Men and women rate their pain very differently

There are two very different factors contributing to where men and women rate their pain on a scale of 1-10.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
You tapped it, so we're playing it at Zim Spry
and Clinton. It's the podcast. Mama Died's birthday today. By
the way, we're going to get her on the show.
Just after five o'clock. Before then, a producer, Claudia came
to us with more research she's been conducting into the.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
What are you a receurch trologist.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
Differences between men and women.

Speaker 3 (00:22):
I'm fascinated because you don't know what you don't know, right,
I know what you don't know. Yeah, and I found
something that's put it into perspective about how differently we
actually may think about the things we experience in the world.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Okay, so this example is specifically how.

Speaker 3 (00:37):
We scale pain from one to ten, right, And I'll
tell you what they've said.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
We'll see if we get it, and we'll have a discussion.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
I feel like guys measure their pain based on pain
they have experienced, and I feel like girls measure their
pain based on stuff they haven't experienced. Like I could
be having the worst pain and still read it a
six because compared to being burned alive, it's a sex
Oh my.

Speaker 1 (01:01):
God, is that true? Yes, the male part's true for me.
The male part is true for me?

Speaker 4 (01:06):
Really?

Speaker 1 (01:06):
Is that true for you guys?

Speaker 5 (01:08):
Yes? While, my gosh, I love when people have like
organic thoughts. It's the first organic thought I've heard in
a long time, and it's so true.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
On a scale from one to ten, for me as
a woman, I would say, yeah, if I'm having the
worst pain I've ever felt, but the potential of more
pain is there.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
Oh my god, I'm a seven. I can I figure
out if that is glass half full or glass half empty?
Because you're you're kind of going, this is bad, but
it could be worse.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
We were optimistic at least my leg didn't fall off,
you know.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
But also at the same time, you're going, this is bad,
but I know this worst pain coming in my life.

Speaker 5 (01:42):
I wonder what a doctor would prefer. Would they want
you to rate it on a scale of your person.

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Nah, you've gone to the doctor and you're experiencing the
worst pain you've ever felt in your life.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Excrucis ate it. I've never felt this kind. It's the
worst you've felt. I'm a doctor.

Speaker 3 (01:58):
I've gone Okay on scale, want to ten?

Speaker 1 (02:02):
No, it's never a ten. If it's the worst pain
I've ever felt, it's a ten. Wow, because well it's worse.
I don't know how to explain it better to you
than that. I already knew that men and women experience
pain different because I've watched my wife give birth. You know,
like there's this thing that happens where me and me,

(02:22):
as a man, you just sit there and you are
just completely in awe and you just go couldn't do that?

Speaker 5 (02:29):
Are you slightly in pain when you're watching your wife
give birth? Because sometimes when I see someone vomiting, I
feel sick. I can imagine it's the same if I
see someone in a lot of pain, I'm going.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
So there is something called sympathy pain I see, and
I believe that most women do not have time for
that bullshit. They're like, oh, you need help. I'm literally
pushing a person out of my vagina.

Speaker 5 (02:54):
I'm trying to the most excruciating pain I've ever been
in my life was like was a concussion. And I
think I remember if it's hard, because I've got foy,
foggy memory, but I even remember writing that as sex
out of ten.

Speaker 1 (03:07):
Probably the concussion. Yeah that was a sex out of ten.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Yeah, Yeah, I'd love to actually, like you said, I'd
love to hear a.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
Doctor's perspective of like, do you want.

Speaker 3 (03:17):
Me to be really honest and be like, I guess
it's a teen because it's the worst I've felt.

Speaker 1 (03:20):
Or women Do women factor the emotional pain into it
as well?

Speaker 2 (03:25):
We always