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💉 Can we get an anti-anesthetic plz? I want to feel the pain of bedbugs stabbing me. (mander.xyz)
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The insideous nature of parasites (mosquitos, bed bugs, wood ticks) is that they have a natural anesthetic that works on humans. So you feel nothing when they poke you, and thus you unwittingly let them carry out their attack against you.

Fuck that. Gimme some pain please. I would like to take a pill before sleeping that, for ~6 hours, will neutralise the anesthetics of bedbugs. That way I can keep an empty vial to incarcerate the vile motherfuckers that leech a blood meal out of me the moment they attack.

Before hiking in the woods, I want a pill that will neutralise tick and mosquito anesthetics for ~2—4 hours. If I can be fussy, I might still want to be able to take Ibuprofin to reduce muscle pain, ideally to bring the pain of being jabbed more to the foreground.

My search for anti-anesthetics came up mostly empty. I found this:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8850306/

But that’s way to technical for me to make any sense of it.

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[–] lefty7283@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not really an acute thing, but there’s this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid-induced_hyperalgesia