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Re: A woman who doesn't feel pain

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Post by hackinthebochs » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:10 PM UTC

genema wrote: post #2

No pain during child birth. Can you imagine the look on those doctors' faces.

This turns out to be very dangerous for the mother. I saw a documentary about a group of women with a similar condition and one almost died because her pelvis broke during delivery but she didn't realize there was a problem until weeks later.

Re: A woman who doesn't feel pain

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Post by MagicPropmaker » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:12 PM UTC

She has to feel some pain, otherwise she would have severely damaged her fingers, toes over the years like people with diabetic neuropathy or leprosy do.

Re: A woman who doesn't feel pain

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Post by skrebbel » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:30 PM UTC

sigi45 wrote: post #20

kowdermeister wrote: post #18

I knew a girl who couldn't get drunk (bottle of vodka and no effect), she had to fake it sometimes not to look alcoholic. She said she wasn't the only one in the family.

Calling bullshit. Probably a alcoholic or something.

A quick Google search yields people like these: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-anyone-that-cannot-get-drunk

Re: A woman who doesn't feel pain

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Post by system2 » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:34 PM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #23

sigi45 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Calling bullshit. Probably a alcoholic or something.

A quick Google search yields people like these: https://www.quora.com/Is-there-anyone-that-cannot-get-drunk

I am not clicking a quora link.

Re: A woman who doesn't feel pain

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Post by system2 » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:36 PM UTC

MagicPropmaker wrote: post #22

She has to feel some pain, otherwise she would have severely damaged her fingers, toes over the years like people with diabetic neuropathy or leprosy do.

Maybe she can sense or feel? This article didn't explain it in detail, what is the tolerance of pain, is it just skin or muscle. How does it even affect the sleep cycle since muscles don't feel fatigue? She could've broken many Guinness records but she didn't.

Re: A woman who doesn't feel pain

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Post by ZeroFries » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:41 PM UTC

fb03 wrote: post #19

Having no pain, okay. But having no anxiety? wow, that sounds like true heaven to anxious me.

You would think the same about pain if you were in chronic, debilitating pain.

Re: A woman who doesn't feel pain

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Post by make3 » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 5:56 PM UTC

kowdermeister wrote: post #18

I knew a girl who couldn't get drunk (bottle of vodka and no effect), she had to fake it sometimes not to look alcoholic. She said she wasn't the only one in the family.

The less negative "drunk" effects you have, the more likely you are to become an alcoholic, research suggests, because you still get addicted, and it's less quickly obvious that you need to moderate yourself https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/3683577/Scientists-...

Re: A woman who doesn't feel pain

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Post by fbnlsr » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 6:05 PM UTC

Not feeling pain can have some really disabiliting effect on one's life. A rather famous player in the Counter-Strike community suffers from a rare genetic disease that make him feel much less pain than normal. He started to scratch his nose out of habit when he was a kid, and eventually it came off over the course of years of scratching. His name is lo0p__ : https://www.twitch.tv/lo0p__

Edit: You can see him explain the effects of not feeling pain in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XalQkahQbpE

Re: A woman who doesn't feel pain

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Post by zerop » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 6:06 PM UTC

Similar:

Indian chef dips his BARE HANDS in searing 200C cooking oil to fry street food... and doesn't suffer any burns...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3317037/Indian-chef...

Re: A woman who doesn't feel pain

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Post by maxxxxx » Thu, Mar 28, 2019, 6:06 PM UTC

chrisdone wrote: post #14

I read in New Scientist that they've discovered a way in mice to turn off the connection between pain receptors and the emotional response to pain in the brain. So the mouse feels the pain in the sense of recognising it, but doesn't have a negative feeling associated with it. That's like a half-way point; you wouldn't injure yourself accidentally (as the woman), but you also wouldn't suffer if enduring chronic pain.…

Experienced meditators are supposed to achieve this. I have read that they can have surgery without anesthetics (Gandhi supposedly did it too). They feel the pain but they do not suffer from it.