Once, I had a terrible pain in my left side, under my ribcage. It made working at my job incredibly difficult because I couldn't move without feeling a horrible stabbing pain. Eventually, the pain was so bad, I had to go to the hospital. It took me about 4 visits before I was diagnosed with leukemia. (Look up Occam's Razor.) But I later found out that the pain was my spleen swelling up because it was being overwhelmed by cancer cells. If I hadn't gotten a diagnosis or chemo, I could have died within a couple of days. It's really important to listen to your body.
@luciferangelica
5 жыл бұрын
what do you mean? that leukemia was the simplest most likely answer? or it wasn't? or...
@nolol135
4 жыл бұрын
@@luciferangelica it wasn't thats why the person had to got to the doctor 4 times to get the diagnosis
@luciferangelica
4 жыл бұрын
@@nolol135 i just meant why did he bring up ockham's razor?
@sophiafakevirus-ro8cc
8 ай бұрын
But why isn't the body set up to just alert the brain instead of punishing us?
@dannadable
8 жыл бұрын
I don't understand why people unlike good educational videos for no reason
@tou7331
8 жыл бұрын
its feminists they want to know why a male is presenting XD
@robinorg1
8 жыл бұрын
Seems you need more education because its called dislike not unlike. unlike is if one has liked the video and then changed their mind.
@tou7331
8 жыл бұрын
lol
@lm6036
8 жыл бұрын
Just because someone makes mistakes at his or her (Very likely) secondary or maybe even tertiary language does not mean he/she needs more education. You however need learn how to improve someones grammar or spelling without sounding like a D!ck. OR, and now I am making assumptions that are probably right.. learn more then one language yourself..
@MrMann-dw5uh
7 жыл бұрын
When using an ellipsis, you use three periods to give a sense of pause. Example: I am uh...dying. In your last sentence, please change "then" to than. The only reason why I am commenting is due to the fact that you bring up grammar and learning a new language, a comment I agree with.
@SauceChef
9 жыл бұрын
"Pain is a gift" -Emo Hank XD
@0posssums
8 жыл бұрын
+Fish Ed hhhahhhhhahahahhahhhahahhah
@omegasrevenge
8 жыл бұрын
e d g y
@deborahglave6808
6 жыл бұрын
It is truly a gift. I have chronic severe pain I actually was knocked to the floor at work out of nowhere. Because of that I found out I was very ill and did not know. I have a host of health problems.
@supersayainredgod3508
6 жыл бұрын
I read that as he said it
@danieltoader2671
5 жыл бұрын
imagine felling pain while saying it
@proWaffles935-FAKE-URL
10 жыл бұрын
I just found this channel yesterday and I'm already addicted. (:
@SirKickz
10 жыл бұрын
Welcome to nerdfighteria!
@amandacleere7654
10 жыл бұрын
Ha Ha!
@noel9817
7 жыл бұрын
Soonish 2018 so aye 4 years
@Titanic-wo6bq
6 жыл бұрын
same
@gabrieldebernardeaux3757
4 жыл бұрын
I felt this so hard lol
@joshhummel1284
8 жыл бұрын
Nature made pain to tell man not to do that; man made painkillers to tell nature, "Oh, trust me, I can do that."
@paulmahoney7619
8 жыл бұрын
Well, what if it comes from something you have no control over?
@avd7288
8 жыл бұрын
+Paul Mahoney A different deal. There are medical conditions in which painkillers may provide a remedy for the patient. But that's only a minority of consumers.
@Ashorobi1
8 жыл бұрын
both right
@representativeinforobot6100
8 жыл бұрын
-----How Pain Works----- What is pain? Pain is a kind of damage/harm, so many kinds of damage/harm like fire, acid, lava, needle, spike, ache (like body parts ache), scratches, etc. that is the pains, and if you got so big pain you will get injury/wound and it bleeds right? and keeps hurting you and keep bleeding right? and if you got spiked by a needle you will get a small injury/wound but the pain so so big right, and it hurts right? How we got pain? We got pain because we have nerves our nerves look like wires and if you get touched your nerves will say "Omg, someone touch the skin we will send the touched skin to brain so brain will communicate/compute the touched skin so the guy/woman who touched by someone will feel he/she got touched" now if you got pain your nerves will said too "Omg, there is a pain we will send the pain to brain so brain will communicate/compute the pain so the guy/woman who got pain will feel pain and said ouch", ouch is a word that you got pain that is the sign to get pain and to everyone hear you and know you you got pain
@sophierobinson2738
7 жыл бұрын
Josh Hummel hey, bubba, watch this! ow. can anyone find my left arm?
@grasshair7266
9 жыл бұрын
Pain may be a gift, chronic pain however is a curse.
@roosterampcrazy63
8 жыл бұрын
I concur.
@JustCallMeAnonymous
8 жыл бұрын
I agree.
@pman123
8 жыл бұрын
Try living better lifestyles then. 😐
@grasshair7266
8 жыл бұрын
***** I do I exercise 6 days a week and eat whole plant food diet. But my broken back still causes pain. after 13yrs I can manage pain but it never leaves. Please do not make a judgment on my situation when you know nothing about it.
@pman123
8 жыл бұрын
Grass hair If you make a statement public, then it's subject to criticism. And I honestly don't believe that you even do a quarter of what you listed. You sound like a recovering opiate addict. And if that's the case (whether you'll admit it or not) then the majority of your pain is psychological.
@servals2384
10 жыл бұрын
I hate when people say "pain is just weakness leaving the body". No, it's your logic that's leaving the body as you continue to ignore direct orders from your brain that's frantically trying to get you to stop harming yourself.
@papaya1551
10 жыл бұрын
Hear, hear!
@lifeforgod07
10 жыл бұрын
That's because people take this too literally.. the USMC recruiting slogan is referring to the "pain" when exercising, not actual pain.
@Suzifully
10 жыл бұрын
It's not supposed to be literal. It's not pain referring to a broken bone or anything. It's referring to pain as in being sore from working out. "Pain is weakness leaving the body." Refer to your body getting strong as your sore muscles are recovering from a good workout the day before. Pain refers to sore aching muscles.
@jessicaduvon3632
10 жыл бұрын
Tell 'em sister!
@Benjamin72297
7 жыл бұрын
You’ll never get tough talking like that
@rockfootballdude
11 жыл бұрын
Talking about pain, emotional pain sounds pretty interesting, grief, heartbreak. A SciShow video on that might be interesting
@lcoffin00
11 жыл бұрын
The more I learn about the human body, the more it seems like an incredibly adaptive robot.
@Mazaroth
8 жыл бұрын
I can understand people that get addicted to painkillers, our existence is just painful and something that is just constant agony and misery, no wonder people want to tune out that, people take drugs, alcohol, tobacco and other chemicals to get a break from the reality.
@lohangoulart9275
8 жыл бұрын
Yep.
@claireajibola3287
8 жыл бұрын
True x
@AnthraXM4X
8 жыл бұрын
try kratom, its more effective, safe than morphine and way less addictive
@RadioactivFly
8 жыл бұрын
And sadly about to be banned by the fucking DEA
@michaelnorris5838
8 жыл бұрын
seriously tho try kratom and if it helps it has me then go to American kratom association and do the things on they're call to action. it helps so many people with so many things. recently it was shown to not activate the opiate receptors pathways that cause the nasty and dying and terrible withdrawal, tho it dues have some pendulum effects that can be kinda tough, but nothing worse than most of us have felt. also it's helped many people get off opiates and benzos for anxiety narcolepsy and is say adhd as some strains are stimulant. they're banning it based on 660 reports of Ill effects to poison control since 2010. nobody's died just because of kratom tho involved in some deaths there was either something else in there system or serious preexisting conditions that should have precluded such use. it's saved people's lives. there will be 1 to 2 hundred percent minimum increase of opiates related deaths based on what happened in states that have already banned it. and many people will be left in agony. should ex opiate addicts be forced to use drugs that are designed to be more addictive than heroine itself? there's no end game for Suboxone it methodone treatment. the point is to be more addicted to they're drugs for the rest of your life. if you've come off heroine kratom is cake. you have an exit strategy order lifelong pain relief and quality of life. save kratom. facebook #kratomunited #Americankratomassociation #savekratom
@Thomas-be1kz
9 жыл бұрын
You can kill pain? Where is my knife.
@VicktorTango
8 жыл бұрын
LOL.
@NYCTMTA
8 жыл бұрын
+Thomas Bennett where's my gun?
@Unarthadox
8 жыл бұрын
where's my rifle knife gun?
@LennyLenward
8 жыл бұрын
Where's megalodon when you need him?
@tessalogan586
5 жыл бұрын
Lol
@pluto40217
11 жыл бұрын
My dad's been preaching against teylenol for most of his career, and about a decade ago the media found out it wasn't so good as well. But thanks to your video I finally know where it comes from and why it's bad, thank you.
@UrbanTurtleFarm
11 жыл бұрын
Also check out This American Life episode 505: Use Only as Directed, it's a fascinating look at why Tylenol might be the deadliest over the counter medication.
@hyperos1864
Жыл бұрын
@@UrbanTurtleFarm it aint true but ok
@nicholasworsley1144
11 жыл бұрын
Hey Hank, is there any chance you could explain antidepressants, given just how many people take them these days and know so little about what they are taking? Many thanks, I hope you consider.
@journeyman553
2 жыл бұрын
Good idea ......and maybe Hank could talk a little faster.
@DaWoogieMonster
2 жыл бұрын
Hey its me 8 years later. Has he done it yet?
@elcambio96
2 жыл бұрын
no one knows what depression is and no one knows how anti-depressants work
@monicalarsen6568
10 жыл бұрын
Currently studying for my exams, and this actually helped me understand pain and painkillers a lot better! I wish Hank was my teacher, hahaha :)
@secretworlds
11 жыл бұрын
As a pharmacist, its kinda funny to see you do a video on my profession. normally i just watch these videos for fun wacky science facts, but today i was like "Hey! thats my job!" you did a great explaining a really complicating thing in an easy to understand way. its hard to do without using over-sciency words. haha loved the video!
@KCKatheist
11 жыл бұрын
I'm a nurse, and had a similar reaction to this fine video!
@taywilliams5153
11 жыл бұрын
Could you please do an episode about OCD? I feel like a lot of people would benefit from it if you did. Thanks. :)
@allyse9865
11 жыл бұрын
Can you discuss Venus and how it doesn't have a magnetic shield? I love astronomy/geology/everything and I am absolutely fascinated with Venus and how it's just a really unique planet. Could you even discuss how it rotates in the opposite direction from all of the other planets? Or even its super insane thick and hot atmosphere? Just anything about Venus really! Love your videos and I hope you consider this topic!
@martinshoosterman
9 жыл бұрын
comentors be like: my leg fell of, instead of calling 911 or at least a doctor, do any of you have some advice?
@elevate07
9 жыл бұрын
martinshoosterman Do you have any glue? Elmer's should do nicely
@kassembazzi1978
9 жыл бұрын
No but seriously, I thought this video was going to present alternatives of many different kinds; not, a list and history of drugs
@kassembazzi1978
9 жыл бұрын
Very informative though. Like usual
@kassembazzi1978
9 жыл бұрын
👍👍
@derekskarb2704
9 жыл бұрын
elevate07 When all else fails, use duct tape.
@Kadiezi
10 жыл бұрын
So that's what Laudanum is. So all this time Daniel was getting high rather than healing himself... That might explain the entire game actually.
@thatfishbreeder
10 жыл бұрын
Haha, Amnesia!
@AirF0rce11
11 жыл бұрын
"Life is pain. Anyone who says otherwise is selling something"
@leahcherni
10 жыл бұрын
I've been curious on how the different classifications of pain medications worked and this explained it all very well. As a person who has a chronic pain disorder (Psoriatic Arthritis) and already has a lot of bone damage and pain at age 31, pain medications are a huge part of my everyday life. I also am on medications that shut down my immune system so my body will quit trying to kill itself. Luckily I have no allergies to pain medications or my PsA meds or I would be up a creek.
@LadyLexyStarwatcher
10 жыл бұрын
Thoughts from when I was having unbearable toothpain last year: It would be nice if I could feel that I was in pain rather than in pain...
@RobertMisner
11 жыл бұрын
I didn't need to know all this information about painkillers but now that I do I have to live with it forever
@SteveDew
11 жыл бұрын
Conveniently leaves out hemp, the eons old natural pain treatment. Nice. Scientists are looking everywhere for alternative pain killers. Except there.
@RobertMisner
11 жыл бұрын
I think it may have been a very intentional move to avoid the controversial subject so that people could focus on the regular generic sciency stuff
@SteveDew
11 жыл бұрын
Why is that controversial & not general science?
@RobertMisner
11 жыл бұрын
I think because the inclusion would be too distracting for a general audience
@SteveDew
11 жыл бұрын
Distracting from what? Truth?
@andread8024
10 жыл бұрын
"That's the thing about pain, it demands to be felt."
@NuuStar
10 жыл бұрын
Haha made my day (;
@rubyrootless7324
7 жыл бұрын
Isn't that a quote from the fault in our stars?
@baeqaefoefae
4 ай бұрын
Okay emo
@marinanatanova783
11 жыл бұрын
Funnily enough, there are other pain killers as well, like metamizole-based drugs; but while they are allowed in some countries (even over the counter), they are banned in other countries, because of a minimal risk of a nasty side effect. It can also be a case that in the same countries where metamizole is banned, a doctor can prescribe you an opioid for really bad pain (which can be totally banned in other countries). So you have to always remember what's in your travel bag.
@sportshooter101
10 жыл бұрын
I actually use these in class as a teaching tool. pretty good stuff.
@MaddMaddox77
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this episode. I've suffered from chronic back pain, headaches, and migraines for years so I've tried my fair share of pain medication and it was very interesting to hear exactly how different pain medications react with your body.
@michellewilliams9400
7 жыл бұрын
As someone who has been suffering from chronic pain for 1.5 yrs now & is under the care of pain management Drs, this video was very informative on the medications that I have been on as well as the ones I am currently on.
@janm5854
8 жыл бұрын
How can you feel pain when you're already dead inside? - emo kids
@ItzJewbakka
8 жыл бұрын
me
@camramaster
8 жыл бұрын
Um... You can feel it because your exterior is still alive. Also, you may want to stop eating black widow spiders.
@shark_girlxx
7 жыл бұрын
camramaster why? They taste almost as poisonous as my thoughts
@camramaster
7 жыл бұрын
Dawny Bear I doubt they appreciate it. Even if you are dead inside and have poisonous thoughts, that doesn't mean you should go around eating spiders. They don't appreciate it.
@erikaitsumi7198
7 жыл бұрын
You don't i speak from experience
@richard1701able
11 жыл бұрын
I feel that the best way to make every one's pain go away is for them to put KZitem BACK THE WAY IT WAS!
@manosfantasyart
11 жыл бұрын
I accidentaly bumped my knee on the desk while watching this. This never happened before. Ouch. Now *THAT'S* interactive learning...
@pythor2
11 жыл бұрын
There is an error loading the video. SciShow needs to remove their annotations. Thumbs this up so they will see it! This will solve the error.
@trevorgrover5619
11 жыл бұрын
or better yet: google should quit fucking up
@NotOnLand
10 жыл бұрын
Whenever I have trouble sleeping I just turn on SciShow and it chills me right out. Thanks, Hank, your steady flow of science and wit has helped me fight insomnia many times.
@Felix.Wingfield
11 жыл бұрын
I have an unusual condition--my brain perceives skin/stingy/burny pains as more intense and unbearable seemingly at the expense of feeling broken bones. I can only hypothesize it's because I was burned as an infant and it affected how my brain was wired. I've broken many, many bones and not noticed for days. When I was eleven I broke my pelvis and didn't know till I was 21 and was in a motorcycle accident. Precautionary x-rays showed that it healed wrong.
@starrynite90
11 жыл бұрын
Can you do a sci show on why people scratch or how the body reacts to it?
@smurfmarie
8 жыл бұрын
so, what about pain in childbirth? why would the body be trying to tell someone to stop doing that, when it quite obviously needs to happen?
@stevenarseneault1972
8 жыл бұрын
bible says....the original sin. You do know thatnther is tearing of skin and sometimes breaking of bones... that sounds about right.
@bradydool7002
8 жыл бұрын
I don't think the body really differentiates between skin being torn by a knife and skin being torn by a baby.
@stevenarseneault1972
8 жыл бұрын
I guess more along the lines as....it's in our protocols and pre-written to accept child labor.
@13vatra
8 жыл бұрын
Hole about a half inch in diameter when not in use plus mini human about the size of a watermelon. Do the math, even though it is natural, it is most definitely damaging the soon to be mother's body.
@anyu
6 жыл бұрын
That's because labor isn't "pain" in the alert sense. It's extremely powerful muscle contractions to push the baby out. It's no cakewalk, but I've experienced worse.
@giorgio1apple
11 жыл бұрын
I love your humor on every video. Quick, funny and informative. Thanks!
@munchkinmeep
10 жыл бұрын
I am probably yet another viewer who would like to hear a part 2 to this addressing chronic pain and what we think causes it (or prevents it from calming back down below the pain threshold..?). I know many people who have tried a wide array of prescription and folk remedies to attempt to control or manage this factor in their life that often prevents employment and simply enjoying an entire day without having to accommodate their nerve or muscle pain symptoms. Love SciShow, BTW.
@arkady714
10 жыл бұрын
This is the third video in this series that I am watching. That a brilliant and eloquent man (and his team, I assume) will take the time to bring these interesting topics to light in such a clear and concise way is proof that there really are people out there who acquire and kindly redistribute knowledge simply for the sake of propagating it and making other lives better. I cannot thank you enough. I enjoy and appreciate your work.
@TravisRichey
9 жыл бұрын
This is fascinating, if a bit quick. I'm spending my breakfast watching Sci Show, and it's time well spent. :-) ~Trav
@angelicabaty4037
10 жыл бұрын
Pain demands to be felt
@sopralto817
11 жыл бұрын
I can't stop thinking about that House MD episode, the one with the girl who had the genetic defect when she didn't feel pain....
@thewolfstreasure
11 жыл бұрын
I have learned more from watching your videos than the 13 years I spent in school. Thank you
@matthewtrotter6908
10 жыл бұрын
SciShow peeps: Would you do an episode on joint-cracking? I am very curious as to why we do it, what it actually is, and whether it is as bad as they say.
@robbieyellon
10 жыл бұрын
Might I suggest doing a video on the topic on itch, the poorly-understood cousin of pain? It doesn't seem to play as significant a role in our lives what with our relative lack of body hair and relatively low levels of skin-crawling parasites. As such, it receives much less attention. When chronic, it can cause just as much misery as chronic pain. I'd be very interested in seeing your take on it.
@smilesandscars4314
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the pharmacology revision :D
@antivanti
11 жыл бұрын
There is a small town not far from here in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden called Vittangi where over 40 people have been found with a hereditary condition that leaves them unable to feel pain. They tend to visit the hospital more often than others due to the injuries they sustain. It is called "Norrbottnian congenital insensitivity to pain" or just "Congenital analgesia" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain #pain #science
@DylanLawrence
11 жыл бұрын
Best Episode of Sci-show yet.
@RetardGamingHDx
9 жыл бұрын
just had surgery, prescribed oxycodone. I can see why people get addicted to this...
@dawert2667
9 жыл бұрын
Same situation- only difference, I can't see why people love it. It makes you A) fall asleep B) Dizzy if you manage to not fall asleep C) itchy if you dont have medicine for the itch and D) feel groggy and bad and not pleasant at all
@rdallas81
8 жыл бұрын
+I Will Only Use (3 Words) actually.....it doesnt make everyone sleep...in fact.....its like speed to many people.....and it will keep many of us from actually sleeping....increases heart rate like cocaine
@hellzyaiagree4039
8 жыл бұрын
it depends on your body chemistry, some tired some high, if you get high that's not the prescription for you, those that work take the pain away as that's it. lol but people like being high so....
@Annie_Annie__
8 жыл бұрын
When I had kidney stones I went to the ER. They gave me a shot of Tramodol in to my IV line. Before she' devein finished pushing the plunger the walls of the exam room started melting, and the average commercial fluorescent light gave off the prettiest colors I'd ever seen in my life. My husband claims I kept saying "it's all good. No worries." and kept telling the Cornish nurse (I'm in the States) how "heavenly" his accent was. Lol. After it started wearing off I told my husband "so is *that* why people do drugs? Because if so I totally get it." Lol. Unfortunately, pill forms of opiates don't seem to have much effect on me. I have fibromyalgia and several other chronic pain conditions. Pills of opioids at the highest strength the state will let me take just barely take the edge off the pain I feel constantly from head-to-toe.
@TetraSamurai
7 жыл бұрын
Roy Hemion oxycodone can be stimulating, but it is NOTHING like speed at all. Amphetamines are much stronger and stimulating than any opioid. I agree with you though somewhat, I could never sleep on oxycodone. I could nod out, but not sleep.
@SinOfWrath6
2 жыл бұрын
CRPS has been quite the thorough instructor on the topic of pain. I'd always love to see more episodes about pain management and how the body responds to specific types of pains, much love.
@Player_Review
8 жыл бұрын
I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel.
@BackpackPoetry
8 жыл бұрын
I, also, am excited for Logan.
@HirekBC
7 жыл бұрын
I, also, like Nine Inch Nails.
@skiz686
11 жыл бұрын
Could you do a follow up episode on people who engage in purposeful self injury such as cutting? I'm a therapist and know a bit about the psychology of it but want to know about the physical parts of it.
@SlimThrull
11 жыл бұрын
There was an article in this month's Psychology today about it. Briefly, most people harm themselves because it makes them feel better in some way. A physical aspect of that is the release of endorphins which not only dull pain but actually have a rather pleasant affect on your brain. I'd recommend reading the article if you're further interested.
@IoEstasCedonta
9 жыл бұрын
So the painkiller of the future comes from the sensation of imminent death? ... "It will change your life, rest assured."
@tammystapleton3575
9 жыл бұрын
Brilliant Repo reference!
@earthrocker4247
6 жыл бұрын
That was really useful. I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome and I have ASD so I like to see new ways of helping me understand pain.
@undergroundrc8273
8 жыл бұрын
I thought there was nothing good on KZitem no more until I came to scishow SUBSCRIBED!1!1!1!
@DavidMartinez-kf9zt
11 жыл бұрын
Do a video on super human acts of strength and mental abilities! Like a woman lifting a bus and race car drivers that process things happening at crazy fast speeds! Love this channel btw!
@zombie2401
3 жыл бұрын
(●’◡’●)ノ
@zephyrvescent
11 жыл бұрын
Excellent video! Just one request for both Hank and John - could you slow your speaking down a bit? Those of us ahem "older" viewers have a hard time understanding when you talk so fast. Captioning helps as well. I don't want to miss a thing! Thank you!
@smileyface1510
10 жыл бұрын
Totally get what you mean about the speed, but in a way I kinda like it too! If you want captions, just click the CC button in the bottom right corner of the video and press on. Then you can select the language and watch like that :) Hope that helps!
@DragonBallSuperCentralTV
10 жыл бұрын
This guy makes me laugh :D
@TheIndigoGecko
11 жыл бұрын
Could you do a segment on how general anaesthesia works? There's a ton of information on "what to expect" (and I recently went through it myself) but I'm more interested in how it actually knocks you out, why it has the side effects it does (like why patients might need help breathing etc). Thanks!
@katepurrkins6672
11 жыл бұрын
I had all four of my wisdom teeth removed last year and 3/4 got dry socket. I tried to take Hydrocodone but it made me so sick that I got dehydration on top of everything. What a wonderful week that was!
@ItsAsparageese
11 жыл бұрын
Hank ... I love you ... but I have to bring up some major elements that are lacking in this video. I really appreciate how in-depth you went about opioids, by far the most commonly discussed and commonly misunderstood class of prescription analgesics, but I think it would be really useful to the SciShow audience to explain what a narcotic is-and-isn't, and also to cover (or at least mention!) the fact that there are other classes of pain medications, narcotic and non-narcotic, besides opioids. Gabapentin and Tramadol are just two examples, and also the use of steroids as an anti-inflammatory for various topical and internal conditions is important to explain (especially given the context of discussing non-steroidal anti-inflammatories, since it helps to have the opposite) ... and maybe since lots of people have heard of muscle relaxants, it might be great to touch on those just to say they exist and they're a separate thing. Could you be entreated to do a follow-up, or by some other route expound more on this and other pharmacological topics? (That would just be the most amazing exciting thing in the entire universe ever for me, or at least very high on the list.)
@rogerdotlee
11 жыл бұрын
Thanks, Hank. As the lucky beneficiary of a failed spinal fusion (complete with bone spurs poking directly into my spinal column), it makes a great deal of sense how those little red and blue pills work. Seriously, best $30/month I've spent so far.
@MarcoPolux
11 жыл бұрын
man! but your condition is not chronic, right? I mean, you will heal and it will pass. . . why did it fail???
@rogerdotlee
11 жыл бұрын
Marco Kropp Oh no, it's chronic. What's more, any attempt to reverse the damage will likely destroy the nerve tissue that's currently being irritated. At first look that would almost seem worth it, but unfortunately it would likely leave me paralyzed. As to why it failed, we're not sure. Most likely because the part of the bone that made up the 'fusion' grew too far in toward the spinal column.
@leeantonelli-roman3621
11 жыл бұрын
rogerdotlee Very Sorry. I had serious back problems, In Jan athis year I had 5 lower lumbar fused, and two rods added above that. I was petrified of the outcome. Woke up pain free, and it's been 10 mos. and I'm doing great. Surgery done at Washington MedStar, Dr. Tozzi. He was rated in the top couple of surgeons on the East Coast.
@MarcoPolux
11 жыл бұрын
rogerdotlee With the technology we have now, I am sure you will be ok. I just passed through a very hard ankylosed encapsuled-infected extraction of a front tooth...sequel of a Mountain Bike accident I had a long time ago. . . . Pain was TERRIBLE, for there was exposed nervous terminals during the healing process. 2 weeks on Ketorolak (or something like that, an opium alike cocktail in a pill !!!!) but I am on now. My best wishes to you, patience!!!
@leeantonelli-roman3621
11 жыл бұрын
Ouch! I did that a 16 (several decades ago) when I broke the windshield of a '58 Pontiac with my face... when the car went off a cliff. I survived quite well. The worst was the poison oak I got while climbing up the side of a mountain (in a bikini) and got a few hundred cuts all over from the brush, then poison oak internally via the cuts Didn't drink, smoke or take drugs either...flat tire on a curve.
@QuestioningKate
11 жыл бұрын
I love the comment about a person's foot being run over by a car. I have juvenile arthritis, fiber myalgia, and my nerves are over active (I'm not sure what it's called), and I have taken almost all of the pain medications in this video (except of course the ones in development). I really learned a lot. Thanks for the video!
@taylorjm5312
10 жыл бұрын
Simply addicted to your channel.
@theashlynblocker
7 жыл бұрын
One of my friends sent me this and said THIS IS YOU. I just want to say hi and I'm happy to be an example in your video!
@lilbihxxx1234
6 жыл бұрын
Omg this should be pinned
@mksabourinable
11 жыл бұрын
When I got my wisdom teeth removed I was given codeine for the pain... For the first several days I was so sick to my stomach that I couldn't get out of bed or lay any way but on my back... I had no idea what was causing it.... Then I didn't take the codeine for a day and the nausea went away completely.... Codeine sucks.
@kaitlynkxoxo1
10 жыл бұрын
omg! they gave me that stuff too! they also gave me vicodin and flucloxacilin. I was so sick I threw up so many times, ugh and they wonder why I try my best not to take medicine!
@mksabourinable
10 жыл бұрын
usually the body throws up in reaction to something ingested when it's poison being ingested... Wouldn't that make those drugs technically poisons??
@ghostbirdofprey
10 жыл бұрын
Kate Yes, yes they are
@kaitlynkxoxo1
10 жыл бұрын
I was scared that my body was eventually going to explode
@YeoYeo
8 жыл бұрын
Out of curiosity what does this mean in the context of period pain? What am I suppose to do? Run away from my uterus? Stop my uterus from shedding it's insides?
@simxella689
8 жыл бұрын
Lmao, im not the only one except its a huge wound on my foot. Do i run away from it? Oh wait, i use it to run...
@makaylacunning5727
7 жыл бұрын
Sadly there's nothing good for that type of pain well atleast I know NOTHING works for me
@jessilaine7999
6 жыл бұрын
I know this is an older comment. But, as an adult woman who’s had a child, and had issues with that ever since I was 14 as well as several other health issues causing severe chronic pain, I can tell you the answer is heat, lack of movement, and pain killers. Lay on a heating pad, get a hot water bottle, or get those heat packs you can stick to your pants (one for your stomach and one for your back), lay as still as you can in a comfortable spot, and take Advil or Aleeve and double the dose. Never take aspirin, it will only make things worse. And if your cramps are so pad that you’re throwing up, you can’t get out of bed to go to class/work after the first day, or your period is lasting more than a week then you need to find a GOOD gynecologist and get checked out! Ovarian cysts, endometriosis, PCOS, or several other things could be causing that. The doctor can also prescribe mild muscle relaxers, pain medication (depending on the cause of the problem and your age), or birth control that (depending on the kind they prescribe and how you take it) could range from regulating your period and making the symptoms less severe to eliminating your periods all together until you’re ready for children. But that depends on how you feel about that stuff. :)
@TurboMitsubishi
10 жыл бұрын
Sooo, what about when you can feel pain but you keep coming home from work (construction) with scrapes and cuts on your hands,knuckles, arms, head that when your wife asks "How did you do that?" or "What did you do?" You look down and just go "I duno" Because it's the first time you are noticing it?
@asneakychicken322
10 жыл бұрын
To some extent its the rush of adrenaline as part of the fight or flight instinct. In order to get out of a dangerous or life threatening situation, the adrenaline enables you to ignore the pain and injuries for eg. being able to run away from danger on a broken leg or something and not notice it for a while. It's an emergency tactic the body uses to ensure its survival, cutting off what might otherwise be debilitating or incapacitating pain, enabling you to flee the immediate threat. Not too sure about how that translates or works with injuries sustained and not noticed over like a whole day, but they're probably just not severe enough to hurt too much in the first place. Its also why say for example whenever I've sliced my hand badly enough in the kitchen or something, you can't feel the pain for maybe 10 to 30 seconds even though you have seen it, gives you time to deal with the situation before your body lets you feel the pain
@TurboMitsubishi
10 жыл бұрын
I would have to disagree with you there. If you slice your hand with a sharp knife vs a rough jagged edge you will notice you don't feel much pain from the sharp knife, but the jagged edge YOU WILL. Clean cuts from sharp blades are simply not nearly as painful.
@Demogorgon47
10 жыл бұрын
Lols yeah it's kind of funny that eh? Some pain you don't notice till someone points it out. I think it has to do with perception. If you see yourself cut yourself your brain definitely knows it happen but if you cut yourself and you don't see it and it's not that big enough to make your body care then perhaps that causes your brain not to put as much stimulus into making you be aware though it definitely works on the anti-bodies. Don't get me wrong if you got shot even if you didn't notice I'm sure that'd be enough of a jolt for your system to go "YUP! BAD! VERY BAD!" Lols but a tiny scrape, not so much. Kind of like how after a while you tune out bad smells. The brain is a weird organ. But an awesome one.
@asneakychicken322
10 жыл бұрын
Demogorgon47 funny you should mention getting shot, its also one of those things that's often cited as being able to go unnoticed if say you're in the middle of a gunfight, but once you're out of danger you might suddenly notice it and be like "oh hey i've been hit," but not when it happens, linking back to what i mentioned before about the adrenaline rush and all that
@Demogorgon47
10 жыл бұрын
Aaron Brougham REALLY?! I was way off in my assessment. It's almost like the brain needs to see it before it accepts it. That is so strange. Guess we've become reliant on our eyes more then I thought
@creatureofhabits
11 жыл бұрын
I listen to Hank talk while I play Trap and Dubstep music in the background, it's fantastic.
@MrsMcTackett
10 жыл бұрын
A section on chronic pain that is pain that last for longer than 3 months would be interesting. Where there is no fresh injury or torn muscle like in a disc injury that is over 8months old.
@jbtallguy
11 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one that was surprised he didn't mention cannabis?
@nadskofhqwak
10 жыл бұрын
methadone withdrawal is legendary. makes heroin withdrawal feel like a mild hangover
@mMeFlora
11 жыл бұрын
"pain is your brain telling you get the hell otta there" period pain makes no sense.
@kimilious
9 жыл бұрын
Very detailed, with a good mix of scientific explanations N everyday jargons N some one-liners to keep us in the circle
@mokin-rui717
8 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the threat from the spacing guilds to the emperor of the known universe in the 1984 film, DUNE. "Or you will spend the rest of your days in a pain amplifier", I too have been living out my days in an amplified state of pain. I'm hoping for better drugs in the future to aid in this.
@AbiSaysThings
11 жыл бұрын
I finally know what people are talking about when they say advil and tylenol! In England we just call them ibuprofen and paracetamol
@webjunkienl
11 жыл бұрын
advil is a brand name.
@GamerAzoonux
11 жыл бұрын
30000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000Characters She's in England...
@Gothmummi
11 жыл бұрын
She meant in England we don't have the brands Advil or Tylenol, we just call the drug by its name, not the brand. So when our US friends say the brand, we don't know what drug it is.
@DangerFoward
10 жыл бұрын
Pain is weakness leaving the body. That's what I was told.
@randomness051
10 жыл бұрын
how does that even make sense
@mentalmonk139
10 жыл бұрын
randomness051 I suppose on a philosophical or spiritual level the phrase could encourage a person to keep pushing on when they have to i.e helping keeping "mind over matter" when in difficult situation. Just an idea.
@brandenjames2408
10 жыл бұрын
Benjamin DeVries you've seen alot of ads for the us army then, cause that is a quote they use alot
@DangerFoward
10 жыл бұрын
Branden James I was in the Army.
@brandenjames2408
10 жыл бұрын
Benjamin DeVries that explains why youve seen it even better
@linds9846
9 жыл бұрын
These facts are really nice to know, especially when I get sprained ankles after running a marathon... Of Sherlock.
@frac
10 жыл бұрын
Hank was on top form this episode. Very entertaining and informative!
@styk0n
10 жыл бұрын
Hank is usually in top form.
@elizabethshaw734
3 жыл бұрын
I used to be on methadone and oxycodone for pain. Since then we have had to back up and I have more pain now but I am more alert to life.
@WyreWizard
10 жыл бұрын
What about diseases that send false pain signals when there is nothing wrong with the area, like chronic pain? Pain isn't all good. Billions of people suffer from chronic pain and it is a very debilitating condition. A lot of people who have it are no longer able to work like my girlfriend,
@Luffy-gn2ur
9 жыл бұрын
"Billions of people" LOL!
@joshmilligan325
9 жыл бұрын
Idk about billions, but I do agree that it isn't all good. I suffer from more than one serious illness that incorporates horrible chronic pain, whose source isn't always easy to find. Being in pain 24/7/365 really begins to fuck with you in so many different ways. I hope we can find a way to relieve it better that isn't so risky and soon. One can only hope though.
@theresabajorek
9 жыл бұрын
Actually, chronic pain becomes present in the body when the nociceptors are working in overdrive making the person feel great amounts of pain without having a direct physical indicator as to why. People who suffer from fibromyalgia for example, are said to have suffered a great traumatic event in which the body's nociceptors work in overdrive and lower the pain threshold for an indefinite amount of time, leaving the person in a chronic state of migrating pain. Chronic pain sufferers have used several kinds of treatments such as nerve block injections to temporarily numb the nerves in which the most pain is present so the patient can have a short period of painlessness. It has been useful in patients who cannot sleep due to pain and those who have had significant nerve damage from physically traumatic events such as car accidents. Medical marijuana works in some cases similarly like opiates. However as a whole, chronic pain has had little research done in the why it occurs in the first place, so treatments in how to lessen pain have taken the front seat, where in the treatments in how to stop it entirely, are left somewhere at a 7/11 parking lot in another country entirely. Needless to say, chronic pain is a very real illness and it's a very debilitating one at that. It messes with multiple facets of a persons life, not simply the physical aspects. Its estimated that about 20% of adults globally suffer from chronic pain, like Josh Milligan , WyreWizard 's girlfriend and myself, and it's estimated that an additional 10% of adults are newly diagnosed each year. If SciShow could do a more indepth episode on chronic pain, it would be greatly appreciated by their audience, seeing as how it's not as rare as we have been led to believe. (statistics on global chronic pain found here- www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/11/770
@Liutgard
9 жыл бұрын
Theresa Bajorek Thanks for posting this. I've been dealing with chronic pain for a number of years now, and recently ruptured a disc (C 6-7) so I'm also in a great deal of acute pain. Trying to sort the two out has become a problem, especially while wrestling with the insurance company on treatment of the disc...
@JDSHfilms
9 жыл бұрын
WyreWizard I agree. My body turned on my colon, making it bleed and be so damaged that it had to be removed. Fast forward 10 years, and I because there are ulcers on the "artificial" colon (Parts of the small intestine, probably slightly modified), I am diagnosed with Crones disease. ):
@armstrong.r
11 жыл бұрын
This new KZitem comment section is really quite the _pain_.
@xenomann442
11 жыл бұрын
Has Scishow done a video on intelligence yet? I'm not sure how fond they are of doing psychology videos, but it would definitely be an interesting video. They could also explain how to acquire intelligence (if that's even possible). Not just gaining knowledge, but actually developing better mental capabilities.
@metalMTL1
11 жыл бұрын
I literally just learned that in psych class for school. Look up IQ tests and Wechsler tests
@alanernst488
10 жыл бұрын
A few problems: Arachidonic acid is an important factor to pain and inflammation, but not as the "key" to it. Cyclooxygenase (COX) enzymes turn arachidonic acid into prostaglandins and leukotrienes which act as ligands or "keys" on the receptors or "locks" on your cells, including white blood cells, to cause inflammation and attract white blood cells to the site. COX inhibitors like NSAIDS do block these enzymes from causing this conversion, thus preventing the release of the tuning chemicals.
@marcojay3445
7 жыл бұрын
Better than any science teacher that I had back in school. thank you for spreading knowledge.
@bigtallguy20
11 жыл бұрын
broke my wrist once, the Doctors gave me injected morphine. as someone who has never been high before, it was fantastic. Doctor came back after the drugs kicked in and asked me how i was doing, i was giggling like a school girl flopping my jello like wrist around, i thought it was funny as hell.
@DWRich17
8 жыл бұрын
My pain takes a $4800. 00 a month TNF blocker to keep bone marrow swelling from ruining my day. It works about 60% of the time, and when it's not working, 20-25 ibuprofen tabs a day. The only thing that works every time instantly, is really warm water. If anyone needs to hire a guy to stand in the shower all day and not move, I'm your man. :)
@Sizzlik
10 жыл бұрын
I'll keep that in mind next week when i get my bone marrow biopsy.. "Thank you big ass needle wich is drilling throu my bone"
@leeantonelli-roman3621
10 жыл бұрын
Best Wishes to you.
@Sizzlik
10 жыл бұрын
Delmira Herself Thank you very much =)
@leeantonelli-roman3621
10 жыл бұрын
Sizzlik I would be happy to donate bone marrow if you need a donor. Write me, located in Arlington, VA - MedStar Med. Center, DC.
@Sizzlik
10 жыл бұрын
Delmira Herself wow..thats very generous of you! May whatever you believe in bless your soul! But i have a big family so if a donor is needed i might find one here (i live in germany). But thanks A LOT ..that is an offer you wont get often from strangers. You are the kind of person this society needs.
@Sizzlik
10 жыл бұрын
***** Nope..wont get knocked out..just a chill pill and some local anestetics..will be a day of pure joy =)
@xoxashleighxxox
7 жыл бұрын
This video is a really good explanation and I know this comment is super late, but considering everything Hank said about pain being a warning to stop etc. I'd love to hear the psychological explanation behind why self harm is so addictive, bc instead of feeling like you need to stop, most self harmers experience a rush that overrides their pain receptors that tell them to stop
@lorenkaylor9879
8 жыл бұрын
I could listen to Hank talk about drugs all day
@rustybrooks8916
9 жыл бұрын
I get that pain is the mechanism that tells us that we're taking damage, but like many other biological systems it has developed so very poorly. What's that, I've received 3rd degree burns all over my body? Better remind you of that horrible agony every moment so that you know you need to do something about that...oh wait. Thanks body for torturing me as I likely lay dying from a condition there ain't nothing I can really do anything about. If you're really lucky(questionable) a hospital can stabilize your condition so that you can spend weeks or longer in near constant agony while your body tries to fix itself. Imagine the not too distant past when agonizing conditions, like cancer, had no possible way of being combated - thanks again body, for reminding me about that damage I don't even understand let alone have the ability to get fixed. Also, in situations where you need to be able to overcome pain in order to save your own life, like when you've broken both your legs and you don't have the willpower to drag yourself to the nearest help because Oh God Oh God it hurts and you wallow on the ground and eventually die...thanks pain. I actually find this to be a great example of evolution at work as opposed to intelligent design. Why design a freaking system like that without some way of turning it off when you don't need it or it interferes with survival? That's just some bad design.
@ewilgreen5148
9 жыл бұрын
+Rusty Brooks Adrenaline /end
@billybassoon10
9 жыл бұрын
+Rusty Brooks Well technically you won't feel it until your skin starts to heal. The burn sorta anally pummels your nerves until being 360 no-scoped by a 12 year old on CoD
@ewilgreen5148
9 жыл бұрын
Technically you feel it before you get hurt, Headshot 100+
@CraftKitty007
9 жыл бұрын
well, with intense enough pain... you'll easily pass out. So its kind of well designed.
@Wuffskers
8 жыл бұрын
+Rusty Brooks tbh a lot of medicine seems to involve stopping our bodies from doing something stupid and/or trying to conform to the ways our bodies like to do things and trying to give it something to trick it into doing something else that we want it to do. I always think of our bodies as computers that have really strict default settings and bloatware. It's probably fine for the most basic of users (if we were just feral humans scavenging for food), but now we're power users and those default settings and bloatware really get in the way of what we want to do, but we haven't found how to access the advanced settings so we come up with ways to work around the default settings or to trick it. Honestly I think that's where medicine should be going, to a point that might allow us greater control over our bodies, rather than doing something to stop the involuntary processes that cause pain, or cancer, or weight gain, we simply find a way to actually legitimately control our bodies and we simply turn off the pain, like turning off notifications from antivirus, we're smart enough now to know what not to do so lets turn off this annoyance.
@DeviateMonster
11 жыл бұрын
on the first glance i thought it said "Why We Have Palin, & How We Kill It"
@mrWade101
10 жыл бұрын
why can't it just hurt once then stop? instead it hurts forever, I already know that it hurt and that i shouldn't do it!
@josephkeaty7284
10 жыл бұрын
It's like a mom, it just wants to make sure you got it by telling you continuously.
@sandyqai
10 жыл бұрын
lol so that you actually do something about the injury. If it stopped hurting you'd just forget about it:p
@eddieallen5451
10 жыл бұрын
!.
@eddieallen5451
10 жыл бұрын
!.
@pforgottonsoul
10 жыл бұрын
Someone Someone it's sad how true that is.
@gaspareegrimaldi4740
6 жыл бұрын
“ Excellent “ fast information “ no distraction of background music “ thank you Ciao ... Ciao ...
@mythicalbeast7325
5 жыл бұрын
Love that you mentioned The Wire :)
@countertenor1girl
11 жыл бұрын
isnt it odd that we cant really feel our body unless its in pain, or we focus on a very specific spot? like, when you have a headache, you can feel the exact shape of your cranium, yet when you dont, your head just sort of is there, without any sort of real feeling to it
@VampireHeart518
11 жыл бұрын
actually you do feel your body, it's more of an awareness. it's called Proprioception, look it up
@yvindfotland116
10 жыл бұрын
I have noticed something. All of your shirts have optical illutions
@chistinelane
10 жыл бұрын
By gollly they do!
@pawkisser
9 жыл бұрын
lolwat its a flannel
@virgo_tubes
9 жыл бұрын
Øyvind Fotland its just flannel. not an optical illusion! :)
@faolan1686
11 жыл бұрын
Have they come up with a pain killer that work on platypus venom yet? (Yes the male platypus is venomous, he has a spur on his hind leg that delivers the toxon) Last time I looked it up there was nothing that worked to dull the excruciating pain that can last for days.
@renoloverxoxo
11 жыл бұрын
Prevention is better than a cure. Meaning don't fuck with the living proof that God has a sense of humor.
@HellFaust84
11 жыл бұрын
there isn't a cure, though there is a treatment method where they inject morphine right into the main nerves leading away from the wound, shutting the ability to feel anything down in the limb (as well as paralyzing it) and keeping it that way until the venom breaks down. I think it's called a neural shunt, though I could be wrong.
@jesserantakangas5594
11 жыл бұрын
HellFaust84 i bet its something else they inject from what u discribe
@HellFaust84
11 жыл бұрын
jani lepistö You are probably right, When I learned of this technique, the man was already well beyond the safe maximum dose of morphine
@faolan1686
10 жыл бұрын
thanks for the info guys.
@maximusoctavius26
11 жыл бұрын
I want to thank you for this video Hank! I'm writing a term paper on Morphine for my AP Biology class and this really helped out a lot!
@Rome274
7 жыл бұрын
Neuropathic pain as in FIBROMYALGIA and Regional Chronic Pain Syndrome is really brutal . The smallest tap can cause intense pain . People don't understanding unless you are experiencing it yourself .
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