Anyone else like this?

[OMFG!You'reActuallySmart!]

I'm wondering how many people on TH have this (either all the listed things or just some). This is about 4 things, fairly unrelated. The last is one that sometimes makes me concerned although I've seen doctors regarding it and nothing has turned up. I doubt it matters but several years ago I broke my neck as well as tore the muscles on both sides. It healed but ever since then I can crack my neck (never was able to do so before) and sometimes the cracking feels like it's at upper vertebrae. I'm more than well aware it could be dangerous which is why I usually don't do it.

1) Partial Lack of Sensation of pain.
I do martial arts and there's sometimes some contact but I've gotten into fights and "play-fighting" with full contact (and sometimes with weapons). People can punch, knee, elbow, kick, etc... anywhere on my body, and it doesn't hurt much at all. Generally, it's ticklish and I'll laugh as I'm getting punched. I've gotten punched several times in the face and it didn't hurt, sometimes dazed me a bit if it was hard enough. I've had my wrist broken and didn't feel a thing, broke various toes and fingers, didn't feel much. At one point I thought my thumb was out of place: turns out a person whom I didn't like dislocated it as well as the pinky finger (didn't notice it but the doctors did), of course after I found him next day he apparently felt pain in his thumb and pinky finger.

It's not that I don't feel pain because I do. I've damaged my right wrist so many times I usually wear a metal-plate brace that sometimes makes it feel better. It's usually the initial onset of the pain I either don't feel at all or is so reduced it doesn't bother me. However, the long-term effects I sometimes (not always) will feel.

2) Lack of Reflexes
When doctors test for the knee-jerk/patellar reflex, the right knee gives a good response but the left gives a reduced one. Overall, fairly normal responses. It gets weird for the elbows because the doctors can whack away and one doesn't quite happen. They've whacked away on the inside and outside of the elbow, nothing. If there is one, it's tiny and the doctors don't view it as even being a reflex but more of the arm moving from the hard hit. The babinski/plantar reflex I think it intact because I always start giggling as it's ticklish.

3) Lack of Pressure points response
If you haven't had people point these out on you, then it may be harder to understand. Basically on certain parts of the body, the nerves are more easily exposed so pressing them with minimal force causes pain. Some people don't have a response to just 1 or 2 pressure points. I've had them tried damn near all over me: wrists, hands, elbows, neck, lower jaw area but I don't feel any discomfort. I can feel someone touching in that area but no pain.

4) Random long-lasting tingling
Sometimes my hand or foot tingles, with the same feeling as when someone says it "fell asleep" because you were lying on it. Only difference is, I'm not lying on it. Sometimes I'll be typing and it'll start. It doesn't cause any weakening as I can walk if it's at my foot and write/type if it's at my hand. When it happens, it occurs in no other place other than hand or foot but they don't always occur together, that is, the tingling won't be at my hand and foot simaltaneously.

[MegaMadness]

Originally Posted by The Man And XX Master

4) Random long-lasting tingling
Sometimes my hand or foot tingles, with the same feeling as when someone says it "fell asleep" because you were lying on it. Only difference is, I'm not lying on it. Sometimes I'll be typing and it'll start. It doesn't cause any weakening as I can walk if it's at my foot and write/type if it's at my hand. When it happens, it occurs in no other place other than hand or foot but they don't always occur together, that is, the tingling won't be at my hand and foot simaltaneously.

I actually get this alot.

[Guru]

I can relate to you on points 1, 3 and 4. But I have quite sharp reflexes.

[BDF]

Lol... I feel little pain ^^

I'm able to punch a wall full on with my right fist and it doesn't really hurt :/ It hurts a bit with my left though. I think it's just to do with what you do to yourself. If you train quite a lot your brain gets used to it and sort of "filters" out the pain signal, as it learns that even though you feel pain when punching something, it's not actually doing you any harm. Of course if it is doing you harm, then it won't work the same I think.

But then you go on to say that your pressure points don't work and your reflexes act strange, which makes me think there's something else strange going on, which I don't know about lol.


The long lasting tingling sensation sounds like bad circulation every now and then. I think it happens to quite a few people at some point.

I have a question though. Which of these symptoms (if any) have you been experiencing since you broke your neck? It might be related, something to do with damaged nerve tissue. It could affect your response to pain and reflexes etc.

[OMFG!You'reActuallySmart!]

Originally Posted by BDF

Lol... I feel little pain ^^

I'm able to punch a wall full on with my right fist and it doesn't really hurt :/ It hurts a bit with my left though. I think it's just to do with what you do to yourself. If you train quite a lot your brain gets used to it and sort of "filters" out the pain signal, as it learns that even though you feel pain when punching something, it's not actually doing you any harm. Of course if it is doing you harm, then it won't work the same I think.

But then you go on to say that your pressure points don't work and your reflexes act strange, which makes me think there's something else strange going on, which I don't know about lol.


The long lasting tingling sensation sounds like bad circulation every now and then. I think it happens to quite a few people at some point.

I have a question though. Which of these symptoms (if any) have you been experiencing since you broke your neck? It might be related, something to do with damaged nerve tissue. It could affect your response to pain and reflexes etc.

Apologies for the delayed response.

All of them have been present before I broke my neck. It's something my parents, doctors and friends noticed because I could get a pretty nasty injury and just walk it off. I usually felt the pain but it was so reduced and lasted for so little of time, I'd be fine. When I was a kid, I had a bunch of "ear infections", called vertigo. After I had several, my doctor decided to do an overall examination to see if anything else was going askew. Part of that involved the reflexes, which were incredibly poor in the arms. Pressure points I learned about years later so I have no idea if they were acting strange back when I was a child but I assume they were.

I remember at my grandfather's house, he has this big heavy marble table-top and steel legs. When I was young, several times I bashed my toes into it. Bare in mind, I was around 8 years old. One time I was running around for some god-forsaken reason when my parents were there and bashed into the table. At night, I had a shower and saw my first 2 toes were bruised up, with the middle one tilted to the side more than usual. Next day, went to the doctors, got an X-ray and they were broken. As a young kid, I broke I think probably all my toes except the last one on my left foot, all my fingers except 1 thumb, etc... .

One unusual thing, which I have asked people about but gotten no answer is whenever I went to the airport or places with high security needing the magnet wand, they kept beeping as though I had metal at my shins. I had to take my shoes off, socks off, roll my pants up past my knees and still, they wands were going off, no matter how many wands they used. Every single place that uses such wands always does that, not for my arms though. It's a pain in the ass because I almost got strip-searched a few times as the security were convinced I wasn't cooperating. I haven't had any surgery to any leg nor foot. I don't know how this can be related but it's weird and so is the rest of what I've been describing. Maybe it somehow all fits.

I'm not sure how unusual this is but when my baby teeth were coming out, it's meant to hurt or at least cause discomfort when the adult teeth come in. I didn't feel anything and I'd look in the mirror and an adult tooth is coming out lol. I've had several cavities on my teeth and for some, the dentist said it's a small cavity but it'd be worth getting the freezing. I told her to drill away and I'll see how it is. The cavity was deeper than expected and when I began saying it was bloody painful, she had said she needs just a few seconds more. In part I told her this because from a brain surgery my father had, the nerves were cut on his front teeth on the upper jaw so he likes to freak out new interns by getting the drilling but no freezing. We were joking about that, so I opted to try the same lol.

If you have a question about what I said or need extra information, feel free to ask.

[BDF]

Leprosy is connected with poor pain reception. But the other symptoms you give don't really link in with that, plus you say that you actually do martial arts and I doubt you'd have the strength to if you had Leprosy.

As for your shins being apparently made of metal, the only thing I can think of is you were born an android or something. I have no clue. Totally weird. Those magnet wands respond to metal... so maybe you just have very high iron levels, in your shins... ??

Then again, you might be the next step in evolution and pioneer a new breed of super-men.

How someone develops through life often relies heavily upon the conditions they were in approximately up to the point they learn to talk. It can really affect someone's development not just mentally but physically too sometimes, and if it is something in your early childhood or even before you were born that caused this, it would be very hard to tell what exactly.

It might help asking your mum if she has any strange medical history that might connect with what's going on here, maybe she had an accident or was taking some medication etc. It can be intrusive asking someone that... but it's a start. Here's a gruesome example (rather extreme) of what drugs could potentially do to unborn kids:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalidomide

Not all "defects" so to speak will be as obvious as that though, and symptoms would vary slightly for different people. In fact some symptoms might not even be harmful. If you really want to you can do a google image search for the above link.