Not impressed with that article which is probably as much the BBC sensationalising things as anything else.
I used to have a stupidly high pain threshhold as a child, to the point where I'd have major surgery and need zero pain relief afterwards. The doctors and nurses could not believe I didn't need it, so generally dumped me on lose dose paracetamol just in case.
I have noticed as I have got older and the frequency at which the doctors were cutting me up dropped dramatically, so did my pain threshhold. I don't know if that's an age thing, are children more resilient? Or whether it's other factors like 'awareness' and 'expectation' of pain.
I think that article has been over simplified (by the BBC) and I would be more interested to see the original paper and of course the research methodologies behind it. Someone's already slated the sample size, and I would want to know detailed wossnames of the participants' medical and pain related history. They would be better using some kind of neurological response or heartrate increase/sweaty palms indicator of pain.
I don't know much about pain, but making people feel stupid or bad because they are more sensitive is not good pain management. I spent 2 weeks in a rehab unit for my shoulders 2 years ago. 80% of the people were there with chronic and long term pain. Many of these people were helped by a variety of methods hich did not include belittling people or making them feel 'to blame'. I would estimate 90% of these people had improvements to their overall pain level and continued to improve even after their treatment.
What we need is more pain research and larger and more accessible pain management services. Not crappy BBC making misleading headlines for their own gain.
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Date: 2005-07-04 06:36 pm (UTC)I used to have a stupidly high pain threshhold as a child, to the point where I'd have major surgery and need zero pain relief afterwards. The doctors and nurses could not believe I didn't need it, so generally dumped me on lose dose paracetamol just in case.
I have noticed as I have got older and the frequency at which the doctors were cutting me up dropped dramatically, so did my pain threshhold. I don't know if that's an age thing, are children more resilient? Or whether it's other factors like 'awareness' and 'expectation' of pain.
I think that article has been over simplified (by the BBC) and I would be more interested to see the original paper and of course the research methodologies behind it. Someone's already slated the sample size, and I would want to know detailed wossnames of the participants' medical and pain related history. They would be better using some kind of neurological response or heartrate increase/sweaty palms indicator of pain.
I don't know much about pain, but making people feel stupid or bad because they are more sensitive is not good pain management. I spent 2 weeks in a rehab unit for my shoulders 2 years ago. 80% of the people were there with chronic and long term pain. Many of these people were helped by a variety of methods hich did not include belittling people or making them feel 'to blame'. I would estimate 90% of these people had improvements to their overall pain level and continued to improve even after their treatment.
What we need is more pain research and larger and more accessible pain management services. Not crappy BBC making misleading headlines for their own gain.
Natalya