I remember hearing somewhere that your brain has no pain receptors, as if something touches or damages it, you’re already dead, there’s no need for it to feel pain. Could it be it feels pressure rather than a genuine pain? Or is this total bollocks?
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Many have described a pressure. Also, may be pertinent:
1. If you put a cellphone on top of your head and let it vibrate you will not be able to feel it. You can hear it still but won’t be able to feel it as opposed to anywhere else on your body.
I don’t have the answer but I can tell you that they kept my dad awake during brain surgery and they had the same reasoning: the brain doesn’t feel pain. It was a trip. I’m sure they must’ve used something because I know they used a saw to open the skull to get to the brain.
Theres a lot to talk about here:
1- Yes it is true that the brain tissue itself is incapable of feeling pain. However, the tissues surrounding the brain; the meninges, do feel pain.
2- In ischemic strokes: i.e. strokes where there is lack of blood flow, pain isn’t a symptom. I mean yes, you can have a feeling of pins and needles or numbness or a total lack of feeling in the affected members, but not pain.
3- there is one specific type of stroke that causes severe pain. The thalamus is a part of the brain that receives all the cognitive sensations in your body (pain, touch, vibrations, pressure, temperature) and relays all that info to specific parts of the brain to be interpreted. A stroke specifically in the thalamus screws up it’s ability to properly relay that info and as a result you will feel intense pain triggered by the slightest of touch.
4- Hemorrhagic strokes caused by a berry aneurysm that has ruptured causes a severe headache. Sometimes known as a thunderclap headache. But the pain isn’t happening in the brain; it’s happening in the blood vessels around the brain and also caused by the inflamed meninges.
Those with stroke are often not aware of changes in their physical abilities, thinking or emotions. These people have trouble with self-awareness.
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