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Please note that acetaminophen/paracetamol is incredibly safe at normal doses and does not kill your liver.

It is only when you attempt to overdose (or if you have severely limited liver function) that you run out of the liver enzymes that break it down, causing liver damage.

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At normal doses, Acetaminophen can trigger Stevens-Johnson Syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis. You're lucky if you wind up with rashes as opposed to skin falling off.

> At normal doses, Acetaminophen can trigger Stevens-Johnson Syndrome

Probably not:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28963996/

In my case, it does.

So you took acetaminophen in a controlled setting and definitively established a causation? Or was it uncontrolled and could have been caused by any number of uncontrolled variables? Because a definitive causation is publication worthy.

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