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[–]hennojisan 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (9 children)

It's also liver-toxic at 1.5 grams. Since it often comes in 500 mg doses, it's easy to go over the line.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (8 children)

And that liver toxicity makes it one of the most dangerous drugs out there.

acetaminophen-associated overdoses account for about 50,000 emergency room visits and 25,000 hospitalizations yearly. Acetaminophen is the nation's leading cause of acute liver failure, according to data from an ongoing study funded by the National Institutes for Health. Analysis of national mortality files shows about 450 deaths occur each year from acetaminophen-associated overdoses; 100 of these are unintentional." source

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Thanks!

[–]shariajustice 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

i had read before that some suicide by eating tylenol and that it causes irreversible damage to the liver.

i just read that 10 grams is fatal.. is this true? how unpleasant is the death from this and how long does it take typically?

if one were to take ten grams of tylenol, how long before it is irreversible to cause death?

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

For a person of normal weight and health they'd be chewing their way through many more tablets than a person would ordinarily take (probably upwards of 20 standard). The actual fatal dose varies a fair bit. It is a deeply unpleasant way to go. With a large enough dose, considering weight and general health, your liver would begin to fail. A person in this situation would linger on for days in serious pain before they die.

[–]shariajustice 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

so, if a person were to consume 25 grams(50x500mg) per day, perhaps for five days.. how long do you estimate before we are at the point of no return? how long before we are at a place where no hospital could save you?

curious minds need to know.

my true preference would have been to be eaten alive by cannibals, but i dont know any cannibals.

can you imagine being chained to a table top, they cut off my leg and toss it in the oven.. mozart is playing.. i am screaming my brains out.. and they all sit down at the table where i am chained down..

will you pass the carrots, please, someone calls out..

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I’m no expert. I looked at a few sources, like the BMJ, and it seems to vary.

I’d also choose the cannibals.

[–]shariajustice 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

well, i am off to walmart to get a case of tylenol.. if you hear some screaming in the next few days, it is probably me dying from liver damage.

all love.

[–]Trajan 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I’d hold out for the cannibals. COVID travel restrictions should ease in a few months if we’re lucky.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Howdy fellow Houstonian. It depends on the person, people just react differently to drugs (why they give fatal dosages as LD50s, the lethal dose when 50% of the subjects die), and if they catch it in time. I don't know how long it takes before it's irreversible.

I had taken too much myself back when I first injured my knee but my couch guy and wife took me to the hospital and they got lived protecterants into me right away so there was no damage. I had no idea at the time I couldn't eat them like candy, luckily they knew.

Most of my experience with liver damage comes from a couple alcoholic buds. One of them, drunken_otter on reddit, didn't have any symptoms until a month before her death. She got bloated, ascites, and constipated, and she didn't complain but it didn't sound pleasant. The other one is currently in stage 4 chirrossis and she's complained about the pain a number of times but she's been hanging on for a while now. I wouldn't pick it as a way to go.

[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

If you don't want to read the article, it's tylenol (acetaminophen/paracetamol).

[–]JasonCarswell 5 insightful - 4 fun5 insightful - 3 fun6 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

I haven't taken Tylenol for a long time yet I feel like risking it all to say, "Fuck NO!" to the masks.

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    [–]jet199 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I know I had to wear one for a couple of hours straight at a museum today and when I went out to the street and took it off I felt like a bad person for taking it off even though that's normal, within the rules and I don't even agree with the mask policy at all.

    Masks are addictive, probably because they act as a security blanket. They also act to hide your emotions and there's a part of your brain which seems to like that.

    [–]shariajustice 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    there is no corona virus, it is a scam.. technically, there is a corona virus but it is not worthy of locking down the entire planet.. i suspect that this is an effort to transform the world both economically and politically.

    this is the new war, the war of confusion.

    when i say it is the war of confusion, we have all been divided by the confusion and arguing that exists in our social media.

    there will be massive poverty and starvation in the new system, and the new rich will not blink as you starve to death.. they will sit in their mansions and sip wine as you eat dirt.

    [–]BigFatRetard 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    [...] Lowering people's receptivity to hurt feelings,[...]

    BUY! BUY! BUY!

    [–]High_and_Lonesome 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Oh girl! You have no faith in medicine!

    [–]Zapped 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Since acetaminophen is an anti-inflammatory, wouldn't it make sense that it allows a person to be less "timid" in decision making? I wouldn;t call that risky behavior or cognitive decline.

    [–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    It's not that because people's inflammation is less they are more likely to do things they wouldn't before because of pain, but as a side effect they engage in riskier behavior. The test they used was to have participants inflate a balloon. The bigger the balloon the more imaginary money they'd win. When given 1g of tylenol people were more likely to pop that balloon compared to people who didn't take the tylenol.

    The cognitive decline was determined from another test. I'll just c&p that one.

    Next, the participants performed a test that involved hitting a certain button when an "F" appeared on a computer screen, and not hitting the button when an "E" appeared. This is called a No/NoGo test, and it basically gauges how fast and accurate a person’s decisions are.

    When all was said and done, the group that took the Tylenol ended up hitting the button when "E" appeared and also missed the "F" pop-ups more frequently than those who took the placebo. According to the team, this indicates that Tylenol could make it harder for a person to make accurate, quick decisions.