I rarely feel like it ever helps, and it's taxing on the kidneys/liver. So, I tend to not bother until it's bad enough.

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.

First try drinking a glass of water though

I follow that anime logic where I just need sleep and a massive buffet to get back to 100%.

.... but not too often.

If you have regular headaches, see a doctor. Could be hay fever or other allergies for example and there's stuff that works much better for that than painkillers.

Holy shit people. Don’t take medical advice from some Internet forum filled with memes.

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

I just saw a doctor about this, turns out chronic headaches are not normal. It turned out I have an allergy giving me congestion even though I’m breathing normally but enough to induce pressure on my head. Go see a doctor if you’re having daily headaches.

I just sent this to my wife lol. She needs to hear it.

medicine on other side of room tho

I don't take the headache medicine because it never actually helps with my headaches. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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.

Pain medication IS medicine!

There is no point in suffering.

Just because you are dependent on a medicine, does not mean you are an addict.

A friend actually needed this lol, just take your meds.

Spoken like a true someone who doesn't have secondary side-effects to headache medication.

Things a MF who will never ride in to Valhalla at the head of a winged horde would say...

I'm not looking for glory, but I have a weird (probably unscientific) thought that if I don't take a fever-lowering med, it makes the sickness go away faster. Because there's a good reason why my body is doing that. But that's about more than just a headache though.

There's no glory in suffering, but there's stubbornness in my heart.

(applies to all medications)