Current mood:

twinging

ouch, drink, pause, ouch
Toothache again. Mostly intermittent, but some things trigger it. In particular, while hot or cold drinks set it off, a sip or two of tap-water soothes it for a few minutes. Except, I can't work out if it then comes back worse, or just the same. I end up cracking and having another sip for the temporary relief, anyway.

Oh, and my favourite illicit anaesthetic simply doesn't work. I've heard that this is because cranial nerves are different, but could it just be psychosomatic? And if so, how do I persuade myself otherwise?

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keitch
2002-10-25 06:01 am UTC (link)

The only thing I have ever found to work on toothache is large quantities of ibuprofen. And yes it is because it's a different kind of pain - codeine doesn't work either. I think it's because codeine, morphine, and I think cannabis and paracetamol, work on preventing the pain signals from reaching the brain, whereas ibuprofen and aspirin stop pain signals being triggered in the first place. Or possibly the other way round. Or something. I don't know why toothache is different, but it and a couple of other kinds of pain are.

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abcess
2002-10-25 06:10 am UTC (link)

Wow - wasn't really expecting there were still folk about, here (I've not looked in ages, since they changed the fiends page to be time- rather than post- bound).

But that explanation makes sense, thanks. Now, if only I knew why cannabis makes toothache worse.

Thinking on facial pain, it'd be just my luck, assuming I fall to a form of cancer, to get one that cannabis doesn't help with the pain of...

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	keitch 2002-10-25 12:54 pm UTC (link)
	Oh, I read here most days, but that's because I spend too long trawling around sites that haven't changed enough in ages. I also update, but my updates are much less sane these days... (Reply to this) (Parent)