Why pain killers reduce anxiety some times ?
March 11th, 2010
Sweet Pinki asked:
I see patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder also addicted to some pain killers. I think one of the effect of long lasting anxiety is inflammation and increased response to pain , so pain killers must be helping in getting a comfortable feeling. What is opinion of experts ?
Edit – May be anxiety could be accompanied by fibromyalgia hence they feel better by taking pain killers ?
As Daniel has said , some pain killers contain Codein and some contains muscle relaxtants ( e.g. Soma contains Cariosprodal which is OTC drug and addiction prone ). So these drugs may be relieving anxiety by giving euphoric feeling.
Zakiya
I see patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder also addicted to some pain killers. I think one of the effect of long lasting anxiety is inflammation and increased response to pain , so pain killers must be helping in getting a comfortable feeling. What is opinion of experts ?
Edit – May be anxiety could be accompanied by fibromyalgia hence they feel better by taking pain killers ?
As Daniel has said , some pain killers contain Codein and some contains muscle relaxtants ( e.g. Soma contains Cariosprodal which is OTC drug and addiction prone ). So these drugs may be relieving anxiety by giving euphoric feeling.
Zakiya
Categories: Pain & Pain Management | Tags: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Otc Drug, Soma
Marie
my anxiety is provoked by my pain without pain i am relaxed and calm without pain i can sleep. I was addicted to vikodin for a while i stopped suddenly realizing the bad effects on my life and was sick for a long time. Now i have pain again and only take half a vikodin a week i cant sleep or focus because of the pain
Jesus
Pain killers chill you out. They tell your brain that there is no pain and that you feel good. If you felt that way why would be you anxious? You wouldn’t.
Dieniece
It depends on what pain killers you are talking about.
Pain killers such as Nurofen Plus and Panadol Extra, both available without a prescription, contain codeine.
Codeine, along with morphine and heroin, is a member of the opioid family.
When you take pain killers containing codeine you are basically giving yourself a hit of smack, albeit a very small one.
MATTHEW
Some anxiety disorders are just diagnosed wrong. While the disorder may be there the reason for it being there is what is missed. Some people have the disorder because of pain that they had first and that pain would do some shooting of the pain through the body. When that has happened enough times your brain starts bracing for the next one to happen and when it has done that enough times it sits on the edge waiting for it to happen again and it ends up affecting their whole life. Then they get mixed into the group that may have a completely different reason for the disorder and until they are given something that blocks the pain they can’t feel any better.
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