Adventures in TENS, or more sinus relief.

[oddharmonic]

As mentioned in previous posts, Vogon has a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) unit that we've used on my back with great results, but now we've moved to trying it on my sinus pain.

Comments

[juldea]

Hey, this is the first time I've heard of a TENS unit being used outside of sex play...

FTR

[vogonpoet]

For the record, it is a muscle stimulator that doubles as a TENS unit. I initially purchased it because I'm too damn lazy to work out enough the regular way to actually have any benefit -- my muscles didn't actually appear until long after puberty, at which time I weighed 110 (I'm 5'6"). I seem to require about 3 times as much exercise as everyone else for some reason. The combination of this machine and small (very small) doses of aspirin and ephedrine (12mg of ephedrine, which is half the standard dose -- more than that is not beneficial -- and about 100mg of aspirin) are the reason that I gained 20 lbs of muscle mass in about 14 months. (Sadly, that turned to flab+fat this last year when I went back to eating meat, again, but... for a while there...)

These devices are not for everyone as they require a good bit of training. See why. For this reason they are also not cheap.

The one we have can be seen here (linked because the image is fairly large).