physical pain this is...

do you have a high pain threshhold?. or a low one

mine is extremely low... just touch me- and i'll start to be in agony (well okay, not litirally), but you get my drift.. i'm in pain before what's actually been done has been done

[Pflaumenkeks]

Depends on my mood. It ranges from "I don't care" to "don't look, it hurts" and periods of "yes, please"

[Anxiousvalkyrie]

I have a really, really high pain tolerance. I suffer from fibromyalgia, endometriosis and chronic migraines. If I'm complaint of being in pain it means it's really, really bad.

[Victoria'smom]

I'm really high pain tolerance.

[zijax]

I don't take pain meds. Just had surgery and 14 stitches in my back. Doc asked me if I was familiar with Lortabs? And would I like a script? I laughed. The addict in me had my eyes big as saucers but the new me said, oh yeah you bet, I know all about Lortab, but I'm a recovering drug addict and I don't think that'd be such a good idea. She and I laughed together. She said they had more problems with the addicts on prescriptions drugs than street drugs. It's so much more easy to rationalize addiction if a doctor prescribes it. Ha Ha. What a crock. This whole countries screwed up on pain meds...pain clininc in every shopping center. So my stitches hurt. Big deal. I take a fricking tylenol.

[BeyondtheRainbow]

I have a very high pain tolerance. My dentist says (and I've seen this too) that people on APs often do. Mine is so high that my dentist stopped letting me rate pain and relying on that rating because I went in with a "sore tooth" that he let me decide to crown or not b/c he thought it was ok but would need crowned eventually. When he opened it up it was so infected I was approaching needing IV antibiotics. Now if I say "sore" he thinks "pain". (He's really great b/c he has a brother with bipolar and so is familiar with it and the weird things that can go along).

[~Christina]

My Fibro pain is ridiculous 24/7.. Some days I handle it better than others, I have learned to survive at a level of 7 .. Today its like a 8.5 and Im white knuckling it ..

Chronic pain sucks

[Isaiah712]

I work out a lot, so I am always sore and often times nursing some injury. I just deal with it, doesn't bother me much and doesn't stop me from working out. Love how working out or running makes me feel. And I guess that gives me a high pain tolerance.

I deal with chronic daily pain. Something I've noticed, it's worse and I'm less able to tolerate it when depressed. In stable mode, it sucks, but I have things to help. During mania, I still have the pain but don't feel it as intensely. I can do upside push-ups while manic and can't even do a regular push up when depressed. So I guess my tolerance fluctuates with my mood. My doc said my pain goes down during mania because of the extra adrenaline coursing through my manic veins. I wish I could stay in a controlled mania, just for the pain relief.