Yeah, the redhead/painkiller thing is a known thing for me... did you know we also scar much more easily? In other words, I should have been out of the Robobrace a full week, and possibly two weeks, ahead of when I was finally released. Things seized solid.

The painkiller issues are odd, in that some, mostly systemic, hardly affect me, and I need two or three times the normal dose, while the localized varieties tend to be really really freaking effective. I suspect they could probably get away with just a nerve block on me, but the gristly sounds would probably make me flinch from time to time, and that'd be bad. Hence, the general.

I wonder how that ties into what I've heard (and experienced): low pain threshold, high pain tolerance. We redheads feel pain more quickly, but can handle a hell of a lot more. Basically we're whiners. :) So... localized pain threshold is lower (more reactive nerves = more sensitive to anesthetic?) while systemic pain tolerance is higher (more ability to plow through or ignore natural endorphins, and by extension artificial painkillers?)

Sooooooo... yeah, I'll start throwing a hissy fit if I'm not relaxed about this before going in.