Using painkillers too much?

i take painkillers a fair bit. like almost every day. i read on the pack that it shouldnt be used too often unless on doctors orders...so i just wanted to know what side effects would happen from using painkilers waaaaaaaay too much :\

Addiction, liver failure, death if you overdose

Depends on what pain killers you use. Acenimenophen (however you spell it, I'm too lazy to look it up right now) based pain killers will kill your liver. NSAIDS will kill your kidneys.

They become useless. You will then require a much bigger dose to have the same effect or progress to a stronger alternative.

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Also the aspirin in it can eventually wear a hole through your stomach giving you an ulcer. As well as using it all the time will make it less effective later, thus requiring you to take more tablets more often.

Taking too many pain killers causes you to need more and more of them. Then you go for stronger ones.
The problems is that the pain seems to come back when the pain killer is about to wear off. But it may be only a medication "rebound effect" and not real pain.
Go to a good pain clinic. They will help you get off them, and show you how to manage your pain without pain meds.

If they stop working as well, and you take more of them to work, then you are headed for trouble. If you take them even if you are not in pain, you are headed for trouble, if you are staying up longer than normal than you are actually overdosing and could have a heart attact, a seizure or instant death. If, you are taking them sooner than what the dr prescribed, like if you take them every three hours instead of the four to six hours you are in trouble. My suggestion is to wean yourself down from them to make them work better. What I do is take one instead of two, then half of one, then a quarter of one, over a few days. I catch myself going overboard sometimes and once I was taking four at a time ten times a day. So I cut down to three at a time nine times a day, then two, eight times a day and so on until I was down to none a day. I drank lots of water and took vitamins and walked three times a day for weeks. Then after I lost twenty six pounds, I decided that I liked not taking them. I do have to take them when I am in pain, but I wont get like I was, I wont let them get control of me. So, if you feel you are overdoing it, stair step down, it is really easy to do, and you will feel much better for it. If you find yourself in pain, take a tylenol or a Tylenol PM at night when needed.

Good Luck!

Here are a couple of sites to answer ur question:
webmd.com
pdrhealth.com- alphabetized list of medications and their effects
Many pain meds are very habit forming- I'm not judging you- If you are a Dr's care, then this is what the Physician thinks
If you are needing pain meds, I would suggest you go to a Physician. Hope this helped- Take care!

depends what you are using.

codeine based painkillers is essentially like taking low doses of clinical heroin and is addictive.

paracetamol is no good for your liver and there are all sorts of unknown issues with ibuprofen.

if you are in pain and using them everyday then go to the doctor and get the source of the pain sorted out instead of masking the issue with painkillers (and potentially making an injury WORSE by overflexing etc).