I live in chronic nerve pain. The pushback against opiates has gotten so severe that the people who actually need home care with opiates can't get it. I agree there are a lot of techniques that can help manage pain, and I don't personally ever expect to be completely out of pain. I just would like to be in not enough pain that I can get out of bed and get dressed, instead of curled up in a ball wanting to literally die. The fight against opiate addiction has gone too far, and it's now actively harming people who need access to those medications.

@raysapaw

7 ай бұрын

AGREED!

@LL2-Light

7 ай бұрын

Yes, it is inhumane what the “war on opiates” did to chronic pain patients. I know through a friend who had advanced rheumatoid arthritis as well as personal experience. I’m so sorry that you were caught in the middle of such a gross miss handling of patient care. I hope that you have been able to find a pain clinic or other doctor to help you.❤

@rubychurch3466

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely. I’m in the same position as you. My life quality is shocking due to rheumatoid arthritis and several other conditions. But the medical system denies us.

@mrlovely2008

7 ай бұрын

I agree! I have 12 herniated discs and my definition of a good day is “I am upright and breathing” - anything beyond that is a bonus! Getting opiates nowadays is downright impossible- my new pain doctor refuses to give me anymore opiates and wants to take me off the rest of my medications because “they are NOT supposed to be taken long term”. This new attitude about chronic pain treatment is beyond ridiculous - over the last ten years I have never doctor shopped or exceeded my prescribed dosage(didn’t even try to get the maximum dosage). I cannot get OxyContin anymore (20 mg 3X/day allowed me to get out of the house regularly) and rarely leave the house anymore because Lortab just doesn’t cut it, which I can’t get anymore either! What Life I have has become that much more challenging!

@user-rm2rq8fq1l

7 ай бұрын

If you live in a state that allows medical cannabis, try it !!!!! I have fibromyalgia and was on up to 5 narcotics including fentanyl, OxyContin, and morphine. However, when I tried medical cannabis it was like night and day. Under the narcotics I was in a narcotic coma; when I tried medical cannabis I was more like myself. It does not take away all of the pain but it does help; it also helps with my anxiety, depression, sleep, and appetite all in one product!!!! Can Big Pharma say the same??????

This video landed perfectly in my timeline.. Recovering from a surgery. It has empathy written all over it. This is so impactful for many to lead a better life.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching! We wish you the best possible recovery.

@DarkstarAndrew01

8 ай бұрын

AI algorithms...

@icejunki

8 ай бұрын

Hang in there, I hope your recovery goes well.

@Tonmoy_Sarkar

7 ай бұрын

​@@BuzzyHelps😮😮😮

@Daniula02

7 ай бұрын

Empathy? She's making people laugh after explaining her son's friend death for drug abuse...

This was a great talk. I am 67 and have dealt with pain my entire life. When I was younger, it was from being abused. Older, from stress, PTSD, and poor diet, all undiagnosed. I KNOW I would love opioids, so I have never touched them. I have told my son, that I reserve opioids for when I am ready to die. Every day I learn more about how to deal with this. I wish I had known all this new science when I was younger, but we know what we know and forgive ourselves for what we don't.

@BuzzyHelps

7 ай бұрын

Forgiveness is such a good anti-inflammatory

@mmjlabs

6 ай бұрын

Ooh, I also recommend to you Building Resilience to Trauma The Trauma and Community Resiliency Models By Elaine Miller-Karas - It's intended for PTSD reversal from wars, violent trauma, etc. and is so useful for uncoupling the autonomic responses to the trauma of pain itself. This is a training book, not self help, but it is very digestible. Not my field but I found it easy to read and understand and apply. Thank you for your kind words.

Great Ted talk! We need so much more research into treating pain without medications. I have Fibromyalgia and something I have learned over the years is fear is the key. If you lesson fear, you gain control. Fear steals control. Like part of what you said, if you can switch it from fear to aggravation, that's huge. Our brain is so powerful. But even though it is so powerful, dealing with chronic pain causes brain fog because so many of its resources are being used to "treat" the pain. Thank you for what you do!

@allthelittlebits

9 ай бұрын

Keeping in mind that everyone is different and different things may work differently for different people. When my pain starts to get the best of me, I remind myself that my pain has nothing to do with danger, it is not a 'warning' pain but a chronic pain. I'm not too close to a stove or am I injured by something I need to get away from. It is an uncomfortable sensation but does not signify danger.. I turn my focus to other things, TV, a book, music, whatever works that day or night. I sometimes do some stretching because for some reason that seems to help some. I sometimes get what I call face aches. I have no idea if this is the same as your pain but my whole or most of my face aches like a toothache. It isn't sinuses or a regular headache but it isn't a migraine either. My wife sewed me up some small pillows, maybe 5 or 6 inches square, she filled them with regular dry rice. If I put one in the microwave for 1-2 minutes, wrap a thin towel around it and then put it where it hurts most on my face, it eases the pain. Just be careful of how hot it is on your skin. If you notice, I haven't said anything alleviates or stops the pain. Nothing does, ever. But, like what has been discussed here, it makes it more comfortable, easier to bear. The biggest thing is to get your brain to realize that you don't need to be afraid. There is no danger that you need to get away from. If you can head in that direction, then it makes it easier to deal with. Good luck. I pray some comfort for you.@@gorgthesalty

@WhoAteAllTheEggs

9 ай бұрын

The brain fog is what gets me the most. I used to be a scientist but I ran into chronic neck pain from the bad posture required to work in laminar flow hoods and anaerobic chambers. I followed that mantra "pain is weakness leaving the body" and made the situation worse over the years. I can't think when the pain gets high but drugs do the same thing, so catch 22. Then my vision goes fuzzy. All I am at that point is a cloud of pain, which really triggers the depression and creates a feedback loop. I found TMJ frozen headbands are quite wonderful when cold is in order. Some days heat, some days cold, some days back and forth. BTW I love rice packs! If you ever need a quick one, just put some rice in a clean tube sock, tie it off, and nuke it for a couple minutes. (Don't eat the rice after)

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and for sharing your story.

Having opioid pain medication helped me handle my surgical recovery. I didn’t need to take it til I needed to but simply having it on hand meant I had a level of reassurance that was very important for me to get through something excruciatingly painful. I cannot imagine how awful it is for people to suffer chronic pain and have no treatment option today. We shouldn’t allow people to suffer this way and we shouldn’t allow addicts to dictate pain relief for the truly sick and injured who need and deserve pain relief as a patient right. No one is “coaching” patients and no doctor has five minutes to relate anything near what you are describing. Advil isn’t good enough but that’s exactly what people enduring recovery from major surgery are relegated to. I hope one day we have a true solution to pain that is safe and effective regardless of how it works. For now, however, we have drugs and they shouldn’t be withheld just because of a fear of addiction.

@marks4058

9 ай бұрын

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I came here to say this and you have articulated it perfectly. I have experienced pain relief being withheld and watched others go through this additional unnecessary trauma. Experiences like that stay with you forever and also destroy trust in the medical establishment. New understanding of pain treatment is fantastic but there is a moral and ethical imperative to accompany that message with a warning not to withhold pain relief from people experiencing acute pain. Unfortunately the hysteria around opioid addiction is causing an incredible amount of harm as a by-product.

@angierox6964

9 ай бұрын

There’s never a black or white situation, but having more options and education is going to save a lot of lives. I’ve had two spinal surgeries and live in chronic uncomfortableness, and I know from experience that there are numerous options to control my pain.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and for sharing your story. Pain is personal, and different for everyone. The point of Dr. Baxter's talk is to advance pain management techniques to reduce opioids in circulation prescribed after surgery and used to address acute pain. As Dr. Baxter said, “Options Give Power Over Pain”. The intention was to shed light on effective underutilized approaches to pain after surgery. Wishing you comfort, Jen for the team

@DaniHMcV

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. I have chronic pain from a genetic collagen disorder and if I could control my pain with an Ibuprofen or acetaminophen and live a life with even a semblance of quality at all, I would. My pain is so severe it requires an opioid and I am so tired of doctors and others outside this situation trying to “convince” me I don’t need it or deserve it. Without this pain control I would have taken myself out a decade ago. It’s hard to take the pain I have that my doctor won’t prescribe an adequate amount of opioids for but I’m thankful for what I have because the pain was so much worse before. I’m sorry there are opioid addicts and overdoses that takes people’s lives but that should not be dictating what is right for me and my pain.

@TheZeplinfan

9 ай бұрын

AMEN!!! my pain dr. dropped me6 years ago after seeing him for 8 years. It is nothing bgut cruel and inhumane to not give pain meds to people that have relied on them for years to have a somewhat normal existence. ...and they wonder why people look for relief on the streets. I would never do that, given the fentanyl crap going around, but thankfully i have two friends that have relatives or themselves that are still able to get their scrip every month, and they sell some to me.

Brilliant. Thank you, Amy Baxter. As someone who lives with chronic pain, I am extremely thankful for you sharing this vital information. Hopefully Baxter's TED Talk helps bring about real change in the medical world regarding pain treatment and pain management.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching the video. So glad this information helped. Wishing you strength and relief along your wellness journey.

@PenelopePitstop888

9 ай бұрын

God I hope so.

@shakeyj4523

8 ай бұрын

Here's the thing. They said pain meds were the miracle, and they lied to us. How do we know that she isn't doing the same to sell her "vibration" bee?

@davetoms1

8 ай бұрын

@@shakeyj4523 no one lied. Opiates *are* a miracle specifically with respect to treating severe pain. Leg blown off in war? Inject me with opiates. The unintended consequences were just that: unintended and largely unknown for a while. When it comes to science we never need to _trust_ scientists, because we demand their data be made transparent, for other people to repeat the experiments to confirm the conclusions are legitimate (which is the bare minimum required for science) and then base our decisions on evidence. If a scientist lies, any other scientist (or even you!) can come up with an experiment that, if built well, can attempt to disprove their explanations. It's not about believing or trusting. It's about understanding. If her vibrating product doesn't work, others will demonstrate that fact. And if no one tries to replicate the findings then it's not a legitimate scientific fact.

@BuzzyHelps

8 ай бұрын

Amy Baxter here,@@shakeyj4523 . Mmmmm maybe because I very intentionally didn't mention the devices I actually make a profit on? Buzzy is a money loser I keep making reusable, with no disposable "Gillette" model. I neither quit practicing nor took investment for it because greedy capitalists would have hurt children with cancer or diabetes. Even that mention I only added after the TED people asked me to "talk about the bee". The items that could be profitable I refused to mention. We've spent 4 months on our site making resources available for people with pain or opioid use. And, perhaps, because no one ever died from a vibrating pain relieving bee.

As a chronic pain sufferer for over 30 years I find the delivery here a bit flippant. I have five autoimmune diseases that cause severe inflammation, pain and disfigurement. I’ve had 22 surgeries. Without my pain management, using opioids, I wouldn’t want to live. Managing my pain allows me some quality of life. I agree that it’s unrealistic to think any medication will erase your pain without putting you in a coma and that pharma was highly negligent pushing oxy but let’s not swing all the way to the other side. I also find the mocking of certain truths like “staying ahead of your pain“ to be highly disagreeable. I’d like folks to be able to spend a week in my body and experience what it’s like and then see what they have to say. That said, I’m all for new non medication alternatives.

@rubychurch3466

7 ай бұрын

Exactly.

@meglukes

7 ай бұрын

Yeah this kinda pissed me off tbh. I want good alternatives but are we really supposed to just accept that ibuprofen is as good as an opioid?

@lourias

7 ай бұрын

You got me at "chronic pain sufferer", "a bit flippant ", and "autoimmune disease." Really, suffer is a real experience. I get ya, 100% along the way. I will not even bother listening to this video because the actions of addicts have altered the course real chronic pain sufferers must endure.

@ThePawsOfDeception

7 ай бұрын

And more than a little patronising too. This woman (I refuse to call her a doctor because she's not acting like one) is clearly only there to flog her product. This belongs on Dragon's Den, not Ted.

@Arulane

7 ай бұрын

Understood. I have a chronic pain condition and if the nature of the pain hadn’t changed and caused me to have to find another response to it, I would be still be where you are. Without the option of surgeries since there was nothing overt to fix. She has some good points but I didn’t like the dismissive attitude either. My pain is now controlled a different way than opiates, since the worst of it doesn’t respond to pain meds at all. But my pain isn’t yours and we got into this problem by treating all pain as being the same. I didn’t think these talks were for pushing products.

I am one of those pain patients. Thank you for this. Got tears streaming. Thank you.

Best TED Talk in weeks if not months... - and I watch all of them! Thanks for an amazing LifeHack!

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

You are too kind - thank you! Wishing you comfort, Jen for the team

@mmjlabs

6 ай бұрын

Whew! What a lovely breath of fresh air. Thank you!

👍👍100% agree that "more comfortable" is a worthy goal! I will probably never experience another pain free day; if I gave up on "more comfortable" I would only have "never comfortable" to fall back on 🤷🏼‍♀️

Here i have been writing poetry and prose about being content within agony, thinking it was this spiritual journey and what i was doing was hacking my brain like a professional without realizing it. Thank you.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Where can we follow you to read your poetry and prose? Thank you for watching!

Oh, this talk was so educational as well as entertaining. Loved it. “What you feel is mostly what you expect to feel.” Brilliant!

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Yeah. I always love it when someone who doesn't have chronic pain tells us all about how to ignore pain. (near fatal accident survivor)

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

So glad you're a survivor! Believe it or not, Amy has had at least 2 near-death accidents.

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

I wrote about it in other responses, but TBH my rotator cuff tears were more a source of "grind you down/I'm not me anymore" pain than either time I broke my neck. If you're not trying magnesium and 10 minutes a day of elevated heartrate to get your BDNF up, I guarantee you can feel more comfortable.

@LilBitz8344

4 күн бұрын

What is bdnf. I don't know medical jargon , can you use the words ? ​@@mmjlabs

I have suffered from chronic pain most of my 69 years, the only thing that has ever helped was learning about the true source - the brain NOT the body. Understanding leads to control, reliance on pills just helps the pharmaceutical companies. This is a GREAT explanation! Thank you, I hope more people enduring chronic pain would follow your advice.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and for sharing! Sorry you have had so much pain. You already know this: All sensation happens in the brain. All pain is conducted on the same pain nerves. Understanding this may help us treat pain more effectively.

@Rob_TheOne

9 ай бұрын

Pain is resistance to feeling emotion. All suffering is resistance to the present moment.

I have been dealing with intractable pain for 28 years, sometimes being bedridden. I’ve learned on my own how to deal with my pain. It’s interesting that I often will sit and jiggle my leg/legs and/or arm(s) to help myself feel better and I will often go sit outside in the winter (bundled appropriately, of course) in the ungodly cold and jiggle both legs with my forearms resting on them (or with my elbows resting on my knees, my head on my hands) so my whole body vibrates as I breathe in and meditate. I can alternate the pattern of the jiggling as much as I want to reach any part of my body. It helps more than any pill has. Distraction, focus, grounding-so many other things you wouldn’t expect-have wound up helping. I’ve also recently had stellate ganglion blocks (spinal) for ptsd with pain (they do not work for everyone nor are they covered by insurance for everyone either). I do find medical marijuana helps as well. I know some can’t do that, but I was so anti before I started. Now I think I’d have died if I didn’t agree because I was at my breaking point and couldn’t take being bedridden anymore. It added extra pain on top because I couldn’t move. Having the edge taken away helped me move which helped me jiggle which helped me move…lol And finding something-anything-to laugh about has been beyond helpful. I change my perspective whenever I can! I ask others to help me find a different perspective on something if I’m unable to do so. (Not someone who tells me to just get over it. We’ve parted ways long ago.) It helps tremendously. Just keep going. Please. The depression on top is like being kicked over and over when you’re down. It’s- there’s nothing that can describe what it is. So now you’ll need to address the issue of depression as well because chronic pain causes depression and depression can cause/increase pain. But do address it with your doctor. All the people saying they’ve “been depressed” don’t understand depression. Depression is a chemical response in your brain. Being sad or down isn’t the same as having depression-which is a medical condition that affects your brain in insidious ways. In your ability to think clearly, in the way you care for and carry your body, in your relationships, your school or job, your quality of life, and even possibly, your life. It’s a serious health concern. Please take it as such. You matter. ❤

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and for sharing your story. You have developed a plan that works for you and that is quite empowering!

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

I'm sure you're activating a number of helpful physiologic and neuroscience pathways. Sounds sort of like a whole body vibration frequency, which has great data too. Jean-Marie Charcot was a neurologist in the mid 1800’s. He noticed that when his Parkinsons patients would come to appointments, they did better when they traveled by carriage from far away - bumpity bumpity bump - and he saw them upon arrival instead of the next day. It turns out that low frequency, irregular vibration can change the threshold of nerves to fire, which is now being studied at Stanford for re-training the brain to reduce Parkinson symptoms. His student Gilles de Tourette made a vibrating helmet for migraines - turned out, um, not so much. Vibration fell from magic cure into disrepute, until the mid-50s. there was a brief flirtation with a vibrating bed to improve pain and bone healing. It did work, but no further work was done. Perhaps it was the growing age of pharmaceuticals, or just that scientists are terrified of supporting an embarrassing solution. I can imagine the difficulty of pitching a vibrating bed to your phd committee. In the early 80’s a Swedish graduate student, perhaps not warned against embarrassing science, found that vibration helped back pain more than electrical stimulation. Importantly, he published the vibration parameters he used that worked. Unfortunately, various follow up studies - which didn’t mention amplitude, frequency, or torque orientation, so undoubtedly weren't using the right physics, didn’t work.

This talk honestly brought tears to my eyes. I am not in chronic pain, but my wife is. After just binge watching Painkiller, this is a must watch

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching. We're sorry your wife is in pain. "Painkiller" was quite compelling and challenging to watch - but so important for people to know how devastating the opioid crisis has been.

@raysapaw

7 ай бұрын

I'm from the UK. What is "Painkiller" please?

This is so much of the information I’ve been needing. Doctors and pain patients alike need to see this.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Really good and helpful, thanks. I've endured pain for 44 years and have been battling to get to grips with it in all that time. Your talk will help to unravel the problem and enable me to understand it better. Thank you.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching - we wish you good luck exploring and finding what works for you.

I've lived (if you can call it living) with Chronic Myalgic Encephalitis (Yanks call it 'fibromyalgia') for thirty years and this charming lady is talking about acute pain, which to a person with chronic pain is like a shrink talking about depression to someone who is suicidal. And since there are tens of millions of people living with CME, I think we'd appreciate someone who was a little less entertaining and little more inclined to research what's destroyed our lives, instead of 'owies' from an injection or acute pain from surgery. I will say this about chronic pain....injections, venipuncture, and other unpleasant medical procedures are insignificant now. Yes, when I stub a toe or hit my thumb with the proverbial hammer it hurts like a M-F, but I have very little emotional reaction, since it's only a temporary amplification of what is a permanent state of being. Welcome to my world.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and for sharing your story. Pain is personal, and different for everyone. The point of Dr. Baxter's talk is to advance pain management techniques to reduce opioids in circulation prescribed after surgery and used to address acute pain. As Dr. Baxter said, “Options Give Power Over Pain”. The intention was to shed light on effective underutilized approaches to pain after surgery. Wishing you comfort, Jen for the team

@nicolemarieb.7044

7 ай бұрын

I have fibro and other nerve pain syndromes. Mind-body techniques have helped me a lot to reduce the pain. It's not a cure though, more like a constant management because our nervous systems are more "spicy" than people without chronic pain

@BuzzyHelps

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the perspective,@@nicolemarieb.7044 - this is exactly the frustration - for pain, there rarely is a cure, it's a management marathon. But if we don't expect a cure, but a balance of better days and accomplishing what we love, it's a win. My chronic pain is all from accidents, and sometimes is exhausting, but I'm sure no where as consuming as from a constant internal attack. That said, don't neglect oral magnesium, topical 10% menthol, turmeric, and other inflammatory modulators that can help!

Thank you for this! Need to get some of these for my treatments.

I would have liked her to address back pain from spinal degenerative disease, if we're supposed to stop or continue the gardening for example, when we're stiff, inflamed and really hurting do we stop or carry on? because obviously we don't want to cause more damage.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Next TED Talk? I'll ask Amy to share any insights here. Jen for the team

@derekyosi

9 ай бұрын

She mentioned some people with chronic pain still require pain medication

@yukonjack.

9 ай бұрын

I've been on that roller coaster since 2010 started with a bulging disc then it herniated which required surgery, by 2015 the degenerative spine turned to instability but I continued to carry on @ only 49yrs old,, and take one for the team so to speak, but it was hard to carry on or even walk for that Matter, I also exhausted all my options therapy, injections, ect and after multiple opinions I had spinal fusion, yet it didn't fix the problem long-term and I was forced to retire early, fast forward to 2020 and I had my 2nd fusion only a longer one this time and I'm still not right I'm sure my upcoming MRI will confirm I need a 3rd surgery but I don't want too even though I can't feel my feet among other problems, meanwhile those experts in the medical field cut off my pain meds several years ago (that we're working btw) and I was functioning fine for the many years I was on them along with a stack of documented medical files to backup my pain claims, it ultimately doesn't matter because too many Americans lack the willpower to police themselves and overdosed. So the FDA s solution it's just cut EVERYBODY OFF, and get a speaker to tell you that it's all in your head, but honestly if it gets much worse maybe I'll just quit the game and check out too before I hit 60, after all I'm sure the suicide rate is less than the overdose rate when you crunch the numbers so what's the big loss right? It's all a numbers game to the powers-that-be. Meanwhile all the sheep are force-fed the notion they need a government-sponsored covid shot along with boosters and forced to wear contaminated face diapers, instead of telling Americans to just stop eating junk food and take vitamin D and zinc to boost your own body's immune system but we all know big pharma doesn't get rich that way it's all about the money. How stupid have we become, answer just look at our own president😴 the biggest Pusher of them all allowing open borders and fentanyl to come rushing in like the sea... Dum dum de DUMB. Common sense just isn't too common anymore!! Butt what do I know? I just graduated from the School of hard knocks.🇺🇲✌️

@RampinRabit

9 ай бұрын

I was just about to ask this same question. I have scoliosis and it's really painful doing the smallest of tasks. Hope somebody from ted can answer your question as I'd like to know too.

@PazLeBon

9 ай бұрын

@@derekyosi of course tey do. this is just silly imo

She says opioids became the thing during a "no pain" healthcare phase. But, I've had severe Fibromyalgia pain since I was 24, for 33 years. In that time, I have NEVER had a pain free moment even with opioids. I'm interested in this talk because I started going to a hypnotherapist for pain control. It worked, but only when I was in a trance. Not helpful in the workplace. I've done a lot of these things she talks about. Not everything works for me and what works doesn't take away pain, it only decreases pain. I think these mental tricks are very valuable in the pain control toolbox. BUT, for some of us, we DO STILL NEED an opioid for breakthrough pain at the very least. The other thing is, pain is extremely exhausting. Over these (almost 34) years of severe pain, at age 57, I am now so very tired. I have fought to survive pain and I . am . so . tired. at this point. Thanks for this information review.

What an incredible resource! Grateful for her and this vid

LOL! There’s no way insurance is going to cover this. But I do appreciate the concept and believe in its power. Vibration has been a part of my pain management since I was a kid and still is. People around me know how badly my back is hurting by seeing the intensity of my leg vibrations. I wish everyone here wellness and comfort.

Such a great talk-content wise but also in delivery!

Most helpful. Thanks much!!

Very interesting to watch from someone who suffers chronic back pain. I totally agree it's a survival method to let us know that something is wrong with a certain area of the body, though sadly that area isn't always found. I hope the work you're doing changes the medical field so opioid use is decreased or not needed and perhaps find a way to stop or decrease the pain signals sent through the nerves. Good luck with Duo Therm and thanks for appearing on TED.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! Sorry you have chronic back pain, hope you are finding interventions that give you comfort.

@missy1806

9 ай бұрын

@@BuzzyHelps Thanks for your kind words, but sadly haven't found anything yet that has helped, after all the scans, different specialists and doctor's, physio & chiro's I've seen plus 2 trial stimulators and it's resorted to me constantly having to take pain medication which I hate doing. I'm hoping one day I'll find something that works.

@Rob_TheOne

9 ай бұрын

Pain is caused my resistance to emotions and trauma. All suffering is a resistance to the present moment

@mem1701movies

2 ай бұрын

@@Rob_TheOnethat’s pseudo intellectual Mumbo jumbo

Great talk indeed!

So impressed with this presentation!

I’m an Osteoapthic Physician and practice Hospital Medicine. I’m the Pain Committee Subchair on pharmaceutical and therapeutic modification and organizing a corporate order set. All this I learned in my osteopathic manual medicine and osteopathic principles and philosophy classes. If you can understand systems and their relationships, it’s much better for the treatment of patients, especially pain.

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

So true! I don't know if the studies that evaluated our pain training looked at DO schools... SMH if not. Or maybe they had a point to make and the superior DO pain education (from what you describe) would have thrown off their hypothesis?

I want to try this! I am getting bilateral knee replacements next week! I wish I had seen this sooner, BRAVO! BRAVO! You are an inspiration.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Good luck with your new knees! Thank you for watching.

I love this😊 As someone who gets scared alot I overthink things to the point that my body starts reacting to it. But now ill choose to calm down and ignore it

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! Having a plan for how you'll deal with pain is very empowering.

I needed this today - thanks

Breathing is unbelievable pain control, along with definite concentration on mind over matter. With a huge tooth abscess, for 8 hours I practiced this, and although I was in pain, it did help enormously.

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

So true! Autonomic control and using your parasympathetic/diaphragm breathing to convince your brain you're safe lowers pain in lots of ways. Great advice, I should have mentioned it more.

I have shared this with my chronic pain support group and several other support groups. This makes a lot of sense, I find my purring cat when cuddled up to her helps calm & relax me therefore reduce pain, also doing something to divert ourselves can also reduce pain.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and for sharing with your peers. Cuddling with a purring kitty cat sounds like a great way to focus on something besides pain. ;)

@Vugen18

9 ай бұрын

the Egyptians knew that too

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

I've heard the cat purr is around 150Hz, getting up to the 180! There is clearly lots to evaluate and learn here.

Thank you!

Fascinating and challenging. As a doctor of 18 years, I’m grateful to see we are having better, more holistic research into pain. As it happens I’m also recovering from a fracture involving the rotator cuff (shoulder) region. All told this is extremely helpful to understand pain and how we can approach it better. But as many have pointed out, controlling pain won’t remove my fracture, or heal someone’s chronic autoimmune disease etc. being pain-free cannot disminish the severity or seriousness of ongoing conditions. For acute pain, this is fantastic - my 6 year old daughter recently needed stitches after a fall, and had to be sedated because she was so scared. Having options like those mentioned to calm her and help her would have been helpful! Have ordered one of the devices to see if it will help my shoulder, and try it for first aid purposes. We still have more questions than answers - would having better pain control without being sedated by medication alter our views on Euthanasia? Will doctors in places like the US be willing to advise options that perhaps reduce their income? Only time will tell

I have CRPS and while this seems great for acute and expected pain situations, I can only go through so much of life essentially distracting my brain with sensations and thoughts. I had untreated pain that likely lead to the chronic intense pain. I do believe this is helpful and has a place, but the huge pendulum swing away from reasonable pain treatment with meds is also harmful.

@luged

9 ай бұрын

Thing is, opiods have limited evidence for chronic pain management, and they have a high addiction rate. Many other pain management drugs exist, though they all have risks. You and a doctor need to evaluate the risks and the rewards and decide what is worth the risk. Generally, opioids are proven to work for short term pain management with a significant risk of addiction. Past short term, some combination of chronic pain management drugs and non-drug treatments are found, generally, to be most effective with reduced risks. I have chronic pain in my ankles and my shoulder from previous injuries. The most effective way I have found to manage the pain is celebrex (or other NSAIDs) and distraction (keeping to busy to focus on the pain) with acetaminophen as needed when distraction doesn't work (like if I over exert myself by running to much) . That's not to say my method is perfect (NSAIDs carry risk, so does acetaminophen, ignoring pain carries risks too) but that pain management needs to be individualized, and you need to experiment (with your doctor's advice and approval). Zero pain also shouldn't be a goal, managed pain where the level is okay with you personally should be the goal. I hope you find relief from your pain, and I hope you find that balance between risks and reward that we all are searching for.

@patientzero5685

9 ай бұрын

I have a friend who was diagnosed with CRPS after a leg fracture in her early teens. I had total foot reconstruction around the same age due to suddenly developing club feet as a 13/14 year old. Despite multiple visits back to my surgeon with complaints of swelling, redness, intense pain, etc, he put in my chart at every visit that I healed perfectly. My friend believes it’s CRPS but I’m nearly 50 now and figure I’ll never know. Ice and cold are my friend now but for years I just had Raynauds and cold was intensely painful.

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

We've had children with CRPS place the cold/vibration proximal to extremities and get relief, which must be some kind of gate control override mechanistically (or they have huge placebo effects). Placing directly, of course, would be excruciating. I'm hoping someone studies this more thoroughly but you can probably approximate the concept with stuff you have (freeze a baggie flat with 2 Tbs water, for example and ace wrap proximally with some vibrating thing) and see if it helps any.

@patientzero5685

9 ай бұрын

@@mmjlabs I have neuropathy and myopathy of unknown origin. I get severe pain in my lower legs where I cannot hold still or sleep. I have an oscillating car buffer with a foam lambs wool cover and that works great to alleviate pain. I wiggle or rock my legs and sometimes put them in a bucket of cold water - or my favorite is going into a cold creek up to my thighs - especially in the winter. Gabapentin has helped me a lot but the vibration from the car buffer and ice water is the best!

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

@@patientzero5685 Amy here - thank you for sharing! Have you also tried magnesium? Many chronic pain patients are deficient, and it's an all-around and specific nerve anti-inflammatory. If skin surface is hypersensitive, the 8% capsaicin patches (prescription) may be worth a try?

Loved this talk! Interesting subject engaging for everyone, not too long, and delivered in a clear way with some funny bits. She was great!

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching the video and so glad you enjoyed it and found it engaging!

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

My son studied philosophy and clowning - he helped with the jokes!

I'm impressed. Thank you very very much for the valuable information and inspiration. As a nurse and psychologist i will surely be benefited from you innovative ideas . But also as a patient who is suffering from osteoarthritis i got hope from you and i will try to find new ways to relieve pain and improve my health and consequently, my quality of life.

Great talk-practical, useful, funny, smart.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Great info Dr. Baxter!! As a chiropractor I totally agree with your "prescription". Thank you for providing this valuable information.!!

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching, Dr. Talley!

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

Functional chiros absolutely get that movement is medicine, and have for decades. Now we know enough bioscience and neuroscience to know WHY.

Wish I had seen this years ago! Would have been a GREAT help! THNX!!!

Bravo! Excellent talk

Sharing this on my social media! What important information!!! Amy Baxter: if you ever have the opportunity to canvas against the way opioids are ALLOWED to be prescribed, I know you’ll jump on it! I had surgery a few years ago. I REFUSED the meds (I planned to and did manage my pain with ibuprofen and mindset… ) BUT the dr INSISTED I take the meds home with me “in case”. I said no thank you, and they still sent me home with 10!!!!!! After my recovery, I returned them to the pharmacy. Yes, I counted them to be sure no one in my household had decided to try anything, they were all there.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for watching our video and sharing with others. We all know someone who can benefit from know about options and learning how to take control of their health. Bravo to you for choosing to return those meds. If more people took this action, there would be fewer circulating among those who truly don't need them & shouldn't have them.

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

I am baffled that no one has put me in charge yet, but yup @cherylannebarillartist7453 if they do I'm ON IT

@doricetimko5403

7 ай бұрын

Pharmacies do not accept returns. They will destroy discarded meds

Thank you Ms Baxter, I have done icing, and vibration but not together. I had emergency Appendectomy and I asked for Ibuprofen for my pain, they said no, it would thin my blood, then shot me up with a blood thinner 15 mins later and gave me Dilaudid for my pain. After surgery they over dosed me. I hope you get them all educated. Thank you so much. Love and blessings.

I have had severe nerve pain for six weeks due to a fall. I have been refused proper pain management and have actually become suicidal at times. I would rather be dependent on opiates than live like this

@lauraon

3 ай бұрын

I’m so sorry to hear that and truly hope you get relief. Denying pain medication to those who need it inhumane.

@mericanmade7773

Ай бұрын

Look into stem cells. Legit ones under live floroscopy, they do repair and are attracted to inflammation, sooner the better. Will be 5-7 grand if you have a surgeon do it , 4 if just a nurse that does it by anatomy, axis in Bellevue WA , call them. Ask questions, I know it's expensive but my pain started getting better after 8 weeks and has continued to heal the last year from a snapped lumbar ligament, that don't show on MRI but I couldn't bend over, PTSD and fear to a extreme point now I'm also trying to heal from. My husband helped me to physically , I met him after the injury, but do your research on them .... Good luck! I hope you heal fast, sometimes it's also time which is SO hard I know .... Blessings

Brilliant. Thank you,

I suffer from a chronic pain condition. But I’m also a doula, so I also have an profound understanding of the difference between pain versus suffering; the human body has its own pain relieving hormones, neo-endorphins. Gate theory methods, such as TENS, (and Buzzy) work really well in these situations; many pharmaceuticals actually inhibit the body’s natural pain response hormones. Opioids are equally only short term options; not necessarily because they are “addictive” in their own right, but because their impact on pain diminishes over time and use. Unfortunately, gate theory options don’t really work for chronic and prolonged pain - it’s not about cost, addiction, tolerance or acceptance. I don’t strive to be pain free, but pain management in order to be able to function and do my job.

@Rob_TheOne

9 ай бұрын

You can be pain "free," but it's more acceptance of the pain. Give it a hug you may be so surprised. It's here to teach you something. The suffering is resistance to the present moment. You're looking for Spirit... look inside and you'll find everything you need

You were so great! Wonderful speech

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

GREAT talk!

Very cool Ted talk Im going to give lower back pain a different view now and how to treat it

This is so amazing, and helps make sense of why alternative practioners such as Reiki or "energy healers" are able to make such a difference for patients. I'm a mental health practitioner who deals often with patients with chronic pain, particularly CRPS. I have also had some experience with drug addictioin treatment, often with patients who began their addiction with a prescription for back injuries, car accidents, and the like. I'm looking forward to learning more about the vibration/cold tool. In the meantime, this is truly one of the most important videos for many of us as practitioners to watch and understand!

Great, I really like this show, I love you guys

such a breakthrough even though we know this for all along onnly never really researched, tested and implemented

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching! Paraphrasing a rather cynical joke here, "even if we found a cure for death, the system would not adopt it for 10 years."

Awesome! Thanks!

Such an important message on reframing pain and the many safe and effective pain relief strategies and alternatives to opioids. Great job Amy!

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

My brother taught me this when I was very young (May be around 10 - 12 years old) :-). He was a basketball player and I have seen him getting injured but he would not cry. That puzzled me. So one day, when I saw him getting injured in front of me but just shrugging it off; I asked how come you don’t cry when you are hurt? He answered. If it would help reduce the pain, I would. But it seems the more I cry, the longer I stay in that pain zone. So I don’t. It was a eureka moment for me since I would usually cry my heart out when I was hurt 😂. I took them message to heart and actually started practicing and found that by not crying the pain duration actually got shorter and shorter, eventually feeling just momentarily pain for most injuries. He taught me how to do this just by using the psychological side of it :-). This talk shows other cool ways too :-).

Thanks

I hurt to the point I am exhausted everyday. I don’t use opioids but have chronic pain. Kiss my butt with this. I work I have family I don’t have good health insurance. The thing that gets me is she is negating the very real pain someone is in.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching and for sharing your story. Pain is personal, and different for everyone. The point of Dr. Baxter's talk is to advance pain management techniques to reduce opioids in circulation prescribed after surgery and used to address acute pain. As Dr. Baxter said, “Options Give Power Over Pain”. The intention was to shed light on effective underutilized approaches to pain after surgery. Wishing you comfort, Jen for the team

Thank you.

This was (mostly) a trainwreck. Absolutely agree, though, that pusuit of becoming pain-free is not necessary nor reasonable. That is easily understood by recognizing that there are people who can't feel pain...a condition known as CIPA. For such people, they have not won the lottery. Rather than leading great lives, these people are in constant danger. It doesn't take great insight to understand and know that achieving a pain-free state isn't an objective worth having. As for what the video fails with, there are several things. But the biggest misstep was a conflation that pain is a known subject matter and that it is a singular thing. That is decidedly not where modern medical science currently operates from. And the world's leading experts in pain certainly don't support such a contention. All the case examples discussed in this video were about issues related to acute pain. Treatments for acute pain are notoriously ineffectual when tried as modalities for treating chronic pain. By not broaching this distinction, the speaker left listeners in a position to come away drawing improper conclusions. That is a disservice. Not only for the listener. But probably more so for a listener's disposition as it might relate to a loved one's pain. "Science says all you need is some distraction whether by a vibrator or solving a challenging problem." No. Again, medical science has not arrived at that point. Pain is still a very challenging medical conundrum. One expert suggests pain is currently at a point of understanding similar to cancer before it was determined our perspective was way off base. It used to believed that cancer was a singular disease. Then modern science made the huge discovery that it was in fact multiple diseases. Cancers. All different and requiring different approaches of treatment. Until pain research achieves a breakthrough, it will be clamoring for its' cancers moment. With that understanding, you are now better equipped to help yourself and those around you when matters of pain are in play.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Pain is personal, and different for everyone. It takes multiple interventions to manage pain, that's part of what Amy emphasizes. The point of Amy's talk is to advance pain management techniques to reduce opioids in circulation prescribed after surgery and used to address acute pain. The intention was to shed light on effective underutilized approaches to pain after surgery.

@jaybingham3711

9 ай бұрын

@@BuzzyHelps I am comfortable with believing Amy meant well. It's just the conveyance of the information she provided was done without sufficient nor necessary context. In fact, every medical ailment is personal. Pain is no different. That's an important aspect that wasn't (but should have been) incorporated into the presentation. There hopefully will be a time that we move substantially toward personalized medicine. Once that becomes common, it will undoubtedly be wondered how it was that people ever got better under the scatter shot regime we make use of today.

@LilBitz8344

4 күн бұрын

Well said, ty

Great lecture. Thank you

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching!

I had surgery for a badly broken ankle. I observed thay pan comes in waves by watching a clock and timing the waves. It was a lot like timing birthing contractions. While observing this I found the fear of the pain decreased along with the intensity of the pain. I was able to focus my attention on my ankle and kind of show my self that this was uncomfortable but not life threatening. It really helped and I only took a couple if the pain pills. I watched a family member go through opioid addiction so I was more afraid of that.

You helped me understand my high tolerance to pain. Strong mind= less pain

Opoids work for full body CRPS. Not 100% pain free, but absolutely help allow ppl with crps to have a life . Let's not deny use of opiods

I have degenerative discs in my neck and low back. The best thing I’ve ever done is learn TRE. It is a technique for reducing tension and trapped emotions. I get fewer headaches, I have better range of motion, and the tremors from activating the autonomic nervous system leave me feeling relaxed like I just got a massage. I feel fewer days of pain as well.

I fully understand pain treatment after having been prescribed pain drugs for over a year and then getting a new doctor who took a different approach ..... PT. Wow. My whole life changed!

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and for sharing your story of what worked for you, that's terrific!

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

PTs understand where pain comes from and how to fix it SO well! So do really good massage therapists (and any who are trained in CAnada, where it's covered by insurance).

Nice talk

I battled chronic migraines from the age of 13 through menopause. Given Percocet for a wisdom tooth extraction, and it never felt "amazing." In fact, no pain pill I have ever taken has "felt amazing." They either dull the pain, or make me sleepy, or both, and now I think I understand why I have always been resistant to addiction to narcotics. Whatever "reward" part of my brain that was *supposed* to light up from opioids....didn't? While my mother was just the opposite, heavy duty pain meds made her feel incredible. All this time, I just figured everyone else was lying...but I think the migraines burned out my reward centers. Have any studies been done in regards to chronic migraine and pain med resistance?

Achieving "comfortable" for short term, manageable pain issues is one thing. When you're dealing with chronic pain, getting the pain down to a "tolerable" level is often the best that you can do, but in my personal experience, it's the endless, low-grade pain that's "tolerable" but _constant_ that really erodes one emotionally. If there are means to reduce those pains to something that approaches a normal pain-free state at least some of the time, then that can go a long way toward reducing depression and exhaustion of chronic pain sufferers.

something i do for pain management is i take wild lettuce concentrate= i forage for the plants and process them-I only use when i really need it- it works for me- non addictive- be well ALL.

This is amazing. I hope she solves addiction too

I had a doctor tell me 30 years ago that if I was a horse, they'd take me out back and shoot me my back is so bad. add to that it is a degenerative issue and only gets worse with every passing day. but me, who's been denied disability 3 times when i applies over decade ago, is denied any relief at all. i had a pain dr. for 8 years that provided enough meds for me to be able to function halfway and not be in absolute misery 24/7. he dropped me 6 years ago because a pee test showed a trace amount of weed in my system. how dare i go to an indoor concert 3 days before my appointment. so no new pain dr. will even consider taking me on as a patient, and primary care dr. refuse to prescribe any pain meds. so I'm f-cked. It's nothing less than inhumane and cruel to withhold pain meds from chronic severe long-term pain sufferers. period...and they plain don't give a FK.

@LilBitz8344

4 күн бұрын

Can you take medical marijuana ? I know people with great success. Myself I cannot due to cardiac issues.

What about long term chronic pain? I’ve had 3 pain free days since 2016.

@luged

9 ай бұрын

A combination of therapy, Ling term pain management drugs, and accepting the goal isn't "pain free" but "managed pain below the level where I am unable to be me" is what appears to be the scientific goal in most cases. Must people aren't risky pain free, they just have learned to live with certain pain, either by limiting motion, ignoring it sll together (if mild enough), using drugs (often OTC), or (most likely) a combination not all 3.

@davidholaday2817

9 ай бұрын

There is a guy called Wim Hof. You should check him out.

@LilBitz8344

4 күн бұрын

Try aquatic therapy if you haven't. It helps a lot. This is more for or acute pain. She didn't even touch on massage therapy or aquatic therapy. Very strange ted talk imo.

The best TED Talks ever!!!

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

she's really funny I appreciate this style of TED talk

Great, I really like this show, I love you guys❤❤❤

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

BRILLIANT, Amy!

Amy Baxter is my new hero. After living 20 years, over SEVEN THOUSAND days in pain, she has given me hope. I seriously cried when watching this.

@jimbobaggins209

8 ай бұрын

Any updates?

@melissacritchley5838

8 ай бұрын

@@jimbobaggins209 on what?

@lauraon

3 ай бұрын

Is your pain gone?

@melissacritchley5838

3 ай бұрын

@@lauraon I was referring to her research. Research takes time to develop solutions.

I've been using buzzy for five years for blood donations (put it in the front of your arm pit "between the brain and the pain"). My mom is disabled from rheumatoid arthritis and she can avoid taking her non opioid pain meds sometimes because applying buzzy right where it hurts takes the edge off. I'm currently trying to get the dental office I work at to start using it for injections. My boss did a notoriously uncomfortable infection on me while I had buzzy on my cheek. I felt absolutely nothing... Not even pressure! This thing is amazing

@safaiaryu12

9 ай бұрын

Oh man. I had dental injections yesterday that were so bad I thought I'd rather die than go through that again. And unfortunately I've dealt with a LOT of injections throughout my life. Would love to see this implemented!!

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for using Buzzy and for sharing all the different ways you (and your mom!) use it. And thank you for being a blood donor! The FDA just cleared Buzzy specifically for dental injections, so we're hopeful that more dentists will offer it with procedures. Wishing you continued good health. Jen for the Pain Care Labs team

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

Cool! Thank you for sharing! We just got FDA indications for dental injections, actually. When I had a molar pulled, oh, a decade ago when I was experimenting with frequencies, I wanted to do a split-mouth N of 1 trial to see if one helped. Unbenownst to me, the oral surgeon totaly messed up my cross over trial and shot my "buzzy side" palate injection in twice as fast as the non-Buzzy side. He said, "well, I guess it works, cause that should have sent you through the roof". What a jerk.

@safaiaryu12

9 ай бұрын

@@mmjlabs 😱😱😱

@KBoss19

9 ай бұрын

@@mmjlabs I'm sorry you had such a bad experience at the dentist. Could you send me some info on the FDA clearance? It would go a long way toward convincing the higher ups to adopt Buzzy. The company I work at has 60 locations so I'd love to see this widely implemented. It's made such a difference in my life in the last 5 years. (I found you through Dr Damania)

I have IBS - clicked this video as soon as I read the title. I NEED THIS

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching - hope you found it helpful.

Amy, I think you should try Ice Climbing. Ice climbers experience pain so extreme they refer to it as The Screaming Barffies. It is pain so extreme that you desperately want to Scream and Barff at the same time, but of course it is totally impossible to scream and barff at the same time. So you are left in this desperately pain ridden confliction with no option but to endure. Ice climbers are constantly on ice. Ice climbing involves the constant vibration and banging of your ice tools on the ice. Ice climbing, and high angle climbing of any sort, requires total focus and concentration. Complete focus and concentration is required to control fear. I've been ice and mountain climbing for more that 30 years. Ice, vibration and the control of fear have never stopped the pain I feel. I ice climb because of the sense of mental and physical accomplishment I receive from it. The pain is just a part of it that I have to endure.

I've learned this from my journey with fibromyalgia. It's awesome to hear it translated into a fantastic TED Talk. Thank you!

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching - wishing you continued good health on your journey.

@Rob_TheOne

9 ай бұрын

Look into spirituality, all pain is a thought. All suffering is resistance to the present moment

Amazing

I know a woman whose doctor took her TENS unit because it had only lowered her pain from an 8 to a 2. She had been happy with the success of the unit and was devastated at losing it.

Having suffered Urticaria for six years I've also found that distraction can also take your mind off that too. With Urticaria, (hives) you can sit and tear your skin off or, you can get up and make a quick cup of coffee and your mind will go elsewhere. It's happened to me many times.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing! So glad you have found something that works for you - pain is personal, and having a plan is empowering.

Great!

There is good information here! Some people are put off by the presenter but as a chronic pain sufferer I will try this method. And you don't need to buy her product, you can find cold + vibration at home. :)

Great video! I am very fascinated by the subject presented in this video. I understood that this device and technique are mainly used with short and intense pain. But it got me thinking - is there a way to deal with chronic pain without relying on painkillers?

@mmjlabs

6 ай бұрын

We have a bunch of techniques and evidence based options on our website, with many based around which neurotransmitter you want to stimulate. Also read about Acceptance and Commitment therapy - better data over 6 month periods than gabapentin, for example.

Makes sense, as a child with convulsions we were directed to follow seizure instructions which was submerge in ice bath when symptoms are bad. Even as an adult I seek outdoors in the winter to help maintain episodes. Also my best hangover cure was an icepack on my head and sleep.

@BuzzyHelps

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! The powers of ice and vibration are beginning to be understood.

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

We know one person who had a traumatic amputation, and lived in the extreme cold for just that reason.

Observe the pain,don't become the pain. I say " I'm not the body I'm not the mind" over and over.

@danieljackson4511

9 ай бұрын

so what are you?

Ten years of chronic pain, every day. One of the most absurd things I was told to do was go to pain management. It's all hype. I have gone for various treatments. Nothing has helped even a little. With each new procedure I am told to come in for consultation. That's a $35 co-pay for each visit. There is never any new information. Just their cash register going clink, clink. My doctor will not discuss pain with me anymore. Go to pain management, she says. I decided to just live with it and stay away from my doctor and pain management. Making that decision hasn't helped my pain but my dignity has returned.

I m a high school student n have cervical spondylosis . My life's turned upside down coz of it ,i was a beboyi' dancer n a scholar but since this haven't been able to the bare minimum of what i used to do. My body's ability is not keeping up with my mental ability . I have tried almost everything possible in my circumstances .Now i just hope i can ignore it n focus on my studies

Thank you for this new perspective and to the KZread algorithms for putting it in front of me. This last weekend was the 1 year mark for my headache. Before this video i figured i would need a third pill to manage but now i just need to MacGyver a solution 😊.

@mmjlabs

9 ай бұрын

I hope you get a bunch of options that help (and that you've been thoughtfully worked up for cause). One additional technique that makes coping much more bearable and is fast to learn is in Miller-Karas' book Building Resilience to Trauma. It's about natural disasters and such but the steps are very pain-management applicable.

This is such valuable information. People have become conditioned to seek a quick fix, usually in pill form, for almost everything. We need more people out there teaching patients and physicians that there are alternatives that don't ruin lives. My only critique, don't throw out your old prescriptions. Take them to the pharmacy to be disposed of properly.

@mmjlabs

6 ай бұрын

so true! Although the CDC does include opioids and benzo/barbs on the list as ones that can be flushed, from a societal risk/benefit standpoint I guess?

I feel compelled to qualify this advice because of my experience with a client I had to fire. She took pride in continuing to strive toward a goal...to such an extent that being successful at trying to be successful became more valuable to her than being successful. Her goals were noble, and she took so much pride at getting back up that when the world didn't knock her down she knocked herself down. She stopped being noble...so I fired her. Don't sabotage yourself.

Well I am in insane pain from AS and a broken back, neck and migraine condition... I have avoided opioids and I simply ignore pain. It is there but I can rationalize it.

Dude. Ive had total knee reconstruction AND been a oxy/heroin even fent addiction bc of that surgery. I can promise you that knee surgery was THE MOST PAINFUL thing Ive ever experienced and no drug could even touch it. But after a couple days it was basically pain free completely. However, idk if i could go through it again (yes i need a second reconstruction) without pain medication. But i am scared of the situation! Thats why I've avoided it.

Chingon ., Muchas gracias