Is it possible to lose your sense of touch?

Leprosy is a disease that kills off the sensory nerves in a body's extremeties. Most people tend to think that leprosy eats your flesh away, but that's not the case. What happens is, as the nerves die away, all sensation is lost. Including pain. read more

Diagnosis is usually a complex process due to the sheer number of possible causes and related symptoms. In order to diagnose loss of sense of touch, we could: Research the topic; Find a doctor with the time; Use a diagnostic computer system. The process is the same, whichever method is used. read more

The sense of touch is not a single sense. It includes pain, cold, heat, deep pressure, light pressure, and vibration. Each of these is picked up by different receptors and transmitted to the brain along relatively separate tracts. It is possible to lose only a couple of these, or all of these at once. read more

Yet touch is another sense that dwindles naturally with age. Each decade, you lose more nerves that perceive sensations such as pain, heat, cold, itching, and vibrations, says David Linden, Ph.D., author of Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart, and Mind. Not caring for your skin now may fast-track the deterioration. read more