I have a very high pain tolerance but I can’t say that I like most pain. However, I really like the pain of jamming things under my fingernails. I sometimes do it until the fingernail is seperated from the skin until it is more than halfway from falling off.
Sometimes I stick something thin and pointy between my bottom two front teeth and rub it against my gums. It hurts, but it also feels good for some reason.
No, I understand where you’re coming from. I like feeling achy after lifting weights, and sometimes when I get a sprain or my knee aches from running, I almost like to walk on it. It’s as though I have some perverse need to make sure it’s really really injured and not just in my head.
I watched two people play a game where they hit each other’s knuckles. It made me cringe to watch it. I wouldn’t like to play it, but I would probably like the sore fingers afterwards.
I play semi-pro football (offensive line). When people ask, I tell them I do it because I enjoy pain.
There is a certain satisfaction that comes from taking 3x as long as normal to get out of bed the morning after a game, and having to waddle through the day because most of your skeletal muscles are sore.
I admit that I enjoy the pain that accompanies a solid workout - both during (when you seriously think you can NOT go any more, but not stopping), and after (sore muscles). I’m sorta addicted to that, actually.
What I don’t like is the byproduct of that pain - the chronic pain in my knees, which I think might be arthritis…
i like muscular pain, like you get the day after doing too many weights or after doing excersise you havent done for a while. Feels great, makes you feel fit
Ever since I was a child, I often start chewing on my lips, or my tongue, sometimes without even realizing it. When I do, I actually LIKE the pain that comes with it. Unfortunately, when I stop, and for the few days it takes to heal, it can become QUITE sore and tender, and I can’t eat anything with vinegar (salads are definitely OUT!), and brushing my teeth is agony.
And my dentist told me that it could lead to oral cancer. (I don’t know HOW, but that’s what he said).
So it’s a bad habit, and I try to break it…but sometimes it just feels soothing.