If you're really serious about avoiding pain medication, you must learn about and become comfortable with other coping methods, like the rebozo (a type of large cloth traditionally used in Mexican culture), visualization, and even lesser - known options
like sterile water injections.
Not exact matches
Like powdered infant formula, concentrated liquid formula must be mixed with
sterile or boiled - then - cooled
water.
Other medical options include a spinal block, narcotics and
sterile water injections (which is exactly what it sounds
like: an injection of
sterile water into certain trigger points in the lower back).
Surgilube is
sterile,
water - soluble and non-staining, perfect for rubber or plastic items,
like catheters.