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She most probably participated in a birth event, some years ago
What do you mean by "participated"? How would one know the subjective pain to compare it, unless she actually gave birth?
I got dysentery in a human challenge trial
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#32Dysentery is no joke: the defining symptom, blood in your stool, comes from your intestinal lining sloughing off. A good friend of mine got it in India and said the waves of pain whenever she had to defecate were worse than giving birth without anesthetics. The one upside is that dysentery is common enough in India that it was promptly recognized and treated, with a single giant horse pill targeting both bacillary &…
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Curious, would you say it was the most painful thing you’ve experienced?
I'm not the person you're asking, but I may be able to satisfy your curiosity a little. I have given birth without anesthesia -- in fact, I did so twice. I found it arduous and difficult, and there certainly were moments of pain, but I would not describe the experience overall as exactly painful. You know how when you've been running for a long time and you really want to stop? That was the primary unpleasant sensati…
Yeah, I’m going to say you were pretty lucky. With my first I had pain significant enough to be traumatic, before the stage where I could get an epidural. I used to tell people if I’d gone out and had my husband run over my leg with the car, it would have hurt less and I could have gotten pain relief in the ER. It wasn’t as bad the second time though. It is truly a large range of experiences.
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Births without anesthesia are not unusual at all. Tho it is also a figure of speech.
The use of epidural, spinal, or combined spinal-epidural blockade is fairly common, now. Up to 80% in some parts of the US.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...
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#36I can only think of The Oregon Trail when reading about Dysentery.
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#37thank you
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#39I can only think of The Oregon Trail when reading about Dysentery.
Yeah, I enjoyed the author's tangent about the game in the article.
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#40> Stated another way, more people die from dysentery now, every year than ever died from any cause on the Oregon Trail. So let’s calm down about the Oregon Trail, okay?
Okay fine. Fuck.