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[stealthdragon.livejournal.com]

We've been away for a while. Coming back prompted a question, based on our current situation.

We've had a displaced-neck-pain headache for the past couple days (when the chiropractor's closed for a long weekend, worse luck). Kat has just eaten a fair bit of chocolate. But, now that I'm out, I find that I'm affected way more by the bodies' sugar rush than its discomfort. For Kat, it's the other way around. Do any of you experience this kind of difference? Have any ideas as to what might cause it? Etc.

Cheers,
- Esmerelda

Comments

[weirdiguess.livejournal.com]

Well some of us get more or less affected by things like alcohol and things like that. Not the exact same thing, but pretty similar. And some of them are more or less affected by pain. Different people have different tolerances I guess. Pain tolerance seems to be a mental thing as well as physical so, it makes sense I guess?

Me, I tend to get shoved out at night 'cause I seem like (probably 'cause I don't exactly 'front'?) I don't get affected much by the body being tired. Selene can be falling over, and when I try to take control I feel fine. Like I said, I figure it's 'cause I don't really sit in the body.

[catskillmarina.livejournal.com]

The different people in a system all use the nervous system in different ways so they are
affected differently. I (constance) have a slightly higher blood pressure than miri (a
child) has. Carrie will drink sweet banana-coconut drinks that nauseate the rest of us.
When she does we FLEE front and let her enjoy.

--- Constance of Mtribe

[stealthdragon.livejournal.com]

..I must find that book. I've seen the study cited elsewhere, but have no idea who the authors are.

- Us

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

That study (actually an MRI) was done in 1999 (http://astraeasweb.net/plural/mri.html). There has been very little actual research of this type -- at least, almost nothing published in peer-reviewed journals. I've noticed that people like Talbot and Arntz talk about such "brainwave studies" as if neurologists had actually run tests on a significant group of confirmed multiples (and how can one confirm such a thing?) with a control group of non-multiples.

This is one of the things that frustrates us in attempting to gather accounts of this type of research for the website. There are plenty of references to "research" or "science has proved" or "studies were done", but frequently no source for such statements is cited.

Dr. Mohan Nair says that the multiples he studied do undergo subtle physiological changes between people, because everyone feels a bit differently, and he's measured slight but noticeable differences in heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, eye reflexes and so forth, depending on how who is up and how they feel at the time. Emotions also affect biochemistry, which can affect a plethora of other things such as how well someone digests sugar. Also, take into account the fact that different persons in a group may be more physically active than others, which causes further shifts in the things I've mentioned.

One cannot overlook the fact that some people in a system tend to take better care of themselves than others and thus will heal or recover from illness faster than those who do not.

[stealthdragon.livejournal.com]

I found a PDF of that journal article, if you'd like me to e-mail it to you?

- kat

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

Please! Much appreciated.

[stealthdragon.livejournal.com]

I sent it to the address given in your userinfo, hopefully that forwards to somewhere worthwhile.

[gryphons.livejournal.com]

*nods* as others have mentioned.. our pain tolerances are vastly different For some people a paper cut is a major injury.. For Darius.. we haven't found the limit of his pain tolerance..

We know different people react differently to sugar and stuff.... I would imagine it would be the same for alcohol and such though none of us drink

[our-menagerie.livejournal.com]

We all have different pain tolerance levels so some things bother some of us more than others. Also if I eat sugary stuff (which I do lots!) I get very hyper but there seems to be only one thing that makes the body hyper and that is orange soda and it doesnt matter who drinks it. We just found this out over the last month or so, so we thought it was interesting.
lh

[rabbitsystem.livejournal.com]

We occasionally experience different parts of what the body feels deliberately. It can be a great help when we've worked it to exhaustion, because one can deal with feeling tired and the other can do the moving - it doesn't mean the one working doesn't know we're tired, but it does mean that they have the mental strength to keep going because they aren't experiencing it directly.