Pain tolerance poll
I was wondering how everyone's pain tolerance was on here.
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Overall pain tolerance (1-10) =
Needles and blades =
Heat =
Cold =
Pressure =
Other pain =
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Needles and blades =
Heat =
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Pressure =
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For instance, I have a high pain tolerance among friends and family, I half implanted my magnets without pain killers, I walked around with a broken leg for a while, played with a broken collarbone, etc.
So my 10 would probably amount to having both of my legs crushed by a building (as an example) but someone else's may be breaking a finger.
Also depends on experience. Old mate that breaks his finger and passes out may be friends with someone who passes out with a paper cut, so therefore he has a very high pain tolerance compares to him. So he's a 10, his mate is a 1, etc.
See what I mean?
Overall pain tolerance (1-10) = 6
Needles=3 nope.
blades =7-9 based on the blade and where.
Heat =7. Hate the heat love playing with fire....not a pyro
Cold =10. I live in Maine and on the ice all winter fishing....lotsa frozen body parts.
Pressure =8. Not sure of the reference I'm think person standing on you.
Other pain = grin, grind teeth, hit. In that order based on what and who.
Example my hand RFID to me hurt more then most things that have happened to me but I also am VERY hesitant/scared of needles. Knives on the other hand I don't flinch.
Only thing worse to me then the needle was my destroyed knee when it happened(dislocated patella, torn everything).
Needles = 4 - 5 They don't really hurt overly much, but the psychological aversion I have to needles makes it difficult to use or have them used on my person in the first place)
Heat = 10 Excluding hot (scalding) water, I've got a borderline ridiculous tolerance for heat and humidity. Wearing winter clothes in mid to upper 90 degree (Fahrenheit) weather at 70-80% humidity whilst doing fairly strenuous manual labor.
Cold = 6 - 7 I don't really have enough body fat or muscle to stay warm when it really gets cold, and my outer digits get stiff if they don't stay fairly warm
Pressure = 6 - 7 I don't really have a lot to compare this to.
Needles and blades = 7 the pain of a needle doesn't faze me, but like @TheGreyKnight, the psychological aversion of it bugs me. As far as cuts, I board a lot and have had a fair share of cuts and scrapes.
Heat = 6 I deal with fire a lot, but I've never had serious burns,
Cold = 8 I've done a lot of outdoor winter work.
Pressure = 5 I'm comparing this to the feeling of having a broken wrist, and how much pressure I would put into trying to push on something with that hand. Not going to happen.
Other pain = 9 for taking hits. I played high school football and advanced pretty far in wrestling so I feel pretty confident about taking hits or similar pain.
It's somewhat like a dick measuring contest where we haven't specified exactly what a dick is, and haven't set a specific unit of measure to use.
There' my baseline.
Overall pain tolerance in standard dick-pain units: 4. That's four needles simultaneously to the dick.
Needles and blades in standard dick-pain units: 6.
Heat in standard dick-pain units: 3.
Cold in standard dick-pain units: 8. I live a couple hours south of the US/Canada border.
Pressure in standard dick-pain units: 2. I can't imagine more than 2 in standard dick-pain units of crushing force.
Other pain in standard dick-pain units: ?. I have never had my dick tazed or otherwise electrocuted so I have no standard for this tolerance.
No offense to @MagneticJacob. I see what you're trying to do here and it's cool but there's not a standard people can safely expose themselves to. Mythbusters did a segment on this soft of thing and found some people at a 1 and some people beyond the safety realm of the test.
But this got people talking and I had a few laughs so maybe it did something better than originally intended.
Needles and blades = 9 i dopn't feel that kinda objects. Not very sensitive to it (a friend of mine piched me with a needle on my shoulder and found it was a bit like scratching
Heat = 3 i can support it but i hate it so much
Cold = 7, and getting beter with age
Pressure = don't know how to measure it.
Other pain = depends on which. I don't feel teeth pain, and it's a problem. Didnt feel my teeth diying because i did'nt feel any pain. Also veryy resistant to headaches.
Heat=8
Cold=2 (15 degrees is freezing to me) if everywhere, 5 if local
Pressure=7 (I am able to tolerate a spring clamp on a testicle cord for an hour, a needle is worse than that to me)
Other pain=4
Needles and blades are about 6 times as painful as a spring clamp on a testicle cord for an hour (don't ask).
Getting burnt is .5-.8 of my unit.
Cold is 4 of my unit.
Needles and blades = 8, I've never had a problem with handling needles or blades, even when I was really young. If I get a deep cut (I treat it obviously), it really just feels like a paper cut once the initial adrenaline fades.
Heat = 3, despite being raised in a place where it's vaguely warm year round, and being a pyromaniac, burns sting the worst for me. I have to put some kind of cream on them and take a few tylenols just for them to be fairly tolerable.
Cold = 8, I love the cold, and it's very easy for me to handle. I'd much prefer being in a cold environment than being in an overly hot one.
Pressure = 6, I have really bad lungs and sometimes it feels like a continuous really awful pressure on them. It's helped with me being able to handle it but it still hurts like shit.
Other pain = 7, I can stand most pains but headaches really get to me. Migraines run in the family.