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.
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
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).
Came here to say the same thing, like WTF, why would you need a jar of 500
But the blister packs we get can’t be tampered with 🤷♂️
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
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
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.
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
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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
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.
You're thinking acetaminophen
They're probably thinking paracetamol
Hamburger style.
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
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.
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.
FFS people go read one article each on ibuprofen and acetaminophen and you'll see most of you are wrong
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