'feels painful' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used when describing something that one experiences as painful. For example, "The blister on my foot feels painful when I walk."
The first time she felt a dick hit her cervix, she was super turned on and already past the point where pain feels painful.
The collapse of housing prices certainly feels painful, and for some homeowners, it will be.
While this feels painful right now, there could be some silver linings.
Often, it feels painful looking back, remembering the days when virginity held you in its grim grip, and you didn't even own your own jeans.
Parker and Stone almost never vote, "because we're not allied to one particular side, so it feels painful", Stone says, but it's safe to assume that they veer more towards the left in their attitudes (in one South Park episode, Satan muses how he can win over the people on a particular issue. "I'll do what we always do," one of his assistants replies. "Use the Republicans").
It feels painful but ultimately cleansing and energizing.
Yoga should never feel painful, if you experience pain during any pose, adjust your pose, don't push so hard into it, and if you are still experiencing pain, come out of the pose and try something else.[19].[19]
Try cold compresses to help reduce swelling and ease the pain if your breasts still feel painful and are hard to the touch, even after nursing or pumping milk.
Hyperalgesia includes stronger pain upon noxious stimulation (e.g. strong pressure or twisting the joint) and the experience of pain when stimuli are applied that are not felt painful under normal conditions (palpation, movements in the working range).
Shrinking down would, of course, feel painful.
I felt painful when I was just jogging".
