Strong painkillers and headache

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I've been on opiates plus paracetamol and aspirin for three weeks for acute back inflammation

Yesterday I decided to try ibuprofen instead of aspirin. I took two at 7 am with my painkiller, then paracetamol at 9am. I started to get a terrible headache around 10am. I took two more ibuprofen at 11am.

The headache didn't go I felt like throwing up all day (although managed not to) I spent most of day laying down )terrible for back issue)

I decided not to take any more ibuprofen incase they were causing the issue. I took my usual pain relief at 7pm . Managed to fall asleep around ten but woke at 130 with raging headache. It hasn't eased.

Has anyone experienced strong headaches with painkillers? I can't stop taking the pain killers due to back pain but I can't get up with head pain. And I'm supposed to be active.

I'm ringing drs at 8am but anyone experienced this?

There is a thing called "Analgesia Headache", but it's usually associated with longterm use of opiods like codeine ( even otc codeine can do it). I'd be surprised if this were the case with you, but not beyond the realms of possibility, I suppose. It could be a coincidental virus, any other symptoms?
BTW, ibuprofen should ALWAYS be taken with food and preferably with something like Omeprazole ( which you can buy otc).
Best of luck, it sounds miserable. X

It’s very likely to be a medication overuse headache - Opiates especially are known to cause them, any time that I have to take them for more than a few days I develop awful migraines.

I do take omprazole too and I had them with food at 7 though not at 11.

What do you do ? I am still experiencing strong pain plus can't just stop the painkillers but I literally can't lift my head off the pillow with thus pain. I've just tried to be sick tho nothing came up

How are you this morning OP?

Headache still here. It eases a little at points and comes back. Doctor was useless said it's unlike to be meds as I've only been on them 3.5 weeks and I'm probably stressed and it's a tension headache. He offered sumatriptan but I had it years ago and it didn't work and I felt crap so didn't want to add it. Also today my back tooth has cracked .

Oh, I'm sorry to hear that...as I said, I think it's unlikely but not impossible that it's your analgesia causing it.
I kind of support the secondary cause though...? virus, ? tension headache.
It sounds like you're really going through the mill. It's likely though, that the headache will just slowly dissipate with time. Keep that in mind.
Hope your back tooth doesn't stop you from enjoying food if/when the headache and backpain subsides. X

Thanks now four days into the headache. On the plus side my backs doing a lot better.