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> My prescription was 800mg.

Sure, but it’s not like 800mg is 4x or even 2x more effective than 200mg. Ibuprofen is great, I just don’t really see the point of risking dying and whatever else for what’s at most a very marginal benefit.

It’s not enormous in the sense that it’s uncommon per se, but rather in the sense that it’s way outside the efficient frontier on the risk/reward curve.



> I just don’t really see the point of risking dying and whatever else

Ibuprofen is not the painkiller where taking 2x the recommended limit has an enormous risk of death.


Yeah it’s not like acetaminophen where you’re going to immediately die, but if you look up recent papers on NSAID mortality the risk is still a lot higher than previously thought.




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