OK, so I had root canal yesterday morning on a tooth that had been bothering me for well over a week. Last weekend we were out and I had a flair up of up of pain that brought tears to my eyes. A friend who was there told me to hold an ice cube in the hand on the same side of the toothache. Naturally, I was skeptical and told him he was nuts. Nonetheless, the pain was pretty intense so I tried it. Well you could have knocked me over with a feather because within 15 seconds the pain was gone - totally and completely gone! I did the ice cube trick each time the pain flared up and I'd say it worked 90% of the time. The pain doesn't stay away forever, but I had a few hours of peace between flair ups.

I don't know if this will work for chronic pain or if it's just for an acute attack, but it does work. I don't know why and the brief time I've spent on google hasn't given me answers, but to be honest, I don't care. Give me something so simple that makes the pain stop and I'm all for it.

This has been a very odd public service announcement.

ROCK ON..........Trish

I believe the reason this works is because your brain can't process both the extreme "pain" and the extreme "cold" sstimuli at the same time; the newer stimulus replaces the old. Maybe it needs to be the same hemisphere that's processing the "pain" message for this to work best...

well I'm definately gonna try this!!! thanks for the tip



Logan