how come a pain hurts but when you apply more pain it hurts less? Like when you have a toothache but you press on it and it feels better

Question

how come a pain hurts but when you apply more pain it hurts less? Like when you have a toothache but you press on it and it feels better

In: Biology

Answer 1

someone mentioned before that pain and pressure receptors are intertwined. Something along the lines of when you apply pressure to something, the nerves switch from pain to pressure. I don’t know the exact science of it, but i think that’s the general idea