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Waist of Thyme

  

  1. 1. Pain tolerance

    • 0: If you breathe down my neck, the force of your breath will have me screaming and crying in complete agony for several days
      2
    • 1: Even a hard enough touch can hurt, and light scratches are my limit
      6
    • 2: If I bang my knee or hit my head on something, I'll be on the floor for several minutes
      25
    • 3: I can take a few punches or kicks, but no more than a few
      62
    • 4: I can take quite a few hits. In order to take me out quickly, you'd need a weapon that hits hard
      49
    • 5: If I'm chasing after you, you'd better have a gun with a loaded bullet
      23
    • 6: If I get shot in the arm, the next morning I'll wonder why my arm hurts
      34
    • 7: I shower under a waterfall of acid, and my idea of a therapeutic massage is being drawn and quartered
      20
    • 8: One of my favorite foods are atomic bombs. I love how when you bite them, all the flavor comes out at once. It's an explosive sensation.
      4
    • 9: If there were a universal mass extinction event, I'd have the whole world to myself
      9

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Beyourownspotlight

If it's something I'm making a concious decision about, I've got quite a high pain tolerance.

But if it's something like I walk into a door and hurt myself, I'll have a grumble about it. I can't remember the last time I cried from pain.

I bit a bit off my nail, and it got infected, I went to the movies with friends (because that was my plans), and I had a huge headache on the way home, so I did what I normally do, went to bed. When I woke up in the morning I felt awful. Sore chest, sore arm, sore hand. So I went back to sleep, until my parents woke up. Then my dad rushed me to A&E, and I went straight through basically to theatre and had my nail surgically removed, and the wound washed out. The infection had started to travel up my arm, and I had marking up towards my chest. After the initial drugs wore off, I only took paracetamol once, after the very first dressing change (the gauze had stuck to my finger due to the blood). So in some things my tolerance is pretty high, but if I get a paper cut you bet your butt I'll be complaining about it all day, because paper cuts hurt.

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Ok guys, I ran out of leather. Anybody got a spare crop or whip they can to lend me?

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I'm not really sure, since I haven't been in many situations where I've been mortally injured lately. :P

I picked four since that sound pretty accurate I guess. Would have picked fight, but I don't really pick fights or whatever, just stand my ground and run if necessary.

I did break my wrist last year and I don't remember it being too unbearably painful. And I didn't even flinch the first time donating blood which was only a few months ago.

The toughest thing I've probably done was walk three miles though a creek and then a cornfield barefoot (i had leeches in my foot ew) when my sister and I got lost in the woods. Almost stepped on this hissing snake too and idk if it was poisonous or not...

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7, i've been through a lot, fallen from trees landing on my spine on the roots, crashed a bike at 25mph, gotten hit by a car, had a dresser fall on me, might have fractured my knee last week, still don't know. I usually just get up from it and go on with life.

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Waist of Thyme

Four people said they'd have the whole world to themself if there was a mass extinction event. I guess you'd actually have to share the world with the three other people who said that.

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I voted 9. When I was sixteen, I had a kidney stone and I didn't kill myself. (If you've ever had one, you'll know what I mean.) A couple of years ago, I ripped the toenails off my big toes (long story) and went about my day. And last year, half of one of my back teeth broke off, leaving the nerve exposed. I accidentally ruptured said nerve with a fork tine and had to wait two days before I could have a root canal. Speaking of which, my late Grandma Leola had a root canal without Novocaine... BY CHOICE. She claimed she hated the way Novocaine made her mouth feel and preferred to endure the pain.

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Anthracite_Impreza

#2, I stub my toe and I'm screwed.

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Voted 9 just for giggles :lol: In reality, I'd say I'm a 4.8 ^_^

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I voted 9. When I was sixteen, I had a kidney stone and I didn't kill myself. (If you've ever had one, you'll know what I mean.) A couple of years ago, I ripped the toenails off my big toes (long story) and went about my day. And last year, half of one of my back teeth broke off, leaving the nerve exposed. I accidentally ruptured said nerve with a fork tine and had to wait two days before I could have a root canal. Speaking of which, my late Grandma Leola had a root canal without Novocaine... BY CHOICE. She claimed she hated the way Novocaine made her mouth feel and preferred to endure the pain.

Oh man, I was cringing reading this. All of those would be unbearably bad for me. Ouuuuuuuuuchhhhhhhhhh.

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Huh...

To be honest, someone breathing down my neck is way worse than punches.^^;

When it comes to feeling pain, I'm between 2 and 3, when it comes to reacting to pain, it's close to 6.

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Grumpy Alien

Definitely 9.

Every fucking time I go to the ER, they get angry I'm even there "wasting their time" because I look and act perfectly fine. Then they see results and are like whoa shit how are you even conscious? The only kind of pain that bothers me is nausea. As an example, all of my molars are filled but I've never felt any tooth pain. My dentist has told me several times I should have been experiencing very sensitive teeth. I walk off meds too. I've never had a problem after surgeries. I didn't feel any pain after my wisdom teeth removal. It's actually a problem how much pain tolerance I have. It makes me a little paranoid that a little pain might actually be something wrong.

I don't know if it has anything to do with genetics but my mom was very calm when she went into labor. She didn't realize it was labor and had a normal day going through contractions. Finally she felt like maybe she was having contractions and went to the hospital where they told her she could go home... Until the exam and she went into emergency c-section. I swear I inherited that.

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my emotional reactions are pretty random but my reaction to physical pain is somewhat there, i might say ouch right before hitting something then not reaction after i hit something XD

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SGTSlashRazor

My pain tolerance is weird, both high and low, given that on the one hand, I'm touch averse and simple tickling makes me scream of pain ; on the other hand, I've been sick and hospitalized so many times that I've become relatively immune to moderate pain, given that I know much, much worse.

That's me exactly. Once you've had hypodermic needles inside of your spinal cord, everything else tends to lose its bite.
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EverythingAtOnce

I'm a 4 or 5. I can handle a lot of pain, but I have a bleeding disorder so the threshold must be low.

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I have a ridiculous pain threshold- being a cyclist seems to be a common thing- the again they say we're there's no sense 😄.

I had a partially dislocated shoulder for nearly 3 months before got it sorted- it just seemed sorta stuff. Same with wrist completed a 120 mile event only finding it was broken when went for a new bike fitting...

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It depends on my mood and what's hurting, but as long as rubbing alcohol or salt isn't on the wound, I'd say at the best, my pain tolerance is about a 6 or 7.

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allrightalready

between 4 and 5, depends on how angry i am (seriously if i am chasing you that means VERY angry and you better have a weapon - a speeding car is preferable)

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I went with 6. I don't have particularly much information on my pain tolerance, but what information I do have leads to it being quite high.

Of the things I've heard said to be the most painful, I have not been significantly burned, but I did a few years back break one leg very badly in multiple places, and apparently coped with it remarkably well (it was very obviously broken, so nobody doubted that, but my lack of seeming in severe pain, shock, or anything of the sort did cause people to initially think it might not have been as severe an injury as it was). Due to various circumstances I endured the leg being set in a splint, an ambulance ride over one of the most pot-hole filled roads in a city riddled with pot-hole filled roads, and about an hour in the ER with no pain medicine whatsoever. I registered the pain, and it was deeply unpleasant, but I was entirely capable of focusing, carrying on a conversation, and following any instructions given me.

Aside from the above, I haven't had any really severe injuries, so it's hard to accurately judge. I rarely notice bruises, sprains, or the like until the day after I get them -- hours, if it's a particularly bad one -- and bruises barely hurt at all to me. Twists and sprains are mainly annoying because of the lack of mobility. I did have some other fairly bad scrapes and such when I was a kid, and never had much of a reaction there, either. So... probably highly resistant, physically.

Mentally, my resistance to pain depends entirely on whether I know what's causing it and how much of a concern that might be. If I do not know, I might well nearly panic over the slightest amount of pain (actual pain rather than discomfort), but if I know exactly what's causing it -- such as with a broken leg -- I can shrug it off quite well. That's because if I don't know what's causing it I'll wonder if it means I'm about to suddenly keel over dead, so that's more of a psychological issue/quirk than a low pain threshold, I think.

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Waist of Thyme

From the description, I'd say about a 2-3. Not sure how serious to take it, because every description beyond 5 sounds Wolverine-style superhero level to me... :mellow:

6 is based on a story I heard about in school. Also during WWII there was a soldier who had his arm cut off and kept fighting for several hours until his opponents were wiped out. When later asked if he was ok, he said the flies around his stump/former arm were bothering him. Not the pain of the arm being cut off, but that the flies were annoying him.

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Thyme, you're one of my favorite people here. Never change :D

Incidentally, I'd say I'm also around a 2.

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Hmm let's say 3. I've gone through very bad tummy aches in my days. Think I have irritable bowel syndrome. That is the worst pain I've ever felt. I actually threw up from that pain once. And my period crampa are often really bad. So I hesitated with 2.

But stuff like hitting my elbow or knee or hand or toe on a piece of furniture usually has me hiss and mutter "fuck" but then I shake it off quite quickly.

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From the description, I'd say about a 2-3. Not sure how serious to take it, because every description beyond 5 sounds Wolverine-style superhero level to me... :mellow:

6 is based on a story I heard about in school. Also during WWII there was a soldier who had his arm cut off and kept fighting for several hours until his opponents were wiped out. When later asked if he was ok, he said the flies around his stump/former arm were bothering him. Not the pain of the arm being cut off, but that the flies were annoying him.

That happen due to the extreme adrenaline levels. I've personally lost sense of pain and other feelings in similar situations. All the attention goes to that one specific thing. Also why it is important to make a quick bloodsweep/check yourself during a combat when in cover to i.e change position. Like, it plenty examples in recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan where soldiers get shot in the shoulder, shin, etc and don't know it since they didn't feel a thing during the contact.

So depending on instincts and level of training, that is a very human thing. However it is very simple ways to check out your pain tolerance, but that involves, groin, throat, nose and eyes :p I won't risk anyone doing that without supervision xD

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Mr. Quickhands

Also why it is important to make a quick bloodsweep/check yourself during a combat when in cover to i.e change position. Like, it plenty examples in recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan where soldiers get shot in the shoulder, shin, etc and don't know it since they didn't feel a thing during the contact.

Interesting! I suppose that would be a thing the average soldier would have to be trained to do, but for some reason that hadn't occurred to me.

I've definitely noticed that just the amount of adrenaline from a fencing competition is enough to do some funny things, e.g. mess with time perception or eradicate any pain from sports injuries. So, I can understand that the much greater rush of chemicals that would come with a life or death situation could potentially make a bullet wound completely unnoticeable, it's just a funny thing to think about.

Pain tolerance feels like a hard thing to pin down. I think it's possible to be "conditioned" to certain types of pain while still not having conditioning for other types of pain. My sister, for instance, is really big into cooking and practically has asbestos hands at this point. I burned my hand a little bit while washing the dishes (!) I used for breakfast, and the pain didn't even go away during a fencing competition. At that same competition, though, I pulled my entire left side and took two really hard shots to the shin that actually drew some blood through my double layer of padded socks -- I didn't notice a thing at the time and then wondered the next morning why it felt like Mike Tyson punched my ribs and there was blood on my socks; took me a bit to connect the dots haha.

Part of why I hate "1-10" pain scales so much...

That said, though, I have very decent mental fortitude thanks to athletics. That's different from pain tolerance, I think, but still kind of relevant? It's great for stamina training, but makes me honestly kind of scared of flexibility training. Pulled ligaments take a ludicrous amount of time to heal, and I never know when to stop...

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I voted six, if we're talking about physical pain (it we're talking emotional, I'm probably closer to an eight or a nine). I can deal with a pretty significant amount of pain--something I may have developed due to significant clumsiness--without it impacting my ability to function.

However, as someone else said way earlier in this thread, the exception is dental pain. It could be a .5 on a pain scale and it would still have me in tears. I had an abscess tooth a few years ago, and I still maintain that it was the most painful thing I have experienced in my life.

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I voted 5 but it depends.

I mean due to some unfortunate mishaps my pain threshold is pretty high (as in 'I recently was sharpening a knife and didn't notice I had cut myself' high) but I have weird internal 'chill up the spine' and 'cringe' reaction to certain types of pain or discomfort.

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