Why? Does ibuprofen work better? It's bad for your stomach walls.

For inflammatory pain (most headaches, most pain from injuries), ibuprofen absolutely works better. For migraines, neither works at all on its own -- though ibuprofen plus caffeine (I generally drink tea) does a little. For overexertion aches and cramps, or fevers, I think either is generally fine.

	▲	SirMaster 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		>For inflammatory pain (most headaches, most pain from injuries), ibuprofen absolutely works better. Unfortunately, for me ibuprofen doesn't seme to help at all with any of these. Like I understand that my pain are often inflammatory based, and i try ibuprofen, but the pain doesn't dull at all even if I take 800mg etc... I take 1000mg acetaminophen and boom my pain is vastly reduced...

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SkyeCA 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Does ibuprofen work better?

In my experience it works far better at managing headaches/migraines.

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pixl97 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

There seems to be some percentage of people that acetaminophen seems to do very little for. Ibuprofen has a much more pronounced effect, to the point that I take it at half it's recommended dosage.