I don't even know.

Y'ever looked for something on and off (but anxiously throughout) for hours, and then just looked down at your feet, moved something aside, and found it?

Good lord, I'm dumb today.

Oh, yeah, getting my acne cysts injected when I was a teenager? That was like an 8 on the scale.

Probably the worst pain I ever had was when I got thrown from a horse and broke my arm hitting the ground. Snapped my right arm in half backwards, just below the elbow. It never did heal right; the bone still shows up crooked on X-rays. I am certain I've never had any pain near as bad as what some of us have gone through/are going through, though.

You guys, I've never had any bad pain at all. Unless I'm repressing something, but I really think no. The only time I've gone to the hospital for myself as an adult was a mistake when I had the vertigo.

le n, eggs in restaurants are often reconstituted from powdered eggs, and they taste awful to me. I can always tell. That's why I usually order fried eggs even though they're not my preference: they have to use real whole eggs for fried! I don't know if that's what you're tasting, though.

I do locals for dental. Then I again never had dental (including several root canals and an abscressed tooth) that was bad as my routine back pain when not taking Tramadol. So maybe the 7 I'm driving with is a real 7. But who knows?

I find the pain scale unhelpful. I mean, I don't know what it is! I would that the doctors would give me electro-shocks and let me know what is the right level.

Also, I don't know that it takes into account other pain factors-- for example, even though my knee hurt the worst ever, it was really short, where my hip pain is constant. Even the dental pain I can deal with because I know it will end. But on the other hand ear infection pain that feels like someone is shoving a knife in my ear intermittently was somewhat worse that the knee!

Sophia,

usually nurses help you contextualize it see here: [link]

Based on that scale, I had thought my gall bladder pain was a 7, but apparently it was a hard 8 and maybe a 9.

Oh yeah, according to that, I've never had a migraine that was worse than a 4, and I'd still stay home from work! I had some cramps that were a 5 or 6 recently, I guess.