(applies to all medications)
What if it’s only an issue for short stints and then it’s really not bad enough to bother because it’s easily ignored?
First try drinking a glass of water though
and eat some salt
And just eat in general. My goodness sometimes I’m so surprised, I’ll be feeling terrible (usual for me) and I’ll realize I haven’t eaten in a long time and take like one bite of something and instantly my headache and possibly fatigue are significantly better.
Video games should have taught us this. Food is a healing item.
I keep drinking blue liquids and my mana’s still at zero.
Plus now I don’t have any coolant for the car.
No, no, no, you got it all wrong. What you do is you get somebody else to drink the blue liquid and then steal their mana once they’re dead.
Water, apple, handful of nuts, Walk around for at least 15 minutes. If a headache isn’t on the way out then maybe try to shift the problem to your liver with some ibuprofen or Tylenol but it shouldn’t be the first thing people try.
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Yes to pain relief, but what about cold/flu medication? All they do is restrain the symptoms (like a running nose, coughing up phlegm, fever) which are your body’s attempts at fighting the virus. Shouldn’t that make you sick for longer because your body can’t fight as well? I’m sure my understanding of the biological processes is severely lacking.
Normally you’d want to take those to get a decent nights sleep, which will help recovery a lot.
Yep. I usually take NyQuil before bed if I have a bad cold just to get me through the night. The only other thing that sometimes, but often doesn’t, work for a cold is Mucinex.
Your body’s responses are overkill/unnecessary in a lot of cases. Like inflammation, a lot of that is so your skin will swell up near a cut so not as much dirt gets in it, but if you’re keeping it clean/bandaged that’s probably counterproductive. A runny nose, isn’t that just the virus tricking you into becoming more contagious? A fever, could be useful if it’s a virus that can do serious damage before your immune system can ramp up enough to handle it, but if it’s a less dangerous one that’s probably just self damage.
Holy shit people. Don’t take medical advice from some Internet forum filled with memes.
Why is everybody taking a meme so seriously? Lol
Is this advice? Discarded.
The headache medicine doesn’t do shit anyway. I need a cold, silent room and sleep to make the headache stop.
If im having a headache that means I have fucked up in some way, its motivation to correct the issue or sleep it away.
Things a MF who will never ride in to Valhalla at the head of a winged horde would say…
Idk, man… I’m all for serving under Thor and shit, but headaches suck.
RIP liver
I don’t take the headache medicine because it never actually helps with my headaches. 🤷🏻♂️
have you tried different kinds? apparently it really varies what the standard pain reliever is depending on where you go, i believe what i’ve always taken is ibuprofen here in sweden and that is basically a miracle pill that dissolves any sort of pain and cold symptoms within half an hour for me.
however do remember to not mix different pills.
I’ve tried everything you can get OTC, including Midol. None of it works.
however do remember to not mix different pills.
What? Whenever I’ve needed pain relief enough where I’ve been to the doctor, they tell me to use both ibuprofen and paracetamol, as they have different active ingredients, and that precisely because of that it’s perfectly fine. They stress very much to not take too much of one at a time though.
Pain is usually a message, often that message is “This body part is damaged, try to modify how you are moving to not aggravate the wound” In those instances I dont actually WANT to remove the pain because its helping me heal faster and correctly. When its bedtime and its stopping me from sleeping? THEN I’ll take some pain meds, as lack of sleep is also bad for my health
Hey this is what I think too!
It would be nice if it was that simple for everyone, but it isn’t. Migraines especially are debilitating for me and I will 100% take my pills over trying to ride the pain.
Sometimes, I know why I have a headache, but most of the time, it pops up for no apparent reason. Always had been since I was 10 years old. So fuck that noise, after a certain threshold, I take ibuprofen and acetaminophen instead of suffering for hours.
Oh yeah, I’m definitely not arguing against pain meds for when its extreme or not helpful, the human body isnt perfect, and our body systems dont work with computer like precision. I’m also pretty sure I have a dulled sense of pain.
Glory can only be found through dying in battle,
To Valhalla!
A headache has many causes one of them I found is the food you eat for example my mom eat only meat because if she eats anything else she feels like dying
Pain medication IS medicine!
There is no point in suffering.
Just because you are dependent on a medicine, does not mean you are an addict.
Just because you are dependent on a medicine, does not mean you are an addict.
No, it does… that’s pretty much the definition of it.
You’re VERY wrong.
There is difference between the two as they are two completely seperate things.
I am a disability advocate, and I took many courses in college on this subject while getting my doctorate.
Drug dependence is typically defined as what causes tolerance and withdrawal. The physical effects of the need of medicine. Everything from diabetes meds, like insulin, to blood pressure medicine, to even cold medicine could be in that category.
It’s why a person shouldn’t use nose spray but for 2–3 days as you become dependent on it, causing you to need to consume it to be able to breathe out of your nose. (FYI: It’s a VERY bad idea to become dependent on nose spray as it SUCKS for a few days getting off of it.)
Addiction is a mental component. It is a neurological state of being. Some things are more addictive than others, with things that change the neurological state being more addictive than those that don’t.
For example, sex, roller coasters, and YouTube shorts can affect your brain chemistry in the same way that METH can!
TL;DR - Addiction is a neurological condition, while dependence is when a body depends on a substance medicinally.
The number of people who suffer horrifically because of the misconceptions of addiction VS dependence is sickening.
We NEED to remove this stigma of taking proper medication to increase the quality of life of the disabled.
Addiction is a mental component
I.E. a chemical process.
Addiction is a neurological condition
I.E. a chemical process.
dependence is when a body depends on a substance medicinally
I.E. a chemical process.
