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heat insensitivity

  1. Emeline

    Heat Insensitive Pain?

    When I’ve over done it and have pain, often in my back, if I lay on a heat pad, I can’t feel the heat, and when I apply biofreeze I can only feel the cool menthol sensation in odd spots that aren’t painful. This lack of heat sensitivity moves with the pain, but it’s not numbness- I can still...
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