I was exiting the hospital after visiting family when a guy on a stretcher flew by. This dude was missing an arm! And you know what?! He looked at me, and stuck out his arm that was still on him and yelled "High five". I gave him that high five. He earned it.
My daughter went sledding when she was 5 years old. Fell on hard packed snow and ice. She broke both the ulnar and radius bones. She did not cry until she got sedated , one day after the injury happened because we had to fly into the nearest hospital. She only whimpered when her arm had to be moved onto a splint. She did not like the feeling the sedatives . Another flight to nearest hospital with surgery, she cried again only when sedated or coming out of sedation. She had 2 pins placed to keep the bones aligned.A 4 hour nap after surgery with her and she was jumping on the hotel beds! Had heart attacks every few minutes trying to get her to sit still, exhausted out of my skull. Kids!
I can shatter half the bones in my body but if I just keep looking forward and don't look at my injury's somehow they aren't there, and yet I can look at a scratch from my cats short claws and suddenly I become Goku
I also wonder how much is nerve damage. 3rd degree burns are completely painless, despite being worse that 2nd degree, all because the nerves are too damaged to feel how bad it is. The same logic may apply to other injuries, as well.
My grandpa had a routine doc appt. Said his hip had been bothering him. Was sent for xray and went home. A few hours later his doc called him. Apparently the doc had been chewed out by the XRAY tech for sending the 88 year home with a broken hip. He had actually broke it weeks earlier. It was a hairline fracture that had started to heal.
At 16 I had my jaw broken for me. I remember nothing after watching a donkey of a "human" push my pregnant friend to the ground. The cops showed up after the fight and they took my story. They finally asked if I had any injuries and I told them I had broken my jaw. They asked if I needed an ambulance. I told them I needed them to leave so I could have a cigarette (I was 16) They left and I walked across town (15 min walk) to the hospital. Walked in and told them I needed x-rays due to my broken jaw. They told me I wouldn't be able to talk to them if my jaw was broken. I took the nurses finger and put it to the bottom of my jaw and then pushed on the other side and she can feel the bone separating. Panic ensues I bypassed everyone to get my x-rays done after realizing that it really was broken.
My late father would make the most enormous fuss over the tiniest things, right up until he had a (relatively minor) heart attack, during which he didn't want any fuss at all. Once that was done with, he was back to "dying from toothache" again. He was an infuriating old sod sometimes, but I miss him like crazy now...
Almost lost the tip of my finger in the front doors of my school when I was 8. Little kids fingers are very thin and bones are often not as strong yet.
Yeah i lost a nail and the tip of my finger just before the bone when my sister was really mad at me for something and walked away, i followed her until she absolutely *smashed* the door shut just in front of me , and apparently i had my hand on the doorframe just enough to get it chopped
Not a doctor but at somepoint as a kid i got blood drawn. I still remember how shocked she was that I did not cry or scream and just sat there, I love that.
When I was in high school and college, I raced semi-pro motocross, and in one heat I was extremely exhausted. On an off-camber jump I went down, and the right handlebar end went into my rib cage hard. Didn't notice anything and got up and finished the moto, retaining my position. Three days later my dad asked me to move some bricks, and so I got the wheelbarrow and tossed the bricks into it. When I tried to lift the handles, it felt like a jousting spear had gone through my side, and he took me to the ER. Three broken ribs, one punctured lung and all they do is to put an elastic wrap on your ribs, but I felt no pain after that. Decades later I'm playing with our two little boys (5 & 7) when the older one jumps on my rib cage feet first after running up, and I feel more broken ribs. Drove myself to the little family-owned drug store and walked in all bent over, and the gal behind the pharmacy counter sees me and takes me by the hand to lead me to a box of those same elastic wraps. Ah, good times! I've been told I have a high tolerance for pain, and 8 years on dialysis helped it - 14 gauge needles - like BIC pens stuck in your arm - were the usual routine, with at least two used and often more attempts if they couldn't get the fistula right away.
My father was one of those tough WWII vets. At work, he put a rivet though his thumb. Went to the hospital and got it patched up, but kept saying there was a piece of metal still in there. Nobody believed him, so after a couple of days he got his pocketknife and dug around until the tiny piece of metal popped out. He saved it to show the doctors that he was right,
I think it also has to do with the medical options they had as kids weren't what we have today. "Tough it out" was probably the only medical option most of them had, growing up.
I know I Cope with pain better as I get older. Between experiencing a wide range of pain and learning how my body reacts to said pain makes a big difference on how well I cope. And then you factor in a persons socio-economic status. If you grew up not being able to go to the doctor because you can't afford it, you learn to deal with some painful and sometime ludicrous stuff.
as someone who has multiple tattoos and piercings and yet gets cold sweats when needing my bloods done, its all about how the needle is used to me as with piercings/tattoos its only the surface or clean through where as with bloods i have shy and awkward veins meaning the nurse has to wiggle and hunt under the skin with a needle
This reminded me about the time not too long ago my great grandmother (age 92)had a heart attack while she was one her yard and she fell afterwards and broke her hip, she was laying there for nearly 24 F-ING hours!! And when one of her neighbours finally founder her she was taken to the ER and had two surgeries, one for the hip and one for her heart, the doctors didn’t think she’d make it for the second surgery but she’s on tough mother f-er. Now she’s just about back to normal with what she does in a normal day.
7:24 this goes for the dentistry! The more tattoos people have the more scared they are to get the numbing needle or any dental work done. Almost every single tattooed patient has told me they rather sit through an 8 hour tattoo session than get their dental work done for 1 hour.
TO BE FAIR... dental pain is on a completely different level from tattoo pain, depending on where you get the tatt. You deadass have to sedate me before you can take a numbing agent anywhere near my mouth, but you can perform infinitely more painful procedures elsewhere on me without so much as a peep. It's fucking weird
Let me tell you why. I've had 13 teeth removed. 9 at one time, 4 at another. (I'm only 26) I lived with exposed nerves in broken teeth for about 5 years. I've had a chest tube inserted between 2 of my ribs with no pain medication or numbing agent and lived with it for 2 months when I was 17. Fuck those numbing shots, especially the ones that go into the roof of your mouth. That shit hurts worse than all of the above.
There is a saying when someone on a farm or ranch gets hurt, “cowboy up.” When I was 17 years old I cracked my thigh bone in the bearing surface of the knee. I thought I had just sprained the knee and continued bucking hay. After about 5 days I could walk well enough that they took me off the wagon and had me throw bails onto the wagon instead. It was about 19-20 years later when the knee started dropping me that the crack was found during surgery. That was 30+ years ago and other than debrideing the knee, and cartilage injections nothing has been done.
@@JayAR_YT before I was 20 I had at least 4 close calls that could have killed me or left me paralyzed. Such as dislocating my shoulder while swimming under water, hitting my head on the bottom of the swimming pool so hard I couldn’t move my fingers for a minute or so.
I broke my collarbone years ago in a riding accident. It didn't hurt even half as much as the bone bruise in my lower arm from the accident so I shrugged it off. Went through three more years of farm work (stalls, stacking hay, etc) only to find out that it never healed and needs surgery. I've put the surgery off for nearly four years now since I won't be allowed to use the arm for 6 months and it doesn't hurt. Farm/horse people are a whole 'nother breed - my boss broke her pelvis and had internal bleeding and managed to go through a full week of farm work until she collapsed from blood loss. Was back feeding the horses in 5 days! It's a miracle your knee hasn't needed more work than what was done for it
I love how people say that the more pain you feel the less pain you will feel later in life or some crap, I'm 99% sure my numerous injury's have lowered my pain tolerance over the years
My father worked as a phlebotomist at the hospital, one day, this Hispanic dude walks in, with a two foot long jagged peace of wood sticking out of his abdomen, he apparently drove himself to the hospital and proceeded to walk all the way to the ER and check in
My father has a genetic issue where his spinal cushion deteriorates, 50-76% of his spinal cushion (the stuff between the cord and bones of the spine) has deteriorated to nothing, and my dad's pain management doctor and several other doctors are baffled on how he can still walk. He's gotten used to the pain and only takes painkillers if he over does it or if he slept wrong the night before.
Having severe chronic pain I always tell nurses/doctors my pain level on my own scale. Its almost impossible to imagine pain worse than what you've felt in the past. My worst, my 10/10 was when I was 14. I had an ear infection. It hurt so badly my mom tells me I was screaming for hours on end. My 0/10 was that same day after I was given an opiate for the first time. So on that scale, my pain is a 6-7 every day unless I take pain meds. Can't move, higher vitals. no sweating though. edit: 'Allergic to morphine needs dilaudid' lmfao. gets even funnier when you look at the chemical compositions of both... hmm...
exactly!! i have endometriosis so pretty much every day im in pain, my worst days are easily a 10 for me but my 10 isnt gonna be as painful as someone who's, say, had a skin graft. the 1-10 scale is a good start for gauging how a patient's doing but it has issues, this being the major one.
I'm a nurse and in school, we were told to take every pain complaint seriously (even in a med seeker situation - that is for the doc to decide about) and intervene and maintain disposition appropriately for the stated pain level. I've seen what can happen when real pain is dismissed by nurses/healthcare professionals, and it's not something I want to be responsible for causing (on top of being the reason someone stayed in pain). So that's what I do in my practice. If someone says 10/10, I chart 10/10 and give the appropriate med on order if they are otherwise stable (vital sign-wise)
@@J--V oh you sound like an amazing nurse. ❤️ we need more like you. As someone who can carry on a conversation while relocating a dislocated hip, my pain is never taken seriously when it's bad enough to ask for help.
@@dancing.with.adagio I'm very early in my career so I wouldn't say "amazing", but I went into the field to care for people and if nothing else, that's the one thing I refuse to lose sight of. I don't want to become jaded and only focused on the documentation or getting tasks done and forget about helping the sick patient who is the reason I'm there in the first place.
I was the patient. When I was 13 I had a nasty toothache thanks to a big cavity in one of my back teeth (being addicted to pretty much anything with diabetes-inducing quantities of sugar did NOT help) and had to have it pulled at the dentist. They numbed me up, tried to loosen the tooth...then I felt a blood curdling crack despite the anaesthetic, but no pain. There and then I just freaked out. Was so bad they booked me into a hospital to put me completely under for it, but the appointment wasn’t until the next month. So the month passes by, bizarrely not as much pain as before. Get to hospital, go under, all good. But the extraction that was meant to last only a few minutes ended up taking two hours - the damn thing had shattered into a million pieces under my gum and they had to cut my jaw open to get every last one of the pesky white shards out. Wake up to the hospital dentists in utter shock over how I wasn’t in crippling *agony*.
I can tell you from my own experience that a sprain hurts more then a clean break. Also cutting off fingers only hurts for a split second then there is no feeling.
I had a testicular torsion once. At first I thought I had a hernia (I previously had one, and it can easily happen again) but I got lucky and a specialist was in town and took a second look at me. A few hours more and I would have lost righty. For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s when the testicle twists around itself, so imaging the body part with the most nerves on it slowly dying of lack of oxygen. Still hurts sometimes today, this was two years ago
Wasn't pain tolerance, but my mom was conscious and able to talk with a nurse with an iron g/dl of 3. Very tired, but standing. For reference, anything under 8 typically means you get a blood transfusion. 5 you typically start passing out.
I have quite a lot of hospital stories. One of the times I remember (it happened on 2 different occasions, but THIS one in particular was VERY memorable.) I was about 16 or 17 at the time, I went to the ER because I had sudden hearing loss. I was fine earlier in the day, but as the day progressed.....I went almost completely deaf in one ear and the other was getting close to being completely deaf. So my family doctor happened to be the attending physician that night. He checked each ear....then he checked them again. He stepped back, gaping at me like I was some kinda alien (this wasn't the first, nor the last time I've done this to my poor poor doctor lol) and asked me in shocked horror/wonder: "How on EARTH are you NOT on the floor SCREAMING in pain?!?!?!?" I looked at him calmly and just said " Hey, I can't feel anything. I'm only here because I suddenly started going deaf today. That's my only symptom" My poor doctor's jaw I swear was gonna come unhinged. Turns out I had really bad ear infections (in both ears), they were so bad that they must have been infected for at LEAST 4 days. At that time, I used to get maybe 6 infections (mainly sinus/ear/throat) ? every year. So I KNOW the symptoms, and my body usually has WAY more symptoms (ie FEVER, headache, dizziness, nausea). So I guess my body was just over it all? Lol As a side note, my doctor KNOWS if he ever sees me crying then I'm in a real world of hurt. (Has only happened ONCE in 14 years....and THAT story is a hospital horror story lol, funny now looking back)
Something kinda similar happened to me. I did feel a good amount of pain at first though. I was swimming & tried to blow water out of my nose. I swear it felt like my eardrum exploded. I didn’t scream though I just silently retreated to the side of the pool & held still. It hurt pretty bad for the rest of the day but we couldn’t go anywhere for it. Next day I was completely fine. No pain. A few crackle sounds in the ear sometimes but still nothing. We waited on seeing a Dr for maybe 4 days. We only decided to go because I was still paranoid about it & convinced my mom that we should go. We get to the drs & she looks in one ear “ok that one looks good”. Gets to the other ear & barely has to look. She was just like “wow ok yeah that’s infected”. I was real lucky I caught it in time though cause we were a week away from getting on a plane to visit family in another state. Can’t imagine how much that would’ve hurt.
The most significant bother about pain for me is how it's able to keep me awake. Yes pain sucks, it's hugely uncomfortable, but having a couple abscessed teeth, many broken bones, muscle tares...it never seems all that bad unless I couldn't sleep. Headaches however are completely different. I really can't tolerate those at all, and have a few that made me nauseous.
I can tolerate most pains except headaches. I don't know why. Even a mild headache stops me from concentrating and really doing anything. I think the real problem is that my headaches almost always last for an entire day or longer if I don't take medicine.
I am a chronic pain suffer of 15+ years from a car accident when I was 17. Drink driver slammed into me passed out at the wheel i was at a red light. My pain is always at about a 7-8 out of 10 every day. So my brain has a level that is insane. I constantly cut myself at work and won't realise until I see.rhd blood. I get deep tissue massages every week and my therapist says he always leave my appointments to the end of the day because he has to use to much pressure for me to feel it. He ends our sessions shaking. Needles I don't feel at all, punched in the face ha....I'll just laugh at you, I broke my finger at a 90 didn't really feel it until I had to pop it back in....and even then it was a slight ouch. The doc said this is really going to hurt and it was almost nothing ...made me twitch a second but that's it. Your brain is an amazing thing. The receptors in my brain has adjusted my level to a crazy degree....i had back surgery trying to fix it and i walked out that afternoon it didn't faze me at all. 86 injection directly into my spine....no worries. It didn't work either made it worse . I get at least 36 shots every week at prolotherapy to repair the nerves it hurts later after the shots because it freaks out but getting them it's nothing....I fell asleep last time. Pain is like anything you feel enough of it your brain adjusts. It can be bad because a major injury can go undiagnosed because it doesn't really hurt to you. I cut the tip of my finger off the other day working in my wood shop. My fiance freaked out and wanted to go to the hospital but I just wrapped it up and kept going. It healed pretty quick too Anyways sorry for the rant but I get some of these
I was a passenger in a car that was being driven by a guy who was drunk (I didn't know). I was 22yo. The pain for the next 3 months was ridiculous, but I stopped taking the painkillers after 3 weeks. Didn't find out that I fractured two vertebrae until 18 months later. Was in the RAF at the time and they didn't give a shit. 18 years later and i can barely walk from pain.
@@deathbycheese850 it is a different life that's for sure, you have to be really proactive with your recovery it won't heal itself so I you miss a workout or a therapy session it can make your life hell. My advice to you is find a really good sports medicine centre. They have everyone in-house usually from physios to exercise physiologist that can help you get some semblance of normal back into your life. It's an ongoing thing but it has helped me , I have taken it a lot more seriously now I am 36....if I don't I am stuck in bed or walking like I'm 85 with a bad hip. I have accepted that the pain is there forever and that it's on me to make sure I stay fit and healthy. I gave up going to the gym when I was about 28 and after that it just got worse and worse I should have never stopped. I am on my way back using bands and other exercises to slowly build up my tolerance to it again, muscles to handle the damage better etc. So yeah be proactive with it Cat. Find a good bunch of people to help you and seek mental help if it gets overwhelming. A shink can put in for actions for long term pain killing if need be. That's what they did with me. The opioid crisis has for sure made it harder for those of us who suffer from chronic pain conditions and in Australia other methods like cannabis are illegal which totally boggles my mind. It's rough but you gotta find your normal cat it isn't Gunna be like before but you can be happy. You are not your pain....pain is just apart of your normal now. It sucks but it helped me hearing those words
No dude that's ANAZING but it has to suck at the same time my pain tolerance is VERY low it is about a 4/10 I had acid reflux and it hurt so bad I couldn't move the tiniest bit!
I've been a chronic pain sufferer for most of my life, and it really does ramp up your pain tolerance. I went to an out of hours clinic because I had some burns that I thought were fairly minor, but weren't healing and were getting kind of warm. I got told that I had been trying to treat third degree burns at home (not huge ones, they were both about 2 inches square) and an infection could have lead to losing tissue or my entire leg. Luckily silver gauze to prevent infection and stopping using antiseptic cream so it could start drying out helped it heal just fine within a month or two. I also got told off when I was in hospital for something unrelated because doctors spotted some freshly healed scars I had on my thigh, because I hadn't come in for stitches or pain relief and just treated them myself. (I saw my subdermal fat layer, which was an interesting experience. It doesn't look how you'd expect at all.) I should probably stop doing DIY first aid, but I hate hospitals, and I'm not too bothered about the scars, I've got plenty already. My family are worried because I started taking ibuprofen for my headaches recently.
@@abbieherring1040 I have a high pain tolerance and acid reflux, the stomach stuff does absolutely hurt. It can wear down your esophagus from acid burns. Reflux is awful, I hope nobody makes you feel like you're over reacting.
I remember one time I was admitted to the hospital for suspected appendicitis (to this day, we think it was a very bad UTI, though). After eating that night's dinner, I was on the phone with my grandfather while my mother was in the bathroom. The nurse walked in to change my saline bag and I calmly said to my grandfather, "I'll have to call you back. I'm about to throw up." The entire time I was talking to him I had been holding back vomit in my throat, but I knew I was going to throw up. After tossing my phone on the floor, I began to go through the motions and the nurse promptly set the saline bag down and grabbed a trash bag they use for dirty clothes and towels. I remember throwing up so much it was coming out of my nose. The look of shock on the nurse's face, like it amazed her that I waited for her and knew what was happening still sticks to in my mind to this day. Thankfully, they injected some nausea medication into my IV and gave me some beef broth and mashed potatoes to fill my stomach a bit afterwards.
last year i got consipated bc my diet is absolute shit. anyways, i ended up for wutever reason also having meh stomach inflamed so when i drank a little bit of anything i threw up and i didnt even feel nauseus. idk
Went to the ER with an obvious level 10 pain (my first ovarian cyst rupture). Was asked if i was ok and said i was fine while crying. Also, i don't have a fear of needles, but I've had some scary reactions from injections/shots.
When I was 7, I was horse back riding in the mountains. My horse got spooked by a snake and bucked me off, however my foot got caught in the stirrup. I proceeded to be dragged down the mountain upside down for just under half a kilometre. I didn’t cry or feel much pain (mainly due to shock). I ended up walking to the ambulance. I was sedated as they thought I could have gotten Brain damage due to my head being significantly hit. I ended up not having any brain damage or spine damage, however I shattered all the bones in my left leg and foot from my knee down. I also had SIGNIFICANT bruising and cuts all over my body as well as a cracked rib. I went back to school just over 48 hours after the accident happened.
I had a motorcycle crash and had broken my pelvis as they called ‘’ a open book fractured’’ and it took 3 days to find a doctors that accepted to do the chirurgie, and in theses 3 days one night I woke-up during night and a nurse was standing there staring at me , and she said ‘’ my god you were really sleeping ? ‘’ I said of course ! But ..... you have a open book fracture, how can you sleep on the side with that, I just replied’’ since I broke my spine at 3 places and broken my sacrum, I can only sleep on the side. ‘’ I literally saw her jaw drop to the floor and she walk out calmly of my room, I went back to sleep kinda laughing with myself. One doctor who followed me for sometime told that when they ask you on a scale of 1 to 10 what most normal peoples would say a 7 level of pain, for me I would call that a 2 or a 3, and that at the speed I healed, I should check if I have some kind of mutants genes like in the movies, I was scheduled for staying at the réadaptation center for 4 months because of the seriousness of my injuries, but 1 1/2 week later they send me home saying they should put a picture of me on the wall, as the fastest recovery they ever saw.
I have a stupidly high pain tolerance and it's honestly a problem. The damage I do from not knowing sucks. Almost twisted my foot off, tried to stand up. Glad my husband was there to point out my "leg was on backwards" I was partially in shock, I'm sure. When the emts and er surgeon make a face when they see your injury.... Lol They wouldn't set the dang thing without giving me pain meds, and couldn't get any in me. Er doc looked at me like I was out of my mind when I told him just do it. He wouldn't. They finally pumped some dilaudid in me and it. They're trying to get xrays and stuff so I moved so they could get them. They were dumbfounded I could kinda crab walk with the other leg and my arms. I'm thinking I'm not using the broken leg, why is this impressive? Then I went a full night after surgery with no pain meds. It was bad. I'm glad my roommate was there because øne of the drs kinda gaslit me, and so I began thinking I was just being a baby about it. Then I broke my leg between the pins from the ankle break, while I still had the medical boot on. I went for a check up and they asked why I hadn't called when I broke my leg again, and I said I didn't know. (Figured out why pt was so uncomfortable lol) Having broken the ankle I assumed its going to hurt, so didn't think twice about it. He says "this is the most freakish thing I've ever seen" He's been an orthopedic surgeon for 30 years, and usually works with elderly patients. 🤷🏻 Weird is what I do. Lol I realized from this that I'd broken several bones, including vertebrae in my neck, and not known it was broken. My response was "that's why its hard to turn my head that way". When you have chronic pain you learn to ignore a lot, I just never realized how much. Along the lines of cowboy up we say "I got shit to do". Don't have time to sit and worry about something hurting. something always hurts.
My husband was getting a vasectomy and part way though the did a snip and he made fists, tightened his body and made a grunt. They asked if he could feel that in shock and he said yeah, that hurt a bit. I can't over the fact they cut his vans and he grunted and tightened up. They gave him a double amount of numbing agent and continued when he didn't feel anything. He has accidentally had a nail put through his hand and said it looked pretty cool, he got hit by an IED in Iraq and injured and kept going. Hungarians and Russians are just on a whole other level He's the strongest, toughest guy I know and the sweetest man on earth. I'm honored to be his wife is 25 years.
As a second note, I use a modified Richter scale to describe pain. 1-2 I have to think if I am hurting, such a an old bruise or a headache 3-4 I notice the pain however I can generally continue what I was doing without trying to control the pain 5-6 I can still continue usually but I have to think about controlling the pain, will Motrin help? Hernia surgery first 12 hours. 7 I struggle to control the pain to continue, get me Motrin. Abscessed tooth 8 time for emergency override, as in bucking hay on a cracked thighbone 9 emergency override fails even in life or death situation as in I sprained my ankle and I couldn’t stand my foot touching anything. Motrin failed 10 would be fighting to remain conscious Motrin works better for me than hydrocodone
Years back my grandfather drove to the hospital with some chest pain. Turns out he had a heart attack and didn't know it. He is around 80 when this took place
My uncle walked to the hospital while having a heart attack. He lived very near the hospital so he had a cigarette and walked because he thought he was having a bad panic attack. Was his last cigarette, finally got him to quit.
Excellent video! We are both in our 80's and feel better than ever! We are all about healthy aging to prevent and reverse disease. The key is to retain a strong body, a calm mind, and a positive outlook. Getting older at any age does not have to mean getting sicker. We're doing research on sites like this to make our tiny new Health-Aging Advice channel a success. We hope to inspire others. Learned a lot here. Thank you.
I know someone who had substance abuse issues for years and I pray he never needs any kind of surgery in his life because pain killers will do nothing for him.
I have a real high pain tolerance myself. I have broke my sternum once and never took any pain meds for it. Also had 2 rotator cuff surgeries and never took any pain meds after. Had surgery to remove a cyst from my lower back and after they removed the staples, the incision opened back up the next day. I contacted the doctor and he told me to come right in to his office. He put more internal stitches in and stapled it back closed without giving me anything to numb it. Another time, I fell when I slipped on ice and immediately knew the wrist was broke. The arm was deformed from the break. Still took me about 5 hours to finally drive myself to the hospital.
Mmmkay. So I'm actually allergic to morphine, and dilauded was basically the only thing the er where I lived could give me for my intense, 6+ hour long pain flare up. People shouldn't judge just because some people know what they can and cannot take.
For the sunburn story I had something similar happen, I never went to the doctor but the sunburn stuff I put on my arms I found out I was allergic too the hard way and dear god I felt like someone took a flame and stuck them inside my arms. I would've been fine if I never used it.
One of these stories makes me think about an ex of mine. He had a ton of tats and looked like ginger grizzly bear, was also a heavy machinery mechanic and looked exactly the part. He would refuse going to the docs for obviously broken bones or huge lacerations because he said it was no big deal, but when he had to get some lab work done he passed right the fuck out the second they started putting the needle in. I have a ton of medical issues and am a notoriously hard stick so it’s totally normal for me to leave the hospital with 3+ blown veins, doesn’t bother me because I’m so used to it and my record for sticks to get an IV was 12 when they finally got the 2nd sub clavicle as they were preparing to just put in a central. My ex couldn’t even come sit with me at the hospital because it freaked him out so much, and I’d have to wear long sleeves until all my blown veins otherwise he would get nauseous and nearly throw up from just the sight of the bruises. He was very strange about seeing doctors and would give me hell for whenever I needed to go to the ER and then generally be promptly embarrassed about giving me such hell when it turned out to be things like kidney failure(they never found out why it randomly happened or why they were able to stop it) or cauda equina that was so severe that required a 2 hour ambulance ride(there were no Helios available which pissed the surgeon off) to the next hospital where they already had an OR ready and waiting for me when we got there.
My husband had been T-boned by an SUV running a red light going 50 mph. His face was shattered, broke both arms, 3 ribs, punctured lung, broken pelvis and shattered foot and right leg. He was awake in the ambulance ride (I was in the front) Remembering we were going out that night he tried to convince the EMTs he was okay. “Guys, let me out!” “Sir, you are very injured “ “come on guys, pull over and I’ll walk home “... it’s been a long recovery but I don’t leave his side. After all that any man who would try to walk home to go out with me is a keeper ❤️
Chronic pain is the worst, though I think it makes me more tolerant of other pain. I’ve had sciatica and toothaches in the past, thankfully pain free for now. But sciatica or toothaches... not sure which is worse, but it was terrible.
I'm a cancer survivor and was turned into a "pin cushion!" At one point, when I was in the hospital, I had 12 IV's in my arms and a nurse, who would come in my room every morning around 5:30 am to do a lab. During my radiation treatments, my Dilantin levels (anti-seizure medication) got way too high in my blood stream, so I had to have daily tests done to monitor them, and I had a hateful lab tech. After I went into remission, I developed fibromyalgia, and would just short of have a panic attack, before I was stuck for an IV and labs. This would cause my hands to freeze up, go completely numb, and my veins/vessels to collapse, which made it next to impossible to get anything accomplished. I went to get a check-up MRI one morning and was anxious about getting the IV for the cancer contrast, Gadolinium. Mom was teasing me and telling me not to get all worked up, because it would be over soon. I was trying to take deep breaths and calm myself down, when a man, who was 6 feet, 3 inches tall and his wife walked into the waiting room. The man was sweating and visibly shaking. I knew I would be called to get my IV soon and Mom looked at me and said, "Deep breaths. Deep breaths." The wife of the couple asked what was wrong. Mom said I was nervous about getting my IV. This lady looked at her husband, then at me and said, "Honey! Do not feel bad. This man right here (she pointed at her husband) is 6 feet 3 inches tall and he has to take a sedative, by mouth, before he can get the numbing shots, to get his IV put in. As calm as you are, don't feel bad at all!"
Bartholins gland cyst removal every month for me since 12 and the doctors are still shocked at how I carry on my conversation without a beat missing lol
My grandma has MS and accidentally nearly chopped off her big toe. She didnt realise because she couldn't feel anything. She just say a pool of blood and realized what happened. She was just laughing the whole time.
I don't necessarily have a high pain tolerance but I have changed since I went through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer two years in a row., 2018-19. Cancers were unrelated to each other. Recently I fell and sprained my ankle. It was so swollen, painful and turned black, red and blue. I finally went to my doctor a week later because it wasn't getting any better. X-rays showed that it was broken. Unbelievable! (I'm 67 years old.)
In high school many years ago, I was taking Ceramics to earn my art credit. During class, I tripped and fell on my left hand. Getting up, my ring finger was bent wrong. I looked at it and said, “That don’t look right.” and gave the finger a firm tug, popping it back in place and wiggled the finger. “Much better.” and returned to my table to continue to work. Everybody is staring at me in shock. I responded, “What? That finger has been dislocated so many times I’m used to it.” my table mate. “Doesn’t it hurt?” Me. “Nope.” Other then some slight swelling my finger was fine. A year later I shattered my wrist. The x-ray wasn’t pretty. Doctor asked about my ring finger and my dad goes “She’s dislocated that finger so many times.”
Patient here. A few years ago, I had some pain in my lower right stomach. Didn't hurt much, unless I tried to lift something. After 3 or 4 days of this, my friend finally convinced me to go to the hospital. After some blood and urine samples, and a scan, they told me my appendix was extremely full of some infectious bacteria, and I would have to have an emergency appendectomy. After the surgery, once I was coherent, they told me if I had waited just 30 minutes more, it wound have ruptured. I have to say, though, that having the draining tubes removed hurt more. Appendix felt like a 5/10. The draining tube felt like a 7/10.
Went to the ER with severe abdominal pain that I suspected was appendicitis. I have abnornally high pain tolerance so I just sat there waiting. No one believed I was sick. They did give did a CT anyway because it was protocol for abdominal pain. Turns out I was very sick, leaking appendicitis where it wrapped back up around my intestines and stuck to my abdominal wall. They even admitted I was so calm they never suspected I was that sick. High pain tolerance damn near backfired on me royally. Thank god that hospital had a protocol to follow
I broke my leg in places and fractured two of the ligaments in my ankle and didn’t take any medicine. None whatsoever. I like to think that’s impressive
In the mid 70s when my mother was young, she worked a front desk at a hospital. One of her coworkers used to work the ER in Baltimore, which he did not miss at all. He related an experience where one of their regulars, a homeless alcoholic, came in reporting a pain in his back. As he often came in with exaggerated and bullshit ailments so that he could sleep in a corner when the night was too cold, the worker simply told him to have a seat while waiting. The homeless guy gives a resigned "alright," and turned to head for the chairs, and wouldn't you know it, pickax stuck in his back. His memory was fuzzy as to the specifics of a confrontation he had earlier, and all he knew was that his back hurt. He survived of course, because the people of Baltimore are made of crazier stuff.
My dad cut off his finger while loading wood onto a truck, wrapped up his hand, finished loading the wood, drove to the hospital with the finger. Called my mom AFTER he reached the hospital to tell her what happened. Got it sewed back on, perfectly fine.
Not a Nurse or Dr., Iused to work at a salvage yard. Had an engine cradle (with engine and transmission still intact) Smash my ring finger of my left hand. The nail was 3/4 ripped off, lacerated nail bed, and broke the bone in the tip of my finger. Didn't make a sound, even when I was running cold water over it to clean it up a bit. Got to ER. Doc does a digital block, takes the nail the rest of the way off, stitches the nail bed, wraps it up, sends me on my way. Went back to work and was using a 32 oz. Ball peen hammer for something, but ended up hitting my already injured finger. That smarted pretty good, but not a peep out of me. About a year later, I dislocated the same finger. Doc asked if I wanted anything for pain. No, just put it back in place. Not a peep.
7:35 Hi, tattooed person here who is afraid of needles 👋 Tattoo needles are technically jabbing/cutting through the first few layers of dermis, while a needle goes faarrrr beyond that and more liked (in a hospital setting at least) into a vein. There is absolutely a difference. I can take a couple of hours getting etched into by a multi bladed knife. I get queezey when there is something moving around inside my meat and viens. Toodles!
11:43 Reminds me of the Black Knight from "Monty Python." "T'is but a scratch!" "Y'stupid bastard, yer arm's off!" "I've 'ad worse..." "Ooh, you liar...!"
I have a super high pain tolerance but I actively avoid hurting myself. And it took 24 hours for the nurses to get me to have an IV placed before inducing me for labor. Went through 16 hours of labor took me 10 hours to be fully dilated and 6 for delivery (I took a nap before I got my next round of fentynol) it was already known my baby would pass, so that's why I was induced early, he had defects but I'm fine now
My mom tore her arm open while working in garage doors. She finished the job, even though it was halfway done, drove to the hospital, and stayed awake as they put a metal plate in her arm.
The guy I work with was taking metal brackets off 2 x 6 boards when he accidentally hit himself in the leg with the claw side of his hammer. He said it hurt a bit but continued working for 8 hours(10 total) when we finished he took off his boot and his calf was the nearly the size of his thigh above the place where he hit it.the boot cut off blood circulation and his leg was two different sizes. Turns out he chipped the bone
If that nurse and ENT had ever had second degree sunburn they wouldn't be laughing. It blisters and swells then when it peels it's like it takes all the rest of your skin with it. That shit hurts!
yeah it really depends what type of sunburn they had. If it was a first degree/light sunburn that person clearly has a low pain tolerance but sunburns with blisters are so painful!
once in florida my skin was fucking red on my back after being out for 2 hrs. i was then like "my back feels a little off". ye i didnt even notice till i got back and put some aloe on meh
I've had a lot of tooth fillings done when I was younger and stupid about taking care of my teeth. The dentists thought I was crazy because I would always be giggling and laughing during the filling. They would always remark on it like 'you're the only patient to laugh during this.' I don't have the heart to tell them that yeah it does hurt, but I laugh when I'm scared or in pain because it keeps me calm. I also find it embarrassing to make pain noises...it's awkward...so like I'm just gonna keep them to myself, lmao
For me if its internal and not outside, I cant ignore it much, but if I'm bleeding or sprained something, I'm like this is still better than my migraines or cramps. Like I rather break my femur than deal with my migraine
Worked as a PCA in a hospital. Saw a guy walk into the ER with a piece of a 2×2 sticking out of him. He had WALKED from the construction site down the street. Tough dude.
I usually just get quiet with pain, after the initial shock of it. I mean, when I was in labour with my first, I got to the hospital just as he was about to be born, and the midwife(more like the title of the nurses in labour and delivery here) was quite surprised I was reading to start pushing when she checked. I have had a couple long standing chronic illnesses that cause pain, and I've learned to get on with things and seem like I'm not hurting. It sucks, and works against me at times, but it just is how it is. There was another time that I fell while camping, and landed with my palm on a tent peg. I really thought I might have broken the bone in the fleshy part that goes to the thumb. There was no way to get me anywhere that day, it was too late to be packing up, especially since it was with hubby and our two kids. It was quite far from any hospitals, so we wrapped my hand in a way to keep my thumb from moving, and I took what painkillers we had available, and made the best of it that night. I was dropped off at the hospital the next day, and if it weren't for my hand being massively swollen, I don't think they would have believed I was in pain. The only reaction I outwardly had was when they touched it, or tried to move my thumb and fingers, otherwise, as a nurse put it, I looked bored. It wasn't actually broken, but I royally bruised the tendon and needed special hand braces and physio.
my body seems to process anesthesia faster than others. my dentist was shocked when i could feel my face before the end of the appointment (during which he was filling a cavity) when the anesthesia is supposed to wear off no sooner than 30 minutes after the appointment. most dentist appointments i’m not in that much pain but even when i am i don’t say anything because i can handle it and i don’t want to be a bother lol
If you're a doctor and laughing at someone bc they don't have the same pain tolerance as another patient pls stop being a doctor y'all are part of why people just let themselves get damn near dead before they go 🙃 aside from the costs of maintaining your body.
Like I have an actual high pain tolerance, I've had the worst pain of my life SEVERAL TIMES (sciatic nerve damage, permanent. I'm 21) and was refused meds, and am resistant to most dental anesthetics so every visit is agony and severe anxiety. This is the first time in my life at 21 years old having been given legit pain treatment for my neck injury even tho I've had astronomically worse pain before, and been literally SCREAMING IN PAIN in ambulances and not been given pain medication. I was suicidal everyday dealing with my sciatica because my pain was so bad and my mobility was almost zero.
Like sorry if you're gonna spent a billion dollars on medical school then realize not everyone handle pain the same way, I've had to learn to dissociate myself from years of chronic pain and I am extremely good at It until I just can't ignore my symptoms anymore.
I used to have what I thought was common shin splints and would run constantly. I was young and at the time I was told that was the only way to get rid of them. Stretch, ice, and run again. After months of not getting better I finally went to the doctors. I was running with a broken leg. I had a series of fractures that continued to get worse after the initial break. Still have no idea how the first injury happened.
I had roller skating accident in my early 30's. I had to remove ALL of my toe nails (middle 2 of which in each foot twice). Bought crafting knives set from shop in order to get it done as sewing needles, scissors and nail clippers were not delegate enough tools for the job.
I broke my ankle when i was in 9th grade in my gym class which was my first period, refused to go to the nurse out of pride and walked on it all day and back home to realize it was really bad when i got home and layed down.
Got hit by a car a few years ago (just pretty bruised and minor stuff like that) and had this really big bruise on my collarbone. Also apparently had a bruised hip (my mom noticed me limping when we walked into the hospital). The nurses kept telling me they'd get me pain meds. Two hours later we're about to leave and I kinda just casually go "hey so I didn't get anything for the pain". The doctor genuinely looked shocked and I was just there on the bed sort of just chilling. Also didn't want to go to the hospital because I was just going to walk it off but my mom was like "are you sure?" Also in 2019 I got a concussion at work. Told someone the next day because it was still hurting but I still worked that day. About three days after I hit my head I went to the hospital because I still had the pain. I literally tried to walk off a concussion.
Normally I can get cut, bruised or injured in any way, fractured both my kneecaps at the same time and continue walking around I still haven't gotten them checked out about 10 years later. But I have the weakest veins ever, needles hurts when going into my veins, it's terrible.
I'm a t10 complete paraplegic. My toe nails had to be taken off due to them causing infections. So get to the docs place to do it and he is talking about numbing everything. I remind him I cant feel anything so just pull them out. He did it and afterwards admitted that doing it like that really freaked him out ! On pain, yes, I use pain pills, they only help a little.
Being impervious to Lidocaine is a thing. I just got a root canal this afternoon (my 7th) and had to talk the endodontist through my inability to be numbed completely. He didn't believe me. I wasn't numbed completely. I told him to just keep going. I had to have surgery earlier this year and because the cuts had to go really deep past the dermis and adipose, I had to go under general anesthesia. I couldn't have tolerated no local anesthesia for those cuts.
i used to work in a factory producing car parts, i was spot welding big flat pieces of metal (we called them " TV screens" since it was a hole in the middle of it. keep in mind these things were around 1.5x1.5m so hard to handle due being big and thin metal). anyhow i accidently dropped it on my arm while i was carrying it and it dug deep into my arm. at first i just thought it was a scracth but pretty much had peeled skin off halfway. i look at it and sighs, walk up to my boss and asks where the medical supplies is, for a moment he got confused untill he looked on my arm. i just casually went and patch myself up, drove to the ER and let them sew me up. The doctors were suprised that i was so calm and barely in pain at all.
A few weeks before my mother's 63rd birthday she went for a walk in the Peak District - the weather was nice, and she was regaining some strength after her cancer treatment a couple of years previously. Some miles into her walk she got a funny twinge in her ankle that threw her off balance, but the only place to fall was off the side of the hill. She rolled down the steep incline, bouncing off trees and rocks before finally landing in a river, where she banged her head. Before she lost consciousness and drowned she managed to haul herself out onto the bank. With her glasses broken and her sandwiches wet through, she decided to call it a day, and started back the way she came. The railway station from which she had started her walk was somewhere small and rural with an infrequent service, so she took the first train that arrived, even though it was going in the wrong direction, just for the sake of reaching somewhere with more people, in case she should need help. Evidently she decided that she could manage without assistance, because she proceeded to change trains at Manchester and at Sheffield before arriving back home in Nottingham, where she then walked across town to catch the bus instead of paying for a taxi direct from the station. She changed out of her wet, muddy clothes and THEN said to me, "I think I've broken my leg." A late night taxi ride to the A&E confirmed this. When I asked her why she didn't ring for the air ambulance immediately after her fall, she shrugged, "I'm not sure my phone was working, and anyway I didn't want to end up in hospital in Manchester."
12:00 when i was in patient in a phych hospital there was a guy who fell asleep face down outside after crashing on meth and had sunburn boils 3 inches in diameter and one inch tall. Most painful looking thing ive seen.
The femur one had me remembering how much that stuff hurts. I'm thankful I just had a fracture, but putting just a little pain on it made it hurt like the devil. When they moved my leg for x-rays I wanted to scream like crazy because of it, but kept my mouth shut.
My 7/10 pain was when I had period cramps so bad, I almost passed out and vomited simultaneously. My friends didn't take my seriously anytime I mentioned I had cramps, they'd just blow me off. My family has a history of endometriosis and other gynocological issues. My 8/10 was when I bled from my urethra, and constantly needed to pee for 2 days. I, once again, nearly passed out and vomited. I think I was passing a few small kidney stones, like several grains of sand.
18:20 This story reminds me of the time my family went to Mammoth Cave. We were in Cave city, which is basically the Wisconsin Dells of Kentucky, and me and my siblings wanted to check out the bumper boats. The guy manning the bumper boat station had at least 1 amputated finger. While me and my siblings were on the boats, my parents asked the guy what happened. Apparently he lost the fingers in an accident at his workplace. The people at the hospital offered to reattach the fingers, but he said no because, quoting my parents who retold the story, “ they could only reattach the finger pointing out forever, but he figured that it would be really hard to punch a person with his finger sticking out” I can’t remember if my parents were making this up, or being serious, or if the whole conversation was n my head. So read this with a text warning
11:18 : this Finn has had the most Kimi Raikkonen-esque reaction I can imagine, just add a "Bwoah..." and/or a "I know what to do" and I might have believed you if told he was Raikkonen himself. Anyway, as a person with ZERO pain tolerance (I volunteered for a Serological COVID Test despite knowing it, and just by the highest amount of self-control I've ever used in my life I've not erupted into screaming when the needle pierced throught my skin... All of this just for an hole small enough, barely a drop of blood came out!) I wonder how can some people conversely stand such pain levels.
My question is Why tf would they send out a little girl broken in half out to another hospital an.hour away without first giving her pain meds. That's just sickening I'm done. This whole thread triggered me with these doctors and nurses
I was exiting the hospital after visiting family when a guy on a stretcher flew by. This dude was missing an arm! And you know what?! He looked at me, and stuck out his arm that was still on him and yelled "High five". I gave him that high five. He earned it.
Tis but a scrach
I don't want to kill the fun, but.
-_-
Man, that guy may be missing an arm, but he makes up for it with his balls of steel
Guys head was cut off, he made no complaint or any sound, was very still for some reason.
Dude, how the frick is he not screaming
@@SasukeUchiha-tc9xx I know right? He wouldn't answer our questions, he was probably in shock.
@@midgetarmy1912 100% percent
@@shadowpanther2611 100 percent percent, speech 100.
dUdE hE hAd HiS hEaD oFf He'S dEaD iDiOt
My daughter went sledding when she was 5 years old. Fell on hard packed snow and ice. She broke both the ulnar and radius bones. She did not cry until she got sedated , one day after the injury happened because we had to fly into the nearest hospital. She only whimpered when her arm had to be moved onto a splint. She did not like the feeling the sedatives . Another flight to nearest hospital with surgery, she cried again only when sedated or coming out of sedation. She had 2 pins placed to keep the bones aligned.A 4 hour nap after surgery with her and she was jumping on the hotel beds! Had heart attacks every few minutes trying to get her to sit still, exhausted out of my skull. Kids!
I honestly wonder how much is pain tolerance and how much is shock.
A lot can be adrenaline
I can shatter half the bones in my body but if I just keep looking forward and don't look at my injury's somehow they aren't there, and yet I can look at a scratch from my cats short claws and suddenly I become Goku
I ripped open my arm in 3rd grade and it looked like a warzone under my jacket but I didn’t feel a thing and I have an extremely low pain tolerance
I also wonder how much is nerve damage. 3rd degree burns are completely painless, despite being worse that 2nd degree, all because the nerves are too damaged to feel how bad it is. The same logic may apply to other injuries, as well.
@@jaycraw6978 that's what shock is
The majority of these stories were about people with good pain tolerance
true, the TH-cam title and thumbnail are misleading, but the reddit question does fit
I thought it would be people who act like babies, lile my sister's ex husband.
I have quite a few of those myself
My grandpa had a routine doc appt. Said his hip had been bothering him. Was sent for xray and went home. A few hours later his doc called him. Apparently the doc had been chewed out by the XRAY tech for sending the 88 year home with a broken hip.
He had actually broke it weeks earlier. It was a hairline fracture that had started to heal.
@@melissaharris3890 your gramps is a unit
“It’s the most hurty thing ever...” Oh to be as brave as kids ❤️
At 16 I had my jaw broken for me. I remember nothing after watching a donkey of a "human" push my pregnant friend to the ground. The cops showed up after the fight and they took my story. They finally asked if I had any injuries and I told them I had broken my jaw. They asked if I needed an ambulance. I told them I needed them to leave so I could have a cigarette (I was 16)
They left and I walked across town (15 min walk) to the hospital. Walked in and told them I needed x-rays due to my broken jaw. They told me I wouldn't be able to talk to them if my jaw was broken. I took the nurses finger and put it to the bottom of my jaw and then pushed on the other side and she can feel the bone separating. Panic ensues I bypassed everyone to get my x-rays done after realizing that it really was broken.
Are you sure you're not a snake ? (They can split their jaw in the middle to eat bigger animals in one piece)
“Guy holds his severed forearm when told why he didn’t call 911”
*tis but a scratch*
tis but a touch
My late father would make the most enormous fuss over the tiniest things, right up until he had a (relatively minor) heart attack, during which he didn't want any fuss at all. Once that was done with, he was back to "dying from toothache" again. He was an infuriating old sod sometimes, but I miss him like crazy now...
Daughter severed her finger in a door
*What the frick*
I almost lost a finger when I was about 18 months old because I stuck my finger in the space between the wall and the door. Still have the scar...
Almost lost the tip of my finger in the front doors of my school when I was 8. Little kids fingers are very thin and bones are often not as strong yet.
That happened to me when i was little
Yeah i lost a nail and the tip of my finger just before the bone when my sister was really mad at me for something and walked away, i followed her until she absolutely *smashed* the door shut just in front of me , and apparently i had my hand on the doorframe just enough to get it chopped
@@davonmulder8458 ouch
Not a doctor but at somepoint as a kid i got blood drawn. I still remember how shocked she was that I did not cry or scream and just sat there, I love that.
Having blood drawn is a breeze.
@@LynnAgain83 Agreed. I dont know why she acted suprised
@@LynnAgain83 also agreed, doesn’t really hurt
When I was in high school and college, I raced semi-pro motocross, and in one heat I was extremely exhausted. On an off-camber jump I went down, and the right handlebar end went into my rib cage hard. Didn't notice anything and got up and finished the moto, retaining my position. Three days later my dad asked me to move some bricks, and so I got the wheelbarrow and tossed the bricks into it. When I tried to lift the handles, it felt like a jousting spear had gone through my side, and he took me to the ER. Three broken ribs, one punctured lung and all they do is to put an elastic wrap on your ribs, but I felt no pain after that. Decades later I'm playing with our two little boys (5 & 7) when the older one jumps on my rib cage feet first after running up, and I feel more broken ribs. Drove myself to the little family-owned drug store and walked in all bent over, and the gal behind the pharmacy counter sees me and takes me by the hand to lead me to a box of those same elastic wraps. Ah, good times! I've been told I have a high tolerance for pain, and 8 years on dialysis helped it - 14 gauge needles - like BIC pens stuck in your arm - were the usual routine, with at least two used and often more attempts if they couldn't get the fistula right away.
I think since that most older people feel pain on a daily basis they develop a higher pain tolerance as a way to cope with life.
My father was one of those tough WWII vets. At work, he put a rivet though his thumb. Went to the hospital and got it patched up, but kept saying there was a piece of metal still in there. Nobody believed him, so after a couple of days he got his pocketknife and dug around until the tiny piece of metal popped out. He saved it to show the doctors that he was right,
@@lynnw7155 ahhh I see you're a fan of the strange, dark, and mysterious delivered in story format?
I think it also has to do with the medical options they had as kids weren't what we have today. "Tough it out" was probably the only medical option most of them had, growing up.
I know I Cope with pain better as I get older. Between experiencing a wide range of pain and learning how my body reacts to said pain makes a big difference on how well I cope. And then you factor in a persons socio-economic status. If you grew up not being able to go to the doctor because you can't afford it, you learn to deal with some painful and sometime ludicrous stuff.
as someone who has multiple tattoos and piercings and yet gets cold sweats when needing my bloods done, its all about how the needle is used to me as with piercings/tattoos its only the surface or clean through where as with bloods i have shy and awkward veins meaning the nurse has to wiggle and hunt under the skin with a needle
This reminded me about the time not too long ago my great grandmother (age 92)had a heart attack while she was one her yard and she fell afterwards and broke her hip, she was laying there for nearly 24 F-ING hours!! And when one of her neighbours finally founder her she was taken to the ER and had two surgeries, one for the hip and one for her heart, the doctors didn’t think she’d make it for the second surgery but she’s on tough mother f-er. Now she’s just about back to normal with what she does in a normal day.
7:24 this goes for the dentistry! The more tattoos people have the more scared they are to get the numbing needle or any dental work done. Almost every single tattooed patient has told me they rather sit through an 8 hour tattoo session than get their dental work done for 1 hour.
I had a skin graph in my mouth on 7 different times and it is super sensitive and I counted it was 14 shots. For my tattoo it was like a bad sunburn.
TO BE FAIR... dental pain is on a completely different level from tattoo pain, depending on where you get the tatt. You deadass have to sedate me before you can take a numbing agent anywhere near my mouth, but you can perform infinitely more painful procedures elsewhere on me without so much as a peep. It's fucking weird
@@LavenderSystem69 too be faiiiir
Really?? I didn't know that was a thing. I have tattoos, but dental work doesn't bother me one bit.
Let me tell you why.
I've had 13 teeth removed. 9 at one time, 4 at another. (I'm only 26)
I lived with exposed nerves in broken teeth for about 5 years. I've had a chest tube inserted between 2 of my ribs with no pain medication or numbing agent and lived with it for 2 months when I was 17.
Fuck those numbing shots, especially the ones that go into the roof of your mouth. That shit hurts worse than all of the above.
There is a saying when someone on a farm or ranch gets hurt, “cowboy up.” When I was 17 years old I cracked my thigh bone in the bearing surface of the knee. I thought I had just sprained the knee and continued bucking hay. After about 5 days I could walk well enough that they took me off the wagon and had me throw bails onto the wagon instead.
It was about 19-20 years later when the knee started dropping me that the crack was found during surgery. That was 30+ years ago and other than debrideing the knee, and cartilage injections nothing has been done.
Me being 19, I've been close to breaking things but nothing yet. Worst I've done is loose a finger nail.
@@JayAR_YT before I was 20 I had at least 4 close calls that could have killed me or left me paralyzed. Such as dislocating my shoulder while swimming under water, hitting my head on the bottom of the swimming pool so hard I couldn’t move my fingers for a minute or so.
I broke my collarbone years ago in a riding accident. It didn't hurt even half as much as the bone bruise in my lower arm from the accident so I shrugged it off. Went through three more years of farm work (stalls, stacking hay, etc) only to find out that it never healed and needs surgery. I've put the surgery off for nearly four years now since I won't be allowed to use the arm for 6 months and it doesn't hurt. Farm/horse people are a whole 'nother breed - my boss broke her pelvis and had internal bleeding and managed to go through a full week of farm work until she collapsed from blood loss. Was back feeding the horses in 5 days! It's a miracle your knee hasn't needed more work than what was done for it
I love how people say that the more pain you feel the less pain you will feel later in life or some crap, I'm 99% sure my numerous injury's have lowered my pain tolerance over the years
My father worked as a phlebotomist at the hospital, one day, this Hispanic dude walks in, with a two foot long jagged peace of wood sticking out of his abdomen, he apparently drove himself to the hospital and proceeded to walk all the way to the ER and check in
My father has a genetic issue where his spinal cushion deteriorates, 50-76% of his spinal cushion (the stuff between the cord and bones of the spine) has deteriorated to nothing, and my dad's pain management doctor and several other doctors are baffled on how he can still walk. He's gotten used to the pain and only takes painkillers if he over does it or if he slept wrong the night before.
@Toni Remer maybe your body is just very hypersensitive. Hope you can find answers one day
@Madfox Axy your dad is an absolute unit of a man
Having severe chronic pain I always tell nurses/doctors my pain level on my own scale. Its almost impossible to imagine pain worse than what you've felt in the past. My worst, my 10/10 was when I was 14. I had an ear infection. It hurt so badly my mom tells me I was screaming for hours on end. My 0/10 was that same day after I was given an opiate for the first time. So on that scale, my pain is a 6-7 every day unless I take pain meds. Can't move, higher vitals. no sweating though.
edit: 'Allergic to morphine needs dilaudid' lmfao. gets even funnier when you look at the chemical compositions of both... hmm...
exactly!! i have endometriosis so pretty much every day im in pain, my worst days are easily a 10 for me but my 10 isnt gonna be as painful as someone who's, say, had a skin graft. the 1-10 scale is a good start for gauging how a patient's doing but it has issues, this being the major one.
Is no one talking about that severed arm?
Apparently not (ಠ_ಠ)
when he walked up the the medic did he wave the severed arm’s hand
@@supremechaosbeing2696 honestly if i wasn't bleeding terribly and didn't feel much, i would absolutely do that
It makes me mad how some people precept pain. Like dude if I'm in 7/10 pain, you can believe me. I hide pain super well.
I'm a nurse and in school, we were told to take every pain complaint seriously (even in a med seeker situation - that is for the doc to decide about) and intervene and maintain disposition appropriately for the stated pain level. I've seen what can happen when real pain is dismissed by nurses/healthcare professionals, and it's not something I want to be responsible for causing (on top of being the reason someone stayed in pain). So that's what I do in my practice. If someone says 10/10, I chart 10/10 and give the appropriate med on order if they are otherwise stable (vital sign-wise)
@@J--V oh you sound like an amazing nurse. ❤️ we need more like you. As someone who can carry on a conversation while relocating a dislocated hip, my pain is never taken seriously when it's bad enough to ask for help.
@@dancing.with.adagio I'm very early in my career so I wouldn't say "amazing", but I went into the field to care for people and if nothing else, that's the one thing I refuse to lose sight of. I don't want to become jaded and only focused on the documentation or getting tasks done and forget about helping the sick patient who is the reason I'm there in the first place.
Guy: don’t worry I’m fine
Also guy: *dies*
I was the patient. When I was 13 I had a nasty toothache thanks to a big cavity in one of my back teeth (being addicted to pretty much anything with diabetes-inducing quantities of sugar did NOT help) and had to have it pulled at the dentist. They numbed me up, tried to loosen the tooth...then I felt a blood curdling crack despite the anaesthetic, but no pain. There and then I just freaked out. Was so bad they booked me into a hospital to put me completely under for it, but the appointment wasn’t until the next month.
So the month passes by, bizarrely not as much pain as before. Get to hospital, go under, all good. But the extraction that was meant to last only a few minutes ended up taking two hours - the damn thing had shattered into a million pieces under my gum and they had to cut my jaw open to get every last one of the pesky white shards out. Wake up to the hospital dentists in utter shock over how I wasn’t in crippling *agony*.
I can tell you from my own experience that a sprain hurts more then a clean break. Also cutting off fingers only hurts for a split second then there is no feeling.
My mom cut her finger off in a door when she was a kid
AGREED , only hurts when it's touched lol 😂
I had a testicular torsion once. At first I thought I had a hernia (I previously had one, and it can easily happen again) but I got lucky and a specialist was in town and took a second look at me. A few hours more and I would have lost righty. For those of you who don’t know what it is, it’s when the testicle twists around itself, so imaging the body part with the most nerves on it slowly dying of lack of oxygen. Still hurts sometimes today, this was two years ago
Wasn't pain tolerance, but my mom was conscious and able to talk with a nurse with an iron g/dl of 3. Very tired, but standing.
For reference, anything under 8 typically means you get a blood transfusion. 5 you typically start passing out.
I have quite a lot of hospital stories. One of the times I remember (it happened on 2 different occasions, but THIS one in particular was VERY memorable.) I was about 16 or 17 at the time, I went to the ER because I had sudden hearing loss. I was fine earlier in the day, but as the day progressed.....I went almost completely deaf in one ear and the other was getting close to being completely deaf.
So my family doctor happened to be the attending physician that night. He checked each ear....then he checked them again. He stepped back, gaping at me like I was some kinda alien (this wasn't the first, nor the last time I've done this to my poor poor doctor lol) and asked me in shocked horror/wonder:
"How on EARTH are you NOT on the floor SCREAMING in pain?!?!?!?" I looked at him calmly and just said " Hey, I can't feel anything. I'm only here because I suddenly started going deaf today. That's my only symptom"
My poor doctor's jaw I swear was gonna come unhinged. Turns out I had really bad ear infections (in both ears), they were so bad that they must have been infected for at LEAST 4 days. At that time, I used to get maybe 6 infections (mainly sinus/ear/throat) ? every year. So I KNOW the symptoms, and my body usually has WAY more symptoms (ie FEVER, headache, dizziness, nausea). So I guess my body was just over it all? Lol
As a side note, my doctor KNOWS if he ever sees me crying then I'm in a real world of hurt. (Has only happened ONCE in 14 years....and THAT story is a hospital horror story lol, funny now looking back)
Something kinda similar happened to me. I did feel a good amount of pain at first though. I was swimming & tried to blow water out of my nose. I swear it felt like my eardrum exploded. I didn’t scream though I just silently retreated to the side of the pool & held still. It hurt pretty bad for the rest of the day but we couldn’t go anywhere for it. Next day I was completely fine. No pain. A few crackle sounds in the ear sometimes but still nothing. We waited on seeing a Dr for maybe 4 days. We only decided to go because I was still paranoid about it & convinced my mom that we should go. We get to the drs & she looks in one ear “ok that one looks good”. Gets to the other ear & barely has to look. She was just like “wow ok yeah that’s infected”. I was real lucky I caught it in time though cause we were a week away from getting on a plane to visit family in another state. Can’t imagine how much that would’ve hurt.
The most significant bother about pain for me is how it's able to keep me awake. Yes pain sucks, it's hugely uncomfortable, but having a couple abscessed teeth, many broken bones, muscle tares...it never seems all that bad unless I couldn't sleep. Headaches however are completely different. I really can't tolerate those at all, and have a few that made me nauseous.
I can tolerate most pains except headaches. I don't know why. Even a mild headache stops me from concentrating and really doing anything. I think the real problem is that my headaches almost always last for an entire day or longer if I don't take medicine.
My abscess tooth pain was worse than my C-section pain.😳
I am a chronic pain suffer of 15+ years from a car accident when I was 17. Drink driver slammed into me passed out at the wheel i was at a red light. My pain is always at about a 7-8 out of 10 every day. So my brain has a level that is insane. I constantly cut myself at work and won't realise until I see.rhd blood. I get deep tissue massages every week and my therapist says he always leave my appointments to the end of the day because he has to use to much pressure for me to feel it. He ends our sessions shaking.
Needles I don't feel at all, punched in the face ha....I'll just laugh at you, I broke my finger at a 90 didn't really feel it until I had to pop it back in....and even then it was a slight ouch. The doc said this is really going to hurt and it was almost nothing ...made me twitch a second but that's it.
Your brain is an amazing thing. The receptors in my brain has adjusted my level to a crazy degree....i had back surgery trying to fix it and i walked out that afternoon it didn't faze me at all. 86 injection directly into my spine....no worries. It didn't work either made it worse . I get at least 36 shots every week at prolotherapy to repair the nerves it hurts later after the shots because it freaks out but getting them it's nothing....I fell asleep last time.
Pain is like anything you feel enough of it your brain adjusts. It can be bad because a major injury can go undiagnosed because it doesn't really hurt to you. I cut the tip of my finger off the other day working in my wood shop. My fiance freaked out and wanted to go to the hospital but I just wrapped it up and kept going. It healed pretty quick too
Anyways sorry for the rant but I get some of these
I was a passenger in a car that was being driven by a guy who was drunk (I didn't know). I was 22yo. The pain for the next 3 months was ridiculous, but I stopped taking the painkillers after 3 weeks. Didn't find out that I fractured two vertebrae until 18 months later. Was in the RAF at the time and they didn't give a shit. 18 years later and i can barely walk from pain.
@@deathbycheese850 it is a different life that's for sure, you have to be really proactive with your recovery it won't heal itself so I you miss a workout or a therapy session it can make your life hell.
My advice to you is find a really good sports medicine centre. They have everyone in-house usually from physios to exercise physiologist that can help you get some semblance of normal back into your life.
It's an ongoing thing but it has helped me , I have taken it a lot more seriously now I am 36....if I don't I am stuck in bed or walking like I'm 85 with a bad hip.
I have accepted that the pain is there forever and that it's on me to make sure I stay fit and healthy. I gave up going to the gym when I was about 28 and after that it just got worse and worse I should have never stopped. I am on my way back using bands and other exercises to slowly build up my tolerance to it again, muscles to handle the damage better etc.
So yeah be proactive with it Cat. Find a good bunch of people to help you and seek mental help if it gets overwhelming. A shink can put in for actions for long term pain killing if need be. That's what they did with me. The opioid crisis has for sure made it harder for those of us who suffer from chronic pain conditions and in Australia other methods like cannabis are illegal which totally boggles my mind. It's rough but you gotta find your normal cat it isn't Gunna be like before but you can be happy. You are not your pain....pain is just apart of your normal now. It sucks but it helped me hearing those words
No dude that's ANAZING but it has to suck at the same time my pain tolerance is VERY low it is about a 4/10 I had acid reflux and it hurt so bad I couldn't move the tiniest bit!
I've been a chronic pain sufferer for most of my life, and it really does ramp up your pain tolerance.
I went to an out of hours clinic because I had some burns that I thought were fairly minor, but weren't healing and were getting kind of warm. I got told that I had been trying to treat third degree burns at home (not huge ones, they were both about 2 inches square) and an infection could have lead to losing tissue or my entire leg. Luckily silver gauze to prevent infection and stopping using antiseptic cream so it could start drying out helped it heal just fine within a month or two.
I also got told off when I was in hospital for something unrelated because doctors spotted some freshly healed scars I had on my thigh, because I hadn't come in for stitches or pain relief and just treated them myself. (I saw my subdermal fat layer, which was an interesting experience. It doesn't look how you'd expect at all.)
I should probably stop doing DIY first aid, but I hate hospitals, and I'm not too bothered about the scars, I've got plenty already. My family are worried because I started taking ibuprofen for my headaches recently.
@@abbieherring1040 I have a high pain tolerance and acid reflux, the stomach stuff does absolutely hurt. It can wear down your esophagus from acid burns. Reflux is awful, I hope nobody makes you feel like you're over reacting.
I remember one time I was admitted to the hospital for suspected appendicitis (to this day, we think it was a very bad UTI, though). After eating that night's dinner, I was on the phone with my grandfather while my mother was in the bathroom. The nurse walked in to change my saline bag and I calmly said to my grandfather, "I'll have to call you back. I'm about to throw up." The entire time I was talking to him I had been holding back vomit in my throat, but I knew I was going to throw up. After tossing my phone on the floor, I began to go through the motions and the nurse promptly set the saline bag down and grabbed a trash bag they use for dirty clothes and towels. I remember throwing up so much it was coming out of my nose.
The look of shock on the nurse's face, like it amazed her that I waited for her and knew what was happening still sticks to in my mind to this day. Thankfully, they injected some nausea medication into my IV and gave me some beef broth and mashed potatoes to fill my stomach a bit afterwards.
last year i got consipated bc my diet is absolute shit. anyways, i ended up for wutever reason also having meh stomach inflamed so when i drank a little bit of anything i threw up and i didnt even feel nauseus. idk
Went to the ER with an obvious level 10 pain (my first ovarian cyst rupture). Was asked if i was ok and said i was fine while crying. Also, i don't have a fear of needles, but I've had some scary reactions from injections/shots.
As someone with a pain tolerance of -4, I have a hard time understanding this.
When I was 7, I was horse back riding in the mountains. My horse got spooked by a snake and bucked me off, however my foot got caught in the stirrup. I proceeded to be dragged down the mountain upside down for just under half a kilometre. I didn’t cry or feel much pain (mainly due to shock). I ended up walking to the ambulance. I was sedated as they thought I could have gotten Brain damage due to my head being significantly hit. I ended up not having any brain damage or spine damage, however I shattered all the bones in my left leg and foot from my knee down. I also had SIGNIFICANT bruising and cuts all over my body as well as a cracked rib. I went back to school just over 48 hours after the accident happened.
I had a motorcycle crash and had broken my pelvis as they called ‘’ a open book fractured’’ and it took 3 days to find a doctors that accepted to do the chirurgie, and in theses 3 days one night I woke-up during night and a nurse was standing there staring at me , and she said ‘’ my god you were really sleeping ? ‘’ I said of course ! But ..... you have a open book fracture, how can you sleep on the side with that, I just replied’’ since I broke my spine at 3 places and broken my sacrum, I can only sleep on the side. ‘’ I literally saw her jaw drop to the floor and she walk out calmly of my room, I went back to sleep kinda laughing with myself. One doctor who followed me for sometime told that when they ask you on a scale of 1 to 10 what most normal peoples would say a 7 level of pain, for me I would call that a 2 or a 3, and that at the speed I healed, I should check if I have some kind of mutants genes like in the movies, I was scheduled for staying at the réadaptation center for 4 months because of the seriousness of my injuries, but 1 1/2 week later they send me home saying they should put a picture of me on the wall, as the fastest recovery they ever saw.
I have a stupidly high pain tolerance and it's honestly a problem. The damage I do from not knowing sucks. Almost twisted my foot off, tried to stand up. Glad my husband was there to point out my "leg was on backwards" I was partially in shock, I'm sure. When the emts and er surgeon make a face when they see your injury.... Lol They wouldn't set the dang thing without giving me pain meds, and couldn't get any in me. Er doc looked at me like I was out of my mind when I told him just do it. He wouldn't. They finally pumped some dilaudid in me and it. They're trying to get xrays and stuff so I moved so they could get them. They were dumbfounded I could kinda crab walk with the other leg and my arms. I'm thinking I'm not using the broken leg, why is this impressive? Then I went a full night after surgery with no pain meds. It was bad. I'm glad my roommate was there because øne of the drs kinda gaslit me, and so I began thinking I was just being a baby about it. Then I broke my leg between the pins from the ankle break, while I still had the medical boot on. I went for a check up and they asked why I hadn't called when I broke my leg again, and I said I didn't know. (Figured out why pt was so uncomfortable lol) Having broken the ankle I assumed its going to hurt, so didn't think twice about it. He says "this is the most freakish thing I've ever seen" He's been an orthopedic surgeon for 30 years, and usually works with elderly patients. 🤷🏻 Weird is what I do. Lol I realized from this that I'd broken several bones, including vertebrae in my neck, and not known it was broken. My response was "that's why its hard to turn my head that way".
When you have chronic pain you learn to ignore a lot, I just never realized how much. Along the lines of cowboy up we say "I got shit to do". Don't have time to sit and worry about something hurting. something always hurts.
My husband was getting a vasectomy and part way though the did a snip and he made fists, tightened his body and made a grunt. They asked if he could feel that in shock and he said yeah, that hurt a bit. I can't over the fact they cut his vans and he grunted and tightened up. They gave him a double amount of numbing agent and continued when he didn't feel anything. He has accidentally had a nail put through his hand and said it looked pretty cool, he got hit by an IED in Iraq and injured and kept going. Hungarians and Russians are just on a whole other level
He's the strongest, toughest guy I know and the sweetest man on earth. I'm honored to be his wife is 25 years.
As a second note, I use a modified Richter scale to describe pain.
1-2 I have to think if I am hurting, such a an old bruise or a headache
3-4 I notice the pain however I can generally continue what I was doing without trying to control the pain
5-6 I can still continue usually but I have to think about controlling the pain, will Motrin help? Hernia surgery first 12 hours.
7 I struggle to control the pain to continue, get me Motrin. Abscessed tooth
8 time for emergency override, as in bucking hay on a cracked thighbone
9 emergency override fails even in life or death situation as in I sprained my ankle and I couldn’t stand my foot touching anything. Motrin failed
10 would be fighting to remain conscious
Motrin works better for me than hydrocodone
Years back my grandfather drove to the hospital with some chest pain. Turns out he had a heart attack and didn't know it. He is around 80 when this took place
My uncle walked to the hospital while having a heart attack. He lived very near the hospital so he had a cigarette and walked because he thought he was having a bad panic attack. Was his last cigarette, finally got him to quit.
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I know someone who had substance abuse issues for years and I pray he never needs any kind of surgery in his life because pain killers will do nothing for him.
Completely agree
I have a real high pain tolerance myself. I have broke my sternum once and never took any pain meds for it. Also had 2 rotator cuff surgeries and never took any pain meds after. Had surgery to remove a cyst from my lower back and after they removed the staples, the incision opened back up the next day. I contacted the doctor and he told me to come right in to his office. He put more internal stitches in and stapled it back closed without giving me anything to numb it. Another time, I fell when I slipped on ice and immediately knew the wrist was broke. The arm was deformed from the break. Still took me about 5 hours to finally drive myself to the hospital.
My dad has an ear sleeve has multiple other tattoos but I watched him pass out getting his blood drawn
Mmmkay. So I'm actually allergic to morphine, and dilauded was basically the only thing the er where I lived could give me for my intense, 6+ hour long pain flare up. People shouldn't judge just because some people know what they can and cannot take.
The problem is that drug seekers far outnumber people with genuine allergies :/
For the sunburn story I had something similar happen, I never went to the doctor but the sunburn stuff I put on my arms I found out I was allergic too the hard way and dear god I felt like someone took a flame and stuck them inside my arms. I would've been fine if I never used it.
My daughter almost passed out getting the blood pressure cuff put on 😂
lol im chill when i get shots or my blood drawn or watever.
One of these stories makes me think about an ex of mine. He had a ton of tats and looked like ginger grizzly bear, was also a heavy machinery mechanic and looked exactly the part. He would refuse going to the docs for obviously broken bones or huge lacerations because he said it was no big deal, but when he had to get some lab work done he passed right the fuck out the second they started putting the needle in. I have a ton of medical issues and am a notoriously hard stick so it’s totally normal for me to leave the hospital with 3+ blown veins, doesn’t bother me because I’m so used to it and my record for sticks to get an IV was 12 when they finally got the 2nd sub clavicle as they were preparing to just put in a central. My ex couldn’t even come sit with me at the hospital because it freaked him out so much, and I’d have to wear long sleeves until all my blown veins otherwise he would get nauseous and nearly throw up from just the sight of the bruises.
He was very strange about seeing doctors and would give me hell for whenever I needed to go to the ER and then generally be promptly embarrassed about giving me such hell when it turned out to be things like kidney failure(they never found out why it randomly happened or why they were able to stop it) or cauda equina that was so severe that required a 2 hour ambulance ride(there were no Helios available which pissed the surgeon off) to the next hospital where they already had an OR ready and waiting for me when we got there.
My husband had been T-boned by an SUV running a red light going 50 mph. His face was shattered, broke both arms, 3 ribs, punctured lung, broken pelvis and shattered foot and right leg. He was awake in the ambulance ride (I was in the front) Remembering we were going out that night he tried to convince the EMTs he was okay. “Guys, let me out!” “Sir, you are very injured “ “come on guys, pull over and I’ll walk home “... it’s been a long recovery but I don’t leave his side. After all that any man who would try to walk home to go out with me is a keeper ❤️
I have the worst pain tolerance and that’s mostly because I suffer from chronic pain.
Chronic pain is the worst, though I think it makes me more tolerant of other pain.
I’ve had sciatica and toothaches in the past, thankfully pain free for now. But sciatica or toothaches... not sure which is worse, but it was terrible.
i have pretty good s p i c e tolerance
@@tiamod same. Both equally suck
I'm a cancer survivor and was turned into a "pin cushion!" At one point, when I was in the hospital, I had 12 IV's in my arms and a nurse, who would come in my room every morning around 5:30 am to do a lab. During my radiation treatments, my Dilantin levels (anti-seizure medication) got way too high in my blood stream, so I had to have daily tests done to monitor them, and I had a hateful lab tech.
After I went into remission, I developed fibromyalgia, and would just short of have a panic attack, before I was stuck for an IV and labs. This would cause my hands to freeze up, go completely numb, and my veins/vessels to collapse, which made it next to impossible to get anything accomplished.
I went to get a check-up MRI one morning and was anxious about getting the IV for the cancer contrast, Gadolinium. Mom was teasing me and telling me not to get all worked up, because it would be over soon. I was trying to take deep breaths and calm myself down, when a man, who was 6 feet, 3 inches tall and his wife walked into the waiting room. The man was sweating and visibly shaking.
I knew I would be called to get my IV soon and Mom looked at me and said, "Deep breaths. Deep breaths."
The wife of the couple asked what was wrong. Mom said I was nervous about getting my IV.
This lady looked at her husband, then at me and said, "Honey! Do not feel bad. This man right here (she pointed at her husband) is 6 feet 3 inches tall and he has to take a sedative, by mouth, before he can get the numbing shots, to get his IV put in. As calm as you are, don't feel bad at all!"
Bartholins gland cyst removal every month for me since 12 and the doctors are still shocked at how I carry on my conversation without a beat missing lol
My grandma has MS and accidentally nearly chopped off her big toe. She didnt realise because she couldn't feel anything. She just say a pool of blood and realized what happened. She was just laughing the whole time.
I don't necessarily have a high pain tolerance but I have changed since I went through surgery, chemotherapy and radiation treatments for cancer two years in a row., 2018-19. Cancers were unrelated to each other.
Recently I fell and sprained my ankle. It was so swollen, painful and turned black, red and blue. I finally went to my doctor a week later because it wasn't getting any better. X-rays showed that it was broken.
Unbelievable! (I'm 67 years old.)
2:18 "It is but a scratch"
In high school many years ago, I was taking Ceramics to earn my art credit. During class, I tripped and fell on my left hand. Getting up, my ring finger was bent wrong. I looked at it and said, “That don’t look right.” and gave the finger a firm tug, popping it back in place and wiggled the finger. “Much better.” and returned to my table to continue to work. Everybody is staring at me in shock. I responded, “What? That finger has been dislocated so many times I’m used to it.” my table mate. “Doesn’t it hurt?” Me. “Nope.”
Other then some slight swelling my finger was fine. A year later I shattered my wrist. The x-ray wasn’t pretty. Doctor asked about my ring finger and my dad goes “She’s dislocated that finger so many times.”
Patient here. A few years ago, I had some pain in my lower right stomach. Didn't hurt much, unless I tried to lift something. After 3 or 4 days of this, my friend finally convinced me to go to the hospital. After some blood and urine samples, and a scan, they told me my appendix was extremely full of some infectious bacteria, and I would have to have an emergency appendectomy. After the surgery, once I was coherent, they told me if I had waited just 30 minutes more, it wound have ruptured. I have to say, though, that having the draining tubes removed hurt more. Appendix felt like a 5/10. The draining tube felt like a 7/10.
Went to the ER with severe abdominal pain that I suspected was appendicitis. I have abnornally high pain tolerance so I just sat there waiting. No one believed I was sick. They did give did a CT anyway because it was protocol for abdominal pain. Turns out I was very sick, leaking appendicitis where it wrapped back up around my intestines and stuck to my abdominal wall. They even admitted I was so calm they never suspected I was that sick. High pain tolerance damn near backfired on me royally. Thank god that hospital had a protocol to follow
17:31 that is so adorable
I broke my leg in places and fractured two of the ligaments in my ankle and didn’t take any medicine. None whatsoever. I like to think that’s impressive
It is!!
Broke my arm in two spots and cried out of frustration
@Adoring Fan I dislocated my angle and cried because I was angry I couldn’t help my dad build the shed.
@@Quanice815 now that’s some real skill lol
@@ellaedwards1375 i know
2:34 how your grandparents say they got to school/work
In the mid 70s when my mother was young, she worked a front desk at a hospital. One of her coworkers used to work the ER in Baltimore, which he did not miss at all. He related an experience where one of their regulars, a homeless alcoholic, came in reporting a pain in his back. As he often came in with exaggerated and bullshit ailments so that he could sleep in a corner when the night was too cold, the worker simply told him to have a seat while waiting. The homeless guy gives a resigned "alright," and turned to head for the chairs, and wouldn't you know it, pickax stuck in his back. His memory was fuzzy as to the specifics of a confrontation he had earlier, and all he knew was that his back hurt. He survived of course, because the people of Baltimore are made of crazier stuff.
My dad cut off his finger while loading wood onto a truck, wrapped up his hand, finished loading the wood, drove to the hospital with the finger. Called my mom AFTER he reached the hospital to tell her what happened. Got it sewed back on, perfectly fine.
"Bad-butt" people just doesn't have the same ring to it, I'm friggin dead 🤣🤣🤣💀
Not a Nurse or Dr., Iused to work at a salvage yard. Had an engine cradle (with engine and transmission still intact)
Smash my ring finger of my left hand. The nail was 3/4 ripped off, lacerated nail bed, and broke the bone in the tip of my finger. Didn't make a sound, even when I was running cold water over it to clean it up a bit. Got to ER. Doc does a digital block, takes the nail the rest of the way off, stitches the nail bed, wraps it up, sends me on my way. Went back to work and was using a 32 oz. Ball peen hammer for something, but ended up hitting my already injured finger. That smarted pretty good, but not a peep out of me. About a year later, I dislocated the same finger. Doc asked if I wanted anything for pain. No, just put it back in place. Not a peep.
7:35 Hi, tattooed person here who is afraid of needles 👋 Tattoo needles are technically jabbing/cutting through the first few layers of dermis, while a needle goes faarrrr beyond that and more liked (in a hospital setting at least) into a vein. There is absolutely a difference. I can take a couple of hours getting etched into by a multi bladed knife. I get queezey when there is something moving around inside my meat and viens. Toodles!
4:35 Peace Out Folks, Way too intense for this Candy-Ass.
HOW HARD DID SHE SLAM THAT DOOR?!?!?!?!?!??!?! IM SO CURIOUS
11:43 Reminds me of the Black Knight from "Monty Python."
"T'is but a scratch!"
"Y'stupid bastard, yer arm's off!"
"I've 'ad worse..."
"Ooh, you liar...!"
I have a super high pain tolerance but I actively avoid hurting myself. And it took 24 hours for the nurses to get me to have an IV placed before inducing me for labor. Went through 16 hours of labor took me 10 hours to be fully dilated and 6 for delivery (I took a nap before I got my next round of fentynol) it was already known my baby would pass, so that's why I was induced early, he had defects but I'm fine now
My mom tore her arm open while working in garage doors. She finished the job, even though it was halfway done, drove to the hospital, and stayed awake as they put a metal plate in her arm.
The guy I work with was taking metal brackets off 2 x 6 boards when he accidentally hit himself in the leg with the claw side of his hammer. He said it hurt a bit but continued working for 8 hours(10 total) when we finished he took off his boot and his calf was the nearly the size of his thigh above the place where he hit it.the boot cut off blood circulation and his leg was two different sizes. Turns out he chipped the bone
If that nurse and ENT had ever had second degree sunburn they wouldn't be laughing. It blisters and swells then when it peels it's like it takes all the rest of your skin with it.
That shit hurts!
yeah it really depends what type of sunburn they had. If it was a first degree/light sunburn that person clearly has a low pain tolerance but sunburns with blisters are so painful!
once in florida my skin was fucking red on my back after being out for 2 hrs. i was then like "my back feels a little off". ye i didnt even notice till i got back and put some aloe on meh
I've had a lot of tooth fillings done when I was younger and stupid about taking care of my teeth. The dentists thought I was crazy because I would always be giggling and laughing during the filling. They would always remark on it like 'you're the only patient to laugh during this.' I don't have the heart to tell them that yeah it does hurt, but I laugh when I'm scared or in pain because it keeps me calm. I also find it embarrassing to make pain noises...it's awkward...so like I'm just gonna keep them to myself, lmao
For me if its internal and not outside, I cant ignore it much, but if I'm bleeding or sprained something, I'm like this is still better than my migraines or cramps. Like I rather break my femur than deal with my migraine
I've watched The Toe Bro and My Feet Are Killing Me, that one with the hockey player's finger didn't phase me even tho I could picture it...
Worked as a PCA in a hospital. Saw a guy walk into the ER with a piece of a 2×2 sticking out of him. He had WALKED from the construction site down the street. Tough dude.
I usually just get quiet with pain, after the initial shock of it. I mean, when I was in labour with my first, I got to the hospital just as he was about to be born, and the midwife(more like the title of the nurses in labour and delivery here) was quite surprised I was reading to start pushing when she checked.
I have had a couple long standing chronic illnesses that cause pain, and I've learned to get on with things and seem like I'm not hurting. It sucks, and works against me at times, but it just is how it is. There was another time that I fell while camping, and landed with my palm on a tent peg. I really thought I might have broken the bone in the fleshy part that goes to the thumb. There was no way to get me anywhere that day, it was too late to be packing up, especially since it was with hubby and our two kids. It was quite far from any hospitals, so we wrapped my hand in a way to keep my thumb from moving, and I took what painkillers we had available, and made the best of it that night. I was dropped off at the hospital the next day, and if it weren't for my hand being massively swollen, I don't think they would have believed I was in pain. The only reaction I outwardly had was when they touched it, or tried to move my thumb and fingers, otherwise, as a nurse put it, I looked bored. It wasn't actually broken, but I royally bruised the tendon and needed special hand braces and physio.
my body seems to process anesthesia faster than others. my dentist was shocked when i could feel my face before the end of the appointment (during which he was filling a cavity) when the anesthesia is supposed to wear off no sooner than 30 minutes after the appointment. most dentist appointments i’m not in that much pain but even when i am i don’t say anything because i can handle it and i don’t want to be a bother lol
Fell on her hoo ha? 😳 ouch. The fact that’s what broke her fall.
Ouch 😳
i cried over the little girl ruining her teddy bear :( bless her
If you're a doctor and laughing at someone bc they don't have the same pain tolerance as another patient pls stop being a doctor y'all are part of why people just let themselves get damn near dead before they go 🙃 aside from the costs of maintaining your body.
Like I have an actual high pain tolerance, I've had the worst pain of my life SEVERAL TIMES (sciatic nerve damage, permanent. I'm 21) and was refused meds, and am resistant to most dental anesthetics so every visit is agony and severe anxiety. This is the first time in my life at 21 years old having been given legit pain treatment for my neck injury even tho I've had astronomically worse pain before, and been literally SCREAMING IN PAIN in ambulances and not been given pain medication. I was suicidal everyday dealing with my sciatica because my pain was so bad and my mobility was almost zero.
Like sorry if you're gonna spent a billion dollars on medical school then realize not everyone handle pain the same way, I've had to learn to dissociate myself from years of chronic pain and I am extremely good at It until I just can't ignore my symptoms anymore.
I used to have what I thought was common shin splints and would run constantly. I was young and at the time I was told that was the only way to get rid of them. Stretch, ice, and run again. After months of not getting better I finally went to the doctors. I was running with a broken leg. I had a series of fractures that continued to get worse after the initial break. Still have no idea how the first injury happened.
I had roller skating accident in my early 30's. I had to remove ALL of my toe nails (middle 2 of which in each foot twice). Bought crafting knives set from shop in order to get it done as sewing needles, scissors and nail clippers were not delegate enough tools for the job.
I broke my ankle when i was in 9th grade in my gym class which was my first period, refused to go to the nurse out of pride and walked on it all day and back home to realize it was really bad when i got home and layed down.
Got hit by a car a few years ago (just pretty bruised and minor stuff like that) and had this really big bruise on my collarbone. Also apparently had a bruised hip (my mom noticed me limping when we walked into the hospital). The nurses kept telling me they'd get me pain meds. Two hours later we're about to leave and I kinda just casually go "hey so I didn't get anything for the pain". The doctor genuinely looked shocked and I was just there on the bed sort of just chilling. Also didn't want to go to the hospital because I was just going to walk it off but my mom was like "are you sure?"
Also in 2019 I got a concussion at work. Told someone the next day because it was still hurting but I still worked that day. About three days after I hit my head I went to the hospital because I still had the pain. I literally tried to walk off a concussion.
Normally I can get cut, bruised or injured in any way, fractured both my kneecaps at the same time and continue walking around I still haven't gotten them checked out about 10 years later. But I have the weakest veins ever, needles hurts when going into my veins, it's terrible.
I'm a t10 complete paraplegic. My toe nails had to be taken off due to them causing infections. So get to the docs place to do it and he is talking about numbing everything. I remind him I cant feel anything so just pull them out. He did it and afterwards admitted that doing it like that really freaked him out ! On pain, yes, I use pain pills, they only help a little.
I wish I had a higher pain tolerance. I hate chronic osteoarthritis and sciatica. Also herniated disc🤦🏻♀️
Being impervious to Lidocaine is a thing. I just got a root canal this afternoon (my 7th) and had to talk the endodontist through my inability to be numbed completely. He didn't believe me. I wasn't numbed completely. I told him to just keep going. I had to have surgery earlier this year and because the cuts had to go really deep past the dermis and adipose, I had to go under general anesthesia. I couldn't have tolerated no local anesthesia for those cuts.
two security people had to pick me up for a shot
i used to work in a factory producing car parts, i was spot welding big flat pieces of metal (we called them " TV screens" since it was a hole in the middle of it. keep in mind these things were around 1.5x1.5m so hard to handle due being big and thin metal). anyhow i accidently dropped it on my arm while i was carrying it and it dug deep into my arm. at first i just thought it was a scracth but pretty much had peeled skin off halfway. i look at it and sighs, walk up to my boss and asks where the medical supplies is, for a moment he got confused untill he looked on my arm. i just casually went and patch myself up, drove to the ER and let them sew me up. The doctors were suprised that i was so calm and barely in pain at all.
A few weeks before my mother's 63rd birthday she went for a walk in the Peak District - the weather was nice, and she was regaining some strength after her cancer treatment a couple of years previously. Some miles into her walk she got a funny twinge in her ankle that threw her off balance, but the only place to fall was off the side of the hill. She rolled down the steep incline, bouncing off trees and rocks before finally landing in a river, where she banged her head. Before she lost consciousness and drowned she managed to haul herself out onto the bank. With her glasses broken and her sandwiches wet through, she decided to call it a day, and started back the way she came. The railway station from which she had started her walk was somewhere small and rural with an infrequent service, so she took the first train that arrived, even though it was going in the wrong direction, just for the sake of reaching somewhere with more people, in case she should need help. Evidently she decided that she could manage without assistance, because she proceeded to change trains at Manchester and at Sheffield before arriving back home in Nottingham, where she then walked across town to catch the bus instead of paying for a taxi direct from the station. She changed out of her wet, muddy clothes and THEN said to me, "I think I've broken my leg." A late night taxi ride to the A&E confirmed this. When I asked her why she didn't ring for the air ambulance immediately after her fall, she shrugged, "I'm not sure my phone was working, and anyway I didn't want to end up in hospital in Manchester."
Omg
12:00 when i was in patient in a phych hospital there was a guy who fell asleep face down outside after crashing on meth and had sunburn boils 3 inches in diameter and one inch tall. Most painful looking thing ive seen.
The femur one had me remembering how much that stuff hurts. I'm thankful I just had a fracture, but putting just a little pain on it made it hurt like the devil. When they moved my leg for x-rays I wanted to scream like crazy because of it, but kept my mouth shut.
My 7/10 pain was when I had period cramps so bad, I almost passed out and vomited simultaneously. My friends didn't take my seriously anytime I mentioned I had cramps, they'd just blow me off.
My family has a history of endometriosis and other gynocological issues.
My 8/10 was when I bled from my urethra, and constantly needed to pee for 2 days. I, once again, nearly passed out and vomited. I think I was passing a few small kidney stones, like several grains of sand.
7:40 literally meeeee
18:20
This story reminds me of the time my family went to Mammoth Cave. We were in Cave city, which is basically the Wisconsin Dells of Kentucky, and me and my siblings wanted to check out the bumper boats. The guy manning the bumper boat station had at least 1 amputated finger. While me and my siblings were on the boats, my parents asked the guy what happened. Apparently he lost the fingers in an accident at his workplace. The people at the hospital offered to reattach the fingers, but he said no because, quoting my parents who retold the story, “ they could only reattach the finger pointing out forever, but he figured that it would be really hard to punch a person with his finger sticking out”
I can’t remember if my parents were making this up, or being serious, or if the whole conversation was n my head. So read this with a text warning
11:18 : this Finn has had the most Kimi Raikkonen-esque reaction I can imagine, just add a "Bwoah..." and/or a "I know what to do" and I might have believed you if told he was Raikkonen himself.
Anyway, as a person with ZERO pain tolerance (I volunteered for a Serological COVID Test despite knowing it, and just by the highest amount of self-control I've ever used in my life I've not erupted into screaming when the needle pierced throught my skin... All of this just for an hole small enough, barely a drop of blood came out!) I wonder how can some people conversely stand such pain levels.
My question is Why tf would they send out a little girl broken in half out to another hospital an.hour away without first giving her pain meds. That's just sickening
I'm done. This whole thread triggered me with these doctors and nurses