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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I prefer the mini-gummies style.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

with mustard

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Americans may be seeing serious savings in that picture.

I am seeing serious evolutionary pressure on liver genetics.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You're thinking acetaminophen

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're probably thinking paracetamol

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Why would ever need that many??

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

They last forever. Bottle like that lasts us a couple years

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

To give to trick or treaters.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Inflammation pain that doctors won't fucking help with. Buy in bulk and then you won't run out for a year or so.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

Relief is temporary. Pain is forever.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Liver damage

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Do you run a hospital or something with this volume?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

This is just for the weekend

[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Would you rather buy 15 pills for $15 or 500 pills for the same price? That's why we buy the mega bottles.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (6 children)

More packaging waste though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Is... Is that a thing that actually happens?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Yeah, afraid so

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here in the UK you can't buy more than two packs at a given time...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You also have to have a license for tv…

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

For live TV, perhaps they should change its name to subscription because that's basically what it is at the end of the day.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

There's a tamper-proof seal on the bottle

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

When you buy a bottle of 1000 for around 15 bucks, and it lasts you a decade.... Amazing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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).

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Never understood all the hate. Sometimes I actually crave that weird-ass flavor.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

That's the origin of the hate: addiction to meds.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

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

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