https://www.believemypain.com/
Years ago I posted a study on here that came to the “same” conclusion. Which is, when asked, black people believe they don’t receive equal pain management, despite no medical difference in diagnosis. The absurdity is unreal.
Ok, weird thought here. I doubt most people understand pain. Breaking a femur is considered the absolute worst pain to experience. Even Child Birth is below it. I've broken a femur, and had to slowly heal which meant dealing with a lot of pain. Because of that I have a higher pain threshold.
I know people who have experienced a 5/10 at best. Since this is the highest pain they have experienced, it is all they have to compare to. So it may be low in reality, to them that is a 10. It then transfers. A 3 is actually a 6 or even an 8.
A friend of mine had a botched brain operation and has opinions on pain meds. Definitely a high count. So pain relief for the friend is very different than others. An aspirin is for a 3-4, while a friend who has only experienced a 6 will think they need a delatin for their pain. Yes I know I misspelled it.
So getting the same prescription might not work because of all these people who think their 2 is an 8.
The 10-point Pain rating scale is complete pseudoscience nonsense and has led to terrible outcomes. It was essentially created by Big Pharma to push opioid sales for chronic pain.
Those who work in healthcare will tell you that anyone who declares "I have a high pain tolerance" immediately has red flagged themselves as a nightmare patient with a personality disorder (not including OP, mostly neurotic and BPD women).
The only way to evaluate pain tolerance is to experience it, such as OP's experience with a femur fracture.
Can you explain this connection? I'm curious how this manifests.
TBH I really can't flesh it out more. It's simply a dark humor healthcare meme.
It's through experience.
I would say it's mostly women that declare this to you in practice.
But someone who authoritatively declares "I have a high pain threshold" will inevitably down the road be one of those "I know my body types" who wouldn't listen to reason and inevitably will be demanding opioids and inappropriate treatments down the road.
Edit: r/medicine are all insufferable COVIDian traitors to the profession, but here's an old thread discussing the phenomenon
Edit2: Giving it a little more thought, I think it's patients self-identifying as "terminally unique". "I'm not like the other girls, doc". It's a disclosure that they have an inflated sense of self and hence expectations that they are better than the average bear.
Few people with actual high pain tolerance will word it like that, they'll word it like "just get it fucking done, I'll live.", because a side effect of developing a high pain tolerance is realizing just how much pain one can be in... And usually not wanting to test that limit further.
As for "it's mostly women", plenty of scientific studies on that; women have much lower pain tolerance levels than men for both sustained over time and intensity. If they didn't produce a shitton of very strong stuff naturally in their body in childbirth, the human species wouldn't've made it, but that's not their normal mental state: A male crackhead can also take quite a bit of pain at the peak of his high.