Your digestive tract does have pain receptors and you do feel them. You’ve had a stomach ache or felt bloated, right? And you will definitely feel a hernia if your intestine goes where it shouldn’t. The GI pain receptors just work a little differently. They don’t get triggered by burns or cuts. They react to stretching, pulling, twisting, pressure, and some chemical triggers.
Your digestive tract does have pain receptors and you do feel them. You’ve had a stomach ache or felt bloated, right? And you will definitely feel a hernia if your intestine goes where it shouldn’t. The GI pain receptors just work a little differently. They don’t get triggered by burns or cuts. They react to stretching, pulling, twisting, pressure, and some chemical triggers.
As someone who has had gastric ulcers, my GI tract strongly disagrees and asserts its ability to feel burns and cuts.