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When aiming for a productive day ahead, especially at work, it’s important to have your bases covered! By leaving no stone unturned and having plans A and B (or even C onwards) sorted, you can be on your way to tick off all the boxes in your to-do list.
Unfortunately, severe or intense pain in the form of intense headaches, migraine, toothaches, and menstrual cramps can throw a wrench in those plans and disrupt your routine.
It’s understandable to feel frustrated because of these health issues, but you definitely shouldn’t let them get in the way of your productivity! Learn why these health issues appear, how they can affect your daily routines, and what you can take to address these concerns.
Severe or Intense Pain: How Is It Classified?
How exactly is pain categorized as “severe” or “intense” when people have different thresholds for discomfort?
Well, health practitioners usually turn to tools or scales with set criteria or parameters. These methods help them determine the intensity of pain that patients feel. These tools also consider someone’s ability (or inability) to perform their day-to-day normal activities.
In many of these tools, severe or intense pain is often described or pictured as discomfort that causes difficulty in physical movements and communication, problems falling asleep, and sometimes even emotional distress. People with severe or intense pain are unable to perform their daily tasks as a result and can become bedridden.
On the other hand, those with moderate to mild pain still experience some form of discomfort that can be irritating or distracting. However, some can still withstand the pain, do certain tasks (albeit at a slower pace than normal), and communicate with others properly.
How These Types of Pain Disrupt Your Productivity
Severe or intense pain can strike different parts of the body, such as the head, teeth, back, and joints, to name quite a few. No matter the location or the cause of the discomfort, severe pain’s negative impacts on productivity are undeniable.
Here are some ways that a severe or intense headache, back pain, or toothache can stand in your way of daily productivity:
1. Additional need to file absences or sick days
2. Increases in the amount of work backlog incurred due to absences
3. Lower salary in some cases, notably in industries that are output- or quota-based
4. Fewer tasks accomplished on a daily basis
5. Decreases in concentration and focus for the tasks at hand since severe pain is “competing” for your attention
6. Drop in self-confidence that can affect the quality of your work
7. Inability to perform physical tasks, especially when the discomfort keeps you bedridden
8. Reduced social battery and reluctance to meet with people
9. Weaker ability to communicate with other people effectively
10. Higher risk for emotional outbursts or distress that can affect work routines and even relationships with people
Prevent severe or intense pain from affecting you and your productivity by immediately addressing them. Ask your doctor about strategies that will help you target the discomfort before it is too late.
Why Ibuprofen Can Be a Good Idea Against Severe or Intense Pain
Hopefully, you never reach the point where your pain becomes too debilitating for you to function. If it happens, be ready to address severe or intense headache, back pain, toothache, and menstrual cramps with the help of a medication containing ibuprofen. This substance is familiar to some people because of its inclusion in medication for severe or intense pain, and with good reason:
- Versus migraine or severe headache: A 200 or 400 mg dose of ibuprofen was proven to help lessen the severity of migraine pain. This resulted in cases of either mild pain or no pain at all.
- Versus tension-type headaches: A 400 mg dose of ibuprofen helped relieve pain caused by tension-type headaches.
- Versus dental pain: Some studies have confirmed that ibuprofen is well-tolerated and can help target toothaches attributed to postoperative pain, with minimal side effects.
- Versus dysmenorrhea or menstrual cramps: Multiple tests and studies confirmed that ibuprofen was effective in addressing period pain in women while producing fewer side effects.
- Versus post-operative pains: According to studies, intravenous ibuprofen helped reduce the intensity of postoperative pain in some adult patients. The use of ibuprofen also helped lessen the need to take stronger medicines like opioids and other analgesics.
Go From Lala to Wala With a Pain Reliever That Works
Don’t let severe pain stop you from having a productive day! Be ready for the different types of severe or intense pain with Ibuprofen (Medicol® Advance 400).
This formulation contains 400 mg of ibuprofen that assists in addressing pain caused by headaches, migraine, toothache, and dysmenorrhea.
More importantly, Ibuprofen (Medicol® Advance 400) offers #LalaToWala relief. This formulation can start working in as fast as 5 minutes and helps deliver relief in as fast as 15 minutes. As a result, you can feel little to no signs of severe or intense pain, continue your daily routines as usual, and let productivity prevail.
Suggested use of Ibuprofen (Medicol® Advance 400) is one softgel capsule up to three (3) times a day, as needed, with at least four (4) hours between each dose, or as recommended by a doctor.
Ibuprofen (Medicol® Advance 400) is available online and in leading drugstores nationwide at Php12 suggested retail price (SRP) per capsule.
If symptoms persist, consult your doctor.
ASC Reference Code: U0114P100924M
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