Sam

calling the sex I have with my friends “hookup culture” is insulting and incorrect. these are guys who take care of me and take me on dates and watch fun movies with me. being a disabled faggot too, they help me clean my place and take my trash out for me. they care for me and are on my emergency contact lists. trying to slap the label of “todays hookup culture!!!” on it is diminishing and devaluing those relationships

This was prompted by me and my boyfriend discussing handedness and being able to tell apart left and right. And me, being ambidextrous, was baffled by how do people with an obligate dominant hand mix up which side is the one with their Writing Hand and which one isn't?? And my boyfriend pointed out that I go "turn left - no I mean right" so much when giving directions that I have lost my navigator privileges.

I argued that mixing up the words isn't the same thing as mixing up the directions. Like if your mom accidentally called you the dog's name doesn't mean that she literally can't tell you apart from the dog. And he looked at me like this

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but IRL do not do that. Strictly follow the label. Tylenol does not cause autism but like many things it can definitely cause organ failure if overdosed.

So be careful with the jokes because people in this entirely clout fixated side of the internet will totally do some kind of tiktok of them taking a bunch

because MANY people WILLFULLY lack not only any idea of consequences

Most acetaminophen is in 500mg pills, to be taken no more than two pills no more frequently than every four hours. That's it. More pills at once, or less time between doses, starts getting to be more than the liver can handle. Acetaminophen is not just in Tylenol, but in other OTC medicines like Motrin, too, so it's possible to take a double dose without realizing. Add alcohol to the mix and the liver suffers more.

Harder to spot is how many of the "Headache" and "Migraine" meds are Aspirin + Acetaminophen + Caffeine. Excedrin, etc.

And of course, the part where Acetaminophen is also called things like Paracetemol... hang on, lemme just...

Drug: N-acetyl-para-aminophenol Generic names: Acetaminophen, Paracetamol, APAP Brands*: Actamin, Alvedon, Anacin AF, Aurophen, Bromo Seltzer, Calpol, Mapap, M-Pap, Panadol, Pharbetol, Silapap Childrens, Tactinal, Tempra Quicklets, Tycolene, Tylenol, Vitapap

* for just APAP itself. As noted above, there are countless other OTC and prescription drugs that contain APAP as one of multiple active ingredients.

The takeaway here is multi-layered, but the big one is:

ALWAYS CHECK THE ACTIVE INGREDIENTS OF YOUR MEDS

A lot of meds are paired because while their primary known use may not be helpful, they have some secondary interaction that makes the primary action of the other med work better. I know someone who is taking a specific cough suppressant because it turns out it helps for major depression when paired with a specific antidepressant. Like WTF?

The bigger problem is not the pairing, but the rate at which doctors insist on treating the Hydrocodone + Tylenol in a single pill as the default, instead of choosing the specific opiate and whatever to pair it with on a case-by-case.

Last time I had surgery they gave me the opiates, NSAIDS, and Tylenol separately and had me alternate between them. It worked beautifully, and we could adjust each dose separately. And, gods forbid, we could switch to a different NSAID or opiate if the one we started with wasn't ideal. But for some reason too many doctors act like all opiates are identical. They're so not! Codeine works way better for me than Hydrocodone!

It's very personal! I get the anti-inflammatory use from Naproxen, but it doesn't do anything directly for pain, for me, whereas my sister has the same experience with Ibuprofen.

And a lot of meds do multiple totally different things for some reason? I take an antihistamine every day because it helps my anxiety. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

meanwhile the other month when I was in the hospital for a few days after complications of surgery, I was prescribed an opiate as-needed for pain, but I stopped asking once I was better enough that I was having ordinary bad pain days, because I wasn't going to keep having access to the good pain meds and I would like to keep "drug-seeking" out of my medical records

me when I get home:

me the entire weekend: