PainKillers and their effectiveness!?

Question

This is a totally hypothetical question.

My mom broke her bones 4 times. I never broke a bone. But I asked her what it felt like. She never answered cause she couldn't explain it or put into words. Yet, she makes pizza with a broken arm (in a cast.) so Im guessing it doesn't hurt THAT much.

But I imagine having a broken bone hurts like ALOT.

A few of my friends said they had it and it did hurt. But afterwards, they talk about it like, meh. It wasn't too bad.

I have done research on the net, and there are some people whom ahve broken their bones like 10 times and brag about it.

So, my question is....if someone breaks their bone. Do painkillers have any effect in nullifying or eliminating the pain?
And how effective is the painkiller in removing the pain? By how much? 50%? 20%? 70%? Some people claim that the painkillers don't work very much. And some people claim they felt barely any pain. Alot of people I know bragged that they had broken bones and didn't feel any pain.

Answer 1

Actual bone pain can range from mild to sever depending upon where the break is and a person's perception of pain.

No one can say and especially so specifically by what % how much pain will be alleviated by medication, especially without knowing the name of the medication, the persons weight and tolerance, the strength of the med...and on and on and on.

Pain is subjective, varies from person to person. As does pain relief. Entirely different for everyone.

Answer 2

Every person is different, and for some people pain killers are fairly effective in reliving their pain, and for others they are not effective in relieving the pain. Everybody also has a different pain tolerance which can make every body's pain scale for a broken bone or any type of pain is different.

Answer 3

I broke my ankle in 1986! I literally fell over my boyfriend, he fell on top of me and I heard bang? However I got up and felt fine? I decided it would be a good idea to go to ER just in case, so off we went. The ankle started as a golf ball, then tennis ball by the time I got to the ER it was really swollen, but not painful. They x-rayed it, set it and put it in a cast. I then left no drugs. Got back and decided to sleep on the couch, rather than bed and elevated my foot, to try and get the swelling down. I did not sleep well due to the plaster cast. The following morning I went to get off the couch, put the leg down on the ground and the PAIN! One hour it throbbed and throbbed and throbbed. It did subside but every night I would raise the leg and every morning pain. However four days later, the pain had gone. I was not given any pain killers, just had to get on with it. 16 weeks later they were talking about operating to insert screws as it had not knitted. I objected and another two weeks it was normal and healed.

Answer 4

With pain killers we loose the sense of pain!
It is being said therefore that pain killers don't kill the pain but the patient due to the side effects of meds. Sometimes they are serious and cause vomitting, fainting, loss of vision, kidney/liver failure, ulcer, and many others.
There is no medicine for treating pain. Because causes of pain are generally beyond the scope of medicine science.
As far as fracture is concerned pain will be there till the fracture is not cured. Pain will disappear when fracture cures. Therefore pain killers are prescribed till it pains!

Answer 5

for my broken bones, it hurt most when they swelled up or i would twitch just before i got the cast on, so it wasnt contained.
advil was all i ever took. if i took two, i would be fine, with no pain. i guess it all depends on the severity of the break, and pain tolerance. it differs for every person.