20 mg isotretinoin, 1g effervescent paracetamol, oh yeah, it’s hepatitis time.
I remember that my neurologist said there is no analgesic that can help with my migraines and I should just take the meds as soon as I can or face a week of suffering, but I can’t just take them every time I think it could be it so I just gamble my productivity for the week.
My mom has a similar condition
If she feels a migraine coming she has to take Relpax (eletriptan) ASAP. If she takes it too late, it may not work.
On top of that, it’s the only medication that works for her migraines. Even worse, the medication needs a prescription in South Africa (it’s OTC in some other countries); it’s stupid expensive; each box has like 4 pills; and the pharmacists keep saying Pfizer is going to stop producing it. I don’t think generics are available. Haven’t checked in a while.
Btw Isn’t isotretinoin for acne? Do you need a prescription for it?
All the triptans are great, all expensive as fuck, fortunately effervescent paracetamol works better for me than any triptan.
>Btw Isn’t isotretinoin for acne? Do you need a prescription for it?
Yes and yes. Prescription like every 6 months and blood tests to check if my liver doesn’t want to kill me for treating it so bad. But I have the skin of a Korean model and my hair has 0 grease now, it’s great.
I went through so much lip balm over the course of a year while taking isotretinoin. Miraculous how well it works though. The acne hasn’t returned since finishing the treatment a year ago.
Oh right! At least one per month, beeswax or petroleum based for you? I preferred beeswax, the vanilla flavoured one smelled so good I wanted to kiss myself.
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But it doesn’t help 😿
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Not a headache but close enough, and you’re right: I’m gonna take that tylenol.
Sometimes you need a little treat, go for the naproxen. Every once in awhile I’ll take one of those for a headache and it makes me realize how much my whole body hurts sometimes.
^ this guy hurts
Fun fact: Tylenol would never get past today’s ethics board because of how dangerous an overdose is.
You think it’s bad now? You should’ve seen it in the 80s.
There is no glory in taking drugs to suppress your problems. Fix your headache, don’t poison yourself with drugs
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps!
Have you tried just not having a headache?
If that’s possible, sure.
“fix your headache”
how the fuck did you get through life without learning what a migraine is? Also get off your high horse and stop encouraging people to suffer.
If you don’t use pain meds on a whim, when you really need the help they will be more effective
Yeah but a lot of people never use them. Like I’m chronically ill, with chronic pain and only use maybe a couple times a year cuz of weird masculine “deal with the pain instincts”. I need to remind myself of this meme more often ahahha
Not really. Tolerance for pretty much any drug drops relatively fast.
Drug tolerance is generally not associated with acetaminophen or NSAIDs although using them frequently to manage headaches can definitely cause rebound headaches on discontinuation
Just dont take ibuprofen for every little thing and you should be good.
iirc it’ll fuck your liver up pretty bad taking ibuprofen often
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is what fucks up your liver. Ibuprofen will cause stomach problems such as ulcers, but it won’t damage your liver.
Mmm but I don’t have headache medicine.
It’s not about glory, it’s about feeling the discomfort so that it will influence your behavior as intended. Can’t speak for chronic illnesses, but if you’re having the occasional cold or whatever, why not just take the message and lay in bed for the time being?
Same applies to HRT
what kind of person gets on HRT and then doesn’t take it??
This is my wife. She was raised to believe that all suffering is the body fixing itself and has, on more than one occasion, spent two days in bed with back spasms intead of taking the muscle relaxer the doctor gave her.
She also believes that fans make you sick. But like, not the fan in the basement which blows the AC through all the vents. That’s not a fan, it’s a magic wind box. I am assured that this is sound science, just not among western scientists who are in the pocket of big ceiling fan.
Magic wind box!
Is she Korean?
No, she doesn’t think fans will kill her, just make her poop funny. Don’t be ridiculous.
Maybe the dry ac exacerbates dehydration, a ploy concocted by big tap water 🤔🤔🤔
Especially if it’s a migraine, the swedish healthcare website literally says that’s what you should do and as far as i have been able to see there is no better way to deal with it.
the general principle i follow is trying to deal with the pain for a while and if it shows no indication of easing up and there’s nothing else i can do to alleviate it, i pop a pill so i can actually fucking enjoy life.
My headaches are usually a deficiency of something simple. I’ll eat and meal and drink a quart of water… If that doesn’t do it then it’s time for some ouch-away.
That background image just unlocked a bunch of happy memories from when I was a little girl. Then reminded me that I should go take ibuprofen for this headache 😅
Particularly for physical injuries, I sometimes prefer to suffer as it reminds me that I need to be careful, which I know I’d forget if I subdued the pain.
Having said that, for things like flu’s where it’s just pure suffering for nothing, I’ll suck down as many painkillers as I can have in a day.
I do this, but it needs to be balanced with a healthy dose of “don’t overcompensate or you’ll fuck up the uninjured side.”
My co-worker fucked up her foot that way. She sprained her ankle during a hiking trip and just kept popping painkillers so she could keep walking.
Saved.
