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Unless you are either female, a minority, young, or have chronic pain in which case any mention of pain you have, no matter how extreme, is considered a drug seeking attempt.
The ER will diagnose people based on their race, sex, gender, and age before they'll diagnose you based on your symptoms. It doesn't matter how much you are suffering, how much pain you are in, or how close you are to killing yourself because you can't take it anymore. ER doctors have no empathy unless you fit a certain demographic.
You don't think age and sex are medically relevant? A 5 year old will scream about a scratch on their knee, but I'll walk several miles home after making a meat crayon out of myself with my electric longboard and patch myself up.
Weird. When I was 5/6 I split my head open and didn't make a sound while got stitches done on my fucking forehead.
Good for you. When I had migraines, I was in so much pain I repeatedly banged my head onto the wall until it was bleeding and then kept going until I was too tired. Then I would sit there and cry silently because my vocal cords were spent and breathing made my head hurt, until I reached postdrome.
I don't know what point you're trying to make. If you think this is a pain tolerance issue, I don't think you know how pain works. Consider this, people experience pain subjectively and you can't 'see' how much pain they are in because it's not measureable by any metric, let alone facial expression. The 1-10 pain assessment chart is the biggest joke in the chronic pain community.