• @Sam_Bass
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    my personal experience hotdogs are not as effective. could be their overall size difference makes them dissolve slower. and a smidge more filler maybe

  • @RememberTheApollo_
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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

  • @General_Effort
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    Americans may be seeing serious savings in that picture.

    I am seeing serious evolutionary pressure on liver genetics.

    • @Asclepiaz
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      Shitty American LPT: switch it up between Tylenol and ibuprofen to spread out the damage to your body.

    • @Zess
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      Lmao yeah maybe if everyone takes it for 100,000 years or so 🙄

    • @Mcdolan
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      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.

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        They’re probably thinking paracetamol

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    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.

    • @danc4498
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      They probably sell them in centimeters or some shit.

      • @[email protected]
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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.

          • @TheDannysaur
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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.

            • @[email protected]
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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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            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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      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.

    • @LouNeko
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      The shocking part is, the whole bottle is like $2.

    • @Frozengyro
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      When you buy a bottle of 1000 for around 15 bucks, and it lasts you a decade… Amazing!

      • @[email protected]
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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

    • @EnderMB
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      Here in the UK you can’t buy more than two packs at a given time…

    • Herding Llamas
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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).

    • @guy_threepwood
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      But the blister packs we get can’t be tampered with 🤷‍♂️

      • @lady_maria
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        The bottles in the US also have safety seals for the same reason

      • @boywar3
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        There’s a tamper-proof seal on the bottle

  • @[email protected]
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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.

  • @FelixCress
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    Do you run a hospital or something with this volume?

    • @Agent641
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      This is just for the weekend

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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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    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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      Agreed, though the weird alchemy of it makes me less sweaty (but why?)

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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

    • @takeda
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      Then you might be interested in suppositories.

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