For me it is the fact that our blood contains iron. I earlier used to believe the word stood for some ‘organic element’ since I couldn’t accept we had metal flowing through our supposed carbon-based bodies, till I realized that is where the taste and smell of blood comes from.

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        Exactly. I was there and saw my wife having the worst pain of her life. Really without exaggeration. It was incredibly hard and painful.

        Then, 10 minutes after it’s all over, she looks at me and says “Well, that wasn’t so bad”.

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        I suppose it is for the best, but nonetheless I find it uncomfortable how our bodies have the ability to manipulate our brains’ memories and our consciousness residing in the same place cannot do anything about it

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          These chemicals are our memories. They aren’t manipulating it. It’s just how it works.

          On another note: the body produces opioids when you’re in great pain

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        I always thought it interesting that every time we talk about when our kids were born, I remember all these details and my wife’s like huh, weird, can’t remember a thing.

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      The hormones really carry you through. Lol. And at least it’s relatively short with a positive end goal.

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      Every time that comes up, I think to myself “Something I’ve gone through must be more painful, right? I’ve gone through some pretty hellish things, and you’re trying to tell me something MORE painful exists? Not just a little more, but dramatically more? For my own sanity, I’m gonna have to live in denial of that.”

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          Huh. I’m guessing the pain of kidney stones comes in varying levels, because the one time I had them I wouldn’t have called it the most painful thing in the world.

          Then again, I could also have inherited my mom’s pain tolerance, who gave birth multiple times without any kind of pain relief and without flinching.

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            I’ve read that passing a kidney stone through the urethra has a brief level of pain matching childbirth… but it’s usually much briefer than childbirth.

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              Interesting. I suppose they’re both objects with pointy bits much larger than the holes they’re trying to pass through. On that note, I’ve been through very severe anal stenosis and THAT I would say was closing in on the most horrific pain I’ve ever been through. Before I could go to the doctor about it my wife basically had to spend all day and sometimes night keeping me occupied so I had something to do other than cry.