Comment by mattkrause
4 years ago
The "standard dosage unit" in Canada is 325 mg (for adults), with extra-strength pills containing 500 or 650 mg.
1000 mg is pushing the daily limit (4000 mg, but it's got a halflife of ~6 hrs, so...)
4 years ago
The "standard dosage unit" in Canada is 325 mg (for adults), with extra-strength pills containing 500 or 650 mg.
1000 mg is pushing the daily limit (4000 mg, but it's got a halflife of ~6 hrs, so...)
1,000 milligrams is not "pushing the daily limit". That is a normal adult dose and by a wide margin within what is considered safe for even chronic daily use.
Like many people, when I have a headache or a sore muscle I take the dose recommended on the Tylenol bottle: 1,000 milligrams. It is not even remotely dangerous.
Furthermore, if the original commenter is using acetaminophen to reduce rare psychological pain the margin of safety is even larger because she's using it only rarely.
The normal adult dose is 300-600mg every 4-6 hrs, with a max dose of 3 (formerly 4) g/day. It's right on their webpage: https://www.tylenolprofessional.com/adult-dosage If you want something more formal, Medscape has pretty much the same numbers: https://reference.medscape.com/drug/tylenol-acetaminophen-34...
A one-off 1000mg is, as you say, fine but if you're maintaining at that level, you are literally right at the DNE limit.
TYLENOL® Extra Strength Caplets
Acetaminophen
500 mg (in each caplet)
2 caplets every 6 hours