What's a good answer to How are you? when you're in bad pain?

Posted by tyyne21wigwam @tyyne21wigwam, Mar 7, 2023

Should you answer fine if you really aren't

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kwafeekwak | @kwafeekwak | Apr 6, 2023

I'm miserable, so I say I'm miserable.

jhghb | @jhbl | Apr 6, 2023

My go-to response is “peachy.”

heisenberg34 | @heisenberg34 | Apr 7, 2023

In reply to @jhbl "My go-to response is “peachy.”" + (show)

My daily pain level is 6 to 8, sometimes approaching a 9. I have tried everything that I know to try. I am going for a morphine pain pump surgery next week. The trial went well, knocking my pain down to 2 or 3. I can live with that. Right now I tell folks who ask me how I'm doing, I tell them, "Just ducky".