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belive it or not when son broke both his wrists at school a few years back i had to meet them at the casualty he wasnt screeming in pain just sitting there quietly,

i managed to get son into the dentists today but he has a bit of tooth decay on one of the teeth that he says is hurting, the only problem they wouldnt know how much untill they open the tooth up son said he would rather go on with the pain, he was then told his options he could have tretment done today via injection or be refered to another dentist hes seen before and see if he can have tretment done by gas and air,

son was a lot better at having to be able to see the other dentist we also managed to get an appointment tomorrow for assement

[QUOTE=Jillette]My girl is a real sensitive to pain when in pain she will whine and cry and be miserable and that is when I climb the walls going crazy.  [/QUOTE]

You described my girl. She will scream and cry on even scratched skin. Oh, and if there is some blood,..., she would whine all day long...

Isn't it just fantastic that we are all out here experiencing the same things.  I honestly don't know anyone personally that has a child like mine!!  I thought that my son HAD to be the biggest weiner in the world.  This past saturday at soccer, he broke his leg at least ten time and his shoulder.  It really is pathetic.  In the middle of the game he will lie on the field and everyone waits to make sure he is okay.  Kind of embarrassing.  Oh and removing a wart-----he would scoot across the floor because he couldnt walk after we put the medicine on his knee.  My eight year old is a bigger puss than my two year old!!  It has to be the ADHDI have noticed this same thing with my seven year old son. A small boo-boo can escalate into a life threatening  wound at the drop of a pin. It depends on his focus. If he is focused on something fun, like soccer, or playing tag, or basket ball then he could have a limb hanging by a thread of skin and keep on playing with no notice. If he is suffering from attention deficit issues and having a hard time focusing and he steps on a lego the world will cease turning and the sun will fall into the ocean because the pain is so bad.

I'm not sure if ADHD kids are more sensitive to pain. I think it might be more of an issue of over frustration and not comprehending what is going on. Similar to the difficulties with any discipline. They tend to overreact and even forget not only consequences, but the actions that led to them. It all becomes a confused unfocused jumble.

Just my thoughts. Not to sure if I conveyed them the way I wished or not.

My 10 yr old DD is very overdramatic....AKA: Drama Queen around here.  And it's always something.  She will literally crawl, or slither like a snake some nights after soccer practice because her "ankle hurts sooo bad" or knee, or shin, or whatever that night's issue seems to be........30 minutes later I'll look out and she is running around the yard w/ the puppy!  LOL

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My 9 year old daughter seemed to have a high pain tolerance when she was little.  However, as she has gotten older, she seems to be very sensitive.  She also likes to really "play up" the symptoms.  We call her the Drama Queen.

A week ago, she had her first migraine.  I've no doubt that this really hurt, and she cried and cried with this.  What was really puzzeling was that nothing that was given to her seemed to take the edge off.   We gave her Tylenol and Motrin here at home.  Then, the ED gave her two prescription strength pain relievers.  Neither of these seemed to help, and I could tell that she was not just being dramatic.  I wonder if perhaps kids with ADHD might just be more sensitive to pain?

my son has a very high pain threshold,combined that with no sense of danger and we have some hair raising moments

he is only 4 so maybe he will be more sensitive to pain later.

just wondering how your adhd/add children react to pain, son hates being in pain from growing pains in his legs to toothache, but explaining it to him i find a big strain, tonight hes having problems with a tooth i think this is down to proper cleaning and sneaking to much sugar when nobodys looking,

i told him i would phone the dentist tomorrow morning he said he would rather have the pain all because of a bad experince last year when a dentist explained the only way to save his tooth was to haver root filling then showing how this precedure was done, this wasnt the normal dentist my children sees but it was the one availble this perticular time, he eended up having this tooth removed

so tonight hes cleaned his teeth taken a pain tablet and also put teething gel on the ofending tooth, but when hes in pain hes harder to handle harder to calm down and all i seem to be doing is arguing with him

It depends on my son's mood as to how he reacts to pain, sometimes it seems he doesn't feel it, others he is hypersensitive.  can you try distracting or redirecting him?My girl is a real sensitive to pain when in pain she will whine and cry and be miserable and that is when I climb the walls going crazy.  Last year she had her tonsils out and refused pain meds it was the week from h-ll.