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A little bit ago I accidentally splashed a bit of boiling water on myself, and it made me think of how many different ways people react to pain. For example I usually smack the counter with my palm and bite my lip. I'm just curious how do yall react to pain?

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Depends who's around or the cause.
Stupid usually hurts so there will be an element of anger or embarrassment.
I landed my coccyx onto a metal grate after a 4 ft. fall when the tool I was cranking broke. Coworker rushed up to check and I asked him to give me a moment to decide whether or not to cry.
Podiatrist tried to break up a hard cyst on the side of my foot with what looked like a air needle. I would have punched him in the head had I been able to reach him.
 
I handle pain well at the doctors or dentists, just clinch & bear it.
But I did bite the orthodontist when I was teenager.

But when it is something I do to myself such as fall, cut, burn, there will be a string of expletives that would make a sailor blush. Think I can get every known cuss word put together in one breath.
 
I have had my share surgerys heart , hip stones ,all surgerys where managable. The most pain always are kidney stones no question:eek:
 
The string of curse words is in direct correlation with the amount of pain. :) I can't decide which is the worst pain I've ever felt. It's between the time I fell off my bike as a kid and got road burn on my left forearm from elbow to wrist, and the time I hit my thumb while hammering a nail as an adult.
 
cursing is my default. I'm not sure why I do it. I guess it is just an "adult" way of telling mom it wasn't your fault.
 
SEEN IT AND BEEN IT.

From the RN standpoint, kidney stones rank right up there & may be the gold standard/measuring stick. From me personally, it's like "who's screaming?", oh it's ME. :o
 
chief38 said:
I just grin, bear it and cuss a whole lot!
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same here, that's how my uncle taught us at a young age, lol, whenever we would get together for family functions and play sports, if there was an injury thats how he coached us through pain. It just stuck with me. my wife hates it bc if I get hurt doing something or suffering from my Crohn's pain I am cursing around my 3 year old lol.
 
I have a pretty high tolerance. For instance, I got shot on a hunting trip and went to a Navy hospital (it was a holiday). The trauma surgeon was inebriated and decided to probe for the bullet without lidocaine. I may have broken his nose with the heel of my cowboy boot!

Walked on a broken ankle for a year and a half before they operated=Dr thought it was a tendon injury=found a bone chip. Walking w/o crutches within 2 days=one day of painkillers, followed by Advil.

Fell and separated a collarbone, some ribs, and shoulder=drove myself to the ER.

Usually a few swear words. However, wife says if I get a cold, she wants to shoot me!
 
Pain is dealt with in one of two ways - if minor, an aspirin and a nap. If greater, than a shot of whiskey and a nap. Either way, the nap is crucial to my well-being; especially if the lawn looks like it needs mowing......................... (It's still in the mid 90s here)
 
A little over a week ago I had to pull the batteries out of my motorhome. It's a bad lift position but since they leaked I had to get them out.
As it would happen with my luck :rolleyes: I hurt my back, lower part where I have problems!:(
Now I don't know if I should stand, sit or hang upside down by my feet but my back hurts! :eek: Driving me crazy!:eek:
Right now all the over the counter extra strength stuff isn't cutting it and I've had to go to some heavy duty pain meds :( which I really don't like taking but at least they are helping me sleep at night! ;)
I just can't win? :confused:
Just got finished with my IV antibiotics for bone infection and now doing the oral regimen, what's next? :rolleyes:
 
nachogrande said:
From the RN standpoint, kidney stones rank right up there & may be the gold standard/measuring stick. From me personally, it's like "who's screaming?", oh it's ME. :o
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Yup...they rank right up there....seven times so far. I would say the drain-tube left in after gall-bladder surgery that had grown over when the surgeon yanked the tube out ranks right up there. Whole floor musta heard that scream.

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Depends on how the pain occured, if it's accidental self inflicted, such as a knife cut, which I do a great amount of time, I have just under 200 words I use that I am sure I will have to explain to a higher source! Wife sees me with a knife doing whatever, she just goes for the band aids without saying a word, hate that when it happens. If it's something expected like IV inserts or minor surgery I just grin and bear it. Dental work, come with the good stuff!!
 
wingriderz said:
I have had my share surgerys heart , hip stones ,all surgerys where managable. The most pain always are kidney stones no question:eek:
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I had kidney stones once. Since then I've been really careful as far as what I eat and what not.

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I avoid pain when at all possible.

When I can't, I do what's necessary to address it: drive to the ER with various broken bones, etc.
 
Worst pain was probably when I tore my quadriceps tendon in my left leg 10 years ago. I was already at an inpatient place because I had (probably) partially tore my quadriceps, along with reinjuring my right knee that I had blasted in a bad fall 3 months before. The last two, I yelled, a lot, and very loudly. I said a lot of bad words so loudly I could be heard and understood on the other side of the facility. I've been burned pretty badly, had a blown appendix and almost died, and been shocked with 800 volts or so, and done a lot of other things to myself, and the worst were:

The quad blowout- worst pain that lasted more then five minutes. The surgery to fix it was no big deal.
When I kicked a bedframe and broke my big toe. Almost my entire foot was purple. If I stood on it, it was horrible. Took a LONG time to heal up.
I punched a hole through a wall while fighting with a guy who was trying to remove my gun (Dan Wesson 15-2) from the holster. I don't know exactly what I did to my hand, but the next day I picked up the phone and it was like a lightning bolt went through my hand. I tossed the phone across the room and rolled around on my bed yelling. I couldn't believe how bad it hurt. I had to wear this weird alum. brace thing on my hand for about 3 weeks. If I made a fist when I had it off, it was unbelievable.
 
Grown men cry...

Two occasions. Rotator Cuff physical therapy and paralyzing pain in my lower back so bad I couldn't move without going from a pain of 10 to 11. That kind of pain I'm familiar with. My heart surgery was a different kind of pain than I'm used to. I didn't 'hurt' but would get a feeling through my whole body. The nurses told me that was pain and said to try to keep ahead of it with the pain pills. I did and didn't get that feeling any more.

Anyway, my reaction to pain nowadays is a top rate swear. I don't like that, but it seems to be in me. I hurt and the first thing I do is cuss It seems to help.
 
A teacher was keeping his Jack and Jenny in my pasture.
He was feeding them something by hand and the Jack bit his finger.
He yelled "You blasted creature!"
I thought that was a remarkable reaction to pain.

On the other hand, I was broiling chicken thighs a while back.
It was the very early morning hours. I'm early to bed and early to rise.
I was turning the thighs. The pan flipped. The boiling broth went down
my front. I had shorts on, so my right thigh got the brunt of the burn.
What I yelled was nowhere near as close to controlled as the teacher.
I don't remember all of the words that came out, but I do recall something
about the male offspring of a female dog.
 
I herniated a disk in my lower back that pressed against the spinal cord but it was nothing like I expected,Dummy Me went to work the next day and it didn't really start hurting until that night so I slept at the dining room table until I went in for emergency surgery.No big deal. The worst paid I ever had was when I thought I turned the electricity off when installing a thermostat at My Sons house but it wasn't and I ended up about five feet away from it,The end of the screwdriver was gone and My entire Arm and Hand hurt like the blazes because I later found out His all electric house had a 220 amp service.Thank God for A/C Current. Now whenever I work on His House I pull the Main Fuse Black completely out of the Box.(old fuse box).
 
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