PHARMACIST STEVE

A better pain scale

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   boilerrph, on November 16, 2014 at 11:28 am said:

   Kim…maybe your next job should be in oncology and hospice

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   boilerrph, on November 15, 2014 at 10:39 pm said:

   Tye..I beg to differ that pain is relative to the intensity to the pain you had in the past. Not only can I accurately use a pain scale since I have chronic kidney stones and migraines, the doc gets a pretty good visual description of what the pain feels like…someone stabbing a very hot knife into my flank, etc while im puking in the emesis pan…so I wonder if you have ever even had to utilize a pain scale, its not subjective, those descriptions are very accurate. My worst pain was more than a 12 once.

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     kimlawson1, on November 15, 2014 at 10:52 pm said:

     I’ve never had a “,actual ” 9 or 10 then. To me, I underestimate my signal to the person asking. I seen pain so bad,I could NOT even come close to labeling it. That sort of indeterminate suffering is not one a number can estimate, establish, or be determined due to the u imaginable intensity that NO DRUG may even touch or mitigate to any real calculation I am aware of.

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   Tye K Lawson CPhT, on November 15, 2014 at 9:14 am said:

   “Apples and Oranges” . The Pain Scale Defined. This remimds me of another misnomer. “Are you allergic to any drug”? Well, could you be more specific? Hives?, untoward reactions? Relative contraindications? , near death anaphylaxis? Well, you get the idea. Pain is relative to the intensity you have had in the past. In reality, most could not define pain in the nine- ten area as pain thresholds are like earthquakes. A 7.5 on the Richter scale is 10 times stronger than a 6.8. Pain measurements are only as validated as the verbosity and the stage of viciously precariously named excruciatingly “pain tag,” if you will, that is more succinctly-the Pt’s pride sometimes allows. I heard wives of brave Marine Corps Vets say, ” If my husband says he is in bad pain, believe me, HE IS! ” Your scale delineates a more precise measurement as it includes terminology not in most folks vocabulary.

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   boilerph87, on November 14, 2014 at 6:53 pm said:

   This is the pain scale I have always used personally, I have on occaision had pain beyond a 10 on the pain scale. Being a chronic kidney stone former, I can tolerate a 3-4, but starting at 6, I’m needing relief now BEFORE it becomes a 7,8 or 9 and I have to go to the ER… same with the migraines… Again, William, you must never have had any serious extended pain in your entire life, because at a certain point that’s all you begin to think about…nothing else but getting relief, and I’m not on chronic pain medication, but even acute management triggers the same feelings. Unless you’ve walked in these shoes, I don’t believe you have any clue.

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   William Sarraf (@wjsarraf), on November 14, 2014 at 5:56 pm said:

   I thought your pain scale would have one level… TEN ! ! !

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   Renee Wilson, on November 14, 2014 at 1:38 pm said:

   I can understand this one better.

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