“Behind every beautiful thing, is there any kind of pain?This is what Bob Dylan, the famous singer whose songs seem to hide deep suffering, defined. But after all, how do men and women feel the pain?
Historically, women have been associated with a greater capacity to cope with pain. Biological predispositions such as menstruation, pregnancy or childbirth itself are often associated with a certain degree of suffering. Besides, we always heard this phrase: “If men had to go through this one.
- We already know that there are many dictations and traditions.
- But today science has advanced far enough to study almost everything.
- However.
- It is not possible to do real research on those who feel the most pain with a pinch.
- Because we do not have a human way of measuring the same feeling in several different people without entering the subjective terrain.
Pain, although an individual perception, has been the subject of numerous studies, one of the most famous being Stanford University, according to researchers in this study, women tend to report more pain in a greater variety of diagnoses compared to the return of pain. informed by men; however, these data are more quantitative than qualitative. In other words, it’s not really a comparable measure of how men and women feel pain.
In addition, there are a number of factors that could contaminate the conclusions drawn from the collected data, such as the fact that women tend to be much more communicative than men, so men, poor in words, report less painful or complete diagnoses. Another variable that could contaminate the results is men’s tendency not to demonstrate their weaknesses, as this is not considered an ideal feature of the male sex in stereotypes.
Stanford researchers wondered who suffered the most, male or female. To answer this question, they collected information from more than 11,000 patients with circulatory, digestive, respiratory and musculoskeletal problems.
From the data obtained, it appears that women reported a slightly higher intensity of pain than men, what happened was that they created a scale of 1 to 11, and women rated higher than men, however, another questionable point that can be found in this research is based on biological differences between men and women and diagnostic problems.
We have already realized that we are not yet in a position to answer that question, who suffers the most, them or them?Some studies also take into account variables, such as menstrual cycles, which bring with them a number of pains to women, so any research carried out must be conducted on an equal footing between men and women in the same state. there are many variables, such as those already mentioned here, that can alter the results and lead to false conclusions.
However, some results indicate that women tend to see the doctor more often and generally with more severe, lasting and frequent pains than men, and it also seems that women tend to experience higher levels of stress, which can also alter any outcome. stress intensifies the feeling of pain.
Interestingly, it seems that men more accurately define a particular point where they feel pain, while women indicate regions, not specific points, we also find other curious facts, such as the existence of chronic pain, something more common among them. In fact, there are diseases such as fibromyalgia, almost exclusively feminine, composed of fatigue and muscle aches, a point that aggravates the perception of pain.
In fact, men have the GIRK2 PROTEIN, which is considered a factor that can help resist pain, however, it seems that the woman has learned to live with suffering by enduring higher levels of stress, menstrual pain, childbirth, etc.
“We have not yet reached the top of the pain if we have the strength to complain. “Knight of Bruix
The bottom line, if we collect all the data from the study, is that it seems logical to think that women experience more pain than men, however, we cannot know that sex is more able to withstand the pain of the same stimulus. who have learned to live better with suffering.