ol tongue, twice the quantity of “value size”

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    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.

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      Also stomach; NSAIDs like ibuprofen and aspirin can cause stomach ulcers, especially if taken on an empty stomach or with alcohol

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        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.

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        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

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      Oh great news, I take both, well kinda. The ones I take are a combo of Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen.

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        A known side effect of Ibuprofen (and most NSAIDs) is sweating, so the faster release tabs that aren’t in your system as long and thus clear out faster, dont have that aide effect… maybe

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      I agree, I like the liquid ones better, but I also have the dual ones (ibuprofen and acetaminophen) which I use instead when the pain is too much for ibuprofen alone. I haven’t found gel versions of the dual ones but if I did I would get those instead of the white ones.

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    Be careful taking ibuprofen often it’ll cause issues with your intestines like diverticulitis which landed me in the hospital and has greatly restricted my diet and ability to drink alcohol

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      Also damage your stomach and your kidneys if you abuse them daily long enough time.

      People pop those like M&Ms and not realize that prescription free drugs are still drugs with all their side effect.

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        So ibuprofen and acetaminophen are weak ass pain killers that do all the damage of alcohol with none of the fun.

        As far as my ancestors were concerned I’m supposed to be drunk, chewing willow and maybe having a bit of opium for nap time.

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          Acetaminophen is quite easier on the kidneys and liver compared to ibuprofen

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    I like mine jello shot style. (2-4 every night, chronic pain management and healthcare sucks in America.)

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        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.

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        My insurance is so shitty right now I’m not paying for a sleep study. I know why I sleep shitty. It’s cause I have a big old herina that fucking hurts and kinks my body up due to compensation. Wish I could take Aleve, but it gives me heartburn for days.

        Also, can’t take most long acting meds since I don’t have a colon.

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    Hot dog goes down easier. I find it easier to swallow a weenie shape than a ball shape.

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    Man you have some massive painkiller bottles. Biggest I’ve seen in a drug store had like 30 tablets

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    Americans may be seeing serious savings in that picture.

    I am seeing serious evolutionary pressure on liver genetics.

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      It works amazing if your throat or sinuses are infected. I have taken 800mg of pills and barely take the edge off. 100-200mg of children’s liquid ibuprofen is complete relief and it tastes good. Once in a while I will get a bad sinus infection that ends up in the back of my throat and the pain is so bad I can’t swallow water. I got the trifecta once that included my ears and I had to get some drops from the doctor.

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    For people looking for a reason for large bottles other than less frequent purchases. Large bottles with many pills produces less waste than the same number of pills in multiple containers.