HOW BAD IS THE PAIN???

Skits from the ER [Ep. 39]
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[@phingkai]

I am an anesthesiologist. The numerical pain scale should be used to determine if your pain management worked. You ask the before and after treating him. It is not a tool to determine if the patient deserves treatment or not.

[@a.kenneth3521]

Thank you 😊

[@f3nt0]

THANK. YOU.

[@giraffeNana2023]

Agree

[@mandmm3906]

Thank you! Amusing videos , though doubtful the guy is in health care.

[@airforce9872]

Nothing wrong with asking the question as a quick way to gauge if its a serious, emergent issue or not. You're supposed to also say "1 to 10, with 1 being barely any pain and 10 being the worst pain you've ever experienced". Given a sense of scale, most people wont go straight to 10

[@eecoconut]

This is a sad truth on both patient and medical staff sides. I have Sickle Cell disease and chronic pain is a part of life for people like us. I also am a medical professional. From a very young age people with Sickle Cell disease are taught coping techniques to try and deal with the pain. With that being said, some of us have built up a high pain tolerance using coping techniques. So even when our pain is a 10, it may not look like it because we are on our phones, that does not mean our pain is not at a 10. Being on our phones is just a way to distract us from the pain until we get relief. There were many times I've been in extreme pain but because I'm not screaming and crying, medical staff think I'm lying which isn't right. Not to say that there aren't those out there who fake it, because believe me there are people who cry wolf, but don't assume it's all of us.

[@ber1779]

I’m sure if the pain was life threatening they’d see you earlier

[@makmcdermott]

Yes!

[@maryannanderson1744]

I don't assume because I've learned every one feels pain differently and what is a 10 to one person may be a 5 for another but SADLY some medical professionals are judgemental instead of empathic. I know I see them at work.

[@s.d.703]

It's the same with my sister. She is in pain everyday of her life. She has a high pain tolerance and high coping mechanisms. She hates seeing anyone new bc they don't listen or believe

[@Cafe-Indy-Kylo]

i’m a nursing student and in my last shift we had a patient who has sickle cell and they were getting frustrated bc RN’s were not handling their pain complaints promptly enough. definitely a good learning experience because my professor explained exactly what you just said about coping mechanisms for distraction. he said it doesn’t matter what number out of 10 they say. you believe them bc they cope on a regular basis, but that doesn’t mean they don’t feel pain differently. very good learning experience so when i am a nurse in the future i won’t develop some of the bad habits that are in practice

[@UnquestionablyTired]

My mother: it’s all because you’re staring down at your stupid technological devices!

[@off.arretezvousx]

« It’s that because of that damn phone »

[@Linda-pr8ip]

Somebody finally said it! 😀

[@ravenmage1859]

Actually in the case of neck pain, she has an incredibly good point. Lots of strain on the cervical spine from heavy phone use

[@wtfimcrying]

it probably is, if you have neck pain staring at your phone all day is definitely the reason.

[@dijahhairston]

I came into the ER with a 9 level pain. Nurses and doctors were about to roll their eyes before they gave me a CAT scan and saw my entire abdomen was inflamed and my colon was on the verge of toxic mega colon. I ignored my abdominal pain for two weeks until it became unbearable because I knew a doctor would just dismiss me unless I was on the verge of death.

[@dolphinwhisperer.]

they never take things seriously

[@andynonymous6769]

Are you my uncle? He stopped pooping for 2 weeks and didn’t think anything was wrong, just felt sick and his stomach hurt like crazy. Half a week later, he drives himself to the ER and promptly passes out in front of the front desk. 1 and a half weeks later he wakes up from his medically induced coma with a stoma bag, sans half his small intestine- turns out, he had a block in his large intestine that was keeping him from pooping. He didn’t see anyone about it until it was backed up to his esophagus and he was in toxic shock because his intestines ruptured. He skipped the line in the waiting room though! Now he’s good as new, the doctors did great

[@ThomasSuckow]

Took my grandfather to the ER, he told them it was 11 (he'd gotten good at the pain scale after dealing with colon cancer). Docs are like "right..." and did some tests. Came back and were like "11"… "most people would be unconscious" if they had what he had.

[@LifesPeachy321]

I love how no matter what it is your family doctor is always...well *let's try this and we'll see ya back in two weeks!* Gah...send me to the right specialist and let me be helped....please! Nope, can't do that...we need you to suffer for weeks first. I'm 60 been there done that...no matter the problem...always the same, and I've lived in many, many states due to my husband's job. So it's not a N E S W thing

[@Zack_Zander]

Best to not judge a book by its cover. Although due to the number of time the content is over-exaggerated, it just happens

[@Whydidmyhandlechange414]

“Patient states a 10 out of 10 pain, yet is on their phone, no signs of distress, heart rate not elevated and within normal range”

[@Starryeyed1801]

Paint that picture sis!! 👏👏👏 😂

[@emilysinkova7131]

Beautiful! As a medical professional this is exactly how I'd document this encounter.

[@seanwink2379]

@kjhjh.l jhkjl. Are you in the medical field or are you just spouting off stuff from WebMD?

[@seanwink2379]

@kjhjh.l jhkjl. I’m a Paramedic, being trained to be a flight medic and you are?

[@seanwink2379]

@kjhjh.l jhkjl. Go out in the field for a day instead of your cushioned job. Where at? Hospital? Dialysis center?

[@feb5th]

I went through child birth without an epidural and barely made a peep throughout the ordeal. It is possible to be in a lot of pain and still look as calm AF.

[@wonderbread7536]

Gentle reminder some people do not express pain outwardly, especially in public. I was still as a stone when an ER nurse plucked gravel and glass out that was imbedded in my body from a bike accident. Because I was scared to be punished for crying. It was excruciating. I was sobbing on the floor the minute I got home and was alone. I was trained like a dog not to emote distress, doesn't mean I don't feel it. It just means I'm more likely to be subject to medical neglect when trauma informed care is not being implemented. Because doctors don't take me serious. I've almost died a few times now because of this.

[@sophielok4854]

Sorry to hear that, hopefully u find comfort in expressing emotions outward in the future

[@patriciaoffer9585]

Well don't die, now..........:D How are you all working that? It's good that "trauma-informed" had come to your attention ----

[@biancajade728]

Same my aunt that abused me told me if I cried or screamed I get hurt worse so my response looks weird to people who don't know that.

[@marymoore3585]

This is relatable AF. I have been in pain from breaking my back for 20 years. My eardrum exploded yesterday AS the doctor was looking in with a scope. He says, ' I can't believe how calm you are. Doesn't that hurt like hell?! " I said, "What? That? Not really. " His face...lol

[@rhiannonmackenzie2527]

From a perspective of a health professional, keeping as still as possible due to the amount of pain you're in is very noticeable and I would hope that the nurse who was removing gravel and glass from you noticed it too. Usually when I see a patient in so much pain they don't dare to move, I consider them to be in a very high level of pain and treat them as such - even if the patient doesn't complain.

[@heatherocallaghan2981]

When I was younger my period pain used to be so bad I would collapse, the only way I could describe it was as if I was being stabbed repeatedly in the uterus with a blunt knife (still gets like that on occasion but definitely not as frequent or as intense) so my pain tolerance is measured up against that. My typical reaction to pain is “eh, I’ve felt worse ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

[@sofeafraziali4783]

I’m with you. I’ve had period pains that could cause me to faint and the only thing that could match up to said pain was when I had a root canal problem accompanied with a throbbing headache. Other than that, it’s meh. (Thank you for allowing the space for my TMI)

[@emilysinkova7131]

I finally sought medical help for my 8/10 period pain ( and it was - uncontrollable crying in the fetal position, couldn't stand or sit, etc). Endometriosis is the diagnosis we are working with and I'm current using a hormonal treatment thst has dialed the pain back to a 3/10. But as my previous surgeries were so easy this experience has now given me an idea of what those upper numbers really mean as well as empathy for my patients that have learned to cope with it and worse everyday.

[@zedstar]

Literally THIS. I've been diagnosed with Endometriosis, and can positively say that a 'bad period' for me was more painful than when I broke my leg (at the ER for the major trauma centre for my state after the x-ray they said it was a 'really nasty break'). I rated my pain for the broken leg at a 6, and only two other things have been more painful than a 'bad period'.

[@adeflatedbasketball]

I’m male so I don’t know what period pains are like but I’ve felt similar really bad pain before so I do understand where you are coming from. I’m sorry about the pains

[@quicksilverchaos4122]

I used to have similar period pains so bad that I could barely move and would sometimes start crying. Have you been checked out to see if you have endometriosis or PCOS? I ended up having PCOS and now that I'm on meds for it, my periods are a breeze.

[@Chelle1214]

As someone with severe health issues I bloody hate the pain scale! I've literally laughed when with a family member who rated his pain like this guy (luckily he understood). Every time I get asked I have to preface that my idea of a nine or ten is when I have passed out from the pain.

[@carolratliff6961]

I have Lupus along with chronic pain due to my spine basically falling apart but yet I lived with it till I was 28 with no pain medication but I finally couldn’t move much any more I gave in and told my docs the truth that I had basically been masking the pain so yes I very much despise the pain scale because now anytime the ask I have to clarify if they want it when I’m on pain meds or off because I’m unfortunately on oxy 10mg every 6 hours to try and get rid of the pain but I still walk around most of the time at a 7-8 on the scale

[@bethmoore7722]

I use 16 hours of pitocin-induced labor as a 10. I tried to play Jeopardy!, but I couldn’t.

[@MrLenzGaming]

@@carolratliff6961 you are the case Dr. House has been looking for

[@center4nerds]

This! I know what a ten is on the pain scale because I've blacked out from pain. It is not something I would wish on anyone. Above 8 speaking to people is impossible and it becomes head shakes and grunts. I wish people would use the numbering scale with more respect, surprised he didn't start with a 12...

[@Ava-er8il]

I never know what to say or how to describe anything 😂

[@sashathebold4935]

I have chronic pain and have pushed out a nine pound baby. Labor and delivery I considered a pain scale of 8. When I went to the ER two years ago and told them I was in a pain level of 10 they literally laughed at me. Guess who had two ovarian cysts and a bleeding stomach 🤪

[@jesseberry2046]

Geez 9 lbs and i thought mine was bad had preeclampsia and hellp syndrome my son was born 2 weeks early 6 lbs i think 7 oz i dont remember exact its been 7 years that i would give a 10 pain 6 lbs or 9 omg that is painful even with meds you feel like every bone in your body is breaking at the same time

[@FlightRiskAK1]

I'm a retired air force medic and most of the career was spent assigned to the ER. I die laughing when I see your videos because they are all so true. No exaggeration at all with them. BTW, I personally have only 4 levels of pain and I hate the 1 to 10 scale. For me, it is 1= it hurts. 2= it hurts quite a bit. 3=it hurts a lot and 4 = holy hell I can't take this! I wish we could return to something like that then the ER would get a more accurate result.

[@herogames935]

Why don't they actually use this scale I'm most professions I've seen because it hurts

[@theakaneko]

Agree... and they use the 1-10 for everything. At least in some places, like my chiropractor's office, it describes exactly what their levels mean more than just differing levels of happy/unhappy face.

[@lushiousification]

I don’t like this scale either. In labor they asked my pain scale I said 7, they said I didn’t LOOK like I was in a pain scale 7 worth of pain. Just cause I don’t look it, doesn’t mean I don’t feel it.

[@Nikita-jo4cl]

I agree 1-4 is better

[@heyyfarah]

This 1-4 scale feels more legit and easy to understand.

[@NicoleChorney]

I've had chronic migraines since I was 7, so the level of pain that I'm able to function at is skewed from what most would consider normal. My childhood neurologist helped me understand the pain scale and that I have a constant background headache around 4-5 most of the time. At my first appointment with her, she was trying to figure what my baseline pain was and got a safety pin. She gently put it against my skin and asked if I could feel it, and if it hurt. I replied yes and no, so she pushed a little harder and asked me again. My answer was the same and she went a little harder. Mom started to get worried because she thought it looked like it was going to draw blood so the Dr took her out of the room. She explained that while I could feel something going on, my head hurt so badly that I wasn't registering the pin as actually pain. As an adult I've come to understand that my 8 would probably put someone else in bed for the day and if I was ever actually pain free, I'd be worried that I was dead.

[@nikkip683]

Holy hell on earth….how do you cope. Mom has migraines. She’d have them especially during her time of the month. I have early memories through teen years of hearing her vomiting from the pain. There were missed holidays, yes Christmas, too. Missed birthdays and school things because she couldn’t leave her dark, cool bedroom.

[@NicoleChorney]

@@nikkip683 You learn to live with a lot of things. There are some dark areas in my memory because the human mind has a wonderful trick of forgetting really painful things.

[@Questfinder1]

I had blinding migraines since childhood. Took til i was 24 tp be diagnosed with Psuedotumor Cerebri and Doctors didn't see Arnold Charari Malformation type 1 until I was 38. Its a newborn disease. So all those year pf migraines was literally my brain slipping into my spinal column and doctors and my parents did not give a shit to do further testing.

[@thistlegal2154]

Yup, everybody copes differently with the migraine pain, especially if you can't take meds during work hours. My ruptured appendix was heaven compared to my migraines with vertigo, fever,hives,vomiting. And all the meds for that are sedating SMH

[@NicoleChorney]

@@Questfinder1 I'm so sorry about your misdiagnosis. Migraine runs on both sides of my family, but so does cancer so I had my first CT at 8.

[@kassi4837]

Some people actually have a high pain tolerance and look fine when they aren’t. I have cervical instability myself and for years people thought I was fine. I went into the ER and people thought I was fine when I was having neurological complications from the instability. I saw a specialist recently and she put me in a neck brace and said surgery was unavoidable and that the pressure the instability was causing on my brain stem was dangerous. I know there are fakers out there, but there are plenty of people who aren’t faking that are called fakers.

[@f3nt0]

Yeah, most of the time we're just polite and don't over-act, and don't like to be drama queens. I don't like medical professionals like in the video.

[@laurenopferman7278]

Same here. I am about to go to sleep, just popped my advil and Tylenol and have my ice pack in hand. My C1 is very angry right now.

[@Ajehy]

This is why I give context to my interpretation of the pain scale when asked. So I’ll say “7, like when I had a second-degree burn.”

[@kassi4837]

@@f3nt0 yeah it’s really hard to appreciate their humor because the actual fakers ruin it for people like us. The pain of everything being labeled psychosomatic when it is not runs very deep.

[@mael2039]

I've been told by several doctors that I rate my pain too low because I always use my imagination to imagine even worse pain and then I'm like "yea, having seven kidney stones at the same time (three in one kidney and four in the other) is bad pain, but couldn't it be even worse if someone came and kicked me in the kidneys on top of it?" And then I don't give a high enough rating because I can almost always imagine a potentially even worse painful situation. I have heard from others that that's a common experience for people with chronic pain, which is what I experience, so it makes sense I guess. For me, it's helpful to look at the description of what the one to ten mean on that scale. There is really good descriptions about what kinds of things in your life your pain takes over at different stages, like from being aware of your pain only when you think about it, to finding it hard to even think about anything else or listen to anything, and being fully consumed by pain, all the way to being incapable of moving due to pain. I'm very bad with numbers and I need words to describe what the scale means. Numbers mean nothing to me, because my brain doesn't work like that.

[@demarisoxman4600]

This is why, whenever I am asked to rate my pain, I will give my number, and then ask the doctor/nurse, "What does that number mean to you?" Like recently, when I was talking to my doctor about my chronic hip pain, I initially said 4. Her description of what she interpreted a 4 to mean was less debilitating than what I was experiencing, so from there I was able to say "Ok, I think it's actually more like a 5." I think pain scales can be helpful, but they require communication on both sides, because pain is subjective.

[@stephanieann6622]

I have severe chronic pain and I can be laughing with my friends and family but dying on the inside. The pain scale is a joke, I've been told I'm lying as well when my blood pressure was clearly very elevated and heart was racing. While this character may be one that don't actually have pain, don't just assume someone is faking it if they're not screaming and crying.. when you've been in severe chronic pain for years(10+) you just don't show it like others do. if we did we would be constantly crying, shaking, screaming, etc. You learn to hide it and just smile and laugh through it. Nurses and doctors who instantly think people are faking it because we're not screaming, are not good drs and nurses. Just be patient, ask, examine, etc before determining in your head that's it's not real. Not everyone is text book case.

[@MsJipsey26]

I've come to nice that the only time my blood pressure is elevated at the hospital is when I'm in pain. I don't always have a high pain tolerance but I've had chronic back pain for YEARS now so it's gotta be worse than that for me to even rate over an 8. I also apparently wasn't displaying the amount of pain I should've been when I had a collapsed lung lobe 🤷🏽‍♀️ my nurse believed something was wrong but the Dr was reluctant. She said if the Dr wouldn't order chest rads she'd do it herself, he finally did and it revealed the answer, but I wasn't all that painful looking at me

[@kimrobb1965]

This guys pain wasn’t a 10 😂

[@stephanieann6622]

@@kimrobb1965 did you not read what I said? I literally said this character may not have been in really pain but assuming they're not in pain because they're not crying or screaming is dangerous and fucked up. I literally wrote that

[@emsee5438]

As someone with RA, gotta agree. It’s also hard for me to rate my pain sometimes because I get so used to the pain and don’t realize how bad it is until I’m having a good day and a joint or two doesn’t hurt as bad as before. (And, yes, like you said, there definitely are those, like the character in the short, who over exaggerate it but in real life that’s not always the case…there’s a reason chronic illnesses and pain sometime get nicknamed as “invisible disabilities”)

[@stephanieann6622]

@@emsee5438 oh 100% idk how many times I've said my pain is a 8-9 or and they give me a dirty look. It's like look I could sit there and cry and play it up or I could be honest and explain myself. But the issue is they never want to hear. As soon as you say "it's close to a 10" they instantly already have their mind made up. the pain I experience everyday will make most bawl possibly even scream but for me it's the norm. It's something my friend understand but they don't get sometimes they're like "well I want you to do something when youre feeling okay"(typically it's hanging out" but you never know when you're gonna feel okay. It's not something you can pin point and you can feel great but when it's time to hangout it's a switch and the severe pain is there. You just grit your teeth and spend the time with them or you'll never get to if you try to rely on "when you're feeling okay" But for the Dr stand point, for the amount of learning they have to do about chronic illnesses and conditions you would think they'd be more eye opened to the chronic severe pain that comes with it and understand that what's a 10 to someone isn't a 10 to a chronic pain and illness patient. But sadly there's really no doctors that are like that especially at our local hospital. Btw, I hope you're doing okay!

[@brinazarski]

for what it’s worth, technology can be a great distraction from pain, and some people dissociate from pain

[@graceengland8147]

The highest pain I've ever verbally described was an 8. When I presented with a pain of 9, I couldn't speak--I was involuntarily vomiting and making weird animal-like noises from the pain. I'm assuming that anything i would call a 10 would just make me immediately pass out from the pain.

[@marjoriegoodwin9121]

I've been at 9. Working with sacroiliitis. Tunnel vision,sweating,nauseated to the max,dizzy,and just in agony. Fun times!

[@airforce9872]

"I was involuntarily vomiting" so you sometimes vomit on purpose?

[@holyboiamethin2790]

@@airforce9872 I mean you can trigger your gag reflex with a single finger. That is if you have a gag reflex (I’ve seen people shove their fingers to the back of their mouths for tonsil stones without gagging. If I did that I’d vomit)

[@nikkip683]

It’s subjective too, right. What’s the highest pain you’ve experienced in your life. That’s your ten. It’ll be entirely different than another’s since they’ve no idea something even more painful can exist. I mean, a ten for a ruptured appendix could be a five for someone who’s had to saw off their arm without drugs to escape a rock.

[@ArinaCoryn]

I hate that scale question. I never know the right answer. I'm always too high or too low.

[@aceofspades7639]

The pain scale rating always freaked me out, and I would always undershoot because of this.

[@moofiepoof2699]

makes me not want bread cuz its sad

[@hannahaugustyniak11]

I’ve literally been told “you don’t look like you’re in a lot of pain” while I had cyst the size of a grapefruit pressing on a nerve. Like I’m sorry my mom didn’t raise a bitch, but I swear my pain is a 10/10

[@f3nt0]

YES! THIS! I hate it when medical professionals don't take you seriously because of THEIR personal opinion and prejudice of people. It's almost like you have to wail and cry if you want medical attention.

[@billpardy4094]

I once heard, “if you had a kidney stone, you wouldn’t be able to sit there and tell me about it, sorry you just have pain from being pregnant” at an urgent care. I had several kidney stones, it turns out, the pain varies based on where they are and if they are blocking anything. I still get kidney stones and the pain is worse than anything else in my life and I also have PCOS and endometriosis, so I know pain.

[@humantheharshit]

listen patients lie may times out of weird thought processes ...thats why doc gotta make sure things are real nd not just random air talks ,,,and you need to be bitch to express actual pain you are going through ! showing pain is natural nd if you dont go through that ,,you are the stupid one here yk because you seem fine but you suddenly wanna tell doctors that you are suffering ,,,docs will think their is something wrong with you obviously

[@ninjason57]

@@f3nt0 If youre not a medical professional you cant judge their work

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@humantheharshit Yeahhh like I feel for medical professionals but as someone who has been dismissed and ignored, I know it’s not helpful to be told “Well OTHER people lie…” Like… okay? And? Believe patients without making them do a whole song and dance so YOU believe them! Invisible pain and illnesses exist and are often ignored or just plain denied because people assume things to look a certain way.

[@o.o4566]

I have Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and have had several surgeries including two heart surgeries. Having a chest tube with wall suction in that cut a nerve was my most painful experience. I passed out multiple times and woke up shouting and choking and had to be sedated and reintubated because they couldn’t control the pain. I rate my 7-8 pain as when I can’t concentrate and my vision starts going out. Most days I’m at a solid five so about where it hurts enough I can’t ignore it but not so bad that involuntary body functions are being impacted.

[@ThisIsKiki1]

Ugh the pain scale is such a dumb question though, I have found myself trying to explain my number choice while fainting before lol "well it hurts in a sharp sort of way but not all about body way, less than child birth but way worse than a broken bone..." -steadily sinking to the floor - "what would you rate it on a scale of one to 10?" "5?"

[@sammagny6548]

Also pain is subjective I was in a really bad car accident that broken my leg and gave me whiplash and road rash on my right side as the fire department was getting the car off me I was making fun of myself for getting into a car accident and cracking jokes with everyone they thought I was drunk and gave me a breathalyzer(I wasn't drunk) my doctor's said they never seen someone handle pain this severe like this I told them it's because I was emotionally neglected as a child and don't like crying Infront of people because I think I'm making everyone else uncomfortable with my pain ( according to my therapist) I think I'm just a natural born comedian

[@nimeddictaror8754]

@@sammagny6548 damn gotta appreciate u have my true respect that sounds painful as f-

[@nimeddictaror8754]

The pain scale makes no sense especially of the situation like your was so dire clearly they need to do a reevaluation of the system

[@mikeet69]

@Josh Josh It may be fast, but giving a feeling of something as powerful as pain a number is dehumanizing and subjective. As this video shows pain with a visual trauma is taken more seriously than by most people including "highly trained medical professionals". What if someone has internal issues not visible then is that automatically mean less pain? Obviously this video is more of a stereotype about cell phone use. I don't work in an ER and I am sure their are plenty of cases of "minor" emergencies and such that maybe are not as immediately in need of medical treatment. Unfortunately I have had experience at the ER multiple times in the last few years including when my family doctor told me to go there. It is not something I like or want to do. I hope not everyone is judged so quickly what their pain number "really is". As others have said I have great difficulty using a 1 to 10 scale when I am in a lot of pain. I like the 1 to 4 or 5 scale as 10 levels of Likert scaling is too fine for me. Like many people pain only has maybe 4 or 5 levels, not 10. So asking someone a number to describe a feeling is not easy to answer and often not very accurate.

[@DeathnoteBB]

@@sammagny6548 People who think emotional abuse isn’t real abuse never know how deeply rooted the trauma can be

[@DaniMarko]

The pain scale is obviously not that great for an initial assessment, but it works wonders when used to compare the pain after a treatment! “ if the pain you had before was a 10, what would it be right now?” I use it everyday and it’s crazy reliable.

[@zedstar]

Literally the BEST way to use the pain scale!

[@Martin1519]

The pain scale would always confuse me because i didn’t know if my discomfort could be defined as pain or not. I always thought of pain as a feeling you get from blunt force or trauma, but recently I’ve had medical problems that give me extreme discomfort, but it’s a very different kind of pain than what I originally thought to be pain if that makes any sense.

[@Zopocalypse]

I have the same confusion between pain and discomfort, so I try to think about how much the sensation distracts me from regular activities. If I can't pay attention to anything else or I need to actively distract myself, that's how I know it's bad

[@breik8183]

I think drs are equally confused because when they're prepping you for something excruciating they'll tell you "you're going to feel some discomfort"

[@Skenjin]

Discomfort IS PAIN. It is its own type of pain and should not be ignored.

[@patriciatinkey2677]

Yes, you are crystal clear! I have the same kind of confusion with this. Glad I'm not the only one! ☮

[@rhiannonmackenzie2527]

You're definitely not the only one. Often people who come in with chest pain, don't believe it to be pain, but a tinge, pressure or discomfort etc. Usually I just get them to rate how big the discomfort is, even if it's not a number but mild, moderate or severe is also helpful if the numbers are confusing. From a health point of view discomfort is pain - often it's a mild pain (like a 1-3 on the pain scale), but it's still pain. It's a sensation that usually wouldn't be there, and most likely shouldn't be there.

[@lunasgma7546]

A few months ago I almost missed my daughters wedding because my back hurt so bad. I couldn’t even touch a bite of food. Made it home and sucked it up for two weeks thinking it was a bad strain with spasms. Couldn’t eat, sleep, lie down. Only comfort came from bending over the side of my bed and using pillows to keep my upper body up. My husband and son thought I was over reacting until I finally HAD TO GO TO DOCTOR and had an MRI. TURNS OUT I had three fractured vertebrae with severe spasms. That pain was FAR WORSE than child birth. I would say that was a TEN. Should have seen the looks on my husband’s and son’s faces. They felt like S H I T. HEH HEH.

[@Kirasanban]

I kept complaining of neck pain, but got used to it since I have ehlers danlos syndrome and dislocate bones multiple times a day. Doctors told me I was lying/ lazy/ complaining and that my pain couldn’t possibly be that bad because I didn’t look like I was in any pain. Yeah I internally decapitated last year at the age of 30. My local ER had never even heard of craniocervical instability, atlantoaxial instability, and occult tethered cord even though they are common in Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. I was airlifted cross-country from California to Maryland so the only neurosurgeon who specializes in craniocervical fusion for EDS patients could perform emergency surgery. I wasn’t breathing, was having TIAs multiple times an hour, and was paralyzed. My brainstem had been crushed when my head detached from my spinal column. Due to the pressure on my brainstem my heart was also losing its rhythm and stopped and restarted multiple times. My local ER wouldn’t even help arrange the transport. They told me my case was too complex and trying to save me would waste other patient’s lives. A doctor actually said that to me while I was paralyzed and unable to breathe on my own. The EDS specialist neurosurgeon in MD helped get me a life flight to him in the middle of the night. Thanks to Dr. Henderson I was in surgery right away when the air ambulance landed and when I woke up again I could breathe completely on my own, I had feeling in my arms and legs again and could move them, and I haven’t had a single TIA! That C0-C2 fusion saved my life! And yeah I had neck pain! My head literally fell off …

[@fififacehsomething5235]

The look of disappointment on his face at the end was precious

[@avevee9708]

When my dad got his hip replacement surgery, he was in SO MUCH pain, but because he has a high pain tolerance and didn’t look like he was in pain, the nurses didn’t even bother putting him on pain medication. He sat there, in severe pain, silently bearing it and being his normal casual, tolerant self, until he finally asked the nurse when he would be getting pain killer. Her response?? “You looked fine! I didn’t think you needed it.” Don’t judge people’s need for treatment just based on their outward demeanor.

[@laurenj432]

When I’m in a lot of intense pain mentally or physically, sometimes I just become detached from my body so I seem really calm. Dissociation as it’s called😂

[@MamaMonkey2008]

ER staff have become a drive thru for pain killers that they will most likely just write the guy a script for 3 days to get him out. Both my hamstrings seized while I was asleep and after trying to get out of bed for 15 hours, my husband called an ambulance, who even the crew saw I was in pain, and shot me up with fentanyl to get to the ER. Doc and Nurse thought I was faking and I was abused by the staff. I kindly asked for a muscle relaxer so I could attempt to try to stretch the muscles so I could sit up. Nope. I was told I already got pain killers and that should work. After me laying there for 2 hours the nurses exact words were "my shift ends in 15 minutes unless you are still here, so I'm going to make you stand". When she couldn't she got another nurse who told her to stop when I was screaming with tears down my face. She said no, keep on going. Got me to stand, which led me to fall. I was sit up on the bed. In 5 minutes she handed me a RX for Vicodin, I crumbled it up and threw it at her. Told her opioids mask pain, they don't treat it. I got in a wheel chair and left. It was traumatizing to say the least. The next day I had a follow up with my doctor, still needed help to get around because the spams was now a piercing pain. She tore my right hamstring. That's why I fell. I didn't feel it at the time because of the fentanyl. Got muscle relaxers and 3 months of rehab because that nurse.

[@samanthalomas3977]

Please be aware and show that not everyone deals with severe pain by screaming. Those of us who live in chronic pain often react differently to severe pain because we are used to it. I'm happy to discuss this more if you want.

[@meiraloraduncan8953]

Thank you I was about to comment something similar. When you have chronic pain that’s built up over many years you can develop extremely high pain tolerance levels which is what happened to me. I became really good at hiding my pain because I had responsibilities that needed to be done and I also had a boss who was a bully and if she didn’t like you she would do anything to make your day horrible in the hopes that you would request a transfer or quit. I had been walking around with multiple spinal cord injuries that were progressively getting worse over the last 10 years. My doctor didn’t believe me and said it was all in my head. I couldn’t take it anymore and demanded he order an MRI which he didn’t want to do. You can imagine his shock when the head MRI doctor called him the next day to tell him that he needed to get me in to see a Neurosurgeon asap because my spinal cord was being crushed in between my vertebrae in more than 4 places and the nerves were being crushed and cut off which was causing the numbness and severe pain in my arms, hands, legs, and feet. Each step was an electrical jolt shooting down my arms and legs and it got worse with each step and the longer I was standing. My Neurosurgeon couldn’t believe that I was even able to stand up, walk, or function at the level I was with the location and amount of damage shown in the MRI. After surgery he said that the damage had been even worse and that I had been one wrong move away from death or becoming a quadriplegic on a respirator for the rest of my life. Over the next few years I learned that there are actually different types of pain all with their own pain scale and that even though an area might be numb it doesn’t mean you can’t feel pain in that area. I was raised to complain about things which was kinda a generational thing and you grin and bear it. Thankfully my team of new doctors understands what I am dealing with daily and I left that first one as quickly as I could.

[@MyFriendRuth]

Yes. I live with chronic pain. One day, I had the worst headache of my life start when I bent to get something out of the oven. They didn’t seem to take me very seriously in the ER, where I was holding as still as possible so as to not cause more pain. They barely looked at me at all but sent me to get my baby monitored in L&D. (Nothing was wrong with my baby! It was my head!) In L&D, I was unable to make it to the toilet for a urine sample because the pain from movement was crazy insane. As the L&D nurse helped me back into the wheelchair, she remarked that they shouldn’t have sent me up and I need to stay in a bed and only move to get in an MRI. Long story short, I had a cyst (thankfully non-cancerous) causing a problem in my sinus. When I got my paperwork and saw my notes later, the notes said, “Resting comfortably”, and a bunch of other stuff they never even checked about how my eyes looked clear and my lungs sounded good, etc. 🙄

[@Skenjin]

Yeah for persistent pain, for me a 10 might look like a 1. Now a sudden worsening in pain? That'll give a reaction. For the pain faces on the scale though its surprisingly accurate, if I just let my face do what it wants to do rather than holding it together.

[@Nylak-Otter]

I've broken my spine, both arms, 8 fingers, and had to have an organ transplant that left me immobile for 3 years, and if I am ever over a 5 on the pain scale my general physician assumes I'm dying. People just have a wide range of pain tolerances.

[@GreenJeep1998]

Just thinking that too, for me to be at the same point as the guy screaming, the bone would have be laying on the counter and no longer in my body. Then again, both of my parents and little sister are about like that too.

[@jg-tn1or]

my question is how did u break ur spine

[@Nylak-Otter]

@@jg-tn1or Horseback riding. I was riding in inclement weather, and my horse bucked so hard that it crushed my first lumbar vertebra to nothing.

[@jg-tn1or]

@@Nylak-Otter god damn

[@hadilayyad6147]

@@Nylak-Otter shit I didn’t even know that was possible! Mind telling me about the organ transplant that left you immobile for 3 years?

[@chinmonk11]

i dislocated my knee last year (great ol 2020 am i right) and they asked me how bad was the pain on the 1-10 scale. i asked if 10 was really bad. they said “yeah 10 is like your dying”. so in my head im like, ok… i would hate to die to a gunshot wound… that would hurt REALLY bad. so i said it was a five. the paramedic looked at their partner and whispered something about me tryin to be tough or something. honestly though, even though it was the worst pain ive ever felt a gunshot wound would be soo much worse.

[@eeveequeen15]

Hey, people with high pain tolerance exist. I'd rate my chronic pain a 6 and an 8 if inflammation gets worse. When I had kidney stones, it was definitely a 10 for me but I was able to walk and took some aleve and held an ice pack to my back where the pain was.

[@rcp9ty]

They say kidney stones are worse than having a child. I thought this was a joke until my sister with two kids told me that kidney stones were worse.

[@mamacatselliot]

Kidney stone pain caused them to have to sedate me. OMG that was hell.

[@eeveequeen15]

@@rcp9ty I hope that's true. It was severely painful and they passed twice.

[@eeveequeen15]

@@mamacatselliot I never ask to be taken to the ER but when the second set of stones passed from my kidney to my bladder, I asked my mom to take me to the ER. Unfortunately she was half asleep and thought I was just having back pain. 💀

[@heatherocallaghan2981]

@@rcp9ty my aunt had cancer and the medication used to cause her to have kidney stones. She has 3 kids and she says the kidney stones were definitely worse than giving birth.

[@cloebloss]

When my grandfather was in the hospital they had a little chart showing smiley faces to go with the numbers and I thought that was humorous and actually a lot more helpful to visually see too

[@sadiemcnabb4444]

The one and only time I ever rated my pain as a 9 was when I had a spinal headache. Childbirth wasn't even that bad.

[@ceciliajohnson536]

I can deal with a spinal headache for about an hour maybe two, but then I have to have something... The people around me are anti Tylenol. They don't understand the level of pain that gets to

[@Lance.Gardenhire]

A spinal headache? Never had or heard of that. The only time I did was getting stabbed in the eye. So, so painful.

[@pearlcnrd]

SPINAL HEADACHE????? WTF IS THATTTTTTT Be right back Edit: I'm back a month later and wow the description sounds grim.

[@jamie1602]

I would rather die than have another spinal headache.

[@stacybender4414]

We love his expressions. Both hubby and I laugh like crazy.

[@ChaoticAngelKitten]

Lol, this was funny. As someone who has had serious “I think I’m dying” pain, I rarely get to 7 anymore. I had surgery where they opened up my stomach and barely needed pain killers after because I was so use to chronic excruciating pain.

[@violeviolaV]

Yeah, als the comments show pain and how people react to it can be very individual! Not taking a patient seriously when they are capable of evaluating their own pain, is a sure way of annoying them and earning their distrust (speaking from experience, which I'm not proud of)

[@modernbananas7913]

I do kinda hate stuff like this though, because a lot of nurses and doctors write off people who don't act out their pain. My mom and my sister both have ridiculously high pain tolerance and very rarely actually show how much pain their is, and my mom is also super afraid of doctors so she tries to downplay everything to not be a bother. I haven't had the kind of injuries they have, but even when I was in the ER after tearing up my leg pretty badly (over a year later and it still hasn't fully healed) I said my pain was low because I thought they wouldn't believe how bad it hurt because my anxiety made me pretend I wasn't constantly on the verge of tears and could barely stand sitting in the wheelchair they put me in.

[@Rachel-ge3gl]

Having a baby definitely changed my perception of the pain scale. I kept referring to the actual definition for each number and I think I was at about an 8 before getting an epidural. I only got an epidural because I was in labor for over 30 hours at that point and was scared of how bad the pain would get when pushing. All the nurses said I have a really high pain tolerance. But then I cried from the pain after my wisdom teeth were removed like 4 months later.

[@tommiegirl2441]

I'm going to give you that, though... I've had mouth pain and I've given birth four times. And I'll take childbirth every day and twice on Sunday compared to infected teeth. Mouth pain is the worst as far as I'm concerned!

[@Thegenerichuman]

@@tommiegirl2441 yea all it take a is one infection of a wisdom tooth😆

[@jescicawhitaker5554]

@@tommiegirl2441 I have had 2 children and said the same thing. I’d rather be in labor than tooth pain. FYI my second came too fast for an epidural so he was natural.

[@clockworkhearts4085]

@@tommiegirl2441 I've had an infected wisdom tooth oozing pus into my mouth. squeezed it out as best I could and just iced my cheek. didnt hurt that much at all. childbirth contractions on the other hand were a solid 10/10 for me, almost blacking out pain. couldnt speak. couldnt think. just breathe and scream. to be fair I was being induced, have ibs (so all kinds of inflammation in my gut), my son was giant and I didn't have my amnio to cushion it but still. it was fucked. it's interesting how people can tolerate different sorts of pain better or worse than others.

[@hadilayyad6147]

@@clockworkhearts4085 oof why didn’t you get the epidural 😨 I was around 7-8 cm when I said screw that noise bc my baby boy was 9 lbs and I’m 5’0” lol I ended up needing an emergency c section so it’s a good thing I had gotten the epidural.

[@adamarisdiaz7428]

I noticed my pain decreases whenever nurses or doctors would come in my room (childbirth)(gallbladder stones) guess the comfort helped with the pain like an eight would go to a six. So weird.

[@foxfireangels3960]

I mean, I went to the E.R. with abdominal pain and when they asked this question, I was like it's MAYBE a 4 if not just a 3. My appendix was about to rupture. They discovered I have an abnormally high pain tolerance especially after I got in a severe car wreck (head-on, both 4WD trucks totalled) two months later and told them I didn't need any pain medicine and if it started to bother me too much I'd just take a Tylenol or something.

[@showton8333]

It goes the other way too. My last hospital stay, they didn't seem to take my pain as significant. Then they ask: "On a scale of 1-10 what is your pain level?" I said: "About 4." A friend who was visiting me said: "Ask him what the pain level was, when he had rotator cuff surgery and a bone spur ground off." They asked and I told them: "About a 0.5. I never needed any pain meds for it." Attitude change.

[@ms_minna]

As someone with severe chronic nerve pain and having to go to the ER numerous times.. I can tell this is so accurate. I’ve seen grown men cry like babies when a nurse has tried to take some blood for the lab tests. And I’ve fainted from pain too. Sooooi… yeah. This is 100% true!

[@rphttech4520]

I have chronic pain so when I end up in ER for anything else, I have to ask if they want the total pain number or just the new pain. If I give a total, I would be up to an 8. Just new pain is usually a 4 or 5 to warrant an ER visit.

[@rayesafan9628]

Ok, I have a hard time with this. One time, I said my pain was a 5, and my friend looked at me like “you don’t know what a 5 pain is.” Which, she was right. But for me at that time, 10 was the most pain I could remember being in, and it was half of that. So to me, it made sense. I know my life was good at that point, because I have more perspective on greater pain. But I think we could all use lessons on pain communication. For me now, I evaluate my own pain by what id be willing to lose to make the pain stop. 100$? It’s aggravating. A surgery with pain medicine and a mild recovery? I probably need intervention. But recently, I had the thought that if I lost some of my fingers to get rid of the feeling I had, it’d be worth it. And that’s when I knew that I was really not doing well.

[@_haha__]

here's how it should be: 9 or 10 is passed out from the pain. 7 or 8 is the leg guy. 5 or 6 is a badly broken bone. Anything below that and it's a 1-4

[@donnaleeah5075]

I had a good size kidney stone working it's way out. Had a friend drive me to the ER. Thankfully they weren't busy. I didn't know why I was in pain. After the ultrasound the Dr came back in "I didn't think we'd really find much wrong from the way you presented. You said the pain was a 5 or 6. He said "this is a 10." I explained I live in chronic pain. He shook his head ,, and a nurse gave me a pain killer through the IV. Ahhh relief. The pain scale doesn't really work. Lol a friend went into the ER because "I might throw up." Rated her pain as a 10. A friend took her in. Believe me it was easier to take her in than deal with her. It was after midnight. As they waited my friend, pain scale 10 was laughing and laughing. A nurse went out to her "I see you're able to laugh pretty easily. What's your pain scale now?" "10". Sigh. Sigh. Sigh.

[@MostWantedWannaBE]

i think it's completely valid when my neck seizes it's literally 1 position where i can tolerate it and any kind of movement is unbearable so him being non-challant like that and describing his pain as 9-10/10 can be valid as he can just be in his comfort position

[@MVP11489]

The last doctor was pretty surprised when I answered with a 3. I snapped my patella tendon once, and I can tell you for God damn certain that shit was a 10. When you're knee cap is like 4 inches higher then it supposed to be, you're having a bad day.

[@pattykeene6692]

I think I pulled a muscle from laughing. Thanks, I needed that👍🏼🤣

[@baneyney1697]

When I was in labor, the nurses were monitoring my contractions and they were surprised and asked me why I didn't seem bothered at all since my contractions were strong. They told me others would be crying and screaming from the contractions that I was experiencing at that time. I guess I just had a really high pain tolerance. But when my water broke, ngl I was screaming for the epidural lol

[@synovelle]

I had an injury unbeknownst to me and went to physical therapy for back pain. Genuinely the pain was between 6-8 during most of my waking hours, but the physicians kept trying to get me to say it was lower because “you didn’t go to the ER for the pain” and “you’d be yelling right now”. Just because I don’t show a ton of physical reactions and expressions doesn’t mean my pain isn’t bad or isn’t real or that I’m exaggerating the numbers. Sometimes my pain keeps me from making any noise because if I make noise, it feels worse.

[@My_mid-victorian_crisis]

I've been in 10 pain, passed the eff out. Spent the next four days on my stomach, with a heating pad, being feed THC gummies before I could go to the doctor. They gave me muscle relaxers... Went to a chiropractor and they were able to fix my dislocated back.

[@ThatOneCoolPerson]

only legends will know this is the second time this topic was introduced

[@idooma6455]

Present ✋🏻✋🏻✋🏻

[@evientually]

As yet another long-term chronic pain patient, I have to preface my number with "...I consider a kidney stone to be a 9, and a corneal ulcer a 10." My fractured vertebrae only hit maybe 7. The nerve pain that developed in subsequent years definitely merited some 8/8.5s, even a 9 when it's bad enough that I literally CANNOT walk. Cut off part of my finger? 5. Migraine? 7, easily. But pain is so subjective, you really need to give some preface! If I come in with a broken arm (both radius and ulna) and tell you my pain is a 4, it's not because it's not broken--it is for sure broken, dude, I've broken everyfreakinthing, I KNOW--it's because my scale really has some serious levels to it. Just give me the x-ray, the cast, the referral and the five low-dose Vicodin I'm going to have to insist upon and let's get this done with so you can go help that dude with the "9.5" neck pain, the three people with the flu who should have just stayed home, and the poor scared new Mom with the high fever baby.

[@supdudeitsdev6453]

this guy can make the same video over and over again and still make it feel like it’s new

[@GayCorvidae69]

OMG i have been crying for the past 3 days but this actually made me scream out loud from laughter. THIS IS SO TRUE! I had this woman who kept telling me her pain was a 10 and it’s the worst she had ever felt, but it was only ever when we came in for the other patient. Never called, never screamed or cried, never any signs of pain or distress, her heartrate was normal, temp was normal, no signs of anything going on, and yet she kept telling me it was a 10. She had experienced child birth several times too but ‘the pain was so bad she couldn’t even have a sheet over it’. Yet she only asked for pain meds when we talked to her neighbour and never complained about anything whenever we were there for her…

[@ashberrington1596]

The pain scale isn't a very good way of gauging pain. I saw a really good chart where it compared the 1-10 scale to how the pain affects you. For me, I was almost passing out at a 7/10 because it was constant, but I will scream at a 9/10 (I usually only experience pain that bad momentarily). That shows how subjective the pain scale is.

[@KingdomKali]

Yeah I have a high tolerance for pain so I can say 8 with a straight face and mean it, if I'm at a 9 or 10 I'm probably close to if not already passed out lol I've never been able to pass out from physical trauma either though I've just lived through incredible amounts of pain and that's just how it is 😅

[@atleynater]

as a chronically ill person, i relate to this in a way! i'll be in excruciating pain while sitting in class & taking notes. you get used to living with it after a while.

[@vladspellbinder]

"First, let me tell you what my 'ten' is. A pain of ten would be every nerve on fire, your skin flayed and organs taken out and spread around the room while a carpet is made from your nerves. But you're still alive, you can't die, and you're still sane, you can't go mad from the pain. That's my ten. I constantly live with level two pain, every day I wake up my body hurts, dull signals as familiar to me as these four walls probably are to you. Some days it's only a one point two, say days it's a two point seven. Hot shows help bring the pain down, as do a few other things, but pain is my constant companion. So I want you to understand very clearly that when I say I am at pain level five point four that I have given very careful considering of my own personal pain scale and am only here now because _this really fucking hurts_ and I can't treat it myself." Yes I have spent far too much time going over my own pain scale because of fluctuating chronic pain. I hope to never have to need to use any of the various ideas I've had for what "ten" would actually be.

[@Ferd414]

Sounds a bit like me after 50 years of making my living with (and being knocked around by) horses. After a particularly bad incident involving an argument (I lost) with a horse about who was supposed to be on top, I couldn't stand the agony and went to the ER. Went with a "guesstimated" 8 on the pain scale when asked. They did Xrays, and discovered 6 broken (not cracked - Snapped into clearly visible separate pieces - one of them 4 distinct pieces) ribs, and a partially collapsed lung. Rushed me to MRI and found bruised spleen and stomach, and lots of torn muscles, cartilage and ligaments across my chest, along with two ribs detached from the sternum. Doc says "I thought you said the pain was an 8?" and started a dilaudid drip. What can I say? After 50 years of it, I'm pretty well used to being beat up by critters that outweigh me by a factor of like 150-200:1 and capable of inflicting pain - if not actual damage - simly by shifting their weight at the wrong moment.

[@agiles6483]

My clinic has upgraded the pain scale posted in the waiting room to include “unable to text” and other helpful things with the numbers. I will say that the pain scale is very subjective, my “five”, as someone with chronic pain after cancer, is different than someone else with different circumstances. However, I do get very irritated by someone who has ten of ten pain for a minor condition, I shouldn’t, but I do.

[@eecoconut]

That whole "unable to text" thing depends on the person and shouldn't be used to determine if someone is in pain or not. As a person with a chronic illness where chronic pain is a constant in my everyday life and as a medical professional, I can tell you 100% that texting for me and many others is a coping technique that helps to distract from the pain until pain relief is achieved. My hospital is trying to change that because they understand that everyone is different therefore pain tolerance is as well.

[@kaycollarfeild]

@@eecoconut definitely. My pain condition causes a lot of issues but to type I only need one finger. I can barely write from pain , but texting is easy and definitely q coping tool 😁

[@kelliewhyte_85]

@@eecoconut LOL I had pancreatitis and could BARELY move!!! Was even taken in my bed to have the ultrasound and SCREAMED during that!!! But if I had my phone with me, I sure as hell WOULD HAVE Been able to use my phone!!! But then again I've been through cancer twice, so I unfortunately know pain anyway.

[@eecoconut]

@@kelliewhyte_85 I've had a friend who is a cancer survivor and we talked alot about the differences and similarities of both sickle cell and cancer. From our conversations I've come to understand that they are very similar and the pain is pretty much the same. So I believe you when you say that you know pain

[@kelliewhyte_85]

@@eecoconut LOL yeah but the funny thing is, my fiamce actually has a crushed sciatica (nerve that goes from your spine down your leg) and I swear I do doubt that I've been in as much pain as him!!! I honestly never remember ever screaming from pain (I was 9 and 11 when I had the cancer so remember it very well) whereas I have seen him scream in pain MANY times. It's so freaking scary!!! Last time I saw it I freaked out so badly, I was so close to literally shoving the pillow over his face just to put him out of his misery. Don't think it would have gone down well since he was in the hospital when it happened though.

[@Emily-ck9ji]

Oh god. I suck at using the pain scale. I never know what I should pick, so I always say the lowest I can think of. I dislocated my shoulder, had a friend drive me thirty minutes to the hospital in her crappy little car, and walked into the ER. I was afraid to say anything higher than a two even though I was crying like an infant and hyperventilating. I wish there was something else to use rather than a pain scale, because I don't know what to say.

[@ihearditinadream]

Why would you say the lowest dumbass

[@tinkeramma]

I wish it was more universal to display several common behavior differences. By 10, conversation is impossible. The brain and body are both focused on the pain. Based on your description of being unable to stop crying and difficulty breathing, that'd be definitely in the 7-9 range depending on how much is panic and how much is pain (though either needs treatment).

[@lv4149]

*When your mum’s all foolproof method to tutor you fails:* 🤣😭😭

[@cindyduangmala554]

My situation was different I went to the er because I was feeling faint at work so when I was checking in the nurse asked me what was going on with me and I told her I been feeling pain but I didn't think it was going to get this bad she told me I didn't look sick and that I should go sit down so I did I don't know why but the doctor came out with one of the nurses and they checked my vitals at that point I couldn't move my blood pressure dropped the doctor started yelling at them for not taking me to the back sooner I ended up getting an emergency surgery and when I was in recovery the nurse told me how did I not feel the pain sooner I said every time I say a 10 I'm stuck there for 4 to 6 hours and I wanted to sit down because I had no strength but y'all said I looked ok 😂😂😂🤣🤣 without taking my vitals anyways ( I have lupus and fibromyalgia) so pain is normal for me

[@oddgamingcat7442]

The only time I rated my pain a 9 or 10 was when I was ovulating or something the first time since fibroid removal surgrey and I took only tylenol before bed. I woke up at 5 in the morning with so much pain that I thought my appendix bursted. I called my doctor and she said I was just ovulating. Moving and even speaking was very painful for me. I had to take a whole painkiller instead of the quarter of it and ended up sleeping until 3pm.

[@Start_a_riot]

I love these videos lmaooo

[@valcrump8257]

These types of people end up waiting a really long time. Eventually, they give up, get angry, and threaten to leave. Guess what happens next?

[@M1ke10191]

“Patient in no acute distress on phone as i enter the room”

[@fabulouskamaria]

This is actually really messed up. Just because someone “looks fine” doesn’t mean they aren’t in a lot of pain. A patient being high functioning with pain in no way makes it okay to invalidate or doubt someone’s pain. This kind of gaslighting is abuse in the medical field, and it’s beyond wrong. I’m not going to watch this and not say anything about it.

[@jcarry5214]

Or: some people lack self awareness and think they are the only person who has ever experienced pain, others are there to acquire opioids, others ate just careless and want attention. I’ve experienced what you’re describing multiple times with dentists specifically not believing me because I’m composed. Another time I had broken ribs and the doctor didn’t believe me until they felt it. But for every time that’s happened to me I’ve seen people come into the waiting room demanding a prescription for narcotics for a toe or rib they broke ten weeks before. You can’t just call any ol thing gaslighting; people abuse the hospital system around the clock.

[@firstlast8258]

@@jcarry5214 🤡

[@jadewodack3141]

I have a high pain tolerance due to other medical stuff going on, and when I got appendicitis, I thought it was something else. So I dealt with the severe pain for 6 hours, eventually getting to the point I couldn't walk and no pain meds were helping. I had to be carried to the car and to the emergency room. I was still joking around with the doctor and rated my pain a 7. They didn't believe me to put it simply😅

[@InsertMyChineseUsername]

lol that happens to me because of chronic pain, my ability to emotion just shuts down and i disassociate and then casually give a high number, which is not believed because I'm standing calmly

[@boyalert2798]

The cut off at the “What the fu-“ just killed me XD this guy is so funny!!!

[@Okoktok45]

According to the Sacklers it’s just breakthrough pain….😂

[@samhaines8228]

wonder how many billion they would have to pay out in oxycontin settlements before they feel some pain?

[@rcp9ty]

I love the pain scale when I go to the hospital I use things I've experienced in life for pain to help doctors out. I usually say something like it hurts but its not as bad as a nurse cleaning out an abscess or it hurts but not as bad as a dentist cleaning out the roots during a root cannel or it hurts but not as bad as climbing out of a car with a broken wrist like its bad but I'm not at a 10 yet XD

[@donnasherman8412]

I have been in the ER battling a kidney stone that was stuck in my ureter. It ended up having to be removed. My urologist did this basket retrieval. People on both sides of got real quiet when they found out what I was going through. I guess they may have realized their flu like symptoms weren't all that bad. My nurses were phenomenal! They are the unsung heroes! They do everything!! The doctors just give orders and seem to be on the phone all the time. I sent the nurses a nice thank you card thanking them for being so kind when I had my surgery and while I was in the ER.

[@vphardware]

He understood the assignment. He said what was needed 2 b seen right away 😆

[@WanderingInWonderland93]

Okay but people in chronic pain are not going to act the way you expect an average person to and I hate how that is always dismissed as faking or exaggerating when in reality we understand pain, particularly our own, to the point where we know when something is wrong but it may not always register the way you expect it to.

[@___LC___]

I’ve decided the pain scale goes up exponentially. At the top of a 10, unconsciousness occurs…which I’ve had happen. When I broke my leg severely, the broken leg didn’t hurt that badly once I reduced my ankle…foot? My foot was dangling, flopping all over and not where it should have been at all. Once that was more or less back in place, it hurt less than many sprains I’ve have (thank you Grandpa for the hypermobility!) My very messed up spine and congenital spinal condition cause me chronic pain, that gets to be too much. I wouldn’t know how to rank my peripheral neuropathy, as it like no other pain. So, yeah, if someone in on their phone, just make sure the family doesn’t see you roll your eyes.

[@f3nt0]

I know there are people like this, but I actually hate medical professionals who are like this. They almost cause my sister to die. People who aren't drama queens or attention seekers always minimise their pain when in public and in front of a doctor because of social politeness, and medical professionals like this don't take them seriously. Plus, some people are autistic and some have anxiety/depression, and there are many other groups of people who won't show up at the ER wailing in pain. My sister went into the ER with horrible pain in her general abdomen area. After waiting for 3 hours in immense pain, she was finally seen by the doctor. They asked a few questions, gave her pain killers and told her to go home. The pills didn't do anything, of course. Then, in the middle of the night, she finally got some sleep but was woken up by intensified extreme pain that she was screaming and couldn't even stand straight. Her husband drove her to the ER again and once there, they had to wait for a while again and when she was seen this time, they gave her a bed. But the nurse and the doctor told her she was just being dramatic, that her pain was nothing. They basically told her to calm down and after a few hours, if there's nothing wrong with her, they'd let her go. Well, 'lucky' for her, the pain got worse again and caused her to scream, and THAT'S WHEN THEY DECIDED TO TAKE HER SERIOUSLY. They finally checked her and found that she's got dead tissue in her ovary as a result of her cyst and if the doctor said it was good that they checked her 'early' because SHE COULD'VE DIED FROM SEPTIC SHOCK if they waited any longer! This is why I hate medical professionals like this.

[@adria89]

The number scale for pain only works if you give the patient a horrific example of 10!

[@akakuro.7376]

Imagine his pain was actually that bad but the other guy's problem was just gorier? Cuz yeah you can have high levels of pain and act normally, if you suffer high levels of pain long enough you learn to tune it out or use things to distract yourself

[@MasterThanatos1301]

This is what happens when people don't understand how to scale something In case anyone needs an actual idea for pain here's just a general one that does vary from person to person though 10= can't stop screaming can't move where the pain is and have severe injury in the spot possible blood or severe dark bruising 9 can't move the spot causes screaming from pain when try Gonna skip a few 3 hurts to move the area but still can 2 the area hurts but is fine moving without increasing the pain 1 basically anything that hurts a small amount like a paper cut or accidentally poking yourself with a needle the pain typically doesn't last long I'd say if you're going to say your pain is anything higher than a 5 it's going to be something that doesn't just go away in a day or two and the closer you are to 10 the stronger the pain killers you will have to have I tried my best to think of different things that would just show why it would be as high or low without giving examples because different things will cause that reaction out of people Though I will say if you break a bone even if you don't really feel the pain go see a doctor don't want to end up not going because that causes other issues down the line like for me there was a time I broke my arm didn't go to the doc because I was dumb and didn't realize it was broken when it healed it healed wrong so now my left arm can't extend fully still haven't been to a doctor for it and it's been about 3 or 4 years now plan to get it checked out knowing odds are they will either leave it or rebreak it to reset it so it heals properly it works fine as is just hurts every now and then Please save yourself the pain and get anything major checked out immediately

[@Onesie7]

"How bad is your neck pain now?" "Not as bad as that last guy... but he did break his leg and not his neck so still a 10"

[@melanietoth1376]

One of my docs had a pain chart in her room that explained the pain scale. Very helpful. It should be posted in all places where the question of rating pain on a scale of 1-10 comes up.

[@shannonbarnes9642]

OMG you literally make my day EVERY DAMN TIME I SEE YOUR NOTIFICATIONS 🥰🥰

[@Val-zb4bd]

Hilarious as always kiddo !!! I've been an athlete & Equestrian for most of my life. I once shattered my ankle IN MY BOOT & continued to compete, somehow I managed to win 3 more events. My only regret is that I loved those boots that I cut off myself. Slapped on some horse liniment, wrapped myself up in horse ace bandages & never went to the ER till the next day. A 10 you say, HAHAHAHA, poor little flowers 🌺🌹🌺

[@LAZURAYOFFICIAL]

The comedic timing is gold when he said "I can barely move my neck" then looks down at his phone. Laugh out loud funny.

[@fishrsa9046]

I went to the ER in 2013 with the worst(and first) migraine I had ever had. The doctor asked me to rate my pain out of 10. Naturally being the worst pain I had ever experienced, I said 10. He let out a sigh and told me that "if the pain was a 10 you would be dead right now." madd me feel like they didn't care about me. Of course that doesn't compare to this example, but yeah it made me think of that. Now when doctors and my psychologist asks me to rate pain or mood out of 10 I stick to 4-7 range because I'm afraid of them saying the number is too high or low lmao

[@angelabrown1104]

I recall going to the ER in severe abdominal pain, unable to properly breathe but because my Ox sats were acceptable to the nurse while sitting in the little triage room, she figured I was okay enough to attempt her normal line of questioning about my pain, which I couldn't answer but eventually got help for it after waking up in an ER room and my chest felt afire. Apparently I passed out and that was some kind of an answer, I guess. This guy and his 9.5 out if 10 while still figuring if he wants to swipe right or left? Sheesh.

[@chelseabarnts1245]

I can't stand his videos. They're so biased and judgemental. As someone with chronic illness who is in pain ALL the time, I have built an extreme pain tolerance and experience level 8 pain every single day. Some days it gets to a ten and I lay down and cry, but it's the type of pain that the average person would rush to the ER screaming over. Just because some of us are forced to live in extreme pain and have learned how to cope and stay calm incredibly well to survive, does not mean the pain isn't there.

[@Sarita-bs1ro]

I’ve never heard something so accurate and have this happen aallllll the time 😂🤣🤣😂😅😭

[@RebeccaHails]

This you made me laugh so much. It's so true and people that are usually not that ill or injured are the ones that make out as if they are worse than everyone else b

[@Jazzinthedark84]

Can we please stop with this? Suffering is not a competition. For one thing pain is subjective, as the pain scale is usually asked as "10 being the worst pain you've ever experienced" meaning that it's individual to each person AND different people have different pain tolerances. Also people's concept of the worst pain imaginable can shift with experience, for example if they have a baby, a painful injury or if they are just someone who experiences a lot of pain in their life, such as a Chronic pain sufferer. I walk around everyday in pain that would not be tolerable to other people (that I'd rate a 4-7 on the pain scale depending on how bad it is), but I can still get injured, get migraines and have other pain that would make me seek medical help that my "normal" or "background" pain wouldn't. Doctor's shouldn't assume that just because you aren't screaming that you aren't in pain. I got hospitalised in April for suspected meningitis & had to have a lumbar puncture and head CT because I was in so much pain. 10 on pain scale. I wasn't screaming though because M I G R A I N E and I already wanted to cut out my brain and throw it in the trash, screaming wasn't going to help me.

[@Jazzinthedark84]

@ngerstner753 The 3 most painful things I've ever experienced are: - Getting a coil put in the 1st time without anaesthesia (I've never had kids so my cervix wasn't amused) - Having a lumbar puncture - The recovery from having a metal plate & 8 screws put into my wrist. I didn't know you could get contractions in your arm, apparently you can. :( Yeah I know some people who are really dramatic about it too. Meanwhile I'm in pain every day of my life from about 15+ different conditions and I have to take so much medication, pain relief and stuff for side effects. I can really struggle sometimes to have sympathy for people who have minor issues. Like my partner keeps getting tattoos and then whines while they heal. I'm like seriously? You paid someone to draw on you with a needle & now you're gonna complain about the pain?

[@mitchelline]

I think a lot of people interpret 10 as the most pain they've personally experienced, while I believe it's intended to be interpreted as 10 being the worst imaginable pain

[@laurisawitch0707]

I have a high pain tolerance and have literally passed out from it before. People with complex trauma tend to dissociate and some mental illnesses can cause flat affect. I think instead of the pain scale doctors should ask "what is the pain keeping you from doing?" If somebody can't shower, sleep, or eat from the pain. Or maybe they can function for a time but it's so sharp they collapse. It gives a better understanding

[@ceciliapares2804]

💕😂I can not imagine all the things these heroes go through humorwise!! Love these funny clips!🎞😄🧨