tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post2230368128160943718..comments2024-03-27T18:20:38.176-05:00Comments on TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Marijuana as a "pain distracter"Minnesotastanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01382888179579245181noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-47434566164893182992012-12-27T08:24:25.235-06:002012-12-27T08:24:25.235-06:00The study sounds correct to me. When I was a kid, ...The study sounds correct to me. When I was a kid, my older stepbrother would get me stoned, then punch and kick me. Even though I couldn't do anything but laugh, the pain was still quite real.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-63914248533561324022012-12-26T22:53:09.722-06:002012-12-26T22:53:09.722-06:00In his excellent essay "Consider the lobster&...In his excellent essay "Consider the lobster", David Foster Wallace discusses whether there is a distinction between "pain" and "suffering", and whether suffering includes an emotional component and different (higher) brain functions. To oversimplify, pain=objective, suffering=subjective.<br /><br />Written for Gourmet magazine, of all things: http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_lobster<br />Jean K.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-57787270633450622392012-12-26T22:02:49.645-06:002012-12-26T22:02:49.645-06:00I'm with Zhoen - I had oral surgery once - unb...I'm with Zhoen - I had oral surgery once - unbelievable pain, I couldn't think of anything other than how much it hurt. I had codeine as a pain medication. The instructions were to take one tablet every 4 hours. I think it was about after the 4th one in two hours that I stopped caring. The pain was exactly the same but I didn't care anymore because I was sooooo high.Bubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07367554651401120819noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-28931407410375393722012-12-25T13:47:38.169-06:002012-12-25T13:47:38.169-06:00I read that and related to it as the experience wh...I read that and related to it as the experience when you cut or smash yourself somewhere you have not actually looked at yet. (Why does it always hurt more after you have looked at it?!?) Perhaps when focused on the pain it is vivid and awful but then thoughts of 'munching on Twinkies', 'free love', and/or 'how amazing a double rainbow is' come to the front of one's attention and the pain is forgotten?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-3941703035188211592012-12-25T08:02:08.170-06:002012-12-25T08:02:08.170-06:00Funny, that's how my husband feels about opiat...Funny, that's how my husband feels about opiates, they don't really help the pain much, but he doesn't care as much, and can sleep a bit. This from when he smashed his elbow, and two subsequent surgeries, with therapy sessions. And it's not that uncommon that morphines & derivatives just don't work for some people, only causing lethargy and nausea - having little effect on pain. Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-45630092582135549622012-12-24T23:20:07.931-06:002012-12-24T23:20:07.931-06:00Finzent:
Think of the pain suffered from say, a s...Finzent:<br /><br />Think of the pain suffered from say, a stubbed toe, and from a broken bone. One is far more intense then the other. A person suffering from a broken bone would still feel the same amount of pain, but would be bothered by it less, perhaps as if they had only suffered a stubbed toe. The total amount of pain would remain the same (a broken bone), but the bother of it would be greatly reduced.<br /><br />Or at least that's how it would seem to me<br />DaBrisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-76614140306849075652012-12-24T18:13:15.912-06:002012-12-24T18:13:15.912-06:00"Objectively, levels of pain remain the same ..."Objectively, levels of pain remain the same for someone under the influence of THC, but it simply bothers the person less."<br /><br />That seems conceptually impossible to me. If pain A bothers me less than pain B, then they cannot be "objectively" the same levels of pain. Am I missing something here?finzentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4912713243046142041.post-16197034340843199702012-12-24T17:05:50.355-06:002012-12-24T17:05:50.355-06:00So, it works kind of like nitrous oxide. "Hey...So, it works kind of like nitrous oxide. "Hey, that hurts. Isn't that funny? Ha ha ha!"David Crewshttp://www.crewscreative.comnoreply@blogger.com