If you don’t have chronoc headaches / migraines, you don’t necessarily have to follow this advice.
Taking a pill for the slightest pain will be detrimental in the long run for your liver and the painkiller’s efficiency.
Define “slightest pain”.
If you’re in occassional discomfort and it’s impacting your wellbeing having an aspirin once in a while is probably not a huge deal.
If you have recurring pain constantly or frequently then you need medical attention and you should follow that guidance, not what anybody says on the Internet.
Thank you. People with chronic headaches or migraines are the ones that should not follow this advice, as painkiller-induced headaches are a thing and only make matters worse. Just see a doc.
As for occasional headaches: It’s going to be a lot easier fixing the issue that lead to a headache once you don’t suffer.
I don’t enjoy suffering a headache or think it’s virtuous, but I was always taught that pain is your body sending a message. Usually, unless it’s a proper migraine, I can figure out what the cause is and address it. Muscle tension, dehydration, low electrolytes, etc.
If it remains a puzzle, I’m not opposed to OTC analgesics. I just like to try to troubleshoot first (:
It’s not about glory.
It’s about becoming dependant on a crutch that may not always be there, or could have been the first step when the pain becomes TRULY unbearable instead of having to escalate to btc pharmaceuticals from there.
Yeaaahh buuut… as a person who used to have migraines developing tolerance is a thing a very much a problem. Luckly some tolerances the body seems to “unlearn them”.
I’m happy with my current liver, thanks.
i mean to what degree does it even affect your liver from taking one pill when you occasionally get a headache?
like it cant be worse than one beer, right
Ibuprofen crew checking in.
Those of us with minor, chronic pain would like to keep what’s left of our stomach linings.
Naproxen, ibuprofen, arthrotec, pregabalin, etc. Used to be daily, multiple times. And tecta to protect my stomach from bleeding out my nose. Still in fuckloads of pain - always.
But by stopping the frequency i have found it helps with the tolerance. I’ve also lost maybe 75 lbs over 5-ish years which also helps.
My doc knows I have issues with other drugs and I’m hesitant to take anything more potent for pain.
I want the pain to end but I don’t want the remedy to destroy the rest of me.
huh? how does one pill of ibuprofen do that? or is it taking it like every day or a drug interaction
