noticing pain without reacting much?

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It's simple. We have high anxiety so we are not in touch with reality so we don't react the same way.

I have a pretty good tolerance for pain. I did cry when I was five/six and broke my arm, but stopped when my mom asked me to so I could answer her questions about the pain. A few months ago my friends and I discovered that I don't mind being shot with a BB gun, the first time it happened this kid shot me on the hand from 6-9 feet away and he was like "did it hit you?" I said yes. He said "aren't you going to flinch or say ow, or react at all?" I said "I don't know, shoot it again". It's been a favorite group activity ever since.

My pain threshold is strange. Tattoo's don't hurt at all, I can stub my toe with little notice I just carry on. But when it comes to cramps & migraines I crumble to my knees. It's either no pain at all or pain overload. Not sure why.

Most of my "pain" is really just worrying. I sometimes pace around and worry that it won't heal properly, but there's not much "real pain".
Only discomfort. Which can be just as bad, I guess.

I don't react much to pain either, besides swearing if it's one of those sudden surprise pains, like a paper cut. Pain also fades really quickly. I guess I'm not sensitive to injury sort of pain much at all, but I think I feel internal pain, like stomachaches, like everyone else.

It depends on the kind of pain. Things like shots, scratches, pinches and other needle related things don't hurt. Or rather I don't react to them. I feel them but it doesn't hurt like with other people. Sometimes they even feel good (?)

But things like being punched, kicked, etc. Really solid pains (that doesn't make sense), those hurt a lot. I bruise easily I suppose.

Ex. I recently hurt my finger in such a way that part of my nail tore away from the skin. It bled. But only hurt (mildly) for a second or two. Coincidentally I get this type of injury often, along with scrathces, paper cuts, and things like that. I mostly don't notice them till someone points it out, "Hey, you're bleeding".



It's rather hard to explain it seems....

i am like this aswell, when i was 16 or 17 or so i had a serious appendicitis that actually ruptured, in the nitetime and i didnt have surgury until the next day, the doctor said i was close to dying because the infection that ruptured my appenix spread to other parts of my body and he said they had to individually clean some of my innards. however if i know something is going to be painful like going to the dentist, i turn into a big baby!

I snaped my arm in two, the hurmous bone upper arm, with a 2 inch sepreation, And the ER nures did not belive me untill the

Xrays came back and they all were woundering why I was not screaming in pain. Then they rushed me in to the ortho Doc. I

didn't want other to touch me,and I would yell about that. but not about the broken arm. The arm just didn't seem to hurt just acky.

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I tend to be pretty good with pain actually. Things hurt sometimes, but it doesn't bother me at all. Almost like it just feels different. (When things do really hurt though, nobody but me knows it.) I don't even remember the last time I cried from pain. Actually, I can stick whole needles and 1-2 inch safety pins in my thighs and I don't feel it at all. Maybe there is something wrong with my nerves there, but I don't know. I first realized it because there was like, a little spot where it looked like blood had welled up almost to the surface, so I got a (clean) safety pin and stuck it in to see if I could drain it. I kept pushing until I realized that the whole freaking thing was in my leg. I did it like, five more times to show my sisters and to see if it was just that one spot or something, but I didn't feel it anywhere on my leg. On part of it, I could barely feel something like the muscle splitting, but it didn't hurt. It was really weird. I am also fairly insensitive to the cold. I could be standing out wet in the wind in 40 degree weather with a T-shirt and shorts on, almost numb, and my mom would have to make me put my jacket on. I can't stand anything hot though. I don't even drink hot chocolate or coffee very often. I hate heat like nothing else...

This is a really interesting thread.

Sometimes I have huge pain but I don't know how to react. So people don't understand that I am about to die of pain and need help. They just don't belive me. So I suffer big time.