Read last week about scientists in Queensland Australia having some successful trials using the venom from a tarantula to treat chronic pain.
Also now this in Ireland.
Hopefully in the not to distant future, there will be other alternatives for the many suffering, rather than the legal heroin given currently.
I love hearing of new possible treatments for people like myself suffering with chronic pain.
Have u read about any that may involve cuddling a cute little monkey,rather than venom from a creepy tarantula,lol
Great post Ritchie1268..encouraging news😀
I’m all up for cuddling monkeys I’ll even buy my own little sanctuary if that’s a cure lol in fact .... I’m just off to measure the garden 😂😂😂😂
Ok..if ya need a helper for ur santuary..sign me up..maybe Ritchie1268 would join us too,lol😃
Haha I will certainly let you know the more the merrier lol we have a chronic pain animal sanctuary ... I have however realised I need a bigger garden ... a bigger house ... oh and a few extra 00’s on the end of my bank account lol
Good to know..ill start saving my spare change now in a jar for my possible trip across the pond,lol😃
No I haven't but if I do I'll let you know 😁
I'd even try the venom as long as it didn't involve someone giving me a tarantula & saying "There ya go, just let it crawl on you till it bites you" 😁
As you well know my friend, there must be a better way than pumping us full of that legal Heroin for years which I will never go back to, no matter how much pain I'm in 👍
Yeah..id even be up to eat chocolate covered tarantulas if i could have a 24 hour day of NO severe chronic pain.
I suffered 20 plus years on the poisons they gave me.Never cured it..just covered it n made new health problems.
So..Ritchie1268..lets hope for something cute n cuddly to help us n others like us😁
I don't want to burst your balloon, but the Irish one is doesn't seem to have any research to show that hydrogel will work to solve a pain problem if there is no drug involved. It has won some money to develop a proof of concept. Hydrogel is already extensively used to deliver drugs, and in trials as a placebo.
So while the team may have won some money to look at this, there is no indication that it will work, let alone anything happening in the not to distant future.
Sorry. It is more likely that tarantula venom will be on the market first.
You're not bursting my balloon.
The report doesn't really say much about it, just as you say they've been given money for research.
It's just refreshing to see that other alternatives are being looked into rather than just giving many of us drugs that go on to cause other health problems 👍
This is the weird thing about this report though, because hydrogel is often used as a method of delivering drugs, for example hydrogel is used to deliver capsaicin which is considered a non-drug alternative pain relief. The team is an engineering team working on materials, not a medical team working on pain, so there really isn't any indication on how a hydrogel is going to block pain signals to the brain. So it feels like it is overplaying the pain aspects of the research.
I see what you're saying & agree with you. I'm not sure how it will turn out.
I was prescribed capsaicin which is basically chilli, to rub into my feet as I have peripheral neuropathy from Pernicious Anemia, which was caused by years of high dose OxyContin for my back.
Capsaicin burns, which I guess is supposed to take your mind off the pain & deflect the pain signals?? Along the same lines as a Tens machine works?
I still think any research into chronic pain is worth investigating as an alternative. Rather than certain drugs prescribed for pain that cause more damage than what they were prescribed for.
There are different types of nerve fibres and some send signals to the brain faster than others. Pain goes up the slow ones, and heat goes up the fast ones, so if the heat gets to the brain first it sort of blocks the slow pain fibres from sending up the messages. That is basically how it works.
I resent your comment about Distributing legal heroin. That's a huge leap from taking something like Morphine or Percocet for pain versus buying heroin on the streets. There is apparently a lot you don't know about chronic pain and opiate use. You cannot believe everything you hear in the press today. They are being fed lies in order to line the pockets of politicians.
That's your opinion!
And I'm not talking about what's in the Press, I'm talking from personal experience of being prescribed "legal" Heroin for 8 years for chronic pain that I suffer. Something stronger than Morphine. I became addicted & although I've been off it almost 5 years, it has left me with other health conditions.
So I resent the fact you state I don't know a lot about chronic pain or Opiates. I know more than you claim!
Take care
I'm in Australia and if I wasn't so freaked out by the huge spiders we have here, I would volunteer to be bitten by one!! I would much rather a cute cuddly Koala or Wombat though!
Me too Molly.
I don't like spiders at all, but I much prefer the tiny ones here than the ones you have there! 😁
Have you seen or heard of Huntsman spiders? They are huge!
I have heard of them yes. I don't even like to see pictures of them 😁
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