The Pain Scale

[SweetSue92]

So I saw a few posts from health care professionals mocking patients who are on their phone, laughing, yet rank their pain a "10".

Not to be too crass, but I think a "10" is you're literally on fire. In my mind, I wasn't even a 10 giving birth. A solid 9, yes.

This chart seems to support my pain rating in childbirth. Bad, but not the worst I can imagine.

Thoughts?

 

[shockedcanadian]

I have a high tolerance for pain, this is perhaps dangerous for me as even when my body is conveying a message that something is wrong I just suffer. I even worked a labour job for a month as a 40 year old with a torn forearm, it was in constant pain and didn't heal for a couple of months after I left. I suppose it is all relative in many respects.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

So I saw a few posts from health care professionals mocking patients who are on their phone, laughing, yet rank their pain a "10".

Not to be too crass, but I think a "10" is you're literally on fire. In my mind, I wasn't even a 10 giving birth. A solid 9, yes.

This chart seems to support my pain rating in childbirth. Bad, but not the worst I can imagine.

Thoughts?

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Mocking someone at a 10 on the pain scale?

I have trigeminal neuralgia, rated by many neurologists as the most severe pain a human being can have. I can't open my eyes or speak and can hardly breathe when in a flare up. If anyone mocked me at this time, they'd better be running when the flare is over.


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[Manonthestreet]

All I know is we have saved millions of people from becoming an addict to pain meds by telling them their pain doesn't exist.

 

[SweetSue92]

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Mocking someone at a 10 on the pain scale?

I have trigeminal neuralgia, rated by many neurologists as the most severe pain a human being can have. I can't open my eyes or speak and can hardly breathe when in a flare up. If anyone mocked me at this time, they'd better be running when the flare is over.


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No, they're not mocking patients with a serious 10. They're mocking that they walked into the room, the patient was on their phone laughing, but then immediately rated their pain a 10.

So yes, you are right--a 10 is out of your mind pain. Can't be laughing at TikTok with a 10 pain.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

No, they're not mocking patients with a serious 10. They're mocking that they walked into the room, the patient was on their phone laughing, but then immediately rated their pain a 10.

So yes, you are right--a 10 is out of your mind pain. Can't be laughing at TikTok with a 10 pain.

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Thanks for clarifying that. Yeah, at a ten, I think I'd lose interest in the phone and would not likely be laughing.

Responding to Manonthestreet's post, I've worked in clinics and seen a lot of patients who were just seeking drugs. I even worked for one doctor who was well known in the neighborhood for being easy to get a prescription from. I agree that, in cases like that, the wisest thing to do is show them the door.

If I walked in the room and the patient supposedly in pain at 10 on the scale was having a great time on their phone, they'd be shown the door.

With the condition I have, when the sufferer asks for opioid pain killers, they are drug seeking. Opioids do nothing for the kind of pain I have.


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[Moonglow]

So I saw a few posts from health care professionals mocking patients who are on their phone, laughing, yet rank their pain a "10".

Not to be too crass, but I think a "10" is you're literally on fire. In my mind, I wasn't even a 10 giving birth. A solid 9, yes.

This chart seems to support my pain rating in childbirth. Bad, but not the worst I can imagine.

Thoughts?

Only the initiated understand..

 

[SweetSue92]

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Thanks for clarifying that. Yeah, at a ten, I think I'd lose interest in the phone and would not likely be laughing.

Responding to Manonthestreet's post, I've worked in clinics and seen a lot of patients who were just seeking drugs. I even worked for one doctor who was well known in the neighborhood for being easy to get a prescription from. I agree that, in cases like that, the wisest thing to do is show them the door.

If I walked in the room and the patient supposedly in pain at 10 on the scale was having a great time on their phone, they'd be shown the door.

With the condition I have, when the sufferer asks for opioid pain killers, they are drug seeking. Opioids do nothing for the kind of pain I have.


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I'm so sorry about that. I hope you get some relief!

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

I'm so sorry about that. I hope you get some relief!

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Thank you.

I take an anti-seizure drug that comes with a lot of side effects, none of which is half as horrific as the pain of the condition.

You're a Christian, aren't you?


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[Crepitus]

So I saw a few posts from health care professionals mocking patients who are on their phone, laughing, yet rank their pain a "10".

Not to be too crass, but I think a "10" is you're literally on fire. In my mind, I wasn't even a 10 giving birth. A solid 9, yes.

This chart seems to support my pain rating in childbirth. Bad, but not the worst I can imagine.

Thoughts?

The problem with pain scales is that pain is entirely subjective.

I've seen people scream bloody murder over a mis-aimed hammer to the thumb and I've also seem a farmer finish plowing before driving himself to the dr, not the hospital mind you, with a compound femur fracture.

 

[1srelluc]

I once had a spine procedure, and the doc said it would hurt really bad for a second as the needle went in.

Now I don't know if levitation is a thing of not but when they went in with that needle I just know I levitated off the gurney 6".

1-10, Ha! .... Maybe 87, twist off the knob and throw it out the window!

It made passing a kidney stone seem like walk in the park on a sunny Spring day.

 

[Crepitus]

No, they're not mocking patients with a serious 10. They're mocking that they walked into the room, the patient was on their phone laughing, but then immediately rated their pain a 10.

So yes, you are right--a 10 is out of your mind pain. Can't be laughing at TikTok with a 10 pain.

It may be the worst pain they have ever experienced. Maybe their previous worst was a hangnail or a stubbed toe.

 

[DGS49]

When you are in serious pain RIGHT NOW, it is difficult to imagine something else being on a higher level of any pain scale.

I remember times when I thought I was in pain, but the I have no recollection of the feeling itself.

For what it's worth, getting a tattoo on a sensitive part of one's body is what might be called a "painful ************."

 

[Thunk]

A pain level of 10 in your hand would mean your fingers are currently being cut off with a saw...you'd be screaming!

I was with my mom at the doctors & she described every paid she had as a 10...whent he doc left the room I told her "you may as well just refused to answe the question...that's how much info you just gave the doctor".

 

[sparky]

As an EMT is saw things that were just painful to look at.......~S~

 

[Foxfyre]

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Mocking someone at a 10 on the pain scale?

I have trigeminal neuralgia, rated by many neurologists as the most severe pain a human being can have. I can't open my eyes or speak and can hardly breathe when in a flare up. If anyone mocked me at this time, they'd better be running when the flare is over.


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It's posts like yours that I so much want a 'concern' button like Facebook has. It could also double as a prayer button for those who pray.

 

[Foxfyre]

So I saw a few posts from health care professionals mocking patients who are on their phone, laughing, yet rank their pain a "10".

Not to be too crass, but I think a "10" is you're literally on fire. In my mind, I wasn't even a 10 giving birth. A solid 9, yes.

This chart seems to support my pain rating in childbirth. Bad, but not the worst I can imagine.

Thoughts?

I'm with you. I had no 'training' per se with either of my kids, and had long labor--14 hours with one, 22 hours with the second. The pain wears you out after awhile and is intense but it is never absolutely unbearable and you know that it comes, swells to a peak pain, and then subsides until the next labor pain. I'm not saying the pain drugs don't help a great deal though once you're getting close to delivery. I had a saddle block with my second and that was wonderful.

But each person's tolerance for pain is different and if I had authority, any healthcare person who mocked a person's pain should be severely reprimanded and, if the offense repeated, fired.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

It's posts like yours that I so much want a 'concern' button like Facebook has. It could also double as a prayer button for those who pray.

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Thank you.

The medication I take controls the pain, but don't back away from praying for those who have not yet found their solution. The condition is colloquially known as "the Suicide Disease", because an astounding percentage of the people who suffer it choose to end their lives rather than endure the pain.

Many describe the pain as feeling like being tased in the face. Sounds right to me, although I've never been tased in the face so have no way to make an objective comparison.


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[sparky]

Some folks just feel more pain.......redheads anyone?

then there are folks that pain just doesn't seem to register with

i never could figure it out.......

~S~

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

Some folks just feel more pain.......redheads anyone?

then there are folks that pain just doesn't seem to register with

i never could figure it out.......

~S~

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I've heard that about redheads. Interesting.


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