Women no longer have the claim to the most pain resistance...birth~schmirth!

[Cath!]

After watching someone go through a radical prostatectomy (where the REMOVE the entire prostate gland) and having him not even utter a peep...I tip my hat to men.

Consider the fact that a woman goes into labor and then pretty much as soon as the baby pops out...her mind forgets how much pain she was in. Sure there is a bit of discomfort for a few weeks but big deal.

A man has an incision about 6 inches down the front of his belly to his pelvic bone...then the doctor goes in and rips out a huge chunk of his body, as well as surrounding tissues for the biopsy. He then gets stapled up and has to have a catheter for over a week or so while he lies around at home. He isn't allowed to lift or carry anything...he can barely walk...and he can't drive for three weeks, cause if he slams on the brakes too hard, he might tear something!

Youch! Give me birth any day...that is a pain I can tolerate!

 

[MissTaken]

By show of hands, how many men reading this are out there massaging their groins thinking

"No way! Not me! "


OUCH!

 

[paganangel]

well...

i was massaging my grion. does that alone count for anything?

 

[artful]

Opinion

The greatest of pains,are emotionally self inflicted ones.People are rarely capable of dealing with it,and they normally carry it with them on a daily basis throughout their life.Emotional pain can be delivered by others also,but it can usually be treated effectively by a number of remedies.

Whereas the self inflicted emotional pain has no specific intended target,it strikes male and female alike.

 

[WickedEve]

warning: graphic details

I don't think you can compare a man's pain with a woman's pain. You have to compare individual pains--male or female.
My second c-section became infected. Less than a day after coming home, I was back in the hospital. The doctor took out my stitches, and probed inside the open wound to see why I was bleeding so much. He thought there was an opening, and told me that he was afraid that "my guts would fall out." He did this without numbing me, no pain killers, nothing. I had to go through this several times. Each time, I was sent home the my c-section incision open and packed with gauze. I had nurses in my home for over a month. Layers of gauze had to be removed and replaced several times a day, and the wound cleaned. The pain was excruciating. I didn't complain. I asked to have my baby with me when they did it. I watched her and knew it was worth it.
After I healed, one of the nurses told me that it made her sick. She said it was the worse she had ever seen. You could see down to my uterus.
But I survived the pain. And I know others, male and female, have suffered more than I have. I think about family members I've watched die from cancer, and I know I'm lucky.

 

[Cocoa]

Yeah, that hurts!

but women have been having babies WITHOUT ANESTHETICS for thousands of years!

We still win!

 

[Gilly Bean]

Yeah, that hurts!

but women have been having babies WITHOUT ANESTHETICS for thousands of years!

We still win!

-shudders- been there, n done that. 2x now. I vote drugs. Lots of drugs.

 

[bluespoke]

Neither women nor men have a greater resistance to pain. Individuals may have higher pain thresholds than others and this is not dictated by sex.

To compare the pain of childbirth is a total waste of time, men do not bear children and therefore there can be no comparison.

I find the subject of one person's pain played against another's to be pretty boring. I speak as one who has suffered increasingly excrutiating nerve pain over the last thirty years. No drugs will touch the pain (except two that will eventually kill me) and no doctor has yet found any other solution.

Despite the pain I am acutely embarrassed when others offer me their sympathy as I can always find many people who are in a worse situation than me. I live in a free society, am not poverty stricken, am not starving and am not being persecuted in any way that I know of.

Whilst I would not wish to gloss over the suffering of others, physical pain is something that, in general, doctors can take care of. Mental pain , on the other hand, often goes unchecked for lifetimes.

If we spent a little time worrying about the pain of others this world might just be a little bit of a better place to live.