Katt's personal pain scale, short form:
1: irritant
2: uncomfortable
3: annoying
4: unpleasant
5: distressing
6: severe
7: alarming
8: horrific
9: transcendental
10: inconceivable
Katt's personal pain scale, short form
Each number there is a *significant* increase. And uhh I hope that's enough room at the top end? I don't have much experience with the top end tbh.
Katt's personal pain scale
The step from 3 to 4 is when the pain becomes impossible to ignore
4 to 5 is when addressing the pain becomes important
5 to 6 is when it becomes urgent
6 to 7 is when I start to feel I might need serious medical attention
...beyond that I don't really have mapped.
katt's pain scale
I'm really curious to see how this compares to other people's scales?
Also though it's fundamentally unquantifiable :<
Fuckin' qualia.
Also I feel like I can never actually *remember* the sensation of pain in a sensory way? I can think about the idea of it, but not the sensation itself.
GRS, Katt's pain scale
So like... when a nurse would ask how much pain I was in and I'd answer 5, that meant "the current pain management is really not sufficient and I'm distressed." Which I would then actually tell them rather than hoping the number would be sufficient
I don't know if that's how most people would use 5? They seemed to think I was underrating my pain. But like, it always felt like it could be a *lot* worse so I didn't want to claim something higher.