Time course - Does the pain follow any pattern?

He spun away from the hurt, but the pain followed him.

The pain would follow quickly enough--except I didn't wait for it.

Your pain may even follow you to the next world.

She still felt numb, but knew that pain would follow.

It would be worth the pain that she knew must inevitably follow such a radical and unpopular stance.

There are things which so sear the soul that the pain of it follows through life.

The burning sensation quickly left, and his leg became numb with shock, the real pain, he was sure, would soon follow.

But in the States, the pain followed me.

The pain followed but a second later, wrenching from me a strangled cry.