Headache and self medication using pain killers

The busy schedule of our life and the intensification of pressures of living, social and professional, and the large crowds and the noise, increased anxiety, fatigue all this finally result in a headache. We sank back to our couch with our palms pressing our head. To get rid of the headache many of us find an easy way, we go for those pain killers and pop these pills without any hesitation. It is always easy to do self medication because we could save lot of time waiting for our turn in a clinic or hospital. However, this solution recently became the subject of studies for lot of research fellows and they found the following shocking details.

                                  According to the studies people who take a lot of pain relievers to treat episodes of tension-type headaches in a way subject themselves to more pain. When we go for self medications we have to keep this in mind that headache may be a symptom for some other physical problem. Most of the grave diseases have the symptoms like headache fatigue etc. And also headaches are of different type, each kind need different medication. Frequent use of drugs such as codeine, paracetamol, ibuprofen and aspirin can lead to serious diseases. It is recently found that excessive intake of paracetamol can cause kidney diseases. Scientific studies prove that between a quarter and two-thirds of people who suffer from headaches overindulge in the use of pain relievers. They are taking drugs for long periods of time. More the painkiller intake, the greater the body's resistance to it. Therefore, the patient will be resorted to eat stronger painkiller. This will weaken the impact of the drug; patients may develop headaches reaction withdrawal symptoms known as rebound headache, pushing them to take more drugs.    

                Most of the pain killers work on the nerves and thalamus which carry and generate pain signals respectively. When we pop up these pills it will slow down this process and will relieve us from pain. But if we take pain killers constantly without treating the cause for pain will damage our brain cells and may result in stroke. So always you have to keep in mind that self medication is not a good habit and each headache has to be treated properly.