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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆I like the kind that comes in a liquid gel cap so it works faster.
LotzaSpaghettiAgreed, though the weird alchemy of it makes me less sweaty (but why?)
LowpastA known side effect of Ibuprofen (and most NSAIDs) is sweating, so the faster release tabs, for you, cause sweating.
ZachariahSo: blue pill?
Blue pilled liquidmaxxer
Then you might be interested in suppositories.
Draconic NEOI 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.
Sabre363Burger: No wrong way to swallow, feels more legit on the 'ol tongue, twice the value of “value size”
Man you have some massive painkiller bottles. Biggest I’ve seen in a drug store had like 30 tablets
It’s so we can fully utilize all our Freedom!
MinnesotaGoddamBuy it at the big box store
We don’t sell ibuprofen outside drugstores
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.
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
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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.
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&M 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 or 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
KingJalopy Hot dog goes down easier. I find easier to swallow a weenie shape than a ball shape.
The trick is to alternate between the weenie and the balls
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
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.
My poor european mind cannot understand the industrial bottle of 500 ibuprofen for a household.
Here they sell you packs of 20 tablets or something like that.
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).
itslilithThat 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
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?
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 🤷♂️
There’s a tamper-proof seal on the bottle
lady_mariaThe bottles in the US also have safety seals for the same reason
AkasazhWell but you do get health care with that, so instead of treating symptoms with ever larger doses of increaingly potent panikillers you have hopes of a more structural solution.
The shocking part is, the whole bottle is like $2.
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…
For live TV, perhaps they should change its name to subscription because that’s basically what it is at the end of the day.
Would you rather buy 15 pills for $15 or 500 pills for the same price? That’s why we buy the mega bottles.
BlackmistWell 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.
TonyOstrichMore packaging waste though
FozzyOsbourneI 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.
Is… Is that a thing that actually happens?
Yeah, afraid so
Technically… But there’s also a lot of waste from the 500 pack that people throw out half of. It likely evens out.
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.
As an example usecase If you have 3 menstrators in your household that take 4 a day 3 days a month
Yeah, that’s an absurd amount that only makes sense for people with chronic pain and that’s hardly the norm. I don’t think I’ve taken 1000 pain relief pills in my entire life.
ulternoReading this thread, I kinda feel weird.
When I was a child, I use to take tablets for headache (no idea which ones. I was a child.) and almost every time, the headache came back more intense than before, when the effect wore off.
Later, I started understanding that headaches (and other pains) happen for a reason and it is better to find out the reason and fix it, than just turn off the alarm.
So now, even if I get hurt due to something, I say no to pain relievers. This has even saved me from re-injuring a previous injury a few times.
- Sprained ankle / back pain : exercise and yoga.
- Cramps from exercise: next time do proper stretching after exercise.
- menstruation: I have no idea. never had that. sorry. But I can say for sure, people around me don’t tend to resort to taking pills all the time. Even those that have it hard.
- broke a ligament: definitely don’t take a pill, or you won’t realise if you are about to break it again.
Over here, pain management pills seems more like a last resort and not to be used for something that happens regularly. So, reading about it being treated like cereal, feels pretty weird.
I have a bit of an alternative, I used to get headaches a lot as a child, the meds absolutely helped as usually I’d take them so I could sleep it off, which almost always did clear it up.
I’m not sure why I was so frequently having headaches, but it definitely dropped off a lot once I moved out and started my own life, now it’s only maybe once or twice a month.
TheBrideWoreCrimsonThey 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.
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.
They probably sell them in centimeters or some shit.
Do you run a hospital or something with this volume?
This is just for the weekend