why cant we just remove the pain receptors from a person with chronic pain?
In: Biology
Even if you could, that is not desirable. You need to feel pain to know things like when you’re too hot or have a cut on your skin to make sure you tend to it and it doesn’t get infected. You know how people with diabetes sometimes can’t feel their feet so they will step on something sharp or get a cut, not notice, it will get infected and cause problems? If you couldn’t feel pain at all, your whole body would be like that.
Inability to feel pain natively is an extremely rare disorder sometimes called CIPA. Pepole with it tend to have short lifespans for the aforementioned reasons in addition to other stuff. CW, wiki page has a gross picture, but further reading here:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain_with_anhidrosis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pain_with_anhidrosis)
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