With hardcore scientific proof like this, how can one possibly argue with the results. The title of this article is HIGHLY inaccurate. It is intentionally misleading to get more clicks, which is bad journalism. There is a big difference between the headline: "Women feel more pain than men, study finds"... and the opening sentence which is what the study actually says: "A new Stanford University study examining patients' medical records found surprisingly clear results: across the board, women REPORT higher levels of pain than men".
Reporting more pain does not mean actually feeling more pain, therefore this article is lying and substituting 1 word that changes the entire meaning of the message. The study does not say women feel more pain, just that they report more pain. Women tend to exaggerate their pain, because they can be drama queens to garner sympathy and men tend to understate their pain because they try to appear more manly in front of the nurses. Simple as that.
Not all women are drama queens. I have a very high pain threshold. And when I am in pain, you don't see me whining like some men I know. They need to stop with these stupid studies.
Perhaps men feel the same amount of pain but are afraid to express it because of conventional idea that men can't complain about pain, or they are not really men if they do. This study, and this subsequent media blurb, is obviously fronted by feminist organisations to further establish victimhood of women. Pain cannot be measured by gender, but by genetics and individual experiences. Of what type/degree of pain are we speaking, and in what situations? Why are more drug addicts and alcoholics men? It isn't because they feel good and want to take drugs, its because they are trying to numb pain be it emotional or physical. This media nonsense of gender competition has to stop. I suppose no news media source now is immune to the influence of BS.
I don't buy this story. I'd say men and women are equally prone to pain, but over the centuries women have been freer to admit to pain and emotions than men. Men are pressured from boyhood to stifle any sort of emotions or feelings of pain because "big boys don't cry." They don't want to be seen as less masculine. Hence the reason that pain gets channelled into a different unhealthy emotion, such as anger.
Maybe it's an evolutionary thing, both physical and mental. We're wired to protect our young and mates, so we're more sensitive to the same pain levels? Guys are conditioned to act tougher? You see it in other species (e.g. dogs, cats, birds). Why not us? We're living beings.
Are you kidding me. Is this for real. What kind of empirical evidence is this. I am a nurse and deal with this every single day. Women experience more pain! Nonsense. Women complain more and grossly exaggerate pain. To the point where it is almost a joke amongst ED staff. Perhaps the people conducting the study should have read the entire nursing note such as patient complaining of 10/10 pain but test messaging. Patient with 10/10 abdominal pain and eating Burger King.
Sorry Ladies, I don't even want to here the nonsense men do the same thing. Not even in the same ballpark.
Incidentally it should also be noted that woman abuse the ED system by almost a 2:1 ratio over men. Woman are much more likely to have no objective findings, i.e there is nothing wrong with them. Women are also by a 75 to 25 percent more likely to be diagnosed with a personality disorder.
Just look of the word hysteria. It refers to the uterus. i.e. the "hysterectomy" is the removal of the hysteria. Women exaggerating and dramatizing discomfort, frequently for attention is nothing new. This is just trying to paint a different face on it.
Incidentally many patients know the ridiculous pain level score that is forced upon the health care profession by regulating agencies empowering drug seeking and abusers to demand that they be given narcotics until there pain is "gone". Which is code for high as a kite. I especially love it when I have to wake someone up from sleeping and they can barely speak clearly and they continue to tell me that there pain is a 10/10. Really!
It's been many years, but I am pretty sure that experimental results showed women having a higher pain threshold (the point at which they begin to feel pain) then men. This means that women are less sensitive to pain then men when subjected to a pain stimulus with an intensity at or below this threshhold. Of course, it may be that women experience more pain than men because they are more frequently subjected to painful stimuli than are men. In any case, the headline is misleading and should be clarified.
As a woman who does NOT "exaggerate" very real pain, I hope I never have YOU as a nurse anytime soon. You sound like a mysogynistic and insensitive jerk who seriously needs to look into a new profession...one that doesn't actually involve other human beings!!!
Wait, which side are you taking queenofclubs? It seems like your arguing both sides. As a man I would just say that men pretty much never exaggerate pain. In fact its the exact opposite... (unless they just want free drugs, which happens). But, as a woman you are saying everyone "exagerates real pain". How do you know? Trust me, men almost always under report (under exagerate) pain.
As a nurse myself, I'm appalled at these comments. Where do you work, in a hard-core psychiatric ward? Because that's the only place I MIGHT (with much skepticism) be inclined to believe your grossly generalized statements regarding pain evaluation in women.
From your comments, I can tell that a) you've never suffered chronic or truly acute pain and b)you have no idea what it means to be in withdrawal. That type of pain is REAL, and unless you've suffered it, you cannot understand it. It has nothing to do with obtaining enough drugs to be "high as a kite".
Too many health-care professionals think their (not "there", by the way) book knowledge is both complete and infallible, and that their own experience is representative of Everyman's reality.
"Women complain more and grossly exaggerate pain."
I worked in a hospital for years. Women may complain more, but it isn't PAIN they are complaining about. It's the incompetence. They don't tolerate that as well as the men. Women expect things to be done right, whereas men tend to let things go more. So when a nurse isn't doing her job, you are going to hear from the women more than the men. Probably because the women are more able to identify incompetence. : )
I don't mean to imply that all nurses/caregivers are incompetent. Women are more likely to voice their annoyances on everything. I will give an example. Women won't tolerate a leaky tap. Men will watch it drip forever.
Also, in the hospital, men don't complain because they are too busy trying to IMPRESS the nurses. That won't work if they are whining all the time.
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Reporting more pain does not mean actually feeling more pain, therefore this article is lying and substituting 1 word that changes the entire meaning of the message. The study does not say women feel more pain, just that they report more pain. Women tend to exaggerate their pain, because they can be drama queens to garner sympathy and men tend to understate their pain because they try to appear more manly in front of the nurses. Simple as that.
In stunning research from 2010 it was reported that that simply raising vitamin D levels reduce narcotic pain medication by 50%.
50%.
Women are more likely to be vitamin D deficient than men. This fact may explain the results of the subject study.
Sorry Ladies, I don't even want to here the nonsense men do the same thing. Not even in the same ballpark.
Incidentally it should also be noted that woman abuse the ED system by almost a 2:1 ratio over men. Woman are much more likely to have no objective findings, i.e there is nothing wrong with them. Women are also by a 75 to 25 percent more likely to be diagnosed with a personality disorder.
Just look of the word hysteria. It refers to the uterus. i.e. the "hysterectomy" is the removal of the hysteria. Women exaggerating and dramatizing discomfort, frequently for attention is nothing new. This is just trying to paint a different face on it.
Incidentally many patients know the ridiculous pain level score that is forced upon the health care profession by regulating agencies empowering drug seeking and abusers to demand that they be given narcotics until there pain is "gone". Which is code for high as a kite. I especially love it when I have to wake someone up from sleeping and they can barely speak clearly and they continue to tell me that there pain is a 10/10. Really!
From your comments, I can tell that a) you've never suffered chronic or truly acute pain and b)you have no idea what it means to be in withdrawal. That type of pain is REAL, and unless you've suffered it, you cannot understand it. It has nothing to do with obtaining enough drugs to be "high as a kite".
Too many health-care professionals think their (not "there", by the way) book knowledge is both complete and infallible, and that their own experience is representative of Everyman's reality.
Where did your human compassion go?
I worked in a hospital for years. Women may complain more, but it isn't PAIN they are complaining about. It's the incompetence. They don't tolerate that as well as the men. Women expect things to be done right, whereas men tend to let things go more. So when a nurse isn't doing her job, you are going to hear from the women more than the men. Probably because the women are more able to identify incompetence. : )
Also, in the hospital, men don't complain because they are too busy trying to IMPRESS the nurses. That won't work if they are whining all the time.