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Title: Advil
Post by: Laurie on October 30, 2007, 08:39:07 AM: Am I crazy, or has the dosage on the Advil bottle changed? Didn't it used to advise adults to take 2 tablets every 4-6 hours? Now it says I should take one. Have I been taking the wrong dosage my entire life?
Title: Re: Advil
Post by: senorcorazon on October 30, 2007, 09:36:00 AM: Maybe the problem was that you were also reading "with a fifth of vodka" after the dosage?
Title: Re: Advil
Post by: buffcoat on October 30, 2007, 11:42:42 AM: Quote from: senorcorazon on October 30, 2007, 09:36:00 AM
Maybe the problem was that you were also reading "with a fifth of vodka" after the dosage?

Zing!
Title: Re: Advil
Post by: TL on October 30, 2007, 01:22:05 PM: I always just took four at a time anyway. Be careful with Excedrin's new "Tension Headache" pills, though - 500 mg of acetaminophen and 65 mg of caffeine in every tablet!
Recommended to be warshed down with a cocktail of warm water, Jamesons, and hot sauce at about... 10:20 AM.
Woot!
Title: Re: Advil
Post by: SpaceBootz on October 30, 2007, 03:45:50 PM: Quote from: Mrs. Jarvis Cocker on October 30, 2007, 08:39:07 AM
Am I crazy, or has the dosage on the Advil bottle changed? Didn't it used to advise adults to take 2 tablets every 4-6 hours? Now it says I should take one. Have I been taking the wrong dosage my entire life?

I guess I've never noticed that. I always take 2 also. In fact, I've taken 4 altogether today.. and I still have my headache.
Title: Re: Advil
Post by: Tim K in DC on October 31, 2007, 04:13:55 AM: Quote from: TL on October 30, 2007, 01:22:05 PM
I always just took four at a time anyway. Be careful with Excedrin's new "Tension Headache" pills, though - 500 mg of acetaminophen and 65 mg of caffeine in every tablet!
Recommended to be warshed down with a cocktail of warm water, Jamesons, and hot sauce at about... 10:20 AM.
Woot!

Top it off with an egg sangie and that's the recipe for a very, very restful Sunday afternoon.
Title: Re: Advil
Post by: Sarah on October 31, 2007, 12:05:53 PM: What is an egg sangie?
Title: Re: Advil
Post by: Laurie on October 31, 2007, 12:19:10 PM: An ungodly thing that does not belong between two slices of bread.
Title: Re: Advil
Post by: Sarah on October 31, 2007, 01:48:02 PM: Ah, so "sangie" is simply a diminutive for "sangwich"? I was pronouncing it with a soft "g"--as demanded by the following "i"--and that threw me off.
Title: Re: Advil
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on October 31, 2007, 01:50:37 PM: Quote from: Sarah on October 31, 2007, 01:48:02 PM
Ah, so "sangie" is simply a diminutive for "sangwich"? I was pronouncing it with a soft "g"--as demanded by the following "i"--and that threw me off.

I think the correct term is "handie."
Title: Re: Advil
Post by: Tim K in DC on November 01, 2007, 03:02:32 AM: Quote from: Sarah on October 31, 2007, 12:05:53 PM
What is an egg sangie?

Yeah, the diminutive (or informal) take on sandwich. Egg sandwich. Lately I've been doing them up this way: two large eggs fried in bacon fat, toasted marble rye as the bread, topped with monterey jack, hummus, sliced tomato (my local produce place was carrying these amazing sweet Jersey-grown badboys for most of the summer), bacon or thin-sliced fried chourico, and some kind of hot sauce (Habanero Tabasco, Red Hot, Cholula, or Chinese ketchup). It helps set everything right. V8, seltzer, and coffee are the multiple chasers if I don't have the luxury of the nap afterwards. V8, seltzer and other alcohol-based curatives if work is not on the slate for the day.
Title: Re: Advil
Post by: Laurie on November 02, 2007, 03:36:50 PM: I would like to thank Mitch Hedberg:

"Advil has a candy coating. It's delicious. Then it says on the bottle, do not have more than two. Then why do they have a candy coating? I cannot help myself. Let me have ten Advil, I have a sweet tooth."
Title: Re: Advil
Post by: Beth on November 05, 2007, 12:25:41 AM: My cousin is a doctor and he always told me to double the recommended dosage on over the counter pain medicine for it to actually work.