Your normal everyday ‘worst pain’ is an 8.
I say that not to be mean, but because I have been through this. If you’re not literally on your back screaming in pain, or flat-out unconscious, it’s not a ten.Īnd don’t ever, ever, ever say it’s an 11. “Your instincts are right, you should lowball it.ĭon’t ever say 10, because they will dismiss you. “Especially when they say ‘10 being the most pain you’ve ever been in’ because yes the pain that I’m in all the time is the most pain I’ve ever been in but I always doubt that it’s a 10.” They said that they couldn’t understand the arbitrary value of a 1-10 scale of pain: I’ve been thinking a lot about this since I saw a post by someone new to chronic pain. How threatening it is, how emotionally disturbing, how it affects your ability to concentrate.”Ĭlick here for more of the best quotes about chronic pain, disability and mental health What does ‘the most pain you’ve ever been in’ really mean? It doesn’t just come with scale it comes with other baggage. “I think the obsession with numbers is an oversimplification. “There are lots of problems that come with trying to measure pain,” Professor Stephen McMahon of the London Pain Consortium told The Independent in 2018. Does that mean that what was my 7 was now a 5 because the scale was stretched? What about everything else: how do I compare a migraine to a laminectomy? If I truly went by ‘the worst pain ever felt,’ my entire scale would have changed after my L5-S1 disc herniated. I’ve never given birth, had a kidney stone, or had my arm cut off without anesthesia, but I can imagine how badly those would hurt. I mean… go look at that sentence again and think about how far apart some of those are. There’s even a visual scale for kids with faces called the Wong-Baker FACES Scale! Pick a face, any face The pain scale–1-10– and its inescapable fuckeryĪll those things are completely different, of course. Bedridden and possibly delirious.” That seems closest to the gist of it. Unless it means “bad enough to go to the ER.” Or just “very severe.” My new favorite pain scale description is “Unspeakable / unimaginable. Or else ten means the worst pain imaginable. Ten means the worst pain you’ve ever experienced. The fucking pain scale: “1-10, describe your pain,” like it’s that easy. Use Pain Scales (1-10) To Explain Pain (Even Though It Sucks)
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