How do pain medications work? How do they manage to alleviate even the worst of pain?

Question

How do pain medications work? How do they manage to alleviate even the worst of pain?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Pain medications contain chemicals that cease the signals in your nerves that are telling the body that it hurts. When you are hurt and in pain your cells release a chemical called prostaglandin which your nerve endings that sense pain are sensitive to, the pain medication stops this chemical from being produced.