Posted on 08/27/2019 7:36:35 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Tolerating pain works on a short term basis better than on a long term one.
Since 'pain' is all a mental construct in the brain, even if you learn to tolerate it, the mind will eventually force you to 'feel' it again. It is the body's way of protecting itself from death.
I’m female, and I have a high pain threshold. Of course, I am only one individual so that is not a scientific study.
It is more likely that men and women feel pain equally, but women make more of a drama about it.
I draw the line at “no beer either”
Because it's what the other cool kids are doing ?
Exactly!
Some people just have a different tolerance for different things.
As a matter of fact, when that daughter was born, she was 9lbs, 8oz, the 2nd biggest head in the county that year (at that hospital), AND came out with shoulder dystocia. (She came out like a football player plowing thru to The goalline, per my mother in law!) I did it all with no drugs. BUT if I were EVER to go the dentist, I would need any and everything they could offer. I would want to know why I had veins which did not have IVs loaded with painkillers dripping into them....even if both arms were already hooked up. I would want to start taking morphine the night...or week..before any appointment. I am a total baby about mouth stuff!
good luck with the new knee! Hope rehab remains easy for you. Ortho says that is in my future...that was 1.5 years ago and I haven’t gone back yet. Kinda putting that off. :)
At this point (20 years) , those meds are only about 10% effective be. Ibuprofen would work better.
Oh she may be woolly
Them young girls they do get woolly
Wearing that same old shaggy dress, yeah, yeah
But when she gets woolly
Try a little tenderness, yeah, yeah.
— sort of from the movie Bull Durham
When it says “may,” I discount the entire article.
Does this apply to a trans “woman”?
in the case of long term debilitating pain, I doubt believe as a whole there is one wit of a difference between men and women and the abuse of opiates,on the whole, has more to do with having an addictive personality.
Anyway that's my two cents as a long term pain sufferer that surgery has not alleviated and depend, but not dependent on, Opiates to manage my pain. I'll add that I have never once felt any kind of high from the Opiates I take and clearly don't understand those that say they do.
What a tortured attempt at putting a positive spin on being more sensitive to pain. Why don’t they just call it differently sensitized or something?
But why is it LEGAL and actually ENFORCED to chop off a #### but if you want to get a limb amputated a doctor who did it would go to prison.
Hardly. Men whine over the least little cold virus.
It does what I need it to do and besides, it’s cheaper at this point. I already have it.
For me, at least, beer has the most obvious effects on the gout.
God gave women two sets of lips so they could piss and moan at the same time.
I read an article years ago that explained it succinctly-women feel more pain because of their hormones, which makes sense in that we are designed to feel more due to our primary role as mothers or potential mothers.
Yeah but...child birth!!
I don’t like talking about this stuff but it seems like something that would be physically impossible but it obviously isn’t. (I dont have kids).
Can’t imagine something more agonizing.
That’s why I always thought women handle pain better.
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