What's your pain tolerance, QQ?

It's not something I see come up very often, but I thought it might be interesting to compare with others.

Just how much hurt can you handle?

Personally, I seem to have a fairly unnaturally high pain tolerance, at least compared to everyone else I've met. I suppose the most definitive example would be when I took a fair-sized hunk of stone (about the size of two clenched fists) to the back of my head. It was thrown down onto a concrete pad, and then rebounded down further onto me. It cut me open good, but I hardly felt a thing.

Course, the half-mile walk home was interesting, especially with my shirt belted to my head to stop the blood.

How bout you, QQ?

 

Had my foot pinched between a structural I-Beam and a forklift. It snipped the back third of my heel bone off and the Achilles Tendon slowly pulled that chunk of bone up into my leg. It was really uncomfortable, but not actually painful.

Now, trying to show off and hop down the stairs on one foot after getting the pizza from the door, missing a step and catching myself on my broken foot with fresh new pins in it, THAT hurt. I can comfortably confirm that the idea that a large enough burst of pain causes your vision to go black and stars to burst behind your eyes is completely true.

I didn't drop or spill the pizza though and it was even better than normal since it distracted me from the throbbing in my foot and leg

 

I see lots of people bragging about how tough they are in here. I'm on the other end.

Low pain tolerance here. Stubbing a toe disables me for a while.

Not really ever hurt myself super badly, worst pain I've ever felt was a really nasty leg cramp which hurt a lot.

You know what they say, YOLO, so be careful, if you damage yourself, its your only life!

 

I'm with tehelgee here. Varies, but sticking to wussiness. Of course, that's if I notice. There have been times... But then again, I also try to avoid when I can. Doesn't always work, let me tell ya. 2nd degree burns on the face HURT. Getting the skin scraped off so you can heal from said burn however is WORSE. 8cc of morphine didn't help.

Anyways, I'd say low pain tolerance.

 

My pain tolerance is ok. My dentist gave me a discount cause I didn't need much icing to take out my tooth or repair cavities and I just kinda felt the whole process the entire time.

 

Fairly low, I think.
Dental anaesthetic doesn't quite work properly on me, so that's not fun, and I just can't stand headaches, which I get fairly often.
That said, I barely notice light cuts or the like. Also, my reaction to most injuries tends to be hysterical laughter rather than crying.

 

Nonexistent, when I stub my toe the pain makes me nauseous.

 

Dentist doing his thing with my teeth: Painful
Kick my toe: Kill me now!
Accidentally drilling into my hand: Nothing

 

Minor injuries always hurt worse than major ones. It's called endorphines. I don't know why people still think otherwise.


For myself? Considerable. I get full on sensory migraines. The kind that put me in a group statistically more likely to die from drug overdose or suicide than any other single cause. I've been forced to reset my own broken leg, and it was comparatively minor to my serious headaches, and almost pleasant compared to the truly bad ones. I'm told childbirth is nothing in comparison, though I've not exactly experienced that. Apparently, the only thing that is generally agreed upon as worse is being set on fire. Though I've luckily never had that happen to me, either.

 

Mine is remarkably high, I'm also remarkably durable. I've gotten back up with nary a scratch from riding a speeding bike into a ditch and flipping it, slept through falling five feet prone onto my back alot of times as a kid, once ripped open my knee without realizing it (only knew it was bad when someone noticed the blood on my pants) and needed to get stitches. Another time I accidentally cut a quarter-inch hole in my thumb. And took a face full of metal during a car crash when I wasn't wearing a seatbelt in the back of a van and only got a busted lip.

Some times I wonder if I'm a highlander.

Edit: Also slight masochist, especially for painfully hot showers.

 

I used to think I had a low pain tolerance.

A couple of months ago, though, my dog stuck a paw in my left eye, scratching my sclera pretty badly. It was friday evening, so I decided to go to bed and see what things were like in the morning. They were still pretty goddamn bad, so I went to the hospital, where the doctor seemed very impressed that I'd managed to sleep at all with the pain, or that I'd managed to hold out on going to the hospital as long as I had.

I mean, it DID hurt, but I had plenty of audiobooks to listen to, and they put my mind off things quite nicely.

 

Oh yeah, that said, I do not recommend having a dog's paw stuck in your eye. Avoid it if you can.

 

Sort of middlish? Unexpected pain, like stubbing a toe disables me for a few seconds, but if I expect it I can deal. Constant pain is annoying but tolerable.

I handled two impacted wisdom teeth and their removal without much grumbling and have had no problems with dentistry or orthodontic work.

Plus a lifetime of all the canker sores forever. (BTW if you have that problem? Wasabi. Apply directly to the problem and leave for minimum 30 seconds. It'll be gone by next morning. If you catch them early it doesn't even really hurt, it's been a godsend.)

 

Hilariously enough, AFTER I'd had my eye scratched by dog claws, I went to a hair dresser, and she asked me what was wrong, and when I told her, she said, "oh, I had a similar problem, three weeks ago, I impaled my eye on a broken radio antenna."

Apparently she went back to work after three days.

 

Decent, I think.
Slipped on ice last march, and still spent another hour walking around outside, looking for a lost thing. Didn't realize I'd broken it until I tried taking my coat off.
Surgery for an ingrown/infected toenail without anesthetic most of a decade ago.
Bicycling accident needing three staples in my skull as a teen, they hurt more coming out than getting any of the other scar leaving injuries from that did. Found out recently it damaged my spine.
Playing with a lighter and bubblegum at the same age, I found it is essentially napalm in solid form. Big lump of scar tissue on my middle finger from that. Never saw a doctor for it.

 

High.

Way back when I was really young(two or three, maybe younger), I had this hugely massive ear infection. According to my mom, when the doctors were treating it, they ended up taking two cups of fluids out of my ear. It was supposed to be really painful, but since it happened when I was really young my brain apparently adapted to that as "Normal operation parameters."

End result? High pain tolerance.

When I was eight, I ended up shattering my elbow to the point where amputation was apparently a serious consideration.

The only reason I rushed to my parents was because my arm was visibly out of place(looked dislocated) and the doctors didn't buy that it was broke until they x-rayed since I wasn't screaming.

A couple years ago, I got my hand broken in gym class and just thought it was sore after getting hit by a hockey stick. My Mom keeps telling me it's broke and a couple days later drags me to get it x-rayed. Doctor there didn't buy that it was broke since, among other things, I shook his hand with my broken one but had it x-rayed to humor my mom. When it turned out that it was broke, he was pretty shocked, but put a cast on it.

After the cast came off, he was telling me that my hand would be too stiff and sore to move well for a couple days. In the middle of his speech, I was flexing my hand and had already gotten it back to full mobility.

Plus, all of the smaller injuries and such that I never notice until I stumble across them a few days later. I can't tell you how many times I've found a sliver or a cut or a bruise or whatever while showering that I had no idea I had even gotten to begin with.

 

Maybe on the low end, I guess?

I don't really feel little things like slivers or scraps that I get from wherever.

With my various broken bones, there was sort of a throbbing ache, but it was pretty ignorable. For my elbow, I remember that I was going to walk it off, up until I saw it was out of place. For my hand I literally did walk it off since I walked home from high school.

*shrug*

I guess I don't really have a good perspective for it?