Personally, if my pain is mild I take an Ibuprofen. When it is strong, I go "catatonic", almost disconnecting my mind from my body.
Sometimes I will sit in an armchair, wearing headphones, listening to Beethoven or Brahms symphonies set to repeat. After 4 or 5 hours the pain has eased.
I no longer get regular migraines, but in the days when they were common I discovered that ergotamine was super effective. However, long term use has side effects.

being a long term pain sufferer you do get used to being in pain which makes it less painful in itself.

That is why I am extremely cautious about being prescribed any opioid. I have found that paracetamol (called acetaminophen or Tylenol in the USA) coupled with ibuprofen to be extremely effective in managing severe pain. It was much better for me than tapentadol (an opioid). Tapentadol also has no effect on me, and made me feel ill as well, which did not go down well when coupled with pain!

Thats interesting. So then remember not being in pain?

I’ve had chronic pain since age 23: migraines, then at age 31: fibromyalgia...adding others along the way to 59. Gastroparesis, hypertension, neuropathy, diabetes, and more.
I weaned myself off morphine years ago because I’d rather be clear-headed. I only get narcotics in the hospital for 10+ pain. At home, gabapentin for neuropathy, mild muscle relaxers, Tylenol.
The pain is always there. I’m really good at pretending to be ok...which leads to people accusing me of faking.
It’s frustrating, but fuck ‘em. It’s my body and I’m in it, not them.

First, let’s be completely honest about pain meds.
They only do so much for physical pain.
And they do next to nothing for nerve pain.
Reality is that pain meds help you to not care you are in excruciating pain most of every day. Still VERY important

When you are living with a 6-10 chronic pain, you are not living, you are only surviving.

Addiction can be a problem for some people. Then for others it is not.

I weaned myself off fentanyl patches. They didn’t even get me high after a few years. Because I was on the same dose always. I was able to get off of them, because of surgeries and nerve meds. I weaned very slowly, without withdrawals.

When people lose the high, they don’t see how their pills are still working. So they take more. When they run out, that’s when the problems start.

I take gabapentin for my nerve damage, but use norco for pain that escalates. Because my pain is REAL, all the time.

If there was a pill/med/plant that got rid of my pain, I would prefer it to the opioids.

I heard the new pain management doctors doesn't want to wait to control pain they say that the sooner it is controlled the milder it is where as they use to wait and that some pain meds counter act the addictive affects of opoiods.

I suffered from chronic pain for 5 years diabetic neuropathy. Went to 6 pain specialists Is no medicine that would help. It wasn't the memory of a pain. Within 3 months of changing my diet, it went away.

It came back once after eating a Schlotzky's (a sub full of cheese and meat). Two days after eating the sandwich the pain went away again.