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symptoms of an APAP overdose

I'm sure I've done some fairly nasty damage to my liver, but I am still alive and generally in good health (or so my doc says)... so SmokeTrails I don't think you need to be panicking much.
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Your liver will not take anywhere near as much rough treatment as someone who hasn't done all that paracetamol. With those sort of doses, for that long, it might only take something like a bad dose of influenza for your liver to start spluttering or even possibly fail alltogether. Notice in the phrase 'generally good health'. While your liver isn't called upon to have to do too much, it'll function perfectly OK, but any sort of bad infection that requires the liver to go into overdrive might just push it over the edge. Something like a hepatitis infection would get very serious, very quickly.

Bottom line, paracetamol isn't safe over 4000mg a day, take over that for a prolonged period and it's like spending all the money you've got saved up in the 'bank of liver' for an emergency/rainy day. If you've already used it up, you really don't want a rainy day, as it'll turn into a tornado/thunderstorm very quickly
 
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thanks... im perfectly fine now i think... i may have caused some damage but i experenced next to no symptoms... so i just CWE from now on with everything
 
fastandbulbous said:
And here we go again...

Your liver will not take anywhere near as much rough treatment as someone who hasn't done all that paracetamol. With those sort of doses, for that long, it might only take something like a bad dose of influenza for your liver to start spluttering or even possibly fail alltogether. Notice in the phrase 'generally good health'. While your liver isn't called upon to have to do too much, it'll function perfectly OK, but any sort of bad infection that requires the liver to go into overdrive might just push it over the edge. Something like a hepatitis infection would get very serious, very quickly.
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just to clarify..

You're right... like I said I'm quite certain I've done some fair damage to my liver. And, I don't recommend consuming massive doses of APAP. It's just that I found some of the posts here unduly panicky... so I posted about my experiences.

I did tell my doc about all the APAP abuse, he wasn't very concerned ("so long as you're not doing it anymore"). I got a second opinion ... same result. From blood and urine tests both docs have concluded there's nothing to be concerned about. Still, there's this one abdomenal ultrasound that I've been putting off... maybe that'll shed more light on the state of my liver.

Anyway, I'm not disagreeing with you...
 
Paracetamol

Re: Paracetamol:
Back in Bombay and in London (UK) there used to be paracetamol pills available (Saradon, Crocin, etc... i think). Paracetamol was generally considered to be the everyday analgesic. Is it the same as acetaminophen or is it a different concoction with similar effects (and side-effects)
 
EVERYONE listen to something that i found out recently. When you take those levels of apap, you can take NAC(n-acitilcistene) from whole food stores. This counteracts apap/acetaminophen at a mg:mg basis.
 
Or methionine - it'll do the job if taken before taking the paracetamol (or at the very least, along with), but once you've swallowed, your only real option is NAC (that's the way the NHS does it)

PS NAC is N-acetylcysteine
 
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