The pain scale: Rating your pain needs context

Pain is one of the few things in life universally common to all races, all ages, virtually all people for the history of time.   Though it is always with us, it is also the most difficult of human feelings to describe or even talk about. Doctors in an attempt to understand the degree to which we hurt invented a 1 to 10 pain scale.

I was very fortunate my first 47 …

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