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Gabapentin is an anticonvulsants. Ibuprofen and paracetamol are anti-inflammatory. While they are effective at reducing pain, they are technically not "pain killers". The title is therefore correct.


Is that true? That ibuprofen is only reducing my pain via reduced inflammation? I'm sure I've taken it for pain that isn't caused by inflammation.


Yes, but the parent isn't accurate about Paracetamol. It's not anti-inflammatory.

You can take them together within the stipulated limits for each, as one will reduce inflammation and the other will reduce the perception of pain.

Just have to be careful with the stomach when it comes to Ibuprofen... perhaps eat first.


Redescribing NSAIDs as "not technically painkillers", when that's one of their primary use cases, seems... Disingenuous at best.


Revisiting this, I also wouldn't call gabapentin an anti-convulsant. It's drug class is "gabapentinoid".

More often used for neuropathy than epilepsy (though used for both, due to how gabapentoids work.)




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