Do you have a high pain tolerance?

Pain, one of the things that you can't avoid, pain can be physicall and/or mental.
For now lets focus on physical pain: How high is your pain tolerance?

Mine is pretty high till a certain degree, what about you guys?

Not that high, I'm kind of a bitch tbh lmao

Maybe. I haven't been in serious pain in some time so I can't be sure. I don't want to find out. But I hate stomach ache.

@deeliman: Good to know... *grabs toothpick* muhahaha

Yes. I have several tattoos and had some nasty medical procedures. Just sat back and gritted my teeth.

Three Days Grace song Pain is my answer to you.

@davillain-: can't listen @work without headphones ;-;

Just blast the music through the office man, if they can't appreciate three days grace then you shouldn't work there :P

@deeliman: i work at a radio station, i don't think they want that...

They should have some headphones lying around somewhere then :)

i am not going to steal them from an editor eli >.<

That's cool; didn't know that =D Which station do you work for? Local or national?

As for pain I'm quite desensitized....as a kid I had really bad asthma (some asthma attacks would last quite long...I had one that lasted 8 months in varying degrees of intensity...after a few days the pain in your lungs becomes excruciating) and then I had martial arts training, which dulled my senses to the pain even further.

@korvus: Omroep Gelderland :p

Oh nice =D If you're lucky I might let you interview my wife =P

Kinky

@chaoscougar1: Is your mind ever NOT in the gutter?

I ask because I'd like to know what that's like =(

@korvus: I am the IT specialist, would look good for me if an intern could get someone like your wife to interview (she was a translator right?) xD

@korvus: And we both know his mind IS the gutter xD

There's really never a dull moment

;D
Sexiest gutter you done ever seen

@dylandr: My wife is a professional harpist =)

@chaoscougar1: Must be nice inside your mind =D

@chaoscougar1: i surely wouldn't mind waking up in that gutter after a night of heavy drinking

@korvus: :o, you haz footage of her playing?

Sure =) I've been doing my best not to let people know who she is to avoid her getting harassed by some of the assholes here though so I won't post it in the forums.

@korvus: maybe only audio of her playing i meant >w<

@dylandr: Sure, no problem. I just meant I'd send it to you in private =)

@korvus: Also good xD

Somewhat. I had to learn to deal with a good bit of pain with my lung surgeries back in '07 and '08. My mouth has a high heat tolerance. I can pick up a piece of pizza and start eating and a friend will burn their mouth, thinking that it wasn't that hot.

@YearoftheSnake5: i dare you to eat hotpocket just out of the oven!

What's in it for me?

@YearoftheSnake5: you get to eat the hotpockets :P

You won't be stealing them, just "loaning" them. Yes, loaning.

@deeliman: No eli, that is not possible

Skateboarding and serious gout attacks have certainly made me less sensitive to pain.

i think mine has gone down as i've gotten older

I had my appendix burst. Thought I had food poisoning. Got rushed to the hospital when it went "red hot" and I started screaming and fainting.
Surgeon told me it was the worst mess he had ever seen. (He likened it to the scene in Alien.) He also said that I must have an incredible tolerance to pain. (And here I thought I was a wuss!)

I now know what a level 10 pain is - it's when you start screaming because of the pain, pass out and then wake up screaming because of the pain (repeat repeat repeat until they knock you out). I was never even in the hospital until I was in my 50s.

I did have two wisdom teeth pulled on separate occasions. One hurt a lot, the other didn't.

Hmm...good question....I suppose I have a medium tolerance...I wouldn't go as far as to say it was high. I have tattoos; those in itself can be painful...I've been pierced by an arrow twice and I have been stabbed. Mind you, I in no way enjoyed any of those things, but while they did hurt...I guess my reaction to my burning, bleeding flesh could have been a lot more dramatic. lol

Pretty tolerable i have to say. Unlike my friend who ran out of his apartment naked claiming the devil talked to him and let him feel the pain of 1000 souls burning in the fire. He seriously just went insane, screaming, and jumped into a lake. So i say any pain i feel won't even be close to that, so i say pretty tolerable.

I dont know but from what I've been told yes. I tend to just focus on my breathing while going through pain while staying still or not screaming and it usually helps me get through it no problem

It probably also helps that I am always hurt or injured in one way or another so Im just used to being in pain in my day to day life

Holy crap...I only made it to 392 souls before I couldn't take it anymore...props to your friend for making it to the end-game.

generally speaking yes, as long as we're not talking high rep squat sets, which just floors me

I can handle most pain pretty well, but when my gut starts acting up I just want to die. It feels like something's alive in there and pushing around all the sensitive places of my intestines. I've had to just drop prone on the floor a few times because I've nearly passed out from the pain. And when it hits every pour on my body starts sweating profusely...in a matter of a minute I can have a literal puddle of sweat under me.

It sucks.

@br0kenrabbit: good lord, buddy

i hope you've had that checked at the doc

It's Crohn's and there's shit all they can do. It's not an all-the-time thing, but when it flares up...hold me.

I suppose that would probably depend on what it is.
Then again half the time I don't say anything anyway and mostly keep things to myself pretty much from everyone.

Considering I have one of the most painful chronic disorders (Interstitial Cystitis w/ Hunner's ulcers) and have rheumatism I would say I have a pretty high pain tolerance...granted I will still swear like a sailor if I hurt myself but that is just how I deal with most annoying/painful things.

Not at all, I cry under moderate pain.

As of now, yes. I'm in pain to the bone every day. Every joint of my body is in pain. I will sometimes torture myself with hot chilly peppers to dull out the pain.

I'd say first that I'm not willing to feel pain at any time. Than that I seek to avoid paid as much as I can. For example, and it has been whined, I really cover myself in winter to avoid cold that is similar to pain. I hate pain and even minor pain like minor burn. It's annoying and anyway who got to be a little crazy, imo, to like pain or seek for it.

Than I'll say that I'm about sure that I have high pain tolerance to not say extreme tolerance. And so what I call being very strong.