So much profanity.

[Sapphire Silk]

I'm the same way, and always have been. Also, the worse the situation is, the calmer I am.

As for pain scales, the one here is the one I've found to be most helpful:
http://workthedream.wordpress.com/20...n-scale-chart/
I've printed it out and given it to all my doctors. My pain management doc loves it!

I have never seen this scale. Thanks for this!

[Amina516]

My preferred pain scale:

[Seshat]

As for pain scales, the one here is the one I've found to be most helpful:
http://workthedream.wordpress.com/20...n-scale-chart/
I've printed it out and given it to all my doctors. My pain management doc loves it!

Bless you bless you BLESS YOU!!!!!

This is going to make SUCH a difference!


Okay. On THAT pain scale, I've not experienced less than 3 since childhood/teen years, and been on 9 many times.
Currently, a good day is 4, a bad day is 8, I'm usually between 5 and 7.

Edit: some aspects of 7 (interferes with thinking, can't live alone) are present on all but my absolute best days.

I'm going to make multiple printouts of this. Thank you SO MUCH!!!!

[telecom_goddess]

I am so saving that pain scale thing and printing it out. My headache dr has the typical one in her office and I would love to give her this one

[Andara Bledin]

I've never before seen a pain scale that was actually useful. Every other one I've seen was just numbers, which did me no good at all.

I live on the border between 3 and 4, and thankfully stay mostly in 3 territory.

I've had some injuries and illnesses that have sent me up to anywhere from 6 to 8, but thankfully those were treatable or could be waited out.

^-.-^

[Sapphire Silk]

My preferred pain scale:

Now that is just TOO damn funny! I love it and will share it with my colleagues here at the CC.

I've never before seen a pain scale that was actually useful. Every other one I've seen was just numbers, which did me no good at all.

I live on the border between 3 and 4, and thankfully stay mostly in 3 territory.

I've had some injuries and illnesses that have sent me up to anywhere from 6 to 8, but thankfully those were treatable or could be waited out.

^-.-^

The 1-5 scale and 1-10 scales were the first pain scales. Then Donna Wong and Connie Baker added the faces for kids benefit. The Wong Baker scale has become the defacto standard even for adults because for most people it works.

It's also completely subjective and open to abuse by drug seekers. But for most patients get gets the idea across enough to medicate them properly.

[raudf]

Wow, I love that pain chart! Right now, I'm at a 5, but a true migraine is usually a 7 - sometimes an 8 (that's when I want to jab an axe into my head, because it'd hurt less...).

I think the next time I go to the doc, I'll print this off to give them an idea of my pain level, because I know I won't be able to think straight.

[Flyndaran]

I once had an anxiety attack that hit an 8, and a pain medication free post surgery that came close to a 9.

[PepperElf]

Im continually amazed to see the medications people take and have no idea about what theyre for, or the name or even what they look like.

O boy. I guess that *does* indeed make my family a bunch of weirdos. Perhaps not dad, but mom and sis and I usually know exactly what we're taking, what it does, and how it reacts.

Then again, Dad use to bring home outdated copies of the PDR for us to look at until the company stopped chucking the old ones etc. (I think they went to a computerized version).