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.
CW: The limits of pain and agony
@starkatt
With every new experience of maximal pain, the scale is adjusted. There's a plateau where shock numbs the nervous system.
I lost the top 1/3rd of my thumb in a preventable accident. I won't go into detail, but there are few more gruesome ways of losing part of your thumb. Because of the shock, the pain only reached an 8 on my scale.
I've reached a 10 several times. Pain like that comes almost only from less severe injuries that don't induce shock.
CW: The limits of pain and agony
@mawr huh. I feel like there's some things for me to think on, there.
Part of my calibration here is seeing one pain scale that described 10 as something like "comparable only to things like a hand being crushed. Produces almost immediate unconsciousness. Few people have experienced this level of pain."
