Taking sides: Pain vs. Nausea

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Everytime I have an ailment I consider its symptoms' places in the canon of awfulness.

― N., Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nausea.

― jel --, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

WUSS.

Is this on a sliding scale from, say, banging your elbow to childbirth?

― Emma, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

period pain = pain AND nausea hurrah!

― katie, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

AND mental mood swings that turn you into a raging psychopath!

― Emma, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Taking sides: La Peste vs. La Nausée

― Sam, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Nausea over pain. I'm sick so often I've become really blase about it.

― Anna, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Anna is the anti me.

What is this pain and nausea you speak of?

― Pete, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'm interested in this. In what other ways am I the antti-Pete? If we spend too long in the same room will the world start to turn the other way?

― Anna, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

a) You are a gurl.

b) Er.

― Pete, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

id much rather pain than nausea

― Ron, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Maybe I'm just the first course or something and anti Pete is just like anti pasta.

Thought: Isn't nausea a kind of pain?

― Anna, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

No, it isn't. Have another thought.

― N., Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can only average one thought a day. I'm out now. [stares into space vacantly, giggles]

― Anna, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pain for me, because nausea is so deeply uncomfortable that it dominates every thought. But then again, if the pain is sufficiently intense, I'd go for nausea. isn't this a bit of a silly comparison?

― Mark C, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

hmm, i have high pain tolerance limits, but can only hear one mariah song a day without projectile shitting, so I'll take pain over nausea any day.

― Queen G Deneuve, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

It isn't silly. When I'm suffering from sufficient nausea, I think I often imagine pain would be preferable, though I'm not sure exactly how much.

― Ally C, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Both vary widely. Having said that, I once had a pain where if the docs had told me that I could endure the pain for one more hour and then get better, or they could kill me now, I'd have taken the latter. They told me that kidney stones, which was what it was, caused the worst pain there is, along with the worst childbirths.

And there was accompanying nausea anyway. Except the doctors knew better. "No, there's no need to get a bowl. People aren't sick with kidney stones. Oh. Nurse, clean this up..."

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Erm, was this a male doctor who told you this Martin? granted the birth canal is more elastic than the urethrea but unless this was a kidney *boulder* I'd have to question the dr's comparison.

― S., Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

That was EXACTLY what I was also told when I had kidney stones, Martin! I was also told that in ye olden times, people w/ kidney stones used to go and ride a horse v. vigorously in an effort to pass the stones!

The ONLY gd thing abt that type of pain - the incredible relief you feel as it fades away (hmmm...BDSM).

― Andrew L, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Childbirth vs Male Hypchondria FITE!

― Mark C, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

http://www.nauseapunk.com/images/logo1smaller.gif

― Kris, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Pain please, within endurable limits. Nausea lays me out sicker 'an a dog, maybe because I'm prone to ear infections that come with horrible vertigo. Also, I suppose one blacks out from pain eventually (let me just state for the record that I no desire ever to experience this), whereas nausea leaves you conscious and endlessly miserable.

― Pyth, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I'll take pain any road - not just because I'm a masochist - because there are readily available drugs for the treatment of same and I'm not allergic to any of them. Nausea is a whole different kettle of vile smelly fish. I mean, you can take travel sickness pills or bizarre prescription items by the bucketload, but you're still going to feel like shite, whereas a healthy dose of ibuprofen will save the day from nasty aches.

― that girl Liz, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

Which category do monthly cramps fall under? Whichever it is I pick the other one.

― Maria, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I can't remember the gender of the doctor, S. I don't think I remember hearing him or her say it, as I was in too much pain. I think I only remember my wife saying this afterwards. Women will argue this with no basis - but I don't know how they make these comparisons anyway. All I know is that it was pain on a different planet from anything else I've felt, including broken bones. I find it inconceivable that anyone going through a childbirth anything like that bad would ever have another child. You can be dismissive about it if you like, but I know how bad it was.

― Martin Skidmore, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

I've had both the past week and a half, and nausea is far worse. It's like the Nickelback of ailments.

― Nicole, Monday, 13 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link

four years pass...

I made soup with some fairly old mushrooms, and I don't feel so good...

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 September 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link

pain

― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:38 (seventeen years ago) link

pain seconded

― youn (youn), Monday, 18 September 2006 01:47 (seventeen years ago) link

both can go right to hell

― john david bootyflake (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:10 (seventeen years ago) link

pain

― p@reene (Pareene), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

no wait, ennui

― p@reene (Pareene), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:45 (seventeen years ago) link

It depends on the pain, I'm no fan of nausea though.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I feel better now, but my hands and feet went cold for a few minutes and I felt pretty glarfy. I don't know if it was because of the soup, but I'm not taking any chances.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:50 (seventeen years ago) link

hunger

― youn (youn), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Nausea. (And I have a pretty high pain threshold). But neither for very long, thanks.

Danny, I hope you get better soon.

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 18 September 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Much better today.
(Thanks, Sara!)

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Pain (but ask me again in the new year when I have given birth...)

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 18 September 2006 12:30 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

Oh man, I saw a gross thing two days ago and I'm still feeling queasy all the time. After every meal I feel like I can't hold it down for a few hours.

This giant bruise is comparably pleasant.

― Abbott, Thursday, 12 June 2008 02:09 (fifteen years ago) link

one year passes...

I've had a nervous stomach for like 3 years, it's really not very pleasant.

― kind-hearted, sensitive keytar player (Abbott), Thursday, 16 July 2009 17:48 (fourteen years ago) link

five years pass...

nausea is paralyzing even in its weakest form
the worst

― Florianne Fracke (La Lechera), Saturday, 23 May 2015 14:20 (eight years ago) link

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