'I truly hope that finding out about my genes will help others in the future, possibly leading to a new gene therapy to ease the pain of others.'
Doctors discovered that it is a gene mutation that causes my lack of pain sensitivity. I found the whole process really interesting, except I don’t think my poor husband who came with me did.He acted as an age and environment standard to test me against – so everything they did to me they also did to him.
Unlike me he felt the pain of the pinpricks, hot and cold pads and pressure. We also both had blood and biopsies taken. While the gene mutations mean I am a very forgetful person, they also have some great positives aside from not feeling pain.
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