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[@RedRad1990]

He doesn't feel the pain. He IS the pain.

[@mohogany]

But we’re not allowed to say that 😂

[@gfergina27]

Right! He rated how much of pain he brought to Rich 😂

[@palindromecornell707]

You win 🏆 😄 😂

[@DigitalCat01]

He's a pain in the neck

[@kstizz2686]

Yea and unfortunately people like that either don’t realize what the pain scale means , or they are just seeking drugs . I’ve never rated my pain more than a 6 . And that’s been giving birth ; another time having 3 kidney stones ( that one HURT ) , I rated that a 5 .

[@spacebrownie23]

To be fair that man bearly moved his neck

[@janetpahs2914]

B.A.R.E.L.Y. : correct spelling. Duh.

[@spacebrownie23]

@@janetpahs2914 cool 😎 👌 👍

[@asherikamichaela8425]

​@@janetpahs2914Yes, but you don't need to be a dick about it. 😜

[@danielled8665]

​​@@janetpahs2914ou dont know that. I mean. Have you seen a bear? They dont move their heads a ehole lot, right? 😅

[@RaccoonRecluse]

​@@janetpahs2914Imagine being so entitled and elitist that a single misspelling triggers you this much. Dont be a grammar nazi, its ablist.

[@leighr9662]

In the ER for what turned out to be a perforated appendix. The nurse asked me what my pain level was and when I struggled to answer or even look at her, she very kindly said, " It's okay to say 10". It still makes me tear up when I remember the kindness in her voice and that I felt like I couldn't say how much it hurt.

[@TechnicalProdegy]

I can only imagine her saying that in a southern accent.

[@completelyunhinged2569]

Ppl are afraid to tell doctors they are in pain these days because you’re immediately looked at as a drug seeker

[@planetxtraa]

@@completelyunhinged2569:(

[@opeeate]

​@@completelyunhinged2569yeah, it's wonderful for those of us with chronic pain. being accused of drug seeking really gives me a moral boost.

[@Icantbelievethisshit2]

​@@completelyunhinged2569 until I was literally bent over screaming with the kidney stone that had been killing me all day... they assumed that's what I was doing. All of a sudden I was getting wheeled back and morphined.

[@Lanoira13]

I love the patient being like "Well, I guess it's not THAT bad more of a 9." And the nurse being shocked and concerned like "wait what". I vibe with this as someone who is quiet when suffering and handles pain pretty well.

[@DamagedPlushie]

Sammeeeeee and you’re quiet and they’re rude till the results or X-rays come back like oh! Then they’re sickeningly nice, ugh

[@frankcastle1862]

In was in rural area and my large toe qas cut in half, the pain was bearable so when i got to the hospital they stiched me up without local anesthetic because supplies low and shit and it hurt like a bitch, so show your pain people

[@Lanoira13]

​@@DamagedPlushie Eh, when I'm at worst, I'm usually very solemn and direct and can barely function in a way that is viscerally concerning to human empathy, and screams "something's wrong here", so usually for me they're just extremely grateful I'm such an easy patient to work with and shocked at my pain tolerance. My favorite part of dentist visits is them seeing my x-rays and immediately saying something out of shock. My last dentist would say "Oh my god..." under his breath almost every time he looked at them and it killed me. If I'm under an 8 or 9 though I'm generally still very jovial, so then it's more like "Oh haha, doing good thanks! So what are we here for today?" and then they do a system reboot as I with a perfect smile say "Well doctor, I'm dying to death actually! Would love some help with fixing that if you could!" And they're just shocked and confused as I explain my symptoms.

[@Lanoira13]

@@frankcastle1862 Yeee, my old dentist used to be awful at putting the shots in the right place, and so they'd end up not working fully... And I didn't know feeling ANYTHING meant they weren't working right, so I just thought "oh, I guess it's just really deep today or the cavity hurts or something!" And then one day it wasn't working at all, and as soon as it got to the meat I just let out a very quick "Awh!" and seized up like I'd been electrocuted. She immediately pulled out and started checking on me very seriously because I was normally so quiet and still while she worked she knew something must have been seriously wrong for me to make such a loud noise and flinch. I told her "Yeah, sorry, I'm used to the cold pressurey feeling and the little jerks of pain, but that one was a lot, I think that hit the nerve." And she was like "WHAT DO YOU MEAN USED TO IT? YOU SHOULDN'T BE FEELING ANYTHING." So now I just intimately know the feeling of teeth being drilled without being numb and describe it to friends so they don't make the same mistake I did. Talk to doctors about what you're feeling, folks! lmao

[@RebeccaTaylorTillery]

To be fair , the guy is still playing on his phone , which is most likely the cause of his neck pain. Most people in a lot of pain, at least in acute and not chronic pain, would not be playing on the phone. Someone in chronic pain would be using the phone to take their mind off the pain and would probably be making an appointment with their physician and not be going to the er.

[@eyekona]

That dude would be my daughter. She gets just really quiet when she is in pain and nobody believes her. When the doctor at the ER asked her, how her foot feels, she just said in a shy quiet voice: "It hurts really bad" The doctor did not take her seriously until I showed him the rusty nail going all the way through her big toe. His face went from mocking to white in a matter of seconds. A minute later she was in the operating room getting some local anesthesia. She was five years old and just handled pain different from other kids.

[@hyper_ent0407]

Imagine taking a video about entitled people to heart

[@kiki-hn8vh]

@@hyper_ent0407imagine taking a comment that proves it’s not always “being entitled” to heart.

[@casie6609]

​@hyper_ent0407 the pain scale is a real thing...

[@annehaight9963]

Mine didn't believe me until they took my blood pressure and the alarm went off. I guess I have a high pain tolerance.

[@GneissShorts]

@@annehaight9963I’d say I do too. I’ve been in pain for over a year now I’m different places (yes I’m trying to work with my PC) and my pain ranges from “it’s there but it’s like background noise at this point” To “it hurts a lot but I can still function slowly” to “I literally can’t move for 10 minutes.”

[@CaseyAvalon]

Sometimes the quiet ones are the ones you should not underestimate.

[@dananichols349]

It's not that he's quiet. It's that he's just sitting there quietly, chilling on his phone, and is not in the least distracted. That's not someone who is in a great deal of pain.

[@individual1st648]

​@@dananichols349how can you tell exactly? that's like saying someone's definitely not depressed because they're smiling

[@dananichols349]

@@individual1st648 Because I've been in chronic pain for two decades. And most people will never know that I'm in pain or to what degree. The one time the pain was so bad I was screaming, and unable to move because of the pain, and two other men were needed to help on and off a gurney and on to a hospital bed, and dilaudid barely brought the pain down, I put that at a 9 or maybe 9 1/2. A person who is sitting quietly, playing on their phone, bored with the question of how they'd rate the pain, is not at a 10. Even a person who can tolerate a lot of pain will be tense, sitting stiffly, still giving some indication there is a lot of pain.

[@Dangernoodlle]

​@individual1st648 I suffer from chronic pain if he was a 9/10 trust me you would know pain restricts how you do things

[@mariesimon5148]

Yes! We just tolerate horrible things better.

[@mcaskey358]

This is my family, the calmer and quieter we get, the more injured we are. My brother was almost sent home with a torn kidney, because he was joking with the nurses and the Dr didn't think he was that injured.

[@angelesramos4779]

That's me, I suffer from chronic pain due to fibromyalgia and when it gets real bad all I can do is joke around. It's a coping mechanism. If I let it get to me I can spiral into a deeper depression which makes things worse.

[@electricalarachnid]

As an EMT I'll admit I've had that same reaction until the time I dislocated my wrist and it kept popping out and was on the other end of treatment. Orthopedic didn't believe me since I had kept working with it since I had bills to pay. Still remember his face when he was palpating the area and accidentally popped it back into place and popped it back out when he dropped my hand. Was also reminded of that lesson when I was doing clinicals and a man walked in for a leg laceration, it wasn't till we took off his wrap that we realized he had opened himself with a concrete saw and we immediately found him a bed.

[@personincognito3989]

If you dislocate your wrist, you wouldn't be able to use that hand. Did you work without using your hand?

[@ryangray8075]

as someone with chronic pain, just because we are calm on the outside doesn't mean we're good on the inside

[@YRO.]

At least show that you're in pain. Using your phone and casually saying that your pain is 10 out of 10 isn't going to make anyone believe you.

[@HFOfficial]

​@@YRO.When it's chronic you learn to live with it, even at a 9

[@YRO.]

@@HFOfficial Living with it is different than describing it to an ER nurse.

[@roxyndra]

@@YRO.some people learn to cope by distracting themselves. if you have chronic pain and talk about it every single time you shoot over a 7/10, most other folks will complain you're being overdramatic and/or avoid you, so you learn to not bother. if you've been taught that hysterics get you punished/ignored, you're gonna shut down instead. in the end, calm self-advocacy really is the most efficient method of getting necessary aid.

[@YRO.]

@@roxyndra There's a tiny middle point between hysteria and not showing any signs of being in pain.

[@shannondh83]

"It's an 11." No sir. If your pain was higher than a 10 your body would pass out. 11 is a coma.

[@ThethomasJefferson]

Not for those of us that live in pain on a daily basis. It because a whole new level of pain.

[@tallyjaxval]

Isn’t the pain scale supposed to be by the person, so that the doctors can tell when something is working?

[@vienie1245]

Kidney stones beg to differ, those fuckers keep you awake and make SURE you feel every ounce of that 11 pain

[@frickfrack7075]

​@@tallyjaxvalthe pain scale is a joke. Everyone's idea of pain is different.

[@lieselotmauroo9808]

​@@ThethomasJeffersonvery true.

[@anguspollerd442]

the nurses reaction at the end was just pure “oh shit seriously?”

[@karloslitchetanheim6873]

I like he actually still took his words seriously even tho he doubted it. It's important.

[@KM-vl2cs]

In med-school they taught us to never doubt a patient when they say that they are in pain. Obviously there are people that try to abuse the system to get pain meds but it's relatively easy to identify those outliers. Some people can be in so much shock that they don't feel the pain. I had a knife wound that cut a portion of my finger and felt nothing until we went to the hospital. Blood was all over the place.

[@thefackingmanuel]

I had this when i cut my fingertip off cleanly blood spurting everywhere but no pain up until it was directly touched then i was ghostly white on the floor pissing myself and unconscious

[@roundhouse2616]

I heard a story where a woman was stabbed in the back of her neck, the knife only missing her spine by centimetres. She didn’t notice until she went home and her daughter pointed it out.

[@lisao7600]

But if you felt nothing you wouldn't explain your pain as a 10!! They are asking you how much pain you Feel, not how much you Think you should feel! P.S. I was in the medical field also.

[@iamjon1986]

I'm in so much pain from my autoimmune but I don't really show it

[@cestlezooicimw]

You're in med school and you missed the point of this video? Damn, how did you pass the exams

[@smutisinmyblood]

5 yr old me with my parents:

[@RottyMacbeth]

I read "patients" and wondered how you were a doctor at 5 years old

[@smutisinmyblood]

@@RottyMacbeth that’s my cousin ☺️

[@youknow164]

​@@RottyMacbethhe's just asian

[@coltonchristensen2863]

bro when I was ten I underestimated my pain used get headaches I would pass out from and rated them 4-5 out of 10

[@cinematicedits4029]

@@RottyMacbethFunny coincidence, I also read patients. 😭

[@deathwitchling7244]

Me practically crawling into the ER last week: It’s a solid 6/10

[@TheSleepSteward]

He went through 3 different stages at the end, "What's the rating now dingus?" to "You're kidding right?" to "Uh oh you're serious..." 😂 But yea a lot of people with long-term pain can usually hide it even if its absolutely excruciating. I know I've had troubles with abdominal pain for years and I'd always have teachers or students completely disregard me because I'm not screaming in agony. Which can be really frustrating sometimes! Sometimes the quiet ones who say they're in a LOT of pain are the ones in the most pain... Even in trauma scenarios because every fiber in your body is too distracted with pain management to scream.

[@Starteller]

You still can't read, you are normally paralysed by pain at 10!

[@kfemme68]

THIS^^^^^^ ALL OF THIS!!!!

[@ItsAllAboutPerspective375]

Exactly this! I've had a rare case of Crohn's Disease and Colitis that doesn't respond to medications for over 25 years now, no remission. I've had dozens of surgeries leaving me with Short-Gut Syndrome. My Portacath, Total Parental Nutrition, and legal Cannabis are my lifelines. I was put on Hospice until I found the right combination to survive. Believe me, I used to scream, moan, groan, and cry, basically all of the time. It drove everyone in the hospital nuts. I was told that I was scaring other patients as well. I had staff actually ask me if I could stop or be quieter. Even worse, the constant sounds of pain were traumatizing to my family. I was determined to change that and went through many years of Biofeedback and other therapies in order to be able to remain as quite as possible. Whenever I get someone new that hasn't treated me for all these years, they may not understand my level of pain while I'm grimacing quietly, but I guarantee they wouldn't want the old me. 😂 But the veteran staff usually tell them how extensive my case is.

[@flameepidemic4839]

Agreed!! Even with a gallbladder close to killing me or my appendix being seriously infected i showed nearly know pain other than not eating and lack of focus. When i seriously messed my back up or got sprains i just walked it off. Some people are just different. Ive been told i have a high pain tolerance like really high by drs. Even when i was younger. Tbh i think im mostly stubborn and got hurt a lot but idk lol

[@jalyc]

B/P can be a good indicator of the true pain level. I have several back issues. I once told my pain doctor I was about a 5 or 6. "So not bad, right?" I asked what my B/P was today compared to previous visits and my pain levels. "Umm, 210/126. Previously 122/76, 144/82, and 110/70. Pain levels of 3, 4, and 2." "I am a nurse, so I KNOW 7 is sitting up and coughing one day post op major abdominal surgery like a C-Section or a Whipple, 8 is a couple of bones, legs or arms, broken and glaring at me through my skin, 9 is my whole lower body crushed flat between cars or collapsed walls, and 10 is the man in a photo I have with a full foot+ of a pier piling shoved through his leg and into his butt after a drunken speed boat accident! Mine is 5-6. Pain increases B/P."

[@Dekubud]

That's why my mom and I need to go to the ER together every time. We both go quiet when we are in intense pain. Neither of us understand who has the energy to scream. We'll be sweating, unable to move and unable to talk. So we tag team so ther other can explain to ER staff that us veing quiet, not moving is BAD. (Especially when it comes to my mom. I'm nowhere near as tough as she is)

[@cherrychai69]

How often do you go to the ER...

[@tawnyprovince-ward2353]

I work EMS once you start sweating and doing that weird deep breathing pattern and your tachy and have some HTN to go with it I’m like let’s get you the good drugs. Had a lady recently laying on the ground elbow was not bending the right way at all. I go hmm let’s not move you at all and I’m just going to start an IV and get some pain meds. This lady had a sheen of sweat was hypertensive tachycardic and not making a peep.

[@karenvictorian]

Being quiet, shallow breathing, minimal eye opening or speech are absolutely what I associate with a patient in severe pain.

[@Aimes604]

All those things you describe is someone in intense pain. As a nurse I can see this and realize that it’s someone in intense pain. People present differently with pain. Screaming isn’t the only sign of sever pain.

[@kstizz2686]

They notice that though . My husband was literally in septic shock with flu type A and B and pneumonia ( the pneumonia is what had him go septic ) and he said is pain level was a 6 . He was legitimately dying . Everyone experiences pain different , and the nurses can tell when someone is in severe pain . They look for signs . Also , drug seekers are the ones who always are like it’s a 10 !!!! While clearly not in pain . The nurses immediately got my hubby in ICU and then transported him to a better hospital , because they were calling his bluff on being a 6 . Thank god they did , because that’s where we discovered it was sepsis . And had we not got that first surgery done he would have not made it another 8 hours . Everything was already shutting down . Anyway , he is good now ! Spent many months in the hospital and in a coma , lots of surgeries . But anyway , the nurses are good at reading people !!

[@sisi7304]

Someone with chronic pain might seem like this cause they’re used to dealing with 5-8 level pain regularly and still function, and a flare to 9 or 10 may look like that but the patient isn’t lying about it

[@NaturallySloan]

This!!!

[@isaacrandomrussell5630]

Isn’t the pain of a bullet ant 4? I highly doubt 5-8 is something anyone is used to dealing with

[@alexfraze12087]

​@@isaacrandomrussell5630I don't experience chronic pain but I've known someone who does and trust me, they can have flare ups that hurt that bad

[@corvoechoes9649]

@@isaacrandomrussell5630when you suffer from chronic pain this can absolutely be the case.

[@Pogoguy564]

@@isaacrandomrussell5630you actually never meet someone with chronic pain or something???

[@McBehrer]

"... oh you aren't just lying to me. Gotcha."

[@MicheleDoenges]

Laughing in chronic pain

[@lwolfstar7618]

Ive had a dr not believe my pain bc I wasnt screaming. Id given birth without pain meds and no screaming only a month before. We don't all react the way you want us to. His disbelief almost killed me bc my gallbladder was eating my pancreas and my body was shutting down.

[@Robynhoodlum]

I’m very curious how a gall bladder can even affect a pancreas. Do you mind sharing the name of your condition?

[@antoinettejohnson6251]

@@Robynhoodlum - Me, too! 😮

[@lwolfstar7618]

@@Robynhoodlum its a relatively common complication of a blocked bile duct, pancreatitis. If you do a quick google of the bile duct anatomy you can see that the pancreatic duct empties into the bile duct, so a gall stone sealing the duct below the pancreatic duct ends with bile filling the pancreas and starts dissolving it. Oh and let's not forget the infection that accompanies it.

[@Robynhoodlum]

@@lwolfstar7618 Ah. Okay. That makes more sense. Thanks for explaining.

[@polerin]

On the other hand I have had multiple kidney stones where I was literally vomiting and crunched over in pain. Even though I have literally had broken bones that were way less painful, the nurses thought I was medication seeking. Super frustrating, especially as I am generally pretty pain tolerant after years of martial arts and roller derby. Medical providers need to trust their patients. I know drug seeking is a thing but holy hell.

[@nikdozajimavy1277]

Meanwhile the patient is seeing black spots from the pain and pressure.

[@alw4918]

A couple things to note here - typically pain starts Well Before you actually end up at the ER, so by the time you're there and checking in you might have started dissociating too hard to show a strong reaction, or you might have adjusted to it enough to realize that screaming and flailing around (especially if you're suffering NECK pain) only makes the pain worse. For neck and throat pain especially, the best way to minimize it (and to avoid worsening the damage of a potential injury) is to keep that area as still as possible, and try not to shout or speak too often or loudly. Typically for a medical pain scale, 9 or 10 isn't SUPPOSED to mean "the worst pain you can possibly feel" and that idea has caused many people (myself included) to actually minimize and underreport the amount of pain they're in. A 9 or 10 is supposed to mean that the pain you're experiencing is making it impossible for you to function in your life or to do anything meaningful because of the pain. Scrolling on your phone is usually still doable, and may be something you do to try and distract somewhat from the pain while you're waiting to be treated. It doesn't mean there isn't worse pain you could be experiencing or that no one else is in more pain or even more immediate need than you, it just means your pain is very strong and very debilitating and does need to be thoroughly investigated.

[@heaven_bound_94xo]

exactly.

[@zitkanaduza.89]

In that instance, an x-ray will be done with the radiologist and other specialists to look for potential fractures. If nothing wrong with the bones. Then it is usually figured to be a muscle strain of sorts. Narcotic pain medication aren't going to fix it. Physical therapy may be the fix.

[@CrabLadius]

I really love how his face drops at the end when he says “seriously?” He’s like, oh shit, this guy’s for real.

[@candacel3305]

I've always hated the scale thing. I'm not good at determining the level of pain I'm in.

[@abeham1078]

You should be able to tell when it’s something serious or not though…

[@samauraipc16]

Hospital I have they use faces no longer ger numbers

[@omniadoran1539]

​​@@abeham1078might I introduce you to the concept of ✨chronic pain✨ I walked on a completely dislocated ankle for 9 years and was told by my surgeon when I got it fixed that I *shouldn't* have been able to walk.

[@Sohalia06]

I feel the same way. The best one I've seen is the Defense and Veterans Pain Rating Scale. They include descriptions of how much the pain interferes with your ability to function and that makes everything way easier to narrow down.

[@deezvidz218]

I would like to point out some people deal with pain in different ways. I have a high pain tolerance so I might not react doesn't mean I'm not in pain. I will also use things like my phone to try and distract myself from pain.

[@pokemagetech]

10 means you don’t have the capacity to do anything besides stay alive.

[@tanya5322]

My daughter would cry and complain quite a bit when she would break a nail. (Note, she has really strong nails) But hardly more than a whimper when she fell and broke her elbow (that required calling in the ortho doc to set it) Humans are weird.

[@neighborMin]

Seriously I've had drs not believe I was in any pain... And then the shock when they hook me up and see my heart rate at 136 as I take perfectly even breaths I AM experiencing pain I'm just doing everything I can to keep breathing bc I've always been the silent scream/hold your breath through the pain type

[@DemonicBeans]

Its always the quiet ones you need to worry about

[@marp2495]

One of the first thing we learnt at school is that you’re supposed to take the patients word for their pain level. Period.

[@lunahyacinth6335]

You’d be surprised how some people are able to handle pain. Someone who’s dealt with chronic pain can become able to hide any expected reactions. Never trust appearance, some patients are big babies and scream and cry over splinters or a stubbed toe.

[@dananewman6608]

And the biggest babies are young men. Women (generally) don't want to seem hysterical and older ppl have chronic pain that they learn to live with.

[@areliperez3767]

True my daughter has really high pain tolerance 😅

[@LE_Arasaka]

@@dananewman6608hmmmmm… maybe there’s a reason for women not acting like babies over any pain 🤔🤔🤔

[@SoniWyd]

​@@dananewman6608not me

[@ladyteeCarter]

This is true.

[@jessicavalor7437]

I have been to a hospital and they ask this same question and I said 6 . . . They said I was lying 😐 . . . I had broken my elbow and I got sent home, went to a different hospital and got the help I needed 😞😑

[@lissaharre]

I’m sorry this happened to you. Women are regularly perceived as dramatic and not taken seriously. I broke my leg but was completely ignored. When the X-rays finally came back the staff was so apologetic.

[@Zarga8]

I broke my elbow last month, it didn’t hurt much. In ER they just gave me X-ray, then a long wait. I read later online that that kind of injury is low on the triage priority.

[@teartaye]

Yup. I had a doctor walk in with the x-ray of my broken ribs in his hand... to tell me I wasn't in any pain. (I rated my pain a six, not a ten, but sheesh... i had *some* pain! Especially when I laughed!)

[@equarles8825]

​@@teartayeI feel ya! Smh...🫢🤔

[@johnclaybaugh9536]

​@@lissaharreit took ten years for a doctor to admit I was disabled. It's not always about gender. And don't give me some dumb shit about how the doctor didn't admit I was disabled because I wasn't. That's not the case at all. They just didn't want to do their job because they'll get paid either way. A decade of hell that I'll never get back.

[@nyxqd1290]

My one and only 10 was “the post-op pain relieving drugs failed after my major abdominal surgery resulting in me waking up feeling all of my brand new stab wounds in exquisite detail which made my spasticity flare up which made my diaphragm stop working properly which nearly caused a respiratory arrest that was only avoided with the timely administration of I don’t even know what into my IV line because I passed out pretty quick” That was fun. As someone who’s had chronic pain since childhood due to a congenital genetic illness, I’ve always been reticent to use the higher numbers because I’m so used to being in pain. When I was gasping for oxygen while dealing with entirely unmedicated surgical pain on the edge of needing a crash cart, the only word coming out of my mouth was “ten” over and over again. I think my usage was justified in that situation. Unfortunately for me, I need another one of those surgeries in the next few months. I’m really hoping that the work-up I’ve done in the meantime will forestall a repeat. 😬

[@jessicac.4394]

I had my gallbladder removed and when I woke up and they asked me how I felt all I could say was pain. They administered drugs but I wasn't screaming or carrying on. Mostly holding my breath through the worst of it. It took 4 doses of what ever pain medicine they give for organ removal before my blood pressure got below 300/200. That's the only reason they believed I was in severe pain. I remember the nurse saying after the 2nd dose "you got to be feeling better now." I said "nope" and his (yes it was a him) disbelief was on his face. The other nurse (also a guy, and the sweetest people ive ever met) said "let's take her vitals" and then "holy....... call the dr" the Dr only approved originally up to 2 doses of the pain med. He sat with me until the pain got from all encompassing to okay that's just annoying. I had to end up also getting blood pressure meds that day too. I didn't cry or scream at all. But I'm capable of internalizing pain easily.

[@AlteFore]

Remember kids, if you're not on fire or your skin isn't falling off, you're not allowed to feel pain!

[@frickfrack7075]

I have issue with this. As someone who has severe pain every day, and as someone with high anxiety, you're not gonna be able to tell how much pain I'm in. I've always been able to control myself while in severe pain. I had 2nd degree burns, no tears, no screaming, just shaking. The nurses didn't believe that i was in that much pain, worst pain of my life btw, but when they tried to force my burned hand open, i fainted. So, not everyone will show pain the same. Everyone experiences pain differently. And everyone perception of what pain looks like is different. The only time the pain scale should be used , is so you can determine if the treatment is helping the pain

[@MaaikeCoats]

Right?! We are taught in school about this. Not everyone experiencing pain reacts the same. Especially people with chronic pain who live with it

[@evilsharkey8954]

How can anyone assume a 2nd degree burn isn’t that much pain?

[@Lunay08]

I deal with chronic pain on a daily basis as well, your comment made me feel not alone, so thank you so much for this. Can you tell me what you suffer from? If youre not comfortable disclosing I completely understand!

[@cassandraqueensen4412]

@@evilsharkey8954 I ended up with 2nd degree burns and didn't notice on multiple occasions. I have EDS and thats life for me.

[@VintageRayne]

Same. You learn how to block a lot of it out. Have to in order to “function”.

[@giothed00d]

Plot twist: it’s actually a 10 but he’s keeping his head still in the one spot it doesn’t hurt

[@Punkini]

Having a stiff neck can be extremely painful though. And especially depending on what caused it. Also some people do indeed hide their pain very well. My dad’s broken his hand multiple times and has barely flinched every time lmao And when i had to respond to codes at work, shock can make people freeze up when theyre badly injured. A kid tore a chunk of his nose out at work once (bone was showing) and he was completely quiet and sat very still. Its part of why i get even more concerned when someone acts abnormally calm when they’ve experienced an injury, it can be a sign of shock.

[@pseudonymphmusic7721]

A great example of how pain tolerance works, just cuz it’s tolerated doesn’t mean it isn’t felt.

[@Tarvok]

I totally believe the patient. Just because a dude isn't screaming and pissing himself, it doesn't mean he's not in a lot of pain. And I've had a muscle spasm in my neck before. Literally felt like I'd broken something. So long as I kept my neck very, very still, it was fine, and displaying my pain was not conducive to maintaining that stability. Move it even half a centimeter, and it was pain city. Combine that with the fact that I had no idea what was going on, and yeah. It was pretty distressing.

[@poke-talia268]

Idk what's going on with my neck, but it's been in bad pain if I move it too far or too quickly for the past two months. It sucks.

[@amaliaseven7]

As someone who habitually hides my pain, this is terrifying to me. Please believe me when I say I'm experiencing intense pain. I can be in debilitating pain and still look calm on the outside. I'm so worried people won't get the help they need because they mask

[@Isometrix116]

Medical professionals can usually tell the difference between masking and not feeling that much pain, so don’t worry. Just be as honest as possible with them and it’ll be usually okay.

[@25beee]

I feel you, i also hide my illness and my pain (it’s like a habit, my parents said I was exaggerating my pain, because I was still a kid it made me hide my pain), it took 5 years for my parents to take me to the hospital to fix my meniscus tear inside my knee, that’s because they didn’t believe I was in real injury LOL

[@cherrychai69]

Chill they know how to do their jobs this is supposed to be a funny video like damn y'all trippin

[@lissaharre]

This is so true. Doctors/nurses are so used to seeing drug seeking behavior in the ER that they don’t care/recognize masked pain. “No, I’m not screaming, yes my leg is broken. Can you fix it?”

[@diyeana]

The issue isn't that he isn't screaming. It's that he's staring at his damn phone. When your pain is a 10, you really don't have the energy to do anything other than try to live. I think of 10 as being actively mauled by bears. 1 is a mosquito bite. That's not to say his neck pain isn't serious and he's looking at his phone to distract himself. It's just that he's likely around a 6 or 7. Serious enough to figure out what's wrong but not so bad that you are dying any second.

[@waterblaze5927]

That “seriously” at the end strikes me as him accepting the rating as truthful and not disbelieving. You can see the look of worry on him!

[@addie_graves]

the one time mother is right about our phones giving us neck pain

[@my-chemical-romance]

As someone with chronic pain, my third degree burns were a 5 on my pain scale. Boiling water melted a plastic glove to my hand and that was my 5. I walked around with glass stuck in-between the tendon and bone in my foot for months because I thought it was just my nerves being weird 2-3 on the pain scale, heart attack 3-4. I was pretty darn unreactionary for all of them. If I ever come in saying it's a 10 and I'm calm, that's a friggin 10 and there's a good chance y'all are about to need a crash cart.

[@whyareusobad3528]

Damn I consider myself pretty tough and when I got burned (pants and shoe burned to my skin) I said a 7 or 8

[@my-chemical-romance]

@@whyareusobad3528 my worst pain definitely skewed my pain scale and we don't know why it happened, I genuinely thought I had died and gone to the depths of hell, I couldn't see but I could feel my eyes peel and melt out of my head and the blood in my veins burned worse than anything I thought possible, I felt as though I was drowning in my lungs as all my teeth ripped through my skull. I just got a blood draw, we still don't know why that happened and it hasn't happened again but my pain scale is effed lol

[@jamesmccomb9525]

That's just dumb. You'll never experience a 10 because your body will force you to pass out at like 6 or 7. You also have to create room to appropriately rate lesser pains like a shoulder ache and stuff. It's extremely bad to group everything from a punch to the face at 1 and below because it becomes pretty much irrelevant.

[@whyareusobad3528]

@@jamesmccomb9525 nope if your passed out from pain then that would be a 11 because it’s off the rating chart 10 would be maximum before passing out from pain

[@annehaight9963]

I've been living for 20 years with "hallux ridigus" as a result of "severe degenerative changes to the first metatarsophalangeal joint" and "marginal osteophytes" (bone spurs) of my right foot (from a car accident). It hurts 24/7, and I'd describe it as about a 4-5 right now. But another person would probably report the same pain at a much higher number. I'm just used to it after 20 years.

[@abellabarbie]

I was at a 10 with a spinal cord injury and didn't scream or cry. And I had to be carried out of my home.

[@darkhobo]

Thats not a 10. Thats a 5 at worst. You couldnt feel half your body! Also that doesnt make you cool that means youre a psychopath.

[@skeletor2012]

@@darkhobo do you wake up and choose to be stupid, or does it happen on accident?

[@alexmagney5326]

​@darkhobo The fuck you're talking about? I'm chronically ill and also can be absolutely silent at 10. It doesn't mean I'm a psychopath. It means you can't imagine what is it like to live with a 7 everyday.

[@jessica.Blue777]

​@@darkhobothat's not what they said though, they said spinal cord injury. You can injure your spine in 50 different ways that don't include lack of sensation. Sensation is usually a the last to go, you can be "paralysed" and still feel.

[@moonorchid9242]

@@darkhobono… it’s called shock. Adrenaline pumping through your system etc. the pain is there but your reaction to it is numbed. I’d like to see you injure your spinal cord and claim to only be in a 5/10 level of pain. (i wouldn’t actually like to see that but you get what I mean)

[@johnsonjj117]

I love when they say 10/10 pain and then fall asleep a few minutes later

[@jessa9877]

When you're so used to pain, you look normal even on a 10.

[@angelatruly]

I have chronic pain and have to manage my activity to keep it down daily. Once in the ER the nurse asked the pain for the right arm (reported during intake). I said 0. She did a double take and maybe thought I was trouble. I explained to her that I have MS and eventhough my brain was telling my arm to move, the arm was just dead weight. I was admitted in no time and she told me that was the first time she heard 0.

[@bravepoodle]

I always REALLY want to scream; "12, no 15, I mean, immeasurable. Otherwise I wouldn't be here needing your help, plz help!!" But I feel the need to be seen as a reasonable, tame patient, so I tell them; "Id say 7, but maybe Im overreacting, so it's 6…??"

[@kyriahowey3322]

I love the the tactic

[@adventurer3645]

When someone has to remind you to breathe, that's a 10/10

[@gerburgerhamger1404]

I love how his face went from smug to panicked once he started considering that the beck pain might really be that bad

[@queersoapybar]

I'm so glad my doctors actually acknowledge my pain and check for problems when I say I'm experiencing bad pain. I'm 17. I shouldn't be having headaches that feels like a literal AXE is in my head

[@mel9662]

Unfortunately, I started having migraines when I was around 7. I remember in school I tried to explain to my teacher that my head was hurting really bad. I was crying, shaking, and vomiting. She told me I was just faking it. Well, not long after she accused me of faking. I passed out from the pain. I'm in my 30's now and for the last 5 or so years I have finally gotten a break from those extreme migraines. Don't know why, they just disappeared. It was always so difficult trying to get a doctor to believe me. Especially, being a female we often get treated differently when it comes to certain medical issues. With that being sad I do have what I call "ice pick" pains. It's sudden spurts of crazy sharp electric like pain. They don't last long but it's sometimes so intense it knocks me to my knees. I was told that it was just genetics and hormones to blame for the headaches. It's sad that headaches is one of the most misunderstood types of pain and it's almost never taken completely seriously by doctors. Especially, for females. I hate that you are dealing with headaches. It's seriously a pain in the ass because almost nothing really fully helps and often times people don't fully understand the type of pain you are actually in. They can be debilitating at times. Especially, when the ones around have never experienced that type of pain so they'll often times accuse you of overreacting. My advice to you is start a journal. Log everything from what you eat and drink daily to activities. So, maybe you can find a possible trigger for your headaches if there is one. Then log everything you do during a headache. So, again you can go back to it and see if anything you have done prior has helped any. You'll learn ways to cope through it. Hopefully you'll also be able to feel or sense it when a headache is on the horizon. I sometimes would see sparkles in my vision lol! I do hope you have a good support system around you who will take the time to understand your pain and learn what works for you and what doesn't when it comes to assisting you. Even more so, I do hope you're able to fully rid yourself of the headaches and not have to live with them. Doctors will tell you that as we age and go through those fun years of teenage growing could be the catalyst for new issues with our bodies. Specifically, headaches is top on the list. So, listen to me when I say this. If you truly feel like there is something wrong with you and it's not just your "typical" headache/migraine. Fight! Fight! Fight! Because it can be hard to get them to take it seriously! Good luck!

[@queersoapybar]

@@mel9662 thank you so much for your kind words! It was the first and only headache like that though back when I was in middle school, I did often get really bad headaches that brought me to tears (more than likely due to sound for me) and even now, ibuprofen doesn't help with my headaches as much. But I will definitely start doing that (if I can remember. Due to my ADHD I have trouble remembering to do certain things

[@joshballou8432]

I get cluster headaches that sound just like this. They don't typically last long, but the pain is something I can't even describe.😢

[@alusias3183]

i was 17 when I first got world ending migraines too. I got dismissed by the doctors I was passed over to. Only my psychiatrist actually took it seriously

[@neilemminger8628]

I used to have those when I was a teen, just went away as I got older though. They never did figure out what was causing it. Had all kinds of theories.

[@J4CKS0N_D34R3ST]

For me usually I tend to be more verbal for lesser pains because I can think to speak, with my worse injuries I was more quiet and teary.

[@gerrybernard8072]

Nursing school taught me to never underestimate someone’s pain just because they’re not screaming

[@caffeine3845]

Things can really hurt once you move so him saying he is not able to move the head checks out.

[@ichiroramenbowls8559]

"Seriously"... "yeah, I just don't have the white thing sticking out"

[@schwammi]

Actually with persisting pain, especially if it's really bad, I (and I know a lot of other people too lol) I will be much more quiet and reserved than if I wasn't in pain at all, while also actively distracting myself via e.g. my phone, actually someone being on their phone awhile supposedly in pain should imo always be an indicator that they really are in pain because of that exact reason, when you have bad bad pain all you can possibly fo is distract yourself and try to reserve energy and refrain from too many movements that make it worse, and, well.. phones are the best tool for that in modern society. They're literally distraction machines.

[@carebeary111]

Came to the comments to say pretty much the same thing. Chronic pain is a quiet beast

[@franlats0705]

Yep, Chronic pain sufferer here, I went to hospital over a tearing pain that I couldn't manage at home. I wasn't crying (I wanted to but that triggers migraines) so I was curled up and listening to an audio book to distract me. They nearly overdosed me on paracetamol, thankfully I caught them and said I couldn't have more, the morphine was shit tho, didn't touch the pain. To this day still don't know what causes the pain, just glad it's a rare pain for me to get

[@Notthebraturlooking4]

I could kiss you

[@shanchan8247]

I personally find it embarrassing to be moaning and yelling loudly so Im quiet with my pain, as much as I can be.

[@lorifintel9784]

​@@shanchan8247this!

[@ahnmadehv51]

I like how concerned the doctor get after he hear the 9

[@InredibleFart]

His shirt is everything

[@NageelaMom]

Doesn't matter what number you tell them. They'll think you're exaggerating even when the X-ray later shows broken bones

[@mathprofii7877]

They think this because of all the junkies that come in to claim pain just to get their hands on some oxy.

[@mehowme]

A friend of mine who is a nurse told me that broken bones are only a 6 on their scale. Childbirth is supposedly more painful, but I'm unlikely to experience it.

[@Ethan-eq9xc]

As an autistic person my body language doesn't match my pain usually so I have to fake it to make people actually understand

[@Haunted_Hunter]

As an also autistic person, I approve of this statement.

[@individual1st648]

i am not diagnosed as autistic but i also do this, sometimes expressions just become voluntary and i have to fake it to show im experiencing it (especially with enjoyable stuff)

[@mrpenis3625]

not autistic but I have to do this too

[@Gerardboard]

OMG exactly! I couldn’t think of how to word this!

[@jasonhouse6056]

People like that are the reason that legitimate pain and real problems get ignored or dismissed

[@DudoC137]

This man just doesn’t give a f*ck

[@synarra2744]

This is why when they ask on a scale of 1-10 i always ask for and example of 10 and 1 so i have a good idea of where to put myself on the chart

[@she-wolfkira4927]

On the one hand, I knew a girl who purposely injured herself for pain meds cuz she couldn't afford street drugs. On the other hand, I had to refuse pain meds while hospitalized to get them to take me seriously. Turns out I had a strep infection go septic.

[@sierrarescott3227]

I also refuse pain meds to get taken seriously and actually find out the cause of the pain. It's sad we have to do that though.

[@she-wolfkira4927]

@@sierrarescott3227 Very. Can't tell you how pissed I am I had to go through all that. They were going to send me home. A death sentence if they had done it. The only reason I even knew what I had to do to get the treatment I needed was because the doctor told my sister her suspicions of me. My sepsis was so far that I had lost all motor skills. I couldn't even walk or feed myself. I had reoccurring fevers up to 106. Honestly, I think the doctor was using the "drug seeking" theory as a way to get rid of me cuz she couldn't figure out what was wrong with me. Fortunately I was transferred to another hospital with better doctors. Now I tell anyone and everyone, "Don't go to Heart of Florida Hospital. They couldn't find their own dick with both hands and no blindfold."

[@ldragon8480]

I once got accused of seeking drugs even though I explicity said I didn't want pain pills(I don't handle them well, they make me very ill) but an ultrasound on my stomach to find out why it felt like alien was trying to punch it's way out of me.

[@Laced_With_Acid]

@@she-wolfkira4927 i wouldnt say i was refused but i had these IDIOT doctors send me home on steroids when i had pericarditis. for reference, that's *FLUID AROUND THE HEART* anyways a couple days later i went back to my regular pediatrician (14-15 at the time) and they sent me by ambulance to the PICU section of a hospital like. an hour, hour and a half away. some doctors really are just plain stupid.

[@anonymoose116]

I don't react well to most controlled pain meds, so I ask for toradol. Once you deny "the good stuff", they tend to look at you differently.

[@rvouzs2x]

another one of those chill patients

[@surtu9221]

I love how you can read this two ways, either 1) terrifying him didn't work and doc is annoyed, or 2) the guy is definitely seriously in pain, and is just one of those people who is in such pain all the time they mask it very well XD

[@robertabarnhart6240]

I always feel like I have to downgrade my pain score by 2 to get them to take me seriously.

[@pinkyuzu]

I'll cry over itching from allergic reaction. But I gritted my teeth cussing when spinal anesthesia for my c-section failed... THAT was a 10.

[@dryest-bones]

so you were able to feel being cut open? oh my god... that sounds horrifying, i'm sorry

[@drmango_overlord6367]

bro merely adopted the pain

[@dreamimgflowerd976]

I don't scream when I am in severe pain. I groan... and try to distract my thoughts with something else

[@anniemouse1]

I have chronic pain and ADHD. If I've actually made it to the ER (very rare) then I'm going to be on my phone to distract myself. If not I'm pacing, crying, groaning, asking how much long, doing other stupid things to cause myself more pain and more things to unintentionally be annoying. When you've masked so much of your life, people can't usually tell.

[@WorldTree33]

Same! I’m autistic and my masking is so second nature that I don’t really know how to stop anymore. I feel like my spine is on fire and like my shoulder blades have knives underneath them wrenching them up on a consistent basis, but half of doctors and my family thinks I’m faking! I’m sorry, I got tired of laying in bed and crying about it after three years! I have better things to do than whine about my pain so other people know how bad it is!

[@anniemouse1]

@@WorldTree33 I have never heard another person describe the "knives in shoulder blades" thing before... I'm so sorry. I know that pain too well. My suggestion is trigger point injections. I did those every two weeks and high dose lyrica (like the highest possible allowable), among other things, but those two seemed to give a touch of relief the best. A couple Drs swear it's fibro, another says it's just muscle pain. I don't know. ETA: ohh, the ZTLido patches too! They stick better than any others, especially in a high movement area like the shoulder blades. (I'm not saying pain meds don't help, I'm just saying these things gave added relief over what the pain meds could do.)

[@Volcano22207]

@@WorldTree33did you ever get any treatment?

[@finallykat1299]

Was in the hospital once and after several unsuccessful procedures a nurse asked me my pain level and I said 7. She grabbed the chart and gently explained that being unable to uncurl and crying, along with hiwever I was breathing meant my number was much higher.

[@john-paulsilke893]

Broken arm with bone exposed is a solid 4. Stubbing your toe on a coffee table is a 10, but only for 1/10th of a second. (10 ribs broken in 30 places, right arm broken in 4 and a shattering shoulder blade, 4 herniated discs and 3 fractured vertebrae along with one hand and one foot smashed and broken in many places and a fractured femoral head was however a solid 8. Not to mention all the ground off skin and bruising.) And still I’m told Kidney stones are slightly worse and pancreatic cancer is far worse. 😮

[@robertabarnhart6240]

At least nobody thought you were faking it....

[@Helena-ox7cr]

@@robertabarnhart6240 😂 that was a good one!

[@Helena-ox7cr]

@@john-paulsilke893 try a crushed finger joint with damaged ligaments and collaterals and tendons. I literally could not hold my hand in any other position than straight down in a cold water jar. No way it was ever able to handle any other splint than the one going all around made from thick plastic.

[@mook_butt8037]

@@john-paulsilke893 I constantly make giant kidney stones. They are so much worse than any bone I’ve ever broken, in my opinion.

[@thecatdragon]

you can see how terrified he was and he fr still said 9

[@rosefulmadness]

the whole "if youre not screaming your heart out it doesnt hurt" is kinda ableist ngl

[@lissaharre]

It’s super hard to answer that questions. Women are routinely seen as dramatic. So if I say 10, the doctor hears low pain tolerance but if I say 4, I’m ignored. I have a very high pain tolerance. I’ve delivered 4 babies without an epidural. I’ve broken both wrists and put off going to the doctor for weeks. So when I went to the ER with a broken leg and they asked me- I said 5. So they assured me that it wasn’t broken, probably just a small sprain. Who goes to the ER FOR A SPRAIN!!!! I broke my tibia and fibula and needed multiple surgeries.

[@tiint_tone]

To be fair the scale of 1-10 is a chart of happy and joyous to sad and uncomfortably sweaty

[@TheNINDLE]

Everyone has a different pain tolerance so a scale from 1-10 is very subjective

[@notiddymothbirlfriend]

I got a coughing fit while I was in the ER with several broken ribs once. The coughing caused my ribs to hurt, and kinda seize up, and that caused more coughing. I couldn't get a full breath and just coughed and hurt and coughed and hurt until someone heard me and gave me I don't even know what. It stopped the coughing but made me puke a couple times. Anyway that's my current benchmark for 10/10 pain. Felt like my chest was being cracked open.

[@michellewallace5685]

I really hated the doctor who saw me for an ear infection. Are you sure it's 10. Yes. I could barely walk because the ear infection was so bad it threw my balance off. I basically limped out of the ER with nasal spray. I'm deaf in the ear that had the infection btw. It's made life very difficult because she didn't take me seriously.

[@PincheBecky0Effsgiven]

This was me when i called 911 as an intruder was trying to break in. The guy heard me and left, so the 911 operator casually told me to call back if he returned. The lead officer for my area suggested that i sound more fearful 😂😂😂

[@ERnurse22]

“The patients pain is whatever they say it is and when they say it is” - my nursing school

[@NB79032]

As a chronic pain sufferer who had 10/10 migraines for my entire first year of nursing school and still had to function normally, I absolutely believe when people say they're in that much pain even if they're not screaming. We don't have any option BUT to function.

[@ravynedrake8527]

Trouble is, if someone (me) has a high tolerance for pain, trying to give the "correct" answer will always be met with a raised eyebrow. Sure, I'm walking and talking, I'm also thinking how many ways I can reciprocate the pain to the doctor/nurse so that they can take me seriously. I'd much rather be in a ball at home but I need this diagnosed so here I am.

[@kyriahowey3322]

This one pisses me off because I can pass out from pain, have a recorded higher than average pain tolerance, and still get told I'm faking it.

[@morwenna]

This!!! Plus I'm autistic and I mask, which includes hiding my pain, so I can be bleeding internally (ovarian cyst) and not be able to stand but still have a straight up calm conversation with you.

[@masterkaylarommann5469]

​@morwenna wait, I do this... I was recently diagnosed AuDHD. It makes so much sense now! My appendix burst and I was telling jokes, when the CT came back the doctor looked at the name twice to be sure it was my scan 😂

[@codyturner9741]

More ppl fake it than do what you do so its smarter to assume but also you can tell in body langauge those that are handling it it better and faking most of the time little involentary gestures happen

[@julieannanderson2228]

​@masterkaylarommann5469 when I had appendicitis I was hunched over but laughing and joking. My family doctor was aware of my pain tolerance so she knew something was wrong when I was hunched over and said 2 or 3 on the pain scale. It's nice to see others who also have a higher tolerance.

[@kawaibakaneko]

Even if you don't scream, there is still sign that you are in pain: Paleness (no matter the skin tone, it is visible) Sweating Barely moving Talking in a weird way.... Medical people should believe you, you were unlucky

[@mimikyoo]

Bro was just using the logarithmic scale 💀

[@logangirot9644]

"I feel pain of everyone. They all feel nothing." - Dinosaur Jr

[@EnragedErin]

I can't scale my pain since it fluctuates so much. Instead I describe it along with intensity so they can understand clearly.

[@chrisspangler4724]

The times that I have gone to the ED with 10/10 pain, I was unable to rate the pain or even talk to the staff. Just bawling and trying to remember how to breathe.

[@FranireFly_akaFranswa]

Man, he's taking that like a champ!

[@ginahendrickson4735]

It’s the quiet ones you need to worry about when it comes to pain

[@faithcatelli1529]

bro the patients hair ✋🏼💀 also i love ur videos❤️

[@h.aikaal]

Reminder that people manages pain differently

[@bluedragonfly8139]

Reminder that people do, in fact, exaggerate pain, too.

[@parimcm6632]

This is the type of doctor we all need

[@Lanoira13]

Seriously, I love he didn't just assume he was lying and dismiss him, but recontextualized the question and checked again, and got concerned when he reaffirmed he was suffering. He also did a great job portraying someone who's quiet and desensitized to pain and just trying to not move, barely wanting to talk if they don't have to, keeping their mind off it however they can, showing how familiar and empathetic he is to being in that state, even though he's making a morbid joke about it.

[@heaven_bound_94xo]

he WAS a med tech. not a doctor or even a nurse & he's not even in the medical field anymore.

[@The_engineering_potato]

If my pain level is a 9-10 I will not be able to tell you my pain is a 9-10

[@kohlfrog]

I had surgery a week ago. When they brought me out of it I was fine for a bit, then the pain went way up and so did my blood pressure. They were giving a lot of pain meds. Eventually she asks me where on the pain scale it is. "It's a 7, but I can tolerate it." And I go right back into our other conversation. (They had already given me enough pain meds I shouldn't have been coherent by that point). She was like, "wait, it's a 7 and your saying you can tolerate it?" Its like "yep. I'm a chronic pain patient. I'll be fine." They gave me more meds. And my BP did go back down once they controlled the pain. But I think people miss the gigantic difference in how people react to chronic pain vs acute pain. They can be the same intensity, but it's a lot easier to 'tolerate' if it's gradual onset. Also the type of pain plays into it a lot. Sharp sudden pains are much more reaction inducing than slower burning pains.

[@tinayoung5948]

But seriously, those of us with chronic pain can operate and look this calm at a 10.

[@TheLurkingDerm]

I feel you. I have CRPS and I'd consider anything below 8 to be a really good day. Ironically, I'm also a dermatologist and when I do give patients the pain scale, I get this uncontrollable urge to smack someone upside the head when they tell me their Botox shots on numbed surface is a 7 or something ludicrous like that lol. The pain scale is useless because it is entirely subjective.

[@Atlquotl]

Some people also have a higher tolerance in general.

[@Dragoninja35]

True especially when you're in pain 24/7

[@scarlettrazor5374]

I had an allergic reaction to morphine and I was in so much pain that the only thing I could do was let the tears run down the side of my face. I couldn't make any facial expressions because it hurt too bad. I couldn't scream because my vocal cords hurt. I was just looking like I was napping but really I was an incredible amount of pain. It wasn't until they realize that I was having an allergic reaction that somebody had come and help me. 10 out of 10 pain.

[@TheLurkingDerm]

@@mzd9219 It is. They even have adjusted pain scales for certain chronic pain conditions. For example, the CRPS scale equates to a roughly 4 point difference on the normal pain scale, so a CRPS 6 is equal to your normal pain scale's 10. For us, a 4 - 6 on the regular pain scale is our baseline normal, with a 7 - 10 on the normal pain scale equating to what others consider mild to moderate pain and can still be active and hide it. CRPS is the most painful condition known to man on the McGill pain scale. When it flares up (a bad day), it's more painful than unprepared natural childbirth or the amputation of a limb with no pain intervention. It is why they call it "the suicide disease." I even have the forms and initial doctor visits checked off it Switzerland and have the green light there for assisted suicide. That doesn't mean I plan to do it, but knowing I have that as an option on the table actually helps me a lot to push through the bad days because I don't feel like I'm "trapped" in that condition forever.

[@amikalewis2278]

Dude couldn’t move his neck away from his s phone 😂😂

[@hydroxsisjubatus5205]

That second patient must have been hanging out with Fred from SpongeBob. That "My leg!" was serious. 😂😂😂

[@Revicarrus]

"No. I'm actually not sure anymore. It's an 11 now."

[@monsterchic162]

I always try to be honest about the pain scale, however I still sometimes say it’s 1 point above what I’m actually feeling cause I have a pretty high pain tolerance and I worry that they won’t make sure it’s nothing serious if im not feeling a serious amount of pain.

[@cowboychrist3399]

this one was so good i actually smacked my lips involuntarily when he said "9."

[@Commoncourtesy12]

When he adjusts down to 9, and ER transitions to “oh sh* seriously”