Pain Threshold

12 Feb 2010

Today I was told that i have a high pain threshold after having a colonoscopy and opting for no sedation or pain releif. Now it was bloody painfull don't get me wrong but my fear of sedation and needles is greater than my fear of having a meter of pipe shoved where the sun don't shine, I havent really thought about it before but thinking back in my 40 (ish) years i have never had a filling or denstistry with the aid of pain releif even though i do end up almost off the chair and on the floor. I am now wondering how is pain measured , we are all different and im assuming its a neurological reaction, body or nerves sense it and the brain adds its two penneth worth.

12 Feb 2010

Mine is high- but it's not always a good thing. I'm also very calm when in stressful, or painful situations. Apparantly, I'm not good to be on a maternity unit near...all my labours have had to be induced, but I just calmly and quietly deal with it. I remember telling a first timer who was making a huge fuss during her first couple of contractions that she really needed to get a grip of it, because it was gonna get a whole lot worse and she'd have worn herself out. I was only trying to be helpful. redface

I went camping with a kidney stone- that was hellish. When I got home & went to the hospital, I was almost misdiagnosed because the doc said I was "far too calm" for the amount of pain kidney stones cause. He asked me to rate the pain on a scale of 1-10, and I said 8. Apparently, an 8 is usually signified by screaming and shouting. dunno

And then there was the time I broke my toe on a burley red belt, and just kept fighting- but I ended up doing it more damage. :doh:
Oh, and I insisted on watching hen I had LLETZ treatment...I'm odd like that...
We balance each other out though- if the other half so much as has a near miss with something, he says "ouch!" rolleyes

You must have a far more compassionate health authority than we do- I wasn't even offered pain relief for a colonoscopy.
Yours, Witchy. The Association of accident-prone hypochondriacs.
rotflmao

12 Feb 2010

Mine is high but I don't think thats a good thing, I mistake others for mine and invariably theirs is not as high as mine sad

12 Feb 2010

I gave birth naturally too. The pain was measured in decibels :giggle:

12 Feb 2010

I am all ways impressed with the amount of punishment and pain the human body can take, and enjoy. :twisted:

12 Feb 2010

Don't recall the word "enjoy" in my post , but I do know exactly what you mean DM.

12 Feb 2010

I have a high pain threshold and I love pain. It does make it difficult to recognise when I have done damage to myself by accident. Or when h ing operations for the Drs to determine when I am healing.
The upside is that I am irreplaceable as a 'sub' because I can take more than the average 'play at it' sub.

13 Feb 2010

Quote by TheLovelyOne
I gave birth naturally too. The pain was measured in decibels :giggle:

Watching childbirth was an interesting experience in putting pain in context.
If I stub a toe it hurts, and I hop around the bedroom swearing. When someone's size 12 studs crushed my second toe during a scrum in a cup quarter final I played out the rest of the eighty minutes, and didn't recognise what had happened till I took my sock off in the dressing room and the remains of the toe nail came with it.

13 Feb 2010

Quote by awayman
I gave birth naturally too. The pain was measured in decibels :giggle:

Watching childbirth was an interesting experience in putting pain in context.
If I stub a toe it hurts, and I hop around the bedroom swearing. When someone's size 12 studs crushed my second toe during a scrum in a cup quarter final I played out the rest of the eighty minutes, and didn't recognise what had happened till I took my sock off in the dressing room and the remains of the toe nail came with it.
Gross!!
That's probably the same principle as 'Doctor Stage'.

13 Feb 2010

All I know is that I found watching childbirth far more painful in every possible way than when I gave birth and if I could have taken that pain away from my daughter I would have.

13 Feb 2010

I have found all the ladies love the cross,

13 Feb 2010

I have trained my body to feel no pain and can withstand anything. This makes me invaluable as a human cannonball and live hunting target.

13 Feb 2010

Quote by Ben_welshminx
I have trained my body to feel no pain and can withstand anything. This makes me invaluable as a human cannonball and live hunting target.

Don't know why, but when I read that Chicken Run sprung to mind...... dunno

14 Feb 2010

not the face!
NOT THE FACE!
lp