• grue@lemmy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Now that I think about it, I don’t think acetaminophen has been effective in ever curing my headaches even back when I was prescribed liver damage amounts.

        Sleep apparently > painkillers

        I wouldn’t necessarily generalize; even if acetaminophen doesn’t work, other painkillers like aspirin or naproxen sodium might.

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        For me, out of everything OTC, Advil Liquigels work the best for anything wrt aches & pain. Headache, muscle ache, period cramps, etc. And it’s pretty quick, too. The generic ones are fine.

        Of course, anecdotal evidence and such.

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    1 year ago

    (I didn’t read the article) Is it the drug or is it the pain the drug is taken to alleviate? If I’ve got a headache or muscle soreness I’m more likely to focus on that than someones fee-fees.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      It’s a controlled experiment, not a population study, so the acetaminophen sample weren’t in more pain than the control group. But it’s a relatively high dose, and while statistically significant the effect seems kind of small. I’m not sure there’s really particularly big conclusions you can draw from it.