Early this year, I have my first experience with a severe toothache. It was a severe pain during a long public holiday. As such, my regular dentist was closed for a week long holiday.
The intense pain was severe, throbbing and excruciating, to say the least. It was persistent too. After 2 days of enduring the pain, it became some unbearable and disabling and I finally surrender! I resorted to pain killers which gave me some degree of relief and respite. After about week of physical and mental torment, my dentist save my day and repaired my tooth.
My second experience of pain was rather brief but enlightening. A week ago, after two hours of jogging with my son, I developed severe muscular pain over my leg muscles and both my knees. Every step i took was painful. It was painful when i climbed the stairs too and i was literally limping when i walked down the stair. At last, i have a glimpse of how it felt like for senior citizens who need to cope with severe joint pains due to degenerative diseases.
Pain can be a good or a bad thing. Depending on the degree and how long it lasted.
Pain sensations helps us to detect danger such as a hot kettle or a nail on the ground A headache or stomach ache may be a signal to something wrong in the brain or the digestive system and may prompt us to seek the help of a doctor.
Emotional pain or distress such as severe and prolong anxiety, panic attack, depressed feelings should prompt us to find out what is wrong with our daily life, coping style, stress level at work or our relationships and re-evaluate our social support system.
However, severe and intense pain is not something that we would really welcome. Severe and prolong pain causes huge suffering to any human being. And everyone who are in such pain, be it physical or emotional should be given due concern and understanding.
