They rarely live pat 25 because they injure themselves and don't know it, and they get sick and don't know because they don't feel the pain. Allot of them have mental conditions, but allot of them are normal as well.

I was just wondering if we are like the opposite of that?

Where they don't feel pain,almost everything equals pain for us.

This is just a thought I have been rolling around for a while.

I understand they are bron with it, but maybe ours takes more time to develope it's symptoms.

I don't know. What got me to thinking this was I was reading things about treating pain and came across a story about a boy who couldn't feel pain.

This is just some random theory from a very uneducater guesser lol.

I just can't imagine not feeling pain, or having to always be cold. Pain is so much a part of our Fibro lives. And then if you have Renauds Disease and need/like the warmth. Wow!

We are like the opposite of them.

Now a cousin of ours doesn't feel pain, but like us is hot. But where I sweat buckets, he sweats horse troughs around me!! I thought I sweat a lot. I'm glad I'm not him. But his wife and boys don't allow him to cook or be around fire without supervision or use the fry daddy because he feels no pain (from an auto accident!) and he's been known to fry his finger tips. Someone usually catches him before they are fully cooked, thankfully! He can hit his hand with a hammer, and nothing! No pain. According to him and his family, it's just as much a curse as feeling too much pain is for us. He can't hardly be left unsupervised.

Pamela {please}

I wish tons of love and hugs!

Favorite sites besides MDJunction:
http://www.invisableillness.com
& the Fibro Store at:
http://www.cafepress.com/artisticability

BUT, I have a child that has recently been diagnosed with Sensory Integration Dysfunction and I believe fibromyalgia may be linked to that. I have a lot of the symptoms of that disfunction. (I don't want to call it SID, but I am not sure of the abbreviation...) Anyway it is worth a look. I am also toying with the idea that ADD and ADHD and the sensory disorder are the next step in the evolutionary process. But that is a long and difficult discussion. Epecially as I firmly believe in creation. I would hate to prove my own self wrong. LOL. Like that never happens.