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Fun fact, if you're having a lot of headaches and take pain killers daily you can start suffering rebound headaches. Basically a highly painful headache caused

Fun fact, if you're having a lot of headaches and take pain killers daily you can start suffering rebound headaches. Basically a highly painful headache caused by the pain killers. This creates a nasty feedback loop. If your suffering head pain try and rotate pain killers and have days of no pain killers. Of course you should be trying to find out the reasons for the pain so you can stop taking them.

rejectfinite 4y ago
I never would take painkillers daily unless prescribed! That is dangerous and I know it. Why would you think/do this?
- BoorishBears 4y ago
  > Combined paracetamol and ibuprofen is king Ive found and they both work well together and dont seem dangerous. If you follow the dosage. Combine with Caffeine too. The way this was worded didn't make it unreasonable to assume you often take painkillers...
  - rejectfinite 4y ago
    Well, I don't think so and I don't? _So...
    - BoorishBears 4y ago
      It's fine that you don't think so, but that's how it was worded. "Casual" painkiller users tend to take what's on hand and aren't trying to build three medication stacks with caffeine.
      - rejectfinite 4y ago
        When I am in pain I want it to go away. This is what I found works best over the years. Last time I used it getting Covid vaccine after effects fever. So awhile ago.
      - Spivak 4y ago
        Excedrin is a stack of acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine, I’ve even been prescribed different combinations a few times, and I’ve had more than one doctor tell me how to rotate painkillers to safely maximize the effect and tell me to drink an energy drink with painkillers to make them work better. I think it’s that doctors are honestly just excited to tell you the fun trivia.
    - swores 4y ago
      You're being very defensive as if the person who started their comment with "fun fact" had instead started it with "you're an idiot doing wrong things" - nobody was criticising you, nor claiming they knew your frequency of use. They were sharing useful information on a public forum that, if not useful to you, would still be useful to other people who read your first comment.
- filoleg 4y ago
  Because, i believe, the parent comment included ibuprofen into their definition of painkillers. And there are tons of people who take ibuprofen daily.
  - rejectfinite 4y ago
    >And there are tons of people who take ibuprofen daily. Not me.
    - ehPReth 4y ago
      Then the comment is for others, not you.
    - filoleg 4y ago
      Just because you yourself might be physically fit, that doesn't mean we don't have an obesity epidemic in NA. Apply this same principle to my earlier statement about ibuprofen.
- adamauckland 4y ago
  How dangerous though? As someone who has persistent back pain, Ibuprofen seems a lot safer than Codamol

rejectfinite 4y ago

I never would take painkillers daily unless prescribed! That is dangerous and I know it. Why would you think/do this?

BoorishBears 4y ago
> Combined paracetamol and ibuprofen is king Ive found and they both work well together and dont seem dangerous. If you follow the dosage. Combine with Caffeine too. The way this was worded didn't make it unreasonable to assume you often take painkillers...
- rejectfinite 4y ago
  Well, I don't think so and I don't? _So...
  - BoorishBears 4y ago
    It's fine that you don't think so, but that's how it was worded. "Casual" painkiller users tend to take what's on hand and aren't trying to build three medication stacks with caffeine.
    - rejectfinite 4y ago
      When I am in pain I want it to go away. This is what I found works best over the years. Last time I used it getting Covid vaccine after effects fever. So awhile ago.
    - Spivak 4y ago
      Excedrin is a stack of acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine, I’ve even been prescribed different combinations a few times, and I’ve had more than one doctor tell me how to rotate painkillers to safely maximize the effect and tell me to drink an energy drink with painkillers to make them work better. I think it’s that doctors are honestly just excited to tell you the fun trivia.
  - swores 4y ago
    You're being very defensive as if the person who started their comment with "fun fact" had instead started it with "you're an idiot doing wrong things" - nobody was criticising you, nor claiming they knew your frequency of use. They were sharing useful information on a public forum that, if not useful to you, would still be useful to other people who read your first comment.
filoleg 4y ago
Because, i believe, the parent comment included ibuprofen into their definition of painkillers. And there are tons of people who take ibuprofen daily.
- rejectfinite 4y ago
  >And there are tons of people who take ibuprofen daily. Not me.
  - ehPReth 4y ago
    Then the comment is for others, not you.
  - filoleg 4y ago
    Just because you yourself might be physically fit, that doesn't mean we don't have an obesity epidemic in NA. Apply this same principle to my earlier statement about ibuprofen.
adamauckland 4y ago
How dangerous though? As someone who has persistent back pain, Ibuprofen seems a lot safer than Codamol