my first choice has always been an aspirin, but most of my coworkers tell me I'm wrong and I should use ibuprofen first.
What's your take?
One acetaminophen and one ibuprofen. My headaches tend to turn into migraines if I don't nip them in the bud.
If they're happening frequently I agree about looking for base causes though.
95% of the time, a headache for me means I'm dehydrated. So I drink water + electrolyte drops.
Acetaminophen (Tylenol) if I can't get it under control without meds but I agree with the other posters about trying to figure out the root cause! For me, the main causes of headaches used to be hormones from the pill until I switched to a different form of birth control (IUD). Nowadays my headaches are mostly dry eye or allergy related so I keep eye drops on hand and take allergy meds and I'm down to headaches once every week or two. Staying hydrated and taking fish oil supplements has also helped my dry eyes.
Usually aspirin for headaches Ibuprofen for everything else especially for inflammation
I pretty much always go ibuprofen, but aspirin is fine.
I'm pretty sure acetaminophen is snake oil though (this is a joke but I can't recall ever having it resolve a headache for me like ibuprofen does).
