New Pain Scale

When you suffer from a pain disorder the doctors and health care staff always ask you rate your. This normally consists of the standard 0-10 scale with 0 being no pain and 10 being the worst pain you can imagine. I would like to propose a more intuitive scale, a bit more user friendly perhaps. A number just doesn’t sum it up.  Here are a few of my top pain analogies that I think are better than the number scale. First, we start with the “I feel like I’ve just come out of the tumble dryer.” Which is marginally better than the “I feel like I’ve been thrown down a flight of stairs.”. At other times the pain is more specific  an example of this would be “someone is using me as a Voodoo doll!”  I think you will agree this type of description far exceeds the traditional number scale.  If you have any other suggestions I will happily add them this new system.