Artistic Pain Scale for your amusement.

Awe you're sweet.

Oh good now instead of replying to how are you today I will just give the artist's name!

Very cute. That said, the 10-point pain scale is baloney. Pain only comes in three categories.
It is either annoying, compromising, or debilitating. Adjectives are much more useful in describing pain.

Best always,
s!

I like the simplicity - it often is difficult to distinguish between numbers ("aw, is this a 4 or a 5?"). Yours is focused on practical impacts/limitations.

Just want to clarify it's not "mine." Facebook meme I just shared it.
I have another issue:
I have different levels of pain in different parts of my body! For that, I'm thinking Salvador Dali!

Ha! I'm so with you on the different levels in different places!

....agree about the “out of ten scale”. - my 8 might be same pain level as spouse and he will say 3...... however not sure if Emerge dept at local hospital will appreciate the portraits 🙂

It's crazy. A regular day with regular pain has been severely disrupted by a severely sprained ankle. It's neither intolerable nor chronic, just another WHATEV. 🤐

Maybe not, but I actually sent it to my pain doctor for his amusement!

Thanks for finding this. I once tried to explain to a physician my opinion of expressing a qualitative phenomenon with quantitative means and he was downright rude, presumably because my opinion threatened a cultural truism. Great pain is symphonic, rarely if ever silent, rumbling in the bass register when not shrieking with penetrating peaks, and perceived over time defying enumeration. Not Bach, but a troupe of monkeys clattering about the orchestra pit. Numbers, however, are a fiction of the business model, and I have never bothered to express an opinion until now.