How can I build a higher tolerance to pain?!
Question: I honestly have this huge thing against like needles(kind of funny since I've gotten my first holes once.. my seconds twice and my cartlidge and I really dont mind them) and I just want to like build up a higher tolerance to pain
Answers: I honestly have this huge thing against like needles(kind of funny since I've gotten my first holes once.. my seconds twice and my cartlidge and I really dont mind them) and I just want to like build up a higher tolerance to pain
Good question and well done for raising the issue. None of us know what life has install for us, could be injections, could be car wreck, might be diabetes, might be arthritis? The one thing they all have in 'common' that dreaded word PAIN!
However until we are faced with a situation, we never really think about it, or say it will never happen to us, I am the chosen one, life is planned, every reason why we will never have pain comes to mind. Then one day, out of the blue, you are faced with PAIN and it is make or break time! Pain cannot be measured, so your pain from a injection could be ten on a scale of 1-10, while my pain from Rheumatoid Arthritis, comes in a five. What is the difference? Could a injection be 'more' painful than having RA for thirty odd years? It depends on the individuals pain threshold and tolerance to pain. Years ago when the Arthritis started it was the most extreme form of pain I have every experienced and so I would state it was 20 on a scale on 1-10! However over the years you get used to it, so now it hovers around the five mark. Why? RA has no cure! It will have it and pain until I die and I have to accept it, so next thing is to learn how to deal with it! What helps me is distraction techniques. I will say anything to anyone, depending on the level of pain! I will even talk to myself out loud. I will laugh at something that is not that funny, but to me is hilarious. I will pounce on everything and anything that I can use as a distraction from what I am 'feeling'. Even if it is as simple as counting back from one billion, or doing some mathermatical sum, 387 + 999 + 248 - 376 - 845 = Because when the brain is distracted, it is caught up in it's own little world, therefore it really does not have the 'time' to concentrate on the pain signals. Best of Luck
try stretching although i don't know why you would want to raise your pain tollarance
Just think to yourself, "Pain is fleeting. Whatever I'm feeling right now I won't even remember in an hour." And then grit your teeth and bear it.