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Will insects provide pain relief?
Aint nature grand? Another remarkably strange study which may lead to pain relief. It is just such discoveries for which funding will be axed by the scientifically ignorant budget cutters. Study bugs? Indeed not!
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/07/250724232409.htm
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Let me start by saying that I believe that scientific research is very important and that nature holds many cures.
But I'm not a believer in taking things from the natural world and modifying them to make pharmaceuticals. Too many things tend to go wrong when that happens. Here is an article about 45 natural pain relief options that are safe and effective and available now: https://www.paintreatmentdirectory.com/posts/45-natural-pain-relief-treatments.
The more I learn the more I realize I have to learn.
Truer words never spoken. There is so much going on! We live in a tremendously interesting (and sometimes scarey) age. Before passing judgement I will await the triple blind results. Until then there will be no "extract" of Millipede in my breakfast oat meal.
I have a sure fire TEMPORARY treatment for nerve pain, getting tattooed. I've been getting tattooed by the same artist for over 20 years, so I'm heavily tattooed compared to someone who just has a few tattoos. For the last 7 or 8 years I've noticed that having some work done actually makes my nerve pain go away for as long as 3 days, or as little as 1 day. Every doctor that I've talked with has no idea why this happens, so it's a mystery. All I know is every time Brandon worked on me, I could literally feel the pain draining out of my feet after an hour or so. It was fucking awesome, I could walk like a normal person without the nerve pain. It doesn't do anything for my arthritis pain, but beggars can't be choosers.
I've been reading a bit about vibration therapy and know a few people who use vibration plates regularly for nerve pain. This is just me thinking out loud but I wonder if the constant vibrations from the tattoo gun provide a kind of colorful vibration therapy and subsequent pain relief? Our bodies do some wild things!
This website sure opens up the imagination and demonstrates my ignorance. Thank you; I'm going to do a little surfing. Now that I think of it I recall my father using a heated massager that vibrated and I would put it on my cheek and listen to my teeth rattle. It would be interesting to hear from other users. H-m-m-m.
It sounds like it’s (just) raising your pain tolerance. I know that when my doctor asks me my pain level, I have to tell her 2 diff ones, the first is “normal” people, the 2nd is mine. Having been in chronic pain for almost 45 years, I can accept much more than the average person.
Ouch! I know I feel less pain in my left hand and I have to be careful of sharp or hot objects but whether it is ignoring, acceptance, or lack of transmission I simply don't know.