PAIN?

[hoggy952]

Here's a mad question my mate asked me last night ,how do painkillers such as paracetamol know where your pain is in the body ? I said I dont know im not a medical person so over to you guys on this one ?

[smirnoff_rules]

they dont m8 .. they just kill pain everywhere .. ie if u have a bad head and a bad back it works all over // only anti inflammatory pain killers work in an area because there inflamed . l think

[hoggy952]

thanks smirnoff someone mentioned to me that the pain killers fool the brain into thinking there's no pain is this true?

[smirnoff_rules]

paracetamol does but anti-inflammatory work on the area

[tshirtman]

the pain killer will desolve and be absorbed in to your blood stream, then slow the receptors in the brain that sense pain

if you take asprin/paracetamol, they work by blocking production of prostaglandins (the chemicals which are responsible for the sensation of pain).

if you take narcotics, such as morphine, they work by preventing pain signals reaching the brain.

[Meat-Head]

Anybody got any of these they can upload to try.

Thanks

[hoggy952]

thanks guys I'll tell him tomorrow,some idiot just told me to get him a sat nav

[Canker_Canison]

I was told about this about 4 months ago. The ads on tv that state 'targets pain', do just that. It's all to do with the way the brain processes the pain signals. Something about chemical changes within the brain.

These pain killers goto the area of the brain with those chemical changes. After that I ain't got a clue.

[larryoke]

Just to add to this it is the brain receptors that tell you there is pain, an interesting point that a gp explained to me & mrs (she is on morphine, oramorph, pregablim & lidocain patches) a guy who had his hand amputated still had pain because his nerves to the hand although chopped off at the elbow are still active as if they reach the hand

[janobi]

They affect the brain and not the part that has pain, thats why people get phantom pains as amputees.

[Meat-Head]

a guy who had his hand amputated still had pain because his nerves to the hand although chopped off at the elbow are still active as if they reach the hand

Try joining them all together and connect to ground, or if they are still used for something, then bias with a 1 k resistor (brown, black, red, gold) to positive.

Hope This Helps.