last night

[zestfive]

I was walking down the steps and I must have stepped too close to the edge of the step, I slid down and fell back on my butt. Thankfully I didn't hit my head but I know I'm going to have a bruise on my butt and I wrenched my arm. Both are sore this morning but I'm pretty sure they're not as sore as they could be, I can mostly ignore it. 

Interesting about how some people can be so in tune with their aches and pains, I rarely notice. I wonder if it's because when I was a little kid, my mom's response to our physical complaints were often: "wait a couple of days, if it still hurts then let me know". Pains often went away...

Other folks I know, it seems, the minute they feel a pain, they've got to deal with it some how. When I had my breast reduction, I took a little bit of morphine in the recovery room and that was it. I filled my pain pills but never took any of them because I wasn't in pain. Don't get me wrong, I don't like pain but mostly I don't feel it. I have cramps on the first day of my period and sometimes I take tylenol on that day if I don't forget but after that I'm fine. I don't think I've ever felt myself ovulate but I know people who can feel that. 

Am I less sensitive or just oblivious?

Comments

[guihong.livejournal.com]

I'm the same way. A massive bruise can be a complete mystery. A cut can be pointed out, and I wouldn't have felt a thing.

I think I learned to tune out pains when I was a kid, also. I was expected to just get on with things. While it's useful, and I never wanted to malinger on anything, taken to an extreme I think we can neglect ourselves into serious illness or delbilitating problems. I've wondered if there's a connection between things that happened in childhood, and that ability to tune out of my body.

gui

[zestfive.livejournal.com]

I've wondered if there's a connection between things that happened in childhood, and that ability to tune out of my body.

I've often wondered the same thing!

[grltalk.livejournal.com]

I had my first kid with no anesthesia. 28 hours of labor and hours of pushing. I feel pain, for sure, but I have a high tolerance for it. I don't like the idea of narcotic pain pills. I've had a couple of oral surgeries where they gave me prescriptions, but I never filled them. Funny, my mom did that, too. Minimized our physical complaints. Maybe that's part of it.

[zestfive.livejournal.com]

yeah, when I had my son (after 2 failed inductions without anything) it was about 4 hours of labor, they did give me a little something to take off the edge as I was starting to hyperventilate. I think I've also gotten to the point where I don't like to feel outside of my "normal" state of mind.

[layitlarge.livejournal.com]

I'm the same. But I think mine is just being too stubborn to feel things and be still until they heal...so something keeps me going even if there is a little pain.

When I had my gallbladder out, I was working 3 days later, and mountain biking 2 weeks later. I just don't sit still is all.

[zestfive.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I also had my gallbladder out, I was up pushing a stroller 2 miles within 3 days.