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.
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.