ieatcrayonz Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 link A Stanford study about women being afraid of pain......I wonder if a former Bills QB was one of the subjects. I wonder if the stats were counted as male, female or as part of the control group.
Jauronimo Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 The study concluded that women might report less pain if they "listened better." Fascinating.
Beerball Posted January 23, 2012 Author Posted January 23, 2012 The study concluded that women might report less pain if they "listened better." Fascinating. Thanks, I'll amend the title.
Beerball Posted January 23, 2012 Author Posted January 23, 2012 Rub some dirt on it. Thanks, I'll amend the title.
Jim in Anchorage Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 "But for some conditions, such as hernia and high blood pressure, women reported average increases of about one pain-scale point over men suffering the same ailment." High blood pressure is painful?
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 "But for some conditions, such as hernia and high blood pressure, women reported average increases of about one pain-scale point over men suffering the same ailment." High blood pressure is painful? They don't call it the loud, excruciating killer for nothing.
UConn James Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 And men playing "macho" might downplay their pain severity to others, especially to female nurses. Yeah, when I was bitten by a pitbull-mix on the hand earlier this year, it didn't hurt so badly at the ER. I think I said it was a 3 or 4. And then that night it was the worst pain of my life, and I don't live a protected existence b/c I do a lot of tradework. I just wonder how my pup got through it so well, because he got the worst of it because it (and another dog) was going right for his throat and I got bit trying to alternately push them off of us. They gave me a hydrocodone Rx and that didn't even begin to touch it so I stopped that on Day 2. Maybe that was wrong-headed. But I don't like painkillers on general principles. Very much a 'Man up!' kind of person.
Jim in Anchorage Posted January 23, 2012 Posted January 23, 2012 They don't call it the loud, excruciating killer for nothing.
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