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What causes very low pain tolerance in men?


seriously disabled

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Nothing. From what I've read, gender doesn't have as much bearing on pain tolerance as we once thought. Individuals vary to an astonishing degree in their ability to handle pain. Women get special endorphins during pregnancy to help them handle the industrial-strength pains they face in childbirth, but for general pain, women have slightly less tolerance if anything.

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I think disease can cause it. And also genetics. Some people are genetically stronger and healthier than others.

 

Some diseases like polio or diabetes for example can reduce pain tolerance significantly and cause allodynia. Fibromyalgia can also cause allodynia and pain hypersensitivity.

 

And there is no cure for polio by the way.

 

I don't know how to post links here but I wanted to link to Wikipedia and to several other websites but I can't.

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Pain tolerance is also a matter of habituation. People can become stress tolerant by being exposed to pain. How much genetic factors may play into it I do not know, but available studies at least suggest that habituation certainly modulates pain perception.

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