New pain scale

[TigerLily]

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.co...-probably.html

My husband has complained about the pain scale before. He says that everyone always says that they are an 8. haha! anyway, this made me laugh.

[Pollyanna]

Awesome!!!

[corn poffi]

If I'm ever in the hospital I'm going to rate my pain as stuff like "7.12" or "6.33 repeating".

HAHAHAHA I'd like to hear the reactions!

[TigerLily]

My husband says that he tells patients that 10 is cutting your arm off with a chainsaw. yikes

[Vanquisher]

All of dh's patients are a 10/10 or 8/10 even after explanations that a 10 means being mauled by a bear while on fire. Seriously.

[GreyhoundsRUs]

They asked me to rate my pain when I went in for some cramping. My response: I maybe would have taken a Tylenol for it, if I felt like getting up to get some. Don't know where that falls on the traditional scale, though! I remember being at my grandma's hospital room years and years ago, and 10 was "childbirth". Not very helpful, I'd imagine!

[GrayMatterWife]

He says that everyone always says that they are an 8. haha!

My DH came home really puzzled one day, when a patient advised him that he was a 6.43 on the pain scale. "How exactly did he arrive at that fractional representation of his pain??"

[GrayMatterWife]

All of dh's patients are a 10/10 or 8/10 even after explanations that a 10 means being mauled by a bear while on fire. Seriously.

Heidi, I am dying laughing here!

We have an equivalent sort of measurement here in the Judge's chambers for the US Bankruptcy Court, for determining whether or not a "motion for emergency relief" to be heard within 24 hours, is actually addressing a REAL emergency. My standard is, "Is someone standing over property of the estate with a gasoline and a match, threatening to set something on fire?" If not, then it is not an emergency. It is an inconvenience. And it is YOUR inconvenience, not the Judge's. On the other hand, the attorneys making the request always define an emergency as "whatever self-induced last minute disaster I have walked myself into." Guess who's standard wins?

Yes, obtaining legal relief can, on occasion, be as painful as obtaining Oxy when you're jonesing.

[scrub-jay]

I struggled with that answer when in labor..."if 10 is childbirth, you tell me, am I a 10?" but pain wasn't a problem during labor for me, it was exhaustion.

[HouseofWool]

When my epidural wore off with Caleb, I still would only rate the pain a 9.5. Cripes, I would imagine there *has* to be something worse than having a baby. *shrug*

@ Heidi - Chad has some doozy patients.

[alison]

I told my L&D nurse that I was a 7, but that my scale only goes to 7, because "my husband says there's no way I can ever be a 10. So I'm definitely a 7 out of 9."

They must have rolled their eyes.

[Vanquisher]

Childbirth after the epidural wore off I would classify as a 6 or 7. I've been an 8 or 9 before. Recently.


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[GreyhoundsRUs]

I told my L&D nurse that I was a 7, but that my scale only goes to 7, because "my husband says there's no way I can ever be a 10. So I'm definitely a 7 out of 9."

They must have rolled their eyes.

Too funny!

[poky]

I spent 2 years between a 6 and 7 on that scale (and my own). For me, 6 was "pain distracting enough even with script meds that it permeates my every thought" and 7 was "short temper brought on by low-grade anxiety and mild nausea". I think I'm pretty realistic with my pain scale. Even in the hospital I felt like post-op I was a firm 8 when they couldn't get the dilaudid pump to work.

A PT office I was in after I broke my tailbone years ago had a chart that had things like this on it ("can't concentrate on anything else", "distracting, but able to focus on other things", etc.) - only truly useful chart I've ever seen, and I've never seen it anywhere else. Wish I could find it so I could use it every time I'm asked. I can't distinguish between a 3 and a 4 without concrete examples of what a 3 and a 4 are, for pete's sake!

[poky]

A PT office I was in after I broke my tailbone years ago had a chart that had things like this on it ("can't concentrate on anything else", "distracting, but able to focus on other things", etc.) - only truly useful chart I've ever seen, and I've never seen it anywhere else. Wish I could find it so I could use it every time I'm asked. I can't distinguish between a 3 and a 4 without concrete examples of what a 3 and a 4 are, for pete's sake!

A ha! I decided to check again for it, and found this; I'm pretty sure this is the one I remember seeing, or is at least very close: http://www.pudendal.info/node/18