Once, I had a terrible pain in my left side, under my ribcage. It made working at my job incredibly difficult because I couldn't move without feeling a horrible stabbing pain. Eventually, the pain was so bad, I had to go to the hospital. It took me about 4 visits before I was diagnosed with leukemia. (Look up Occam's Razor.) But I later found out that the pain was my spleen swelling up because it was being overwhelmed by cancer cells. If I hadn't gotten a diagnosis or chemo, I could have died within a couple of days. It's really important to listen to your body.
***** I do I exercise 6 days a week and eat whole plant food diet. But my broken back still causes pain. after 13yrs I can manage pain but it never leaves. Please do not make a judgment on my situation when you know nothing about it.
Grass hair If you make a statement public, then it's subject to criticism. And I honestly don't believe that you even do a quarter of what you listed. You sound like a recovering opiate addict. And if that's the case (whether you'll admit it or not) then the majority of your pain is psychological.
+Paul Mahoney A different deal. There are medical conditions in which painkillers may provide a remedy for the patient. But that's only a minority of consumers.
-----How Pain Works----- What is pain? Pain is a kind of damage/harm, so many kinds of damage/harm like fire, acid, lava, needle, spike, ache (like body parts ache), scratches, etc. that is the pains, and if you got so big pain you will get injury/wound and it bleeds right? and keeps hurting you and keep bleeding right? and if you got spiked by a needle you will get a small injury/wound but the pain so so big right, and it hurts right? How we got pain? We got pain because we have nerves our nerves look like wires and if you get touched your nerves will say "Omg, someone touch the skin we will send the touched skin to brain so brain will communicate/compute the touched skin so the guy/woman who touched by someone will feel he/she got touched" now if you got pain your nerves will said too "Omg, there is a pain we will send the pain to brain so brain will communicate/compute the pain so the guy/woman who got pain will feel pain and said ouch", ouch is a word that you got pain that is the sign to get pain and to everyone hear you and know you you got pain
Just because someone makes mistakes at his or her (Very likely) secondary or maybe even tertiary language does not mean he/she needs more education. You however need learn how to improve someones grammar or spelling without sounding like a D!ck. OR, and now I am making assumptions that are probably right.. learn more then one language yourself..
When using an ellipsis, you use three periods to give a sense of pause. Example: I am uh...dying. In your last sentence, please change "then" to than. The only reason why I am commenting is due to the fact that you bring up grammar and learning a new language, a comment I agree with.
It is truly a gift. I have chronic severe pain I actually was knocked to the floor at work out of nowhere. Because of that I found out I was very ill and did not know. I have a host of health problems.
I can understand people that get addicted to painkillers, our existence is just painful and something that is just constant agony and misery, no wonder people want to tune out that, people take drugs, alcohol, tobacco and other chemicals to get a break from the reality.
seriously tho try kratom and if it helps it has me then go to American kratom association and do the things on they're call to action. it helps so many people with so many things. recently it was shown to not activate the opiate receptors pathways that cause the nasty and dying and terrible withdrawal, tho it dues have some pendulum effects that can be kinda tough, but nothing worse than most of us have felt. also it's helped many people get off opiates and benzos for anxiety narcolepsy and is say adhd as some strains are stimulant. they're banning it based on 660 reports of Ill effects to poison control since 2010. nobody's died just because of kratom tho involved in some deaths there was either something else in there system or serious preexisting conditions that should have precluded such use. it's saved people's lives. there will be 1 to 2 hundred percent minimum increase of opiates related deaths based on what happened in states that have already banned it. and many people will be left in agony. should ex opiate addicts be forced to use drugs that are designed to be more addictive than heroine itself? there's no end game for Suboxone it methodone treatment. the point is to be more addicted to they're drugs for the rest of your life. if you've come off heroine kratom is cake. you have an exit strategy order lifelong pain relief and quality of life. save kratom. facebook #kratomunited #Americankratomassociation #savekratom
I hate when people say "pain is just weakness leaving the body". No, it's your logic that's leaving the body as you continue to ignore direct orders from your brain that's frantically trying to get you to stop harming yourself.
It's not supposed to be literal. It's not pain referring to a broken bone or anything. It's referring to pain as in being sore from working out. "Pain is weakness leaving the body." Refer to your body getting strong as your sore muscles are recovering from a good workout the day before. Pain refers to sore aching muscles.
Same situation- only difference, I can't see why people love it. It makes you A) fall asleep B) Dizzy if you manage to not fall asleep C) itchy if you dont have medicine for the itch and D) feel groggy and bad and not pleasant at all
+I Will Only Use (3 Words) actually.....it doesnt make everyone sleep...in fact.....its like speed to many people.....and it will keep many of us from actually sleeping....increases heart rate like cocaine
it depends on your body chemistry, some tired some high, if you get high that's not the prescription for you, those that work take the pain away as that's it. lol but people like being high so....
When I had kidney stones I went to the ER. They gave me a shot of Tramodol in to my IV line. Before she' devein finished pushing the plunger the walls of the exam room started melting, and the average commercial fluorescent light gave off the prettiest colors I'd ever seen in my life. My husband claims I kept saying "it's all good. No worries." and kept telling the Cornish nurse (I'm in the States) how "heavenly" his accent was. Lol. After it started wearing off I told my husband "so is *that* why people do drugs? Because if so I totally get it." Lol. Unfortunately, pill forms of opiates don't seem to have much effect on me. I have fibromyalgia and several other chronic pain conditions. Pills of opioids at the highest strength the state will let me take just barely take the edge off the pain I feel constantly from head-to-toe.
Roy Hemion oxycodone can be stimulating, but it is NOTHING like speed at all. Amphetamines are much stronger and stimulating than any opioid. I agree with you though somewhat, I could never sleep on oxycodone. I could nod out, but not sleep.
Hey Hank, is there any chance you could explain antidepressants, given just how many people take them these days and know so little about what they are taking? Many thanks, I hope you consider.
Dawny Bear I doubt they appreciate it. Even if you are dead inside and have poisonous thoughts, that doesn't mean you should go around eating spiders. They don't appreciate it.
My dad's been preaching against teylenol for most of his career, and about a decade ago the media found out it wasn't so good as well. But thanks to your video I finally know where it comes from and why it's bad, thank you.
Also check out This American Life episode 505: Use Only as Directed, it's a fascinating look at why Tylenol might be the deadliest over the counter medication.
Hole about a half inch in diameter when not in use plus mini human about the size of a watermelon. Do the math, even though it is natural, it is most definitely damaging the soon to be mother's body.
That's because labor isn't "pain" in the alert sense. It's extremely powerful muscle contractions to push the baby out. It's no cakewalk, but I've experienced worse.
Can you discuss Venus and how it doesn't have a magnetic shield? I love astronomy/geology/everything and I am absolutely fascinated with Venus and how it's just a really unique planet. Could you even discuss how it rotates in the opposite direction from all of the other planets? Or even its super insane thick and hot atmosphere? Just anything about Venus really! Love your videos and I hope you consider this topic!
Funnily enough, there are other pain killers as well, like metamizole-based drugs; but while they are allowed in some countries (even over the counter), they are banned in other countries, because of a minimal risk of a nasty side effect. It can also be a case that in the same countries where metamizole is banned, a doctor can prescribe you an opioid for really bad pain (which can be totally banned in other countries). So you have to always remember what's in your travel bag.
As a pharmacist, its kinda funny to see you do a video on my profession. normally i just watch these videos for fun wacky science facts, but today i was like "Hey! thats my job!" you did a great explaining a really complicating thing in an easy to understand way. its hard to do without using over-sciency words. haha loved the video!
I've been curious on how the different classifications of pain medications worked and this explained it all very well. As a person who has a chronic pain disorder (Psoriatic Arthritis) and already has a lot of bone damage and pain at age 31, pain medications are a huge part of my everyday life. I also am on medications that shut down my immune system so my body will quit trying to kill itself. Luckily I have no allergies to pain medications or my PsA meds or I would be up a creek.
I have an unusual condition--my brain perceives skin/stingy/burny pains as more intense and unbearable seemingly at the expense of feeling broken bones. I can only hypothesize it's because I was burned as an infant and it affected how my brain was wired. I've broken many, many bones and not noticed for days. When I was eleven I broke my pelvis and didn't know till I was 21 and was in a motorcycle accident. Precautionary x-rays showed that it healed wrong.
Thanks for this episode. I've suffered from chronic back pain, headaches, and migraines for years so I've tried my fair share of pain medication and it was very interesting to hear exactly how different pain medications react with your body.
Whenever I have trouble sleeping I just turn on SciShow and it chills me right out. Thanks, Hank, your steady flow of science and wit has helped me fight insomnia many times.
As someone who has been suffering from chronic pain for 1.5 yrs now & is under the care of pain management Drs, this video was very informative on the medications that I have been on as well as the ones I am currently on.
I have FMS (fibromyalgia syndrome), arthritis and diverticulosis. I live with pain constantly and use opioids (MS Contin, and oxycodone) for pain relief. A certain common ditch weed is also very helpful for pain management. The weirdest thing is that when I am in way too much pain, I fall asleep. Sometimes in the middle of a conversation, I will just nod off. I've always been this way when I'm in too much pain. I wonder why I fall asleep when my pain is too great. I have a paradoxical side effect to oxy--it makes me speedy and wakes me up (I can actually clean my house and go go go when I take oxycodone and not get sleepy). Why Hank? I can't figger it out.
Probably just an "emergency shutdown" for when the pain is too great so you don't have to put up with it, and also so the body can try to handle the pain while you're in your resting state because the body can focus better on one thing when you rest.
SciShow peeps: Would you do an episode on joint-cracking? I am very curious as to why we do it, what it actually is, and whether it is as bad as they say.
I am probably yet another viewer who would like to hear a part 2 to this addressing chronic pain and what we think causes it (or prevents it from calming back down below the pain threshold..?). I know many people who have tried a wide array of prescription and folk remedies to attempt to control or manage this factor in their life that often prevents employment and simply enjoying an entire day without having to accommodate their nerve or muscle pain symptoms. Love SciShow, BTW.
Do a video on super human acts of strength and mental abilities! Like a woman lifting a bus and race car drivers that process things happening at crazy fast speeds! Love this channel btw!
Thanks, Hank. As the lucky beneficiary of a failed spinal fusion (complete with bone spurs poking directly into my spinal column), it makes a great deal of sense how those little red and blue pills work. Seriously, best $30/month I've spent so far.
Marco Kropp Oh no, it's chronic. What's more, any attempt to reverse the damage will likely destroy the nerve tissue that's currently being irritated. At first look that would almost seem worth it, but unfortunately it would likely leave me paralyzed. As to why it failed, we're not sure. Most likely because the part of the bone that made up the 'fusion' grew too far in toward the spinal column.
rogerdotlee Very Sorry. I had serious back problems, In Jan athis year I had 5 lower lumbar fused, and two rods added above that. I was petrified of the outcome. Woke up pain free, and it's been 10 mos. and I'm doing great. Surgery done at Washington MedStar, Dr. Tozzi. He was rated in the top couple of surgeons on the East Coast.
rogerdotlee With the technology we have now, I am sure you will be ok. I just passed through a very hard ankylosed encapsuled-infected extraction of a front tooth...sequel of a Mountain Bike accident I had a long time ago. . . . Pain was TERRIBLE, for there was exposed nervous terminals during the healing process. 2 weeks on Ketorolak (or something like that, an opium alike cocktail in a pill !!!!) but I am on now. My best wishes to you, patience!!!
Ouch! I did that a 16 (several decades ago) when I broke the windshield of a '58 Pontiac with my face... when the car went off a cliff. I survived quite well. The worst was the poison oak I got while climbing up the side of a mountain (in a bikini) and got a few hundred cuts all over from the brush, then poison oak internally via the cuts Didn't drink, smoke or take drugs either...flat tire on a curve.
Could you do a segment on how general anaesthesia works? There's a ton of information on "what to expect" (and I recently went through it myself) but I'm more interested in how it actually knocks you out, why it has the side effects it does (like why patients might need help breathing etc). Thanks!
This is the third video in this series that I am watching. That a brilliant and eloquent man (and his team, I assume) will take the time to bring these interesting topics to light in such a clear and concise way is proof that there really are people out there who acquire and kindly redistribute knowledge simply for the sake of propagating it and making other lives better. I cannot thank you enough. I enjoy and appreciate your work.
Could you do a follow up episode on people who engage in purposeful self injury such as cutting? I'm a therapist and know a bit about the psychology of it but want to know about the physical parts of it.
There was an article in this month's Psychology today about it. Briefly, most people harm themselves because it makes them feel better in some way. A physical aspect of that is the release of endorphins which not only dull pain but actually have a rather pleasant affect on your brain. I'd recommend reading the article if you're further interested.
When I got my wisdom teeth removed I was given codeine for the pain... For the first several days I was so sick to my stomach that I couldn't get out of bed or lay any way but on my back... I had no idea what was causing it.... Then I didn't take the codeine for a day and the nausea went away completely.... Codeine sucks.
omg! they gave me that stuff too! they also gave me vicodin and flucloxacilin. I was so sick I threw up so many times, ugh and they wonder why I try my best not to take medicine!
I had all four of my wisdom teeth removed last year and 3/4 got dry socket. I tried to take Hydrocodone but it made me so sick that I got dehydration on top of everything. What a wonderful week that was!
CRPS has been quite the thorough instructor on the topic of pain. I'd always love to see more episodes about pain management and how the body responds to specific types of pains, much love.
What about diseases that send false pain signals when there is nothing wrong with the area, like chronic pain? Pain isn't all good. Billions of people suffer from chronic pain and it is a very debilitating condition. A lot of people who have it are no longer able to work like my girlfriend,
Idk about billions, but I do agree that it isn't all good. I suffer from more than one serious illness that incorporates horrible chronic pain, whose source isn't always easy to find. Being in pain 24/7/365 really begins to fuck with you in so many different ways. I hope we can find a way to relieve it better that isn't so risky and soon. One can only hope though.
Actually, chronic pain becomes present in the body when the nociceptors are working in overdrive making the person feel great amounts of pain without having a direct physical indicator as to why. People who suffer from fibromyalgia for example, are said to have suffered a great traumatic event in which the body's nociceptors work in overdrive and lower the pain threshold for an indefinite amount of time, leaving the person in a chronic state of migrating pain. Chronic pain sufferers have used several kinds of treatments such as nerve block injections to temporarily numb the nerves in which the most pain is present so the patient can have a short period of painlessness. It has been useful in patients who cannot sleep due to pain and those who have had significant nerve damage from physically traumatic events such as car accidents. Medical marijuana works in some cases similarly like opiates. However as a whole, chronic pain has had little research done in the why it occurs in the first place, so treatments in how to lessen pain have taken the front seat, where in the treatments in how to stop it entirely, are left somewhere at a 7/11 parking lot in another country entirely. Needless to say, chronic pain is a very real illness and it's a very debilitating one at that. It messes with multiple facets of a persons life, not simply the physical aspects. Its estimated that about 20% of adults globally suffer from chronic pain, like Josh Milligan , WyreWizard 's girlfriend and myself, and it's estimated that an additional 10% of adults are newly diagnosed each year. If SciShow could do a more indepth episode on chronic pain, it would be greatly appreciated by their audience, seeing as how it's not as rare as we have been led to believe. (statistics on global chronic pain found here- www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/770
Theresa Bajorek Thanks for posting this. I've been dealing with chronic pain for a number of years now, and recently ruptured a disc (C 6-7) so I'm also in a great deal of acute pain. Trying to sort the two out has become a problem, especially while wrestling with the insurance company on treatment of the disc...
WyreWizard I agree. My body turned on my colon, making it bleed and be so damaged that it had to be removed. Fast forward 10 years, and I because there are ulcers on the "artificial" colon (Parts of the small intestine, probably slightly modified), I am diagnosed with Crones disease. ):
Might I suggest doing a video on the topic on itch, the poorly-understood cousin of pain? It doesn't seem to play as significant a role in our lives what with our relative lack of body hair and relatively low levels of skin-crawling parasites. As such, it receives much less attention. When chronic, it can cause just as much misery as chronic pain. I'd be very interested in seeing your take on it.
Sooo, what about when you can feel pain but you keep coming home from work (construction) with scrapes and cuts on your hands,knuckles, arms, head that when your wife asks "How did you do that?" or "What did you do?" You look down and just go "I duno" Because it's the first time you are noticing it?
To some extent its the rush of adrenaline as part of the fight or flight instinct. In order to get out of a dangerous or life threatening situation, the adrenaline enables you to ignore the pain and injuries for eg. being able to run away from danger on a broken leg or something and not notice it for a while. It's an emergency tactic the body uses to ensure its survival, cutting off what might otherwise be debilitating or incapacitating pain, enabling you to flee the immediate threat. Not too sure about how that translates or works with injuries sustained and not noticed over like a whole day, but they're probably just not severe enough to hurt too much in the first place. Its also why say for example whenever I've sliced my hand badly enough in the kitchen or something, you can't feel the pain for maybe 10 to 30 seconds even though you have seen it, gives you time to deal with the situation before your body lets you feel the pain
I would have to disagree with you there. If you slice your hand with a sharp knife vs a rough jagged edge you will notice you don't feel much pain from the sharp knife, but the jagged edge YOU WILL. Clean cuts from sharp blades are simply not nearly as painful.
Lols yeah it's kind of funny that eh? Some pain you don't notice till someone points it out. I think it has to do with perception. If you see yourself cut yourself your brain definitely knows it happen but if you cut yourself and you don't see it and it's not that big enough to make your body care then perhaps that causes your brain not to put as much stimulus into making you be aware though it definitely works on the anti-bodies. Don't get me wrong if you got shot even if you didn't notice I'm sure that'd be enough of a jolt for your system to go "YUP! BAD! VERY BAD!" Lols but a tiny scrape, not so much. Kind of like how after a while you tune out bad smells. The brain is a weird organ. But an awesome one.
Demogorgon47 funny you should mention getting shot, its also one of those things that's often cited as being able to go unnoticed if say you're in the middle of a gunfight, but once you're out of danger you might suddenly notice it and be like "oh hey i've been hit," but not when it happens, linking back to what i mentioned before about the adrenaline rush and all that
Aaron Brougham REALLY?! I was way off in my assessment. It's almost like the brain needs to see it before it accepts it. That is so strange. Guess we've become reliant on our eyes more then I thought
Reminds me of the threat from the spacing guilds to the emperor of the known universe in the 1984 film, DUNE. "Or you will spend the rest of your days in a pain amplifier", I too have been living out my days in an amplified state of pain. I'm hoping for better drugs in the future to aid in this.
A section on chronic pain that is pain that last for longer than 3 months would be interesting. Where there is no fresh injury or torn muscle like in a disc injury that is over 8months old.
I love the comment about a person's foot being run over by a car. I have juvenile arthritis, fiber myalgia, and my nerves are over active (I'm not sure what it's called), and I have taken almost all of the pain medications in this video (except of course the ones in development). I really learned a lot. Thanks for the video!
randomness051 I suppose on a philosophical or spiritual level the phrase could encourage a person to keep pushing on when they have to i.e helping keeping "mind over matter" when in difficult situation. Just an idea.
Can you do an episode on chronic pain? According to Eula Biss' essay "the Pain Scale" pain is defined as a sensation that signals tissue damage and so pain that does not signal damage is not technically pain (wonky!) but many many people live with chronic pain that has no apparent reason to be there. Theories include misfiring nerves? Maybe you could also explain why chronic pain is sometimes treated with SSRIs? I have a highly localized chronic pain condition that was ineffectually treated that way, but it allegedly works for some people.
Agreed! I have two chronic pain conditions (fibromyalgia and RND, a rare pediatric pain disorder closely related to RSD/CRPS), and while I've done my own research, I'm constantly amazed at how misunderstood it is and how much awareness is still needed. Plus, it's just cool science. ;)
Excellent video! Just one request for both Hank and John - could you slow your speaking down a bit? Those of us ahem "older" viewers have a hard time understanding when you talk so fast. Captioning helps as well. I don't want to miss a thing! Thank you!
Totally get what you mean about the speed, but in a way I kinda like it too! If you want captions, just click the CC button in the bottom right corner of the video and press on. Then you can select the language and watch like that :) Hope that helps!
Neuropathic pain as in FIBROMYALGIA and Regional Chronic Pain Syndrome is really brutal . The smallest tap can cause intense pain . People don't understanding unless you are experiencing it yourself .
Ow wow, I take Tylenol Codeine and or Vicatin every day for chronic widespread pain, and I really didn't know how they worked till now. I'm looking forward to that "Mamba-drug" you mentioned.
So if pain is a response to damage, and is supposed to tell us when to stop doing something, why can menstrual cramps be so horrendous? I can see why cramps in any other part of the body would hurt as a response to over-exercising, but I would think after so many years of evolution the body would realize it's not beneficial to make a necessary process hurt so much.
A few problems: Arachidonic acid is an important factor to pain and inflammation, but not as the "key" to it. Cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes turn arachidonic acid into prostaglandins and leukotrienes which act as ligands or "keys" on the receptors or "locks" on your cells, including white blood cells, to cause inflammation and attract white blood cells to the site. COX inhibitors like NSAIDS do block these enzymes from causing this conversion, thus preventing the release of the tuning chemicals.
This video is a really good explanation and I know this comment is super late, but considering everything Hank said about pain being a warning to stop etc. I'd love to hear the psychological explanation behind why self harm is so addictive, bc instead of feeling like you need to stop, most self harmers experience a rush that overrides their pain receptors that tell them to stop
Has Scishow done a video on intelligence yet? I'm not sure how fond they are of doing psychology videos, but it would definitely be an interesting video. They could also explain how to acquire intelligence (if that's even possible). Not just gaining knowledge, but actually developing better mental capabilities.
I get that pain is the mechanism that tells us that we're taking damage, but like many other biological systems it has developed so very poorly. What's that, I've received 3rd degree burns all over my body? Better remind you of that horrible agony every moment so that you know you need to do something about that...oh wait. Thanks body for torturing me as I likely lay dying from a condition there ain't nothing I can really do anything about. If you're really lucky(questionable) a hospital can stabilize your condition so that you can spend weeks or longer in near constant agony while your body tries to fix itself. Imagine the not too distant past when agonizing conditions, like cancer, had no possible way of being combated - thanks again body, for reminding me about that damage I don't even understand let alone have the ability to get fixed. Also, in situations where you need to be able to overcome pain in order to save your own life, like when you've broken both your legs and you don't have the willpower to drag yourself to the nearest help because Oh God Oh God it hurts and you wallow on the ground and eventually die...thanks pain. I actually find this to be a great example of evolution at work as opposed to intelligent design. Why design a freaking system like that without some way of turning it off when you don't need it or it interferes with survival? That's just some bad design.
+Rusty Brooks Well technically you won't feel it until your skin starts to heal. The burn sorta anally pummels your nerves until being 360 no-scoped by a 12 year old on CoD
+Rusty Brooks tbh a lot of medicine seems to involve stopping our bodies from doing something stupid and/or trying to conform to the ways our bodies like to do things and trying to give it something to trick it into doing something else that we want it to do. I always think of our bodies as computers that have really strict default settings and bloatware. It's probably fine for the most basic of users (if we were just feral humans scavenging for food), but now we're power users and those default settings and bloatware really get in the way of what we want to do, but we haven't found how to access the advanced settings so we come up with ways to work around the default settings or to trick it. Honestly I think that's where medicine should be going, to a point that might allow us greater control over our bodies, rather than doing something to stop the involuntary processes that cause pain, or cancer, or weight gain, we simply find a way to actually legitimately control our bodies and we simply turn off the pain, like turning off notifications from antivirus, we're smart enough now to know what not to do so lets turn off this annoyance.
She meant in England we don't have the brands Advil or Tylenol, we just call the drug by its name, not the brand. So when our US friends say the brand, we don't know what drug it is.
One great example of pain's advantage is the headache you get from using a computer, tablet, phone or watching TV too long. Those things can strain your optical muscles and that's bad, so your body tells you to stop straining them before it causes harm.
"Pain is weakness leaving the body" and "Pain is the best instructor..." were two important proverbs that shaped my behavior as a very young preteen, and those principles have stuck with me for life. I have been in my share of great pain from accidents, physical altercations, sports, and neural surgery to say with certainty that regardless of the anguish, I do virtually nothing to impede the suffering. By the time I was in High School, many of my friends were convinced beyond doubt that could not feel pain. Today, I am and have always been free of any kind of medication or drugs including nicotine and alcohol, and despite what may be considered "grievous" injuries, I don't visit doctors and never have to miss work. I have taken great care to strengthen my body against these things, and I am happy with the path I chose. It hurt... A lot. But I am stronger now for it.
this is so stupid! Pain informs your body that something is wrong, it doesn't make you stronger. One day you will get into serious trouble because you were avoiding to go to the doctor when you clearly needed help. Please reconsider!
Perhaps you're right. I haven't needed a doctor for anything really (I visit a dentist, though, hygiene) in an extremely long time. I rarely get ill, and when I do it is never more symptomatic than a nasty cold or stomach bug, and it has never lasted for more than 24 hours or so. Despite a small handful of breaks and the sheer number of other more common injuries, I haven't required medical assistance yet. Probably could have done with it once or twice where stitches may have prevented some scarring, but I've been both fortunate and careful to never exceed my limits. I am certain that as I age those limits will come down sharply and I will need help. It will be hard, but I'm not so prideful that I can't ask if I need it. But I would have to really need it.
Vir Animus That's great news. You are either exceptional or lucky. I don't know how old you are, but I hope your good health stays with you your entire life.
The talk about Codine made me remember getting my wisdom teeth out recently. codine tweaked me out so badly I couldn't move for half an hour but as soon as I regained my senses, the pain was back but I refused to take another .-. needless to say, codine didn't feel very nice -.- yet I can see why people get addicted to it.
There is a small town not far from here in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden called Vittangi where over 40 people have been found with a hereditary condition that leaves them unable to feel pain. They tend to visit the hospital more often than others due to the injuries they sustain. It is called "Norrbottnian congenital insensitivity to pain" or just "Congenital analgesia" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain #pain #science
My pain takes a $4800. 00 a month TNF blocker to keep bone marrow swelling from ruining my day. It works about 60% of the time, and when it's not working, 20-25 ibuprofen tabs a day. The only thing that works every time instantly, is really warm water. If anyone needs to hire a guy to stand in the shower all day and not move, I'm your man. :)
I have severe nerve damage all over my body, no discs in my back and neck. Now I have lost feeling in several areas and can hurt myself extremely badly. I also have migraine headaches on the regular. I have thoracic outlet syndrome. I broke a toe so badly due to lack of feeling that in the end after three surgeries the toe was removed. I was on Methadone and Oxycodone for pain for several years and I was so out of it that I went to my family doctor instead of the pain clinic and was weaned down to Tramadol. There is never a point where I am not in pain except when I am asleep. Osteoarthritis is added to the mix as well. I also meditate to calm down the pain level.
What about menstrual pain/cramps? That's a natural function of the female body, so why should it cause pain? It's not alerting use that something is wrong. Just curious.
Cramps can pinch nerves. Additionally, there's some unscheduled cell death involved in menstruation (the lining basically doesn't get the nutrients it needs because the body stops getting the signals that the lining of the uterus needs them), and the ensuing necrosis and schluffing off of that lining causes pain for some women.
broke my wrist once, the Doctors gave me injected morphine. as someone who has never been high before, it was fantastic. Doctor came back after the drugs kicked in and asked me how i was doing, i was giggling like a school girl flopping my jello like wrist around, i thought it was funny as hell.
Delmira Herself wow..thats very generous of you! May whatever you believe in bless your soul! But i have a big family so if a donor is needed i might find one here (i live in germany). But thanks A LOT ..that is an offer you wont get often from strangers. You are the kind of person this society needs.
This reminds me of the time I got my wisdom teeth pulled out. I took some prescribed painkillers to ease the pain. One time I took some and fell asleep. When I woke up again, I was welcomed by some excruciating pain in my jaw/mouth. .__.
Hi hank and team. Can you please run an episode on the science behind superfoods like acai seeds, avocado, honey, eggs .etc..are they really super foods?
