high pain thresholds

[salems24]

A lot of people look at me and think I am weak because of my small size but I can handle quite a lot of pain sometimes

the best examples of this are probably the following
no one can give me a chinese burn to the extent that it gets too much
I can handle long nails digging hard into my skin
I can take a lot of punches

I often ask people to do those things to see how far I can push my pain threshold before I have to ask them to stop

I didn't react to "smacking" when I was younger in quite the same way as other kids my age would... I would just shrug it off and think to myself the pain will be gone in a bit of course combined with how stubborn I can be it never worked because I had the theory that my dad would eventually give up when he realised that it wasn't changing my behaviour

Also when in primary school I was physically bullied a lot however I would never let the pain show in my face as I didn't want to give them the satisfaction of knowing they had hurt me of course this just resulted in the bullies saying that I was crying on the inside instead lolz

I guess my higher than average pain threshold could be a combined result of being hit/smacked at home/school

[lulufairy]

I have a high pain threshold to somethings like headaches and banging into things and childbirth other things will make me cry

[Star]

I'm not sure what kind of pain threshold I have. People used to call me a wimp at school because I used to find things like being poked in the arm painful.

Yet last year I broke my ankle and I realised that I have quite a high pain threshold, yes it was agony but I could tolerate it.

The weirdest bit was when I was in A&E my ankle was swollon to twice it's normal size and it looked terrible and yet I was in hardly any pain. Looking back I think that I must have been in shock at the time.

Has anyone else here expericed the strangeness of going into shock after an accident?

[madyotto]

HIGH OR LOW
pain tolerance's / temperature tolerance's / noise tolerance's / and the sense of being touched

this is all down to dyspraxia any one of the above can be high or low tolerance's

i have a extremely high tolerance to pain and often hurt cut or bruise myself without knowing until i visually see the injury

i am over sensitive to temperature get very hot or very cold way to easily

i like loud music but hate any loud treble in the music/noise if i listen to my music i have loads of bass and mid range but not treble

i have a huge dislike to being touched by most people other than female friends that i hold close or a girl friend's

i can't comment on the internal pain you spoke of as i am never ever ill

a cold once a year for me is bad that or i get ill and don't know of this because of my stupidly high pain tolerance

i have gotten in fight before now and have stood there letting some huge bloke punch me a good few times in face

needless to say when he heard my reply of can you run if not make it a gooden his face dropped as im sure his bowel movements did too

[Catwoman42]

I have a low pain threshhold- my dentist tends to numb me up for just about everything. I love touching and being touched, nothing better than a hug.
I agree about labels, I always cut them out of clothes- hate that scratchy feeling on the back of my neck.

[madyotto]

yes me too
I LOVE HUGZ
and HATE CLOTHING LABELS

[immy]

my mother had a very high threshhold to pain I think I am more or less normal on pain. I cannot stand itchy labels or wool next to my skin. I am ok with touch except I hate ear phones that cover your ears! we are all a bit different on this I think .

[Sharks758]

Thankfully i have high pain threshold or id be in agony rite now. I got my ankle caught in bus door. I was still outside and he drove 2 metres before rralising i was there, i was trying to hop the whole time. I LOVES HUGZ TOO PPL

[agsiul]

Bloody helll. that sounds scary

[Sharks758]

It was terifying i cant help thinking what could have happened if driver didnt notice

[agsiul]

I know that's what i was thinking. I've heard of acidents like there where the person didn't make it.

[Urbanangel2]

I think I have a high pain threshold when it comes to periods.I have excruciatingly painfull periods, but I have become sort of numb to the pain. On the other hand, things like pinches or slaps or loud noises can really hurt/confuse me. On the other a topic: I have a sort of akwardness about being touched, especially by my mother (I do not really understand why).