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What is pain? Why do I have pain when I don't have an injury?

28/6/2019

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What causes pain, and why do we have pain when we may not have had an injury?

Pain is the result of inflammation in the body.

So what is inflammation?!

Inflammation is a normal process of tissue repair that our bodies undergo, as a result of stressors, an injury or infection. We need inflammation to heal and return to health again! If you cut your finger, inflammatory processes driven by our cells and your immune system will repair the cut. Symptoms of inflammation are:

1) Pain
2) Swelling
3) Redness
4) Heat
5) Loss of movement or function.

These symptoms of inflammation are just part of the repair process. The pain is just your body telling you that the area of injury shouldn’t be used while it is undergoing repair.

Chronic or ongoing or long-term pain is not normal and is a symptom that the above repair process has become dysfunctional and isn’t working to get you back to health again. Again, it is your body trying to tell you that something is wrong, and to do something different to help fix it.

Chronic pain can come and go, or you can have periods of constant low-level pain, with times of much higher pain flares seemingly without reason.

What causes the constant pain and the flare-ups, and what can we do about them?

Chronic pain means that the inflammation process is being constantly triggered, every day. It also means that the healing process is not able to be completed, due to the daily triggers and a dysfunctional immune system which keeps the inflammation and pain occurring.

Anything that can cause inflammation in your body will exacerbate any existing inflammation and this causes more pain. Inflammation can itself be caused by many factors, including:

1) Physical or emotional stress
2) Your dietary intake – excesses of some foods and deficiencies of some nutrients
3) Infections, which can be low-grade or hidden, or past infections that are recurring
4) Dysbiosis - an imbalance in your microbiome
5) Medications
6) Poor quality sleep
7) Allergies and intolerances
8) Toxins, chemicals and radiation exposure.

Hence to fix YOUR chronic pain, all of these factors need to be investigated and resolved! Treating only the symptom of pain with medications will never fix the problem and the pain will not go away. Finding and fixing the root causes of inflammation WILL enable the body to heal, and WILL stop the pain!

If you have chronic pain, or someone you know does, I would like to help reduce the pain so you can have your health and quality of life back again!
 

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No more codeine cough or pain medications

20/1/2018

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In 2015, Australia's medicines regulatory body, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), announced that the over the counter cough and cold relief products and painkillers containing codeine would be rescheduled to require a doctor's prescription, and no longer be available over the counter.

This decision was made partly due to people abusing these products, but also due to the side effects of codeine – as some people can develop a dependence on it and causing addictions, and codeine becoming less effective over time and this can lead to higher doses and poisoning, digestive system conditions, and withdrawal symptoms if it stopped.

So on 1st February 2018, you won’t be able to buy products with codeine without a doctor’s prescription, that's if you can actually get in to see a doctor at short notice anyway.

Considering the side effects of codeine, should you be taking it (or any other pain killers) anyway? Or what else can you do?

Pain is a symptom of inflammation. It is you body telling you to STOP what is causing the inflammation, or to NOT use that part of your body so it can heal the damage. If you take pain killing medications, you are overriding and ignoring your body's safety signals so you can carry on doing what you normally do.

What can I (as a Nutritionist and Naturopath) do about reducing pain? Quite a lot! Because pain is inflammation, I first start with looking at your food intake, and to reduce inflammation-causing foods. This will reduce overall inflammation, and thus some pain and other symptoms too! I can also prescribe pain-killing and anti-inflammatory foods/nutrients and herbal medicines. There are many to choose from, and it can depend on your symptoms, and the location and severity of your pain.

Many of the common pain-killing pharmaceutical medications are based on plant extracts - aspirin from the bark of the willow tree, codeine (and morphine and oxycodone) from poppies, and many more. While the pain-killing compounds were initially found in plants, they are artificially synthesised in medications so the pharmaceutical company can patent the compound and make a huge profit! They can't patent a natural product! The issue with this is that medications have just one of the synthetic "active" ingredients from the plant, which unfortunately often causes side effects of the medication. In the real plant extracts, like in nutritional or herbal medicines, the many other active ingredients prevent those side effects, as all of the active ingredients are needed!

Are there some natural and safer alternatives to codeine and other coughing and pain-killing medications - yes! My clinic has a large selection of nutritional and herbal medicines which are proven to be effective in reducing coughing, pain and inflammation, and without the nasty side effects of the prescription medications. I have created a codeine-replacment liquid herbal mixture to reduce inflammation, reduce pain, and reduce nerve pain too.

If chronic pain, nerve pain or inflammation is an issue for you or someone you know, we can help with safer treatments!


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