Fentanyl topic split off election thread.

[europeanatheist]

The hardest pain pill I ever took, only once in my life, was Vicodin.

Most of my life, it was aspirin.

Since that can cause gout flares, I've switched to ibuprofen.

BOth are good choices, Aspirin for example was key in reducing covid mortality, though it did not get the attention it deserved. It was showed already in the early stages of the pandemic that if you got high doses of Aspirin in the very early stages of the infection (basically when you did not get yet the PCR test results) it could mild the effect of the virus and reduce mortality and hospitalization. This is because it intervenes on the inflamatory cascade response.
There are a bunch of old drugs (aspirin is one of these examples) that have a truly remarkable effect on a broad array of diseases