if you take to much it can shut down your liver or kidneys... I know a few ultra marathoners who were taking 1-2 every hour and wound up in the hospital.... Motrin (prescription ibuprofin) comes in 800mg horse pills but with less buffers than are in advil. You supposedly need the 800 mg for a good anti inflammatory effect. at least that is what I was told when it was prescribed to me. but 1600mg/ day was supposed to be the limit. so the marathoners were somewhere over 2400 mg when they had problems.
Doctor told me to take the max when fever wouldn't let go. 3 at a time without enough food in your stomach and a reaction seems to start that spirals out of control. Intense, burning pain, that eventually leads to hospitalization. During the Covid scare, that was not fucking fun.
Damn. Seriously?
I occasionally take that as a last-resort anti-inflammatory, when all else fails.
I take turmeric curcumin every day--maybe I should take another when symptoms hit.
if you take to much it can shut down your liver or kidneys... I know a few ultra marathoners who were taking 1-2 every hour and wound up in the hospital.... Motrin (prescription ibuprofin) comes in 800mg horse pills but with less buffers than are in advil. You supposedly need the 800 mg for a good anti inflammatory effect. at least that is what I was told when it was prescribed to me. but 1600mg/ day was supposed to be the limit. so the marathoners were somewhere over 2400 mg when they had problems.
Every HOUR? Good Lord, even I never took it more often than every four hours, and THAT was when I had a broken tooth!
people who run 100 mile ultra marathons at elevation do stupid things...
That's insane. If someone needed it that often it sounds like they weren't ready for that marathon to begin with.
Doctor told me to take the max when fever wouldn't let go. 3 at a time without enough food in your stomach and a reaction seems to start that spirals out of control. Intense, burning pain, that eventually leads to hospitalization. During the Covid scare, that was not fucking fun.