pain scale
I’d say according to your scale mine mine is 4 1/2 every day sometimes 5 and 6 but you never listed higher nor 1/2′s so I had to do a 1/2. : ) Believe it or not I am not a pain pill person. My husband says I’m nuts for suffering. I have tons of pain pills sitting here. I had a prescription filled in June and I can count on 10 fingers how many times I have taken one for my fibro and my headaches. There is days I can’t walk from the fibro or I can’t get up from migraines and he says don’t you even say a word about how bad you feel with all those pills sitting in there. I just look at him and say I won’t. He doesn’t understand why I suffer like that.
I just hate to do it. Someday I might need them and I want them to work. I may get to used to them. I said something to my neuro yesterday about them and she said you know if you do take them alot they will make your headaches worse. You do what your doing. Only take them when it’s really necessary. To many people just pop them in. If you take them to much your body do get used to them and they will make your headaches worse. So I was right to do that in my mind.
Well, the ER will give you their 10 point scale and even I can’t do one of them cause i never know how bad mine are.
there are things on the internet about pain that i have looked up and i can share cause of there is people that go to pain clinics and have to explain stuff. i will see what i can find out.
From a medical standpoint, they are a better way than nothing to judge if a treatment or med is working. many docs will say 0 = no pain 10 = the worst pain you can imagine. It is used for all pain related things to attempt to understand how much the person is experiencing.
I prefer to judge on what a person is able to do. Can you work? can you do nothing but lay on bed and cry? Passing out is not a good judgement…. I broke my leg once and although the pain was not what I would call a 10, (as long as I didnt try to walk on it) I was very close to passing out and had to get close to the ground, same with a knife poke into my hand…
Many docs just want a visual scale that you can give them a better idea than “it really hurts, I want to die, cut my head off please,” etc. Pain is a very hard thing to describe. I have seen better 1-10 scales on fibromyalgia lists using the “what can you do- not do” as the markers. I think for most people it is easier to give a # that way.
i liked MI head pain neurological pain scale:
1 = Low level headache which enters awareness only at times when
attention is devoted to it
2 = Headache pain level that can be ignored at times
3 = Painful headache, but can continue to function
4 = Very Severe headache concentration difficult but can perform
tasks of an undemanding nature
5 = Intense, incapacitating headache