Posted on 01/27/2019 11:28:46 AM PST by lee martell
As stated, I am seeking a simple white, flavorless pill that I can occasionally take instead of consuming more actual pain reliever medication. Why? So that I don't become too reliant on pills to get through the day. So that I don't continue building new thresholds of tolerance, requiring even more of that same med.
Such pain relievers can be rough on the organs of the body. Other reasons: So that I remain more clear headed during the days, during the times I need to drive, during the times when I'm expected to engage in conversation with people.
Causes of pain: Ever since my foot surgeries (Sub Talar Fusions in both feet) I have experience occasional pain in the toes and soles of feet. The doctor calls this peripheral neuropathy, something that happens to a percentage of patients after these procedures. Sometimes it's just a twinge of pain around the toe nailbed, other times, I am awakened at 3.AM feeling as though someone poured kerosene on the soles of my feet, then lit a match. When that happens, I have learned to just stand up for a while, maybe walk around a bit. Thankfully, it's not all the time. Perhaps a few nights out of the month.
I have been prescribed Gabapentin for it. At first, after researching Gabapentin online, I refused to take it at all. I read that one side effect was Weight Gain. I'm thinking; that's the last thing I need assistance with, gaining more weight. Then I read further, and to many patients who have used it, the gain happens only by giving in to an increased appetite. Feeding one's face, as it were. It's not as with certain other drugs, (Prednisone!) where the body begins to store fat in different ways than before after long term use. So I'm willing to try it for a while, in small doses. Gaba is helpful, but leaves me sort of woozy in the morning. It might be about Noon before that soft cloudy sensation is finally gone.
I'm willing to have a small container of placebo pills as a 'Go To First' measure. To keep from ingesting so much that will depress the system, and make breathing somewhat more labored. Yes. I know it's only mind games and a form of Self Hypnosis.
I have searched online, and was surprised at how difficult it is to find what I want. I don't want empty capsules that I have to work at filling with something. I don't want sugar pills, that will remind me of Tic Tacs. I seek a plain, white, boring pill that is as close to flavorless as is possible. Any suggestions?
Hard to believe, but hey, it’s from Harvard Medical School: “A placebo can work even when you know it’s a placebo.”
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/placebo-can-work-even-know-placebo-201607079926
“oxycontin is the best placebo for pain that i know of”
Tramadol.
CDB is very effective for pain and has healing qualities,too. Also, red vein kratom for pain and opiate withdraw.
Forget the pain pill fakes, just use peyote. Then you ain’t foolin’ nobody.
rwood
Thank you.
Yeah, a lot of trial.. and a lot of error.
Which is why each one of us who deal in pain must find out own “placebo’(I cannot say cure or solution)We all handle pain in a different way. Getting my teeth pulled is easy...comparatively.
My advice, get plenty of sleep(VERY important!) and eat a proper diet. Lose weight if overweight, stay away from the fad diets. Only one way to lose weight is slow the calorie intake versus the calorie burned. Quit cigarettes and limit the drinking. Exercise to the condition you’re in.(Don’t over do it!)
Basically everything we were told to do when we were young but didn’t do cause we knew better(yeah, right)
I think he means take the throwaway pills at the end of the month. They are nothing pills, for women who just want to keep the habit of taking pills even during the week the pharma co wants them to bleed. Stopping the pill makes them shed some lining for a week. You can also tell people to stop bothering you because it’s your time of the month.
And get a full blood work analysis...there could be something else going on.
Tic Tacs?
BOTHERING you?
You have never truly made love.
Check out hemp extract on amazon.
didn’t do anythign for me-
no, that’s bad info. oxide is the worst form to take, malate is better than citrate. glycinate being the most absorbable. then taurate, orotate or spray on chloride
You are confusing it with magnesium oxide.
I have found that a baby aspirin a day cures my pain
“Be careful. My friend OD’d on placebos.”
Shhhh, some prick will declare a placebo epidemic.
Bingo! If taking a placebo, knowing it was a placebo worked, why not just "think" away the pain in the first place?
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