Pain Scale

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Ever been asked by a doctor to rate your pain on a scale of 1 to 10 with 1 being no pain and 10 being the worst pain you can image. How do you do that, whats a 4 or 5 or 6. How can he or she compare your 7 from another's 4. I think it is meaningless and it is just something they ask to look like they are doing something. Here is my own scale my own interpretation

  1. No pain
  2. If I think about it there is pain in the background
  3. If I am not distracted by something there is some pain
  4. There is always pain but I can still function without difficulty
  5. There is always pain but I can still function
  6. There is always pain, I can still mostly function but I cannot concentrate on complex tasks, I wouldn't want to drive
  7. I just want to lie in bed, maybe watch TV, I'll get up to eat
  8. I'll get out of bed to go to the bathroom
  9. If there were a fire I would get out of bed and stumble out of the house
  10. If there were a fire I would breath deeply and hope the smoke got to me first


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