Pain-tolerance Survey

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I'm very sensitive to pain.

When I was at university, I broke my leg and spent the following two weeks walking every day to and from uni (2 miles in each direction) and around the town (town being Newcastle city centre), I also walked to and from St James' Park for a football match (3 miles each way). Eventually, in a bit of a rush one morning, I tripped over a shoe, caught my leg slightly, but enough for the pain to flare up. Went to hospital thinking it was a twister sprain slow to heal - nope. Broken leg - not a serious break, but a clear one on the dray and they couldn't believe I didn't go straight away because with a break like that I must have been in agony.

I have a high tolerance for physical pain, but a low tolerance for emotional distress. I think a blinking ad on a website might upset me more than a broken bone

I had broken bones on three occasions as a child, got treated for one the next day, others weren't "discovered" until years later.

Enjoyed the feeling of getting my back tattooed and i like the feel of the epilater on my legs & can't even feel it pull the hairs from my armpits, its more like a sound than a tug.

Childbirth hurt a lot, I wanted them to cut my legs off the third time, i had decided it was worth going the rest of my life without legs just to get the baby out quicker and in my addled state it felt like my legs were stopping the baby!

I'm in frequent agony with IBS though and if anyone pokes me, especially in the back of the upper arm, I cry.

Oh and my party trick as a teenager was to sew charms directly onto my wrist skin instead of the more conventional bracelet strange but true. In fact "strange but true" sums me up nicely as well as a few others here I'm sure

Last week I had my wisdom teeth extracted. I took two aspirin that day before the numbness wore off, and that was it. I hardly felt any pain. I might not have needed any.

Can't drink hot tea or coffee, it burns and blisters my mouth when others have no problem, they could be finished & ready to go before I have one sip
Cold drinks give me stomach pain and fizzy drinks just feel yuk in the nose, mouth & throat area.
I drink warm green tea all day long

I think mine is pretty average, although I did have 2 natural childbirths, which a lot of people say they could never do. I am also not too bothered by piercings or tattoos, of which I have several. Maybe I have a higher pain tolerance, or maybe I just deal with equal amounts of pain better than other people, not really sure.