Excedrin works much better on my headaches than any other OTC medication.

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Jun 10, 2019
6:37:15pm

mbs6 Walk-on

Excedrin works much better on my headaches than any other OTC medication.

I come from a family of headache sufferers.

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mbs6

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Question for board Drs or Pharmacists. Can you stack OTC pain meds? I.e. bad headache, 2 advil doesn’t do it.

Hank Rearden All-American

6/10/19 6:07pm

You can take acetaminophen and ibuprofen together. I'm not a pharmacist but I

cracka

6/10/19 6:10pm

Thats how Ive always felt but today had one that was still bad after 4 advil and 2 tylenol. I was tempted to take 2

6/10/19 6:16pm

Add Benadryl and some caffeine at that point

Jimo Dashen

6/10/19 6:22pm

Why Benedryl? I understand that caffeine helps with migraines (which is what Im assuming I had).

6/10/19 6:27pm

I can nerd out on you if you want, or you can just take my word that histamine..

6/10/19 6:38pm

Thanks for keeping it simple.

6/10/19 6:58pm

Yes to Tylenol, no to Aleve (if you're already taking another NSAID like Motrin)

SJS

6/10/19 6:10pm

Feature request: Posters with more than 100,000 posts should be given Dr status

TNT

6/10/19 6:13pm

RE: Feature request: Posters with more than 100,000 posts should be given Dr

CopperLix

6/10/19 6:22pm

Excedrin works much better on my headaches than any other OTC medication.

mbs6

6/10/19 6:37pm

I honestly thought about giving that a try today. But is as typical when I get one of these about 1x a year

6/10/19 7:00pm

800 Motrin +1000 Tylenol. Several studies state this combo as good as narcotics

claw

6/10/19 7:08pm

That combo is really good.

OmahaThunderCoug

6/10/19 7:47pm

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