Pain is personal. I can’t feel your pain and you can’t feel mine. We sense and react differently. There may be similarities but there can be little real comparison. There is no independent, third-party observer that can see your pain and mine and then make an objective comparison. Pain cannot be seen at all. It is a hidden aspect of oneself. It is personal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no scale that is appropriate to measure pain. I’m asked to rate mine on a scale of 1 to 10. First of all, (as a programmer), I think that it should be from 0 to 10 otherwise (with their 1-10 scale) feeling no pain must be a 1. So the way they present their\u00a0scale is all wrong. How I would rate pain can be different than some one else. I’ve heard people say that their pain is a 10. I wonder about that. I’ve never admitted to having pain of a “10” and I’m reluctant to ever admit having a “9”. I figure that a 10 is what one might feel the instant the truck hits. You feel a 10 then you die. So, (in their scale of 1-10), the only numbers that I might use are 1-9 with a “1” being no pain. Since I’m always in pain then I only use numbers 2-9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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