Tickling and painkillers

[Slappy McGee]

The thread on controlling ticklishness led me to wonder about something.....

Pain and tickling appear to be at least somewhat related, considering that they both involve nerve endings receiving messages and transmitting those messages to the brain.... there for it would seem to me that if a person were taking painkillers (not like tylenol, but the serious stuff) it would effect their level of ticklishness. Has anyone ever noticed if this is true, because if it is, it could be useful at times (thinking of an ex girlfriend who wouldn't let me suck her toes because she was too ticklish) or it could be a way to convince someone who fears they are too ticklish to experiment with restrained tickling.... lots of possabilities.

of course, I would never endorse the use of a pharmaceutical without a prescription 😉

Slappy McGee

 

[Prime]

i tickled a girl one time that was taking pain killers for her back..i tickled her once while she was still feeling the numbness of the pill and it dulled her senses...she usely went wild but said that the painkiller didnt make it as bad. it was much easier for her to take. of coarse i did'nt want to cause her more back pain so i went easy and just playful....but my guess is it would ease the senses a bit. however have to be careful..not good to take painkillers for no reason..people get hooked and dependant on them.

 

[Blackstar216]

Let's put it this way. Anyone taking pain killers probably isn't in any mood to be tickled anyway. If they weren't in pain to begin with, they wouldn't be taking the killers.

 

[Slappy McGee]

sometimes people's reactions to things surprise me. I understand that substances can be dangerous and addictive, but I am just curious if people would feel a need to focus on that aspect of my post if I had said that after tickling, I love a good cigarette, or if I said I loved to have tickling sessions when drunk? Just because something is or isn't legal doesn't necessarily make it safer or more dangerous than anything else. Just a thought. I don't want to dwel on this too much, and seem like I am being defensive, or even promoting drug use. I just find it all very interesting.

Slappy McGee

 

[Dave2112]

I think I know what Slappy was getting at. I don't think he was talking about taking painkillers for the purpose of tickling, but how tickling is affected by having to take them for some other reason anyway. Blackstar had a point about severe pain lowering your desire to play, but some people are taking painkillers for chronic afflictions that are part of their lives, and they continue with their activities.

That's what I got out of it.

As for my answer, Slappy...

...I take Darvocet for chronic fibromyalgia. It's on a PRN (when I need it) basis. If the pain is bad to begin with, I have no desire to play. But if it's just a lower-level thing that the medication takes care of, the effect is a little subtle from my 'ler's point of view. Darvocet makes me a little "dopey", and my odd sense of humor really comes out. I can't get into any dark scenes or role-playing becuase I just start laughing at myself. But as for playful tickling, it doesn't really add anything other than making it more comical and therefore enjoyable on a slightly different level.

 

[Ticklish9's]

In Re...

Slappy, In response to your first post, it would seem to me that painkillers, by their very nature, would lower the susceptability of the 'Lee to tickling. I've never had a painkiller (barring the ol' dental spot-anasthetic novacaine) so I wouldn't really know, but logic would seem to dictate.

As regards your second post, I think I see where you are going with it, and I agree with your view. THe only experience I've had with people or peers utilizing pain killers (being a relatively healthy youth surrounded by similar such people) has been as a diversion, not a necessity. Like you, I don't want to seem like I'm promoting drug use or non-perscription uses for perscription medication, but society at large has a surprising tendency to assume that what is illegal is likewise bad or even unhealthy. Why is this surprising to me? Because we live in a country grounded in the premise that authority should not be followed merely for authority's sake, but rather should be questioned, argued with, even ridiculed. This extends to laws and particularly to victimless crimes.

That said, the gods of moderating may wish to take this post and even thread and move it to "general discussion". 🙂 Oops. 🙂

 

[Prime]

ok so far the discussion here has been civilized..that is good..i hope to carry on with that...i do see a whole lot of assumption going on here though....never in anywhere in my answer did i say it was illegal or bad..or anyone was promoting drug use....and i didnt see those things implied in blackstars post either....i gave what i thought was an answer to the original question..then i gave a precaution....i was trying to be helpful....so the replies are kind of out of the blue...at least to me...guess its not that big a deal really and not trying to make anyone mad....i guess i'm just not seeing what some of you guys are seeing... 😕

 

[Slappy McGee]

It's cool, prime. I'm not angry at anyone. I think what I did was take a little piece of what you said and took it somewhere else. I tend to do that sometimes. Sorry if I came across as angry or anything. I have always thought that computer communication can be a bit tough because all you get is the words, not the tone behind them.

anyway, all is happy in Slappyville.

 

[Prime]

hey its cool...don't worry i get confused about alot of things...😀

 

[ForgottenTcklr]

I'd much rather tickle w/o...