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As the uncreative topic title might suggest, this is a thread about physical pain. What's your threshold for pain? Are you good at strugging off anything shy of having a limb removed, or is a headache enough to have you curled up wishing you were dead? What's the worst physical pain you have ever experienced?
Unfortunately for me, I have a very low pain threshold. Whilst I can deal with mild headaches, anything more than mild utterly ruins my day and leaves me huddled up in the corner whilst I pray that the paracetomol will kick in faster. I'm just not very good at putting up with pain. It incapacitates me completely until it recedes sometimes, and whilst I've experienced stabbing head pains multiple times before - who hasn't? - it never gets any easier, and nor can I get used to it. I either haven't learned how, or I'm a complete wuss. I know it's a mind over matter thing in part, but I can't tell myself it doesn't hurt that much when I'm doubled over wishing I was dead.
The worst pain I ever experienced was when I had scurvy in my left leg when I was about fifteen, which locked it into a half-bent position and made putting even the slightest bit of weight on it agonizing. I couldn't walk without a stick, and climbing the stairs took me about twenty minutes. Not much fun. Although what I'm experiencing now comes quite close - I've got a chill in the nerves near my top left-hand teeth, so if I twitch that side of my face I get knife shards of pain shooting through my entire face. Although that might be because I'm experiencing it right now that it seems so bad...the memory of pain is never really all that bad. Other than the phantom pain I occasionally get in my leg when I'm half-asleep in the early hours of the morning.
Unfortunately for me, I have a very low pain threshold. Whilst I can deal with mild headaches, anything more than mild utterly ruins my day and leaves me huddled up in the corner whilst I pray that the paracetomol will kick in faster. I'm just not very good at putting up with pain. It incapacitates me completely until it recedes sometimes, and whilst I've experienced stabbing head pains multiple times before - who hasn't? - it never gets any easier, and nor can I get used to it. I either haven't learned how, or I'm a complete wuss. I know it's a mind over matter thing in part, but I can't tell myself it doesn't hurt that much when I'm doubled over wishing I was dead.
The worst pain I ever experienced was when I had scurvy in my left leg when I was about fifteen, which locked it into a half-bent position and made putting even the slightest bit of weight on it agonizing. I couldn't walk without a stick, and climbing the stairs took me about twenty minutes. Not much fun. Although what I'm experiencing now comes quite close - I've got a chill in the nerves near my top left-hand teeth, so if I twitch that side of my face I get knife shards of pain shooting through my entire face. Although that might be because I'm experiencing it right now that it seems so bad...the memory of pain is never really all that bad. Other than the phantom pain I occasionally get in my leg when I'm half-asleep in the early hours of the morning.