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Tyenol is supposed to be safer but can eventually harm your liver. Don't ever take it with alcohol! My friend's nurse mom made her promise to never do that.
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Ah, okay!
#206320 - 08/18/05 12:03 AM
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Linz
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That's just standard strength over here. So maybe I should have been recommending you take Solpadeine instead!  Get some meds off your doc sweetie, 1g acetamenophin is my only vaguely achey meds dose!
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I know that I have been told to take up to what the bottle recommends of 500mg tylenol everyday for the athritis in my back. The only warning that I got from the doctor was to never use alcohol and tylenol together within a 24 hour period of having taking either one. Something about the processing of the alcohol out of the system and the tylenol in the liver causes it to work harder. (This is coming from a fuzzy memory at this point on the whole discussion).
I have to say that I do love Tylenol's new ad campaign that came out after the problems with Alleve, etc. "If you can't use our product as recommended, we would prefer you didn't use it." Talk about getting the point across in people thinking if it says take 2 every four hours than 4 every two hours should nip it quicker.
I won't be giving up my Tylenol...although the Tylenol #3 for the migraines is a godsend.
Michelle
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I agree Tommy, they are always changing their mind. One day coffee is bad, then egg yolks, then tylenol, and a month later they are all great for you. It has to be in part with the special interest groups making sure they can keep a positive spin on things so they turn out their own new (biased) report on how it really is safe for you. I figure that sooner or later I am going to hear that being nice, smiling, or having fun are all bad for you. I know sarcasm is definitely bad for me...just too darn fun.
I am glad someone else realizes the media is only doing scare tactics. I mean Tuesday CNN is practically calling this worm the end of the world (Wolf Blitzer as Chicken Little was all I could think) because they had all their machines rebooting. All I could think of was...gee if you downloaded your patches like a good little users you wouldn't have had this problem. So to listen to Wolf tell everyone to turn off their machines was funny since the tech expert was very vocal on that they didn't need to go that far. Scare the viewers because you can't download your scheduled Microsoft patches. I guess that's why I love Food Network...they don't scare me...just tantalize me. 
Michelle
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But then there are alot of times when I'm on Tylenol constantly so it would mean going completely teetotal!  It's just an extra stress on your liver I think. But then I figure that these days I never get roaring drunk - two glasses of wine in an evening is binge drinking for me!  - and the occasional glass of something whilst on Tylenol can't be much worse for my liver than getting plastered on a regular basis!
And shucks, I have few enough naughty feel-good vices left...especially now they've worked out that chocolate is GOOD for you!
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I just read your message concernng tylenol. Did you
find out if it was harmful or not for IBS? I use it
all the time I take two extra strength at bedtime and
I am able to sleep without pain.
squirrel2
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As part of a paper I wrote for one of my classes a few years back, I kept track of news article titles for about a week.
-Flu hits the area
-Flu gets worse
-Quick, get your shots
-Oh no, not enough flu shots
-You're at risk
Holy moly, after a week you think you're bound for certain death because everyone's at risk for everything.
Too much of anything can be harmful, but I've yet to hear of anyone dying from Tylenol ingestion.
And if it is true, I'd rather live a slightly shorter life pain free, than a long one with chronic pain.
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