Post #2515680

2026-05-11 06:09 UTC

@Texan_Reverend@kind.social @aredridel@kolektiva.social Holy shit I always add +1 to my number because I know I minimize & am used to chronic but this makes me seem like I should’ve been adding +3-4 😭 10 is always described as worst pain imaginable to me and I’m like well I haven’t done and hopefully will never do birth or awake amputation so I would’ve put “nothing else matters” as my 7 but apparently not 🙃

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@ldottxt@kind.social 2026-05-11 06:13

@moss@kind.social @Texan_Reverend@kind.social @aredridel@kolektiva.social I have a chart with VERY UPSET frowny faces that basically distills this down into simple terms, and I always reference it if I'm asked that question. as someone who's operated a motor vehicle at a 10 I am not the best judge of this in a vacuum

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@Texan_Reverend@kind.social 2026-05-11 06:16

@moss@kind.social Yeah, the two biggest purposes of the pain scales are to determine wherher you're in acute need of treatment and whether interventions have had a positive effect on lowering your pain. The DVPRS and similar help patients do a much better job of communicating what clinicians actually need to know while also giving them a more powerful tool for self-advocacy, clarity of clinician expectations, and understanding of their own conditions.

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@aredridel@kolektiva.social 2026-05-11 12:24

@moss@kind.social @Texan_Reverend@kind.social Welcome to the start of taking your pain seriously. Time to take it to your doctor, say “I discovered I may have been under-reporting my pain” and go from there.

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