I read just the opposite in Readers Digest...if you have read hair you actually need more pain killers than average. I have red hair and I can vouch for that. When ever I go to the dentist, they get out the elephant darts. I never get bit by mosquitos because I feel them and kill them 80% of the time before they get me.
Huh. I was born with copper colored ringlets. I'm a relaxed reddish blond now. Aren't chemicals amazing? Anyway, I hurt like everyone else, I guess but people think I don't. It's just that drugs go right to me and I would rather not take them until I get to the point that I can't stand it.
My tolorance for pain has always been extremely high, and the one chestnut-haired kid I namaged to produce also has a high tolorance for pain. My brunett son has a high tolorance, but my blond youngest daughter doesn't have much pain tolorance at all. This article explains a lot. Don't forget the results come from averaging subject response.
I read the same thing. And forget it at the dentist. I've just learned to deal with the pain. I've been asked if I've taken my natural childbirth childbirth classes yet (our baby is due in March) and I tell everyone I'm not even going to pretend to go through the motions of attempting a drug-free birth. No way! I wish I could start the epidural now. {joking}
Scientifically proven that red heads require LESS pain medication and tolerate higher thresholds of pain than most others.
As an example, I've been through four major lower back surgeries. One of those back surgeries was to repair a break in a spinal fusion I'd had four years prior after slipping on some ice and falling square on my arse causing the break.
I walked around like that for six weeks occasionally telling my wife that my back hurt, but never took a single pain med. It was after six weeks that I called my Orthopedic Neurosurgeon and asked to go into his office to get checked out. Had an MRI that day which showed how I broke the spinal fusion I'd had done four years prior and had the surgery to repair it the following week.
I didn't take a single pain pill after the surgery, and was back at work in just under three weeks after having the surgery. That was back in 2009.
In February of 2013 I fell on some ice and shattered my right elbow while trying to get in my truck to go home after work. Ended up driving myself home and was able to shift until I had to put my truck in park when I pulled into my garage almost an hour later. That's when I realized something was wrong. Go figure.
Surgery to repair elbow, six weeks in a cast followed by several months of physical therapy to get the motion and strength back, and I didn't take a single pain pill.
We red head's are tough sons a bitches.