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Painful

painful

1. Full of pain; causing uneasiness or distress, either physical or mental; afflictive; disquieting; distressing

2. Requiring labour or toil; difficult; executed with laborious effort; as a painful service; a painful march.

3. Painstaking; careful; industrious. A very painful person, and a great clerk. (Jer. Taylor) Nor must the painful husbandman be tired. (Dryden)

Synonym: Disquieting, troublesome, afflictive, distressing, grievous, laborious, toilsome, difficult, arduous. Painfully, Painfulness.


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Stomach bloating and weight gain

Not painful, cause I can handle pain, but very uncomfortable, which is hard to handle mentally. I have a very strong gag reflex, so the string down the esophageal may be very uncomfortable for me. The capsule would be cool as ...

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by kolean
Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:10 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
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Stomach bloating and weight gain

This sounds painful. Maybe not. http://www.medicinenet.com/esophageal_ph_monitoring/article.htm

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by MichaelXY
Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:10 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
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... and that I am still looking into the cause of my symptoms (lower abdominal bloating during the day - especially after eating a meal, and bouts of painful constipation). I've done an allergen test and found out what foods I am "intolerant" of, and have tried to keep them out of my diet. ...

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by MichaelXY
Thu Jul 23, 2009 8:29 am
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
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Stomach bloating and weight gain

... and that I am still looking into the cause of my symptoms (lower abdominal bloating during the day - especially after eating a meal, and bouts of painful constipation). I've done an allergen test and found out what foods I am "intolerant" of, and have tried to keep them out of my diet. ...

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by kolean
Tue Jul 21, 2009 4:12 pm
 
Forum: Physiology
Topic: Stomach bloating and weight gain
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Re: Unkown Bug? Hemiptera? Pics

... is someone in the Family Coreidae (Leaf-footed bugs). Use caution - these things have mouthparts that stab and suck. Some will deliver vicious, painful bites, others have a bite that is painless, but contaminated with dangerous blood parasites. Some will simply attack your veggies. Good Luck!

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by zoogeographer
Thu Jul 16, 2009 3:00 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: Unkown Bug? Hemiptera? Pics
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