Is Morphine a Guy Drug?

ScienceNOW Daily News ^ | 23 December 2008 | Greg Miller

[neverdem]

This really takes me back . . . When I was in college I had my wisdom teeth removed. The dentist gave me 11 shots of novocaine in the roof of my mouth and 11 in the lower jaw, in an attempt to numb me up enough to remove the wisdom teeth. I still felt everything, starting with the scalpel going in. He got tired of waiting, so he just proceeded with the surgery despite my pain. It was a long time before I went back to a dentist after that, and I never returned to his office. I never made the connection between that and my poor response to other opioids.

Novacaine, Procaine and lidocaine are local anesthetics, i.e. they cause a total or partial loss of sensation.

Opioid analgesics, i.e. pain killers, use a completely different mechanism of action.

[oprahstheantichrist]

"I've got a couple of herniated discs...."

I had a herniated disc in my neck around ten years ago. I had been advised to take a copper supplement for a thyroid condition and to cease bottled water and drink from the tap (copper pipes in the house).

So after I took the copper for about a year, my disc was fine. Maybe it was six months, I forgot.

It seems that dietary copper is a precurser for elastin, which is pretty much what the discs are made of, Or surrounded by, I forgot which.

There's nothing much "out there" about it, but it worked like a champ. Thyroid's better too.

[oprahstheantichrist]

"I'm interested in knowing the reasoning behind increasing raw greens."

In addition to the trace nutrients, the process of the digestion of raw fruits and vegetables alkalizes your entire body, making it less vulnerable to all pain.

Sounds wacky, but it works for me. "Inhale raw stuff" is one of the things I do for an oncoming migraine, and it works pretty quickly.