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[cosjobs]

I just got that same prescription. I shake out four in the morning and take one. I know I'll take another at bedtime, so any other time during the day I see our remember the other two I'll take one. Usually works well, but last night at 10, I noticed I had three left. Oops. So I took one and a half then and another one and a half at bedtime. As long as I take 4/day, I consider myself compliant.

Hope this helps your dose of the clap, too.

 

[krista4]

That’s because if you add six hours, you don’t take the next pill 11 hours, 59 minutes and 59 seconds later. If you truly add exactly six hours, it’s impossible to take more than 4 in a day. Some are suggesting the one you take to start means that 24 hours later when you take one it’s “within 24 hours.”  But it isn’t  it’s 24 hours later. Take the first pill at exactly midnight and count days of the week as your 24 hour periods and it becomes clear.

The second midnight is neither part of the same day nor part of the same 24 hours. 

You're not addressing the "implied waking hours" crew.

 

[jhib]

2 or 3 per day depending on how many hours you are awake per day. If the Dr wanted you to wake up to take them, the instructions would include that verbiage.

I would imagine it probably depends on the antibiotic and what bug you're fighting. If you can't follow the instructions given because of your sleep schedule, you should probably ask your doctor which adjustment is more effective in your situation - 4 with less than 6 hours between or 3 with 6 or more hours between.

If you can't get 3 in then you sure are doing a lot of sleeping, which probably means that you're sick enough that you really should wake up to take your meds. 

 

[kevzilla]

I'm just a simple male, but I'm missing the point of the exercise, toots. Twenty-four divided by six is four.  

 

[krista4]

I would imagine it probably depends on the antibiotic and what bug you're fighting. If you can't follow the instructions given because of your sleep schedule, you should probably ask your doctor which adjustment is more effective in your situation - 4 with less than 6 hours between or 3 with 6 or more hours between.

If you can't get 3 in then you sure are doing a lot of sleeping, which probably means that you're sick enough that you really should wake up to take your meds. 

Your answer sounds logical, but it contains an assumption that the instructions say four.  You could take fewer, or take them on a different schedule, but your answer says the instructions that you "can't follow" indicate four, which is all that the question asked.

 

[krista4]

I'm just a simple male, but I'm missing the point of the exercise, toots. Twenty-four divided by six is four.  

That's my math, too, sweet cheeks.  Did you see the other responses, though?

 

[McJose]

Wait, is the issue that you take one by mouth and then some other number some other way?  Antibiotic suppositories?

This dumb guy is constipated so he goes to the doctor.  The doctor prescribes him some suppositories.  The guy, being dumb, doesn’t really pay attention to the doctor or the pharmacist so treats them like chewables.

 After a couple of days they’re not working so he goes back to the doctor.

”Doc, I still haven’t pooped and I gotta tell you...those things taste terrible.”

”You took all of  the suppositories orally?” asks the doctor.

”Nooooo I’ve been sticking them up my ### durrr durrr durrr.”

 

[kevzilla]

That's my math, too, sweet cheeks.  Did you see the other responses, though?

 Yes. Men are difficult, bordering on impossible. This can't be news to you.

 

[McJose]

I just got that same prescription. I shake out four in the morning and take one. I know I'll take another at bedtime, so any other time during the day I see our remember the other two I'll take one. Usually works well, but last night at 10, I noticed I had three left. Oops. So I took one and a half then and another one and a half at bedtime. As long as I take 4/day, I consider myself compliant.

Hope this helps your dose of the clap, too.

Sorta this.

I’d take one at like 7AM.  Another around 1PM.  Then one at 7PM.  And finally one around 10 or 11 at night.

So like 7 every day.

 

[kevzilla]

Serious answer: if you take one at bedtime, one whenever you wake up, and space out the other two appropriately, there will be minimal impact on plasma concentration, bioavailability or or any other ten-dollar word I picked up from the Physician's Desk Reference when I was supposed to be working.

 

[krista4]

 Yes. Men are difficult, bordering on impossible. This can't be news to you.

 It's not.  

It's actually a case of "I might be looking at this wrong."   I am the one who thought these instructions meant, clearly and unequivocally, that you take the damn pill four times a day.  Yeah, it might not be at exactly every six hours because you're a lazy sum##### who sleeps, but it never occurred to me that anyone would think that it meant "every six waking hours" such that it might be fewer than four times.  After all, an antibiotic couldn't be taken, say, 2-4 times a day depending upon how much you sleep, right?  

But once I had an argument to the contrary by someone whose views I respect - not just that it might be three times per day but that it was NOT clear, as I thought it was - I thought I could be wrong.  And, based on responses here, I was.  There are people who see it differently, which means that it must be ambiguous.  

 

[shuke]

Not telling until more people give their answers.  I don't wish to sway the voters.

It's 4.  What is the debate exactly?

 

[shuke]

if they are taken exactly to the second every six hours, then the answer would always be 5 in any given 24 hour period. 

Wrong

 

[Zegras11]

Wrong

actually correct

 

[McJose]

It's 4.  What is the debate exactly?

I think some people think you’d need to wake up in the middle of the night in order to take the 4th pill.

 

[Zegras11]

Wrong

oh and that was your 44444 post, which proves 5 times.

 

[Zegras11]

I think some people think you’d need to wake up in the middle of the night in order to take the 4th pill.

or sleep less than 6 hours

 

[shuke]

actually correct

Actually not

 

[shuke]

I think some people think you’d need to wake up in the middle of the night in order to take the 4th pill.

Well that's just weird.

 

[jhib]

Your answer sounds logical, but it contains an assumption that the instructions say four.  You could take fewer, or take them on a different schedule, but the instructions that you "can't follow" indicate four, which is all that the question asked.

Right, the instructions say every 6 hours, so 4 per 24-hour day.  Anything else is an adjustment you make to the instructions based on practicality.

I don't think "waking hours" is implied in the instructions. 

 

[krista4]

Confusion is that some people sleep 8 hours a night. You wake up at 7, take a pill. Take another pill at 1. Then another at 7. You go to bed at 10:00. You supposed to set the alarm to take a pill at 1am, or take a pill 3 hours early?

so the other interpretation is that you are supposed to take a pill every 6 hours during your waking hours. 

2 or 3 per day depending on how many hours you are awake per day. If the Dr wanted you to wake up to take them, the instructions would include that verbiage.

Yeah I was figuring they meant 3 a day.

These people, for instance.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Recently spotted on twitter:

Sack o’ Coal ®‏ @schumoo 2h2 hours ago

I’ll make coleslaw in front of your Cabbage Patch doll idgaf.

 

[Henry Ford]

You're not addressing the "implied waking hours" crew.

Never argue with a fool. He will drag you down to his level and beat you with experience. 

 

[Henry Ford]

Yeah I was figuring they meant 3 a day.

You’re why bacteria is getting antibiotic resistant.  

Especially gonorrhea.  

 

[krista4]

In sum:

Four is the consensus right answer, which I thought was obvious.

However, given that 3-4 people didn't agree, I shouldn't have said my friend was being willfully obtuse and/or had suffered irreversible brain damage in arguing for something other than four.

I was wrong. :(  

 

[McJose]

In sum:

Four is the consensus right answer, which I thought was obvious.

However, given that 3-4 people didn't agree, I shouldn't have said my friend was being willfully obtuse and/or had suffered irreversible brain damage in arguing for something other than four.

I was wrong. :(  

Don't be afraid to catch feels. Ride drop top and chase thrills. I know you ain't afraid to pop pills.

 

[Henry Ford]

In sum:

Four is the consensus right answer, which I thought was obvious.

However, given that 3-4 people didn't agree, I shouldn't have said my friend was being willfully obtuse and/or had suffered irreversible brain damage in arguing for something other than four.

I was wrong. :(  

I’m pretty sure every group has 3-4 like that.  People you can trip if the bear catches up and not feel too badly about it.  

Why would a doctor want you to take a pill every six hours and then wait twelve hours after the third dose? Unless he’s trying to kill you?

If it is still therapeutic after twelve hours, he’ll have you take it twice a day. 

 

[Ignoramus]

Is Drake a fan of Canadian rapper Drake?

Who doesn't love the Drake?

 

[mr roboto]

Please help settle a debate.

A prescription for an antibiotic says, "Take one capsule by mouth every six hours until gone."  How many capsules per day (Sunday, Monday, etc.) should the person take?

You will take 4 every 24 hours (assuming you take them exactly every 6 hours). 

So let’s say

Monday 6am 12pm 6pm 

Tuesday 12am 6am 12pm 6pm

The first day you receive the meds you’ll probably take 2 or 3. Every day afterward you’ll take 4. 

Sorry I guess we kinda finished this. 

 

[Henry Ford]

You will take 4 every 24 hours (assuming you take them exactly every 6 hours). 

So let’s say

Monday 6am 12pm 6pm 

Tuesday 12am 6am 12pm 6pm

The first day you receive the meds you’ll probably take 2 or 3. Every day afterward you’ll take 4. 

Sorry I guess we kinda finished this. 

I knew you were one of my favorites. 

 

[Bob Sacamano]

In sum:

Four is the consensus right answer, which I thought was obvious.

However, given that 3-4 people didn't agree, I shouldn't have said my friend was being willfully obtuse and/or had suffered irreversible brain damage in arguing for something other than four.

I was wrong. :(  

Well, you are now

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Who doesn't love the Drake?

After that "performance" against the Bucs?  Hate the Drake!

 

[tommyboy]

Please help settle a debate.

A prescription for an antibiotic says, "Take one capsule by mouth every six hours until gone."  How many capsules per day (Sunday, Monday, etc.) should the person take?

Three

 

[Bob Sacamano]

This #### needs to stop.

 

[mr. furley]

but what if it's one round pill and you have to cut it in to appropriate dosages?

 

[wikkidpissah]

This #### needs to stop.

Maybe the ad writer is a sexual harrasser and "Dilly" is his whip-out word. That might cool things off

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Maybe the ad writer is a sexual harrasser and "Dilly" is his whip-out word. That might cool things off

ADOT is responsible for this particular abomination.  This might be the thing that finally gets me to move to a different state. 

 

[wikkidpissah]

ADOT is responsible for this particular abomination.  This might be the thing that finally gets me to move to a different state. 

Well, if you want a good temperance slogan, look to the beer commerical, i say...

 

[Bob Sacamano]

On Thanksgiving, I want to return the favor to my Facebook feed and post 1 picture that will piss off all of them.  Off hand, I'm thinking a picture of me kneeling on the corpse of an elephant or a giraffe in a Kaepernick jersey with a gun in my hand in front of my Keurig, while the National Anthem from the NFL game is playing on the TV in front of me, laptop open to Breitbart and PIP on CNN. 

 

[Hawks64]

In sum:

Four is the consensus right answer, which I thought was obvious.

However, given that 3-4 people didn't agree, I shouldn't have said my friend was being willfully obtuse and/or had suffered irreversible brain damage in arguing for something other than four.

I was wrong. :(  

Instructions suck then. I have had other meds that required 4 per day and it's always Take one when you wake up, one at lunch, one at dinner and then one at bedtime. Wala 4. If you say every 6 hours people generally won't take them early and won't get up to take them unless instructed to.

 

[Henry Ford]

On Thanksgiving, I want to return the favor to my Facebook feed and post 1 picture that will piss off all of them.  Off hand, I'm thinking a picture of me kneeling on the corpse of an elephant or a giraffe in a Kaepernick jersey with a gun in my hand in front of my Keurig, while the National Anthem from the NFL game is playing on the TV in front of me, laptop open to Breitbart and PIP on CNN. 

If you want to stay away from politics.

 

[Henry Ford]

Three

You're going to die from MRSA and it will be your fault.

 

[Limp Ditka]

In sum:

Four is the consensus right answer, which I thought was obvious.

However, given that 3-4 people didn't agree, I shouldn't have said my friend was being willfully obtuse and/or had suffered irreversible brain damage in arguing for something other than four.

I was wrong. :(  

Once you thought about the poops in an hour it finally made sense, amirite?

 

[krista4]

Instructions suck then. I have had other meds that required 4 per day and it's always Take one when you wake up, one at lunch, one at dinner and then one at bedtime. Wala 4. If you say every 6 hours people generally won't take them early and won't get up to take them unless instructed to.

What if you skip lunch?

 

[Hawks64]

What if you skip lunch?

wala

Take one when you wake up, one at lunchtime, one at dinnertime and then one at bedtime

 

[tommyboy]

You're going to die from MRSA and it will be your fault.

one at  wake say 6 AM,   one at noon, one at 6PM   bedtime.

rinse repeat.  I'm not waking up at midnight to pop a ####### pill, doctor mengele

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Instructions suck then. I have had other meds that required 4 per day and it's always Take one when you wake up, one at lunch, one at dinner and then one at bedtime. Wala 4. If you say every 6 hours people generally won't take them early and won't get up to take them unless instructed to.

People are stupid.

 

[kevzilla]

Who goes to bed at 6PM? Are you Matt Lauer?

 

[McJose]

On Thanksgiving, I want to return the favor to my Facebook feed and post 1 picture that will piss off all of them.  Off hand, I'm thinking a picture of me kneeling on the corpse of an elephant or a giraffe in a Kaepernick jersey with a gun in my hand in front of my Keurig, while the National Anthem from the NFL game is playing on the TV in front of me, laptop open to Breitbart and PIP on CNN. 

Dilly dilly!

 

[Bob Sacamano]

Every 6 hours means 4 per day, regardless of the actual timing of them.  If you can't figure that out, then you deserve to die from whatever your ill-timed medicine is intended to cure.