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Has anyone else noticed that the way you experience pain is different when you get older?
When I was younger, pain was much more a separate sensation that anything else. It had character of its own, a sharp distinctiveness that I could clearly distinguish from the other many and sundry sensations I experienced.
Now, as I reach the venerable age of 23 (*snicker*), I'm finding that more and more often, pain is no longer an isolated sensation but joins at least one other as some form of sensory cocktail. Instead of having one really sharp pain, when I've done something REALLY stupid to myself, I get nauseous. I still feel pain but less than before, perhaps because there is a quota of feeling I can experience before I just can't process it anymore. It's the oddest thing; sometimes my vision will go all green and the world gets full of black spots; that happens only rarely and usually when I've royally fucked up my ankle playing basketball... When I messed up my wrist, same thing.
It would seem that pain has a threshold and that moreover, when things are truly serious, pain is no longer the correct sensation to feel, since it is but a guideline telling you that something is wrong. When the shit really hits the fan, pain seems to take a secondary role... And damnit, that's almost worse...
I'm done something terrible to my right knee and it hurts now; but it seems to be making me more nauseous than pained... and the damage that I did to my head today was marked by a throbbing headache, yes, but also nausea, dizziness and a profound sense of detachment from everything... it's like in Fight Night when you get walloped really good but don't go down, everything's wavering and you're fighting as hard to stay standing as you are to keep your guard up.
I am working on the assumption that this is not good and will be going to see a doctor in the near future... which blows, because I've spent so much time with doctors this year... knee problems, back problems, shoulder problems, ankle probles, tendon problems, nose problems... Ugh...
When I was younger, pain was much more a separate sensation that anything else. It had character of its own, a sharp distinctiveness that I could clearly distinguish from the other many and sundry sensations I experienced.
Now, as I reach the venerable age of 23 (*snicker*), I'm finding that more and more often, pain is no longer an isolated sensation but joins at least one other as some form of sensory cocktail. Instead of having one really sharp pain, when I've done something REALLY stupid to myself, I get nauseous. I still feel pain but less than before, perhaps because there is a quota of feeling I can experience before I just can't process it anymore. It's the oddest thing; sometimes my vision will go all green and the world gets full of black spots; that happens only rarely and usually when I've royally fucked up my ankle playing basketball... When I messed up my wrist, same thing.
It would seem that pain has a threshold and that moreover, when things are truly serious, pain is no longer the correct sensation to feel, since it is but a guideline telling you that something is wrong. When the shit really hits the fan, pain seems to take a secondary role... And damnit, that's almost worse...
I'm done something terrible to my right knee and it hurts now; but it seems to be making me more nauseous than pained... and the damage that I did to my head today was marked by a throbbing headache, yes, but also nausea, dizziness and a profound sense of detachment from everything... it's like in Fight Night when you get walloped really good but don't go down, everything's wavering and you're fighting as hard to stay standing as you are to keep your guard up.
I am working on the assumption that this is not good and will be going to see a doctor in the near future... which blows, because I've spent so much time with doctors this year... knee problems, back problems, shoulder problems, ankle probles, tendon problems, nose problems... Ugh...