Excedrin = Aspirin + Tylenol + Caffeine
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95% of the time, a headache for me means I'm dehydrated. So I drink water + electrolyte drops.
I try to figure out what's causing it, then treat. I get headaches from eyestrain (so I take addition and focus on something else), allergies (antihistamine/decongestant), sunglare (eyerest), overexertion/dehydration (drink water and take it easy), caffeine withdrawal (drink cola), etc.
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.
I just deal with it unless it's a migraine.
Ibuprofen or paracetamol
this is the only thing i found that knocks out a persistent migraine. 1 asprin 1 tylenol 1 aleve and a cup of coffee. about a half hour later the pain and nausea finally stop.
1 asprin [...] 1 aleve ...
That combination of two non-steroidal anti-inflammatories is probably knocking out more than you think.
depending on severity, advil extra strength liquigels for a quick onset headache. If it won't go away then another advil with a Tylenol at the same time, I call it Advenol.
Usually aspirin for headaches Ibuprofen for everything else especially for inflammation
Dipyrone. It's OTC here in Brazil, but it seems to be restricted in other places.
acetaminophen is my go to for that.