Yes, the damage is in the thumb but, if there were no nerves in your arm to transmit the signal there would be no pain.
Yes that is understandable and admirable. Where do you stand on the subconscious mind?
Great post Mik. I am absolutely sure that headache cure works and will self-administer it next time I hurt my thumb with a hammer or snip my finger while snipping tomatoes.
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J have managed to control pain in circumstances where I absolutely needed to.
Driving to a client meeting with raging toothache, I asked my body to give me a pain-free two hours for the meeting. I got it.
Another time, arrived at a business interview with a sick migraine and didn’t know how I would get through the meeting. Extraordinarily, he was called away and I sat there in front of his desk and closed my eyes and meditated. By the time he was back my migraine was gone.
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Carefully.
The mind is a concept that brings many elements together whether conscious or subconscious. Brain processes are assumed to work in both the conscious and subconscious, an example of the subconscious is that as a student I was struggling to solve a Rubik’s cube, I woke at 3am and I had solved it. I have no issue with accepting the subconscious as it is a concept.
Whilst driving I developed an experiment to test your headache quandary, that is if you accept string theory and multiverses; you could both simultaneously take a pill or not, also placebo ones and any other combinations.
Also as a migraine sufferer and a prolific vomiter I have learnt to somewhat control my response, but if I delay the end result is worse.
Once I managed checkin and a whole transatlantic flight, but when I got to the hotel I spent the night talking to god over the great white telephone.
Of course, and if there were nerves but no brain there would also be pain. We need to see the system as a whole, rather than with parts in isolation.
Interestingly it is possible to get phantom pain in a missing limb.
The brain is wired to presence of a limb and if one limb is lost the brain does not always accept the loss. Pain killers can trick the brain, but the real cure is to get the brain to accept the loss.
Phantom limb pain is, as you must know, very real, almost certainly caused by nerves sending signals to the brain. There’s been work on this recently, though I don’t have access to information about it right now.
Analgesics fooling the brain or modulating the nerve stimulus?
I used to suffer phantom pains from my back burn from a bike accident years ago, faded out finally after 15 ISH years.
Autonomic nervous system or sympathetic nervous system.
If you’ve not read any books by the late, Dr. Oliver Sachs, I can thoroughly recommend them. He recounts patients he encountered and his own experience when he broke his leg, on a mountain. The human brain is an amazing bit of kit!
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I love Oliver Sachs, his books are all wonderful but his autobiographical book Uncle Tungsten is particularly wonderful.
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He was an amazing man that made complex subjects understandable.
I suggest Dan Ariely to you. Try “Predictably Irrational”. He is coming at the subject of human “logic” from a different angle, more about behaviour and economics.
(Some criticism has been raised about his studies recently, but I don’t know how justified that is)
Just a quick check: is ibuprofen called ibuprofen in France, or is there a local name? We are probably going to have to get some.
While working on the bathroom last week I seem to have damaged my leg, and it’s being ‘difficult’. I’m suspecting sciatica related issues although it’s hard to be sure, but there wasn’t an event where it suddenly hurt, rather there was sciatica pain in other places and then it gradually became worse when resting. I’d hoped it might back off after a couple of days, but that’s not happening so far.
It’s l’ibuprofène. I guess if you are prone to sciatica you know the stretches to do to try to ease it?
Hope it improves asap
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Have you been kneeling without knee pads AM?
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Thanks JJ, I’ve tried stretches in the past to no avail, and also had a go this time, but similarly. Perhaps I should try again.
Kneeling pad used each time. I think it’s more carrying and moving heavy materials, sometimes holding them out a bit.
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