Pain management clinics in UK.

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Also I learned that if the docs ask us to rate our pain on a scale of 1 to 10, good to go with a 6 or 7.  Otherwise they think we are exaggerating.  8 and 9 on the pain scale is for being crushed in a car accident.

That's interesting. I can absolutely believe that. It is a bit like when they ask how much alcohol you consume and they double it because most people under-report.

On the 1-10 scale, I just find that so ridiculously subjective. My sense of what 10 could be like changed very dramatically after a serious mountain bike crash. I expect that women who have given birth might also find their 10 has shifted. Also, I think some pain is more distressing than other types. So my bike crash was extremely painful because I was badly hurt. (I was also in a remote place with no cell phone signal so had to move or risk death by hypothermia.) However, the most distressing pain I've had was raging toothache. Because it was in my head, I couldn't mentally separate myself from it. I dunno what others think?