The People Who Don't Feel Pain
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Congenital Insensitivity to Pain (CIP) is technically classified as a peripheral neuropathy- basically meaning you have damage to, or a disease affecting, your nerves. This rare condition leaves its sufferers without the ability to feel pain. It might seem like a blessing, going through life seemingly indifferent to all the damage our bodies take. The reality, however, is quite different. The side effects of this condition usually leave a person with life-long, crippling problems.
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Ironic. They suffer from being unable to suffer.
This make me laugh a bit
Unable to feel pain - suffer is another thing and hurts more can you imagine.
It's more like they can't feel physical pain but can suffer from the emotional pain that comes because of not unable to feel physical pain.
They actually discarded those feelings, those people overcame what matters to them and focused more on what’s more important
@@corina6709laugh is also pain
It must be terrible for the child, but maybe even worse for the parents who can end up as nervous wrecks with what the child can get up to.
I have a friend who has it and when he was little he would walk out in the snow in his underwear and needed to be dragged inside so he didn't freeze to death
Terrible for any age. Imagine your heart in pre-attack events. You never know you are getting the warning signs of an impending heart attack. Or, how about degenerative arthritis where you have no idea it's happening? Maybe knee joints that are bone on bone, grinding away or how about an infected tooth that could easily enter the brain if allowed to go on too long? So, as a child, naivety plays a major role, then as an adult aging and denial keep you from going to the doctor. Even those who feel pain try to avoid believing something is wrong with them, imagine if that pain isn't there? Would you get yearly check ups which would probably require X-rays, MRI's and ultrasounds? I'd think they would skip a year or two here and there.
Gotta be honest: The most fascinating part of this video for me is the bonus facts about paper cuts. I always thought it was ONLY due to the sensitivity of the nerves in our fingers. The additional factors are fascinating!
I work with printing presses for a living. Ive seen card stock cut fingers to the bone when clearing jams. Also one factor to think about with the pain level is the chemicals that are used to make that paper.
You forgot to mention that CIPA is often CIPAH, _Congenital Insensitivity to Pain with Anhydrosis_ so not only do they not feel pain, they also can't sweat, so they not only have to constantly be worried about getting injured, but they're also at risk for overheating; they have more things that can kill them. :-\
I have no clue where you got "cipah" from
Congenital Insensitivity to Pain and Anhydrosis (CIPA)
From the national institute of health.
Lmao what does the 'H' stand for?
You’re talking about CIPA itself. CIP is the version without anhidrosis, CIPA is the version with. CIPAH isn’t anything that exists.
There is nothing wrong with dying as long as it is not painful
@@vuyonogwina9072Agree!
I have to fold Boxes at my work- and that's some of the worse pain I've felt, basically a paper cut with corrugated layered paper!!!
Would still be better to have a "snooze" feature for pain that stop you from having more pain once you have noticed the problem.
While adrenaline might do something similar in life-threatening condition, it won't help a bit to stop having stupid amounts of pain for that little paper cut.
Then you wouldn't get it checked out. You'd dismiss it as a temporary hurt and not do anything further.
Do heroin
In practice I think that would be a bad idea for all but the most extremely conscientious people. Behavioral changes to protect an injury site or let it rest are unnatural and inconvenient. Pain helps you stay the course while it heals.
In some situations pain is probably not doing much useful, but that's just the price to ensure it's there when necessary.
Also I don’t need a constant reminder that I’m an adolescent with back pain
You actually do in a way. Your body can dampen severe pain when first occurs, such as people not noticing right away if they've been shot or stabbed. It also acclimates to pain over time, so that it doesn't feel as severe as when first occurs.
I would love to not feel pain at least one week out of the month
Omg that's so sad 😭
K
Yes I sooo agree
@@Julie-ip3il I have to take Advil 12 hour for the whole week
Me too Mariela. Me too.
It's all fun and games until you severe your leg and don't feel it until you pass out from blood loss
Justin Y. K
Holy shit this is the first time I am seeing your comment with less than 10 likes it just feels so wieird
Get a life
Hello there again.
yeah been there man
This is what causes the greater part of the damage from leprosy (Hansen's Disease). Nerve damage that removes sensation = body parts being damaged due to no input from pain/discomfort.
I actually have what is called head trauma induced Anosmia. Which means I can't smell anything anymore. It's such a funky feeling, especially knowing what everything used to smell like before I got hit in the head.
Sounds like the story of my professor friend who couldn't taste anything anymore. His condition was related to a stroke affecting his taste center of the brain. Perhaps your head trauma damaged the closely-related-to smell center of the brain. Taste and smell sensations are closely related so the centers must be proximal to each other.
This is why my little bottle of hand sanitizer has the label, "PAPER CUT FINDER!" It works very very well.
jaspr1999 XD
Washing hands causes enough skin splits for me to not need paper for that to work ;)
@@MmeHyraelle is your soap agressive?
While I do not have CIP itself, I do have nerve damage that causes what I call "Dead spots" where I feel nothing beyond pressure in some specific areas even if that spot gets, say, stabbed by a really mean looking splinter (happened). I typically don't notice one of those spots has been injured unless someone else points it out, or I discover it by chance later.
Due to this I've actually had my body try to heal around something that got stuck in the dead spot in my back, pretty sure it was a thorn from a small hike a couple weeks prior but it had degraded a bit, that I simply did not discover was there until a friend saw it. That one wasn't fun to get out. Considering how tricky it is to deal with when you only have a handful of somewhat manageable spots like I happen to, ooooooh yeah, easy to see how huge of a problem, and potential danger, it could be for someone with CIP who can't feel pain anywhere! I'm having issues with only about 12% of my body lacking proper sensation, 100%, just wow, imagining that, gotta be tough as all get-out.
I have neuropathy from my knees down. I have little sensation beyond pain with any sort of pressure. However, it didn't hurt when I bumped into a cracked plastic laundry basket and tore a three by four-inch flap of skin about 80% off. It bled everywhere, and I just reached down, flipped the skin back up, and applied pressure using a paper towel until my son got up to wait for the ambulance with me. The ambulance was delayed so the paramedics from the fire station came and wrapped it up enough for my son to drive me to the hospital. About 15 stitches and three hours later I went home with one heck of an ugly wound. After that I spent six months of weekly visits to the wound care specialist 45 minutes away so they could debrid it weekly, photograph the progress and re-bandage and wrap my leg. It was NO fun.
@@calichef1962 Ain't that something eh? Area that normally hurts like hell, gets injured and finally has a legit reason to hurt, and it decides to not hurt. Hey, least it was easy to discover and tend to. though considering your neuropathy, I can't help but wonder if the pain of having your skin ripped open was less noticeable to you because, compared to your constant pain, it wasn't that big of a deal to your body.
I know that having fibro, nerve damage, and all of the other health issues I gained from surviving has caused my pain tolerance to have gotten up to the point where some injuries are nothing to my body because the pain they cause doesn't compare to the pain I'm in constantly. I can't help but wonder if similar occurred with you and that laundry basket. Having a flesh chunk ripped out doesn't hurt as much as a lot of people expect it to so the pain of it may have been small fries to your body, at least in comparison to the pain your body's already use to dealing with.
So do you feel other sensations like tickle or itch ?
If you haven't seen it, watch House M.D. S03E14 for a great example of this.
I was thinking the same thing, great episode. Awesome show
she jumps off of first floor and doesn't feel anything
I came to comments to say this
And of course there's a House episode about it...
cyberjazz71 Thanks for the suggestion!
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I remember watching a documentary of a family that had a young daughter who was also mentally delayed who had this disorder. She was about 6-8 yrs old and had managed to make herself blind in one eye by continually poking and scratching it with her fingers and had burned her hand pretty badly while holding the lightbulb of a lit lamp.
even having to listen stuff about paper cuts made my finger tips ache...
Thanks for captions and link to text version.
You’re welcome
There was a sideshow performer at the turn of the last century who went by the name of Oppie-Goupdie who has this’s condition. He would let people punch him for 50 cents, it got him a lot of money until someone ruptured his spleen and he bleed to death 💀
50 cents lol
@@NoLeadsEnt 50 cents in 1900 is equivalent to 15.25 in purchasing power today. Getting nearly 20 bucks for a punch that you can't feel multiple times a day doesn't seem that bad of a deal. Until the whole spleen thing at least...
@@LickMyMusketBallsYankee lol how much does common sense cost anyways? i inherited mine.
@@NoLeadsEnt You might have lost some of your inheritance in the transfer. Because he did have common sense, his was out of a job and found a way to exploit a natural ability for money. It was only natural, no different than a beggar who plays guitar to make ends meet.
Should have got at least a dollar.
'Anyone heard of Ashlyn Blocker? She's the first person I heard about with this condition. The news report mentioned that she'll stick her hand in boiling water to retrieve a dropped utensil, forgetting that it'll burn her skin, even though she won't feel it. Ashlyn was first diagnosed with CIP when her doctor discovered she had an eye infection which should've been very painful, but of course, she felt nothing. I also heard about a girl who, besides not feeling pain, also doesn't feel hunger or tiredness! Apparently, this girl only eats when she's forced to.
Love how Simon always points out the bright side!
On a related topic, strokes can cause numbness to one side of the body. However sometimes strokes are very specific. I know a professor who one day discovered that he could no longer taste anything. He never lost motor control or pain sensations of his tongue.....but his sense of taste was completely gone. CAT scans showed damage from a stroke to an area of the brain related to taste. It is a blessing that he wasn't crippled in any way, but it sure is interesting how contained the stroke was to involve just the function of taste.
Great stuff !!
Thank you
Thank you for this video. I really loved it. I am so happy to know why paper cuts hurt so much. I knew finger have a lot more nerves than other parts of the body. 💖
I’m low key jealous of people like this. I was born with a genetic connective tissue disorder that has caused me significant life long pain. I don’t know what it’s like to be completely pain free.
My joints dislocate and sublux all day long every day which causes constant pain. My organs also don’t function properly because my body is made of faulty collagen.
I feel sorry for anyone with a terrible condition but I would love the ability to be pain free for even one day so I do struggle with empathy for sufferers of this condition.
I have an abnormally high tolerance to pain, and it worried me sometimes. It is not congenial, and I think it was a thing before the car accident in which I sustained a traumatic brain injury, though it certainly got more intense after that. It's good that in emergencies I can help others before dealing with my own pain, but it's disconcerting to know that I can hobble around on a broken foot for half a day before being convinced to have it looked at.
I have a friend kinda like this. He doesn't feel pain, but not due to genetics, but rather because of extreme amounts of physical pain that he was subjected to across his body for long periods of time. Now his pain tolerance is so incredibly high that he once almost fractured his hand without noticing and I actually had to check that no bones were out of place or damaged. He once pulled a pan out of an oven with his bare hands, and it took five minutes before he thought to check them for burns cause he forgot to put on gloves. (He was very tired and spacing out at the time)
There was a time where he could feel pain, though.
But it’s good if someone attack u or murder u . U can’t feel it . These ppl get peaceful death
I knew a girl that had this! She had to go to the doctor all the time just to make sure everything was ok.
Yeah see. who wants to keep doing all that.
I went to high school with a guy who didn’t feel pain. Nobody REALLY believed him. To prove it at a bonfire we were all drunk and he just picked up a burning log with his bare hand and just held it for a few seconds as his hand was burning and just chucked it back in the fire without the slightest reaction. He had really bad burns on his hand but he didn’t care at all. No pain. Just crazy to think that you could be burning to death and your only warning is that you kind of felt warm.
God that's wild. I hope he's ok
I knew a guy who developed this post brain injury. He didn't realize his gall bladder was full of stones & inflamed. It was necrotic (dead) when he finally got so sick he was throwing up after every meal. Damn near killed him & this guy had survived a hangmans break of the odontoid process above C1. Not as cool as one would think but worthwhile when needing to be in halo traction with screws into the skull for months.
Hello, I have this condition - feel free to ask any questions :)
What do you imagine pain feeling like
@@humidharolddeadgamingchann1791 Well, just to clarify, none of us with this condition literally feel NO pain. All of us have felt pain to varying degrees at some point in life. It's just that the pain we do feel is so minimal and happens so infrequently relative to those who do feel pain.
So, to answer your question it would just be more "painful" and hurt a LOT more.
Oh I see
Do you play any sports and if so is it easier?
Nitro X i play soccer, in my case it's actually harder cause i have a bad knee (from the condition) but it does help too cause when i fall/get pushed i always get up right away
I'm a bit odd with pain.
my ears and teeth are incredibly sensitive, I barely feel broken bones.
high pitched sounds(including "inaudible" ones like sound based animal repellents) hurt my ears.
even if my jaw is numbed to the point that I can't feel half my face, it still hurts when the dentist drills in it before putting in a filling.
I once actually screamed at my dentist during a root canal because it felt like 1 of the nerves he was pulling out wasn't sedated at all.
but breaking a bone?
I'll casually walk home and clear my schedule for a visit to the doctor and hospital, after nearly fainting.
the pain reaches my brain, but never gets processed as actual pain.
I'll nearly faint(beep in my ear, seeing stars or losing vision, loss of equilibrium) shortly after breaking a bone or when straining it, but all I consciously feel is a little strain(like trying to overextend a joint a little bit) if I try to bend or stress the broken limb.
the way broken bones work with me is quite useful.
I can clearly recognize I broke a bone from the near-fainting and strain, but the pain won't get in the way.
I'll still know when I'm putting to much strain on a recovering break because of the sensation of strain, and because I'll nearly faint if I really push it too far.
so idk why but i was thinking about my friend because he wouldn't say ouch if he hurt himself and when he got stiches he didn't even say anything, not even cried, And then later when he broke his arm and the same thing happened and he didn't say anything or didn't care and then I said 4 years ago "How does breaking your arm not hurt"
And then he said "I dont know" So he told me to push on his arm and he said it didn't hurt. Then we got in trouble by the teacher because she didn't want it to hurt his arm. Thats all I remember im here for this
Met someone with this in middle school nobody believed him until he got in a fight and was laughing at the other kid's punches like a anime villain saying "is that all you got?" XD
In addition to the reasons mentioned in the video, you notice the pain from paper cuts on your fingers or hands so much more because after getting the paper cut you then continue to use your hands/fingers for other manual tasks, reaggravating the injury. With many other areas of the body you can alter your behaviour to favor an injured part, but it's hard to top using your hands for stuff.
I trained myself to withstand pain increasing my threshold to it which I learned was a bad thing. I pretty much ignored a Repetitive Stress Injury building up in my shoulder blade up until something snapped and the follow-up pain was excruciating for a week, gradually went down in less than a month. The bigger issue is it took at least a year to recover the nerves, two years later it still not fully healed and flares up often.
What you want to be able to do is to repress pain when you already know about the problem in your body. You need to know the first time you body tells you that something hurts, but you don't need to know constantly. I always tell my body that it's okay and that I know about that pain. The more pain you have, the more mental focus you have to put on it for it to work and there does come a time when you simply can't do it. Pain medicine is important but it's also important to communicate with our bodies as much as can because that is, after all, the whole point of our bodies sending these pain messages to our brains.
I have a friend who has a condition similar to this. I'm always worried he's going to seriously hurt himself.
My chemistry teacher had lost temperature sensation in his hands due to a (non chemistry related) accident.
So right from the start he warned us to always use tongs or gloves whenever he handed anyone anything like flasks or test tubes.
While I knew about this condition, I didn't realise that nerves were sometimes totally absent. Fascinating
“You fool pain is my friend, allow me to introduce you to it!”
I had an uncle like this, he died because he didnt know he was bleeding internally
Davis Tuck Internal bleeding doesn’t always cause pain. CIP is extraordinarily rare. It’s likely he (like most people with acute internal bleeding) simply just....didn’t know it.
@@overworkedcna412 he had punctured his left kidney (not really sure how) and it was slowly killing him
Davis Tuck I’m so very sorry for your loss. Usually kidneys don’t get punctured, they rupture. That’s a very odd scenario.
@@overworkedcna412 thats why noone ever caught it. It was a total freak accident type scenario
Davis Tuck What a shame :(
Loved the facts about paper cuts. Could you do one about why it hurts a guy so much to get kicked in the bibblies?
I have a very mild form of this, mine was caused by damage from radio therapy though and it's not severe at all...I apparently have a pain threshold higher than professional rugby player... I also have a really difficult issue with cold and heat, I feel no cold unless it's in -5+ or lower before I feel it as cold and the opposite for heat I'm far too hot in a room temperature room, even in a room at 10dC I'm too hot. As for my sense of smell, put it this way, I have a visual impairment so I use my ears and nose more than my eyes and I can literally track where someone is or where they've been my smell alone, I can distinguish between competing smells (pick one smell out of the crowd of smells and follow it) and even minor unpleasant smells to everyone else are choking for me (like how loud fireworks are for dogs) so things like cannabis or dog shit make me want to vomit as does Chinese food.
When I was a kid, I knew twins that had this. They were cruel little a$$holes. They could not be let around other children because they would bite chunks out of them to hear them scream in pain. They would laugh manically at other's pain. They would bite the ends of their fingers off in order to shoot blood at you like a squirt gun. It was an awful situation. They would beat the snot out of each other, and their parents could not have anything sharp in the house. No one was safe if they got a hold of anything they could stab with.
I've heard of cases where people suffering from this condition can on occasion experience minor pain. This can be life threatening because the body have never experienced pain signals is extremely overwhelming and can send a person with this disorder into shock.
I'm one of the few people who cannot feel pain. However, unalike everyone else I've heard about with my condition of not being able to feel physical pain, I wasn't born with it. I only stopped feeling pain around 13 years of age and before then I could feel pain much like anyone else. While my condition isn't exactly the best thing ever as I've been in some situations where pain can be helpful for determining if I'm injured or not (such as I got into a car accident earlier this year and could not tell if I had been seriously hurt or not). At least I had the first 13 years of my life to build the common sense that is basically my replacement for the pain I used to feel such as when touching a hot surface.
What I find most interesting is the bodies ability to block pain signals temporarily for acute pain (shock). I was sliced to the bone, needing 40 stitches and felt absolutely nothing until I visually studied the wound. OMG,,,,,,the pain that followed
I have nerve damage that result in not being able to feel pain in my arms and having to look at my hands to trick my brain to "feel" it if I'm burning myself, cutting myself or slamming the cabinet door on my fingers - on the other side my shoulders and neck hurts like HELL all the time cuz the nerves are nonstop fail shooting
For my 20th birthday i fell and broke my left tibia where it becomes part of the knee joint into 4 large pieces and had to have it surgically reconstructed. During this surgery a nerve in my leg was severed. Now even 15 years later, a large part of the outside of my left leg and foot down to my toes is numb. I also have balance issues because the leg does not work properly all the time which means i bump into thing a ton. Every day i have to check my leg for cuts just in case because i have missed some bad ones before. While i do have chronic pain issues due to arthritis I would not trade away my ability to feel pain knowing how fast that can spiral out of control.
I was always told that paper-cuts hurt so much because they leave tiny pieces of paper behind. The foreign objects stuck in the cut hurt a lot worse than a cleaner cut.
On a side note, I one time got stabbed with a fork in my shin. It never hurt. It was deep enough that the fork was sticking out of my shin on it's own. But it was like oh, there's a fork in my shin. I kept expecting it to hurt even while it was healing, but nope it was fine and dandy. It was the oddest experience because of the lack of pain.
At a summer camp I went to there was a lady in the kitchens who had this. Unfortunately she also placed her hand on the stove when it was on and by the time she realized what she had done she had a third degree burn.
my daughter had a stroke affecting her right side, she has more scars and pins in her bones than I can count. All because she can no longer feel pain when she injures herself. It is a dangerous situation for her.
I have neuropathy that has left random “dead spots” all over my body. I didn’t realize how big some of them were until I got a tattoo. I was astonished at how painless the process was (especially when my friends had complained about the pain). I noticed that every once in a while a spot would be “tender” and make me grit my teeth. Turns out that those were the “undead” parts! And there I was, thinking I was badass . . .
Firstly, my wife and I love your show!
We were wondering to each other why women's pockets are smaller than men's and thought you guys would be the best people to ask.
Thanks in advance for an awesome episode...hopefully!
Actually women used to have the biggest pockets, but that was when they commonly used dresses
Because if they had bigger pockets they wouldnt have to buy purses and bags :) cant ruin the capital buisness when they own the game.
Having over sensitivity is also no fun. I have a rare illness that damiged my nerves. Warm things are scolding hot the same is for the oposet cold is freezing I don't experience medium. It's always painful for me to touch anything. I do my best to not touch stuff not for germs just is streat up is painful like burning your hands or freezing them off. Though I have a high pain tolerance from all my chronic pain disabilities I still do my best not to add to my suffering. If I can avoid it I do. It really runs my life.
Many years ago, I worked at a place for the emotionlly disturbed. It had 2 young men there who couldn't feel pain. One ot them had braces on his teeth. One night, someone there made fun of him. He then proceeded to smash his face bloody into the wall until he was 'restrained." Another time, one on them was getting beat up by another and just stood there smiling. Very dangerous individuals, especially that last one.
Wait, "very dangerous individuals"? Could you clarify that? Or do you mean dangerous as in constantly endangering themselves / their health?
This is literally Ants In My Eyes Johnson
*_”I CAN’T FEEL”_*
On the bonus fact, the body also sends tuning chemicals to the sites of small wounds to make them hurt more and longer (days) by making the area more sensitive.
I have some level of pain tolerance that is not typical (it depends on my level of tiredness more than anything)...anyways, I papercut under my fingernail 3 days ago opening plastic wrap around some cardboard (with my fingernail of course...I then spent 3 seconds thinking how it was probably a bad idea to try that again with the same finger, or at least same area of the fingernail...I moments later papercut the papercut underneath my fingernail, lol. I can only imagine the cringy look on face when reading that...but moral of this story is, pain gives you more incentive not to do something stupid (now that I think about it I smashed a finger, possibly that thumb, with a hammer a couple weeks back too, lol. I hardly remember because of the lack of pain too)
I've got some chronic illness that leaves me in near constant pain and sometimes it reminds me that I have the ability to feel pain which is pretty epic
now one for those whose pain is overwhelming
I do feel pain but have a very good tolerance and yes, it's bad. Went to the dentist last winter with my first cavity ever because 'it hurt a tiny bit'. Turns out it was really, really nasty and I needed surgery.
Quadriplegics often can't sweat, and obviously feel little to no pain, at least below the spinal cord injury. The over-heating thing is a REAL problem for them in summer, here in California.
I have a much higher then normal pain tolerance and it's not fun. I've broken my arm in three locations and besides the swelling wouldn't have guesses it was broken, I also have dislocated my knees sevral times with little to no pain. My hands are torn to shreds since I don't notice when I get really hurt, I've even used a dull awl to dig a splinter from my hand with only mild discomfort.
I also have a toe that after being shattered (and likely dislocated) by a horse stepping on my foot made my toe go completely numb and I've set sevral hard objects on it without noticing, my doctor is surprised that the tow isn't dead given how much damage was done to it and how much damage I continue to do.
A related affliction is diabetic neuropathy, which is something one can acquire as part of the severe progression of diabetes.
The excess blood sugar can damage nerve endings, which would cause "pins and needles" sensations on the hands and feet, as well as reducing sensitivity to pain.
Patients with diabetic neuropathy need to make sure to check the bottoms of their feet for any cuts that may have gone unnoticed, since these can become infected and require amputation without the patients ever even realize they were there.
There are stories of diabetics walking around with a sharp object (e.g. a tack) stuck to their feet for months and being none the wiser.
I don't feel pain in my legs do to a spinal injury. I only find out I am injured when I see blood on the floor even when it needs stitching. I have broke my toes and didn't know it until I noticed until I saw it needed splints.
I have CRPS / RSD
Recently a Bollywood movie came out called "mard ko dard nahin hota" (the man who feels no pain)
which dealt with this condition.
The protagonist suffering from this disease becomes a superhero and goes on to fight evil.
So I guess it's pretty cool I if you ask me :)
youd really like the movie "nobody messes with the Zohan" with adam sandler.
its also involving middle east cultures as well. yet, its definitely as comedy.
Kick-ass has this plot as well. However, the inability to feel pain was acquired rather than genetic. However, I think he still feels pain when beat up way too bad.
I think i have something like this i always feel like intial pain but thats it none of the constant feeling for a while like most other people
Last tuesday i put a drill into my hand down the back past the knuckles.... luckily missed everything major... but that really hurt
I mostly remember this condition from that one episode from House.
*three days grace - pain, plays in my head...*
Jonathan Rouse glad I’m not the only one who immediately thought it
Makes me think of the character in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" trilogy.
Also, Simon, are you ok in this video? It may just be the lighting or something, but it looks like you have a knot on the top of your head & an injury to your neck. I hope you are ok.
I learn so much from your channel! Thank you!!
Nobody can avoid the pain of living.
Hansen's disease (leprosy) has a similar effect on the bodies ability to feel pain. Lepers are often depicted as having white, cracked skin, but skin damage is due to them damaging their skin without realizing it.
I would also think that tiny fibers could sluff off and contact nerves inside a paper cut wound could also contribute to pain.
While I do not have CIP I do have a lot of neurological issues which means in a lot of places I have no sensation so I do not feel pain, this can and has led to some huge issues in my life and I can assure people that immunity to pain or an almost immunity to pain is not a positive thing even trivial things like cooking can become an issue and more than once I have burned myself handling hot plates and the such without realising they were hot, in addition to this I am actually suffering from Charcot in my ankle which is an unusual place to get it but basically my ankle is disintegrating and now I have to wear a cast on that leg for potentially months or years and that is if things go well, if they continue as they are I potentially will lose the ability to walk or if I get an infection in the bone fragments then I could lose my leg, such fun lol.
This is a blessing thoooo
And what makes some ppl have high or low threashold for pain?
Ok first time I have appreciated pain.
I feel pain but it doesn't bother me until a very extreme point
I have this and it's really annoying not feeling anything and looking at other suffer when you can't (Sorry for my grammar English is not my first language)
anesthesia killed off my pain receptors I had a brain injury and after that anesthesia and then i wasn't in a coma and now 10 years later it still happen
I think I have a minor one where the pain is there but I could just ignore it like how I could endure exhaustion, thirst or hunger. Yes, it is very bad. In my teens I had several injuries like partially folded a knee backwards when attempting to lift too heavy stuff and scratching my itchy skin until it bleeds. I even thought my appendicitis was just some mild gastritis and endured the daily pain for three months. My appendix at that point had burst, abdomen filled with puss and suffering from blood poisoning fever. Luckily I survived the surgery though I got a long vertical zipper scar in the middle of my abdomen.
it's not that I can't feel pain, I can feel it but to me it's more like I have a higher threshold of pain endurance. Often when I'm ill or have a heavy fever, I know I'm sick when my body is too sluggish to move or I stumbled from near faint - headache kinda feel like slight throbbing in my head that makes my eyes fuzzy. I have to wear safety shoes most of the time because when I stub my toes I could sometimes tear a part of my toenails and bleed... I learn to say ouch or cry out in pain because I train myself to recognize that it is pain and instill a reaction to mitigate bodily harm. It's funny when I would say ouch from even a slight bump but it's a way I train myself to keep from causing worse damage...it's not funny looking at a nail poking through my flesh and thinking, wow this is pain?
I must say , as a person who suffers daily from chronic pain this disease not to feel pain would be a blessing . I wander if a hypnotist can take the feeling of pain away ?
I only ever thought paper cuts just hurt for how small they are, not that they really more than other cuts. Surely the surface nerves are still being damaged in a deeper cut as well?
Opiate users have a similar problem called compartment syndrome. You fall asleep with your arm/leg curled up under you and it cuts off the circulation, but your body isn't giving you any discomfort signals, so you wake up with permanent nerve damage or even have to get the whole limb amputated.
Now for the actual dream ability.
Being able to selectively ignore pain.
I have a variant of this. I got bitten by a bullet ant when I was 4, that damaged my ability to feel pain. I have patches of my body that can feel (reduced) pain and a few that can feel like others but most of my body can't. I have cracked several bones and (except that initial crunch) haven't felt a thing. If I do feel anything it surprices me and last maybe half a second. I cut open a bag 2 days ago and couldn't figure out why the scissors suddenly stopped cutting. Smart to check first, continue cutting later: it was my finger. Again....
I have a minor version of this. I cant feel anything in my left arm. Its fully functional but hard to use since i dont get any feedback how hard i grab an objekt.
Your situation is sort of worse though, but atleast you are more acutely aware of the problem.
When you fap with your left hand, does it feels like someone else's doing it?
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@@Reth_Hard since im married i dont have this problem anymore. Back in my teenager days however...let say i probably had more fun than most guys XD
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I knew it! :P
Still, that a weird condition... Did you ever got seriously injured without noticing?
@@Reth_Hard cuts here and there. The most severe was a broken thump. One morning i was like why the heck is my hand all violet blue green and swollen
I ignore pain.
omg... this is terrible :( i had no idea a small portion of humans deal with this. I cant imagine how hard it is on children and their bodies. I can see how untreated fractures could be a huge problem...
A buddy of mine worked at a hospital as a nurse in the trauma ward. A fellow walked in wearing a red button up shirt and black slacks.
Turns out it was a white shirt and blue slacks covered in blood. He had been impaled through the chest, collapsed a lung, and managed to drive himself twenty miles over bumpy crappy roads to the city to a hospital where they removed a six inch piece or rebar. They only figured out why he hadn't lost consiousness from pain when they saw all his facial/hand scars, and a doctor remembered seeing that house episode and researching the topic while in med school.
Fellow walked out of the hospital two weeks later. Well, wheelchair, but he got up and walked as soon as he was out the door. I didn't belive him until I checked the fellow into a hotel room later that evening after chilling with him when I began my graveyard shift. He was annoyed he wasn't allowed to drive, so his buddy needed to pick him up. I nearly had a heart attack when a skeletal dude with more scars than face checked in in a hospital hoodie holding a long stick. I literally thought death had come to claim me.
I remember hearing about another form that has something to do with the overproduction of endorphins. Naloxone is being looked into as a treatment for this type.
I riped my rotator cuff in my shoulder and i only noticed because I could nl long lift my arm or move anything above the elbow
I feel like if you had this and were constantly checked up on and had personal doctors, you could be really strong or even become a superhero
I think that while having no pain receptors is bad, having much more little is a lot better better because it will tell you where the pain is and also allow you to have much less stress, fatigue, and it willl also help you fall asleep better at night
To not feel any pain at all would be a blessing for us..
Ouch
Hey Simon, how about doing a video on the history of the evolution of toilet paper.