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I always reach for aspirin for mild pain and people have this weird idea that its way more dangerous than paracetamol because its a blood thinner and "what if you bleed for some reason and it doesnt stop" - How is that worse than guaranteed liver damage if you take paracetamol? It almost seems like there was this big push to get people away from Aspirin to tylenol and thats why people have that idea stuck in their heads

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NSAIDs (which includes more than aspirin, to be fair) cause like three orders of magnitude more injuries every year than paracetamol. The majority of incidents of liver damage from paracetamol are intentional.

Because it is way more dangerous. Guaranteed liver damage is nonsense. Aspirin and other non selective NSAIDs are much more likely to cause GI bleeding, kidney and heart problems.

An aspirin here or there is probably fine but multiple day dosing of full dose aspirin for chronic pain has gotten a lot of middle age people to bleed out their GI tract and end up dead.

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