Pain

[TruthSeeker]

Just received and I thought some of the folks here might be interested. The list of names is very impressive - world leaders in the field (and some friends of mine):

For the past six weeks, the American Pain Society (APS) has been working closely with ABC News on a special series devoted to pain that will be broadcast on various ABC news programs during the week of May 9. ABC News researchers attended two days of sessions at the APS annual meeting and have interviewed several of our experts, including Dennis Turk, Lonnie Zeltzer, Jeff Mogil, William McCarberg and Perry Fine.

As a result of our collaboration, ABC will devote two segments on the subject of pediatric pain -- one on Good Morning America on Monday, May 9, and the other on World News Tonight the following day. We hope that ABC's stories help enhance public awareness about untreated and undertreated chronic pain.


Link for more info
ABC news website

 

[Iamme]

Pain is an interesting thing. When you are a small child, you are unfamiliar with pain. Then, when you get hurt for the first time and get an owie, you are likely to cry. But as you age and you hurt yourself...you get toothaches..you get kidney stones..you practically cut off your finger...you start becoming *accustomed* to pain. It may not be that the pain is any lesser. It's just that pain in and of itself is no longer unfamiliar to you.

Because of that, you are able to 'take it' better. I'm able to 'take' toothaches/rotting away teeth/absesses without seeing a dentist. I just take some aspirin, and squeese out the absesses.

I operated on my own almost severed fingertip by just using a little over the counter topical numbing cream first.