The docs in the ER didn't think I had appendicitis before the CT scan confirmed it bc I didn't seem like I was in enough pain. It turned out I had chronic appendicitis my entire life and had just learned to live with it, even when it kept me up all night. Chronic pain absolutely breaks the scale
stable strategiesasked by a medical person if a thing was causing me pain and had to be honest and say “i have quite a high tolerance for and as such an odd relationship to pain, so, i wouldn’t say so, but i imagine that to answer the intent of the question, yes, this is probably considered painful”