Study Reveals When It Comes To Pain, Women Are Much Tougher Than Men

[matcom]

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SCIENCE has finally confirmed what women have long suspected - when it comes to coping with pain, they are tougher than men.

A Deakin University study of 100 patients recovering from cardiac surgery revealed women needed lower doses of painkillers for shorter periods of time.

Mari Botti, chairwoman of nursing at the Epworth Hospital/Deakin University Clinical Research Centre, said that on average women needed morphine for 12 hours, while men kept taking it for 17 hours, and at higher dosages.

"Men tend to peak early with their pain, and then it decreases as you would expect after a few days, whereas women tend to have constant pain for longer," she said.

Professor Botti said the study indicated that even though men and women might feel the same pain, either women were more prepared to put up with it, or perhaps doctors and nurses simply believed women needed less help coping with it.

http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,11423965%255E421,00.html

[NamVetsWeeLass]

1. this is why Women have the babies....

I don't know of a man that could handle it. Although they do say that passing a kidney stone is similar to childbirth...

[hippiechick]

2. And redheads need more anasthesia than others ...

There was a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine a couple years back that showed that redheads are more sensitive to pain - or have different neurological stuff - than people with other hair colors.

We ARE more sensitive than the average bear ;)


:hippie: <-- needs to be knocked out just to get her teeth cleaned.

[dr.strangelove]

6. Redheads are a pain, but feel more pain??

Just kidding. Though my wife is a redhead and I think both are true. She gets knocked out for her annual dental cleaning. I'm very scared of her having kids. I just don;t see an epidural doing it. We've got a few more years, she is still young, but I'm frightened of that day.

[Metatron]

7. That explains why I have been given 13 shots of novocaine

for work on just one tooth! Thanks for the info. :)

[hippiechick]

9. A Fellow Liberal Redhead in Indy !!

And we haven't MET ?? :wow:



:hippie:

[GCP]

3. OMG they had to have a study for this?

If men had to give birth the human race would never have got down from the trees :P

[rbnyc]

8. No doubt.

Also, ask any tattoo artist and they will tell you, women just deal with it and men are big babies.

(Uh-Oh, Generally I'm opposed to gender stereotypes. Yikes!)

[miss_kitty]

12. that's ok It's not a stereotype if it's physical condition shared by

99.999% of the gender. Like 'all men have penises'. Science. :)

[fleabert]

4. my surgeon (male) told me he would have been a basket case if

he went thru what I did (with my appendix and following pnuemonia and abdominal infection). He said he thought I would someday sail through childbirth because I didn't need pain meds for my rupture (and walked around with it for a week) nor did I use 'enough' pain meds after my surgery and complications.

i thought I was a big baby, I loved my pain meds, but he said I was tougher than any guy he ever treated. Other people freak out when they hear the full story, so I believe he wasn't just blowing smoke up my ass.

I just had to take care of my hubby with a cold to know this is true!

[Crankie Avalon]

5. I always secretly (or even not so secretly) thought this...

...even when it comes to trivial little things like colds, we men are usually such complaining little babies. :nopity:

[procrastinator]

10. Doesn't surprise me.....

[SoCalDem]

11. DUH !!!

:)

[miss_kitty]

13. that's what they told me during all my cancer treatment

that guys would have been crying and in the ER for pain a lot sooner than me. Same for after my surgeries. But I can't watch people fall down or smack into walls or fall off bikes since then. Not even fake.