Pain-tolerance Survey

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Depends on the pain. For example, I would rate my self a 1/10 on how sensitive my hair is to getting pulled, but more like a 6/10 out of ten for headaches. On average, I would say my pain sensitivity is about a 3/10.

When I was younger, I kind of got in trouble because I went to school with an ear infection and threw up at lunch, I thought I would be OK but I wasn't. They were a bit mad because they assumed that I wouldn't have gone to school if I had an ear infection because it would "hurt too much". At least, that's how I remember it.

Also, once I had SEVERE strep throat and didn't realize until I was unable to swallow. The doctor got kind of mad at me for not noticing sooner, I believe.

I have always wanted to have a lower pain tolerance, probably because people got mad at me when I was younger because of my high pain tolerance.

I have a high tolerance for pain. It doesn't even really 'feel' painful..

That said, if I touch something and discover it's hot, I will tend to release it quickly. Or if I accidentally cut myself, I will tend to remove the knife rather than continue to cut, etc.

The pain does hurt, but not in a meaningful way, just in a way that I know I should avoid it, and that if I don't, it will continue to hurt more later..

It must feel painful to me somehow.. regardless, if I want, I can just ignore it and it ceases to have any actual meaning.. it never really had any in the first place

Very sensitive to pain dealt by local stinging and piercing pain (not sure whether those are the correct words to describe it) + being below average in sensitivity to pressure pain that covers wider area.....

High pain tolerance. It takes a significant amount of pressure before the feeling will register as 'pain'.

My skin is incredibly sensitive to pain. The back of my hands and the tops of me feet are so sensitive when anything pulls at the skin, I scream. My back is also very sensitive, I can't tolerate pats on the back, it feels like a slap. My scalp is also very sensitive even if I brush my hair myself I will cry sometimes. I use to scream bloody murder when my mother held on to me to brush my hair when I was little. Then again she would pull my hair to keep my from running away and hit the back of my hands when I tried to protect my head with my hands.

That said, I have a very high tolerance for internal pain, I don't know if it is a lack of sensitivity or I have grown used to it, I have a chronic illness that causes abdominal pain. When I was diagnosed with it, the Drs told my parents they didn't know how I wasn't doubled over constantly, my illness was so bad.

I bump into stuff a lot, so I bruise, but I'll find a bruise and not know how I got it. The pain wasn't bad enough to register in my memory.

I'm unusually sensitive to pain.

Which sucks because I always wanted a tattoo and some piercings but I'm too scared of the pain factor. If I'm lucky I might be also to convince someone to knock me out while they do it...

hypodermic needles make me feel like i'm being skewered alive, i can feel every microscopic irregularity in the needle's surface, they feel like a bunch of little barbs as they go in and out. it burns, it burns! somebody needs to invent a non-needle needle.

I have a high tolerence to pain. When something does hurt I feel like I have somekind of control over it, after all it's just electrical messages sent to my brain telling me that it hurts , i enjoy over coming it. Somekind of pain I actually enjoy like getting tattooed.

I'm overly sensitive to pain and hate going to the doctor, especially the dentist

probably slightly insensitive, but I can't be anyone else so I'm not sure what "average" is!

Do you cry like a big girl if you cut your finger or do you ignore it and soldier on?

Ah ok, yes, I ignore it, lol

Lol. Yeah I mostly found out I had high pain tolerance because I've always had very little reaction to pain which people have pointed out. As a kid falling over and scuffing my knee was just a mild annoyance while other kids would roll around crying like they had broken their leg or something. My tattooist says I can sit for hours and not show any discomfort at all.

I have always been VERY hypersensitive to pain. There are many medical procedures that are supposed to be painless that are excrutiating for me. I never stop "feeling." For example, if I have to get an IV inserted, I've heard most people say that, once the needle is inserted, the pain goes away. But for me, I feel the needle the entire time. Like with most things made difficult/unpleasant from my AS, I just go through life dealing with my pain hypersensitivity. I don't avoid doctors or medical procedures because of it. It's all I've ever known.

Ah - I've seem to have got more tolerant to pain as I've got older, because I was more toward the latter group when I was younger

I'm very pain-tolerant. To me, there isn't really any difference between a pat on the shoulder and being hit by a driven golf ball in the shoulder. I just have learned to shut out the pain. The great part of this, is that I can tolerate just about any kind of pain that comes my way, and that's a blessing because I'm terrified of general anesthetic. I've had surgery, and refused the anesthetic, and the surgeon said I was the only one in 40 years he had been a doctor, who did that. And it wasn't hard for me. I do feel pain, so I won't go leaning on a hot pipe and burn myself or anything like a paralyzed person might run the risk of doing, but I can just "disconnect" from the pain so that it doesn't bother me too much. Both of my nipples are pierced with 4 gauge titanium rings, and that's supposedly about the worst physical pain someone can feel, and it wasn't any big deal. I did it myself too.

Charles