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   http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/the-pain-of-being-a-redhead/

   Posted 2 years ago by Dee #

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   Hi, I'm Airyshone and I'm a redhead :)
   I can agree with this story, I have needed extra doses at the dentist and once when I was a kid getting a filling (I didn't have a cavity, it was a preventative filling) the nurse didn't believe me when I said it still hurt. Traumatization I tell you.
   But it's not for all anesthetics, I'm overly sensitive to others such as pseudoephedrine which used to be in formula 44. Knocks me out for the count.

   Posted 2 years ago by Airyshone #

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   Whew! I thought my careless remarks on the NZ Holidays thread might have cruelly traumatised all the redheads in the joint... What a relief to find this is not the case...

   Posted 2 years ago by jcat #

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   Airy on Tixylix baby cough medicine was a sight to behold. She was as high as a kite, dopey and off the wall then over and out into dreamland.
   I have no problem with dental pain and I refused to have pain shots mainly because I had a fear of needles. cured that fear by working in a lab then I would get the shots. I don't think I'm more sensitive to pain either, more the other way for me or maybe it's just because I've lived with arthritis pain for so many years that I can block out pain now.
   LOL Jcat, it would take more than that to traumatise a redhead, we're tough cookies, you have to be growing up with red hair.

   Posted 2 years ago by Moonshadow_NZ #

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   They have on my medical records to give extra sedation. When I had gallbladder surgery the guy didn't believe the chart and said this will knock you out. He gave me the drug in the IV and then he and I had a lovely conversation--he went and did another shot--took 3 to knock me out. I have been hard to sedate and as for the dentist unless it is a root canal he doesn't use novicaine because it takes more shots and time than it is worth. Personally I think I have a fairly high tolerance for pain--get that from Mum!

   Posted 2 years ago by SoxsMom #

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   .... I believe I've told you before, I come from a red head (my Mom), who has a red head sister - (we call them the "grinch" sisters)..... they are pros at THE LOOK.... scared all of us siblings staight growing up.....

   .... I may not have inherited the red hair, but definitely many of the red head tendenacies and temperment...... practices *THE LOOK* frequently on own children and Hubbs...... LOL

   Posted 2 years ago by AV #

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   Well, I am a redhead from a bottle...so I really am more like Soxmom...I can usually tolerate pain more easily...physical (& emotional... by just keep looking up!)

   Posted 2 years ago by jeankit #

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