[worker_person]

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]

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

[BoorishBears]

> 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]

Well, I don't think so and I don't? _So...

[swores]

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.

[BoorishBears]

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.

[Spivak]

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.

[rejectfinite]

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.

[filoleg]

Because, i believe, the parent comment included ibuprofen into their definition of painkillers. And there are tons of people who take ibuprofen daily.

[rejectfinite]

>And there are tons of people who take ibuprofen daily.

Not me.

[ehPReth]

Then the comment is for others, not you.

[filoleg]

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]

How dangerous though? As someone who has persistent back pain, Ibuprofen seems a lot safer than Codamol