Just a Little Observation - Reaction to Pain

This is me. I barely feel pain. My wife will walk into the bed and have to sit down sobbing. I do the same thing and find it funny. I once tried to hold a bit of wood between my knees while I drilled a hole in it. Only the drill bit snapped and went into my leg up to the chuck. I just pulled it and carried on. 

Sadly not! I am also terrified of needles >___< I usually breathe slowly and deeply to try and calm myself down but it's still scary lol

Actually, given my medical phobias this issue worries me a great deal...

My pain seems to swing between extremes. After my c-section the midwives couldn't believe I didn't want pain killers. The same after tooth extraction; my husband was given some heavy duty ones to give me, I was in a MH crisis over it, but no pain.

AND YET, the smallest things can leave me reeling in an agony out of all proportion to the situation. They had to abandon cleaning my teeth last week due to sensitivity pain. My mother can remember me screaming as a kid over small hurts.

More than once doctors have asked me to describe pain. I describe it, but it never seems to be the answer that want and just keep asking 'what sort of pain?'.

Not being able to interpret pain, I can is potentially serious. I could either be dismissed as being hystriconic, or a serious issue could be missed, because I'm either feeling too much or too little pain.

can u do that when someone is about to inject u with a needle  ? that the one thing that scares me and have to look away and start a mantra LOL

I have a whole kit ready for such accidents.

sorry i have very few boundaries as well 

but thats me lol

I have weird reactions to pain sometimes - sometimes I don't feel it at all and only feel it afterwards when I get a bruise or a blister. I can sometimes switch it off if I am distracted by other things.

OW. Ow, ow, ow.  Why on earth would you sew your own hand? What about BACTERIA?? On an island, sure, better than the alternative but...

You know what, I can't talk.  I've signed myself out of A&E before barely stable because my car was in the wrong place.

i am going in tomorrow for an operation on my broken thumb. When it happened i tried sowing the cut myself. I have done this before when stuck on an island with no communication.  I do have a very high pain thing going on which is not good because i have continued to use badly damaged bits before and ended up in intensive care due to the infection which occurred.

I have learned to stop doing things myself now and go to A&E etc / Doctor / GP / Surgeon.

this must be in my medical notes somewhere because they ( the surgical team )  took me into a room and talked to me about not using my hand for a while and they were concerned i was self harming ! they asked "did you  cut yourself deliberately ?"  ehhh NO 

then the lecture went something like....

"stop using this hand ! do not move it,  do not take of the cast off, do not drive your car or your motorbike or your bicycle or do manual work, no fighting, no rescue missions, no helping people stuck in things etc etc etc "

OK OK  I promise ( fingers crossed ) LOL

Yeah I think a big part of pain tolerance is how you're brought up and your environment my house for my whole life has always been hot my mum leaves the heating on the time my heat tolerance is high but I cannot stand the cold at all.

But I thought that the reaction to pain could differ between NT and ND because of how are brains our different from NT's but as you said it would be hard to measure because pain is subjective and you could do the same thing to two people and one might be really hurt and the other not so much

I would say I'm weird that way.  I shout at the *anticipation* of pain, but I don't really feel it that bad.  It's like I've always been expected to shout out, so I always do, even when it's nothing.  I'd say I have a reasonably high pain tolerance but that it takes 3 times more local anaesthetic on me than normal, my cold tolerance is through the roof and I have basically no heat tolerance.  However, correlation does not equal causation and all that could be simply because I am from The North, or just random genetics or epigenetics.

High pain tolerance is listed as a possible symptom in various places but it's just far too subjective and subject to too many confounding factors to be a provable theory.

Thanks

I think some people react to pain more than others not just autistic thing. I tend to swear .