Pain

This depends on method involved in actually loosing it.

If any nail get somehow caught and is ripped right out of its place then the chances are:

• If ripped out very fast, the nerve-endings registering pain will send such a massive signal that it gets blocked and it may not feel as pain at all for a short while. It will however start to become more and more painful after 30 seconds to a few minutes.
• If ripped out very slowly, then when enough pull is established and the fibers holding it in place are breaking then it will very quickly become intensely painful. This is the body's self preserving system telling you that something is about to happen and please make it stop.
• One can of course loose a nail due to something hitting it very hard. A hammer on a fingernail/thumb (carpenters) do this sometimes. Normally you would not lose the nail right away, but it will become bluish due to lesions of blood collecting underneath it. This will in time lead to the loss of the nail and is not painful, however the damage causing this to start happening can be quite intense. It depends on how well you managed to hit your nail. If hitting it really hard the chances are that nerve-signals to the brain will be blocked and the pain will gradually begin to form.

Do not worry though. In absolutely most cases a new nail will start to form and the lost nail will be fully replaced after a few months. This does however depends a bit on how badly the roots of the nail was damaged. Some times only part of the nail grows back out again.

The pain response is the method the body uses to tell you that something is going on that should not happen. It does not matter where the damage is happening. It will hurt on your toes as it would hurt on your fingers.

Pain is also a matter of perception. Some people can stand a lot and never takes painkillers. Others can watch a person hitting his thumb and "feel" the pain as it was his own, thereby going for painkillers :-)

If you are used to hitting your fingers, then you might not "feel" the pain as bad because you have felt it there so many times before. If you then hit your toe or get a damage elsewhere, the pain might feel quite a lot stronger because you are not used to the pain there.

There are also a few people around that does not actually feel pain at all.

We are all different.

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the only way to know for sure would be if you go get a blood test and talk to your doctor. the blood test will determine the level of h.g.c (pregnancy hormone) the normal level is 5.0. if your period was especially heavy that could be another sign, passing pieces of what appear to be skin like chunks or clots is another. its very common for woman to have early term miscarriages and not even know it, because it will seem to be just a heavy period. 1 out of 4 woman have miscarriages. maybe get a p.a.p smear and discuss the concerns of having a miscarriage with your doctor. if its not an early term miscarriage it would still be good, if you did have heavy bleeding or any other abnormal symptoms, to get check and make sure nothing else(like abnormal cells or infections) are the cause of your problems.

First urination after the procedure hurt quite a bit, same with second and third (I passed blood during these times, which is normal. Once I got home it continued to hurt but only at the end of urination .

The tip and underside were swolen for the first 3 or 4 days afterwards and clothes rubbing on my groin hurt so I wore loose clothes. I had inguinal pain/ache for approx. 3 days afterwards however I don't think this is the norm

A week later and its still uncomfortable when i urinate but only towards the end, however this may be due to slight infection, or maybe the urethra is still slightly swolen from the stretch.

If the cystoscopy is dealing with a urethral stricture, you may be given or have to give yourself urethral dilation. A week later and I was shown how to perform self cathaterisation and now have to do this daily for 2 weeks, every two days for two months then weekly for the remainder til I see a specialist again. This is to ensure that the stricture doesnt return and require surgery.

I was told that I am doing self cathaterisation because I'm relatively young so older people may have to go in and have it done

Although not full cathaterisation in my case due to the location of the stricture, I have to pass the cathater a good few inches into my urethra, move it backwards and forwards by a centimetre or so, then remove. Not a painful thing, but its certainly uncomfortable and not something everyone would be happy or willing to do.

Another Experience: I am a female and had a cystoscopy under local anesthesia to rule out cancer and other conditions that might cause hematuria. The urologist came in with brown disinfectant on what looked like paintbrushes. She cleaned the area and inserted lidocaine into my bladder to numb everything. This first insertion was probably the weirdest part - getting used to something going into the urethra. I didn't find this to be painful, just awkward and a little uncomfortable.

She inserted a sponge at the tip of the urethra to make sure the anesthetic stayed in there. I waited a good 20 minutes for it to work. That part was hard because I really just wanted to get it overwith at that point. The lidocaine tingled a little, but that was all.

She used a flexible scope to look inside my bladder. I asked her to talk me through the procedure and she did, and reminded me that she would stop at any point if I asked her to. The scope sprayed water as it went in to fill the bladder and allow her to look around. It was awkward and uncomfortable in much the same way as a gyn exam/pap smear, but not painful for me. I had to learn to relax to allow the scope in (not something I'm used to doing I guess). It lasted longer than a gyn exam, probably 5-10 min, so in that way was a little more uncomfortable I guess. She looked around herself first then turned on a screen to show me what she was seeing.

It really hurt after the procedure. I didn't pass blood but it was painful - kind of like a UTI with burning (and urgency due to the full bladder for the procedure), but also with a different kind of more intense pain - my best description would be it felt like a bruise. They gave me pyridium to numb the urethra and macrobid (an antibiotic). Even with the pyridium it hurt a lot to pee, and after peeing for a minute or two, for the next 36 hours or so. I was completely fine after that.

All of us have experienced pain at some time in our lives - all of us except for those rare unfortunate people who were born with the inability to feel pain. Pain is the most common reason people seek medical attention; about 80 per cent of doctor visits are primarily because of some pain problem. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain " as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience arising from actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage". This definition makes it clear that pain is more than just a chemical or electrical signal. Pain can include diverse unpleasant sensations such as aching, tightness, burning and numbness.

Pain also have adverse effects on the body beyond the perception of pain. The physical effects of pain can include: * Poor wound healing, weakness, and muscle breakdown * Decreased movement of the affected body parts, resulting in an increased risk of blood clots in the veins and in the lungs * Shallow breathing and cough suppression, which can increase the risk of pneumonia * Increased sodium and water retention in the kidneys * Decreased gastrointestinal motility * Increased heart rate * Increased blood pressure * Weakening of the body's immune system, causing decreased natural killer cell counts * Insomnia * Loss of appetite and weight loss * Fatigue Fatigue is an important consequence of pain. This was documented in a recent review of 23 reports about the association between pain and fatigue, which found overwhelmingly that they are related and suggested that there may be a cause and effect relationship. Unrelieved pain also has adverse psychological effects. It causes anxiety, depression, fear, stress, loss of enjoyment of life, and difficulty relating to other people. It can increase marital conflict, reduce sexual desire, and cause feelings of anger and resentment. Pain is generally thought of being as either acute or chronic. Acute pain results from some trauma to the body - an injury, an operation, or an illness. It usually resolves when the underlying injury has healed or the cause has been treated. Although it is uncomfortable, acute pain serves a useful function: It signals that there is something wrong and motivates the person to get help. Because of the pain caused by an inflamed appendix, most people manage to undergo surgery before the appendix bursts, which constitutes a much more serious surgical problem. Because a heart attack usually causes severe chest pain, an increasing number of people with coronary heart disease are hospitalised early enough to benefit from procedures the prevent further damage to the heart. Acute pain IS beneficial. Acute pain usually has a clear cause. The same is true for postoperative pain. Doctors are much less reluctant to treat pain whose origin is well understood; but even now postoperative pain is often undertreated. A random sample of 250 adults who had undergone surgery were recently surveyed about their pain experience. Approximately 80 per cent of the patients experienced acute pain after surgery; of these; 86 per cent has moderate, severe or extreme pain, with more patients experiencing pain after being discharged. Experiencing postoperative pain was the most common concern of patients. The study concluded that many patients continue to experience intense pain after surgery. How Does Chronic Pain Differ From Acute Pain?

About 9 per cent of the US population suffers from consistent moderate to severe chronic pain. Several surveys in Europe show that about 18 per cent of people have chronic pain, and the prevalence increases with age. Chronic pain is not just acute pain that lasts longer than a week or a month. It differs from acute pain in several respects. it has become clear that acute and chronic pain are processed differently in the brain. The severity and extent of chronic pain may be out of proportion to the original injury and may continue long past the period in which the damaged tissue has healed. Chronic pain is pain that has outlived its usefulness and is no longer beneficial. Acute and chronic pain have different treatment goals. The primary goals of acute pain treatment are to diagnose the source and remove it. With chronic pain, the main goals are to minimise the pain and maximise the person's functioning. Diagnosis, of course, a first step, but frequently the source is either already clearly understood (for example, multiple unsuccessful back operations or oesteoarthritis of the knee) or else very poorly understood and unlikely to be better understood (for example fibromyalgia or chronic pelvic pain). In either case, the pain persists and must be treated in its own right. With chronic pain, however, treatment goals must be realistic. Complete relief of the pain is rare. A more realistic goal is to decrease the level of pain to a tolerable level that allows the person to focus on everyday activities. Returning to work is clearly a desirable goal, but in fact, only about 50 per cent of patients who undergo comprehensive multidisciplinary pain rehabilitation are able to return to work. There are many alternative treatments that you could look into, I do Pilates/Yoga and Bowen Treatment.

Movement is the key when you have pain and I know that sounds daft but the more we move the better we feel :)

Chickens are electrocuted or the heads removed in the 'civil" world. We would think that anything would feel some pain if the brain is not shut down. Major trauma kills instantly, but your brain has to receive the message to die before it can die.

If a knife is sharp enough, the chicken won't feel it (just when you get a papercut, you notice it later after a few seconds.). These few seconds are crucial when it comes to pain.

Normally when you slaughter an animal, you slice his throat. When done with a sharp knife, the animal will not get oxygen to it's brains, and he will be incapacitated within 3-4 seconds. The cut consists of a swift, deep incision with a sharp knife on the neck, cutting the jugular veins and carotid arteries of both sides but leaving the spinal cord intact. Although he is not dead (it's heart still pumps), it can not feel anything.). It is very important not to cut the spinal cord, otherwise the animal will feel pain.

On second note: Jewish and Islamic beliefs state that the animal must not suffer and that is why they slice the throat. Then they hang the animal upside down so all blood can go out of the body. Basically when you sliced the throat, you let the heart do all the work by pumping the blood out. This is one of the main conditions of "Kosher" or "Halal" meat.

Conclusion: No it does not feel pain, unless the knife is not sharp enough and you cut the spinal cord. Only slice the throat (notice how you do not behead it, but a small slice in the throat will suffice.)