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Does anybody else dissociate physical pain away?
If I experience pain, it can be pain of any kind but especially more intense pain, my brain tends to dissociate it either away completely or dissociate enough of it that it's significantly downgraded. This has its positives, I guess, but can be really tricky if you need to tell a doctor your symptoms or rate your pain 0-10.
My husband and others have often said I have a very high pain tolerance, it is only in recent years I have figured out why. I have recently been quite sick and experiencing a lot of pain and have discovered when talking to doctors/nurses in hospital I have to 'up' my rating of pain from the number rating I actually believe it is. Otherwise, they give me painkillers but the other symptoms of severe pain linger and I can be shaking and vomiting but not realising why. I think for me, my dissociative tendencies make diagnosis of any illness very difficult as I also forget about other symptoms.
If I experience pain, it can be pain of any kind but especially more intense pain, my brain tends to dissociate it either away completely or dissociate enough of it that it's significantly downgraded. This has its positives, I guess, but can be really tricky if you need to tell a doctor your symptoms or rate your pain 0-10.
My husband and others have often said I have a very high pain tolerance, it is only in recent years I have figured out why. I have recently been quite sick and experiencing a lot of pain and have discovered when talking to doctors/nurses in hospital I have to 'up' my rating of pain from the number rating I actually believe it is. Otherwise, they give me painkillers but the other symptoms of severe pain linger and I can be shaking and vomiting but not realising why. I think for me, my dissociative tendencies make diagnosis of any illness very difficult as I also forget about other symptoms.