So yall are just talking about baby meds for minor headaches. I'm up on that prescription grade headache medication for my debilitating migraines, and I can not take it more than a few times a month without doing irreparable damage to my kidneys and liver. Sometimes, dealing with headache pain is the healthier option.
just make sure to read the information slip, and at least here in sweden the recommendation is to not treat headaches with pain relievers more than 9 days per month or it can just cause more headaches.
what i go with is just doing what i can to handle the headache/migraine without medicine, but feel 0 guilt about popping a pill if needed. Especially if i'm going somewhere or have something at home i want to actually enjoy i'll not hesitate to medicate.
Excuse me I would rather not build up resistance to painkillers and then be screwed once I REALLY need painkillers.
The headache sucks, but it's not wisdom tooth level pain.
Edit: I'm not taking about opioids or stuff. I'm talking about simple over the counter meds that aren't addictive but you can still build up resistance to. I already managed to have that happen and have one type become useless
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
medicine on other side of room tho
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A friend actually needed this lol, just take your meds.
As someone has had a headache since 1986... take the medicine.
And if you don't have any to take, keep talking to doctors until one of them listens.
Glory can only be found through dying in battle,
To Valhalla!
There's no glory in suffering, but there's stubbornness in my heart.
Spoken like a true someone who doesn't have secondary side-effects to headache medication.
The headache medicine doesn’t do shit anyway. I need a cold, silent room and sleep to make the headache stop.
(applies to all medications)
I'll be fine...
Is that a personal attack or something?
What fun is taking a drug now for a condition it could treat, when you could put it off and justify getting real fucked later.
Besides, the docs said I'm not allowed to take antiinflammatories anymore.
I want to, but my brain says "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAÀAAAAAAA..."
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.
I know people who now take many medications and aren't affected. Overdoing is also wrong. It's always better to understand the cause.
Tylenol doesn't do anything tho.
If im having a headache that means I have fucked up in some way, its motivation to correct the issue or sleep it away.
I feel exposed...
I did once and you all went away.
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
RIP liver
Unless what you were prescribed is an opiate or other addictive substance not proven to be effective pain relief.
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?
No expert, but my take on this is that medicines work because they resemble the chemicals your body already makes itself. Better not interfere with a finely balanced immune system in which pain is an essential signal for the body to cope with infections and injuries. It might be more comforting to take a pill against something but I'm afraid it messes up the immune system too much, better to avoid that as much as possible. Works fine for me.
