That is, when first penetration takes place, the pressure and pain signals may involuntarily cause all the vaginal muscles to contract in an effort to bar the intrusion and prevent further pain.

But during the same examination, two fingers may be inserted along the posterior wall ( the bottom of the vagina in the same position ) without any pain ; ;

These regional differences of sensitivity to pain may be of crucial significance during the earliest intercourse.

The pain and distress associated with the performance may easily give the wife a deep-seated dread of marital relations and cause her, unconsciously, to make the sex act unpleasant and difficult for both by exercising her vaginal muscles to complicate his penetration instead of relaxing them to facilitate it.

The physical effects of anxiety may include heart palpitations, tachycardia, muscle weakness and tension, fatigue, nausea, chest pain, shortness of breath, headache, stomach aches, or tension headaches.

This may be of particular concern regarding patients suffering with chronic pain.

In patients with chronic or neuropathic pain, various other substances may have analgesic properties.

Lidocaine, an anesthetic, and steroids may be injected into painful joints for longer-term pain relief.

The pain and symptoms of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease, GERD or simply " reflux ", may mimic those of a heart attack.

* Sometimes professional athletes may choose to have a non-essential digit amputated to relieve chronic pain and impaired performance.

Phantom sensations and phantom pain may also occur after the removal of body parts other than the limbs, e. g. after amputation of the breast, extraction of a tooth ( phantom tooth pain ) or removal of an eye ( phantom eye syndrome ).

For instance, a person who sustains bodily injury through the negligence of another may sue for medical costs, pain, suffering, loss of earnings or earning capacity, mental and / or emotional distress, loss of quality of life, disfigurement and more.

It may also be deliberately induced by pharmaceutical agents in order to preserve higher brain functions following brain trauma, or to save the patient from extreme pain during healing of injuries or diseases.

Use of the term CBT may refer to different interventions, including " self-instructions ( e. g. distraction, imagery, motivational self-talk ), relaxation and / or biofeedback, development of adaptive coping strategies ( e. g. minimizing negative or self-defeating thoughts ), changing maladaptive beliefs about pain, and goal setting ".

The whole society may suffer from an everlasting culture of pain.

Nonetheless, Eddy said a person may accept certain temporary aid from a doctor if he is in pain " so violent ," he is unable to pray for himself.

Coercion may involve the actual infliction of physical pain / injury or psychological harm in order to enhance the credibility of a threat.

Symptoms that may occur include unusual vaginal bleeding or discharge, pain in the abdomen, painful sexual intercourse ( dyspareunia ), fever, painful urination or the urge to urinate more frequently than usual ( urinary urgency ).

" Typhlitis is an intestinal infection which may manifest itself through symptoms including nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, a distended abdomen, fever, chills, or abdominal pain and tenderness.

According to Hubbard, before Dianetics psychotherapists may have been able to deal with very light and superficial incidents ( e. g. an incident that reminds you of a moment of loss ), but with Dianetic therapy, the patient can actually erase moments of pain and unconsciousness.

Note that a dominatrix does not necessarily dominate a male partner ; a dominatrix may well have female submissives, nor must the role of a dominatrix involve pain toward the submissive ; her domination can be verbal, involving humiliating tasks and servitude.

Other complications include epidermoid cysts that may become infected, neuroma formation, typically involving nerves that supplied the clitoris, and pelvic pain.

Quicking results in bleeding and pain and the horse may show signs of lameness or may become lame in following days.

The misery of Miriam's bitterness can be felt today by anyone who studies the case -- it was hopeless, agonizing, and destructive, with Miriam herself bearing the heaviest burden of shame and pain.

She ended her letter with the assurance that she considered his friendship for her daughter and herself to be an honor, from which she could not part `` without still more pain ''.

She stood up, smoothing her hair down, straightening her clothes, feeling a thankfulness for the enveloping darkness outside, and, above everything else, for the absence of the need to answer, to respond, to be aware even of Stowey coming in or going out, and yet, now that she was beginning to cook, she glimpsed a future without him, a future alone like this, and the pain made her head writhe, and in a moment she found it hard to wait for Lucretia to come with her guests.

If anyone asked us, after we made the remark that the suffering was a bad thing, whether we should think it relevant to what we said to learn that the incident had never occurred and no pain had been suffered at all, we should say that it made all the difference in the world, that what we were asserting to be bad was precisely the suffering we thought had occurred back there, that if this had not occurred, there was nothing left to be bad, and that our assertion was in that case mistaken.

It is as follows: `` The usual sensitivity tests showed that the specific qualities of skin-perceptiveness ( pressure, pain, temperature ), as well as the kinesthetic sensations ( muscular feelings, feelings in the tendons and joints ), were, as such, essentially intact, although they seemed, in comparison with normal reactions, to be somewhat diminished over the entire body.

The order to abandon ship was given, but cries of pain could be heard from the wounded below decks.

One thing should be clear to both husband and wife -- neither pain nor profuse bleeding has to occur when the hymen is ruptured during the first sex act.

Some hymens are so strongly developed that they cannot be torn without considerable pain to the girl and marked loss of blood.

Joint pain can also be a symptom of other diseases.

The Alexander technique has been shown to be helpful for people suffering from tension headaches, back pain, frozen shoulders, housemaid's knee, flat feet, tennis elbow, minor digestive problems, asthma, difficulties sleeping, clumsiness, irritability and lethargy.

By improving stress-management, the technique can be an adjunct to psychotherapy for people with disabilities, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, panic attacks, stuttering, and chronic pain.

However, in 2004, Maher concluded that " Physical treatments, such as acupuncture, backschool, hydrotherapy, lumbar supports, magnets, TENS, traction, ultrasound, Pilates therapy, Feldenkrais therapy, Alexander technique, and craniosacral therapy are either of unknown value or ineffective and so should not be considered " when treating lower back pain with an evidence-based approach.

Tricyclic antidepressants, especially amitriptyline, have been shown to improve pain in what appears to be a central manner.

In Islam, Job ( ايوب ) was a prophet renowned for his endurance ( assumed to be of pain and suffering ).

Jeremy Bentham, who is regarded as the founder of utilitarianism, argues that animals can experience pleasure and pain, thus demanding that ' non-human animals ' should be a serious object of moral concern.

In extreme cases, Pudendal Nerve Entrapment can be a source of intractable perineal pain.

There will be no more death, nor sorrow, nor crying ; and there will be no more pain, for the former things have passed away.

A number of studies have claimed that the reaction of pain receptors to the hotter ingredients in curries leads to the body's release of endorphins, curry is claimed to be one of the most powerful aphrodisiacs.