Pain tolerance

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i didn't know where to put this so:wut makes people have different levels of pain tolerance?is it something that you are born with or can it vary during your life?

I don't know what causes it; but it does vary according to age. A rather simplistic theory I heard is that we're born with a specific number of nerve endings; they tend to be highly concentrated when we are younger, but spread out as we grow. I don't have a source for that, but it does sound viable when you consider how little pain tolerance children have compared to adults.A second part of that theory says that at about age 40 nerve endings start to die off and dull, so by the time you're 70 or so, you may be unable to feel heat until it's at a dangerous level. (Some older folks have been very seriously burned in bathes because they believe the water is cold; when it is actually scalding hot)

it can also vary in your life depending on the pain you r exposed to....i personally have a very high pain tolerance...but i also had a seriouse knee injury and have been in and out of wheel chairs physical therapy and the oporating room on a fairly continus basis over the past 6 yrs.....and i can honestly tell you i can handel a hell of alot more than i could b4 my accident

Wish I knewI panic if I have no pain killers in the house in case I may need them

it seems to vary for me. I concider that I have a fairly high tolerance yet I just spent 3hrs under the tattoo gun on my chest and it nearly sent me through the roof.

Originally Posted By: unsupervisedit seems to vary for me. I concider that I have a fairly high tolerance yet I just spent 3hrs under the tattoo gun on my chest and it nearly sent me through the roof. I can relate to that. I've had my nipple pierced twice, navel pierced, had my stomach muscles cut, got a tattoo; all of which I did without complaint and yet when I got an earache from my tonsillectomy I thought I was going to die lol

OMG, Mr U....I previously (about 10 years ago) had a tattoo on my boob and it hurt and bled a bit. Just a few days ago I had my other boob tattooed and I thought I was going to cry. It hurt bad.

Since when did the coloring and shading part hurt as bad as the outline??? Since when did I become such a baby about pain? :confused:

Want some real tattoo pain? go ink your dick.I tried, more than once, I sat down, worked up the hard on required to get it inked, and as soon as that needle touched it it was gone. after 3 trys, I have one spot of ink on my cock.I was going to have it all overed in scales with a snake head over the head and the fangs coming down on each side of the pee hole. It then was supposed to come to the side of my bals and wrap around my leg a few times forming the border for the ink I already have on my calf, like a picture frame sorta and down to the tail that would be at my ankle. Just couldnt do it.Iv set my own broken bones (fingers and toes) Iv stiched closed my own wounds before I found super glue, I once freeclimbed some rock near my home and fell and hit the ground breaking my leg jsut above the ankle, I crawled back to my truck and managed to drive a stick to my house where I sat for 3 days before I gave up on being injured and decided it really was brokena and I needed to go to the hospital. Iv dislocated my shoulder and put it back in on my own, when I get hit I dont get hurt I jsut get pissed, I have a high tolerence for pain, but a needle in the dick, holy shit brutha, thats over my limit.

in the words of George Lewis of Tattoos by George, "dick tattoos are for fags"of course, this is the "artist" whos work resulted in a 7 hour cover-up tat years later... so you can take his opinion as you wish.

If I went to an artist and then had to go have his work covered up with 7 hours of new work, I wouldnt take anythign he said as any good, not when it came to tats.anyways from teh artist point of view I think it means that artists that give them are fags, unless of course it was a girl that was slinging the ink as was the case in my situation.

I have a high pain tolerance.

Just this last weekend I jammed the heck out of my finger. I was lifting a boat out of the water to drain it and there was another boat close to it on shore. When I got the boat moving up on shore (planning on sliding on top of the other boat) it fell just before the other boat and I ended up peeling the skin off the tip of my finger and now I have a blister bruise. All this without hardly any pain. lol

I geuss my tolerance stems from my early childhood when I would wake up crying with pain in my feet from not having good arch suport and jumping, running around like little ones do.

"it seems to vary for me. I concider that I have a fairly high tolerance yet I just spent 3hrs under the tattoo gun on my chest and it nearly sent me through the roof"I'm curios about thisI want to get a 2" x 2" tatt on my buttHow painful is it gonna beI obviously wont be able to pull out once it's started

Originally Posted By: buzzie69
I want to get a 2" x 2" tatt on my butt
How painful is it gonna be
I'm not imagining it being extreamely painful but I've only had my chest and arms worked on. 2x2 is also pretty small so should't take a very long time. You'll be ok

lets look at some shit, your ss isnt all that sensative, Im assuming it would be out on the cheeks and not in the crack.The more muscle you have or fat, what ever the less it hurts, whats so fucking painful is going over bones.My wrist and ribs hurt like a fucking dirty bastard, but my arms and place like that only hurt for a few minutes, after that the area went sorta numb, and even when it was hurting, it really wasnt all that bad. If I decided I wanted some ink on my ass, I wouldnt hesitate a second for fear of pain, Id just do it.

the work on my chest was pretty nasty when it got near my armpit and my nipple... but along my sturnum was fucking intense. Like a brave moron, I tried to keep talking as he was grinding in the deep colours. I think it must have sounded like talking on the phone to someone while their trying to nonchalantly squeeze out a loaf

Your lucky I dont have your number, I often call people when I shit and have run out of stuff to read.My nipple hurt like a bastard, the rest till we got over my ribs wasnt so bad, it hurt, but not like other areas Iv had inked.

good of you to ofeer to call me long distance to grunt in my ear

pffft I dont pay long distance, I have a single bill price each month on my cell unlimited minutes and unlimeted long distance, it may get pissy with me calling canada, I dont know how it likes international shit, but I call people all over the US when ever I feel like it because I like to think Im fucking my cell company a bit, making it worth my monthly bill.There is a girl who posted here once, about a year ago Iv known for fucking close to 7 maybe 8 years, I like to call her long distance when i shit because she flips out as soon as she realizes what Im doing. She often answers now with "Chance, are you in the bathroom again?"I need entertainment when I shit, if Im outta books or theres no magazines inthere an I already finished the shampoo bottle and conditioner directions, what else can I do?

LOL! I read the shampoo bottles and junk too...thought I was the only one.

Most pain I ever had was a kidney stone. Woke up at 4 AM feeling like somebody had stepped on my balls. I figured I injured myself in my sleep somehow and it would go away in 30 minutes or so. Wrong. I got up, showered and went to work since I couldn't sleep...where I proceeded to piss a deep orange color in the urinal. It was only then I figured out what was going on. Since then I've had 3 or 4 more episodes...the last one was the worst. Every time I ate something I felt like something was tearing up my guts. The bugger turned out to be about half an inch across.

I've got one tattoo, broken ribs, hands, arms and even my neck once...none of it even come close to a kidney stone.

We discussed the stones on another thread, Im with you, Id rather go through any of the shit Iv been through than pass another one, I waited to die, hoped to die to end that fucking pain.Ill read anything in the shitter, anything that I can get my hands on to read, if its a shampoo bottle or the liquid soap at the sink so be it, Iv read bubble bath, bath salts, womans day, cosmo, ingredients on a bar of irish spring. When I run out of shit to read, I grab my cell and call epoeple to entertain me.