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 (:
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”.
Man, this took me so long to get through my skull. I used to be a “I don’t need the medicine, why self-medicate when I can just endure it and it will go away”.
I got older, started having those little aches turn into ruin-your-day annoyances that only reset with a sleep overnight and now I mildly resent young me for being silly about it.
Well, to be fair Aspirin was a factor in nearly killing me, acetaminophen (Tylenol) now doesn’t work since i took that too often, and now im stuck with ibuprofen which may, again, cause a leak in my stomach that could kill me.
Sooooooo… if you’re not taking this medication regularly, by all means, if not just a word of caution from an old, apparently hard to kill, bastard.
Yeah, this seems like one of those things where people casually discussing the issue are talking about wildly different scales. I, to be clear, am talking about having a hangover or sleeping in a rough position and pinching my neck once in maybe two or three months and refusing to take an analgesic to get through it faster. I get the feeling that what you’re describing is either on a way different level or a rarer interaction or side effect.
Which is why my other comment below still goes: if you need to deal with pain beyond sporadic usage to get through a one-off event, please go talk to a doctor and don’t listen to me or anybody else on the Internet.
I also share the sentiment: you don’t get any medals or gold stars suffering in pain.
I was just offering a word of caution for those unaware, as I was in my youth.
But then I can’t complain!
Taking painkillers is kind of like closing the doors of the control room as the captain of a sub and driving onwards when there’s a fire onboard.
Not trying to be tough. Just never really thought those pills did much.
I used to have frequent headaches as a child.
Initially, I just took the medicine, but everytime, it returned with 2xamplitude after a day or so (probably when the effect wore off).
Stopped taking the medicine after a few years.It was much later that I realised, headaches always have a root cause and the pain was just telling me - there’s something much worse going on.
Pain is your friend. Tells you when there is a problem and sometimes, even helps you know where.
Had I taken painkillers for my broken toe, I probably would have broken it again… and again.I needed to hear this today, thank you!
Sent after finally taking some Ibuprofen
Something gloryhole something rough something headache medicine.
Relax the muscles around your skull, headache gone.