Why women forget pain? Do you suffer more aches than men?

Rola Asfour - Amman

Bad feeling The young woman, Miss Rami - a public relations manager in Jordan - heard a friend talk about the ease of appendicitis and not feel the pain beyond description, especially that the experience was one of the most difficult experiences suffered before and after the operation.

The problem with the obsessive-compulsive disorder is the fear of feeling pain and searching online for the causes of the symptoms, the seriousness of the disease and its stages of development and methods of treatment, which increases tension and anxiety.

Attempts to claim the possibility of pain for any disease that has already been hit were unsuccessful, and pain begins sometimes after the discovery of the disease and talk to the doctor that the symptoms of the symptoms of the painful.

"My four parents and four sisters do not tolerate the pain of the disease, unlike the mother who does not like the use of painkillers except in severe pain," she said.

Cancer is a dreadful disease, because the tests I have seen have been harsh in the absence of assistance to a patient who may wish death from severe pain.

Women adapt to disease
Although media coordinator Ruda Haddadin does not suffer from obsessive-compulsive disorder or fear of illness and has a tremendous ability to bear the pain as her family members, she believes that man should not be discriminated against himself - even if accused of swallowing - so as not to harm himself.

Roda believes that women adapt to the conditions of the disease faster than men because it is a process and do not waste time thinking about the problem of illness, and is concerned with how to live with pain, unlike the man who lives for a long time bemoaning the disease, and busy thinking about his condition for several days and then give up and begin to acclimate .

She recalls that the pain of the caesarean section at the end of the eighth month of her pregnancy did not make her fail to pay attention to her newborn child and drive herself a week later to see a pediatrician.

Roda prefers infectious diseases such as influenza - where no one feels ill - to have her husband, who can not bear the pain.

She believes that cohesion and non-fear during childbirth are reflected on their psyche and increases their ability to tolerate pain.

Causes of feeling pain
The pain function alerts the person to a defect in the body and results after the body is exposed to a physical or chemical effect. It receives nerve signals from pain and travels through the nerve fibers to the spine and brain, according to Dr. Muhammad Bashnaq, an internist and consultant of pain treatment and palliative care.

There are two types of pain, "acute" lasts from hours to days, and "chronic" lasts from months to years.

Studies indicate that about 60% of the differences in feeling of pain among people are the result of genetic characteristics of genetic, which means that allergy to the pains inherited in families through the inheritance of genetic characteristics between them, and researchers found that painful memories and previous pain experiences affect the pain .

Women's ability to endure
A Canadian study conducted by McGill University and published in the Sun newspaper that women are stronger than men in pain, and that they deal with pain better than men, because of how the sexes remember their past pains differently.

The study shows that women forget their pain, while men do not forget, and so when it comes to dealing with the same pain again, where men are more tense and sensitive to this pain compared to women.

For his part, Dr. Mohamed pointed out that women have certain hormones that help to cope and suffer more pain than men.

Ways to deal with aches
Pain can be treated with pharmacotherapy through the use of analgesics, antiretrovirals and narcotic drugs, according to the doctor based on the disease, or through non-pharmacological treatment based on guided imagination and relaxation and hypnosis, and therapy with music, Quran, meditation and Chinese needles.

It also provides special treatment sessions for people suffering from chronic diseases such as joint pain, stiffness of the knee, knees and nerves, such as plasma needles and oil needles, used for knee pain, collagen needles for nerve pain and muscle pain, laser and electromagnetic waves for lower back pain, Botox needles for migraine And chronic muscle pain.

Special materials are injected into the spine to treat the pain of the disc and the slipping of the back vertebrae, which leads to severe nerve pain.

Common errors
"It is a common mistake to refrain from taking painkillers because of fear of addiction or because of concern about the occurrence of negative complications after eating for a long time.

It is true that the pain and avoidance of the drug lead to complications more than the complications of the patient when the use of the drug, because of the suffering of pain negatively affects the physical condition of the patient, and limits the ability to perform its normal activity, and may lead to a psychological impact serious.

Therefore, a person suffering from chronic diseases and cancer should take the medicine prescribed by the doctor within the prescribed doses to control the pain without exposure to side effects or complications that increase pain.