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eats-the-stars · 1 month ago

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having a medical issue that dulls your ability to feel certain types of pain is only cool in fiction. in real life it just makes it extra hard to tell if you need to go to the doctor right now, or if you can just walk it off.

#messed up my foot and i can't tell if it's something serious or just a 'stay off it as much as you can for a few days' type of issue #like do i go in and risk paying a doctor to just tell me to ice it and chill out #or do i risk leaving it alone but woops! it was actually serious and now i have permanent damage from walking on it all this time #i've got like weird nerve damage/issues that honestly just has doctors going 'huh that's weird'#and it might explain some of my stupidly high pain tolerance (but only certain types)#but it makes it really frustrating once i need to make the 'do i go to the doctor about this?' decision #like some things that would have people shrieking in intense pain are just like 'hmm i feel...a weird tingling. some kind of pressure maybe #but this actually doesn't help me at all because the whole 'Ahhhhh!!!' pain reaction is to get you to STOP the thing #big old 'danger! danger! hit the brakes you are about to incur serious damage! turn back now!'#except my stupid nervous system is the good old 'nah i think it was just the wind' idiot who dies first in the horror movie #but sometimes i'm like 'oh yeah this is definitely weird i should go to the doctor'#and then the doctor is like 'yeah you just twisted your ankle you'll be fine'#so all this does is fuck up my ability to tell how injured i really am #and they don't even know how i got this or if it's genetic or the result of an old injury or whatever #they just ran a bunch of tests and like gauged my response to pain stimulus #and concluded that yeah it's weird but not gonna kill me so bye #it's not like doctors are jumping to make me feel more pain #i'm not aware of anybody going 'hey doc i would like to feel more pain. i feel like i'm not feeling enough of that stuff'#just not a thing u can ask. also at this point i don't really want to feel it?#like ppl describe the types of pain i can't feel right as really bad so uh no thanks

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