You'll probably experience some pain for a little while
@ArraDreaming because eventhough the painkiller is anti-inflamatory whatever inflamation is still there will have to taken down gradually. Inflamation occurs to try to protect the nerves, it's the same principle as airbags in a car, it's the body's fightback so for the nerves to get rest the pain killer relieves pressure on them, but has to gradually bring the swelling down, otherwise the brain wouldn't cope with the pressure. We actually register physical pain in our brains, not in the nerves, the nerves tell the brain there's an injury and then the brain tells us by way of pain. So in a way physical pain can be good, even though it can be excruciating...but it isn't good if there's too much of it, and often that's where opioid painkillers are very necessary, they don't automatically take the pain away when pain is serious, but they bring it down to a bearable level and then start the mending process.
