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.

Don't really know how it compares to others. But what I drive with sound like at least a six and maybe a low seven based on that link. That is the level of pain I suffer driving is such that my driving sometimes is unsafe if I try two days in a row, and I definetly don't dare drive three days in row, because the third day with that level of pain there is no sometimes about my driving being unsafe.