Pain chart

[Fibrofoggiest]

I saw this pain chart and found it very interesting, so I thought I would share it with you here. I would like to know what you think of it.

Foggy x

P.s. You may need to zoom in to see it properly, sorry

[Lruk]

Thanks for sharing this, it is certainly interesting. I'm not sure I totally agree that pain at levels 5 and 6 still allow you to function independently and hold down a job, unless the pain was intermittent and not almost constant.

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Fantastic Foggy

Cheers for sharing

xxx sian

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Hi foggy, thank you for this, it is very useful indeed. I could do with printing it out to take with me next visit to the docs, it explains it so much better than I do :). Especially as tend to say stupid things like "I suppose I can manage"

[tettridge]

Hi Foggy

Thank you for this it is quite close in some of the pain numbers I have given over the years.

I have always used the worst pain in my maximum as when I had a Myelogram (some 20 odd years ago) and afterwards I experienced the worse pain ever and no matter how I tried I could find no relief from the needles in my brain, it felt like I had a load of extremely sharp needles in my brain and if I moved just slightly then I experienced that 10. Thereafter it was my 10 on the pain chart.

Every time I have been asked what is the pain I am feeling on a 1 to 10 I have been able to gauge it by that pain.

Now I can copy this and use it when they ask 'how bad is your pain today'

Take care and kindest of regards

Terry

[rosewine]

Thanks for sharing this very illuminating. I wonder if our 6 would be a fit persons 9x

[TheAuthor]

Thank you Foggy this is really good, I think I average a 6 to 7 but it does get worse when I have a real bad episode of pain.

Thank you my friend

Ken x

[Shazzzy]

Interesting foggy thqnks.

[emjane4465]

This is interesting I average 6 x

[Ginsing]

Thank you for sharing this most interesting chart I think a lot of the time Fibromites blow it away!

stay well

xxgins

[rowantree]

It's much more comprehensive. I generally say 7 or 8 but on this chart it's only a 6 or 7. But 6 seems too low when I say it. I have thought that 5 was ok, but on this chart only 3 is 'ok'. I often think that the people asking will think it's not too bad unless it's at least a 6. Also I find it so hard to answer because different parts of me have very different level of pain. But then that's because I don't have diffuse, all over the body pain (which I'm very grateful for, and feel so much sympathy for those of you that do). I have a constant 3 in my hands, a 2 in my shoulder, a 4 in my knees, sometimes a 5, a 5 in my left heel, and a 7 or 8 in my right heel.

[loppyloo61]

Thanks for sharing this most useful pain-chart Foggy, very thoughtful of you. You don"t happen to know of a chart for Chronic Fatigue, do you Foggy.com??

It is just only now I am managing to "surface" out of bed due to chronic fatigue & infection, yet again!

Many thanks (((gentle hugs))) XX