wait, how are you getting naproxen?

Whenever its prescribed here, its paired with some sort of intestine protection medicine to stop it burning holes in your stomach/intenstines

Ibuprofen is much safer, so long as you eat with it.

Paracetamol is also safer, so long as you don't OD.

BUT! so long as you stay below 4 grams a day, you'll be safe. (yes yes, in some situations you can take double, but unless you are under supervision, thats asking for liver pain.)

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Jach 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

In the US, Aleve is the name-brand pill for naproxen, available in grocery stores next to everything else. I have a bottle of 160 gelcaps. Each pill is 220mg naproxen sodium or in parentheses 200 mg of naproxen. The advertised effect is 12 hours / all day, getting anywhere near 4g would only happen in a suicidal "swallow bottle of pills" situation.

	▲	reducesuffering 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		GP meant 4g is the safe limit to paracetamol (hence "liver pain"). About 8 typical doses over 24 hours. It's little known amongst the general population, who have the occasional extreme of people taking double doses every few hours
	▲	KaiserPro 4 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		So its a bottle, not a blister pack? wild. I know that blister packs are a pain, but in the places that they are introduced they reduce pill based suicide by up to 40%[1] Sorry I should have been more clear about the 4g, that was for paracetamol. I have no idea what it would be for naproxen [1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC526120/

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atombender 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

That combo is naproxen/esomeprazole. The brand name is Vimovo, but they don't have a patent, so you can get it as a generic. To work, though, it has to be taken 30 minutes before food.