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KatD :
I’ve gotten into so many arguments with specialists, physiotherapists, peers, like you guys really need to stop using the pain scale. Can you listen to what I’m telling you it is not the same. I can’t explain it. Let me just tell you what I now can’t do based on my pain level, well you’re sitting here you’re fine, really 10/10 would be I’m calling an ambulance for you. No ten is me pacing at night because my body can’t sit still 10 is me crawling up my stairs but 10 is my every night. My Pain baseline is six. I’m constantly fidgeting. I have to keep moving. I laugh and over talk to distract myself and even as much as I talk, nobody listens. It’s the exact same as blood pressure oh your blood pressure is fine. You’re not in pain, really you tell me, you’re a nurse just like me. Maybe you should do some education, acute pain may show someone’s blood pressure skyrocket someone with chronic pain, I almost feel like we’re athletes where our breathing doesn’t increase our heart rate doesn’t increase we are conditioned by pain, my blood pressure is not a reflection of my chronic pain so I tell my peers you need to do some investigation. You need to do some research on what chronic pain is like with vital signs compared to someone with acute pain. Both should be removed in assessing chronic pain.
2026-07-16 10:45:05
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💜💖Angie 💖💜 :
Plz start using the Spoon Theory. I put pic in comments for you to see what my drs use not the part chart.
2026-07-17 06:56:02
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todd4222006 :
if pain doctor, unless you have chronic pain, you do not know. chronic pain here, neck shoulder back.
2026-07-16 21:30:08
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Bridget 💜Migraine Advocate💜 :
Absolutely! I wish more healthcare professionals focused on the functional limitations caused by the level of pain rather than reducing it to a number. The throbbing is so bad it is causing my eyes to water and I’m unable to stand up is going to tell you a heck of a lot more than It’s a seven.
2026-07-17 01:32:19
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Jen N (Gemini Jen) :
I say this all the time to Doctors, the pain scale doesn't fit for me. I am at a 5-6 all the time.
2026-07-16 23:55:57
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PiffPiffsMama#genx :
im going thru a flareup right now, my hands are the worst, swollen and stiff. my back, hips, knees, ankles and around my collarbones are giving me fits. its so exhausting.
2026-07-16 13:47:46
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Disabled Adventures :
I functio. at a 6-7 every day. I just deal with it because I have to.
2026-07-15 12:09:16
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Rhonda Antonio :
I function at an 8-10 😢not one day goes by without severe pain
2026-07-15 14:26:23
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Lullaby Rose :
I hope this doesn't mean that just because you can function because it's chronic you are taken less seriously. I assume that's not what it means but just checking.
2026-07-15 23:02:00
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Allen Dean :
too true. On that scale, my pain is a constant 6-7. My 10 is a normal person’s 23….
2026-07-15 15:18:59
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JP :
Thank you for this video. I show these to my Primary Care doctor. 5 to 6, I can still function, but I’m limited on what I can do. 7 to 8, my life is halted. 9 and 10, that’s an extreme flare and I end up in the ER.
2026-07-15 16:17:38
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Mackenzie Scharlepp :
I had to look up your last video on this because I need the scale for my disability log to get disability
2026-07-15 12:08:50
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brett gostic :
Those pain scales aren’t even close to accurate. My old 8 is now a 3. Most people would go to the emergency room at my 4-5 now.
2026-07-16 01:28:20
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Stephanie Aronson :
Thank you from someone living at a level 7/8 daily pain.
2026-07-15 19:17:44
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Samantha Monroe-Mela :
I have chronic pain....and have apparently been walking on a broken knee for a month with pain at a 3/4
2026-07-15 14:51:51
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GetRipped :
my pain is from a 3 to 10. It all depends on the day. most of the time Im about 5 to 6 but a good day is 3/4. BTW when Im a 7 to 8 I'm in bed doing nothing at all. But a 9/10 I'm crying and can't move at all and don't can't do nothing so I have to suffer.
2026-07-15 21:53:05
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Phillip :
As someone with cronic pain, thank you for that explanation. I live in a 6-7, with breakthrough meds i never get below a 4. It doesn't remove my pain, just allows me to function.
2026-07-16 00:06:17
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Mrs.Robinson :
I wish all doctors understood this
2026-07-15 15:49:42
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💜💖Angie 💖💜 :
most chronic pain patient use the spoon theory. not the pain scale
2026-07-16 01:27:08
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Tinker Bell :
I had a nurse tell me if I could talk, then I wasn't in that much pain. I live at a 3-5 baseline. I was at a 10 because they were 5 hours (at that point) late giving me my meds. I ended up waiting 14 hours for my meds.
2026-07-15 17:38:56
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Nicole Jackson :
so my meds xtampza er and dilodod po take pretty much care of my day to day pain but every cycle i go into a flare that sends me to the er which i have to get iv dildod and toradol to get me back to a controlable number but now my dr is talking about a pain pump im nervous because i need a way to give myself more meds safely if i have a flare up im tired of going to the er
2026-07-15 19:07:50
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🖤🤍Hope🤍🖤 :
4 to 5 is my base line when im at a 9 to 10 thats an er trip because nothing has worked for my flare only to go and be treated like im insignificant and lying
2026-07-16 21:09:10
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Aly :
my baseline is 7 I've been in chronic pain for over half my life
2026-07-16 18:47:01
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Ravenous.Kitten :
I made my own pain scale to use when discussing my pain and how it affects me.
2026-07-17 20:54:23
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Raynie Hodges :
where do you work.
2026-07-17 20:37:11
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