Eli5: If pain is mostly constructed in the brain based on what happens to you, are there any medical conditions/accidents that could induce these brain signals to create heavy pain when nothing at all is even happening?

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i.e. Is there some medical accident that could make you feel like you got kicked in the balls when you didn’t even get kicked in the balls?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

I have Complex Regional Pain Syndrome. My brain creates pain in my legs, feet and hands that feels like I’m being jabbed with white hot needles constantly. It’s a stinging, burning sensation. My nerves send my brain pain signals constantly and confuse certain things as pain. For example, our super soft, plush carpet feels like I’m walking on broken glass. Sometimes my blankets feel like sandy against my legs. It’s 24/7, there’s no cure and because I also have RA, I’m never NOT in pain. Pain meds, cannabis and therapy are all I have to keep me from harming myself in a permanent way. If you get what I’m saying.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Alloydina is a symptom of mainly nerve related diseases among other things. It basically makes your nerves hypersensitive where a light touch can feel painful, or any kind of stimuli that normally wouldn’t cause pain can feel painful. I experience it from time to time and it’s very annoying.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Yep. There was a story from Canada a while back about a guy who was in constant pain. Since it was technically a mental condition, he couldn’t get medically assisted suicide and ended up committing suicide himself.

There’s also phantom limb pain. People with amputated arms or legs can sometimes feel pain from an arm/leg that isn’t there anymore.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Can’t recall the name of it, but there is the disease where every pain receptor in your body fires non stop.
It would be literal hell.

Thats what the guy they were gonna do the head transplant on had I think.

Not sure what happened with that, but I dont think they ever ended up cutting his head off like they planned