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A supposed new painkiller that blocks the PN1 channell

paranoid android

paranoid android

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Ok here is a article i found about it. Since im a chronic pain patient i am actually interested in if this could actually work. But it just seems too good to be true but then again i know jack shit about this stuff.

So any help would be appreciated.
 
seems legit to me. i wonder what the side effect profile will look like. this may not work on neuropathic pain though.
 
Didnt they try a similar thing with some kind of drug derived from snail venom that was supposed to be 1000 times stronger then morphine or something? I think that turned out to be a flop in clinical trials or it might have even have made it past clinical trials and flopped.

I suffer from neuropathic pain and im just very wary of anything that is supposed to be a wonder drug for it. I remember gabapentin being a wonder drug for it then lyrica was the wonder drug. Although both of them help me alot neither controls the pain anywhere near enough on their own and i would be in agony if it was not for morphine.

Not that i intend to go off morphine or opiates in general but i was just wondering about this supposed wonder drug and how well it would actually work. I have no clue about the PN1 channel so i couldnt decifer this shit at all.
 
paranoid android said:
Didnt they try a similar thing with some kind of drug derived from snail venom that was supposed to be 1000 times stronger then morphine or something? I think that turned out to be a flop in clinical trials or it might have even have made it past clinical trials and flopped.
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ziconotide is available, but you need to be fitted with a pump that delivers it into your spine

there was some talk about putting it into liposomes
 
Probably not. Their stock is trading near just of a 52 week high. Still, taking a long term approach, it's really off since even 2007, and no where near it's ten-year high. None of these companies look that great right now, though, but I doubt it's going anywhere anytime soon.

I'd put money on Pfizer before I'd put money on Merck. Pfizer is still at about 19.17 bucks a share, not exactly going-away prices, and Merck is at 32.90, but it's been sliding and I don't think anything is going to stop it anytime soon.
 
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