How much pain?

[Cassandra]

I've read a lot of talk about the pain of electrolysis, and I don't mean to diminish anyone by this. It is just that I was reading some posts on the subject and it triggered some memories which I would like, no want to talk about.

When I was about 9 I was afflicted with a rare foot disease which allmost cost me my feet. The cure which pained my family no end was not nearly as great as the pain it inflicted upon me. The treatment consisted of these shots in my butt cheeks on a weekly basis which along with what was going on with my feet combined to give me a limp which gave me a walk like that of an 80 year old with severe osteoperosis. That however was not the most painful part. The daily treatment consisted of disolving these purple pills in water which had been taken from the stove at just below boiling point. Sticking my feet in it and soaking. My Aunt and my sister would hold my feet in this solution as my grandmother poured freashly heated water into the solution as I screamed my bloody head off.

Now I don't know if this compares in anyway with childbirth but suffice it to say this went on for a month on a daily basis. So I have a rather high tolerance for pain. I'm not trying to one up anybody here. Something just set off the memory and I have never really been able to relate it to anybody and I just had to get it out.

Thanks for indulging me.

Cassie

[Terri-Gene]

Point taken Cassie, but remember pain is a relative thing.  what is intolerable to one may only be an inconvienience to another and when one has experienced pain to thier limits of endurance, yes, most things take on a compairison value and perspective. The truth about electro is that, to me at least, it is more irritating then painful.  It is somewhat like a toothache, not so unbearable in itself, but the repititious consistancy of it makes it seem to be more painful then it is, and the pain stops almost as soon as the probe is removed.  That is the key.

Pain is simply a warning that something is wrong and as long as you know and realize that there is no perm damage and that it will stop soon, it can be controlled and delt with.  A lot of it is mental attitude.  what hurts worse?  the pain of a cure, or the pain of avoiding the cure?  It's that simple to me.  If something is going to harm me worse then the cure, then the pain of the cure becomes more simplistic and actually worth going through.

Electro pain?  my electro tech keeps asking me if I'm asleep, In fact I take a kind of satisfaction at each zap as the more it hurts, I have the knowledge that another little bugger is history or closer to it. every time she asks me if it is to hot and if I would like it turned down a notch I ask her to kick it up a little.  She likes that as the hotter it is, the quicker the hair comes loose and the least likely to regrow.  higher settings = quicker work.

Attitude and self awarness

Feet in 200 degree water?  OUCH

Childbirth?  no comment, I'll never know.

Terri