I'm always surprised by people who find ibuprofen actually relieves pain... I take it when I have a sprained ankle, wrist pain, knee pain... and I can take 800 mg of ibuprofen, and I still feel the joint afterwards and the pain... Ibuprofen's never really made pain go away, but what I do find is that the inflammation/swelling goes away quicker if I take ibuprofen... If my wrists flare up, I can take ibuprofen for a couple days and then they'll go back to normal.... or I can not take anything and a week or two later they'll still be hurting...

I don't know if this is a tolerance I've built up to ibuprofen or it just never really worked on me to begin with. (I only take 800 mg if I've just sprained an ankle or something like that... my regular dose is 2)


However, my bf'll take 1 ibuprofen very reluctantly and claim it makes broken leg pain go away or something like that... And not take it because he wants to be able to feel the pain in case he's messed up something in his body and he wants the feedback. I dunno, but I get plenty of feedback while taking ibuprofen.