Image description: A bottle of Ibuprofen containing 1000 tablets.
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Ibuprofen is metabolized in the kidneys, not the liver. That's acetaminophen.
Dosage is 2 pills every 4 hours. But prescription strength is equal to 4 of these, so it could be as many as 16 a day.
16 a day? A medical prescription here would usually target 1200 mg/day, maybe go as far as 2400 mg/day, but not a single milligram more, as that's the maximum daily dose recommended before side effects start cropping up. You're taking 3200 mg/day for extended periods of time? You're poisoning yourself trying to escape pain.
When they give you ibuprofen following surgery, yea, it can be 800mg pills every 4 hours. It's not the normal dose most people take. I didn't say it was extended periods at that dose.
Otc, they max at 1200mg/day but it's the same drug that by prescription the max is 3200mg/day.
https://www.pdr.net/drug-summary/?drugLabelId=Ibuprofen-Tablets-ibuprofen-2618
So ~64 days, then. It all makes sense now.
TIL. Metabolised, or just peed out?
I believed metabolized, but I'm not super intimate with its method of absorption.
Most people won't take such large prolonged doses, but when you have a family of five, it's not hard to go through a good number of these. It's a rather safe drug with pain relieving, antiinflammatory properties and a fever reducer.
So muscle aches and headaches. It's taken when someone has the flu. It can be taken to help with even a cold to help with the inflammation in the sinuses. It's rather versatile. My back is spasming today, I've taken like 6 or 8 today.
That's actually insane. I never saw anyone taking more than 200mg every 8 hour, even after surgery.