a newly made doctor friend of mine comes to our knitting nite and gives us the latest stuff she learned in med school (now she is a resident! YAY!) But after she told us about tylenol Sue insisted we use the last of the bottle and get rid of it. We now only have aspirin at home and I have advil at work.
One thing she said that really struck Sue was that it wasn't that you shouldn't mix tylenol and alcohol (that was already understood.) what she said was "anyone who ever drinks alcohol, even occasionally like once a month should never take tylenol. ever." Supposedly your liver metabolizes alcohol so slowly (?) that even one drink a month would mean there was enough in your liver to interact with the tylenol. Sue and I drink ... a drink every 2 weeks? And our doctor friend said this was too much alcohol to be using tylenol at all. and so.. no more in our house.
strangely enough I have never had a good reaction to using any other NSAIDs. None of them work for me. And the one that did (sudafed I think) changed its prescription/active ingredient since the whole "you must get your name checked before you buy this b'c people cook meth" rules. So I can only take aspirin, advil, or aleve. I am largely unmedicated most of the time. Much to my chagrin.
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Date: 2013-10-07 02:52 pm (UTC)One thing she said that really struck Sue was that it wasn't that you shouldn't mix tylenol and alcohol (that was already understood.) what she said was "anyone who ever drinks alcohol, even occasionally like once a month should never take tylenol. ever." Supposedly your liver metabolizes alcohol so slowly (?) that even one drink a month would mean there was enough in your liver to interact with the tylenol. Sue and I drink ... a drink every 2 weeks? And our doctor friend said this was too much alcohol to be using tylenol at all. and so.. no more in our house.
strangely enough I have never had a good reaction to using any other NSAIDs. None of them work for me. And the one that did (sudafed I think) changed its prescription/active ingredient since the whole "you must get your name checked before you buy this b'c people cook meth" rules. So I can only take aspirin, advil, or aleve. I am largely unmedicated most of the time. Much to my chagrin.