My DD doesnt seem to feel pain

[profsturg]

yesterday my dd pulled a bookshelf down and it hit her nose. the nursery said she just got up and didnt react at all. she is fine but has a huge bruise accross the bridge of her nose and black eyes.

this seems to be what she does. she split her head a year ago and didnt even flinch, fell down the stairs at my mums and nothing, caught her finger in the stair gate and nothing. she just doesnt feel pain. its really worrying me

How fantastic! Wish I was like that.

Is her father one of the X-men?
Sorry - couldn't resist.
Seriously though I would speak to your GP. I don't know anything about anatomy but if she can't feel pain she could burn herself on a radiator or something.

she has had small red marks on her hand that looks like burns but we had no idea where they happened or how

Have you mentioned it to a GP or health visitor?

i spoke to the health visitor today about it and she is gonna call me back tomorrow. they said that they will look into it but will let me know how they are gonna do that when they call tomorrow

Actually I may have seen something like this on the telly - I think that's where I got the radiator idea from. You really need to seek proper medical advice.

Posted at the same time there! Hope everything gets sorted for you then.

yeah hopefully im being paranoid but i saw this aswell. i just need to make sure that its nothing bad

Hopefully it won't be. Perhaps she's just got a higher pain threshold and she might have been too shocked to cry about the bookcase.

ds is the same. he climbed out of his pushchair and tipped it back. banged his head really hard and didn't cry. trips over all the time and doesn't cry. fell off the roundabout at the park today - exclaimed no more, stood up and got back on

its horrible isnt it. i have never heard that high pitched scream u get when they hurt themselves

i worry cos ds has no fear. that's how he fell off the roundabout today. he made it go far too fast and fell of it and nearly went underneath it went to one of those play centres with the vertical drop slides the other day. i thought his cousin was watching him in the toddler area. next thing i know i look up to see his cousin trying to stop him going down the vertical slide. he's not even 2 yet!!! i've never moved so quick!

lol i can imagine. dd is nearly 3

My ds1 has a very high pain threshhold (is that the right way round?) - he broke his foot falling off atable and I didn't know ( I came downstairs after 5 minutes)- no tears no screams - I think he may have said 'ow' - it was only the complete inability to walk that gave it away.
It's commen in children with aspergers syndrome(which ds1 has) not that I'm suggesting your child has that , but it has no sinister physical condition behind it - he's perfectly healthy and I find ds2's dramatics over a tiny bump harder to bear!

im waiting on the healthvisitor calling me tody

im just off the phone to the health visitor and they are referring her to the community peadiatritian to see if there is a problem or if she just deals with pain better than most people

how do they find that out though?

prof, dd2 has a high pain threshold. she dislocated her tumb last summer and didnt tell anyone for well over 6hours. she came home from nursery and said 'look mum, my thumbs all funny' and popped it out. (pic in profile) took her to the hospital and even the doctor said 'that looks really bad, doesnt it hurt' trying to explain to docs that she doesnt feel pain that much is hard. they look at you like you are nuts.

makes things likes jabs easier though, she actually smiled all through her flu jab!

she has started at age 5, to feel things more, but only really gets upset if she sees blood. she is covered in bumps and bruises, and cuts. i still check her nightly for cuts as she has had several infections where she has cut herself and not noticed.

my dh asked how they find out if she feels pain and i said (jokingly btw) "they put her in a room and beat her up till she cries" hes said "really thats not very nice. you would think they could come up with a better test"

he really is gullable

My DS used to have this too ( as with luckylady he is also ASD). It is a serious issue so do get it checked out. DS2 broke his collar bone and we didn't know for two days and a huge splinter in his foot had caused a huge mess before I spotted it.
Get it checked and don't be fobbed off.

BTW , oddly his pain threshold normalised when he was taken off milk for completely seperate reasons.

oh pagwatch we had that as well with a splinter. there was one in her foot that we didnt know about until it got infected. i managed to get it out but also had to take her to hospital a+e to get emergency anti-biotics.

when we first moved her she was 2years old. she was in the garden barefoot, and just walked through the lounge with blood pouring from her feet. she has cut every single toe and didnt notice.

profsturg - so what is the test?