Posted by bulldog2 on June 26, 2008, at 14:50:45
In reply to Oxycontin, posted by maree on June 26, 2008, at 0:15:21
> I have read of people taking Oxycodine, which I presume supplements the above NT. This being so, why was it prescribed for you. I believe that it is used to treat physical pain, ratherthan emotional pain, which, since Oxycontin is the NT that stimulates the feeling of love, is puzzling to me.
> My question is, to those who take it, does it make you more caring to others, more emotional?
> I ask because a stroke 12 years ago has destroyed my ability to feel love for anything or anyone (from the dog who I had owned for 10 years to my partner, who was the first man I had ever fallen in love with, I did not feel emotional, either, when my mother passed away 9 years after the stroke.)
> This not being able to love is putting me in a very lonely, fearful place, and makes people back off from me; since I am obviously not getting any sort of pleasure from anything in life, nobody wants to hang around me and catch my blues.
> Could this medication promote feelings of love, or am I just clutching at straws.I think you mean oxytocin.(hormone)
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