Heat sometimes helps, depending on where the pain is. It's hard to get the heat to penetrate far enough into my thigh, for example, and even though a knee is easy to warm up, heat seems to help less on my knee than on my forearm. At best, it helps enough to be worth doing, but not as much as I'd like. Cold seems to make pain more likely, especially in my legs.
By the way, for future reference, cloves are useful for managing dental pain. A pinch of ground cloves wedged against the problem tooth has quite a dramatic effect (but it's a short-term solution, such as to get through the night while waiting for the dentist's office to open, because after a while the clove oil will blister the skin on the inside of your mouth).
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Heat sometimes helps, depending on where the pain is. It's hard to get the heat to penetrate far enough into my thigh, for example, and even though a knee is easy to warm up, heat seems to help less on my knee than on my forearm. At best, it helps enough to be worth doing, but not as much as I'd like. Cold seems to make pain more likely, especially in my legs.
By the way, for future reference, cloves are useful for managing dental pain. A pinch of ground cloves wedged against the problem tooth has quite a dramatic effect (but it's a short-term solution, such as to get through the night while waiting for the dentist's office to open, because after a while the clove oil will blister the skin on the inside of your mouth).