Pain Reliever

We've all experienced moments where there's a serious need for pain relievers. The pain relievers lining the shelves of your local drugstore are not all the same, but they do fall into to may categories: pain relievers that decrease inflammation and pain relievers that don't decrease inflammation. They also vary on how quickly pain relievers work and the number of side effects caused by the pain relievers.

Pain relievers come in pill and liquid form. They can also be applied in a number of ways, from ingesting them to applying them topically.

So what happens after you swallow a pain reliever? Pain relievers work with your cells, your body's nerve endings, your nervous system, and your brain to keep you from feeling pain. Your body is full of nerve endings in your skin and tissues and when cells in your body are injured or damaged, they release a chemical called prostaglandin. The nerve endings that sense pain are sensitive to prostaglandin, they pick up the chemical and transmit pain signals to the brain.

The downside of ingesting a pain reliever is that you have to wait for your body to break it down. A topical pain reliever, like MedGen's PAINenz, is a topical roll-on and works immediately. PAINenz is able to do it because it is applied at the heart of the pain and goes to work immediately. Its use widespread in the professional sports world, where immediate pain relief is a necessity. The use of topical pain relievers is now growing among the regular population. To learn more about PAINenz and its uses, click here.

Pain stinks, but it's not all bad. Pain is your body's early warning system that tells you something is wrong. If we didn't feel pain, when we have our hands on a hot pot, we wouldn't know that our hands were burning. Our pain sensors then tell us when to get our body out of harm's way.

When you take pain relievers, it keeps injured or damaged cells from making and releasing prostaglandin. If the cells don't release prostaglandin, the brain won't get the pain message as quickly or as clearly. When taking pain relievers your pain becomes less severe as long as the cells aren't releasing the chemical.