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I really like the veterans pain scale (also called DVPRS) for this reason. It gives definitions for each number. Its especially helpful with chronic pain, but also useful for autistic ppl.
Heres the scale in case anyone is interested:
0 = No pain
1 = Hardly noticeable pain
2 = Noticeable pain, but does not interfere with activities
3 = Somewhat distracting pain
4 = Distracting pain, but does not affect normal activities
5 = Pain interrupts some activities
6 = Hard to ignore pain, avoidance of daily activities
7 = Pain is the main focus of attention, prevents daily activities
8 = Awful pain, difficult to do anything
9 = Unbearable pain, cannot do anything
10 = As bad as pain can be, nothing else matters
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YES!!! Not only do I try to scale my entire life and all possible pain I might ever experience, but I also try to assess and quantify how medical staff will view my response! Will they think Iām a whiny hypochondriac because they think my number is too high? Will they minimize my needs because my number is too low? I internalize their mistakes as if itās something I could control if I just guess the ārightā numberā¦šš
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I actually looked up pain scales online at one point because I couldn't quite wrap my head around it myself. I found one that described how overwhelmed the pain made you feel, like what can or can't I still do with that pain, how much of my thinking is occupied by tha pain, etc. Made it actually much easier to put a number to it.
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Yes! My relationship with pain is weird and messed with my birth experiences. Like I had to figure out how to express what was going on in away to get the staff to believe me. Like I was in preterm labor with my last child and I had to convince them something was wrong because to them I seemed way too calm and controlled. Until they put me on the monitor and then they started to PANIC. And all this with them having the knowledge that I had a history or premature babies. š¢
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One of the things I realized a couple days ago was how itās always been really difficult for me to describe āthe painā or āthe problemā when things seems to pop up. When it comes to actual, physical pain, itās hard to pin down sometimes because even though Iām trying to address something specific, I canāt seem to get away from the fact that the pain is connected to so many other aspects of my being (let alone my body). Sometimes that means that, even though I know what I want a doctor or something to look at, my attempts to explain can be easily derailed as I try to āget us there,ā explaining how my issue seems to come from some other, seemingly related thing.
Basically, when Iām always struggling to fully process a barrage of tiny stimuli inside and outside of my body, itās really difficult to mentally zone in on a particular thing when trying to communicate.
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For a while I thought it didnāt really matter because they were just going to use it for self reference, to see if things have improved or not (because how could a subjective pain scale be that useful beyond that?) but then I was in the hospital recovering from surgery and they wouldnāt give me more pain meds because I hadnāt said a high enough number.
Like, what the heck? I am telling them I am in enough pain that I require the medication, just because that is a 6 on my scale, but most people would call that an 8, they didnāt renew meds!
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In the army, had to answer 7/8 for them to actually pay attention. I may have thought it was more of a 3- a constant annoyance, but to be taken seriously and receive adequate care it had to be over a 6. I just kept thinking- so do I have a high pain tolerance? Or am I just a hypochondriac? Self advocacy is hard
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@spookyplaguedoctor5714
2 months ago
Pain is also very subjective, it's hard to quantify when your 9 might be someone else's 3.
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