How do you react to pain?

[IamQ]

I either swear aloud and grunt or do nothing. I haven't really had a super serious injury in quite a while, so I've got no idea how I would react to, say, having a bowling ball dropped on my foot.

7) People who become VERY angry when injured, for no apparent reason.

I'm actually one of these at times. I'll try my best to explain it.

For me I think it's almost like I want to rage more. I hit stuff to make it hurt on purpose, to get me more mad.

Okay, I'll be honest, I have no frikkin' idea how to explain it.

 

[Particulate]

Swearing usually, varying in volume and profanity depending on the severity of pain.

 

[dave1004]

If it's bad...I'd probably...No, most definitely cry.

If it's minor (Stubbed toe, cuts), I don't notice them.

Never broken a limb before, even though I've done some pretty stupid things. Strangest part is I hate milk, and rarely consume any milk products. Maybe it's the almonds.

 

[Tonimata]

I mostly fall into 6 and 8, but I would also like to add category

9) People who endure pain for the greater good...

...into which I fall too, since recently I was intervened at a hospital without sedation.

Having needles stabbed into your stomach and through your abdominal muscles ain't fun...

 

[thylasos]

"Ow. Ow. Ow. (Feck./Christ.)" Then I get on with stuff. If it's a cut, I might find a plaster and some duct tape.

 

[emeraldrafael]

I laugh. its something I've always had, ever since I first came home hurt and was able to rationally express why. My grandfather told me that when he was young, his father told him to think of something funny and the laughter would easy the pain. So i started doing that, and now I laugh when Im pain. Which usually makes someone try harder to hurt me.

Its actaully scared people though. they'll see me taking blows laughing, then I'll just keep laughing while I return them. The word crazy has been thrown around a lot.

 

[Kapri]

Depends on how bad. If it's something minor then eh, whoopdy doo. If it's bad: lotsa swearing.

 

[dark-mortality]

I give a very sigh-like 'Ahh' the first moment, after that, if it is not severe (Like broken bones) I move on with my day. Heck, I am sometimes stupid enough to finish my day even if I damage myself pretty badly.

But yeah, it's a moment of realization, then trying to ignore the pain as much as possible.

 

[Suicida1 Midget]

Combo of one and eight.

 

[Kenjitsuka]

Well it really depends. I can *feel* even the slightest pain right away, like evolution intended. But then I stubbornly refuse to acknowledge it needs any attention because I'm too afraid of human interaction to 'bother' an ER or MD...

This nearly killed me when I put up with bacteria in my pre-frontal cavity crushing my brains for three days before going to the ER. The pain had kept me up for three straight days, the doctor said it was the worst pain you can feel (the brain very, very being slowly crushed). If I'd arrived half an hour later not even emergency surgery would've saved me. And this was two years after I limped around on a severe hipbone problem for 18 days that nearly left me in a wheelchair for life :O

 

[Aidinthel]

I like to think I'm pretty stoic, but then I haven't really experienced any serious pain so there's no way to know for sure.