Posted on 04/01/2004 5:43:09 PM PST by chance33_98
Women More Sensitive to Pain Than Men
But study didn't find any racial differences in pain thresholds
THURSDAY, April 1 (HealthDayNews) -- Blacks and whites have about the same sensitivity to pain, but women appear to be more sensitive to it than men.
That's what Duke University researchers report in the April issue of the Journal of Pain.
"Many pain medications are addictive and have unpleasant side effects, so it's important for physicians to be able to understand exactly how much pain their patients are experiencing," lead researcher and psychologist Dr. Tavis Campbell said in a prepared statement.
He conducted the study while at Duke; he's now at the University of Calgary in Canada.
"This research supports well-established findings of slightly higher sensitivity to pain among women compared to men, but revealed no difference between whites and African-Americans," Campbell said.
Previous research and anecdotal evidence have suggested blacks are more sensitive to pain than whites. Campbell suggested pain assessment procedures may be responsible for such racial differences in pain sensitivity.
His study included 76 men and 59 women aged 25 to 45; 72 were black, the rest white. A blood pressure cuff was inflated on the arm of each study participant and left inflated for several minutes. That created an aching sensation. The participants rated their pain according to standard pain rating scales, which gauge both the intensity and the unpleasantness of the pain.
Oh and 9.5 is just below having your leg cut off with a chainsaw.
:>)
2. I've been around for a few decades and am a keen observer of my fellow humans.
3. In my experience women are more sensitive to cold than men are.
4. Pain tolerances seem to me to be random with no sex pattern.
5. But that cold factor! The women are always raising the thermostat until I am sweltering. :)
Represent yourself as an illegal immigrant if you have to but GET MEDICAL HELP NOW.
Right now.
It's because we men hate to be sick or injured. It interferes with and weakens our ability to fight and protect the family.
The only pain I get that I complain about is period pains, when bad I can't handle them at all. Hard to say how guys would cope seeing as they don't get them, but I know my brother breaks bones & doesn't say a word, where i'd be crying & in agony! Had 14 stitches & had to be on injections/pills & gas & air lol
Period pain has a function- it lets you know what is happening. You probably just need a Darvocet every now and then (pro-proxyphene). I've been banged up enough from the military to now I made an emergency first-aid kit from drugs I bought on the net 2 years ago. Viral and bacterial antibiotics to hydrocodone. This is 1 mile from the Northridge earthquake. Another good reason. I can't use them because of a security clearance, but if I need them, I damn sure will and tell everyone who needs to know!
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