Is there any way to improve my pain threshold?
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Practice. Pain is your body telling you that you are still alive.
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It will take a few more days,  take Tylenol. Do not touch it.  Use is to numb the pain in that area.
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there are several herbs that will help:\nBlack Cohosh\nBugleweed\nChaste Tree\nShepard's Purse\nWhite Willow (for pain)
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Stretching, exercising, sleeping in the right positions, seeing a physiotherapist to give you a personalized routine and apply heat/cold correctly to your body.\n\nEasy way to get the pain to subside considerably: stretch everyday.  Good stretch for your back:  hold onto something that will hold your body weight (like a door handle) that is waist high and lean your whole body out with your feet under where your hands are holding, this will stretch out your back.  Other than this, just do 15-20 min of various stretches, holding each stretch for 1 minute.  \n\nGet an exercies routine.  If you don't want a gym membership, then make a point of walking for 20 minutes everyday.  At least it is something. \n\nHow old are you?  Sounds like you are in your twenties.\n\nWhen we leave our teens our body starts to solidify.  This is my terminology for the fact it's not growing anymore and it becomes more and more solid.  It's not naturally changing all the time, so we need to keep it moving, keep it flexible, and keep it working.  \n\nI cracked my neck a couple times in  high school, and had been able to slack off on the exercise for several years, but it caught up with me in the form of constant pain, knots continually under my shoulder blades, and greatly decreased upper body strength.  I started stretching everyday, even just for 5 minutes if I'm busy, and exercising at the gym a minimum twice a week, and now I have NO pain.  NONE.  It's been 6 months.  I don't do much, but the little bit has changed my entire body.  \n\nOk, so enough home remedies, you're having pain with no immediate results on the attempts you've tried.  Have you seen a physiotherapist?  Get a doctor's referral and go - it's totally worth the $35 fee or whatever they charge where you are.  They will apply heat to your back and teach you all the exercises you  need for that part of your back, exercises, stretches etc.  And they'll teach you how to sleep and sit and everything that will improve your back.  \n\nI saw my physiotherapist before beginning my exercise and stretch routine, and it was the best investment I've made for my body.  \n\nGood luck.
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Here's some things that work for me.\n1.) I light up the bowl and smoke some good reefer. It always works if the pain is extreme, because marijuana tends to have a numbing agent in it associated with the THC that makes you just feel 'whatever' about the pain. You won't feel it.\n2.) I chew up two Tylenol and drink a warm glass of milk. Chewing up a pain pill tends to make your body absorb the drug faster, so instead of waiting 45 minutes to an hour for the pill to begin to work, it will work almost instantaneously. It's nasty, but it works.\n3.) I try to sleep. Sleeping works the best for my pain, because when I sleep I wake up and at least I haven't been awake for that hour in pain.\n4.) Take a loooooooooooooooooooooooooong HOTT bath. A mean a steaming hot bath. Where it's hard to lay down in because it's almost TOO hot. But trust me...it feels GREAT.\n5.) Have someone rub your spine GENTLY. Hard masages will hurt it even more, so if you have someone gently rub your spine side to side and along the vertebrate, it should help relieve the pressure and swelling.\n\n\nHOPE I HELPED!
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There really isn't much you can do. The pain should not be so bad that it's unbearable. If it is, you should contact your doctor. If it's uncomfortable and a little sore, a little ibuprofen should do the trick.
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try taking warm bath to sooth your pain  try  not to irritate  it to much when you wipe  or anything  \ndo not self  medicate  \nand  go  see a doctor  about  it may be nothing  but just incase  go see your doctor \n\nand  please let us  know  \nthank you \n\nhope u  feel better
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Sorry, I do not care to tamper with my biochemistry.  It can create serious problems.\n\nUnfortunately, I do have to take some medications a doctor prescribes to minimize pain.\n\nI probably like caffeine the best, even though it isn't very good for me.\n\nNamaste.
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all depends on the pain level, do what you can, but leg lifts, knee to chest with practice, stretching legs over to one side or the odd one, take a towel hang on to both ends, put under arch of foot, stretch against what you are pulling on, the do other leg.
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Try painkillers, tylenol, advil etc. Also, try a thermacare patch over that region. Usually what i do, is take the painkiller then go to sleep, and when i wake up i feel better.
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use clove oil. the pharmacy has it  and it's called red cross. it tastes bad, but it will kill the pain
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IT'S THE WORST PAIN I'VE EVER HAD...I PUT HEAT ON IT WITH A HEATING PAD...THAT RELAXED IT SOME...I ALSO TRIED BENGAY...BUT BE CAREFUL DON'T GET TO CLOSE THE SENSITIVE PARTS...I ALSO WOULD STRETCH IT, BUT THAT DIDN'T HELP...I THINK IT'S LIKE BEING DRUNK...THE ONLY CURE IS TIME...GOOD LUCK
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Use a mixture of essential oils of peppermint, helichrysum, clove, wintergreen, lavader, and euclyptus. These all have pain numbing effects that can be used in long timeframes without any negative side effects. Additionally if you have bad muscle tension this will helpwith that too, this mixture doesn't only numb pain but it helps achieve a balnce in your muscular system so you heal up whats causeing the pain. Also if youend up being sensitive to the oil mixture wash it off with olive or almond oil, DO NOT USE WATER!!! Water pushes the oil further into the skin where as the vegetable oils will dilute them. Its rare to have reactions, but if you do use less of the oil or dilute it before application with either of the before mentioned vegetable oils. Hope this works for oyu.
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Use Aloe vera gel, it comes in both Menthol and in regular. It will speed up the healing process and take away the burning sensation. To help ease the discomfort I would recommend using a lidocain spray such as "solarcaine" it's available in the same aisle as the aloe vera gel in most stores. You can also take acetominophen (Tylenol) if you are not allergic to it to help with the pain. - Hope you feel better soon and great question!- James
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Don't know of any cures, but you may want to see an acupuncturist.  Acupuncture is very effective at treating a wide array of pain conditions.
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Disclaimer:  Do not perform these exercises unless cleared by an MD or PT.  Do not perform these exercises if they increase your pain or cause other symptoms to occur.\n\nPrayer stretch:\nKneel on your hands and knees.  Keeping your hands where they are, sit back on your heels (keep your head down).  You should feel this stretch along the mid back and the sides of the torso.  To concentrate on one side only, walk your hands over to the left and then the right.\n\nGenie stretch:\nSeated or standing, hold your arms out in front of you and grab your elbows with the opposite hands.  Gently pull as if pulling elbows apart.  You should feel this stretch across the mid back and shoulder blades.\n\nDoorway stretch:\nStand in an open doorway with your forearms against the frame.  Put one foot through the doorway and lean forward.  You should feel the stretch across the chest and shoulders.  To change this stretch, you can lower or raise the height of your arms.\n\nChair Rotation stretch:\nSeated in a chair with arms, turn your torso as if trying to see behind you.  You can put your hands on the arms or back of chair for overpressure.  You should feel this stretch on the sides of your torso.\n\nNeck stretch:\nPlace your right hand behind your head and bend your head to the left.  You can place your left hand on your head to apply GENTLE overpressure.  Also try this while looking down to the left.  Repeat to other side.  You should feel this stretch along the side and back of the neck.\n\nAll stretches should be performed 3-4 repetitions, 20-30 seconds, 2-3 times a day.
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as an external martial artist i want to say that only medications can help with blocking pain.. \n\nas an internal martial artist i say that qigong is a great art for learning how to focus your chi to allow your body to not so much block pain, but to lessen the pain and begin healing itself. \n\nour bodies can do more than our ignorance allows us to perceive. \n\ngive you an example.. in march i was rushed to the er, with severe abdominal pains and a yo-yoing blood pressure that wouldn't level off.. i was basically in septic shock.. unbeknownst to myself i had ovarian systs that was leaking into my blood stream and basically poisoning me from the inside. while the er staff was chaotically trying what they could to get my blood pressure to rise and stay at a normal level, i took it upon myself to begin tai chi bong position (the basis for all yang tai chi) as i layed on the gurny. in a matter of minutes i was able to focus my chi on controlling the pain and my blood pressure began to return to normal levels.. \n\nso don't let anyone tell you this is a stupid question.. it's actually one that internal martial artists know something about.. \n\nhope this helps!\n\n~*good luck*~