Do you have trouble tolerating physical discomfort?

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I've had chronic allergies & nasal drips throughout my life so I'm kind of used to em thou I do take medication for em daily. I can tolerate colds about as well as anyone but they tend to hit me fast & hard & don't last long. I have a low tolerance to heat & cold. & I don't like being tickled & am very ticklish.

I have always found it difficult to tolerate physical discomfort of any kind and make a difficult patient. The thought that a particular pain might not go away quickly or be the precursor to something worse quite frightens me. So the time I spent in the army was difficult, to say the least. What military life taught me, however, was how to make myself comfortable in trying situations and thus avoid pain.

Not really. You sort of get used to it living with chronic pain.
Though two things I do not tolerate well at all are heat and IV needles.
Really, the feeling of having anything under my skin drives me crazy. It's so hard to fight the urge to just rip it out.

I actually have a rather high tolerance for psychical pain. like a sore throat won't bother me, unless it becomes strep throat. A headache won't bother me ether, unless it became a migraine. I can deal with psychical pain. It's emotional and psychological pain that I have a really hard time dealing with.

No. By last night I had slept only 11 hours the previous 3 nights combined and was exhausted... but I went out for a non-stop 9km run at 10:30pm because my goals > a little temporary physical discomfort.

As for the medical symptoms you describe, I used to have all of those things - except the anger at them. Now I'm MUCH healthier and almost never get any of those things. I used to take 2-3 24h allergy pills a day for years on end.. now I haven't taken an allergy pill in over 2 years.

Also, I just wanted to point out that IMO it's very likely that a part of the reason it takes you so long to recover from illness, ironically, is because you get so angry at being ill. Emotions influence healing in a much bigger way than most people acknowledge. If you were calm and cool and present about accepting your situation as it is, you'd very likely recover much, much, faster.

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Yes, I can barely stand to brush my hair. This caused major battles between my mother and me when I was a kid. It also makes me crazy to have hair (even one) touching my face. Now I have it very short. Another thing I have no tolerance for is itching. I am extremely allergic to mosquitoes, and sometimes a few bites make me so miserable that I can't think about anything else. (Then I take Benadryl and am groggy for the next 18 hours).

I have great trouble tolerating physical discomfort, even something as mild as having to go pee while I'm trying to do something else is irritating. I never really get used to anything. Sometimes my clothes piss me off and I have to get home and completely strip naked to find some relief then I'm cold. Very particular about what I wear and I have to "warm up" to new clothing. Also when in any kind of pain even mild it seems to occupy my whole perspective. Last year I had a corneal abrasion and it was a pretty bad one. I was on my knees every time I blinked and basically had to lay down with a cool cloth on my face which pissed me off because I couldn't do anything else but lie there.

coupled with pretty bad coordination I've had some gruesome injuries to overcome which I won't describe here but suffice it to say I'm much more careful in similar situations now. I'm also Sensory seeking where I need deep body movements, heavy weights, etc. to calm myself otherwise I can feel very spacy and empty in my body. Sometimes my legs just don't work right and I sort of throw them around like I'm half paralyzed to get the inner sensation back so I can walk properly again.

Good topic.

I have a relatively high pain threshold so the little things don't bother me...thankfully. My shoulders have been hurting for the past 6 years but I'm able to tolerate it well enough. On the other hand I absolutely hate heat and will be in a bad mood on a hot day. Clothes tend to stick to my skin, the air feels close and sometimes heavy, and I get a little heliophobic so going outside can really be a bit of a problem.