wow but there is a side of pain that is good...it tells us that the body is not right in that area...like my knee...it tells me there is a tear in there...but to kill the neurons in making the pain stop forever I would never know that something perhaps more is going on in my knee....

I dunno I bet so many here welcome this one...I am skeptically inclined about it....but lets welcome the research eh? Yeay!

I think it would be a God send, yet the realistic side of me is very sceptical. Not whether it works but more along the lines that big pharma would potentially lose billions if this drug worked(that would make them very...very sad lol). Chances of it ever getting into our hands, I feel are slim since big pharma has the key players of the worlds governments nicely in their pockets. As explain to me decades ago by a retire company exec. It's bad for business if they came out with the cures that truly works, and yes they have many cures. I could go on and on about that conversation but I'm already riled up thinking about the corruption in that system...all for the quest of the mighty dollar. Still though, if there's a will, there's a way...

I find this treatment nuts!!!
injecting things into the spinal column seems just too dangerous in light of recent contaminations of injectable and poor sanitary methods in compounding pharmacies.

The problem with so many trials is that they choose only the PERFECT potential patients so the results are already skewed. Then they tend to ignore the real dangers of messing with the spinal cord.

Doctors already doing such "procedures" take a weekend course and step into offering treatments to patients. They get paid $$$$$ for these sorts of "procedures" so they prefer them.

Then there is the statement made
"deal with the often dangerous, unpredictable side-effects of prescription painkillers"
I never trust any ad that is this one sided.
"unpredictable side-effects" - wow! Reading this makes one think that these meds are not used millions of times a day, every single day in post op care, in ER's all over the world, and for acute injuries, car accidents, and on and on.

This pushes this "new" therapy without any real tip of the hat to the real value of current therapies.
I don't trust anything this one-sided.

Wow--this is definitely an idea that could take off in either direction. However, from a medical standpoint...it can be very dangerous. I suffer with debilitating pain every day and believe me I wish it could be taken away.

However, pain in and of itself tells doctors where to look; what might be wrong depending on where it originates from. If this new drug eliminates the neurons that tell our brain there is pain then this would affect every sensor for pain not just target the one that causes our chronic pain in the specific area. In acute pain such as appendicitis and a triple A (aortic aneurysm)it is vital to identify using symptoms within an hour in some cases to 12 to 24 hours or the patient could die. In many cases pain is an important part of symptomology.

I would give anything to take everyone's pain away and I have said it here on more than one occasion. However, I am not sure how I feel about this one based on the danger associated with removing it altogether. However, it opens the door for more research on it for sure!! Thank you for the info....very interesting for sure!!!

Yeah, SunnyBunn, you make a good point how it sounds kind of either i knowledgeable or salesy--especially that one line. But if it gets approved by the FDA and if it has success in trials, it will be good to know there is something like this out there in the case that I get extremely severe pain. Fingers crossed.

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