Do you know how pain killers work?

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Two ways pain killers work.
Pain Killers like Ibuprofen stop the injured cells from making a certain chemical which tells the brain of the pain.
Pain Killers like Paracetamol and Codeine work by stopping the pain messages from entering the brain.
The pain is still there but the brain tells you it isn't because it never received the message.
Your simplified health lesson for the day.
 

Do you know how pain killer's work? You have pain in your foot, smash your thumb with a hammer, right or left thumb at your discretion. Miraculously, foot pain will transcend conscious awareness to injured thumb. Distraction is the key to avoiding pain whether by muting pain receptacles, opioids, and tolerance
 
I saw my doctor last week and told him that I have stopped taking all my medicines because I was feeling so bad. What he told me was interesting. He said that the pain meds that I take do not heal the pains that I have. The pain meds mask the pain that I feel and are actually toxic to the body. I am on week three of taking no pain meds and I feel better and am going to see how long I will be able to tough out the pains.
 

Yes. Here is the way I have seen pain killers work. With a tendency to build up a tolerance to the drug and requiring more of it to reach the desired pain relief. The user eventually reaches the point where the amount needed to kill the pain results in overdose and death. I have lost friends and relatives to just this scenario. When they started cutting back on the prescribing of such drugs the people caught in the void turned to street drugs. Someone with real chronic pain has a long row to hoe.
 
oldpop said:
Yes. Here is the way I have seen pain killers work. With a tendency to build up a tolerance to the drug and requiring more of it to reach the desired pain relief. The user eventually reaches the point where the amount needed to kill the pain results in overdose and death. I have lost friends and relatives to just this scenario. When they started cutting back on the prescribing of such drugs the people caught in the void turned to street drugs. Someone with real chronic pain has a long row to hoe.
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I'm so glad that I have a high tolerance to pain. The only time I required pain medication was in 1991 after a total hysterectomy. I've had a few surgeries since and refuse pain meds; I simply don't hurt that much for those meds.

Funny that this was posted as my husband was remembering how high my pain tolerance has been in previous surgeries. I kid you not! After the lumpectomy I was asked if I was in pain and I told the nurse that 2 Ibuprofen would be nice; she laughed at me.
 
Same here.
No pain meds after my hysterectomy or heart surgery.

Although I do take a pretty heavy duty anti-inflammatory for my arthritis.

But, not as often as I used to.
 
About Ibuprofen, my containers of Ibuprofen had the warning on the inside of the box that the small bottle came in, so I took it until it damn near killed me. I had surgery for a bleeding ulcer, spent 7 days in ICU and another 3 days in a ward.
Always eat something before you take Ibuprofen!!!
 
I also can't tolerate drugs very well at all. Been that way since I was a kid. The other kids were drinking beer and smoking weed. One sip of beer made me ill. So, I knew I literally could not get "high," I would just get ill. So, that worked in my favor, anyway.

But yes, I try to avoid medication as much as possible. Had a huge amount of dental work in the last 18 months. I think the bill was close to $12,000 all told. Been in dental pain most of that time. Can't take painkillers. I do take a form of Anbesol. Anbesol and Orajel too...I think they both contain eugenol. And that is actually just oil of clove. So, it is completely natural. And that does numb the dental pain.

from the Mayo Clinic...

Chronic pain and medication decisions​



https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/chronic-pain-and-medication-decisions/
 
Painkillers stop the pain messages getting to the brain, so you don't feel the pain but the problem is still there.This is why you still need to take care in the case of injury. If you take painkillers to dull the pain of an injury, and then carry on as normal, you will make things worse.
 

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