An interesting concept... . How wonderful it would be to get rid of the one thing that cripples so many people from performing everyday activities, however, what would be the result? . I faced this dilemma, myself, when I suffered a spinal injury in the Army. I was told the VA Hospital could sever a lower-body nerve (Vagus) and I'd feel no pain, yet, doing so would place me at serious risk; I could unknowingly injure myself and, possibly, bleed to death. I chose the safe option, which was to live with the pain (which I've done for decades), and I eventually developed a very high tolerance to it. . But what if there was a safer approach? What if we could live without the pain and also without the risk of injuring ourselves and being unaware? Wouldn't that be nice? ^_^

An interesting concept... . How wonderful it would be to get rid of the one thing that cripples so many people from performing everyday activities, however, what would be the result? . I faced this dilemma, myself, when I suffered a spinal injury in the Army. I was told the VA Hospital could sever a lower-body nerve (Vagus) and I'd feel no pain, yet, doing so would place me at serious risk; I could unknowingly injure myself and, possibly, bleed to death. I chose the safe option, which was to live with the pain (which I've done for decades), and I eventually developed a very high tolerance to it. . But what if there was a safer approach? What if we could live without the pain and also without the risk of injuring ourselves and being unaware? Wouldn't that be nice? ^_^ - Harnessing rare genetic mutations could help end America's opioid epidemic.