This previous Saturday, I decided to try out my new battery powered 8" mini chainsaw. I was very stupid, and ended up holding a branch that was too small to stabilize it so it could cut it off. Of course, the saw bounced and hit the hand holding the branch.
I got two 1-2mm deep chunks taken out of my index finger knuckle, and a deep flap cut into my thumb. The weirdest thing was that it really didn’t hurt; I was just annoyed that blood was everywhere.
Here I am nearly 4 days out, and my thumb is almost completely healed, and the deepest cut on my knuckle is only like 2 days from being completely healed over. The only part of the whole process that hurt was putting pressure on everything immediately after cleaning it, and putting the liquid bandage on my knuckle (it’s acetone based).
I’m actually slightly concerned about my pain threshold, because I cut open my shin on a server rail yesterday and it really didn’t hurt either.
I have read about people with a condition (couldn’t tell you what) that didn’t have a normal pain response. The message was that they lived shorter lives, on average, because of the lack of response to dangerous injuries. I wish I could better explain. You might want to look into it or discuss with a physician.
Sensory integration disorder is one.