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Originally Posted by Mutt
People use 'like a root canal' as a comparison for great physical pain. I've had root canals and they were very tolerable. Maybe before modern local anesthetics a root canal was very painful and the legend has persisted even though it's no longer true.
Stubbing your toe for the few minutes it lasts is insane, you can't think straight, your heart rate goes through the roof, your eyes tear, you feel like vomiting, anything - I don't believe ANYBODY stubs their toe unexpectedly and doesn't go through the same routine whether they have a high pain threshold or not. If the experience of stubbing your toe lasted for an hour people would need to be knocked out or they would die of heart attacks.
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Yeah I am the same way, stumping my toe can make me do some really nasty screaming and dancing - it was more a figure of speech and a bad one, now that I think of it. But she wasn't complaining and when asked what umber she'd put on it, she said something like a 3-4 or something - the Dr almost passed out. lol
She is going to be fine though - it's seeming to be a family thing - last year this time, my oldest daughter had the exact same thing and we thought she was going to die, she was in so much pain - so not sure - but she is fine and that's all I care about
and she is one tough little cookie, for sure. lol