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habitaution and pain

Submitted by hamsterjacky on Sun, 04/05/2009 - 1:05am.

Can a person who lives with chronic pain become habituated to it - can the pain not be felt later on due to its constant prescence?

I had a friend who had an ankle inflammation which caused him constant pain - doctor misdiagnosed him in the beginning so they didn't treat it properly. I remember in the beginning, he limped a lot but later on he started to walk normally. Does that mean that he became so used to the pain that he didnt realize it was there?

The body generally points over very well when its not happy - such as with pain, but at the point when the body no longer sends pain symptoms, can it be thought that the body had in essence, given up, about the pain and moves onto larger harm?

Also, what about how we really feel the pain when its there and its short term, or acute, but we can't really describe how it felt later when we dont have it. Does this go with the theory that the body tries to erase those memories that aren't pleasant?

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