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Re:The first non-opoid painkiller by scottyah on Thursday June 26, 2025 @12:33PM (#44388951)
wow I'm envious. I remember how much pimples hurt and I was astounded nobody warned me. This now makes me curious what the low pain tolerance to anxiety correlation is.
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Re:The first non-opoid painkiller by mousethatroared on Thursday June 26, 2025 @07:29PM (#44392463)
That the medical community acts as if you and I should be treated the same is insane to me.
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Re:The first non-opoid painkiller by abandonliberty on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @11:14AM (#44444755)
Pain, like sleep, is a super interesting field and specialization, that is somewhat secondary for most medical practitioners.

In physiotherapy, we used to think that structural issues like slipped disks caused pain, but when we started imaging healthy people, we found the same structural issues commonly in the 'healthy' population.

Both how much pain we feel and how sensitive we are to it are things that can be learned. The bullet ant initiation rites of the Sateré-Mawé people are an extreme example.

A decent book on this is 'dopamine nation'.

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