Fatigue, listlessness, easy bruising, poor appetite, sleep disturbance, and
low pain threshold - all of which are common among cancer patients--are also symptoms of scurvy.
While some patients exhibit a high pain threshold, others have a
low pain threshold (8-10).
It has been suggested that heightened sensitivity to pain, also known as a
low pain threshold, could be caused by dysfunction of peripheral or central pain processing, or dysfunction of opioid-mediated endogenous pain inhibitory systems.
Chamomilla: Give one hour prior to dental appointment for patients with a
low pain threshold. It also expedites the wearing off of the numbness.
FASCINATING stuff here, including proof to rubbish claims about us gingers having a
low pain threshold in a hi-tech experiment involving sandcastle buckets and ice on the beach at St Andrews.
"If I didn't have such a
low pain threshold and if the make-up didn't take four hours to do, I'd make a sequel to 'Tootsie'," he said.
Loss of sleep has wide ranging effects, including daytime fatigue, physical discomfort, psychological stress, performance deterioration,
low pain threshold and even increases absenteeism, it says.