Take Two and Call Me In The Morning

[The Captain]

I arrived home this past evening after a full day of work and the like and had quite a throbbing headache. Usually, I'd jump in the shower and go right to sleep to heal my aching skull, but since I still had more work to do, I opted to take some Advil instead, which I rarely do. It worked for a bit, but the headache still resonates every once in a while.

What do you do to heal an aching head?

Do you opt for medicine such as Advil to combat headaches, colds and the like or just try to tough it out and let everything heal itself through sleep and general body care?

Take care all.

[theundeadhero]

I generally tough everything out. I don't like the way over-the-counter medicine makes you feel. Thats odd really, considering past habbits. :/

[The Captain]

Agreed. For some reason, most of the over the counter medication has an adverse effect on my body as well.

Take care all.

[UltimaLimit]

I find over-the-counter medicine doesn't have a happy medium. Either it gives you no side effects (but is too weak to really help you any), or it fixes the problem but hits you like a pissed-off heavyweight, rendering you doped-up useless rather than miserable useless.

Hope your head feels better, Captain. Funny timing, I've got a bit of a headache myself.

:twak: :shoot: :chop:

[The Captain]

I think it's mainly due to the fact that I was running around all afternoon in the blazing heat and then staring at a computer all night editing various things, which is not a good combination for the head, eyes or body.

Thanks for your concern and I hope you feel better as well.

Take care all.

[Ko Ko]

I have no idea what a headache is like. All my life I've had sinus infections, but not proper headaches.
Sorry I couldn't be of much help. But if you ever get a sinus headache, dear Captain, do take Tylenol Sinus PM! It works a charm.
Get well soon!!

[The Captain]

Wow, you've never had a headache? That's quite amazing, though sinus infections are no fun either.

The next time I have a sinus infection, which hopefully is not anytime soon, I'll keep your advice in mind. Thank you.

Take care all.

[Ism]

Man, i get a headache every day and i even get migraines. and abdomanal migraines (vomiting). I generally tough it out unless its real bad then i go for some medicine.

[Jack]

Grin and bear it

[Xander]

Ick. I have headaches almost everyday. I go through phases, sometimes I might go a few weeks without having them, but generally I get them a LOT. I take Solpadeine. I did go to the doctor but they just gave me different tablets, and the headaches always come back anyway. So I just stick with taking solpadeine. I probably take way too many of them, but they help, so hey. I'm no good at sticking things out, I'm too weak. xD

[Samuraid]

Sleep. Most of the headaches I get are due to lack of sleep.

[Loony BoB]

These all help my headaches. In order of effectiveness.

1) Talk with someone. Some people have a voice which can ease my mind a lot - it's quite possibly the one thing that all the girls I have fallen for have in common: a beautiful voice. Also, if you don't talk for a long period of time, it can have a bad effect on your mind. Even talking to yourself can help with this - so long as you're talking. Or singing.
2) Drink water. This is a really, really undervalued cure for headaches. In fact, I'd guess that when you drink water with your painkiller, the water helps you more than the painkiller does. Drinking water is really, really important. Something like eight glasses a day, right?
3) Sleep, of course, can always help.

It's extremely rare that I take painkillers for headaches. Painkillers also lose their effect if you have them too often, so yeah.

[Jojee]

I tough it out, over the counter medicine is EVIL @_@ Tydenol Sinus (especially the nighttime kind) gets me high. I took it and I was crying and laughing at the same time for at least an hour and I totally wasn't expecting that.

[Old Manus]

Dose yourself up and get back under the duvet.

[Necronopticous]

When I was a kid I used to get headaches all the time because I have significantly different quality vision in each of my eyes and it caused one to strain to keep up, thus eventually giving me a really horrible headache.

Nowadays I don't get them as much but I still do pretty regularly, what I usually do when they hit is take a couple asprin, turn out all the lights, lay down and listen to piano compositions. Typically my headache will go away in 30-40 minutes completely in these conditions.

One of the best and geekiest stories in my life involves getting a headache. When I first got Final Fantasy IX I played for nearly 20 hours straight and got a headache from staring at the screen so I took some asprin, turned off the television, and laid down for a half hour or so until it was gone, then I resumed play for another 10 hours or so. Good times.