#chroncipainawareness

Doctors and nurses who ask you to rate your pain need to educate themselves when it come to a person with chronic pain.  Asking me to rate my pain is pointless.  What is my “4” day, would be someone else’s “10” day.  When I have a “10” day someone else would be in the hospital screaming, crying with the nurse in a head-lock demanding morphine.  We are not tougher than someone who doesn’t have chronic pain, we are just used to living this way.  When health care professionals say 1 means no pain and 10 means the worst pain you have ever felt I want to scream WTF every day of my life is the worst pain I have ever felt.

I would rather lie and tell people that I am fine rather than tell others how much pain I am in, because it hurts to badly to realize that they can hear me, but cannot ever understand.