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Phantom Pain and Autism/Asperger's

Considering such injuries and scar tissue, perhaps you may be experiencing legitimate pain from damaged nerve endings. Not really "phantom" pain at all. And not necessarily "healed" as much as you might think even with the passage of time.

Then again with your big toe lets hope you're not beginning to experience forms of arthritis such as gout.
 
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I don;t see why they should call it phantom when we clearly have extra neurons and what-not. I have a duplication over PACSIN1 which DOES code for neurons, so OKRAD has many neurons (but no prodigy here. I work for every Greek declension I have!)....


In the end, yes, I am very sensitive to pain, but I know Aspies who do not register it much at all.

To be fair. a lot of my increase pain came after some very horrific abuse, so I think some is PTSD and injuries ARE trautmic. The brain remembers.

PS My bro had a motorcycle injury and near tore off his big toe, too! Was your dirt or road bike? He still has a lot of pain, the poor fellow.
 
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Hardly phantom pain! It is your skin cells etc that are moving and stretching.

I had my appendix out when I was about 23 and at 48, get incredably sharp stabbing pains in the area and often joked to hubby that they must have left a knife in there and depending on which way I lie down etc, causes the point of the knife to stab my skin and voila pain.

This is why key hole surgery is so popular, because it is the least invasive.

I do not think it is unique to aspies, this high pain threshold and actually, it comes down to the individual. I now can cope with mild head pain, because when I was on prozac, I got the most blinding headaches, that it would leave me in bed for two days and vomiting and so, now, any other type of head pain is manageable.
 
WOW! SInce I posted here, I have been getting ads on the side that "Phantom Amputation Pain Can Be Relieved!" OMGOSH! Has anyone else? That is soooo creepy.
 
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WOW! SInce I posted here, I have been getting ads on the side that "Phantom Amputation Pain Can Be Relieved!" OMGOSH! Has anyone else? That is soooo creepy.
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I use adblocker, so I don't get any ads at all (or very few).
 
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