How does one build tolerance for pain?

[WITCHCRAFT]

Work in a restaurant and lift weights. Works for me.

[Tennenoth]

Nice man, plus i know what it means, really cool

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this is my inner arm after shading session, took pics every day same time for a week. The second day it my arm was double the size.

the thing about tattos is how sensitive your skin is and where the tattoo is done and how, i have loooots of shading and the same wounds had to be worked on again and again and thats whats killing me.

Don't brush your teeth often? 

I'm a girly-man and not a fan of tattoo's but I wanted to make the comment about the tooth brush too much to care!

My "Tattoo" It still won't look like a normal scar, bad lighting is due to the fish tank:

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On that point as well, I can feel nothing on the left hand side of my knee from where the scar is. After asking a doctor about why it is only the left hand side, apparently the nerve network runs from left to right, so where they cut through to the ligaments, they cut the nerves off on the left hand side. Weirdly, now that I am gaining some feeling back, no matter where on the left hand side of my knee something touches, I feel it right down the scar. That's an odd sensation and I must say that it hurts like buggery, probably the worst pain I've ever felt, when I kneel on a hard surface, soft surface, like a bed, pillow or padded seat, all well and good, otherwise, seering pain right down the scar.

So, the nerve network is quite a large factor I suppose, if, as someone says, you break it, you feel less, but I don't recommend doing it since after a year or so, it hurts worse than before. On another note, I suppose once again it depends on the thing that is inflicting the pain, pressure sets my knee off while if I knocked it on something, I feel nothing, sustained I suppose.
Also, on the note of the "lego brick to the sole", according to that programme I watched, your chin/tongue/mouth, hands (particularly fingertips & palm) and the feet (particularly the sole) all have the largest network of "sensitivity", so I would assume that pain to those, although probably not life-threatening, is more severe since they're areas that the body uses practically all the time.

Still against pain, avoid it at all costs! Run away or something! ;)

[Prpavi]

Oh snap Tenne how did you get that scar? looksquite painfull.

p.s. I do was my teeth lol my shelf is tilted a bit so the brush always finishes in the same position.

[Molly]

Oh snap Tenne how did you get that scar? looksquite painfull.

p.s. I do was my teeth lol my shelf is tilted a bit so the brush always finishes in the same position.

Tilted board? Now that is an excuse that is very creative - props for that, Prips
Tho it's nearly as weird as Tenne even noticing x)

And yea, that scar looks pretty nasty, how long is this OP behind you? The scar-tissue looks weirdly strong and built-up... I've seen some scars over the years I worked as Rescue Assistant and your knee looks... odd 

Nervepains are prolly the worst that can happen to someone. Not necessarily by the intensity of pain but cuz there aren't any "good" ways to treat those. I would go mad over those.
I can handle flesh wounds, even breaking stuff but I go nuts when I have strong headaches... bleeding things, I can rest those comfortable, I can treat the wound but headaches? They are just there and I can't do really something about the pain.

At the end every living being experiences pain differently. Most people just keep going with headaches and shrug the shoulders - personally, headaches can render me completely useless (yes, even more useless as I am w/o them  )

[Prpavi]

Tilted board? Now that is an excuse that is very creative - props for that, Prips
Tho it's nearly as weird as Tenne even noticing x)

haha well i tried, you got me, i wash my teeth only on holidays like christmas and easter. soon ill be taking a 2nd shower this year also woooo christmas time kicks ass!

oh yeah i also haz headaches, more neck aikes my neck is fucked up from hockey (2 dislocated dunno their names, little thingies your spine is made of), so is my shoulder and my tail bone (cant sit in one position for a longer periods)

yeeeey for sports !

[IR_Kuoin]

Remember when I played hockey and me and my friend managed to trap NuuK in the goal and stated poking him with our hockey sticks

[Teeth]

Having a sadistic older brother when growing up.

[Dezilagel]

Having a sadistic older sister when growing up.

fix'd

[Kafein]

I'm a sadistic younger brother myself.

[B3RS3RK]

Lol... Are you serious? If you really believe that a stubbed toe hurts more than that tattoo... well, my advise: Stay away from any Tattoo-Studio 

I already have a tattoo in that exact location, so I do know what Im talking about.

and on a normalized scale stubbed toe is a very high rank for me, sure, the pain is gone relatively fast, but it hurts like a motherfucker.Yo ucan trust me that iam not bullshitting you when I say I have gone through shitloads of pain in my young life already most other people dont go through even if they live to be 80 or more, and I have a big library of different kinds of pain, of which, in intensity, stubbing my little toe on furniture(hard)is at least a 7-8.

[Tennenoth]

Oh snap Tenne how did you get that scar? looksquite painfull.

p.s. I do was my teeth lol my shelf is tilted a bit so the brush always finishes in the same position.

Tilted board? Now that is an excuse that is very creative - props for that, Prips
Tho it's nearly as weird as Tenne even noticing x)

And yea, that scar looks pretty nasty, how long is this OP behind you? The scar-tissue looks weirdly strong and built-up... I've seen some scars over the years I worked as Rescue Assistant and your knee looks... odd 

Nervepains are prolly the worst that can happen to someone. Not necessarily by the intensity of pain but cuz there aren't any "good" ways to treat those. I would go mad over those.
I can handle flesh wounds, even breaking stuff but I go nuts when I have strong headaches... bleeding things, I can rest those comfortable, I can treat the wound but headaches? They are just there and I can't do really something about the pain.

At the end every living being experiences pain differently. Most people just keep going with headaches and shrug the shoulders - personally, headaches can render me completely useless (yes, even more useless as I am w/o them  )

Hahaha, I have to agree, a creative excuse! I would have said that it was someone else in the house or something along those lines. Anyway, I only noticed it since the only thing, other than the rough location of the picture, that changed was the arm and the tooth brush jumped out at me.

As for the scar, it's from when I became road kill, I tore one of my cruciate ligaments and the surgeons cut me up and pinned it all back together with 6 screws. I have a couple of smaller scars on my left shoulder where they put metal rods to keep my shoulder together, sadly my body rejected those and they came back through the skin and I had "Wolverine shoulder spikes" for a time being, that was an odd sensation. Anyway, the picture was taken about 6 months ago while the whole incident is coming up to two years ago. (21st January 2011 is when it all happened). I'll point out again that it wasn't my fault I was hit, I crossed on a green pedestrian light and she drove straight through, hence why if I join the Byzantium teamspeak channels I am the butt of many a "well spoken car joke"! ;)
I'm not sure why the scar-tissue is like that but it hasn't changed since the picture was taken, it doesn't make a difference to me though!

[Zlisch_The_Butcher]

Still against pain, avoid it at all costs! Run away or something! ;)

I knew I shouldn't have believed it when people said you didn't run away! my old friendcher!

[Rumblood]

Having a sadistic older brother when growing up.

When I was 12, I used to take my 4 younger brothers and sisters (11, 9, 8, and 6), force them into the middle of a sheet and tie them up like a kerchief. Then roll the (loose) knot into the middle of a 2nd sheet and tie that one, repeat with the 3rd sheet, and a blanket, so that the knots were on opposite sides. Then tell them to get out. I did tell them not to panic or they would use up all of the air. I cured them of claustrophobia (well maybe they didn't have it, but they sure didn't have it after that *lesson*)
When they tried to rebel as a group, I would stack them all on top of each other with the oldest on the bottom and sit on them until they agreed to cooperate against the last one to agree 

At least I wasn't as bad as an older cousin who taught me to swim by taking me out into water over my head on a raft, dumping me off and taking the raft to shore and telling me to learn to swim RIGHT NOW or drown 

[isatis]

Best way : work as a swimming teacher for children...
You know, the moment when the parents are asking you what have you done last night... and you just say nothing... but you should have cut your children's nails last night...
those children... I do not want to drown them!! why do they have to pierce my poor skin each time???
anyway... now I can do my whole lesson with children biting, cutting and scratching me


Or, my personnal favorite (you might get a little bit crazy just warning) :

first : you dissociate yourself in two entities.
second : you start to feel only with one part of you and the second is to think
third : you place the pain in the other part (sensing part)
fourth : you use the thinking part
fifth : profit!

this work rather well with cold, hot (it's with hot that I discovered that... working as a lifeguard on hot summer is cool!) and annoying people!
It's an escape basically!
only problem is that you'll start to be two at the same time. You'll be rather lunatic and the reality will start to be distorted...

If you manage it well you'll be ok! Some people will think you take drugs, but you won't need those thing!

[Joseph Porta]

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