I realize it's grade school humor, but they really need to be more careful what they write.
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Pain tolerance is very different for each of us. I hate it when asked to describe on a scale of 1-10 from the worse pain I ever had in the past to what this new pain from Post Op to a broken bone or sprained back .
Reason is no one asks what the cause of the worse pain was do to. Me, 3 rd.degree burns on 1/6 of my body.
This puts that experience at a 10+++++. Child birth would come in compaired to that episode at a -5, and an abscessed tooth at about a +7.
I have HIGH pain tolerance so when taking pain medication I am usually prescribed over or under doses of what ever. That powerful drugs may be needed by some, for me sometimes 3-4 aspirin will do for me.
Those super duper heavy drugs are over perscribed, the few times I needed them were few and far between, just put me into a La La land where I later had little idea what was going on.
I simply do not understand how anyone can function on those medications. I hate Demerol injections, I just sit back and watch Lobsters crawl around the ceiling.