Pain Tolerance

[Shockolate]

I recently tore most of a wart right the fuck off my hand because I was angry at my medicnal method not working/I wasn't doing it right. It was pretty bloody, but I was taking a shower at the time, so it's all good.

Only knee injuries (and nutshots, but that's a given) have actually hurt me AND kept me down. Everything else, I get right the hell back up and continue whatever it is I'm doing.

 

[S.R.S.]

Shredded all the skin off the bottom of my left foot once. That fucking hurt! Couldn't walk properly until the skin grew back.

Had this innner ear infection that left me bedridden for weeks. A bad back strain to go with it too. WTF?

Those two were probably the worst pain I've ever felt. But then there is the trampoline, those evil, evil trampolines.

 

[Nikajo]

Pain tolerance is a very subjective thing. While a person may suffer broken bones with minimal fuss, a cut across their skin may have them screaming blue murder. It also depends on the "most painful" thing you've experienced in the past.

Then there's different levels of pain experience. There's the first level i.e "ow that hurts!". The second level is the realisation of what that pain signifies in the long term i.e. healable flesh wound, permemant scar, permenant large body harm, permenant loss of limb. Then the final level is how you mentally deal with the realisation of what the pain means.

Personally I find that some pains are better when you're prepared for them and others are better when they are a surprise.

A good example would be when I fell off a horse last year. The first thing I felt was a very intense feeling of pain in the base of my spine. I honestly thought I'd broken my back and was horrified which made the pain a thousand times worse. I cannot describe my relief when I was able to stand up made the pain far more bearable, let me tell you!

EDIT: if however I had to describe my most painful experience it would hands down be the Nijmegan marches. Felt like I was walking on fire for a couple of days. Not pleasent.

 

[DazZ.]

I can take pain, I'll ***** about it but I won't take pain killers or anything.

My legs, and arms/hands are covered in scars, a few on my forehead and a nice lump in the back of my head.
Not that that's on topic, but I'll happily get knocked about without needing anything except a laugh.

 

[RRilef]

I'm fairly good at dealing with pain, although I can't stand constant pain, like after surgery. Although, I do think I get hurt by small injuries a lot more than I should compared to something larger.

 

[Newkenyanguy]

depends im not so keen on the idea of others causing me pain and i guess its that which makes me feel like its painful, but ive had a few times where ive cut myself to remove warts, varucas and a weird lump that was on my arm ( good idea im not sure but nothing seems to have change so i think its fine) so i guess its kinda in yer head

 

[SwimmingRock]

I've been known to bleed on stuff and not even know I'm wounded. The last time I took 'painkillers' was local aneasthesia for an operation on my left leg about 4 years ago. No idea what the time before that might have been.

My parents raised me according to the tried and true principle of:"Oh, suck it up, you big baby!" and that's become normal for me. A life of tennis, kendo and dance have caused me to expect my legs to hurt pretty much every day and it stopped bothering me years ago.

Also punched through a window once and didn't bother with any painkillers, but I was drunk and, if I recall correctly, alcohol also works as kind of a painkiller. You didn't specify what kind of painkillers, so that might count.

 

[RanD00M]

Well I did put all my finger in a thumb screw and they were screwed to the max.So I guess I can handle a lot of pain.

 

[Aerodyamic]

About 7 years ago, I locked the outer meniscus of my right knee while putting on my goalie gear for a game. I undressed, helped someone else dress, walked out my car, drove about 20km to the hospital, and walked into the emergency room. With a locked knee joint. The ER doctor prescribed 300 t3's, and sent me home without crutches, so I drove to a second-hand store to buy some the next morning, then drove to my family doctor's office.

The way the injury was described was that part of my knee joint had worn a hole into a chunk of surrounding cartilage (due to repetitive stress) and eventually got stuck there, so I essentially dislocated part of my knee, and had the dislocated part wedged behind something else, preventing a normal re-location of the joint.

I also got a 2nd degree covering the entirety of my left forearm about 6 years ago, continued working all day, had the blister torn open by a random drunk that night, and almost got arrested for the ensuing beating I hung on him. I went to work the next day looking like a crash victim, and without having gone to bed.

About 2 years ago, a coworker dropped a chunk of old roofing debris that was still partially attached to the roof we were replacing, and I'd put my safety-booted foot under the edge of the piece while he re-positioned his spade, and part of the roof structure below fell away. The board I had my foot under had a 3" wood screw through it, which drove through my big toe, less than 1/8" from the second joint; I pulled the board up, which removed the screw, and then calmly told the foreman I was going to get some gauze and tape, and finished my day.

 

[Rylingo]

I can withstand quite high thresholds of pain if it is brought on slowly. Pain spikes however just floor me. Even relatively small ones.

 

[Guy32]

When you say "pain tolerance", are you referring to how long you can withstand pain until you start complaining about it, or how long you can withstand it until you try to do something about it? Low and High respectively.

 

[crazypsyko666]

It really depends on the kind of pain. Slow, dull pains that punish me for moving (back injuries especially) are difficult for me to deal with, but when I've got inch-long sharp objects lodged in my arms, I barely even wince. Getting punched (or kicked) doesn't stop me for long, even if I get winded.

Bleeding's never bothered me either. I burst a blood vessel on my thumb playing 'slap style' on a bass guitar and didn't notice until an hour after I was done. (It was hilarious, too, because it burst under the callus, so it looked like a giant red blister.)

 

[firedfns13]

I'm a masochist, so pain isn't that bad for me. Though occasionally I'll reach for 3 or 4 ibuprofen when annoyed. I've never broken a bone or fracture, etc, even when I was hit by a car.

 

[ottenni]

I tend to be able to handle a lot of pain without any problem. Most often than not when I get hurt, I start laughing. People always find this strange, but I figure it like this, I need an outlet for my pain, and laughing at it is a lot more manly than crying about it.

Hey i do that too! It scares the people around me though, they think something is wrong with me.
I figure that it's the adrenaline in some way, but an outlet for pain works too.

 

[Aurora219]

I whine like hell but really and truthfully I'm always walking around with cuts and bruises so my tolerance is pretty high.

 

[Lady Nilstria]

I hate medicines. I think the only thing I will take for pain is ibuprofen. When I could hardly sleep because my knee felt like cold needles were stabbing it, I didn't take anything.

My pain tolerance is high only if I have a reason to tolerate it. I cry very easily, so that's not really a good gauge of my pain. In fact, you know I'm really in pain if I take medication.

Though, I despise that kind of pain that presents itself by making you feel sick, because it's hard for me to know if I'm about to throw up or not, and that's annoying, so I might take something.

 

[Berserker119]

I'm not that bad, but after reading some of the posts on here, I'm kind of a pussy.

My worst experience was when I was nine, and I was racing my friend on a bike down a really steep hill, when my bike went too fast, my feet caught the pedals and I went flying. I knocked out 7 baby teeth, my retainer, and one adult tooth, so now I have to wear a fake tooth for the rest of my life. The worst part of it though, was the fact that, #1, My mother told me before I left "Have fun, and don't knock any teeth out" and #2 The reason she said that was because my dad did it when he was that age, in the same community, on a bike, and we lost the same tooth. So, now we match.

 

[socialtangent]

I'm shamed to say that I have a very low tolerance for pain, and I bruise easily.

 

[ender214]

I have a pretty good tolerance for pain. Mainly derived from many middle school games of mercy in which I had given up on trying to win and decided to instead attempt to freak out my opponent.

But I haven't been in a ton of scrapes where massive amounts of pain is inflicted, so i can't promise that I won't cry like a baby if something serious actually happens.