If someone takes 10 tynenol pm's a day, how long before they get sick?

Question

before they notice liver damage, of feel pain in any way because of the overdose?

Answer 1

Liver damage usually starts out silently, and then as it progresses, the pain shows up.  So, their liver would begin to be damaged on probably the second or third day of this little routine, but the pain and other symptoms might not show up until they were in acute liver failure.  This would be accompanied by jaundice and the other signs of liver failure, and they would know that they had done something to their liver.

Answer 2

I don't know, but I wouldn't try it.

Also it might be smarter to try researching it more fully on other websites. :)

Answer 3

US Pharmacist magazine has an article (May 2008, 'Common Adverse Events and Interactions with OTC Pain Medications.').

In the same magazine the "Consult Your Pharmacist" section has an article "New FDA Labeling" that discusses this topic, that some people taking normal doses can get serious liver damage.

Max adult dose is 4 grams per day for 10 days, but if you take alcohol with it the toxcity is enhanced.

From the magazine "23 of the 65 cases with severe liver injury reported doses less than 4 g/day"

There are from 1000 to 2000 cases of acute liver failure associated with tylenol type products (acetaminophen) in the US each year, about 1/2 of those are with people who mixed alcohol with it.

One 19 year old woman took maximal doses of tylenol for 3 to 4 weeks and died.

Answer 4

Aren't they feeling pain already? Or else why take Tylenol? Anyway, liver pain takes a long time to show up, depending on the type of damage.  Most people over 30 have enlarged livers, but they feel no pain, just a "fullness" from it.  

10 per day is two, five times a day - a little under every 5 hours.  That's a high dosage schedule, but I don't say that it's terrible.  (I'm assuming that two make up a single regular dose.)

If you know someone who's doing this, they may have another problem:  How on earth are they staying awake with that much sleeping medicine in them?  Someone that hyped up needs to be seen by a doctor to determine the cause of the "up"-ness.  They may be jittery without this medicine because of the pain they're feeling, or they may have deeper issues such as ADD or mania.  

I'm not a doctor, so take my advice along to the doctor's office.

Answer 5

Don't do it !!! See all the good reasons above