Women are tougher than men.
Truth is painful for men
Clara Pirani, Health editor
November 18, 2004
SCIENCE has finally confirmed what women have long suspected - when it comes to coping with pain, they are tougher than men.
A Deakin University study of 100 patients recovering from cardiac surgery revealed women needed lower doses of painkillers for shorter periods of time.
Mari Botti, chairwoman of nursing at the Epworth Hospital/Deakin University Clinical Research Centre, said that on average women needed morphine for 12 hours, while men kept taking it for 17 hours, and at higher dosages.
“Men tend to peak early with their pain, and then it decreases as you would expect after a few days, whereas women tend to have constant pain for longer,” she said.
Professor Botti said the study indicated that even though men and women might feel the same pain, either women were more prepared to put up with it, or perhaps doctors and nurses simply believed women needed less help coping with it.
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Women are tougher: study
November 17, 2004 - 2:10PM
A new study on pain relief given to patients recovering from operations has reaffirmed the old maxim that women are tougher than men.
The Deakin University study, which looked at pain relief offered to 100 patients recovering from cardiac artery surgery at two Victorian hospitals, found men were given stronger drugs for longer periods to deal with their pain.
Chair of nursing at Deakin’s research unit at Epworth Hospital, Professor Mari Botti, said the men and women in the study would have experienced about the same level of pain in the first 24 hours after the surgery.
But women had lower daily doses of morphine than men.
And on average, the women stayed on morphine for 12 hours while the men kept taking it for 17 hours.
i dont want to say I told you so.
Well you need some self-comfort after reading that dont you.