Y'all should save it for when you really need it. Terrible headaches, fevers, excruciating pain. I feel the same.way about painkillers and other classes of drugs.
I understand the pressure of a young runner on scholarship to upkeep commitments and survive financially, academically, athletically and socially but if your coach and other senior running mentors can't give you good advice on this, then I'll tell you to be skeptical, cautious and very analytical and reflective. Some of The ancient Greeks, including in Plato's Republic, believed in the axiomatic principle of avoidance of suffering particularly via illness, ie maintenance of health and comfort. Don't let your running dreams and social fantasies and flights of fancy put you on shaky ground. Like others said, covering up the whole catalog of pains, can lead to not understanding the causes of those pains and may be new things you need to learn or old lessons you have to re remember! It seems like a pain in the area to play your own doctor, but self awareness is a tremendous maybe even critical part of running and a life consisting of running, along with other things. I'm not saying total abstinence from it, as some of us could use it from time to time. Right now, for instance, I'm in pain from deadlifting today and have a bit of a headache but I'm trying to work it out through water, sprouts, stretching, organizing thoughts motivationally and positively. It is an odd situation for sure because a lot of doctors with knowledge about the medicines may not be able to relate to the demands of your lifestyle.
So many things go into medicine and health that aren't even catalogued in the conscious body of canonical knowledge. In the future, the messiah will come and brilliant billionaires will fund research for this, free of all corruption and ulterior motives.
Also this might be a troll thread. Runners usually take it to deal with pain. I don't know many who truly belief that the benefits also extend to preventing training injuries.