Lies. I get an itchy brain all the time.

it's the microplastics that make brain go itch

fun fact: People love making shit up. Digestion obviously isn't painful

Sometimes, when I’m sick and have a bad cough, my lungs get itchy on the inside. It’s very frustrating.

One time, 20 years ago. I read that taking a shit ton of niacin would clear up acne by creating a “niacin flush” that would like, super circulate your skin and make it nice.

It turned me beet red and made me feel like my lungs were sunburned and itchy as fuck. I called the advice nurse and she was like, yeah.. that’s what you signed up for. It will pass in a few hours. Drink lots of water 🤷‍♀️

But lung insides are nearly an external organ, so that probably doesn’t count.

So how does it work? If it's painful but it doesn't hurt, then it's, by definition, not painful. "It's excruciating but you can't actually even feel it" doesn't really make sense to me. My bullshit-o-meter is not happy with that.

I've heard that orgasms are painful, but the endorphins and oxytocin fix that.

I've never actually looked into the validity of it, but it sounds like BS.

Plus, coughing is basically reacting to a lung itch.

I actually think this might be true. I'm dealing with treatment resistant depression and am on fairly heavy antidepressants. These stop me from feeling much of anything, good or bad. Even orgasms don't really give me any pleasure at all.

When I orgasm, it is actually very painful. I've gone to a urologist and have had scans, etc done, and there's nothing wrong physically with anything down there. Until I saw your post I never really thought about it in this way, but I can definitely see how a lack of endorphins and oxytocin - or really, any feel good chemicals - floating around, how an intense muscle contraction could be quite painful. It's like a sharp pain, probably similar to a quick, extreme flex of muscles that at the same time need to relax to pass things through.

Im guessing it just lacks or surpresses nociceptors

Yeah Brain, what if I WANT to bite off my finger?

Ow my fingure

did it work?

Ohh yeah, that niacin flush... I was on a niacin prescription once and was warned about the flush. I was not prepared for what that actually felt like. They said it would be tingly, like pins and needles. It actually felt like I rolled around in hot sauce after exfoliating with sandpaper. I thought was having an allergic reaction to my bed sheets for a few minutes before it finally clicked. I was almost ready to head to the ER.

Tell that to my acid reflux...that's definitely my stomach being a dick and hurting me

On a side note, menstrual cramps are supposed to feel, at most, like sore muscles after a workout (probably since they're essentially getting a non-stop workout for a week). Sharp, especially debilitating, pain is a cause for concern and should be addressed, however doctors usually don't care (plenty still think the cervix doesn't feel pain), and medical research is notoriously behind, case in point the relatively recent study that looked into how endometriosis affects the male partners of the person having periods.

hey maybe it's your diet, RFKJrsBrainworm

Ok so there are drugs called "analgesics" that make pain go away, and there are other drugs called "anaesthetics" that turn off your perception of pain, and there other drugs called "dissociatives" that straight up disconnect your perceptions from your body.

I had major surgery and was in the hospital, for rapid pain relief they gave me something called "Dilaudid". I said I had pain level 6 or 7, they gave me some D, came back after a bit and said "what's the pain at?" I said "6 or 7", they got concerned and I said "oh don't worry I don't care any more".

When they gave me oxy, the pain level actually went down.

I don't encourage spending a week in the hospital purely for research purposes, but it was very educational to have had that experience.

Bro is starving to death

People believe this shit? Is that all it takes? For it to be on the internet and it’s true?

It doesn’t work like this. It’s bullshit.

It’s not even remotely true and easily disproven.

Not if it's going as planned

Or some people just like making shit in general. 😄

Easily disprove my lived experience then.

So, there’s this thing called science. And it pretty much dictates all of what we know about everything.

And this thing called science states that there is zero evidence (outside of Facebook memes) that in a NORMAL functioning human body, is digestion a painful experience. Now if you have a CONDITION- that causes digestion issues such as IBS, or GASTROENTERITIS, you may have trouble digesting food and pain can result.

But in a NORMAL FUNCTIONING HUMAN BEING-

This won’t be the case.

Can you explain the last thing you said?

The brainwork brainworm? Yes. RFJjr? Swerves for more roadkill.

Edit: interesting autocorrect but not what I was going for.

Hang in there 💕

Did you answer the wrong post?

Can do. I'm not sure what's unclear, so I'll cover my bases.

Endometriosis - as part of the period cycle, the layer of the womb's walls that's inside (endometrium) thickens, ready to take a fertilised egg, but if there's no egg (or none in time) make itself a cozy home among that lining, then it sheds, and is ejected from the body along with blood during periods. Endometriosis is a disease where that lining starts to grow elsewhere outside the uterus, most commonly around it, but can end up all over the body, even inside lungs or growing on skin. And, of course, it makes periods quite a bit more painful. Current estimate is that it affects 10 percent of menstruating people, yet it's regularly misdiagnosed or the diagnosis is delayed, leading to years (if not a lifetime) of pain. This article is a good read on the troubles with endometriosis.

The research about its effect on men or another one about how endometriosis affects the sexual wellbeing of men - even though over the recent couple of years there's been an increase in the number of studies on endometriosis, it's upsetting to people that instead of focusing on better diagnosis, care, alleviation, etc, people are still looking into "but what about the men 🥺". Not to mention the biased / lacking variety selection of participants for existing research. This all ties into medical misogyny and women's concerns being consistently dismissed (see more below).

On period pain - this article is a good read (anti-paywall proxy), but in a nutshell, it is so "normal" that people have pain during periods that people just suffer in silence, or are dismissed when they do try to seek help. There are some materials (example, example) online, though even official materials can downplay period pain, which is just an example how normal and systemic it is, though one should not be surprised as half report their symptoms/concerns being dismissed. Which also ties into endometriosis, since it can increase the painfulness of periods, to the point of being debilitating. Not to mention the general dismissal of people's pain in gynecology, what with for example medical professionals underestimating pain and just not offering pain medication.

On the cervix - things have gotten better in gynecological care in more recent years, though there's still a lot of room to grow. In Sexual Behavior in the Human Female (1953), Kinsey’s group wrote that the surface of the cervix is "the most completely insensitive part of the female genital anatomy." based on a reaction to a gentle stroking by a probe. And then, it was taught to doctors for years, decades, and some healthcare providers still keeping to the old beliefs. It's obviously wrong (ex. a neat read on cervix and pleasure), but what do you expect, the doctors no longer use the word "hysteria", but medical misogyny is sufficiently embedded that just slapping on a generic diagnosis is a thing.

Did that clarify things for you or is there something more you'd like to know?

I'm not really sure that's a great choice of words for someone with depression 🤔

Ha, niacin was our go-to for passing drug tests as a kid. That full body sunburn was something else. Not even sure it actually helped, but hey, never failed one!

Feels like this one is for philosophy. If your body is in pain and you take anesthesia, is it no longer in pain, or simply your brain doesn't get the signals, but technically still in pain? Feels like there was something interesting about coma patients and pain. You can see the pain using some scanner (MRI?), but not feel it. How would you define that?

Thanks for going into more detail. My cousin had endometriosis and had surgery for it. She's better now.

This one makes more sense cause your genitals are by default very sensitive to pain. So your body pumps out a bunch of hormones during arousal so sex doesn't feel like beating up your bits.

Your digestive tract does have pain receptors and you do feel them. You've had a stomach ache or felt bloated, right? And you will definitely feel a hernia if your intestine goes where it shouldn't. The GI pain receptors just work a little differently. They don't get triggered by burns or cuts. They react to stretching, pulling, twisting, pressure, and some chemical triggers.

It's super painful other than the absence of pain

Wanna know what hurts more? The constant realisation that people can't write basic text correctly.

Fingure

I also don't know that it's even trying to say... How is not feeling your stomach acid comparable to the dark urge to bite your finger?

looks down at their finger you know you're all pondering that now.

The brainwork

I don't think his brain work

Our bodies are like Iphones. Dumbproof. You don't have admin access and can only see and access the pretty part

If they don't have the education to make them think otherwise, yes.

Literally none of this is true.

No they just didn't actually read the comment and decided it said something it didn't, but tbf to them the comment wasn't actually relevant even if it does explain a related concept.

I can access parts of mine that are far from being pretty.

I also had that issue on SSRIs. More frequent orgasms helped me. Just make sure you’re achieving them in gentle and sustainable ways with vibration/suction/lubrication instead of vigorous rubbing.

Also don’t take medical advice from strangers on the internet or something lol.

I'm glad to hear that, hopefully she'll recover well and be happy and healthy