I have been on Lortabs for a couple of years now, and I take 10-12 pills a day, At 500 mg of Acetaminophen per tablet, that is a daily in take of about 5,500 mg of tylenol a day . With that amount how long if any will it take to damage my liver and how will I know that liver damage has set in.
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The maximum recommended dose would be 4000mg/day. If you are exceeding this, you might be injuring your liver. Don’t you have concerns about taking an overdose of narcotics and tylenol?? If your liver gets hurt, in general, you do not get a new one. Get help with your drug habit, and ask that your liver function get checked. Be responsible!!
You’re probably constipated too. When you add that much chemical to your body it doesn’t function normally. I’d say you have an addiction and your doctor should put you on something non-narcotic. You should be doing physical therapy or chiropractic to alleviate pain instead of popping pills. Any time you start a narcotic habitually your body wants more and more. It becomes immune to the small doses you started out with. When you don’t give your body the amount of the drug it wants it fights back causing rebound pain, which isn’t really the source of your pain (bad back, migraines, etc) it’s a withdrawal symptom. You’re in for a hard life if you keep this up.