What is like to be stabbed?

Answer 1

People get stabbed accidentally or deliberately every day and live to tell about it. This question actually has many answers depending on what you were stabbed with and where you were stabbed. Usually there is a pain factor, a mental recognition of being stabbed, and a reaction to being stabbed. Small wounds like the one you get from nipple piercing, ear piercing and such often hurt for a little while and are acceptable pain for the preferred outcome. Hands, arms and legs are stabbed the most because we use them to defend ourselves. Pain can be small to horrible if they hit a nerve or bone. It is common for people to believe they have only been hit by something when they are stabbed by surprise and many don't feel much after being stabbed in the body. There are virtually no pain sensors inside your chest or abdomen. Most pain sensors are on the surface of your body as a warning that something is wrong and dangerous to you. The heart is the exception - it feels pain. So there is no simple answer. A large blade into a critical organ results in death quickly enough that most pass out and die without much pain. Small blades into muscles like your biceps will hurt like hell and continue hurting until a doctor fixes them up for you. If an artery, the heart or large veins like the ones under your arm or in your groin are punctured, death comes quickly as you bleed out. Blood loss after a stabbing is the most common cause of death. So don't pull out the weapon - it acts like a plug in the hole it made and could save your life after you are stabbed (especially true in the heart).