Toothache is awesome
SpongeCake
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It totally is. In the midst of my pain and my not-doing-work-age I decided to wander across to the Wikipedia page for toothache where I discover this nugget of information:
And to my amazement, it totally works. How awesome is that? So awesome it deserves its own thread is how awesome.
Rubbing ice on the back of the hand, on the V-shaped webbed area between your thumb and index finger reduces toothache pain by as much as 50 percent compared with using no ice. The nerve pathways at the base of that V stimulate an area of the brain that blocks pain signals from the face and hands.
And to my amazement, it totally works. How awesome is that? So awesome it deserves its own thread is how awesome.
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I find breaking a finger takes toothache away.
Only problem is that it creates fingerache, which is not nice.
Keep in mind that it specifies toothaches which are different from headaches. So if you try this for a headache and it doesn't do anything for you, that doesn't really counter the claim.
I have found that massaging that area can also relieve certain types of headaches.
All that Chinese chi-based medicine stuff (acupuncture, for example) is actually somewhat valid, you know, which is why a huge nation has been practicing it for millenia. I mean I'm sure some of it is horseshit, but I think people are too quick to dismiss it all. And maybe "chi" or "spirit energy" isn't the most "Western scientific" reasoning, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't work.
Amperes.
A Pain Unit.
Seriously. There is a sliding scale of pain limits
I agree but it also stands to reason that the methods can be refined by studying them using scientific method to weed out the methods that are effective as well as when they work so that they can be used even more effectively.
Which is silly.
No one says that.
I have found that massaging that area can also relieve certain types of headaches.[/QUOTE]
I have found that massaging from the inside with vicoden works well too
edit:iseem to have dicked up that quote royally
I have found that massaging from the inside with vicoden works well too[/QUOTE]
That's great, broken quote tag, but somehow I think that swatting a fly with a rocket-propelled grenade is overkill and is actually far inferior to using a fly swatter or a rolled-up newspaper.
Oh, certainly. There's no reason not to refine those methods, just as there's no reason to throw those methods away.
Dammit, now I don't know what to argue over.
I always thought that the pressure point for headache relief was on your foot somewhere.
And, why are you not at the dentist.
Toothaches can rot your brain and kill you, you know.
Also, zhenunderscorerogue is an architect. I don't know why I know this but I am assured it is correct.
I had my wisdom teeth out last thanksgiving for the same reason.
Let me tell you how exctiting that was sometime.
And yes, i'm an architect.
You must be a stalker and/or psychic.
If you're a stalker, I hope you're cute and have nimble fingers.
"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
Goddamn root canals.
True story.
If you ignore a problem hard enough it goes away.
It's like communism.
Or Crystal Pepsi.
When all of my teeth fall out the problem will resolve itself
They'll be lining up behind Olive Garden!
Where did that come from, anyway
I don't know, but I don't think it was Italy.