There’s some attempt to try and make it genuine, and there are guidelines around it to support that (e.g. 1 = barely noticeable, 3,4 = distracting, 5,6 = unignorable, 7,8 = prevents normal activities, 9 = prevents conversation)
But in practice you’re going to get about one in every dozen patients who engages with this scale in good faith and you’re going to get a number between 8-11 from everyone else.
Kidney stone is a ten, getting stabbed in the arm is about a 7, broken tailbone at about an 8, stubbed toe at about a 5. Papercut at a 2. Single punch or slap at a 1. Getting branded was about a 3 for like 15 seconds then it dropped down to a 1.
Its all objective of course but thats pretty much my scale
Edit: depression induced phantom pain at an 6, maybe a 7. Kinda feels like what i would imagine a heart attack to feel like
Its a long story lol. Wanted to show off for a woman, happened to mention i have nerve damage and cant feel certain types of pain. Funnily enough, that does not extend to thermal pain but whatevs. She branded me, and then we never saw each other again XD super cool brand though.
Just in case, branding here refers to using a red hot piece of metal to burn an imprint onto skin
There’s some attempt to try and make it genuine, and there are guidelines around it to support that (e.g. 1 = barely noticeable, 3,4 = distracting, 5,6 = unignorable, 7,8 = prevents normal activities, 9 = prevents conversation)
But in practice you’re going to get about one in every dozen patients who engages with this scale in good faith and you’re going to get a number between 8-11 from everyone else.
I’ve never been able to properly conceptualise converting the pain I’m feeling into a 1-10 scale.
It just doesn’t make sense to me
Kidney stone is a ten, getting stabbed in the arm is about a 7, broken tailbone at about an 8, stubbed toe at about a 5. Papercut at a 2. Single punch or slap at a 1. Getting branded was about a 3 for like 15 seconds then it dropped down to a 1.
Its all objective of course but thats pretty much my scale
Edit: depression induced phantom pain at an 6, maybe a 7. Kinda feels like what i would imagine a heart attack to feel like
Getting branded?
Its a long story lol. Wanted to show off for a woman, happened to mention i have nerve damage and cant feel certain types of pain. Funnily enough, that does not extend to thermal pain but whatevs. She branded me, and then we never saw each other again XD super cool brand though.
Just in case, branding here refers to using a red hot piece of metal to burn an imprint onto skin
Are you, by chance, a cow or horse?
How would you even be able to say “10” then?