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+++ HERE +++ is a very interesting and non technical article about how different medications approach pain management. The article helped me to understand why one pain medication might work while another pain medication does not.


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Thanks God for Opioids ... natural and synthetic derivatives of morphine with varying potency and duration. Some common examples include codeine, tramadol, hydrocodone, oxycodone, buprenorphine and fentanyl.

I am sorry that the medical community made a absolute mess out of over prescribing these products, but for god sake don't ban these (which there is a huge effort to do). I literally had to beg my physician to prescribe me the proper medication for pain treatment when I was diagnoses with acute pancreatitis with obstruction of the bile ducts. The problems was ultamitly resolved by surgury, but those weeks prior were hell.


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Thanks for sharing this. Sometimes the “pharmaceutical industry” gets a bad rap for limiting the pipeline of approved drugs thereby causing prices to increase but let’s take a moment to thank the tens of thousands of innovative and hardworking individuals around the world that burn midnight oil to bring compounds to market that will bring a higher quality of life to the vast majority of us at some point in our lives; often times with mild or no side effects.

Microbiologists, internal medicine specialists, physiologists, and other medical scientists, together with researchers in organic chemistry, botany, biology and other research domains might begin the design/discovery process along with mathematicians, statisticians, computational chemistry experts, programmers and other computer scientists.

Next you might have biologists and others responsible for designing and conducting various experiments and studies of candidate drug dosages/concentrations at the cellular, organoid and animal model level.

Then we have mechanical, electrical, safety, reliability, process, pneumatic and other engineers who work on the manufacturing and logistical side of things.

Then we have the crucial specialists who design, execute and interpret clinical trials including experts at the applicable regulatory agencies.

And finally we have the general practitioner/family doctor that will do the prescribing and gatekeep for dangerous interactions with the other stuff you are taking. And generally speaking they do a good job whether you are young, old, male, female, with co-morbidities or without.

These are just the few domains and sub-specialties that come immediately to mind and I’m sure I’m neglecting several.

To be sure, like anything else designed by humans, we/they don’t always get it right. The opioid addiction epidemic in the US is one example. But even here, it’s only the last few “links in the chain” that were responsible for the majority of the harm. I’d say in general the above technocrats are owed our gratitude.

The next time you’re prescribed something that takes you from excruciating to better than tolerable . . . hug a geek


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I guess in the future, we will have a wearable smartwatch "micro pharmacy" that will inject us with exact dose of what is needed at the right time... Diabetes auto injectors were around for a while now.

Something I was reading yesterday about flu shots and Alzheimer, which I found interesting:

https://www.uth.edu/news/story/uthealth-houston-study-flu-vaccination-linked-to-40-reduced-risk-of-alzheimers-disease

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