Asking this as I have a horrible throat infection making it incredibly painful to swallow, and therefore difficult to eat and drink. I have to stay on top of my painkillers every four hours or the pain starts to come back, I’d just love to know how this actually works.
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It would depend on the cause of the pain and the method of pain reduction. If your pain were due to inflammation, treating it with an anti-inflammatory drug might remove the pain until the inflammation returned.
It would depend on the cause of the pain and the method of pain reduction. If your pain were due to inflammation, treating it with an anti-inflammatory drug might remove the pain until the inflammation returned.
Acetaminophen reduces your brains ability to sense pain. Same with opioids.
Ibuprofen, and naproxen are anti-inflammatories and actually reduce the pain.
Many times in the hospitals, at least here in Canada, they will give you one of each, and they work together synergistically.
Acetaminophen reduces your brains ability to sense pain. Same with opioids.
Ibuprofen, and naproxen are anti-inflammatories and actually reduce the pain.
Many times in the hospitals, at least here in Canada, they will give you one of each, and they work together synergistically.
Acetaminophen reduces your brains ability to sense pain. Same with opioids.
Ibuprofen, and naproxen are anti-inflammatories and actually reduce the pain.
Many times in the hospitals, at least here in Canada, they will give you one of each, and they work together synergistically.
Imagine you’re playing with your friends and accidentally scrape your knee. Ouch! That hurts, right? So, there’s this thing in our body called “Substance P” that acts like a messenger. When you get hurt, it tells your brain, “Hey, something’s not right here. You need to feel pain so you know something’s wrong.”
Now, about pain killers. When you take a pain killer, it intersperses with Substance P from telling your brain about the pain. That’s how you start to feel better after taking a pain killer.
Imagine you’re playing with your friends and accidentally scrape your knee. Ouch! That hurts, right? So, there’s this thing in our body called “Substance P” that acts like a messenger. When you get hurt, it tells your brain, “Hey, something’s not right here. You need to feel pain so you know something’s wrong.”
Now, about pain killers. When you take a pain killer, it intersperses with Substance P from telling your brain about the pain. That’s how you start to feel better after taking a pain killer.
Imagine you’re playing with your friends and accidentally scrape your knee. Ouch! That hurts, right? So, there’s this thing in our body called “Substance P” that acts like a messenger. When you get hurt, it tells your brain, “Hey, something’s not right here. You need to feel pain so you know something’s wrong.”
Now, about pain killers. When you take a pain killer, it intersperses with Substance P from telling your brain about the pain. That’s how you start to feel better after taking a pain killer.
‘Gate Theory’ of opiates suggests- rather than receptors opiates bind to in the brain- that similar receptors in the spinal cord are occupied by the opiate molecules. This theory posits that (yet undiscovered) ‘Substance-P’ is prevented from delivering the pain signal to be transferred up to the brain, where we would begin to feel it.
My own experience, using prescription opiates to treat a broken foot bone: I was mystified, as all pain had gone away. I poked the injury. Nothing. I poked harder. Nothing. Doped up, I gave it a good squeeze…. ouch! Pain will break through, if overcomes the inhibitory effects of opiates.
Tolerance builds up to opiates, sadly, so chronic injury with unchanged opiate doses will eventually be the new baseline for pain.
‘Gate Theory’ of opiates suggests- rather than receptors opiates bind to in the brain- that similar receptors in the spinal cord are occupied by the opiate molecules. This theory posits that (yet undiscovered) ‘Substance-P’ is prevented from delivering the pain signal to be transferred up to the brain, where we would begin to feel it.
My own experience, using prescription opiates to treat a broken foot bone: I was mystified, as all pain had gone away. I poked the injury. Nothing. I poked harder. Nothing. Doped up, I gave it a good squeeze…. ouch! Pain will break through, if overcomes the inhibitory effects of opiates.
Tolerance builds up to opiates, sadly, so chronic injury with unchanged opiate doses will eventually be the new baseline for pain.
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