Depends on the painkiller. For opioids, higher doses are usually more effective for analgesia. The general approach is to start low, and then up-titrate until the patient reports the desired effect. Paracetamol vs NSAIDs vs Opioids makes it difficult to speak in broad strokes, they behave quite differently.
When it comes for over-the-counter pain killers like paracetamol, ibuprofen or aspirin there’s a dynamic of it not being advised to go over the recommended amount but you can do either paracetamol + ibuprofen or paracetamol + aspirin for added pain relief.
The kind of opioids where more is helpful seem to be need a doctor to prescribe them and are probably not for self dosing them to remove all the pain via the more dakka principle.
The general sense is that there’s no evidence that 2g is doing more than 1g, so it’s not that more of a painkiller always produces a stronger effect.
Just take more if you want a stronger effect, the More Dakka way does not seem a good heuristic for painkillers in general.
Depends on the painkiller. For opioids, higher doses are usually more effective for analgesia. The general approach is to start low, and then up-titrate until the patient reports the desired effect. Paracetamol vs NSAIDs vs Opioids makes it difficult to speak in broad strokes, they behave quite differently.
When it comes for over-the-counter pain killers like paracetamol, ibuprofen or aspirin there’s a dynamic of it not being advised to go over the recommended amount but you can do either paracetamol + ibuprofen or paracetamol + aspirin for added pain relief.
The kind of opioids where more is helpful seem to be need a doctor to prescribe them and are probably not for self dosing them to remove all the pain via the more dakka principle.