Pain meds effect neuroreceptors on the end of nerve cells,
they can only activate a limited number of times before they stop working and get replaced.
Drugs generally either block them to stop pain travelling or speed up their usage. So the cells try to counter it, either creating more or removing them quicker.
(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 15:49, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Can I ask why you dont work in a more medical capacity in the NHS?
You seem to be very knowledgeable about it
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 15:50, Reply)

Well, there was this incident with an unconscious patient and a rectal probe...

( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Wed 12 Oct 2011, 15:52, Reply)

We've ALL done that DG
*looks around furtively*
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 15:56, Reply)

I did a degree in psychology, but I didn't do and post grad stuff that I'd need to be clincally trained.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 15:53, Reply)

It's all over now anyway
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-15269207
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 16:00, Reply)

Perhaps you could set yourself up as an online quack
There is a lot of call for internet diagnoses round these parts.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 16:01, Reply)

It's kinda sweet that politicians think they can change the way the NHS works.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 16:09, Reply)

They can change how much money it has

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 16:13, Reply)

Only until people start saying "give us more money or pretty photographic children start dying of preventable diseases"

(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 16:15, Reply)

I don't quite understand really,
Is this that thing where now the GPs decide how to spend the money, ie, who gets what operation or medicine, rather than PCTs ?
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 16:12, Reply)

Sort of yes.

(PsychoChomp, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 16:14, Reply)

Cool, sounds good then.
I gotta dash, sorry to run.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 16:18, Reply)

Some info here:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12177084
Or ask Chompy.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 16:15, Reply)