Comment on why does alcohol stop my back pain but medicine doesn't?

• Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Depends on the back, and the pain, and the meds. No, they don’t fix the underlying issue, but for circumstances where the underlying issue can’t be fixed they make it a lot more tolerable.

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  • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    True, but relying on the drugs is generally a bad approach

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    • Libra@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I take it you have some better approach than relying on medication when my back pain becomes incapacitating? Cause it’s not fixable, I’ve seen numerous doctors about it over the years, not to mention chiropractors, physical therapists, etc. My choice is to take pain meds when things get bad or to just be incapacitated for the rest of the day whenever it flares up. So if you have a better approach I’m all ears, but just saying ‘drugs are bad mkay?’ isn’t terribly convincing because so far my experience has been that not relying on drugs is all downside.

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      • RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        you know one thing about social media that’s really hard to deal with is that everybody seems to speak an absolutes about every single fucking topic on the planet. there’s room for the gray in almost every conversation that has ever existed and people like to just point out well what about my special circumstance, of course there’s room for special circumstances and other things why does everybody think everything is absolute?

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