How do you react to pain?

[Mozza444]

Totally depends.
-If i stub my toe or similar pain, it fucking hurts.. ill hop around for a good minute but then it stops.
-I have given myself a smiley before.. (Pretty much branding yourself) But a severe one, my skin melted got the scar after 4+years, i manned that off easily. (Because i was ready for it)
-If somebody hits me, even if it does not hurt around the face i get angry quickly.

In general it hurts and i get over it quick, pain is not the end of the world it goes away.
And yes i will do things that hurt for fun, toaster challenge!!! (See whos hand last longest in a toaster turned on) always play that at parties.

 

[Prof. Monkeypox]

Oddly enough, it seems the greater the pain the less I react.

I will moan like a zombie at the smallest of aches, but when I actually get seriously injured I seem to go into shock or something because I can barely feel it.

When I flipped over my bike, broke one wrist and tore my other arm to shit I limped to the Hospital on foot and patiently waited to be seen.


It's uncanny...

 

[JaceArveduin]

All depends on the circumstances to be honest, I range from ignoring it to rage.

 

[Loner Jo Jo]

Depends on the pain and the cause. I've never had a significant injury in my life, or at least, anything that required me to go to the hospital/doctor.

If it's minor, I'll usually say "God damn it" or "son of a *****" and move on. If it's minor, but the pain last longer (you know, like when you stub your toe really good or hit your funny bone) I either freeze until the pain has subsided or if someone is talking to me, I tend to snap at them.

If I expect there to be pain or the pain is significant and long lasting and I'm scared at the same time, I sing. Well, more like a whimper/humming thing. I had to have some dental work done recently, and I will admit, I am a total coward. So, I was terrified about having the shots injected, and when she did inject them, I would whimper at first or squeal and then it would turn into this weird song. If the pain got more intense, the pitch would spike. She thought it was rather funny. It's also happened when I have pains that I don't know the cause of. Last summer, all of a sudden my ribs starting hurting. It felt like they were being compressed and it hurt, but I wasn't doing anything at the time nor had a done anything that would cause my ribs to hurt, so the singing/whimpering thing started up again. /shrug.

 

[BabyRaptor]

I have an unreasonably high pain threshold. I went through most of my labor with my son without an epidural. (Not by choice, but it happened.)

Most of the time, it's just something that's there. I try and ignore it.

Toothaches and migraines are the two exceptions to this rule. Both make me cry like a baby.

 

[StarCecil]

I don't react to pain. Pain reacts to me.

 

[EHKOS]

I go 7 up to a point and then it's 2. I've never had a really serious injury so I couldn't tell you what comes after that. Although I am just wincing at my back pain right now.

 

[Spawny0908]

Usually i just say: "AHH FUCK!"

Yeah pretty much this. What is it about the good ol' F-Bomb that makes pain go away?

Believe it or not, swearing profusely after an injury encourages your body to produce adrenaline, which 'numbs' the pain quite effectively.

I KNEW there had to be a reason!!!

 

[Samurai Silhouette]

7) People who become VERY angry when injured, for no apparent reason.

Um, they're angry cause their injured...
Anyways, this is kinda me, I'll hurt something, clench my teeth and growl. It's like "biting the bullet".

I'm not talking about getting pissed off and griping about their injury. I'm talking more about the kind of people who, say, stub their toe, or bash their dead on a door-frame, and then promptly punch a tree or their bedroom wall until their knuckles bleed... or in one case I know of, crack.

That's not indicative of being angry at pain, because by doing so, you're inflicting more pain upon yourself.

Thanks for clarifying. I didn't get all of that out of "Angry for no apparent reason". Sorry.

 

[littlewisp]

I grit my teeth and bear it out of some misguided notion of pride. I find pain to be frustrating (depending on the degree of pain it just demands so much attention!), but at the same time I have great respect for it. Once I fractured my femur, but because I didn't want to be a wuss I played off the pain as no big deal, hobbled over to a picnic table to sit down. As I was at the fair, the medical people wrote it off as a strain of some kind and told me to keep off it, elevate it yadda yadda. The pain got worse and worse until finally my parents took me to the emergency room later that night. Got a cast from my crotch to my ankle -- no fun.

So now when my body tells me something is wrong I damn well listen to it.

 

[ShindoL Shill]

"... fuck you."
i dont care how i hurt myself. if i fall through a window, "... fuck you, window. you're shit at your job, which is keeping me in and giving me a nice view."

 

[Wherethefuckiswally]

Once I sliced about 2cm deep into my thumb and just looked at it thinking "This should probably hurt more" :-/ but I do tend to swear with an Irish accent when I burn myself (i'm a chef so it happens a bit)weird...

 

[Darius Brogan]

I don't react to pain. Pain reacts to me.

So, when you cut yourself, the pain inflicted actually goes 'ouch' instead of you?

That's epic.

 

[JasonKaotic]

7) People who become VERY angry when injured, for no apparent reason.

Heh. Yep. That's me. This is where I'd say why, but I don't know why, hence there being no apparent reason.

 

[Rin Little]

Ill say "ow" sarcastically if it mildly hurts. Once it gets to more severe pain, my eyes get wide and I get real quiet, if it's painful enough I shout an obscenity or two but that's it.

 

[phats_cocks_strangla]

My best friend since like fuckin elementary school feels no pain. Its ridiculous, I once kicked him in the nards pretty hard and he just stood there and smiled at me. Im okay I guess at pain tolerance, it depends on what the injury is, a simple slap on my back is more painfull than getting punched or tearing the ligaments in my shoulder for some reason (Fuckin baseballs a *****)

 

[Jodah]

If I'm in private I swear vigorously. If its in a public setting I may let a "dammit" slip out. Either way I then just walk it off.