Do you feel pain?

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Unfortunately high pain tolerance isn't one of my symptoms. I can tolerate intense pain for brief periods alright but I get really uncomfortable and annoyed from little pains that are chronic or persistent. I find pain very irritating and distracting. When my back hurts it interferes with my ability to socialize.

I do feel physical pain, but I have a very high pain tolerance and I find it difficult to judge when the pain/injury is so bad that it needs medical attention or when my body seriously needs to rest and heal.

I've had chronic pain issues since I was a kid. It started out as chronic pains in my feet and later on spread to most of my body and the pains became stronger. Doctors seemed clueless and careless about the source of the pain and didn't test me much or give me a diagnosis and in retrospect I think they did not think there was much reason for concern because I did not express my pain dramatically enough to be taken seriously, due to my high pain threshold. So I've gotten used to living with constant physical pain and I think that may have increased my pain tolerance even further.

I have often injured myself and I usually just assumed that the injuries would heal on their own within a few days, so I didn't usually see a doctor. Sometimes I realized after a while that the injuries had been more serious than I thought, but just assumed it was too late to do anything about it afterwards.

I have seen people get similar or less severe injuries than me and be in agony from the pain while I had shown very little outward reaction to the similar level of pain myself. Sometimes I wonder whether it's because my pain tolerance is abnormally high or whether theirs is abnormally low, or a bit of both.