Max Daily Dose of Tylenol Lowered

    Some of you may have heard today that Johnson and Johnson has announced that they will be lowering the maximum daily dosage of Extra Strength Tylenol from 8 pills per day to 6.  As of right now the dosage of Tylenol is set at 4000 milligrams/day but will soon be lowered to 3000 milligrams/day.  The company states that this is because too many people have been abusing the maximum dosage recommendation thus resulting in liver failure!  Just because you can easily buy an over the counter medication, you should realize that you are still consuming a drug, in this case a possibly harmful one.  The company goes on to say that acetometaphen is the active ingredient in many different OTC drugs, such as NyQuil and Sudafed.  The combining of several drugs at once can damage the liver and if the levels of acetometaphen are high enough can lead to permanent liver damage or failure (this means you could die).  
    If you are in chronic pain, you need to start looking for the cause of the pain rather than masking the daily symptoms.  If your doctor has not told you to start a regimine of acetometaphen and you are taking the maximum dosage daily, it is time to talk to your doctor.  Although the maximum dosage is deemed safe by Tylenol reps, the build up of acetametaphen can cause damage to the liver over time.  If you are on prescription pain killers and have been referred to every medical doctor under the sun, maybe it's time that you start to look into alternative medicine, such as chiropractic and acupuncture.