The trick if there is one is to use only enough to make the pain tolerable. (how aspirin works - or doesn't) I think people get into trouble trying to eliminate discomfort entirely.
Pretty much what my doctor told me when I expressed concerns about addiction. He said as you only take something when and as much as really needed, you wouldn't get addicted. Seems right after thirty years or so.
After surgeries and such they are bringing me stuff before I ask for it. A major back surgery, they put me just outside the nurses station. I knew that meant they expected me to need a lot of attention. By late the first evening I decided I had all the fun I wanted and rang for a goodie. The nurse was at my bed with a little cup with half a dozen pills in it instantly, a lot less than a minute. When I commented she said she already had the pills in the cup, she was fixing to come make me take them!
I don't advocate taking drugs. I have learned over the years and don't advocate not taking them anymore either.
Oh yeah, about aspirin, it used to be well known as the wonder drug. It still is. I do recommend getting the stuff with buffers in it, aspirin can be rough on stomachs. However aspirin is good for pain, fever, and inflammation. As most know, an old Indian remedy. It comes from the inner bark of willows best I recall.
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