The Unified Theory of the Nervous System
and Behavior
Cognitive Philosophy /Brain Theory by Steven Michael Harris
Patients warned on painkiller use (BBC News, 12/21/2004)
Patients taking a class of painkilling drugs called Cox-2 inhibitors have been advised to contact their GP to review their treatment.
The advice follows a study suggesting one of the drugs, Celebrex, increased the risk of heart problems.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency advice applies to people taking Celebrex, Bextra and Arcoxia.
The agency stressed there was no need to make an urgent appointment.
To relieve pain is not the same thing as to improve health. Pain is a part of your functioning that lets you know what is happening and indicates how you should adjust what you are doing. All of thinking is the seeking of pleasure and the avoidance of pain. To interfere with that processing is always going to cause interference in various functions of the body. It will always happen. Accept that. There will never be a painkiller that is totally safe.
After that, the safety will be judged as a matter of degree. (Notice how they say there is no urgency to stop medication even though it increases the risk of heart attack, advice given even to those with heart disease already.)
Even Aspirin causes bleeding ulcers.
Pain relievers will always work by adding stress to fully inhibit some subset of the nervous system so that what was firing errantly will no longer fire at all. To numb is not to improve. To take away feeling is not the same as replacing a bad feeling with a good feeling (although such an illusion might occur comparing pain to numb, a comparison that might involve a part of your functioning that is hard to pinpoint or sort out in this way).
To be absent of pain when there is serious damage is to have damage to a function of your body. This concept must be understood to improve medical theory: improved general state of feeling is not necessarily improved health if that general assessment (emotion, state of feeling) is irrational.
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