• yannic@lemmy.ca
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      11 hours ago

      No way.

      I received opiates after abdominal surgery only after I explained why my pain level was only stated as a 3 or 4 out of 10, if 10 was “The worse pain [I] could possibly imagine.”

      2/10 is manageable temporarily but not chronically.

      3/10 was the limit where I could hide it. It requires a lot of energy to maintain composure.

      4/10 was where movement was restricted.

      I can’t quite remember what five and six were.

      7/10 means I can’t form complete sentences uninterrupted.

      8/10 means I have mostly lost the ability to communicate and I begin to hallucinate.

      9/10 means I am unable to understand where I am or what’s happening to me. It’s around this point where I have blacked out.

      Never ask someone with a healthy imagination to work on a scale where the limit is the worst they can imagine. Besides, is the scale linear or logarithmic?

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        18 hours ago

        If I’m blacked out I’m not in pain any more, you just needed to just bump up your score 2 points and wouldn’t even need to explain.