Pain scale
Apr. 11th, 2007 02:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twirlgrrlA funny thing about being in the ER, writhing around on a hospital bed with tears running down my cheeks from the pain in my center: When they asked me to rate my pain on a scale of 1-10, I had no idea what to say. I mean, OK, it hurt so much that I couldn't help but cry a little, and I couldn't stay entirely silent when it ramped up intermittently. So is that a 6? 7? 8? On the written pain scale, tears appear at the 9-10 mark. The thing is, compared to labor, all other pain is a 1. Or if regular pain--even my blinding migraines--approaches a 9 or a 10 on occasion, then labor is a 50. Or even a 100. Unfortunately, even though I knew the pain wasn't even in the same universe as labor, I still didn't tolerate it well. I need to develop a better, more controlled pain response, hopefully before I get pregnant again. I am such a wimp.
