• BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I think what’s extra dangerous about Tylenol is that it doesnt feel like it’s doing anything. When it works, some minor pain goes away, or maybe your fever goes down. But there’s no side effects that you really feel, so I bet people get a false sense of security with it. Like, oh it isn’t giving me opioid euphoria, or knocking me out. And you can just buy as much as you want, no restrictions. It must be perfectly safe.

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      2 months ago

      Nothing is perfectly safe. You can kill yourself with water poisoning, and that’s pumped directly into your house.

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        2 months ago

        There is a brand mixing acetylsalicylic acid and koffein which works wonders as a quick relief for migraine while my standard naproxen usually requires a few hours of darkness to start working, so I can’t agree that all over the counter meds are garbage. I can’t refute your placebo claims since the effect cant be measured by myself