Elon Musk - Your mental illness is not my new reality. Take hard-to-swallow pills to cure yourself (Q#543 and Q#54)
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they both are, but acetaminophen in single large doses is quite toxic, while aspirin is cumulative requiring days or weeks to develop. Aspirin also causes GI bleed. It is a well known fact that pain pill addicts often have liver damage from the acetaminophen. Retired oral surgeon here.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/article-
From the abstract.
"The mechanism for acetaminophen liver damage is quite clear. It produces hepatic injury as a result of a large single overdose, usually suicidal in intent. Patients with acetaminophen blood levels higher than 300 mg/dL at four hours after intake are most likely to develop hepatic damage; when N-acetylcysteine is used within the first ten hours after ingestion of an overdose, the recovery rate is reported to be virtually 100%. The conditions of patients receiving long-term full doses of either aspirin or acetaminophen should be intermittently monitored for hepatic injury."
...if you take enough over a longer period of time.
The point I was attempting to make is that a relatively safe aspirin (used appropriately) was replaced with a significantly less safe acetaminophen (used appropriately).
Probably a large dose of aspirin at once would cause significant GI bleed. I do know that even a low dose of aspirin can cause what they call 'occult bleeding'. Pretty safe though. Both are not good in large doses. Aspirin is a miracle drug though, and if discovered today would likely be by prescription. If I had one drug to keep while on a desert island, it would be the aspirin.