Image description: A bottle of Ibuprofen containing 1000 tablets.


(Originally published earlier today on mastodon.social)

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    2 years ago

    Please do not overdose on Ibuprofen. It’ll take a week and it’s going to hurt 9/10 the whole time.

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      Or longer. My aunt was diagnosed with failing kidneys, but the doc’s were having difficulty understanding why. She’d never had a problem with diabetes or the usual causes. Then she explained how she’d been covering up her back pain for years using pain meds.

      Now she’s having dialysis sessions a couple times a week. Doc gives her a few more years of this, unless some miracle occurs and she finds a replacement kidney. Miserable way to go.

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          Ask her, and she’d shrug. Whatever was enough to make the pain go away. She’d had back problems for years, too. It’s gotta add up over time.

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            Damn. That sucks. I’m taking it as a cautionary tale as I have a tendency to take more ibuprofen than I should. Thanks for sharing