It will seem bizarre at first, but it's true: bed bug bites.
Here are the details about how we discovered this:
We moved into a new apartment several months ago. Our apartment is not infested with bed bugs. But we heard from the grapevine that other apartments in the complex had problems. We ended up getting a few 'strays'....about half a dozen since we have been here. My wife has fibromyalgia, with chronic pain in her back, neck, right leg, etc. The first bed bug that we encountered bit her on the right leg. She has not had ANY pain in that leg since, and it has been a few months now. She was having pain in her right arm. Then came a bed bug bite. Pain gone. The third time was her back. Same thing. They seem to prefer extracting blood near the site of pain. We were able to do a test. My wife had a cut on her knuckle that was sore. I found a bed bug that morning. We put the bug on her arm near the wrist. That bug marched right up her hand to near the cut, but not in it, and started drawing blood. When it was done, the pain from the cut was gone.
There have been no serious side-effects for my wife. A bit of itching, that goes away, nothing more.
They seem particular about body chemistry. They will crawl right over me and not bite me. So, for right now, I am out of luck as far as my degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis and the pain caused by that.
If medical science were to seriously study this, maybe something could be done to extract this powerful pain killer for the benefit of everyone.
Here are the details about how we discovered this:
We moved into a new apartment several months ago. Our apartment is not infested with bed bugs. But we heard from the grapevine that other apartments in the complex had problems. We ended up getting a few 'strays'....about half a dozen since we have been here. My wife has fibromyalgia, with chronic pain in her back, neck, right leg, etc. The first bed bug that we encountered bit her on the right leg. She has not had ANY pain in that leg since, and it has been a few months now. She was having pain in her right arm. Then came a bed bug bite. Pain gone. The third time was her back. Same thing. They seem to prefer extracting blood near the site of pain. We were able to do a test. My wife had a cut on her knuckle that was sore. I found a bed bug that morning. We put the bug on her arm near the wrist. That bug marched right up her hand to near the cut, but not in it, and started drawing blood. When it was done, the pain from the cut was gone.
There have been no serious side-effects for my wife. A bit of itching, that goes away, nothing more.
They seem particular about body chemistry. They will crawl right over me and not bite me. So, for right now, I am out of luck as far as my degenerative disc disease and spinal stenosis and the pain caused by that.
If medical science were to seriously study this, maybe something could be done to extract this powerful pain killer for the benefit of everyone.
