Hyperbole and a Half's pain scale
Apr. 13th, 2010 04:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urocyonThe best graphic pain chart EVER.
I'm glad nobody has ever shown me the one photographed in the ER. If I am in enough pain to actually go and try to get someone to do something about it, and they try to get me to point at that disaster, I might bite them. Seriously.
The numeric scales have always given me problems, unclear as it is what the numbers are supposed to refer to: 10 as the worst pain you've ever experienced, the kind of pain you'd imagine from getting limbs caught in farm machinery or a bus on top of you, or what? Some clarification would be good. Not to mention all the differences in individual perceptions.
One drawback to even the rather hilarious new scale: unless I'm actively throwing up and/or screaming (directly after orthopedic surgery or the like), outwardly it's not going to look higher than a 3 or 4. Yeah, this has worked to my disadvantage, a lot (**); then there's the lack of pissing and moaning.
I guess the ratings should correspond to how you're feeling on the inside. If there's enough perceived disconnect there, that can still prove interesting!
I'm glad nobody has ever shown me the one photographed in the ER. If I am in enough pain to actually go and try to get someone to do something about it, and they try to get me to point at that disaster, I might bite them. Seriously.
The numeric scales have always given me problems, unclear as it is what the numbers are supposed to refer to: 10 as the worst pain you've ever experienced, the kind of pain you'd imagine from getting limbs caught in farm machinery or a bus on top of you, or what? Some clarification would be good. Not to mention all the differences in individual perceptions.
One drawback to even the rather hilarious new scale: unless I'm actively throwing up and/or screaming (directly after orthopedic surgery or the like), outwardly it's not going to look higher than a 3 or 4. Yeah, this has worked to my disadvantage, a lot (**); then there's the lack of pissing and moaning.
I guess the ratings should correspond to how you're feeling on the inside. If there's enough perceived disconnect there, that can still prove interesting!
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Date: 2010-04-15 11:46 am (UTC)