-> 0n (12 Oct 05) Daryl Stout wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE...

->  DS> WC>I passed a stone once and it put me into shock for 45 minutes
->  DS> before I   >could stand again.

->  DS>   That's as close, painwise, as a man can get to compare to a woman's
->  DS> labor pain.


->  Wow. I never thought of it that way. I'm not sure it's the same thing
-> because a Contraction is a different sort of pain than that from a
-> stone... One reason a woman in labor is told to BREAHTE is because
-> during a contraction the tendancy is to hold your  breath.. because
-> it can be so powerful it literaly does take your breath away. Which is
-> not a good thing because the muscles need oxygen and to get it we
-> have to breathe.

I had to remember to breathe and force myself when I passed a kidney
stone, it took my breath and came within a hairs width of passing out.

Went to a female dentist one time and she said an absessed tooth
was actually worse than labor pains.

I'd had TWO absessed teeth but had cleared up the infection
before seeing the dentist.

Of the two I'd take the absessed teeth every time.
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