Ouch!!!!

I've just returned from having two injections (typhoid and Hep. A), and my left arm, where I had the typhoid injection, is in agony...I can barely move it and it is all tense! I had these because I am off to India for 23 days on the 22nd...

The pain is horrible!

Reply 1

Elles

17

pain is merely a percept. :wink:

that probably isn't very comforting..sorry. :p:

but presumably jabs will be worth it?

Reply 2

JrW

OP

14

no seriously. it impossible for my arm to be comfortable...the feeling is perculiar; not striking, but sort of weak yet horribly consistent.

Reply 3

Mrs.Otis

sorry darling

Reply 4

Tyler Durden

17

I am having the injections too. I had typhoid/hep A a week ago. Just feels dead for a bit but it'll pass.

Reply 5

Elles

17

jamierwilliams

no seriously. it impossible for my arm to be comfortable...the feeling is perculiar; not striking, but sort of weak yet horribly consistent.

hmm, C fibre afferents perhaps.
& sorry, but seriously.. pain is a percept :p:

- now, where's that "nerd" smilie..

Reply 6

blissy

15

Elles

hmm, C fibre afferents perhaps.
& sorry, but seriously.. pain is a percept :p:

- now, where's that "nerd" smilie..

*wants to be at Elles's side screaming "pain is a percept" when she gives birth*

Reply 7

Elles

17

blissy

*wants to be at Elles's side screaming "pain is a percept" when she gives birth*

better work on toning up my peri-aqueductal grey pain modulation systems then or perhaps my limbic system.. :wink:

but seriously..i find pain interesting. :redface:

& the cases where people either have Chronic Insensitivity to it - or Asymbolia, where they just lack the emotional component to nociceptive input. & nociceptive input is very real, i know..no doubt jamierwilliams' arm is sending plenty of those afferents.. but the actual "pain" is a pretty complex brain-mind thing, not that that is much comfort, as i said.. :p:

Reply 8

LennonMcCartney

Err... that's nothing. I had my circumcision with ineffective anaesthetic. How do I remember the anaesthetic was ineffective? I was 11 when it happened. Now that was pain.

Reply 9

LennonMcCartney

lessthanthree

why in the name of god's underpants did you wait until 11?

Hehe, firstly, I had no choice in the matter, secondly, the anaesthetic should have worked. I was screaming in agony, and the stupid Mr. Circumcisor carried on regardless. Oh well, I guess, that's just life, eh?

Reply 10

Tyler Durden

17

LennonMcCartney

Err... that's nothing. I had my circumcision with ineffective anaesthetic. How do I remember the anaesthetic was ineffective? I was 11 when it happened. Now that was pain.