It's more likehaving permanent, painful pins and needles my father says but in very bad cases, like in Hanson's disease it is very easy for sufferers to damage the extremities ( my father is not even allowed to cut his own nails ( not that he could reach his toes ) for fear of damaging them) and in cases where people don't look after themselves to well before you know it you have gangrene in your limbs.
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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
Thu 16 Apr 2009, 14:16,
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Irritating, the ability of meaningless illness-related pain to persist forever.You might think that eventually you could learn to ignore it, like start thinking "this is just an erroneous nerve signal I've been getting for years now and I'm no longer going to let it bother me," but no.
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Thu 16 Apr 2009, 14:30,
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