A woman who doesn't feel pain
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#2No pain during child birth. Can you imagine the look on those doctors' faces.
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#3I'm surprised she didn't lose more limbs!
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#4No pain during child birth. Can you imagine the look on those doctors' faces.
'One last push'....'would you mind passing me another magazine please doctor?'
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#5You don't understand how important a feedback signal pain is until it's gone.
I dated a girl who had a brain tumor removed as a child. As a result of this she had an incredibly high tolerance for pain. I don't mean stub-your-toe tolerance. I mean beat-me-with-a-belt-so-I-can-feel-something tolerance. Obviously it made for some interesting fun. Eventually I had to stop dating her out of fear I was going to permanently injure her in her search for pain sensations. She literally scared me.
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#6No pain during child birth. Can you imagine the look on those doctors' faces.
They probably figured that she got a little too much painkiller. When something unexpected happens the human mind usually tries to attribute it to something that is already known.
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#7You don't understand how important a feedback signal pain is until it's gone. I dated a girl who had a brain tumor removed as a child. As a result of this she had an incredibly high tolerance for pain. I don't mean stub-your-toe tolerance. I mean beat-me-with-a-belt-so-I-can-feel-something tolerance. Obviously it made for some interesting fun. Eventually I had to stop dating her out of fear I was going to permanently…
I'm really curious... (I'm a sadist, but only with consent and permanent injury is a hard nope) did you try electricity? I've played with several folks with high pain tolerance, and electroplay really seems to "cut through" everybody's defenses. But it's not obvious how that would go, if the neurological signals are getting blocked...
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#8This seems to be the paper referred to in the article:
Srivastava & Cox, "Microdeletion in a FAAH pseudogene identified in a patient with high anandamide concentrations and pain insensitivity" (22 Feb 2019) https://bjanaesthesia.org/article/S0007-0912(19)30138-2/full...
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#9For anyone curious about why pain is an incredible predictor of/protector from danger, and why lack of pain experiences often leads to massive injury and early death, please watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCF1_Fs00nM
The lecture is given by a respected pain research scientist, and it also covers much of modern pain science (including why the biomedical model of pain is outdated and how the biopsychosocial model of pain is more representative of observations of human pain experiences).
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#10No pain during child birth. Can you imagine the look on those doctors' faces.
They probably figured that she got a little too much painkiller. When something unexpected happens the human mind usually tries to attribute it to something that is already known.
According to the article, her medical records said never been given painkillers (although it could well be she's never asked for painkillers, which I suppose is a different thing all together.)
In the UK at least, most women only use Entonox (a mixture of oxygen and nitrous oxide) for pain relief, and painkillers are only administered during lengthy pregnancy's. I wouldn't be surprised if the doctors/midwives were a little baffled, but just figured she was a hard nut.