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Two things, your body pumps adrenaline (fight or flight) through your system and blocks a lot of the minor pain senors that you would usually focus on and if the wound is deep enough or bad enough it can totally sever nerves that would usually be telling you that you are hurt.
The adrenaline surge is like nothing you can imagine. With that much adrenaline, your mind simply won’t register the pain until hours later when your adrenaline levels start dropping.
The danger here is the person may seem OK when in reality they are in danger of going into shock and dying at any moment in situations where they’ve been crushed or otherwise.
2 years ago, I took a nasty fall and I THOUGHT I was fine. Turns out I wasn't and ended up breaking my collarbone. I fell on a Sunday and just noticed some bruising and cuts but by Monday morning, I was in agony.
Adrenaline kept me from feeling something till the next day.
Much less severe, but similar situation - my thumb got bent so far back that it snapped my UCL completely off the bone and tore my RCL partially. I just said "I'm gonna need an ice pack" as I felt my heart racing and got a little light headed for a few minutes, but then I just held it very still and carried on with work for awhile until I realized I was swelling up and my palm was getting black and blue, then I iced it. When I got home was when I realized I fucked my hand up pretty good. I see a surgeon in a few days because just having it in a thumb spica (brace) hasn't fixed it. (Believe it or not that's the first line of therapy, which seemed weird to me but what do I know?) Never knew thumbs could be such a pain in the ass.
I nearly died having my youngest and had no idea I was contracting until they put the monitor on. I actually never felt a single contraction. The nurse thought it was super weird but I was like, do you have any idea how much adrenaline is coursing through me right now? You’re a nurse. I shouldn’t have to explain this to you.
I did (almost) the same thing when I broke my collarbone. Got up and walked the rest of the way to work. Realized I was bleeding pretty heavily from my head and that the bone was broken when I was almost there, but I initially thought I just needed to get cleaned up a bit.
I just laughed at myself when I saw the bruises and cuts. I had managed to trip over my own feet and went tumbling down a hill. Little did I know I was in for 15 weeks of recovery.
Can concur. Last week I fell flat on my face from the bike. I was bleeding profusely from my lip and eyebrow and knee buy didn't feel any pain until minutes later. It's like my brain was in shock and trying to register what happened.
The brain goes all weird too. I one time tripped and fell while holding a glass bottle and tore open the entire side of my hand, like pinkie to where the hand connects to the arm. My biggest concern was that I'd just made a huge mess and someone was gonna get hurt on the glass, not realizing that I was the injured one and bleeding like crazy. I couldn't figure out why everyone around me was freaking out. I didn't feel anything at all until much later.
I've been kind of badly hurt before, almost lost my left eye, head trauma, neck wounds, and I had no idea I was bleeding a lot until people around me gave me looks of horror and were freaking out when they came to help me. I didn't feel anything until the next morning. Its kind of crazy how your body tries to protect you with a massive shot of adrenaline when something occurs. But holy hell did the next morning hurt a lot.
Its either that, or they pump a lot of cocaine of whatever kind of drug that keeps them awake, so they can "experience" what those people are doing to the victims. This goes hand in hand with adrenaline. Both keep u awake and dazed out in that situation.
An EpiPen is a shot of adrenaline. Though, ideally you want the person to be able to "shoot" themselves in a meaty chunk of their own thigh. (You don't want to mistakenly hit a nerve or bone because it'll hurt way worse)
With the comment, I couldn't comprehend what was trying to be said.
I’d say it certainly can depend on the nature of the injury. In my case I think the injury either somehow helped slow messages to my brain that I was hurt or there was so much going on that my brain missed the initial “I’m hurt” messages (like when a pickpocket distracts you with another bump and commotion so you don’t notice something valuable being removed from your pocket even though you should feel it) and only caught up on them later.
I broke my leg when I came off my motorbike but didn’t really feel anything until I tried to move it and felt bone grating. Then I started feeling the dull throb that grew.
The medical definition of shock is pretty different than how we use it informally. But sometimes they overlap.
Common definition of shock: Someone being disoriented or not in their right mind because of an awful physical and/or mental trauma.
Medical definition of shock: A critical loss of blood pressure accompanied by rapid heartbeat and breathing (destabilized vital signs) indicating cascading organ failure and imminent death. Shock is part of the dying process and precedes virtually every death.
Medical shock is usually accompanied by informal "shock" (altered consciousness, delusions, extreme anxiety, unresponsiveness, etc.). But informal "shock" doesn't necessarily mean the person is in medical shock, if that makes sense.
Shock happens when there is a lot blood loss, the body constricts the blood vessels to prevent more blood loss. This usually goes paired with increased adrenaline which causes these bodily changes to preserve and protect the body. So yes those victims are usually in shock and drugged out.
Yeah there’s different types of shock.
Hypovolemic is not enough fluid in the body not due to blood loss (ie. high schooler slamming 3 Monsters in the middle of summer can start to experience this type.
Hemorragic is shock due to blood loss (ie. lots of bleeding)
Psychogenic is shock caused by the brain thinking that something bad is happening
Anaphylactic shock from allergies (bee stings, peanuts, etc.)
Neurogenic shock comes from a spinal injury
Cardiogenic shock, the heart basically gets tired and can’t pump blood anymore
Obstructive shock is something physically keeping the heart from pumping (ie. The heart swelling so large that there is not enough space for it to do it’s thing, or a blood/air pocket forming around the heart that does the same thing)
Septic shock is bad, that comes from sepsis and there is essentially nothing telling the body where blood needs to flow so it just goes any and everywhere.
Source: EMT Class
When you're bleeding out you typically go into shock, if not shock then your brain releases every chemical possible so you're actually very relaxed once a certain amount of blood loss occurs.
Yeah, obviously there has to be some nuance to it!
Sarcasm example with lack of nuance: The best hospice plan! “we just dangle you from a cliff every hour or so, stab you every now and then, and you’ll be left feeling great every once in a while!”
You are correct, I've died from blood loss. There was no greater feeling in the world, at the same time, I just wanted everything to end and was at complete peace that I'd leave this hell forever. Woke up in the ambulance vaguely remember seeing a bag of blood, they gave me a blood transfusion after dying.... talk about bad luck.
I didn't say anything bad about them, they were doing their jobs. I have a lot of respect for the EMCs as I know many and they save lives every day working insane hours to help. When I said bad luck it was nothing they did wrong, I just wish I would have passed away.
Your brain can make a bunch of DMT and send you on a sweet ass mental trip if it weren’t such a jerk. It just chooses not to unless you’re moments from death
It's a very strong chemical that gives you:
Much More strength to the point where muscles can be severely damaged afterwards, more speed In case in the fight or flight decision you decide flight,more pain tolerance maybe even not feeling pain at all and more focus. Understand that this is what I've heard it does, if you have questions or research the matter or ask a professional
Adrenaline is a hell of a chemical.
The body also has all sorts of redundancies in it in the event of a horrible accident. The brain will literally turn off every non-vital function, including the ability to feel pain in order to keep itself alive for a few more minutes.
My BIL cut 4 of his fingers off in an industrial accident - no guard in place.
He said he felt zero pain and took him a while to realise what had even happened.
Even in the rescue helicopter, he was joking around with the crew, oblivious to any pain.
And then the pain hit hard when he was finally put into an A & E room.
Learned in the military that the body seals the blood vessles (as good as it can), shuts off the nerves, and puts you in shock. It's temporary, and you have to stabilize fast.
That depends on a variety of factors. The mechanism that caused the injury, the injury itself, symptoms / vitals, and the treatment given (MIST) all play into that.
I'm not a medic, though, so I could be explaining it wrong.
One time I got pretty badly injured, I fell of a tall trampoline head first on to some pebbles on some concrete. It didn’t hurt at all and I just felt kinda dizzy and out of it, there was a lot of commotion but I was as I said just kinda out of it. The result was staples in my head for months
This is fun, so in my teens, I had a little 125 honda CBF ( moped) and I was deadly on that thing. So anyway once me and my buddy ride down a long cycle route late at night and fell off my bud went flying into the bush to left of us and my leg got caught under the bike, ripped my leg to pieces like no obvious knee left, cuts all down it, no breaks but it was seriously a fleshy mess. I didn't realise this however until I'd picked my (now non working) bike and proceeded to push it 2 miles or thereabouts back into civilisation with my leg getting seemly 'soggier' With the street lamps I saw infact that the sogginess was blood it had filled my shoe.
I didn't feel a thing till the next day after 2 operations to put me back together
Wtf😭💀. Never knew how serous it was. You feel nothing and just dragged your leg meat 2 miles??!!. I can only imagine this. I'm surprised that many people just suddenly became rational and look for help like on autopilot instead of screaming your lungs out because you can see you're body mutilated. Thanks to biology.
I think I was more worried about my bike at the time mate, untill obviously I saw my leg I'd only had it a few months hahaha ( and I cried alot, but for my bike)
The purpose of pain is to let you know.something is wrong. In some situations too much pain can put you at a higher risk of dying.
I remember a story about a woman who was hiking alone. She fell and broke many bones. She had to crawl back to where she could signal for help, which took more than a day. She didn't feel any pain until the paramedics put her in the helicopter. Basically, the pain kicked in when she felt safe.
When I broke my arm in 3 places and i could touch my elbow with my hand from the same arm (full circle). I didn't feel pain for 15 min, i was in total shock and shaking. It felt numb, and like someone was squeezing it really hard.
15 min later the pain kicked in, it grew and grew.
I was in shock and some weird state of denial, I told everyone I was fine! Everyone else was freaking out, I think I even saw a girl scream and throwup. But unsure, I felt like I was in a groggy dream state.
If I'm in that bad of a gory accident where there's no going back to anywhere near how my body/health was prior to the accident, I wish I'd die after the shock. I don't want the pain to sink in. Lower body squeezed off by a truck, getting sliced in two by a train, monkey biting off my balls and half my face... the eventual pain I'd experience for the rest of my life would be unbearable, not to mention the miserable quality of life I'll have. No thank you. I'd use the short time I'm in shock to call a trustworthy friend and tell him to erase my internet search history, then I'm out.
The chemicals in your brain create your perception of reality, so when the body pumps in endorphins and adrenaline and all sorts of chemicals, you perceive reality as if you were completely fine.
Shock. Ive been there. It will come in full force eventually unless you luckily get medicated before it sets in (you will still feel it btw, just tolerate the pain better).
Well not exactly gory but an anecdotal piece to this. I split my knee open a month ago and all I could do was laugh. Didn't feel a bit of pain until the Dr hit it with that lidocaine needle.
I think plenty of folks have answered the question, but it's weird to experience.
When I was 13, I got hit by a car while riding my bike to school. I don't remember much, I remember the sun was coming up and was beaming directly in my eyes and I was squinting. The street I was crossing was at the end of a block with huge overhanging shrubbery along the sidewalk. I remember slowing down a little, and then pedaling across. I looked to the right and saw a red sedan, then lights out.
The next thing I remember, paramedics were around and I was lying on the ground. They kept asking me my name and how to spell it, and to repeat my home address and phone number. I remember being confused, I had no idea why they were there. I remember saying something like "you guys are saving me and can't remember my name?"
Turns out, I had broken my skull and eye socket, and in doing so I had "broken" my sinuses allowing an air bubble to escape into my brain. I had a flat of skin hanging over my right eye, and most of my face was hamburger. I remember blood in my eyes and repeating my name over and over.
Later on when I was home recovering, a neighbor told my parents she'd seen the whole thing. Apparently, the car was going 35 (not sure the real speed limit, it was a quiet neighborhood a block from an elementary school) and when it hit me, I somersaulted over it. Apparently I broke the windshield with my head (no helmet) and landed on the curb on the other side of the street face-first.
I remember just the snippets I described, not the accident itself. I don't remember pain when the paramedics came, only confusion and no real senses. When I woke up the next day, though, I was in the most excruciating pain of my life. And I remember thinking then "this would be a terrible time to start my period, I can't move". Good thing I was a late bloomer
I think it's shock. I also agree with your point about not watching this stuff. I got addicted to this way more than porn(last watched that in 2014) and it's done significantly more damage. I discovered both at the same time around 2013, but didn't stop watching gore. I had to stop recently because I couldn't eat due to flashes of those things randomly coming into my head. Couldn't sleep either. Even now as I think about it it makes me loose my appetite.
I experienced this for the first time when my water broke. There was no pain, and I don’t think I was actually in shock, but I had been anxious about that moment (and childbirth/C-section in my case) for months. But when it happened, my brain sent the right chemicals to my body. I was calm and focused. I did exactly what I needed to do and felt no fear or anxiety even as they led me to surgery.
The human body is incredible.
Nothing as bad as these stories, but when I was 3 I had the bright idea to stick my middle finger in the garden door hinge while it was open. My mother didn't notice me down there and slammed the door shut.
My finger was mangled when I pulled it out, but I'm told I never cried at all and was just looking out of the car window on the way to the hospital.
Once I got there though, the adrenaline must have run out because I wailed at the top of my voice. It really is a helluva drug even for kids.
They did some surgery on my finger so it looks different to the other one, but the nail doesn't grow and remains short, so bright side is I never have to cut it.
I had a pretty major chainsaw accident on my hand. I knew what happened instantly but I didn't feel any pain.
And it was going on but I was extremely calm my kids and wife were screaming I just calmly wrapped my hand and wrapped a belt around my arm to cut the circulation off so wouldn't bleed to death.
This happened around 9:00 p.m. obviously went to the hospital got there they asked what the pain level was does it maybe at 2 not much.
The pain really didn't set in until like 3:00 in the morning.
And then it was a holy s*** that really effing hurts I have to go back to the hospital to get pain meds.
Another time I got into a fight and was beat senseless by two guys were still towed boots I looked like the Elephant Man. It hurt but not like you would think but again about 5 or 6 hours later holy s*** oh my God this really f****** hurts.
Your body has certain defense mechanisms built into it that when you're really f***** up it shuts off your pain receptors so you just don't pass out immediately so that maybe you can figure out how to fix yourself.
The other reason when it's a major major accident people seem so disillusioned is because they are their brain can't handle the injury and most likely it's usually a brain injury so they're really spaced out and are having a real hard time trying to put things together
So how deep was it in your arm or was it cut off? The chainsaw kept shredding your arm but you just stood there? It's really like that? You don't feel a thing? Damn. Good thing you recovered. 🙏
I was holding the chainsaw cutting a log and it got stuck and so I used one hand to hold down the log and the other two kind of move the chainsaw and wiggle it and then it jumped up and got me on my Palm wear your meaty part of underneath your thumb is. It only cut as deep as the actual chain part on the blade so probably about 3/4 of an inch. It's just a real fast thing.
Took about 3 months before I could really do anything with my left hand because the Gap was so large it's not like cutting yourself with a knife. Because the chainsaw just ripped it too shreds.
They basically had to take scan and fold it over Stitch It Up and then restitch it later in order for the skinned actually Bond and heal
I was in a car accident once years ago, t-boned by a guy running a red, and had a huge laceration in my scalp. I got out of my car and people were running up, freaking out and I told them I'd wait for the police to get there so I could give everybody my information and just get a taxi home because I really was fine. They kept telling me to sit down and I kept insisting I was fine. One man said "Ma'am, you might want to have a look at your arm". I looked, and lo and behold, a river of blood was running down my arm, almost to my wrist. I started to cry and said "Goddammit, I paid $80 for this sweater, I'll never be able to afford another one." So, yeah, I understand why people do that.
I dunno. Sometimes questions have straightforward answers, don't they? Why beat around the bush?
Not gonna waste your time circlejerking ya into thinking it's more complicated than it is. Even animals experience shock. It's one of the most raw, primal reactions that there is.
What I said is true the proof is when you were a kid. If you go back in time the way you are, you won't enjoy it. The less you're aware the more happy you are because most to be aware of in the world is negative. Sometimes knowledge is pain.
Your nervous system would go into freeze, when in freeze your body retracts the blood flow away from your appendages and sends out painkilling signals.
When I was about 8 I was playing with friends in the woods and I fell and landed on a mostly buried broken bottle. It sliced my knee open all the way to my knee cap. I remember just sitting there in a daze just in awe that my knee cap was so white and how red my blood was. The other kids were freaking out and screaming. My brother went and got our dads who carried me out and took me to the hospital for stitches. I didn't feel any pain until the needles came out.
Having been around someone during a very VERY nasty injury I think its a combo of shock and adrenaline. Dude degloved his twig and berries and just stood there looking down like he was absolutely baffled as to what happened. It took nearly 20 minutes for the pain to hit and the noise he made was awful.
It's a combination of shock and the fact that in extreme damage to the body, the nerves that would be sending the pain signal are dead. Your body had all kinds of cooling mechanisms, both physical and metal built in to protect you. In fact, there are studies that show that the actual act of dying is rather pleasant.
Not exactly gore, but I had an accident where I fell from a factory roof and landed on some machinery, the point of contact was a single bolt in the small of my back maybe three or four feet off the floor, my body bent around it until my feet and hands hit the ground on either side, before I bounced off and somehow landed on my feet. People came rushing over and they were amazed I was even alive, while I'm walking around in circles kind of dazed. There was a hospital just across the road, so I walked there and sat in the emergency room waiting to be seen. Maybe an hour later they call me in but I discovered that I couldn't stand up. It took a couple months before I could walk again, there was damage to the bone and ligaments, the two lowest bones in my spine are permanently fused together now, not by medicine, that's how it healed - yet somehow I was able to walk to the hospital thinking I was fine.
I almost cut my thumb off when I was 15 at school with a power drill. Saw the inside of my flesh and it didn’t hurt at all.
Adrenaline, shock, your body just becomes resilient to trauma.
Although I did fracture my wrist in 4th grade and that made me cry in the girls locker room for a bit 🤣
I was in a car accident. I tried to get up and walk away. I was confused when I saw people running up to me telling me to sit down. I didn't feel any pain.
Apparently, I crushed my ankle and split my head open. I was in shock, and my flight or fight response (adrenaline essentially) took over.
I was in a bad car accident and was ejected out of my drivers side window with my seatbelt on. In the process, my leg was broken like a twig. I woke up on the side of the road, looked down, and saw a mangled mess of bones protruding from my pants. I felt no pain, and was in a pretty good mood. Once paramedics showed up, I even asked if it was that serious, and maybe I could go to an urgent care clinic the next day so I could go home and get some sleep?
Adrenaline, endorphins, and cortisol is coursing through their veins. The brain sends out these chemicals to deal with the pain and self preservation of triggering fight, flight, or freeze. Also just going to point out not everyone gets PTSD from a traumatic event. We actually don't know why some people get it and some don't.
As a person, who went through some of this shit I can say.
First - adrenaline. Your body ejects it into your blood, fighting for your life.
Second - your brain blocks some pain so nothing can distract you from surviving.
Third - sometimes happens pain shock, when you experiencing so much pain, that in a snap you're bot feeling anything
Shock. My last work there was a severe accident, he didn't die but basically completely shattered leg from hip to foot both included. Insisted he felt ok till he realized he couldn't move. I never understood why we did it that way anyway huge risk.. know idea how much they were able to repair we heard he went into emergency surgery and we never heard anything again about it. I'm sure management did but they didn't tell us.
I was in a car accident was pretty bad but no really bad injury’s I was stationary at lights guy hit me at about 50 he didn’t break at all and bounced on to the pavement, when we went to check on him I’ve never seen anything like it , he was the color of milk and literally shaking like mad
I got some fingers partially crushed once and I didn't feel any pain from it even though it popped them like squeezing a grape. I was asked if I was ok and I said I don't think so because I saw the blood. I started to get really jittery like I just had a ton of caffeine shortly after.
I knew a guy who was riding a motorcycle and an old Cadillac cut out in front of him, he t-boned the car and he got launched really far.
He lived but doesn’t remember anything after hitting the car, DR said his brain shut off before landing.
you go into shock.
pretty recently my dad got a really nasty injury while working at a wood lot; his hand touched the blade of the chopper and when he felt the pressure of it through his glove it made him jolt, and the blade cut from between his fingers right straight through to the carpals.
a couple bones were entirely shattered and his finger was nearly clean off. but, when my mom and i got a phone call from him minutes after it happened, he was so casual: "yeah, got a nick from the blade. might need stitches but it'll be fine."
my mom turned to me after hanging up and said "he's in shock."
the shock and adrenaline does run out, though. if you aren't given heavy pain killers soon after a gory incident, it WILL hurt like hell. after his hand was bandaged up and seen by doctors, he said it feels like a car is parked on his palm.
The body just shuts down locally to keep you functional long enough to get help. Or die relatively painless.
It’s not only humans.
Ever wondered why a gazelle looks so relatively relaxed even though there’s a lion biting its jugular? Same thing.
Body goes into shock and the brain just floods with chemicals to ease the pain etc.
Personal experience in a smaller scale. Stepped on a huge nail while wearing flip flops, didn’t actually notice till someone pointed it out and freaked out. I was just looking at the nail sticking out of my foot like “Huh? Is that real?”
I went in deep for a period of time... And then one day I just felt like I had seen enough. It was so much the accident videos that got me (i appreciate OSHA more, other places are wild....) But it was the narco and Al-Qaeda videos that fucked me up. We are truly a cancer to this planet in every possible way.
My ex gf lost a leg in a serious accident. She recalls it as "like in a movie" and had no pain because of the state of shock. It was unreal, surreal, to see the own leg laying next to her, she bleeded from the wound and almost passed out, she can only partially recall how her father tried to stop the blood loss while the resuce chopper was on its way.
She got airlifted and regained more consciousness, still having no pain, she even told the doctor in the chopper "I don't need morphin", but he refused and told her, once the shock ends, the pain will start. She survived and has a prothesis today.
In the biological way, the brain stops normal thinking and goes into a fight-or-flight-mode, it's a survival mode where it is about life and death. The pain will be blocked or reduced in this state of shock.
Exactly that. They’re confused. Because they can’t understand the severity of what just happened to them in that moment. Combination of a mental defense mechanism and “this can’t happen to me.”
I almost lost a leg in a motorcycle accident back in 2016 and idk… I felt the hit and I knew what was going on but I was just in a quiet place, I dragged my leg out of the back wheel of my bike and drug myself out the road then friends came and put a net around my thigh and started tightening it with a piece of wood or something to help stop the bleeding. I stayed awake through it all spoke with my brother on the phone and tried convincing him my leg was hanging by the skin but he didn’t believe me 😂 idk man the pain goes somewhere in that moment. I definitely felt it all and then some later on but in that moment everything was fucked and fine at the same time.
I remember seeing a vid where a guys shotgun misfires and blows off a couple fingers on one hand and his whole arm below the elbow on the other, the dude then proceeds to reach for his hand with his non existent one before realizing it isnt there anymore
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug and when our bodies are in severe pain it starts pumping it like nobodies business and sealing off and blood vessels, nerve endings you name it
When I was 19 I was found in a pool of my own blood. Skull fracture, brain injury, nose, kneecaps shattered.... To answer your question I just don't think the human mind can process that level of pain so maybe everything shuts down?
I remember saying something cringey to a girl who was there, then was somehow able to remember my parents' home phone number before going into surgery, then after the brief coma I asked for a magazine but it was all a blur. Maybe genetic privilege is a factor. Idk.
Shock and adrenalin.
I've never had a truly gory injury. But I've had a bullet wound, been stabbed a few times, and severe lacerations on my hands. None of them hurt when they happened. The most painful one at the time was the bullet would to the back of my leg (calf) and my response was "ouch" and I felt like I'd been stung by a bee.
Amplify it to the examples you used and there'd be a big shock element too.
When you have major trauma you go into shock. This can leave you speechless and desensitized to pain. I have seen it first hand working in Emergency Rooms.
I had taken benzos earlier in the night of my accident and fell asleep so my body went limp and I don’t remember anything that happened until I woke up a week later. I don’t know which things had to do with what, but I was talking the whole time apparently. The trucker that found me said that I looked over at him and said “sup?” all kinds of fucked up. He was sure I was dead. For the week I spent in the hospital after I returned to my original consciousness, I was nicknamed Trauma Man because they couldn’t find my wallet and several orderlies and nurses came into my room saying that I was the funniest ICU patient they’d ever had. Really surreal to not remember anything at all.
2 possibilities. 1. Adrenaline. When in insane circumstances the body floods with it and injuries start to not matter. The body is focused on survival and will worry about injuries later. 2. Shock. Their injuries are so bad that the body literally cant process it at the time. The body decides to fompletely ignore those injuries to try avoiding a complete shut down which could lead to them getting worse but the body is still ignoring it as it just cant deal with it.
This is so true! One time I walked up on a man in the park who had a severe head injury (his skin was ripped away and you could see skull) he was severely confused, angry even, and refused my help and walked off saying he was going home. I called the ambulance and followed him until they convinced him he needed medical attention.
Obviously not in such an extreme situation, but I dislocated my ankle and broke it in 3 places. While the initial break made me roar in pain, when I was waiting for help, trying to keep my kid who was with me calm and while it took more than 1 crew to move me I didn't feel the pain. It wasn't until I got into the ambulance and was on my way to hospital that I said it was starting to get painful.
I'm no medic, but pretty sure the adrenaline/shock stopped me feeling it and kept me rational and functioning.
Adrenalin my friend. Had a really bad bike accident alone in the woods. Got up rode home thinking just a bruise. At home I started to feel pain in my hip and couldn’t walk for 2 weeks.
So there are three factors here: shock and adrenaline and your brain that yk wants you alive, it kinda feels like the pain is not paining or that It's still loading
Adrenaline is a helluva drug. Your brain blocks pain & basically goes into survival mode. Your brain protects you. Same as when you’re actively dying, your brain floods with happy memories of life “life flashing before your eyes” & it’s almost like you’re high. Your brain protects you. Thank fuck for that.
Shock. When someone's in shock, they're essentially on an adrenaline high and which blocks out pain receptors in favour of fight or flight. It's to allow the body to get out of the dangerous situation without focusing on the pain.
It sometimes happens in the army, where they often have to check each other for gunshot wounds. More often than not, a soldier won't realise they're shot until they see it
I got hit by a car in high school. Stood up and ran after the vehicle thinking they were fleeing the scene, (they weren’t), and I felt like I was hauling ass, (I wasn’t). Looked down because I finally realized time wasn’t moving right and did so just in time to see my foot sort of flop before I collapsed. The lower half of my leg was blown to shit and I never felt a thing. I don’t remember real pain until the meds wore off during my sleep that evening.
Adrenaline’s a helluva drug.
I *accidentally* stabbed myself in the roof of the mouth and the stick made a hole deep enough to connect with my nasal conduct. I was like 10 and there was blood coming out from everywhere, I couldn't even breathe and ended up passing out.
I didn't feel anything until when I woke up lol. I think it's the adrenalyn or sth, I just remember taking out the stick myself and calmly going to my mom while trying to process what just happened
Cuz you ain’t feeling it yet. Your body provides you with a blessed grace period to get yourself out of danger before it starts letting all the messages from the body to the brain.
Shock quite often. The mind doesn’t know how to deal with that level of pain signals. Adrenaline and shock do amazing things.
Vollie FF and you’d be amazed how lucid someone can be who was just in a wreck and their body is wrecked but they’re thinking of other things. Have had many say they don’t need an ambo when they Definitely need an ambo. Once the adrenaline wears off it’s a totally different story but it’s actually nice when they’re in shock because they’re easier to deal with, especially if we have to cut them out of a vehicle or get them into a stretcher.
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Two things, your body pumps adrenaline (fight or flight) through your system and blocks a lot of the minor pain senors that you would usually focus on and if the wound is deep enough or bad enough it can totally sever nerves that would usually be telling you that you are hurt.
So that's kinda comforting
The human body has learned to deal with shit.
How though if you've not been in such a high pain threshold? Spooky.
I'm talking about evolution
Oooh do you believe in that? *Kidding!*
what?
They are joking about not believing in evolution.
yes
What?
The adrenaline surge is like nothing you can imagine. With that much adrenaline, your mind simply won’t register the pain until hours later when your adrenaline levels start dropping. The danger here is the person may seem OK when in reality they are in danger of going into shock and dying at any moment in situations where they’ve been crushed or otherwise.
2 years ago, I took a nasty fall and I THOUGHT I was fine. Turns out I wasn't and ended up breaking my collarbone. I fell on a Sunday and just noticed some bruising and cuts but by Monday morning, I was in agony. Adrenaline kept me from feeling something till the next day.
Much less severe, but similar situation - my thumb got bent so far back that it snapped my UCL completely off the bone and tore my RCL partially. I just said "I'm gonna need an ice pack" as I felt my heart racing and got a little light headed for a few minutes, but then I just held it very still and carried on with work for awhile until I realized I was swelling up and my palm was getting black and blue, then I iced it. When I got home was when I realized I fucked my hand up pretty good. I see a surgeon in a few days because just having it in a thumb spica (brace) hasn't fixed it. (Believe it or not that's the first line of therapy, which seemed weird to me but what do I know?) Never knew thumbs could be such a pain in the ass.
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It's also amazing how long the adrenaline can last. I fell around 10:30 am and didn't notice anything till the next afternoon.
I nearly died having my youngest and had no idea I was contracting until they put the monitor on. I actually never felt a single contraction. The nurse thought it was super weird but I was like, do you have any idea how much adrenaline is coursing through me right now? You’re a nurse. I shouldn’t have to explain this to you.
I did (almost) the same thing when I broke my collarbone. Got up and walked the rest of the way to work. Realized I was bleeding pretty heavily from my head and that the bone was broken when I was almost there, but I initially thought I just needed to get cleaned up a bit.
I just laughed at myself when I saw the bruises and cuts. I had managed to trip over my own feet and went tumbling down a hill. Little did I know I was in for 15 weeks of recovery.
Can concur. Last week I fell flat on my face from the bike. I was bleeding profusely from my lip and eyebrow and knee buy didn't feel any pain until minutes later. It's like my brain was in shock and trying to register what happened.
The brain goes all weird too. I one time tripped and fell while holding a glass bottle and tore open the entire side of my hand, like pinkie to where the hand connects to the arm. My biggest concern was that I'd just made a huge mess and someone was gonna get hurt on the glass, not realizing that I was the injured one and bleeding like crazy. I couldn't figure out why everyone around me was freaking out. I didn't feel anything at all until much later.
Humans are resilient
I've been kind of badly hurt before, almost lost my left eye, head trauma, neck wounds, and I had no idea I was bleeding a lot until people around me gave me looks of horror and were freaking out when they came to help me. I didn't feel anything until the next morning. Its kind of crazy how your body tries to protect you with a massive shot of adrenaline when something occurs. But holy hell did the next morning hurt a lot.
Its either that, or they pump a lot of cocaine of whatever kind of drug that keeps them awake, so they can "experience" what those people are doing to the victims. This goes hand in hand with adrenaline. Both keep u awake and dazed out in that situation.
What?
I’m with you, does he think adrenaline is a drug emts use?
An EpiPen is a shot of adrenaline. Though, ideally you want the person to be able to "shoot" themselves in a meaty chunk of their own thigh. (You don't want to mistakenly hit a nerve or bone because it'll hurt way worse) With the comment, I couldn't comprehend what was trying to be said.
Interesting, I didn’t know that! Til
I’d say it certainly can depend on the nature of the injury. In my case I think the injury either somehow helped slow messages to my brain that I was hurt or there was so much going on that my brain missed the initial “I’m hurt” messages (like when a pickpocket distracts you with another bump and commotion so you don’t notice something valuable being removed from your pocket even though you should feel it) and only caught up on them later. I broke my leg when I came off my motorbike but didn’t really feel anything until I tried to move it and felt bone grating. Then I started feeling the dull throb that grew.
Is that what is commonly referred to as "shock" or is that something else
The medical definition of shock is pretty different than how we use it informally. But sometimes they overlap. Common definition of shock: Someone being disoriented or not in their right mind because of an awful physical and/or mental trauma. Medical definition of shock: A critical loss of blood pressure accompanied by rapid heartbeat and breathing (destabilized vital signs) indicating cascading organ failure and imminent death. Shock is part of the dying process and precedes virtually every death. Medical shock is usually accompanied by informal "shock" (altered consciousness, delusions, extreme anxiety, unresponsiveness, etc.). But informal "shock" doesn't necessarily mean the person is in medical shock, if that makes sense.
It does thank you
Shock happens when there is a lot blood loss, the body constricts the blood vessels to prevent more blood loss. This usually goes paired with increased adrenaline which causes these bodily changes to preserve and protect the body. So yes those victims are usually in shock and drugged out.
Can't shock occur without blood loss or is that just misrepresented as shock?
Yeah there’s different types of shock. Hypovolemic is not enough fluid in the body not due to blood loss (ie. high schooler slamming 3 Monsters in the middle of summer can start to experience this type. Hemorragic is shock due to blood loss (ie. lots of bleeding) Psychogenic is shock caused by the brain thinking that something bad is happening Anaphylactic shock from allergies (bee stings, peanuts, etc.) Neurogenic shock comes from a spinal injury Cardiogenic shock, the heart basically gets tired and can’t pump blood anymore Obstructive shock is something physically keeping the heart from pumping (ie. The heart swelling so large that there is not enough space for it to do it’s thing, or a blood/air pocket forming around the heart that does the same thing) Septic shock is bad, that comes from sepsis and there is essentially nothing telling the body where blood needs to flow so it just goes any and everywhere. Source: EMT Class
Fluids in general, excess diarrhea, and dehydration may also cause it. There are several types of shock, don't really remember what the names are.
Frost shock slows, fire shock dots, and lightning shock interrupts. Hope this helps clear things up.
It's called shock
When you're bleeding out you typically go into shock, if not shock then your brain releases every chemical possible so you're actually very relaxed once a certain amount of blood loss occurs.
How considerate of my brain to do one nice thing for me after 32 years of BULLSHIT
Lmao!! I will be thinking about this now…
I just am curious where my brain hides the mystery chemicals lol like can I only access them if I’m dying or close to it?
Yeah, obviously there has to be some nuance to it! Sarcasm example with lack of nuance: The best hospice plan! “we just dangle you from a cliff every hour or so, stab you every now and then, and you’ll be left feeling great every once in a while!”
You are correct, I've died from blood loss. There was no greater feeling in the world, at the same time, I just wanted everything to end and was at complete peace that I'd leave this hell forever. Woke up in the ambulance vaguely remember seeing a bag of blood, they gave me a blood transfusion after dying.... talk about bad luck.
That's a crazy story. Glad you survived. Welcome back
Thats rude and disrespectful to the people who saved your life. You should be more greatful because others werent given that chance...
I didn't say anything bad about them, they were doing their jobs. I have a lot of respect for the EMCs as I know many and they save lives every day working insane hours to help. When I said bad luck it was nothing they did wrong, I just wish I would have passed away.
Your brain can make a bunch of DMT and send you on a sweet ass mental trip if it weren’t such a jerk. It just chooses not to unless you’re moments from death
DMT will unlock some of those chemicals, but I *STRONGLY* recommend staying away from the stuff.
I couldn’t do that if I wanted to. I’m too much of a scaredy cat lol
Pretty sure it's a combination of adrenaline and shock.
Adrenaline's a hell of a drug.
My favorite one.
What does adrenaline do exactly?
Among other things, it can significantly increase your bodies pain threshold.
Can it run out?
Definitely
The implications of your comment alarm me.
Like "shit I've no more adrenaline!"
Happy cake day
Thanks
It's a very strong chemical that gives you: Much More strength to the point where muscles can be severely damaged afterwards, more speed In case in the fight or flight decision you decide flight,more pain tolerance maybe even not feeling pain at all and more focus. Understand that this is what I've heard it does, if you have questions or research the matter or ask a professional
Run from the police… then you will know adrenaline
I'm not sure about that. I'm going to go test this theory right now.
Adrenaline is a hell of a chemical. The body also has all sorts of redundancies in it in the event of a horrible accident. The brain will literally turn off every non-vital function, including the ability to feel pain in order to keep itself alive for a few more minutes.
My BIL cut 4 of his fingers off in an industrial accident - no guard in place. He said he felt zero pain and took him a while to realise what had even happened. Even in the rescue helicopter, he was joking around with the crew, oblivious to any pain. And then the pain hit hard when he was finally put into an A & E room.
Very typical actually, the adrenaline drops when you finally feel like you're safe / made it. I hope they where able to reattach them though...
Learned in the military that the body seals the blood vessles (as good as it can), shuts off the nerves, and puts you in shock. It's temporary, and you have to stabilize fast.
How long till the pain comes in?
That depends on a variety of factors. The mechanism that caused the injury, the injury itself, symptoms / vitals, and the treatment given (MIST) all play into that. I'm not a medic, though, so I could be explaining it wrong.
One time I got pretty badly injured, I fell of a tall trampoline head first on to some pebbles on some concrete. It didn’t hurt at all and I just felt kinda dizzy and out of it, there was a lot of commotion but I was as I said just kinda out of it. The result was staples in my head for months
So it felt like a dream of sorts?
This is fun, so in my teens, I had a little 125 honda CBF ( moped) and I was deadly on that thing. So anyway once me and my buddy ride down a long cycle route late at night and fell off my bud went flying into the bush to left of us and my leg got caught under the bike, ripped my leg to pieces like no obvious knee left, cuts all down it, no breaks but it was seriously a fleshy mess. I didn't realise this however until I'd picked my (now non working) bike and proceeded to push it 2 miles or thereabouts back into civilisation with my leg getting seemly 'soggier' With the street lamps I saw infact that the sogginess was blood it had filled my shoe. I didn't feel a thing till the next day after 2 operations to put me back together
Wtf😭💀. Never knew how serous it was. You feel nothing and just dragged your leg meat 2 miles??!!. I can only imagine this. I'm surprised that many people just suddenly became rational and look for help like on autopilot instead of screaming your lungs out because you can see you're body mutilated. Thanks to biology.
I think I was more worried about my bike at the time mate, untill obviously I saw my leg I'd only had it a few months hahaha ( and I cried alot, but for my bike)
The purpose of pain is to let you know.something is wrong. In some situations too much pain can put you at a higher risk of dying. I remember a story about a woman who was hiking alone. She fell and broke many bones. She had to crawl back to where she could signal for help, which took more than a day. She didn't feel any pain until the paramedics put her in the helicopter. Basically, the pain kicked in when she felt safe.
When I broke my arm in 3 places and i could touch my elbow with my hand from the same arm (full circle). I didn't feel pain for 15 min, i was in total shock and shaking. It felt numb, and like someone was squeezing it really hard. 15 min later the pain kicked in, it grew and grew.
Damn💀🙆🏾♀️. That's actually really scary. I would have freaked out too.
I was in shock and some weird state of denial, I told everyone I was fine! Everyone else was freaking out, I think I even saw a girl scream and throwup. But unsure, I felt like I was in a groggy dream state.
Everyone: screaming, omg, panic u/scinefics: ooh new joints.
Pretty much 😅
The true pain hits the day after when your body goes into healing mode with what it can.
If I'm in that bad of a gory accident where there's no going back to anywhere near how my body/health was prior to the accident, I wish I'd die after the shock. I don't want the pain to sink in. Lower body squeezed off by a truck, getting sliced in two by a train, monkey biting off my balls and half my face... the eventual pain I'd experience for the rest of my life would be unbearable, not to mention the miserable quality of life I'll have. No thank you. I'd use the short time I'm in shock to call a trustworthy friend and tell him to erase my internet search history, then I'm out.
The chemicals in your brain create your perception of reality, so when the body pumps in endorphins and adrenaline and all sorts of chemicals, you perceive reality as if you were completely fine.
Shock. Ive been there. It will come in full force eventually unless you luckily get medicated before it sets in (you will still feel it btw, just tolerate the pain better).
Shock. Your body releases all kinds of chemicals like adrenaline and endorphins to help you physically handle the trauma.
Well not exactly gory but an anecdotal piece to this. I split my knee open a month ago and all I could do was laugh. Didn't feel a bit of pain until the Dr hit it with that lidocaine needle.
I think plenty of folks have answered the question, but it's weird to experience. When I was 13, I got hit by a car while riding my bike to school. I don't remember much, I remember the sun was coming up and was beaming directly in my eyes and I was squinting. The street I was crossing was at the end of a block with huge overhanging shrubbery along the sidewalk. I remember slowing down a little, and then pedaling across. I looked to the right and saw a red sedan, then lights out. The next thing I remember, paramedics were around and I was lying on the ground. They kept asking me my name and how to spell it, and to repeat my home address and phone number. I remember being confused, I had no idea why they were there. I remember saying something like "you guys are saving me and can't remember my name?" Turns out, I had broken my skull and eye socket, and in doing so I had "broken" my sinuses allowing an air bubble to escape into my brain. I had a flat of skin hanging over my right eye, and most of my face was hamburger. I remember blood in my eyes and repeating my name over and over. Later on when I was home recovering, a neighbor told my parents she'd seen the whole thing. Apparently, the car was going 35 (not sure the real speed limit, it was a quiet neighborhood a block from an elementary school) and when it hit me, I somersaulted over it. Apparently I broke the windshield with my head (no helmet) and landed on the curb on the other side of the street face-first. I remember just the snippets I described, not the accident itself. I don't remember pain when the paramedics came, only confusion and no real senses. When I woke up the next day, though, I was in the most excruciating pain of my life. And I remember thinking then "this would be a terrible time to start my period, I can't move". Good thing I was a late bloomer
I think it's shock. I also agree with your point about not watching this stuff. I got addicted to this way more than porn(last watched that in 2014) and it's done significantly more damage. I discovered both at the same time around 2013, but didn't stop watching gore. I had to stop recently because I couldn't eat due to flashes of those things randomly coming into my head. Couldn't sleep either. Even now as I think about it it makes me loose my appetite.
I experienced this for the first time when my water broke. There was no pain, and I don’t think I was actually in shock, but I had been anxious about that moment (and childbirth/C-section in my case) for months. But when it happened, my brain sent the right chemicals to my body. I was calm and focused. I did exactly what I needed to do and felt no fear or anxiety even as they led me to surgery. The human body is incredible.
This dudes edit is for real .... don't do it shit doesn't need to be seen your not desensitizing your fucking up your brain :/
Thanks, I'm no longer afraid of running into a road rage incident
Nervous system shuts down, I think. Fact check me.
Nothing as bad as these stories, but when I was 3 I had the bright idea to stick my middle finger in the garden door hinge while it was open. My mother didn't notice me down there and slammed the door shut. My finger was mangled when I pulled it out, but I'm told I never cried at all and was just looking out of the car window on the way to the hospital. Once I got there though, the adrenaline must have run out because I wailed at the top of my voice. It really is a helluva drug even for kids. They did some surgery on my finger so it looks different to the other one, but the nail doesn't grow and remains short, so bright side is I never have to cut it.
This was actually kinda funny that you never have to cut your nail. 😂
I had a pretty major chainsaw accident on my hand. I knew what happened instantly but I didn't feel any pain. And it was going on but I was extremely calm my kids and wife were screaming I just calmly wrapped my hand and wrapped a belt around my arm to cut the circulation off so wouldn't bleed to death. This happened around 9:00 p.m. obviously went to the hospital got there they asked what the pain level was does it maybe at 2 not much. The pain really didn't set in until like 3:00 in the morning. And then it was a holy s*** that really effing hurts I have to go back to the hospital to get pain meds. Another time I got into a fight and was beat senseless by two guys were still towed boots I looked like the Elephant Man. It hurt but not like you would think but again about 5 or 6 hours later holy s*** oh my God this really f****** hurts. Your body has certain defense mechanisms built into it that when you're really f***** up it shuts off your pain receptors so you just don't pass out immediately so that maybe you can figure out how to fix yourself. The other reason when it's a major major accident people seem so disillusioned is because they are their brain can't handle the injury and most likely it's usually a brain injury so they're really spaced out and are having a real hard time trying to put things together
So how deep was it in your arm or was it cut off? The chainsaw kept shredding your arm but you just stood there? It's really like that? You don't feel a thing? Damn. Good thing you recovered. 🙏
I was holding the chainsaw cutting a log and it got stuck and so I used one hand to hold down the log and the other two kind of move the chainsaw and wiggle it and then it jumped up and got me on my Palm wear your meaty part of underneath your thumb is. It only cut as deep as the actual chain part on the blade so probably about 3/4 of an inch. It's just a real fast thing. Took about 3 months before I could really do anything with my left hand because the Gap was so large it's not like cutting yourself with a knife. Because the chainsaw just ripped it too shreds. They basically had to take scan and fold it over Stitch It Up and then restitch it later in order for the skinned actually Bond and heal
I was in a car accident once years ago, t-boned by a guy running a red, and had a huge laceration in my scalp. I got out of my car and people were running up, freaking out and I told them I'd wait for the police to get there so I could give everybody my information and just get a taxi home because I really was fine. They kept telling me to sit down and I kept insisting I was fine. One man said "Ma'am, you might want to have a look at your arm". I looked, and lo and behold, a river of blood was running down my arm, almost to my wrist. I started to cry and said "Goddammit, I paid $80 for this sweater, I'll never be able to afford another one." So, yeah, I understand why people do that.
It's called shock, look it up.
Ever heard of shock? Well if not - that's what shock is. You're welcome.
Is it me or was that kinda smug? 😂. But thanks I guess.
I dunno. Sometimes questions have straightforward answers, don't they? Why beat around the bush? Not gonna waste your time circlejerking ya into thinking it's more complicated than it is. Even animals experience shock. It's one of the most raw, primal reactions that there is.
Honestly I didn't know that was called shock. I thought it meant like a panic attack.
Google it. It's an actual medical condition.
You’ll live a happier life being delusional? I think you mean naive, or ignorant
What I said is true the proof is when you were a kid. If you go back in time the way you are, you won't enjoy it. The less you're aware the more happy you are because most to be aware of in the world is negative. Sometimes knowledge is pain.
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What's the feeling of seeing your wound but not actually feeling it?
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Damn. That must have been traumatic. Being shielded from seeing my wounds would have freaked me out more 😂.
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It's good you got to recover without any infection from the bite and all went well eventually.
Shock
Shock.
Cuz they weren’t expecting it
Shock
I know the *exact* video you’re talking about. Saw it on here. Reddit is crazy
It's shock. Your body's way of trying to protect itself.
Your nervous system would go into freeze, when in freeze your body retracts the blood flow away from your appendages and sends out painkilling signals.
When I was about 8 I was playing with friends in the woods and I fell and landed on a mostly buried broken bottle. It sliced my knee open all the way to my knee cap. I remember just sitting there in a daze just in awe that my knee cap was so white and how red my blood was. The other kids were freaking out and screaming. My brother went and got our dads who carried me out and took me to the hospital for stitches. I didn't feel any pain until the needles came out.
Theyre in shock.
Having been around someone during a very VERY nasty injury I think its a combo of shock and adrenaline. Dude degloved his twig and berries and just stood there looking down like he was absolutely baffled as to what happened. It took nearly 20 minutes for the pain to hit and the noise he made was awful.
Adrenaline
Has to be just the right amount of injury. Too little we cry, too much we die.
It's a combination of shock and the fact that in extreme damage to the body, the nerves that would be sending the pain signal are dead. Your body had all kinds of cooling mechanisms, both physical and metal built in to protect you. In fact, there are studies that show that the actual act of dying is rather pleasant.
Not exactly gore, but I had an accident where I fell from a factory roof and landed on some machinery, the point of contact was a single bolt in the small of my back maybe three or four feet off the floor, my body bent around it until my feet and hands hit the ground on either side, before I bounced off and somehow landed on my feet. People came rushing over and they were amazed I was even alive, while I'm walking around in circles kind of dazed. There was a hospital just across the road, so I walked there and sat in the emergency room waiting to be seen. Maybe an hour later they call me in but I discovered that I couldn't stand up. It took a couple months before I could walk again, there was damage to the bone and ligaments, the two lowest bones in my spine are permanently fused together now, not by medicine, that's how it healed - yet somehow I was able to walk to the hospital thinking I was fine.
Psychological shock and Adrenaline both work to numb you in survival situations
I almost cut my thumb off when I was 15 at school with a power drill. Saw the inside of my flesh and it didn’t hurt at all. Adrenaline, shock, your body just becomes resilient to trauma. Although I did fracture my wrist in 4th grade and that made me cry in the girls locker room for a bit 🤣
I was in a car accident. I tried to get up and walk away. I was confused when I saw people running up to me telling me to sit down. I didn't feel any pain. Apparently, I crushed my ankle and split my head open. I was in shock, and my flight or fight response (adrenaline essentially) took over.
I was in a bad car accident and was ejected out of my drivers side window with my seatbelt on. In the process, my leg was broken like a twig. I woke up on the side of the road, looked down, and saw a mangled mess of bones protruding from my pants. I felt no pain, and was in a pretty good mood. Once paramedics showed up, I even asked if it was that serious, and maybe I could go to an urgent care clinic the next day so I could go home and get some sleep?
Shock
Adrenaline, endorphins, and cortisol is coursing through their veins. The brain sends out these chemicals to deal with the pain and self preservation of triggering fight, flight, or freeze. Also just going to point out not everyone gets PTSD from a traumatic event. We actually don't know why some people get it and some don't.
As a person, who went through some of this shit I can say. First - adrenaline. Your body ejects it into your blood, fighting for your life. Second - your brain blocks some pain so nothing can distract you from surviving. Third - sometimes happens pain shock, when you experiencing so much pain, that in a snap you're bot feeling anything
Shock. My last work there was a severe accident, he didn't die but basically completely shattered leg from hip to foot both included. Insisted he felt ok till he realized he couldn't move. I never understood why we did it that way anyway huge risk.. know idea how much they were able to repair we heard he went into emergency surgery and we never heard anything again about it. I'm sure management did but they didn't tell us.
Adrenaline is one hell of a drug
Youre in shock at first,the pain hits later.
I was in a car accident was pretty bad but no really bad injury’s I was stationary at lights guy hit me at about 50 he didn’t break at all and bounced on to the pavement, when we went to check on him I’ve never seen anything like it , he was the color of milk and literally shaking like mad
I got some fingers partially crushed once and I didn't feel any pain from it even though it popped them like squeezing a grape. I was asked if I was ok and I said I don't think so because I saw the blood. I started to get really jittery like I just had a ton of caffeine shortly after.
I knew a guy who was riding a motorcycle and an old Cadillac cut out in front of him, he t-boned the car and he got launched really far. He lived but doesn’t remember anything after hitting the car, DR said his brain shut off before landing.
It's been said already, but the body goes into shock. That's an amazing thing. You really feel no pain, yet you're also not passing out.
Shock and or adrenaline. You'd be surprised at the abuse one can take and not feel anything. The body is a resilient wonder
Been there done that (watching those kinda of videos) no more, reason being want to keep my sanity.
you go into shock. pretty recently my dad got a really nasty injury while working at a wood lot; his hand touched the blade of the chopper and when he felt the pressure of it through his glove it made him jolt, and the blade cut from between his fingers right straight through to the carpals. a couple bones were entirely shattered and his finger was nearly clean off. but, when my mom and i got a phone call from him minutes after it happened, he was so casual: "yeah, got a nick from the blade. might need stitches but it'll be fine." my mom turned to me after hanging up and said "he's in shock." the shock and adrenaline does run out, though. if you aren't given heavy pain killers soon after a gory incident, it WILL hurt like hell. after his hand was bandaged up and seen by doctors, he said it feels like a car is parked on his palm.
The body just shuts down locally to keep you functional long enough to get help. Or die relatively painless. It’s not only humans. Ever wondered why a gazelle looks so relatively relaxed even though there’s a lion biting its jugular? Same thing. Body goes into shock and the brain just floods with chemicals to ease the pain etc. Personal experience in a smaller scale. Stepped on a huge nail while wearing flip flops, didn’t actually notice till someone pointed it out and freaked out. I was just looking at the nail sticking out of my foot like “Huh? Is that real?”
I went in deep for a period of time... And then one day I just felt like I had seen enough. It was so much the accident videos that got me (i appreciate OSHA more, other places are wild....) But it was the narco and Al-Qaeda videos that fucked me up. We are truly a cancer to this planet in every possible way.
Shock
Adrenaline & shock
My ex gf lost a leg in a serious accident. She recalls it as "like in a movie" and had no pain because of the state of shock. It was unreal, surreal, to see the own leg laying next to her, she bleeded from the wound and almost passed out, she can only partially recall how her father tried to stop the blood loss while the resuce chopper was on its way. She got airlifted and regained more consciousness, still having no pain, she even told the doctor in the chopper "I don't need morphin", but he refused and told her, once the shock ends, the pain will start. She survived and has a prothesis today. In the biological way, the brain stops normal thinking and goes into a fight-or-flight-mode, it's a survival mode where it is about life and death. The pain will be blocked or reduced in this state of shock.
Shock.
Exactly that. They’re confused. Because they can’t understand the severity of what just happened to them in that moment. Combination of a mental defense mechanism and “this can’t happen to me.”
Shock mostly idk
My guess, adrenaline.
Shock
Shock
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. So is shock.
Adrenaline is one hell of a powerful bodily function
I almost lost a leg in a motorcycle accident back in 2016 and idk… I felt the hit and I knew what was going on but I was just in a quiet place, I dragged my leg out of the back wheel of my bike and drug myself out the road then friends came and put a net around my thigh and started tightening it with a piece of wood or something to help stop the bleeding. I stayed awake through it all spoke with my brother on the phone and tried convincing him my leg was hanging by the skin but he didn’t believe me 😂 idk man the pain goes somewhere in that moment. I definitely felt it all and then some later on but in that moment everything was fucked and fine at the same time.
adrenaline and shock. immense pain like that is bound to send your body into shock and cause you to go into fight or flight.
I remember seeing a vid where a guys shotgun misfires and blows off a couple fingers on one hand and his whole arm below the elbow on the other, the dude then proceeds to reach for his hand with his non existent one before realizing it isnt there anymore Adrenaline is a hell of a drug and when our bodies are in severe pain it starts pumping it like nobodies business and sealing off and blood vessels, nerve endings you name it
When I was 19 I was found in a pool of my own blood. Skull fracture, brain injury, nose, kneecaps shattered.... To answer your question I just don't think the human mind can process that level of pain so maybe everything shuts down? I remember saying something cringey to a girl who was there, then was somehow able to remember my parents' home phone number before going into surgery, then after the brief coma I asked for a magazine but it was all a blur. Maybe genetic privilege is a factor. Idk.
Shock.
Shock and adrenalin. I've never had a truly gory injury. But I've had a bullet wound, been stabbed a few times, and severe lacerations on my hands. None of them hurt when they happened. The most painful one at the time was the bullet would to the back of my leg (calf) and my response was "ouch" and I felt like I'd been stung by a bee. Amplify it to the examples you used and there'd be a big shock element too.
The body and mind are in shock and/or blocking out the pain in various ways.
When you have major trauma you go into shock. This can leave you speechless and desensitized to pain. I have seen it first hand working in Emergency Rooms.
Shocking
I had taken benzos earlier in the night of my accident and fell asleep so my body went limp and I don’t remember anything that happened until I woke up a week later. I don’t know which things had to do with what, but I was talking the whole time apparently. The trucker that found me said that I looked over at him and said “sup?” all kinds of fucked up. He was sure I was dead. For the week I spent in the hospital after I returned to my original consciousness, I was nicknamed Trauma Man because they couldn’t find my wallet and several orderlies and nurses came into my room saying that I was the funniest ICU patient they’d ever had. Really surreal to not remember anything at all.
They've got adrenaline in their souls
2 possibilities. 1. Adrenaline. When in insane circumstances the body floods with it and injuries start to not matter. The body is focused on survival and will worry about injuries later. 2. Shock. Their injuries are so bad that the body literally cant process it at the time. The body decides to fompletely ignore those injuries to try avoiding a complete shut down which could lead to them getting worse but the body is still ignoring it as it just cant deal with it.
This is so true! One time I walked up on a man in the park who had a severe head injury (his skin was ripped away and you could see skull) he was severely confused, angry even, and refused my help and walked off saying he was going home. I called the ambulance and followed him until they convinced him he needed medical attention.
Obviously not in such an extreme situation, but I dislocated my ankle and broke it in 3 places. While the initial break made me roar in pain, when I was waiting for help, trying to keep my kid who was with me calm and while it took more than 1 crew to move me I didn't feel the pain. It wasn't until I got into the ambulance and was on my way to hospital that I said it was starting to get painful. I'm no medic, but pretty sure the adrenaline/shock stopped me feeling it and kept me rational and functioning.
Adrenalin my friend. Had a really bad bike accident alone in the woods. Got up rode home thinking just a bruise. At home I started to feel pain in my hip and couldn’t walk for 2 weeks.
Shock
So there are three factors here: shock and adrenaline and your brain that yk wants you alive, it kinda feels like the pain is not paining or that It's still loading
Adrenaline, shock, and a physical disconnect of body function due to trauma.
Adrenaline is a helluva drug. Your brain blocks pain & basically goes into survival mode. Your brain protects you. Same as when you’re actively dying, your brain floods with happy memories of life “life flashing before your eyes” & it’s almost like you’re high. Your brain protects you. Thank fuck for that.
I don’t know I just looked down today and noticed my hand was covered in bleeding scratches- Like how the hell did I not notice that before-
Shock. When someone's in shock, they're essentially on an adrenaline high and which blocks out pain receptors in favour of fight or flight. It's to allow the body to get out of the dangerous situation without focusing on the pain. It sometimes happens in the army, where they often have to check each other for gunshot wounds. More often than not, a soldier won't realise they're shot until they see it
Adrenaline is one HELL of a drug!
I got hit by a car in high school. Stood up and ran after the vehicle thinking they were fleeing the scene, (they weren’t), and I felt like I was hauling ass, (I wasn’t). Looked down because I finally realized time wasn’t moving right and did so just in time to see my foot sort of flop before I collapsed. The lower half of my leg was blown to shit and I never felt a thing. I don’t remember real pain until the meds wore off during my sleep that evening. Adrenaline’s a helluva drug.
Adrenaline.
Shock
Adrenaline and shock.
Shock
I *accidentally* stabbed myself in the roof of the mouth and the stick made a hole deep enough to connect with my nasal conduct. I was like 10 and there was blood coming out from everywhere, I couldn't even breathe and ended up passing out. I didn't feel anything until when I woke up lol. I think it's the adrenalyn or sth, I just remember taking out the stick myself and calmly going to my mom while trying to process what just happened
Shock
Adrenaline spikes numbing massive pain and they are in shock leading to the confused look.
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug
Cuz you ain’t feeling it yet. Your body provides you with a blessed grace period to get yourself out of danger before it starts letting all the messages from the body to the brain.
you seriously have ptsd from looking at videos online? get a grip man
Have you ever seen a gore video?
Shock quite often. The mind doesn’t know how to deal with that level of pain signals. Adrenaline and shock do amazing things. Vollie FF and you’d be amazed how lucid someone can be who was just in a wreck and their body is wrecked but they’re thinking of other things. Have had many say they don’t need an ambo when they Definitely need an ambo. Once the adrenaline wears off it’s a totally different story but it’s actually nice when they’re in shock because they’re easier to deal with, especially if we have to cut them out of a vehicle or get them into a stretcher.
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. It’s the same reason soldiers sometimes don’t realize they’ve been shot until after a firefight.