NMDA Receptors: The Chronic Pain Culprits
To Ignore It Is Negligent
NMDA Receptors or NMDAR:
The Facts
. Fibromyalgia sufferers are in chronic pain.
It means that a painful stimulation is worse than it would be otherwise. This is called
hyperalgesia and
hyperpathia.
It also means that what should normally be a non-painful stimulation such as a caress becomes painful. This is called
allodynia.
Those abnormal pain reactions are due to the activation of memory receptors in the central nervous system called the
NMDAR.
. Because of these activated NMDAR
we must avoid to activate them any more
and we must try to quiet them by using
NMDAR antagonists.
. Morphine and morphine like opioids
Whilst they fight pain by their action on the μ (mu) receptors they also
stimulate indirectly the NMDAR! This is why in normal people they create hyperalgesia and allodynia and lose their effects over time. This is worse in fibromyalgia sufferers.
. In fibromyalgia magnesium is already deficient
In any case fibromyalgia sufferers need magnesium supplement. The fact that
magnesium is an NMDAR antagonist is an added reason to use it.
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For a detailed process to avoid NMDA receptors activation click here
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