noticing pain without reacting much?

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when i was 15ish my friends were unnerved when we were working on something and i hit my thumb with a hammer and then looked at it and unexcitedly said 'ow'. they thought i didn't feel pain. if it didn't hurt, i wouldn't have said 'ow'.

that reminds me of a situation i was in just recently. i injured my ankle, and so i've been limping, but i don't "act" in pain, so someone thought i was faking it.. i was like.. why would i fake pain?? it was all very confusing.

i remember when i was 13, i broke my foot (i jumped over a puzzle i'd put together on the floor and landed wrong) and my mom was on the phone, so i didn't make any noise cause i didn't want to interrupt her. i waited til she was off the phone and then said "i think i broke my foot..." and at first she thought i was joking, but realized i was serious when i couldn't stand on it.

I am like this. I am often accused of having a high pain tolerance because I keep going when things hurt. I feel pain like anyone else. I don't notice it or succumb to it like anyone else.

I think you may be less sensitive to pain than most people. Some people used to punch me alot. One time I got punched until I got a big bruise. It hurt but I didn't seem like I was in much pain. Recently, I tried the gluten-free/casein-free diet and after two weeks I punched myself in the arm and it hurt like 10 or 20 times as much as it did before. The diet works because some people lack the ability to digest the opiate pieces of protein from gluten and casein. Opiates are painkillers so if you have that problem pain doesn't hurt as much. If you had been on the diet for two weeks when you broke your foot, you probably would have been screaming and crying due to the intense pain it would have caused.

It's funny reading that because I used to be the same way. I got punched alot because I didn't react like most people. I thought I was just better handling pain than most people. Then I went on the diet I posted above and now pain hurts 10 or 20 times as much before. I now know it was the opiates from undigested wheat and milk that increased my tolerance for pain.

That explains soooo much. I've recently (as in 2 weeks ago yesterday) started on the same diet. I've been a long sufferer of chronic pain but don't let if phase me. Once went 2 weeks with a broken arm before I mentioned something about and only then because I couldn't lift something I tried to lift. Now, a lot of the chronic pain is gone but all the old injuries still cause pain and it's a lot of omg I don't remember it hurting this bad when it happened type stuff. (I've had an elbow rebuilt, 8 knee scopes, 9 major knee surgeries, 1 knee replacement, 14 broken/cracked ribs, 6 broken arms, 4 concussions, hundreds of broken feet, etc) Pain never slowed me down so I'd compound injury on top of injury many times.

I had a lot of operations when I was 15-16 years old. I got SO sick of full anesthetic, that I refused to have it. Then I refused the Painkiller injections. And everything else until they offered a panadol, an over-the-counter cheap painkiller tablet. I took that. :p

Doc brought me down to room for what he needed to do with an anesthetist standing by for when I "understood".

Hehe. I didn't give in and just let him do what he needed. The panadol did nothing though. *sigh*

Always been accused of a high pain tolerance, but after long discussions with family, I think I just feel pain differently.

Hoping so anyway as I have labor coming up and it doesn't sound too fun. *sigh*

Cool, I hope this devolves into a discussion of all the cool injuries we've had and ignored!
I have a "strange" pain threshold. I feel pain quite acutely for the instance it initially occurs. After wards that pain reduces almost completely.
There is no residual, it's like my body says: Okay that really hurts... umm, yeah, anyways, cya.

I got punched in the face once, and then laughed at because I walked away unfazed.

Just today I swallowed some water down the wrong pipe during class but wouldn't cough because I didn't want to cause a disturbance.

I take lots of falls (usually to be funny) and walk away even though I usually hurt my knees or elbows in the process.

i am very sensitive to pain.. aside from pain from compression i.e being squeezed or squished... hammers do not count as compression. though i can take a shedload of compression even to the point a normal person would kill themselves from the pain and still be pleasurable

When I was a child, I fell out of a tree and tore a muscle in my arm. Not that It didnt hurt like hell....but I never went to the doctor and it eventually healed itself but still makes a lump and a divot when I flex it, and theres still dull pain from time to time.
The reason why my parents didnt take me to the doctor is because i was off in the woods by myself (Surprise!) when it happened and it took me some time to walk back to the camp site. So I did cry but no one saw it. And by the time I got back the pain was still pretty severe yet tolerable so I didnt tell anyone about it. And there was no mark or bleeding to show that I had been hurt. so i just bit the bullet, as most nonverbalists would do in such situations

WOW! What did you do? Play rugby all day or jump off buildings? I hope you're alright and not in a body cast or something. You're a good example of why it's important to treat the problem of being too insensitive to pain. I'm glad the diet is helping you. I may have some good news about the diet. The pain is related to a problem with a digestive enzyme called DPP-IV. I went on and off it and my pain tolerance changed each time. I used to treat IBS with digestive enzymes until I found out that probiotics can cure it. The probiotics cured my digestive problems and when I went off the diet again, my pain sensitivity was like halfway normal. I thought maybe they're treating whatever inhibits DDP-IV since it also cured whatever inhibited other digestive enzymes so I kept taking more probiotics. I stopped the diet again on Christmas and stayed off it since then. I punched myself in the arm today and it hurts just as much as when I was on the diet. I'm hoping the probiotics cured whatever inhibited the DPP-IV enzyme because the gfcf diet is really hard to follow.

I can take a moderate blows and be able to "walk it off" (ignore the pain) a bit better than most people I know.

for me, i really feel the pain, i just don't cry very often from it. like with my ankles, and limping around this week. it hurts, but i'll survive. i do cringe from it when i turn my ankle in order to stretch it out, though. but i always have some kind of pain or another (ankles, knees, back, etc) so i'm kinda use to it. *shrug* but sometimes i do take a lot of ibuprofen.. during certain.. ehem.. times of the month. during times like that, i kinda wish my pain tolerance was even higher!! but i'm not concerned with anything and really have no desire to go on the gluten free diet to fix it.. since i've only ever had the 1 broken bone.

but both my parents are the like that... my dad broke his collar bone when he was a little boy and didn't even know it!! he went in for a chest x-ray for something else and they asked him, "when did you break your collar bone?" and he was like, "huh??" and my mom broke her tail bone when she was a kid and didn't tell anyone because it was "bearable".

plus, my mom has fibermialgia and stuff and is in constant pain, but she still works like 5 part-time jobs as a caregiver..

When I was 8 years old...I broke my little finger on my right hand. My grandmother walked into my bedroom and I said to her..."I think my finger is broken", [then procceeded to show her the open fracture] . Sure...It was REALLY painful, but there was no need to scream and cry like the world was coming to an end .

I don't really react to pain that is caused by external influnces such as spraining something, getting cut etc. Pain that is caused by internal influences head-aches, stomach aches [especially when it is "that time of the month" for me] etc are untolerable at times.

Me too!