The human body is still a mystery in so many ways to doctors and scientists. Despite having more knowledge and research to draw from, there are still illnesses that confound researchers and pains that elude doctors. Illnesses like myasthenia gravis and congential myasthenia gravis that cause extreme and chronic exhaustion and pain for the patient. Doctors and researchers haven’t been able to come up with a cure for this illness, but that doesn’t mean you have to face the pain all alone and helpless. Your doctor might have some quite effective mainstream treatments for you. If you feel like trying something out of the ordinary, here are three of the weirdest and quite literally most shocking options anyone has ever come up with.
3 Things You Did Not Know Could Ease Chronic Pain From Myasthenia Gravis
- Blood – The patient’s own blood is drawn and separated into its components. A platelet-rich plasma is injected back into the patient, right into the painful area. It helps take out the middle man, so to speak, and injects the healing properties that your body naturally makes, right into the exact spot for faster and more efficient healing. For some people it provides pain relief for up to a year in that area after one injection.
- Venom – Spider venom has evolved to be very effective in numbing the victim to the point that they cannot move. This allows spiders to take down prey much larger than they are. This is bad for the spider food, and possibly great for pain suffering humans because the compounds in the spider venom that paralyze bugs and mice can block the body’s pain process. Further research is still needed, but the implications are hopeful. Bee venom is actually already used in some acupuncture practices for this reason.
- Electrical Shock – Solving pain with pain sounds counterintuitive. However, the human body runs on millions of tiny electrical synapses each day, so electrical shock may not be as off base as you may first think. Mildly shocking the muscles to stimulate the nerves is actually not a new practice, but not many people have heard of it. A transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) machine can actually be rented or bought by medical suppliers and online. It can be done at home and is a painless way to shock some areas of the body into healing.
Regardless of the cause of the pain, myasthenia gravis or not, any pain relieving methods are priceless for those with chronic pain. Just ask Frank Schiraldi, a pharmasist who wrote President Obama on behalf of himself and other chronic pain sufferers for better access to pain relief. He knows better than most, as he works on the frontline in the field and lives with myasthenia gravis himself. Quirky treatments like those above can lose their shock appeal when they prove to offer real relief to the people who need it.
