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using ibuprofen to fix neck pain is a weird thing because i think it does actually suppress it at the source. the experience feels like it's the anti-inflammatory thing that's actually having an effect, not some kind of numbness to pain; twisting the neck wrong is still painful
and i start to think it might actually be necessary to heal, because the pain means that any position, no matter how good or bad it may be, is painful, so suppressing the inflammation a bit so that one can sleep peacefully with a normal neck posture is surely beneficial?
there's also this thing that as the drug starts wearing off i can sometimes physically feel stuff twisting back into the wrong shape, or at least i felt that an hour ago, bizarre experience
(sighing) you gotta hand it to non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs sometimes even if they are also evil things that destroy people's hearing among other things
there was this incident a few years back (2 years? 3 years?) where we got this spate of really bad neck pain (at its peak, much much worse than what what's happening right now) and had to, with much reluctance, take ibuprofen daily. but at its peak something interesting happened:
it had become so overwhelmingly bad we were just sitting there curled up in a chair, couldn't move the head much, girlfriend watching over and worried about us. in desperation had to redose ibuprofen
and the moment it hit, there was a very Very obvious… pop(?) behind the head
and this caused some kind of horrible overwhelming rush, noise blanketing reality, a fainting-like experience, but then it was suddenly completely over
i don't know what happened there, but i suspect the anti-inflammatory effect unfucked a bad situation with nerves
horrible but in the kind of way that if i could press a button to experience the same suffering and specific resolution again i would because it was interesting (and then i would be very upset at myself for pressing the button)
whoa apparently ibuprofen specifically (not other NSAIDs!) has been identified as beneficial in recovery from spinal chord injuries, it has some neuroprotective effect and also encourages plasticity? drugs are so cool
*cord lmao