Pain tolerance. A totally random spinoff from the tattoo thread.

[Anonymous]

Been thinking about this a bit.

So over the course of 36 years on this planet, I've gotten a tattoo, had a baby sans pain meds, been hit by a car, and broken two bones (separate incidents unrelated to the car accident).

If I had to rate the pain from easiest to hardest, I think it would look like this:

1. Tattoo
2. Getting hit by a car
3. Broken collar bone
4. Having a baby
5. Broken leg


OK, I've totally overshared for the evening.

[Anonymous]

hear that passing a kidney stone and electrolysis on under upper arm are also pretty painful.

[Anonymous]

Hmmm. Haven't done either of those.

[Anonymous]

OP, while in nursing school we learn to NEVER judge other's pain tolerance. No matter if it's over a broken nail or labor pains.

Here is my list, from easiest to handle to hardest:

1. Tatoo - on my foot, skin over bone.
2. Labor - 40 hours no meds
3. Broken ankle - twisted after a fall from a 8in step
4. Apendix bursting

[Anonymous]

22:07 here, forgot to rate my Brazilian wax
That would go between tatoo and labor.

[Anonymous]

The most common test to determine your pain threshold is to stick your hand in a bucket of ice water and time how many seconds you can last before you can't take it anymore and you pull your hand out. Then you can take your number and there are many sites you can plug it into to determine if your a wimp or a warrior.

[Anonymous]

Well now you're just giving bad ideas to the bored lady, PP. LOL.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, while in nursing school we learn to NEVER judge other's pain tolerance. No matter if it's over a broken nail or labor pains.

Here is my list, from easiest to handle to hardest:

1. Tatoo - on my foot, skin over bone.
2. Labor - 40 hours no meds
3. Broken ankle - twisted after a fall from a 8in step
4. Apendix bursting

Do you mean, like, in a step class.

I always thought labor pain was the worst thing imaginable. I was too afraid to even try. Now people say that broken legs and ankles and bursting appenices are worse than 40 hours of labor? How can this be? I've only sprained my ankle twice and broken both wrists, but my experience was that the pain came with the break, which only took a second. Once I got pain meds, I was pretty comfortable. How could these things actually be worse than having a baby??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The most common test to determine your pain threshold is to stick your hand in a bucket of ice water and time how many seconds you can last before you can't take it anymore and you pull your hand out. Then you can take your number and there are many sites you can plug it into to determine if your a wimp or a warrior.

Can you provide a link to this site? This fascinates me, but the only sites that I can find simply describe the test but don't provide an sort matrix for determining what your results mean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, while in nursing school we learn to NEVER judge other's pain tolerance. No matter if it's over a broken nail or labor pains.

Here is my list, from easiest to handle to hardest:

1. Tatoo - on my foot, skin over bone.
2. Labor - 40 hours no meds
3. Broken ankle - twisted after a fall from a 8in step
4. Apendix bursting

Do you mean, like, in a step class.

I always thought labor pain was the worst thing imaginable. I was too afraid to even try. Now people say that broken legs and ankles and bursting appenices are worse than 40 hours of labor? How can this be? I've only sprained my ankle twice and broken both wrists, but my experience was that the pain came with the break, which only took a second. Once I got pain meds, I was pretty comfortable. How could these things actually be worse than having a baby??

PP you quoted here.
Honestly, I was walking from work to home when I fell. There was nobody I could call to pick me up so I walked home with a broken ankle - that was terrible! I was scared, sad, and in pain. When I was in labor I was happy, looking fw to the outcome with the best man in the world by my side holding my hand so I guess the mental state plays a big role in how we tolerate pain.
Now the appendix thing was just so horrible. My whole body was hurting, pounding, I was in fever, shaking... ARGH I don't want to remember how it felt!

[Anonymous]

Wow, I'm a wuss. I've never had most of those things happen to me.

I got a tattoo on my ankle and that didn't hurt a bit. Zero
Same with recovering from a c-section. They gave me narcotics but I never had to take them. Took Advil the first day and then nothing after.
But this damned sore throat I've been battling all week has put me down hard. I can't handle the pain of it. At. All.

[Anonymous]

Wow, getting a tattoo is more painful than natural labor? I've had 2 very painful med-free births and no tattoos, but you all have just reconfirmed why I don't want one. Ow.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The most common test to determine your pain threshold is to stick your hand in a bucket of ice water and time how many seconds you can last before you can't take it anymore and you pull your hand out. Then you can take your number and there are many sites you can plug it into to determine if your a wimp or a warrior.

Can you provide a link to this site? This fascinates me, but the only sites that I can find simply describe the test but don't provide an sort matrix for determining what your results mean.

I'll try. Maybe I was using a book? I remember being shocked at being like a high-medium. Me. Who chose 2 electives out of sheer fear of labor and pushing.

[Anonymous]

I think the worst pains I can remember are

1. Stomach pain (from an IBS-like illness) - couldn't breath, couldn't straighten out. Thought I was dieing but couldn't move to get to the phone.
2. Pain from them trying to turn the breech baby (this is when I realized if I couldn't tolerate that pain, I probably wouldn't really want to go through childbirth).

I would fail the ice test. My hands get overly painful if I try to scoop up ice more than once. So it's official, I am a complete wouse!

[Anonymous]

My easiest to hardest:

1. Tattoo
2. small ruptured ovarian cyst
3. Bacterial Colitis