Urgent Question - DH on the Floor with Toothache

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's not be too harsh on OP or her DH over the acetaminophen issue. When you are in blinding pain, you're not thinking straight and are desperate to try anything to make it stop. If a grown man is doubled up on the floor crying, he's probably past the point of caring what's in the pills if there's a chance it might work. I have taken way too many Advil at once before because knowing it might give me an ulcer later on in life was outweighed by knowing it would make the hideous cramping stop right now. He'll know for next time, which hopefully there won't be.

Overdosing on Advil won't kill your like Tylenol can.

And OP wasn't in blinding pain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's not be too harsh on OP or her DH over the acetaminophen issue. When you are in blinding pain, you're not thinking straight and are desperate to try anything to make it stop. If a grown man is doubled up on the floor crying, he's probably past the point of caring what's in the pills if there's a chance it might work. I have taken way too many Advil at once before because knowing it might give me an ulcer later on in life was outweighed by knowing it would make the hideous cramping stop right now. He'll know for next time, which hopefully there won't be.

Overdosing on Advil won't kill your like Tylenol can.

And OP wasn't in blinding pain.

OP again - not sure how many times I have to say this. He didn't ask me before taking medication, and he took less than the limit on the bottles in any event. I get it - no mixing vicodin and tylenol even within the limits on the bottles, but not sure why everyone is taking me to task for this. If he had asked me about what he took, I would have looked it up, but after the fact, I thought checking the bottles before heading to the ER was enough.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have had that kind of pain and it was worse than childbirth.

Agreed. Very comparable to childbirth. I took like 20 ibuprofen then got scared and called an ambulance. They checked me out and said I could go and get my stomach pumped but the only a dentist could help me.

[Anonymous]

OP, did the do the root canal already?! How is he?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, did the do the root canal already?! How is he?

I'm in the waiting room right now. I don't know what they are doing, but he has been take there for 2.5 hours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's not be too harsh on OP or her DH over the acetaminophen issue. When you are in blinding pain, you're not thinking straight and are desperate to try anything to make it stop. If a grown man is doubled up on the floor crying, he's probably past the point of caring what's in the pills if there's a chance it might work. I have taken way too many Advil at once before because knowing it might give me an ulcer later on in life was outweighed by knowing it would make the hideous cramping stop right now. He'll know for next time, which hopefully there won't be.

Overdosing on Advil won't kill your like Tylenol can.

And OP wasn't in blinding pain.

OP again - not sure how many times I have to say this. He didn't ask me before taking medication, and he took less than the limit on the bottles in any event. I get it - no mixing vicodin and tylenol even within the limits on the bottles, but not sure why everyone is taking me to task for this. If he had asked me about what he took, I would have looked it up, but after the fact, I thought checking the bottles before heading to the ER was enough.

You said you weren't aware of the mixing OTC and prescription drugs issue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Let's not be too harsh on OP or her DH over the acetaminophen issue. When you are in blinding pain, you're not thinking straight and are desperate to try anything to make it stop. If a grown man is doubled up on the floor crying, he's probably past the point of caring what's in the pills if there's a chance it might work. I have taken way too many Advil at once before because knowing it might give me an ulcer later on in life was outweighed by knowing it would make the hideous cramping stop right now. He'll know for next time, which hopefully there won't be.

Overdosing on Advil won't kill your like Tylenol can.

And OP wasn't in blinding pain.

OP again - not sure how many times I have to say this. He didn't ask me before taking medication, and he took less than the limit on the bottles in any event. I get it - no mixing vicodin and tylenol even within the limits on the bottles, but not sure why everyone is taking me to task for this. If he had asked me about what he took, I would have looked it up, but after the fact, I thought checking the bottles before heading to the ER was enough.

You said you weren't aware of the mixing OTC and prescription drugs issue.

Yes, I did. I thought you could take them within the limits on the bottles - meaning if the combined total is less than the limit on either bottle, I thought that was fine - what an idiot I am.

Your turn - exactly how does beating me up about it or treating me like an idiot during a stressful time help?

[Anonymous]

Ease up on OP!!

[Anonymous]

I took the recommended dosage of Tylenol for 24 hours (had a fever) and the following day had bloodwork. They made me come back twice more to ensure I wasn't in liver failure or had Hepatitis my #'s were so bad. If it can screw with your liver that much when you take the prescribed dose I can't imagine what would happen going over. I no longer take it and don't give it to DD.

Just food for thought, we didn't know how bad it was at the time OP, just throw it in the "now you know" file and move on Hope your DH is doing better!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, did the do the root canal already?! How is he?

I'm in the waiting room right now. I don't know what they are doing, but he has been take there for 2.5 hours.

Ugh. I hope he comes out feeling a whole lot better than when he went in!

PS- I don't understand why everyone is beating up on you either. Sounds like a scary event; you don't need more stress!

[Anonymous]

Jeez, people. OP didn't know about the Vicodin. Now she does. Stop beating a dead horse.

OP, I say this as someone who has BTDT- please encourage your husband to see the dentist every 6 months preventatively. These things can usually be caught early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Jeez, people. OP didn't know about the Vicodin. Now she does. Stop beating a dead horse.

OP, I say this as someone who has BTDT- please encourage your husband to see the dentist every 6 months preventatively. These things can usually be caught early.

I posted once about it. The info isn't just for OP, but for the other people reading the thread too. It's not always intuitive that Vicodin has acetaminophen.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Friends of our family lost their 24 year old son to acetaminophen overuse. He woke up with jaundice and died three months later of liver failure.

Tylenol is poison, but it's in everything. Read labels, people.

Terrifying! The label says 4000 in 24 hours can lead to liver damage - was he exceeding that, or was he at lower levels for a number of days?

He was a skateboarder, and I guess he fell down a lot. He took regular Tylenol during the day for pain and got in the habit of taking 3 Tylenol PM every night to help him sleep. I'm not sure how long he was doing this, but by the time he called his mom because the whites of his eyes had turned yellow, it was too late.

Like most people, he figured over the counter pain medicine was safe. He and his parents were dumbfounded at the damage it caused. His doctors were not.

[Anonymous]

NP here, and pp, that story is scary. What is the limit on ibuprofen? I deal with a lot of chronic pain, and I take about 400 mg daily...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't know how this is even possible. I thought everyone knew Vicodin contains acetaminophen.

NP here. Nope, not everyone knows. Frankly, I have never been prescribed Vicodin, so I have absolutely no knowledge of it beyond that it's a prescription painkiller. If I were prescribed it, I would do a little reading on it and when I could take it, but not everyone automatically knows everything about prescription medicines even if they are common.