Comments on: Study: Over Time, Even a Little Too Much Tylenol Can Kill

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 12 May 2012 04:09:49 +0000

Well Tylenol might not be the best thing in the world to take. However my father passed away at 51 due to Nash and he never took Tylenol or drank he took Motrin for 14 years straight though and it did contribute to his health issues I believe. I was in a car accident and was told to take tylen daily by my orthopedic doc and my fam doc and two pharmacists. So that being said I do take them daily and if you really do some research the fact is that Motrin has killed more people in a year than tylenol and most of those deaths were from people using it at appropriate doses. I have read alot of what dr William lee says and he is a luver specialist and seems to believe that it is an appropriate drug from many people and safe.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:04:13 +0000

@ Berry

I am not affiliated with drug companies.

“A total of 46/134 (34.3%) of staggered overdoses were taken deliberately as a suicide
attempt” (source: the article)

there’s no evidence that 1300mg of Tylenol Arthritis/day will cause liver damage in an otherwise healthy patient

By: BJ

BJ — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:07:30 +0000

I have arthritis. My doctor took me off ibuprofen because my stomach was upset all the time. Told me to take acetaminophen. Within 2 months my liver numbers, usually normal, had shot up. And even though I’ve stopped taking Tylenol, my liver numbers still jump around.

Thanks, Tylenol!!

By: alien

alien — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 04:06:10 +0000

i prefer tylenol than the others but at emergency rooms they keep telling people in pain to take anything because they dont have time to properly treat.

By: Ug

Ug — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 09:28:35 +0000

Funny thing is that if Tylonol was a neww drug the FDA would not approve it due to the risk of liver damage but because it is such a household name they don’t take it off the market either.

By: Marie

Marie — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:26:42 +0000

Acetaminophen is a poison that happens to have pain killing properties, if you don’t take enough to poison yourself. Why would anyone choose to use this?

By: pbird

pbird — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 22:17:48 +0000

The weird thing is, that it doesn’t work anyhow. When a medical professional advises using it I know they are not serious. Its like a verbal placebo.

By: Jay Fox

Jay Fox — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:02:34 +0000

Personally, I never take the stuff. Plain aspirin for me.

I find it curious that we used to test stuff on animals before taking it ourselves. That practice was discontinued, for the most part. But it did alert us to some very dangerous substances. As for acetaminophen, we know that it will kill a cat pretty quickly and effectively; whether this information comes from formal testing or anecdotes is irrelevant. So the question really is, who actually thinks that this stuff is any kind of safe for us? Is a cat really that different internally from a human that we cannot see a problem there?

When they put melamine in dog food, it killed dogs. When they put it in baby food, it killed babies. If Tylenol can kill a cat, it can kill you. Find an alternative, and quit supporting the product. Anyone telling you that it is safe is not being truthful and probably connected in some way to big pharma.

By: S. Minor

S. Minor — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:13:10 +0000

Cathy, off-brand Excedrin would have acetominophen – the active ingredient in Tylenol – in it, not ibuprofen.

By: J.M.

J.M. — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 20:46:16 +0000

Re: #1/#5 – 1300mg = 1.3g. “A staggered overdose was defined as an average of 4 grams per day.”