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My biggest piercing for now is my septum, which is at 2g (1/4" - I like sticking 1/4" instrument cables and other fun objects through it to freak people out). I'd love to get my tongue bifurcated but there is nobody anywhere near me who will do it. Magnetic implants would also be cool. All of my mods are easy to hide, or people just don't notice them if I keep low-key jewelry in there.

If I get my lobes done, 6g will just be the starting size - I would definitely stretch them, I like stretching so much - and everything I've stretched is harder to stretch than lobes (septum and ear cartilage are all I've stretched - septum has been denting cartilage since 6g).

I have no tattoos yet - I'm not sure what I'd want to get.

I don't know about pain tolerance. When somebody hurts themselves in a way that I have experienced myself before, they explain the pain in exactly the way I have felt it, and they act in the same way as I would feel if I had that pain, so I think I just have the same sort of pain tolerance as anybody else. The only time I have been easily hurt was when I had a virus once, when I put my clothes on all the nerve cells in my skin suddenly started really hurting, as if I was standing in a prickly bush or something. But that was due to a virus I had, it doesn't happen otherwise.

I can tolerate things like heat and cold very well and strong forceful pains like impacts and broken bones but cuts and stinging sensations as well as itchy things drive me insane.

No problem with pain at all. I've had abdominal surgery without anesthetic, and also finished a work day with a compound broken finger bone sticking out through the skin. Both ears & both nipples pierced, and didn't bother me a bit.

And just to be clear; I'm not bragging or trying to be tough... Physical pain just doesn't affect me the way it apparently does most people. I feel it, but it's just another feeling like a pat on the back, or anything like that. Only exception is toothaches. Those make sort of an electric shock sensation which disrupts my ability to think. Otherwise, needles, knives, whatever... As long as it's for a medical cause, tell me what you're going to do, and do it. Any injury that I get, as long as I can be assured that it's not going to end my life, or make me crippled, I'll deal with it. I'm also immune to taser guns (proven that on a dare). as long as the darts don't go in my face or private area, of course.... If the darts hit in the leg, they can make me fall, but I'll wait out the battery life in the gun, and then I'm up again just fine.

Charles

Pretty much what Callista said -- it's inconsistent and weird. And I'm bad with internal pain, but in the sense that the pain signals don't seem to reach the conscious part of my mind in a clear way.

I.e. I never consciously feel stomachaches -- I always have to infer them from feeling bad in a vague, useless way and remembering what can cause them for me.

This morning I was in a bad mood for no reason, but when I drank some soy milk I quickly felt better. Then, I remembered that I took a lot of naproxyn yesterday (which can be bad if you have a sensitive stomach). So, I then took some pepto bismol and felt much better.

I had stomachaches for years when I took Adderal because it took a long time to realize that the "bad spells" were connected to that, and why pain killers (prescribed for other reasons) would help them even when I wasn't in pain.