Hello Everyone,
When I was a kid, I remember my mom giving me aspirin for fevers and occasional pains. But I don’t remember if aspirin actually ever helped with pain. Does it?
Works for me. Quite well, in fact. Much better than Tylenol does, and much easier on the liver.
Yep it works.
Yes.
Yes
It’s an anti-inflammatory, and the answer is yes.
My migraines are not painful, but they are uncomfortable, and aspirin works so well for them, I refuse to try anything else.
Now we know not to give aspirin to children without a doctor’s recommendation because of the risk of Reye’s syndrome, but my parents did give it to me, mainly because children’s acetaminophen was not as readily available.
Yes, it certainly has an effect on pain. The best? I doubt that.
It does for me and it works generally. But it may not for you. People experience pain differently and not everyone responds to every pain-killer.
Since it wouldn’t be allowed to be sold as a painkiller if it didn’t, the factual answer is “yes.” Since answers with otherwise be anecdotal, let’s move this to IMHO.
Colibri
General Questions Moderator
Same
Almost the same for me. It works second best of all non-narcotic painkillers except acetaminophen, but I use aspirin anyway because it is easier on the liver, with the exception of when I have a fever in which case it is APAP.
As a kid my mom would give me aspirin occasionally and I don’t remember it working great, but it was better than nothing. Since I never get headaches it would be for when I skinned my knee or elbow after a fall. Once Tylenol came out she never used Aspirin again because “hospital’s prefer Tylenol” or so the ads told us. I think aspirin was considered old fashioned at that point. BTW I have been taking a baby aspirin (81 mg) every day on doctor’s orders as a mild blood thinner for many years, so there’s that.
As a kid, I always had the orange baby aspirin when I was sick. Aspirin is what I use now for headaches. Tylenol, Advil or Aleve don’t usually help with headaches for me. If I have a muscle ache tho I will use one of them - usually Aleve.
Does anyone remember getting fever powders as a kid back in the 60’s and early 70’s? They were a prescription and came in a small cardboard box. Each dose was in a paper wrapper kind of like a gum wrapper. My mom would mix it in pudding or OJ. A couple of times she tried to give it to me in a spoonful of jelly :eek:. When I think back now, I’m guessing they were just crushed up aspirin. They were very bitter tasting.
Aspirin is the most effective pain killer I have found even more so than narcotics.
Same here.
Speaking only for myself, it’s my best option for mild headaches. When my back acts up, though, that pain just laughs at aspirin.
There is actually some danger in giving it to children, due to Reye’s syndrome. So I didn’t take it as a kid. But I do use it for pain medicine sometimes as an adult, and it works as well as the others. The main concern is stomach stuff and not being able to take Pepto Bismol at the same time.
To me, ibuprofen has a very slight stimulant effect, so I take aspirin as my choice of NSAID when I want to avoid that. Usually this is when acetaminophen isn’t available, it’s a pain that it doesn’t work on, or I’m doing the whole stagger dosage to get better pain coverage.
It’s not by go to for pain, but as an anti inflammatory it’s sure to help relieve it. One of our dogs sometimes limps for an unknown reason and our vet has suggested giving him a baby aspirin. It really seems to help.
Sounds like Goody or BC Headache Powders. My mom used to give them to me for migraines and tell me to hold the powder under my tongue. They’re really great.
Astin is wonderful stuff.