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I shattered my humerus (upper arm bone) badly, and needed major surgery, so I was in bad pain for a while, exacerbated by the fact that I'm a big whiney baby.

I absolutely refused any opiates for pain, knowing I'd get hooked, so I stuck with massive does of Advil, which worked okay. When I was near the end, almost out of it, I discovered that doctors were often recommending a combo of 1 Tylenol and 2 Advil for pain, claiming that the pain-killing power approached the level of an opiate, without any chance of addiction. I tried it, and the result was AMAZING! It really worked well. I wish I'd known about it when I first came out of surgery, instead of weeks later, when the pain had subsided for the most part.

Also, the Advil is processed by the kidneys, and the Tylenol is processed by the liver, so none of your organs are overtaxed. It's still not a good idea for those who are taking blood thinners.

I've also noticed that Advil now sells their own combo with acetaminophen.

That was really difficult to read/understand. I added punctuation to make it more clear, at least to me.

What is one of those "Oh my god, I wish someone had explained THIS system to me when I was younger" moments, that really sticks out to you from your experience?

Not sure what you mean by “system,” so I’m just going to answer a thing I wish someone explained to me much earlier.

Not everyone feels hunger cues, so “just eat when you’re hungry” can be bad advice.

I learned about anorexia nervosa as an eating disorder in middle and high school. People worried about me because I was thin and didn’t eat a lot, but I didn’t try to stay skinny and I ate when I was hungry, so I knew I didn’t have that. Ironically, learning about EDs made me sure I didn’t have a problem.

In college I took a class that defined anorexia as “a lack of appetite,” identifying it could be a drug side effect, from stress, or just how someone’s body is. It differentiated “anorexia” from “anorexia nervosa.” That opened my eyes that I did have disordered eating, but it was from physiology, not psychology.

I trained myself how to eat enough, but I still have to be careful not to fall back into old habits since I don’t have normal hunger cues. It’s constant work that might have been easier if I started building these habits from a younger age.

The vast majority of advice you will ever hear about anything is medicinal - it's contextual to a specific set of circumstances, and is meant to deal with a certain problem or a particular type of situation. Most advice is not applicable universally, even if it is sometimes good advice.

Following from this, if you get someone sharing a piece of advice, consider if that advice suits your circumstances before following it. People have different lives, and not everything everyone tells you will be helpful advice for every situation. Like medicine.

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I am most definitely suffering from one of these that I still haven't figured out yet. probably financial shit which is the most boring thing in the whole universe to me.

You can HEAR music by LISTENING to it and trying to imitate it.

Sheet music is as much a trap as a tool.