The insideous nature of parasites (mosquitos, bed bugs, wood ticks) is that they have a natural anesthetic that works on humans. So you feel nothing when they poke you, and thus you unwittingly let them carry out their attack against you.
Fuck that. Gimme some pain please. I would like to take a pill before sleeping that, for ~6 hours, will neutralise the anesthetics of bedbugs. That way I can keep an empty vial to incarcerate the vile motherfuckers that leech a blood meal out of me the moment they attack.
Before hiking in the woods, I want a pill that will neutralise tick and mosquito anesthetics for ~2—4 hours. If I can be fussy, I might still want to be able to take Ibuprofin to reduce muscle pain, ideally to bring the pain of being jabbed more to the foreground.
My search for anti-anesthetics came up mostly empty. I found this:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8850306/
But that’s way to technical for me to make any sense of it.
Not really an acute thing, but there’s this
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid-induced_hyperalgesia
As I read that I wondered if there is a psychological component to that. If you are always numb from opiates, perhaps the brain adapts by becoming more sensitive. Then when off the drugs, the brain’s adjustment would perhaps still be having effect, thus creating extra sensitivity.
So I wonder if it would be interesting to take acetominiphen throughout the day and have it wear off before going to sleep. Maybe this is far fetched.