analgesia arises more in circumstances of massive, physical injury. Half your body is burned and your ankle’s sprained, and you’re trying to carry a loved one out of some inferno—that’s when stress-induced analgesia is going to dominate. Discover some weirdo growth on your shoulder that hurts a bit, decide in a panic that you’ve got fatal melanoma, be informed by an unsympathetic answering machine that your doctor has just left for a three-day weekend. That’s when the stress-induced hyperalgesia will dominate, as you lie awake for three nights, thanks to how painful you’ve now decided the spot
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