Tylenol Eases Emotional Pain...And May Pave The Way To Treat Post-Partum Depression As Well

Tylenol Eases Emotional Pain...And May Pave The Way To Treat Post-Partum Depression As Well

A topical researcher is testing whether an enema designed for physical pain can cure the emotional pain of post-partum melancholy (PPD).

The study comes after the management of 37-year-old Nicole Hooper. Recently the Villa Park indigenous became the first woman with office-partum depression to receive a traditive neck injection for physical pain called a Stellate Ganglion Block (SGB). The just discovered mother was so anxious after the ancestry of her son; she was paralyzed through an overwhelming urge to abandon her infant.

When hormones and antidepressants didn't toil, her local doctor recommended the originally different approach. Yet after getting the handling "Everything became brighter," she says. "I wasn't as overwhelmed and had more energy. My husband said I was transformed." '

"My team and I weren't surprised," says Eugene Lipov M.D, Founder of Advanced Pain Centers. "We often see an emotional boost after giving bitterness patients Stellate Ganglion Blocks. What's more we've recently shown the performance helps veterans with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.[1] Our PTSD results were freshly replicated at Walter Reed Army Hospital.[2]"

He continues, "The theme of inquiry has always been why would a manipulation for physical pain have such each emotional effect?"

Now a groundbreaking study involving Tylenol may elucidate why.

"Researchers showed that emotional chafe can be eased with Tylenol and homogeneous pain relievers," says Dr. Lipov. In the novel study University of Kentucky researchers gave 62 subjects any one placebos or the equivalent of five Tylenol pills a promised time.[3] Over three weeks the Tylenol users feelings were uniform daily using a psychologically accepted "give pain to feelings" scale. The Tylenol users' scores consistently declined up to by day 21 that group's average score was 15% lower than those anger placebo.

The lead researcher, Dr. Nathan DeWall, concluded "We own shown for the first time that acetaminophen (Tylenol)...too reduces the pain of social exclusion, at both neural and behavioral levels."

Dr. Lipov says, "What positively intrigued me about Dr, DeWall's study was he showed Tylenol exerted this emotional result by acting on the insular cortex of the brain. That's exactly the similar area that's affected by a Stellate Ganglion Block.[4]" The specialist is moreover Director of Chronic Pain Research at Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights.

Now the researcher hopes to answer a similar study to confirm SGB is a trustworthy effective treatment for other women by post-partum depression. He believes the handling is ideal for PPD. Unlike medication a SGB acts all but immediately so there's no breach in mother•son bonding.

Dr. Lipov seeks funding and volunteers to use and carefully monitor the feelings of ten women through PPD. He estimates those women may exigency an average of two such treatments to be~ their emotional lives back.

"What we're verdict is terms like 'emotional pain' and 'detriment feelings' are more than just metaphors. Emotional worry is so similar to physical bitterness it can be helped by sundry of the same treatments. Now I apprehend we'll find that's upright with post-partum depression as well."

Nicole Hooper says, "I dress in't know how it worked, everything I know is this treatment turned my disposition around. And I know without this treatment the challenges in my life would be under the necessity pushed me over the edge."

[1] Lipov EG, Joshi JR, Lipov SG, Sanders SE, Siroko MK. Cervical commiserating blockade in a patient with posttraumatic inclemency disorder: a case report. Ann Clin Psychiatry. 2008;20:227-228

[2] Mulvaney SW, McLean B, de Leeuw J. The application of stellate ganglion block in the treatment of panic/anxiety symptoms with rencounter-related posttraumatic stress disorder; preliminary results of extensive-term follow-up: a case line. Pain Pract. 2010;10:359-365

[3] Acetaminophen Reduces Social Pain: Behavioral and Neural Evidence
DeWall et al, Psychological Science 21 (7) 931-937

[4] Lipov EG, Joshi JR, et al. A unifying conjecture linking the prolonged efficacy of the stellular ganglion block for the treatment of chronic regional pain syndrome (CRPS), hot flashes, and posttraumatic weight disorder (PTSD). Med Hypotheses 2009;72(6):657-61.