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I think this sort of commercial will become common. That's a good thing. It contributes to the "ordinarying" of things that until yesterday were not allowed to be.
Edited to add: The point of my post is not to endorse Tylenol. It is to point out how this type of commercial can imprint an image and a message on the national psyche. It can change minds.
The good or bad of tylenol is entirely beside the point.
clydefrand
(4,325 posts)go buy Tylon if I ever needed pain relief. Actuallly do have some that wife takes,
but, even at 80yo I still don't need them (yet )
tularetom
(23,664 posts)Let's see, which would I rather give up - booze or tylenol?
There really is no choice.
clydefrand
(4,325 posts)a little wine now and then (but never before lunch time )
cbayer
(146,218 posts)off the market years and years ago.
It's a toxic drug with no appreciable benefits to other analgesics.
The company continues to try to justify this drub.
LuvNewcastle
(16,858 posts)Tylenol works well for my little pains, but I'd really like to find something less toxic for aches. I can't afford to smoke cannabis every time I have an ache.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)The problem with cannabis is it's cumulative effects, imo.
LuvNewcastle
(16,858 posts)you choose to relieve pain. NSAIDs bother my acid reflux and I can't take much aspirin because of other meds. I've tried opiates, but they stop working unless you keep raising the dose, and I don't want to do that. Cannabis helps my pain better than anything else out there and I'm usually frugal with it, so I don't have many negative effects.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)There is not perfect answer for chronic pain, I do know that.
Hope things get better or at least not worse.
LuvNewcastle
(16,858 posts)REP
(21,691 posts)None of them should be taken for more than three consecutive days without a doctor's supervision, and many people should not take them at all.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)but I still think acetaminophen is by far the most deadly OTC pain medication on the market.
Lyric
(12,675 posts)A little bit of stomach inflammation from aspirin can turn into a deadly upper GI bleed for me, and NSAIDS other than aspirin can cause heart attacks and strokes.
I take my chances with 81 mgs of aspirin per day, because my cardiologist feels that the benefits are worth the risk. But without Tylenol, I'd have no options for pain relief at all.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)The biggest problem with acetaminophen, imo, is the widespread assumption that it is safe and can be taken liberally.
Of all the OTC pain meds out there, it has the highest risk of death with overused. The company knows that and has been extremely recalcitrant to address the problem.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)That's ruffled a few feathers!
olddots
(10,237 posts)Go Vols
(5,902 posts)Not thinking, it turns out, could cost you dearly... Acetaminophen overdose is actually the leading cause for calls to Poison Control Centers across the USmore than 100,000 instances per yearand, each year, is responsible for:1
More than 56,000 emergency room visits
2,600 hospitalizations
An estimated 458 deaths due to acute liver failure
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2014/03/26/acetaminophen-overdose.aspx
Stinky The Clown
(67,819 posts)But thanks for letting the world know you're Tylenol-Free. Congratulations on that significant accomplishment.
Go Vols
(5,902 posts)If I were selling a product that killed people,I would make commercials as warm and fuzzy as possible,just like the one in the OP.
Paulie
(8,462 posts)Kills a lot of peopl...
Aerows
(39,961 posts)but I suspect that the majority of the overdoses are because acetaminophen is intentionally mixed in with opiates.
mopinko
(70,238 posts)and i think a lot of the od's are intentional.