When you take a pain reliever, like Advil, how does it know which pain to heal i!


Question: Let's say I have a sore back and foot, and I also have a headache. How does the pill know where my pain spots are and which ones to heal? I'm not sure if I'm making sense, but sometimes if I have many aches, but 1 is a lot worse, the worst one gets healed the most. How does this happen?


Answers: Let's say I have a sore back and foot, and I also have a headache. How does the pill know where my pain spots are and which ones to heal? I'm not sure if I'm making sense, but sometimes if I have many aches, but 1 is a lot worse, the worst one gets healed the most. How does this happen?

It doesn't know where your pain is. All that pain relievers really do is thin your blood vessels out, so they pass through your veins and arteries more easily. Most common pains (especially headaches) are caused by areas in your body where blood is having a hard time squeezing through an area for a while (temporarily...hopefully).

Tylenol, advil, aspirin, ibuprofen and the like simply thin your blood out.

This is also why you're not suppossed to over-do pain relievers while you're drinking (or at all really), becuase they can cause stomach bleeding and/or ulcers or just be hard on your digestive system as a whole

Maybe it addresses the part of your brain that makes you feel pain, instead of the specific spot?

I don't know, but I would love to heal any pains you feel

It's an anti-inflammatory and works to reduce inflammation wherever necessary.

im not sure but in most cases it works on all of the above.

It distributes throughout your body...the pain that hurts the most is also the one that you focus on the most, so when that pain dissipates, it seems to do so much more so than other pains. In reality, it's not doing much differently to the others, but it's such a relief that the worst pain is going that it makes it seem as though it's having a greater effect.





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