3mo ago

Preference

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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.
- 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.
- Would you rather buy 15 pills for $15 or 500 pills for the same price? That's why we buy the mega bottles.
  
  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.
  
  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.
- 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
- Came here to say the same thing, like WTF, why would you need a jar of 500
  
  Because some of us have had a headache since 1986.
- 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).
  
  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
- 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.

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

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
  
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  Yeah, what I remember is ibuprofen harms the digestive track.
- 3.2 grams/24hrs max
  
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  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.
- Oh great news, I take both, well kinda. The ones I take are a combo of Ibuprofen and Acetaminophen.

I like the kind that comes in a liquid gel cap so it works faster.
- Agreed, though the weird alchemy of it makes me less sweaty (but why?)
  
  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
- Then you might be interested in suppositories.
- So: blue pill?
  
  Blue pilled liquidmaxxer
- 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.

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.

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.

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
- They also use it as full treatment instead of going to the doctors.
- 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
- 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

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
  
  That hurts the kidneys, ibuprofen hurts the liver. You are correct.
- 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 🙄

Why would ever need that many??
- Inflammation pain that doctors won't fucking help with. Buy in bulk and then you won't run out for a year or so.
- Relief is temporary. Pain is forever.
- To give to trick or treaters.
- Liver damage
- They last forever. Bottle like that lasts us a couple years
- I've only ever bought one like once. It's just wholesale basically

Hamburger style.
- with mustard

Do you run a hospital or something with this volume?
- This is just for the weekend

- Never understood all the hate. Sometimes I actually crave that weird-ass flavor.
  
  That's the origin of the hate: addiction to meds.
- 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.

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.

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Hamburger

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

And the buns still don’t match in number!

I take expired hotdogs, maggots, and clown tranquilizers.

M&Ms
- That's the reason I took the hotdog ones while my kids were little, just didn't want them picking up and eating a dropped "M&M" Advil by mistake

Neither. I either take the gel ones which are green and squishy, or these white ones which are a combination of both ibuprofen and acetaminophen.

I prefer the mini-gummies style.

Hot dog. I've always found swallowing pills difficult. The hot dog shape is weaker in the middle and breaks in half more easily.

I have to use hotdog. I have EOE and got a round one stuck in my esophagus for hours once. The hotdog ones break easy. I basically bite it into thirds and can safely take them that way. I could never break the round ones.

Hamburger

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