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Pain scale mysteries
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What if I'm not really consciously aware of the pain I'm supposed to be feeling?
And what's the point anyways? Just to determine if I need pain meds and what kind? Why even offer me a painkiller (even if just an OTC painkiller) when I said like 2 (maybe that was based on the xray rather than my self-report, but I exaggerated the pain up because I thought 0-1 would have made it even harder for them to take my injury seriously pre-xray)? Should I report the discomfort levels when I intentionally stress the injury or when in a comfortable position levels?
Guess the number, win medical treatment!
Numberwang!
Sometimes it's just to gauge how things change over time.
If you said 5 when you came in, but 3 after an hour, then we can make decisions based on what happened between those times.
If you said 3 when you came in but now it's a 7, maybe there's some emergency that needs to be acted on now.
If you said 9, and that makes sense based on what is going on, you get some nice drugs for a bit.
Makes more sense. I think the ER only asked me once when I got there that time, but I wasn't there for long.
My more recent ER trip, they just gave me drugs (like codeine or something I think iirc) without asking if I was in pain or if I wanted any. Kinda disappointed cause I was ready to not lie that time and say 0-1 (mostly because it was visible obvious why I was there, so no worries about people thinking I'm just wasting there time).