Friend: I'm having such a headache.
Me: Take a pill then. It'll be over in a few mins.
Friend: No, I don't wanna take medicines.
Me: What? What do you mean, you don't take medicines? You won't be able to study jackshit with a headache.
Friend: No I don't take medicines man, period.
I always fail to understand the logic of that. The logic to prefer pain to medicines. Took my friend as an example but it's not the first person I've met to think like that, whether it is on the net or in real life.
What is it, the "MEDICINES ARE EEEEEVIIIIILLL" mentality? Masochism? I can't think of any other explanation.
As someone with this mentality, myself, these are just my two cents. The first reason I refuse to take meds is that a lot of over-the-counter meds give me a bit of an allergic reaction. Taking headache meds helps for maybe an hour and then makes the pain worse. I'll get to the next time I'm able to take them and they do nothing but instantly make the pain worse. (My doctor said something about weird pain receptors but I really don't recall because that was years ago and I don't feel like telling him about every migraine I have or I'd be there for hours. LOL) It's possible your friend has a similar reaction. Luckily there's a lot of homeopathic ways to get rid of headaches: a warm bath with aromatherapy stuff can remove stress if that's how it was caused, a warm/cool towel over your eyes can relieve pressure, a bag of crushed ice/mixed frozen veggies on the back of your neck (for no longer than 15 minutes!) can numb the nerves in the back of your neck, keeping them from transmitting pain so that you feel you don't have a headache (learned that one from my doc), and there's a ton more I've forgotten about.
Second reason I don't is because I've developed a bit of a phobia of medication and of being addicted to meds. Mum was diagnosed with Lupus when I was 9 and they tried so many different types of pain meds on her. It's was like...nonstop. One didn't work and so they tried another. And so they put her on oxycotin. They put her on so much godd*mn oxy that she slept 20 hours a day and, when she was awake, she was so drugged up she didn't know what was going on. She couldn't even walk most days. And her doctor thought it was perfectly fine. When we moved here, her doctors switched her to morphine...the effects weren't as severe, but she would hallucinate from time to time. Now that she's off the narcotics, she's actually coherant and able to do things she never could before. But watching her be that drugged up and then watching her go through withdrawals as she got off the pain killers has made me incapable of accepting any kind of pain medication out of fear that I'll end up the same way.
Just some food for thought.
...that said anti-vacination people and people who think all meds cause cancer and autism and so yeah, let's just let our kids get horrible, deadly diseases cuz "it'll build their immune system and it's not like anyone dies of these things nowadays" make me want to bang my head on the wall. Unless you're allergic (like me and flu shots...dang it), get your vacinations! You actually need those, dummies. If I can suffer through them, you can, too! -facepalms-
