Serious pain
Jane Bates Works in outpatients in Hampshire
Jane Bates on attitudes to pain management
My pain threshold is so low that I once asked for a local anaesthetic for a dental check up. I am the only person I know to want analgesia for Braxton-Hicks contractions in pregnancy. I can be stoic with chronic pain, but when an element of fear kicks in, my pain threshold plummets.
Nursing Standard.
22, 3, 27-27.
doi: 10.7748/ns.22.3.27.s31
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