Either that or the nerve died, so you stopped feeling pain. I went through that with a tooth (was also unemployed at the time and couldn't afford proper dental

Either that or the nerve died, so you stopped feeling pain. I went through that with a tooth (was also unemployed at the time and couldn't afford proper dental treatment for it), and eventually it had to get removed because it decayed so much. It used to hurt a lot but eventually it stopped hurting entirely, even as it cracked and chipped away slowly.