Without knowing your situation, plenty folks take (liberal amounts of) painkillers to numb the pain and thus never find out or work on the real cause of the pain.
Warmth and daily stretching, massage and exercise fixes most sore tight spots that, if left untreated, can escalate to chronic pain setting you up for an unending painkiller loop eventually making you a walking stiff.
Almost my whole body was a painful solid wreck until I started to work on it more or less every day. My lower back still has some tight achy spots but it's getting there. These days I can actually flex some muscles I had no idea I had or could control.
Herniated disc. During the worst weeks, I could hardly move inside the bed, let alone "work on it". Imagine you desperately need to pee but it takes you ten minutes to get out of bed.
It's much better now so I take smaller doeses, do physiotherapy and I can even use the bycicle to work again, but taking Ibuprofen is still necessary to be able to work on it in the first place. Plan is to be able to run again and Ibuprofen helps to get to that point.
Ibuprofen is what allows me to get out of the bed for the past 3 months. I'm not sure that doctor knows how bad pain can be without medication.