Pain:Do your Loved Ones Doubt the Extent?

I think it's true Lαrα, even. My wife has treated me as if the pain is not really as bad as I say.

Lαrα, I've had this experience with my sister and my father. My mom has never doubted my pain, however, because she deals with arthritis in her joints and carpal tunnel, so she understands to an extent about that kind of pain. I've had my regular doctors doubt my pain, and when they realized that I seriously was NOT faking pain for pills, they felt pretty dumb! Hopefully next month, I will be in to the pain clinic at Sanford and maybe get morphine prescribed and another cortisol shot in my wrist and knee. My muscles are constantly tensed up, so I will have to talk to my doc about that too.

I guess its difficult to measure for others isnt it...I had a friend in rehab who was soooo noisy when she was in pain...the whole unit knew about it if she had a nerve type pain lol

Then others you just wouldnt know. I think we nerve pain especially its so hard to describe to others also.....burning numb skin dosent exactly sound easy to understand lol

Its a good point that you bring up tbone57 that sometimes we may appear to be a little grumpy but in facts its the reaction from dealing with pain.
Knight..are you managing to get some exercise to your legs and doing your stretches?
DJ...very true....you seem very much like me in regards to the fact that no one would really know if you were in some pain as you tend to keep to yourself....

The one measure that i never really understand is when we are asked 'so where would you say your pain is now on a scale of 1-10'...say what?? lol how do we know the measure for each one...lol  ..and how painful is 10?...

That was a great explanation sherry, thanks! Your nurse knowledge is coming in handy eh