Especially if it’s a migraine, the swedish healthcare website literally says that’s what you should do and as far as i have been able to see there is no better way to deal with it.
the general principle i follow is trying to deal with the pain for a while and if it shows no indication of easing up and there’s nothing else i can do to alleviate it, i pop a pill so i can actually fucking enjoy life.
There is no glory in taking drugs to suppress your problems. Fix your headache, don’t poison yourself with drugs
If that’s possible, sure.
Have you tried just not having a headache?
“fix your headache”
how the fuck did you get through life without learning what a migraine is? Also get off your high horse and stop encouraging people to suffer.
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!
Particularly for physical injuries, I sometimes prefer to suffer as it reminds me that I need to be careful, which I know I’d forget if I subdued the pain.
For things like flu’s where it’s just pure suffering for nothing, I’ll suck down as many painkillers as I can have in a day.
My co-worker fucked up her foot that way. She sprained her ankle during a hiking trip and just kept popping painkillers so she could keep walking.
I do this, but it needs to be balanced with a healthy dose of “don’t overcompensate or you’ll fuck up the uninjured side.”
Not a headache but close enough, and you’re right: I’m gonna take that tylenol.
Sometimes you need a little treat, go for the naproxen. Every once in awhile I’ll take one of those for a headache and it makes me realize how much my whole body hurts sometimes.
^ this guy hurts
Fun fact: Tylenol would never get past today’s ethics board because of how dangerous an overdose is.
You think it’s bad now? You should’ve seen it in the 80s.
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If you don’t use pain meds on a whim, when you really need the help they will be more effective
Yeah but a lot of people never use them. Like I’m chronically ill, with chronic pain and only use maybe a couple times a year cuz of weird masculine “deal with the pain instincts”. I need to remind myself of this meme more often ahahha
Not really. Tolerance for pretty much any drug drops relatively fast.
Drug tolerance is generally not associated with acetaminophen or NSAIDs although using them frequently to manage headaches can definitely cause rebound headaches on discontinuation
Just dont take ibuprofen for every little thing and you should be good.
iirc it’ll fuck your liver up pretty bad taking ibuprofen often
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is what fucks up your liver. Ibuprofen will cause stomach problems such as ulcers, but it won’t damage your liver.
That background image just unlocked a bunch of happy memories from when I was a little girl. Then reminded me that I should go take ibuprofen for this headache 😅
I have the fabulous genetic quirk of suddenly acquiring unimaginable stomach pain and nausea after taking ibuprofen or asprin. I also get frequent migraines 🙃
You get checked for ulcers?
Not yet but I need to. My mom got cancer so we’ve met our family’s out-of-pocket maximum for the year, meaning all my treatments are finally free. Thanks America! /s
Well I’ll do an endoscopy on you with my phone on a selfie stick if you want.
Genuinely please do soon. My girlfriend almost died as a kid due to severe pain and docs just throwing painkillers at her, resulting in ulcers and very nearly a ruptured stomach.
i wanna get a headache so i can look at this and be reminded
My headaches are usually a deficiency of something simple. I’ll eat and meal and drink a quart of water… If that doesn’t do it then it’s time for some ouch-away.
Same applies to HRT
Wait, what?! HRT isn’t even PRN! Why are people treating it like polyjuice? I have never heard of this.
what kind of person gets on HRT and then doesn’t take it??
In my analogy the person would be avoiding starting in the first place.
It’s not about glory, it’s about feeling the discomfort so that it will influence your behavior as intended. Can’t speak for chronic illnesses, but if you’re having the occasional cold or whatever, why not just take the message and lay in bed for the time being?
Not pain, but if I do anything less than strictly sensible I often feel I have an obligation not to correct it, because I should learn not to do whatever the thing was in the future. Trouble is, I never remember the thing itself. All I teach myself is it’s not ok to try to do things better than I did last time. That’s unhelpful. I know why I do it but my psychologist terminated service because she didn’t feel she could help me anymore so I don’t know how I would stop.
But it doesn’t help 😿
🫂
Same here
