Doc, I have a friend who suffers from chronic recurrent headaches. She has found, after years of experimentation and the help of many a doctor, that a large dose of plain old ibuprofen works about as well as anything to head off the headaches when they are developing. The pills give her relief.
They aren't sure what causes her headaches. They've ruled out brain tumors, sinusitis, and they don't fit the pattern of migraines, no one has been able to pinpoint the precise cause of her headaches.
But I'm still pretty confident when I say that her headaches are not caused by an insufficiency of Advil in her brain.
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