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Carla_Comiter
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Hi All,
I think it's interesting to hear that CHs hurt more than childbirth, but having never given birth, I can't verify it.
However, I can testify that CHs hurt more than a broken ankle. In Nov '01 I broke my left ankle, requiring surgery, a metal plate and 10 screws. When I was in the hospital, the nurse kept asking me to rate my pain on a scale of 1-10. She tipped me off that I had to rate it higher than 5 in order to get a pain shot.
At the time, I hadn't had a CH episode for ten years, but I still knew that post-operative pain did not rate a 5 on the KIP scale. I tried to explain to the nurse that using a rating scale was inaccurate due to each person having a different experience with pain, and that whoever invented it obviously did not suffer with CHs.
But, I gave up and just answered "6" when she asked. The pain in my ankle certainly warranted taking the meds, but it was only about a 3-4 on the Kip.
Glad to have ya'll to share this with, few others would appreciate it.
Carla
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Re: Musings--Pain is relative
« Reply #1 on: Sep 18th, 2003, 4:12pm » |
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I'd rather bounce on a trampoline with two broken ankles and a busted knee cap for good measure than deal with a Kip 9
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« Reply #2 on: Sep 18th, 2003, 4:43pm » |
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Quote:| I'd rather bounce on a trampoline with two broken ankles and a busted knee cap for good measure than deal with a Kip 9 |
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ok, for some reason I felt that  Do you get into self torture Don? ;D
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Re: Musings--Pain is relative
« Reply #3 on: Sep 18th, 2003, 4:56pm » |
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A kip 5 to one person is different than another's kip 5.
The scale is only for you. Your kip 5 may be time for the emergancy room trip. For another the trip may be at a kip 9.
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« Reply #4 on: Sep 18th, 2003, 6:35pm » |
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Brain freeze (ice cream type) is comparative to a kip 5 in my book. Very interesting post Carla. I've had bruised ribs, jammed fingers, stab wounds...all cake to deal with in comparison. I have never broken anything that I know of, but I rarely went to the doc for anything until CH...and only then after being severely persuaded by people I work with and my fiance'. ;D
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Re: Musings--Pain is relative
« Reply #5 on: Sep 18th, 2003, 6:59pm » |
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I fell out of a tree at the age of 14, broke both collarbones, ripped 1 arm completely out of the socket grabbing limbs on the way down ( probably what saved my life) tore all the ligaments in that shoulder including rotater cuff. As i lay on the ground stunned, I remember wondering why i wasnt feeling any pain, just kind of a mild throb at best. I think my brain took over and started pumping those endorphins into my body. I was lucky to have been with a friend and he got me help. Truth is, In retrospect, I never really felt any pain, Yea, i was real sore the next day after surgery, but the pain wasnt ever more than a Kip3 ( of course at that point i was on some good drugs)
CH during its peak give me Kip10's quite regularly. I am not ready to say it is worse than child birth, but it definitly is worse than getting your arm ripped out of its socket! LMAO!!!
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