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| Sun 29 Jan 12, 8:48 PM sarahbee UK(E), 4 mths |
Having just had my nipple pierced, I've got all curious about how the pain rush/ reaction works. I went from 'fuck that hurts!' to 'ow ow ow ow' to grumpy, to smiley and giggly and now, 8 hours on, to just a bit down. What's the reason for that? |
| 29 Jan 12, 8:50 PM nastybstd UK(LU), 6 yrs |
anticipation, fright, adrenaline, endorphins. Might be more in with that mix but its the basics to be getting along with. The pleasure, I fear, will be all mine. |
| 29 Jan 12, 8:53 PM sarahbee UK(E), 4 mths |
Sure, but it took about 4 hours to get to the endorphin stage and that only lasted about half an hour, tops! Mostly the grumpy down stuff |
| 29 Jan 12, 8:57 PM MistressRouge UK(B), 6 yrs £ |
A 3 hour tattoo sitting is quite a nice ride too http://birminghammistress.com |
| 30 Jan 12, 1:25 PM Chain_theprincess UK(NW), 4 mths |
Hello Being a Masocist I believe I am able to help with this question. Its called "sub Drop" where I come from (North America) but let me back up just a bit. When it first accured it hurt like hell... rightly so, this is your body telling you OMG something horrible is happening to you MAKE IT STOP! If your someone like myself, you often don't... The second phase of your bodys defences is to flood your system with endorphins. Its like a natural high. So say your in a horrible car wreck, your body does its very best to keep you from "dying of the pain" so to say. You may often hear a story and wonder how they managed to endure it all. This is why. Have you ever heard of "Runners High"? Marathon runners endure all kinds of hardships alone the routes and their bodies compensate for the stresses and pain they are put through. As their bodies release these endorphins, adrenalins and many other wonderful chemicals into the blood stream they are able to continue on when perhaps only a few momments ago they felt they had taken their last step. This is Runners High. This is the exact same concept that allows Masocists to do what they do, which is endure pain. Now there are also other physialogical things we can do to assist us with pain and many of these tricks are used by me in a scene. After all since everyones body will produce these chemicals in reaction to pain then should not everyone be able to endure the same levels of pain? No, and that is not the scope of this topic. Now we are back to the beginning, or for you the end. Hours after your ordeal you were sad. This as I mentioned before is what we refer to as SUBDROP. All the fun fuzzy feelings of the bodies chemicals are gone and what I can only describe as the Hangover now begins. Moodiness, depression, etc are only but a few symptoms. Many people get these same feelings after any activity which is exciting enough to get these chemicals flowing. But if you know this in advance there are many ways of insuring you are properly cared for to make this time as minimal as possible i hope this helped. If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. |