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Bob

Ur e-mail address keeps bouncing????

Big John
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On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:10:43 -0700 (PDT), Bob Hoover
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On Mar 28, 5:02*pm, Tech Support wrote:

One thing I use. is capsaicin (pepper juice, don't laugh).

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Dear Big John,

Maybe we should chalk this one up in the Eerie Dept.

Since an electric hot-pad appeared to provide some relief -- all in my
head, of course... I tried Vicks 'vapo-rub' (a necessity if you've
ever been on a body recover team).

And since Vicks seemed to work -- all in my head for sure, this
time... I tried something a bit worse..

Now, I KNOW the stuff doesn't work, okay? But I actually slept a few
hours in a row -- and felt enormously better for it.

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Your rub-on stuff MAY be something I was urged to try by a
professional 'sports trainer,' who described it as keeping the NFL
afloat. Except he vanished down the internet before passing along any
place to buy the stuff. So, yes please. I would love to have the
address. And promise not to tell through at least the first set of
fingernails.

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But it DOES seem kinda odd... back hurts and we do what? Curl up
with our back a bit closer to the clan's fire? (And probably alienate
the clan Medicine Man, who insists it couldn't work... :-)

Bob

On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:02:48 -0500, Tech Support wrote:

Bob

I have a bad back from my ejection from a jet. Was an early seat and
hard on spine during ejection and then landed on fozen rocks in
GreenLand.

One thing I use. is capsaicin (pepper juice, don't laugh).


I think what you are doing is stimulating an adjacent nerve pathway.
up in the top of your spine in the back of your head is a nerve
integrating structure which seems to multitask the pathways.
if you stimulate an adjacent nerve the system stops processing the
original pathway and swaps to the new sensation. ...for a while.

same characteristic we are exploiting when scratching an itch.

btw there is nothing stopping Bob from reaching over to the guy and
saying "it may be just the drugs I'm pumped full of at the moment but
could you stop being an asshole while you are working with me. I'm
just a regular person in a lot of pain you know."
the guy may not be aware of how people perceive his body language.

(not even 2c worth)
Stealth Pilot

On Mar 28, 10:50 pm, Stealth Pilot
wrote:

I think what you are doing is stimulating an adjacent nerve pathway.
up in the top of your spine in the back of your head is a nerve
integrating structure which seems to multitask the pathways.
if you stimulate an adjacent nerve the system stops processing the
original pathway and swaps to the new sensation. ...for a while.

Maybe. One doctor told me that such things work by irritating the
nerves in the skin. This draws more blood flow to the entire region,
including the muscle mass and joints underlying the skin that's
irritated, and the extra blood washes away the excess lactic acid
formed when muscles are in spasm too long. And they're in spasm
because nerves in and around them are being pinched or annoyed by
inflammation. The lactic acid burns the nerve endings. The
inflammation in muscles and joints could be due to the lactic acid,
too.
So almost any irritant will work. Isopropyl aclohol, various
liniments, pepper juice. Others are forms of topical anaesthetics like
menthol or eucalyptus or camphor. Those deaden nerve endings. Vinegar
is also a mild anaesthetic and works on mosquito bites and mild
sunburn and other itches.

My Mom gave me some pepper juice roll-on stuff in the more
expensive form of Lakota. It works. And stings the most when I'm in
the shower long after it was applied.

Dan