Doctors, What Pain Tolerance Stories Surprised You? (Reddit Stories r/AskReddit)

a doctors and nurses have any of your patients surprised you with their amount or lack of pain tolerance a friend told me an old boy came in with a large laceration on his arm suturing it up took over an hour but can be quite fun as you can chat to the patients my friend was engrossed talking to him about his experiences in the Second World War and really enjoyed treating him the old chap was in good spirits throughout and told him lots of interesting stories about his time behind enemy lines or in trenches in Flanders after he put the last stitch in my friend started clearing up and found the local anaesthetic bottle and opened he realized he'd not put any local in at all and yet the guide didn't once flinch leave aside complain when asked why he didn't say anything he just said oh I thought that's how it's supposed to feel I didn't mind lovely chatting to you then walked out don't make em how they used to you gotta watch those old guys anybody of the generation that fought in Korea were World War two will get up and walk on two broken ankles for a chest x-ray tough guys a doctor here my intern year in residency I saw a 17 year old kid who when while playing hockey tried to stop a puck with a gloved hand it struck his fingertip injuring the base of his nail causing a significant deformity his nail bed needed repair which requires first for removing the nail that is done by bluntly separating the nails from the tissue below it if your stomach didn't turn reading that and imagining it congratulations you have no soul typically we use a numbing agent to eliminate sensation to the entire finger using something called a digital block I put it in after 10 minutes he still felt me touching his fingertip I tried putting some around the nail he still felt everything his mother said his father actually had a similar thing litter King didn't work on him I offered him a different numbing medicine we can inject benadryl in that casts or even knocking him out he looked at me in the eyes and said doc just take it off without anything yeah it's fine they fix our cuffs without numbing medicine but it's gonna hurt a lot I have to scrape I know so I went at it he grabbed a towel with his other hand and I went to work 45 minutes later the nail was off he was repaired and I replaced the nail in its rightful place the kid didn't even make a noise holy Frick I'm ready to puke just reading that oh my god fire medic here farmers seem to be tough one time a guy pulled into the front ramp got out of his truck and walked up holding his severed forearm in his other arm get him in the truck take off along the way he states he lived down the road and wanted to get to us quickly when asked why he didn't call 9-1-1 he replied I just cut my arm I ain't dying also had a battle of the Bulge vet tell me he didn't need a blanket it was minus 7 with windchill a doc 50-year old guy with a massive heart attack just lying there chillin ask him his pain level deadpan just a little five-year-old boy with both forearm bones fractured and dislocated playing on ipad with other arm 60 year old lady slips falls destroys pelvic bone just once one Tylenol and scooch is out of bed wanting to walk home after much convincing Sheba grudgingly accepted that might not be a great idea if there are some badass people out there EMT here I once took a kid about 1819 to via screaming all the way for sunburn sunburn I mean yeah sunburn isn't fun but this kid was claiming 9 stroke 10 pain and whimpering but I was astounded charge nurse and I giggled about it for weeks I was a tech in the oh when the EMTs brought in an elderly woman with what they said was a sprained ankle she had slipped while mopping a floor at work and her co-worker had called it in turned out she had broken both of the bones in the lower part of her leg but was sweetly chatting with us I was impressed as soon as I saw burrs rays EMTs had no idea and had splintered her ankle over where her bones were broken typically broken bones in the legs unless there's a huge amount of angulation displacement do not cause a ton of pain unless moved we see that often in the old people with hip fractures as well they're usually sitting there still and having no pain live the second you try to move it they're in excruciating pain same goes with trying to bear weight my goddaughter was born very prematurely requiring a major open heart surgery at two weeks old we were told by her Doc's at since she'd gone through so much surgical trauma the first few weeks of her life as a neonate her pain receptors nerve endings would not develop normally they gave us the example that if she put her hand on a hot stove as a kid she would have sustained a severe burn before feeling any pain whatsoever she never cried as a kid when she got shots fell down banged into things even when it was enough to draw blood I suspect her medical history was the cause working in a hospital has taught me the downside of abusing painkillers drugs patients constantly come in here with long-term substance abuse issues and now that they are actually hurt MVC broke bones etc you can give them enough drugs to put down a horse and they still feel everything I had a patient with an open tib-fib fracture the bones and the lower leg sticking out and below that it looks like jelly trying to walk away apparently unaware of how bad his leg was of course he was incredibly drunk at the time well it's a good thing you aren't a terrible medic wait radiographer here as a student I met a patient who was a typical little old lady she came in with far too many shopping bags and walked extremely slowly she'd been sent by her GP because she fallen getting out of the bath a few weeks previous so we brought her in and took the first image ap pelvis if you were wondering and her pelvis was absolutely ruined turns out she had slipped and fallen with one leg in and one leg out of the bath and taken the whole fall on her vagina not wanting to cause a fuss this woman had ignored the pain and carried on her life as normal for weeks long enough for the fractures to be fairly healed albeit in a strange way not really resembling a pelvis much anymore not her but actually a cashier at a fast food place a woman ordered two meals and since she was a little older really old actually I offered to bring her food to the table so she wouldn't have to wait I get there and her husband had wads of paper towels stuck all over his arms with electrical tape and his right hand and part of his face were a mix of blood and second-degree burns turned out he was working on his lawnmower and the engine blew up on him they stopped for lunch on the way to the hospital for burns and the metal they couldn't get out he was acting like it was nothing I was chatting with my physiotherapist one day about pain tolerance and she said that she once had her X maybe cocaine addict as a patient whose tolerance was absolute zero she couldn't even touch him without him perceiving it as painful let alone stretch or manipulate his body if she said he was a very challenging case working as an EMT I got called today 64 year old female slipped in her house possible sprained ankle when we got there the woman is sitting in a chair with her legs stretched out in front of her but she had long pants and slippers on that covered the entire ankle so I couldn't really see it when we walked in she was talking and didn't really seem to be in any pain at all so I figured this was going to be an easy trip I kneel down in front of her to take a closer look and wasn't I surprised to find that it wasn't just broken it was fricked right up I mean the foot was at a 90-degree angle to the outside and it was also leaned down so what should have been the side of her foot was facing straight down and the bone that should have been holding the ankle in place was pushing against the skin on the inside of her ankle so hard that it was about to rip through I was bewildered at the fact that at that moment she said it doesn't hurt so I hope it isn't broken she hardly made a peep on the ride to the hospital 35 miles very bumpy come to find out she had multiple sclerosis and that makes people feel pain differently a doctor here I can't count on two hands the number of patients I have seen that are covered in tattoos and are scared of needles IVs I mean complete phobia it makes absolutely no sense if anyone can enlighten me as to how this phenomenon can exist I'd appreciate it to quote a friend of a friend when asked by an addict who queried why he was freaking out over getting a tetanus shot after having a cast sewn up without anesthetic that's why it's called an irrational fear of needles working at a racing track I had both of these people come in on the same day male 54 years swedish small cut on hand his reaction to me pouring water saline in his wound oh wo wo wo wo w it hurts when you put this in effect until there be careful male 32 years finnish deep cut in right forearm his humeral bone was visible no it doesn't hurt now just tape it the Frick up so I can get back on my bike as a Swedish person I tell you this do not flick with the Finnish people I've had a few patients and tricks where that their pain was ten stroke ten while eating drinking laughing playing on cell phone I'll charge whatever number that they said and then put in the notes patient laughing insert verb or emotion I had oneness that when a patient would say a certain number she'd hand them a card that would say at a pain level of seven you would be sweating vital signs would be elevated you would be nauseated and probably vomiting then she'd ask you sure you're seven nine stroke ten will change their answers my dad has an unusually high pain tolerance he was cleaning a fishing pole in our backyard once when he didn't notice that the pole had splintered and pulled his hand down on it the force caused the pole to snap in half and drive itself all the way through his hand he stood up walked in the kitchen with pole hanging out of his hand and calmly asked my mom if he should just pull it out or go to the air since it was a fiberglass one he opted for the ER just in case something was broken off inside his hand the list goes on and on and gets worse the other was when he fell off a ladder and shattered his leg the bone came through the skin and he was [ __ ] about going to the air final nurse who used to work in orthopedics the amount of people who were guzzle oral morphine was unbelievable older adults as little old ladies would just take two paracetamol and would be totally fine I went to the ER with my younger brother after a ski accident my brother fell on his back off quite a big drop causing his sternum split open a few runs later he said he was sure something was wrong with his chest so we eventually got to the air but the doctor was shocked that he was able to continue skiing after it and that he wasn't writhing in pain when it was touched my brother's explanation was yet hearse but I can't do anything about it five-year-old child with a severed finger half hanging off cool as a cucumber and not even upset the mum was in hysterics I have a similar story involving a 21 year old female severed her index finger in a door and I was the first responder I controlled the bleeding until we could get her to a hospital but she took it like a champ I didn't hear a single peep out of her mouth med seekers and junkies coming down have the same level of pain tolerance barely touch the junkies and they flip out due to pain whereas the Med seekers attempt that crap and overact I saw the guy try to fake a seizure and it was the funniest crap ever he was curling his hands up like he had CP and leaning his head back together spit so he could foam at the mouth med seekers will always be allergic to morphine and need dilaudid 1/8 of him I don't think I have met anyone with a high pain tolerance some chick came in with cysts on her ovaries and declined meds because she was in recovery so that is actually pretty badass nurse here while in school I had a 7 year old girl who had broke her hip by getting bounced off a trampoline they lived a few hours out of town and when it happened they knew she was hurt but not how bad so her parents put her in the back of the truck and hold her for 45 plus minutes to their local hospital she got there they did the x-rays and found there was one ride too bad for them to treat and that she needed to come to us they rushed the family out without anything for pain for this little one for another hour plus ride Tamara this girl didn't shed a tear she was hands-down the toughest patient I've ever had I had a 19 year old do the same while skateboarding and I had to pull him out of the car while another nurse held his leg in place some people will amaze you with their strength and eveness when I was studying nursing I saw a man who had broken his knee in a motorcycle accident three days before the knee was at least three times it's normal size the doctor asked him about the pain and he told him it wasn't that bad he was mostly annoyed at his family who had taken him to the emergency room my grandmother wouldn't take pain medicine not sure why but even getting dental work done she didn't want numbing agents the only time I know that she took pain meds was some aspirin after getting t-boned while driving and hurting her shoulder she passed away last year from ALS a few weeks before her 80th birthday she was the most independent person I've ever known and even having to rely on her kids for help she didn't complain patients in a sickle cell crisis I've pushed up to 14 milligrams of dilaudid 1/2 milligrams at a time into these patients without a resulting change in vital signs Ormond tation however I've also seen young men competing in rodeos who have been stopped by a bull a few times come in with broken ribs and a pneumothorax saying it's just a scratch and declining pain medications he had an older marine that came in reason being stiff neck and nausea does his normal workup rules out c-spine injury decides to test for meningitis tells the guide to touch his chin to his chest turn left turn right look up nothing tells the guide to stand on his toes and drop onto his heels and the guy nearly collapses and then vomits on the floor doctor asks didn't it hurt when you touched your chin to your chest marine replies yes it frickin hurt but what does that have to do with it I'm your doctor you're supposed to tell me when something is wrong the marine just looked at him with a slightly blank look on his face and said oh sorry doc won't happen again I'm an oncology nurse my patients have some of the highest pain tolerances I have ever seen they literally have tumors taking over entire cavities in their bodies huge mass is pressing on places that aren't supposed to be pressed on and literally eroding through their skin and they will ask me for 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Published: Sat May 25 2019