... and not from my beer. From my pain meds.
I'm sitting here, sweating and unable to sleep, so I decided to look up some info about my meds to see if they were habit forming or anything.
The medicine I am taking (fioricet) contains some barbituates, caffiene, and acetaminophen... 325mg/tablet of the latter. My prescription indicates that I should take 1 or 2 tablets every 4 hours. Since I've been in a lot of pain, I've been taking 2 tablets at a time.
No problem with that, really. That puts me at a daily dose of acetaminophen of approximately 3900 mg, and 4000mg/day is considered the max "safe" dosage.
The problem comes from that fact that I was told that I could take tylenol every four hours as well, 2 hours offset from the fioricet. Each tylenol tablet (extra strength) contains 500mg of acetaminophen. So... just from the tylenol alone, I was taking 6000 mg/day. 50% more than what is considered safe.
Now, add it all up.... 9900mg of acetaminophen per day for the last 7 days.
So I freaked a little and started looking up info on acetaminophen overdoses and found that my insomnia and sweating for the last two days is propbably a direct cause of the amount of this drug that I have been taking. And, though I can't feel anything wrong, I've been beating the hell out of my liver with this crap.
-walker
I'm sitting here, sweating and unable to sleep, so I decided to look up some info about my meds to see if they were habit forming or anything.
The medicine I am taking (fioricet) contains some barbituates, caffiene, and acetaminophen... 325mg/tablet of the latter. My prescription indicates that I should take 1 or 2 tablets every 4 hours. Since I've been in a lot of pain, I've been taking 2 tablets at a time.
No problem with that, really. That puts me at a daily dose of acetaminophen of approximately 3900 mg, and 4000mg/day is considered the max "safe" dosage.
The problem comes from that fact that I was told that I could take tylenol every four hours as well, 2 hours offset from the fioricet. Each tylenol tablet (extra strength) contains 500mg of acetaminophen. So... just from the tylenol alone, I was taking 6000 mg/day. 50% more than what is considered safe.
Now, add it all up.... 9900mg of acetaminophen per day for the last 7 days.
So I freaked a little and started looking up info on acetaminophen overdoses and found that my insomnia and sweating for the last two days is propbably a direct cause of the amount of this drug that I have been taking. And, though I can't feel anything wrong, I've been beating the hell out of my liver with this crap.
-walker