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Similar to you it is incredible at bringing down fever in my kid. I've seen my kid go from whimpering looking like death, to be crawling about playing happily again in half an hour. With the behaviour change tracking with her temperature coming down.

As an adult using it as a pain killer it has been ineffective.

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For me I’ve found it works incredibly well at killing a headache or outright stopping a scintillating migraine (especially when combined with caffeine). But for body aches and pains I also find it doesn’t do a whole lot, especially compared to ibuprofen.

That's because ibuprofen reduces inflammation but acetaminophen does not. Joint pain and other such aches are all accompanied by inflammation, but headaches are not.

Same here I take it for migraines. Work's only if taken early when symptoms begin but it does work.

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