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.
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.
The shocking part is, the whole bottle is like $2.
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).
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
My laymen understanding is they slowly break down and become less effective but not dangerous or negative.
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…
They probably sell them in centimeters or some shit.
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.
Also stomach; NSAIDs like ibuprofen and aspirin can cause stomach ulcers, especially if taken on an empty stomach or with alcohol
Deleted
Yeah, what I remember is ibuprofen harms the digestive track.
3.2 grams/24hrs max
Deleted
Is that technically an allergic reaction?
Deleted
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
Oh great news, I take both, well kinda. The ones I take are a combo of Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen.
deleted by creator
Tylenol is just the brand, the active ingredient is Acetaminophen.
Burger: No wrong way to swallow, feels more legit on the 'ol tongue, twice the quantity of “value size”
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
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.
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.
Acetaminophen is quite easier on the kidneys and liver compared to ibuprofen
Hot dog goes down easier. I find it easier to swallow a weenie shape than a ball shape.
The trick is to alternate between the weenie and the balls
Man you have some massive painkiller bottles. Biggest I’ve seen in a drug store had like 30 tablets
It’s for the arthritis I get from constantly fucking posting memes. At this point I’m wondering if I have a life; I can’t imagine what you guys think
We are very proud of you. You are doing valuable work
I buy mine from the bulk store bc it’s like the same price for 500 pills vs 30 from a normal drug store. I never finish them before the expiration, but whatever
I don’t even finish a 30 pack before expiration
They also use it as full treatment instead of going to the doctors.
It’s so we can fully utilize all our Freedom!
Buy it at the big box store
Medicine generally comes in blister packs here to avoid accidental injury/death. Big bottles of medicines are just simply not a thing here, regardless of vendor.
We don’t sell ibuprofen outside drugstores
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.
Do a sleep study, also, get long action type. When I was injured, I could feel the spikes and they didn’t last long
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.
That’s rough, for me a CPAP machine allows me to sleep on my back rather than on my side. Which helps my back greatly.
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.
Got bills to pay and mouths to feed, there ain’t no
thin in this world for free. No I can’t slow down, I can’t hold back, though you know I wish I could. There ain’t no rest for the wicked… til we close our eyes for good.
You’re thinking acetaminophen
They’re probably thinking paracetamol
Paracetamol and acetaminophen are two names for the same thing
That hurts the kidneys, ibuprofen hurts the liver. You are correct.
https://www.drugs.com/medical-answers/ibuprofen-bad-kidneys-liver-3574924/
It can but rarely; mostly it’s a kidney thing.
Shitty American LPT: switch it up between Tylenol and ibuprofen to spread out the damage to your body.
Lmao yeah maybe if everyone takes it for 100,000 years or so 🙄
Hamburger style. I’m not picky tho.
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.
Do you run a hospital or something with this volume?
This is just for the weekend
Deleted
And the buns still don’t match in number!
Hamburger
