Chronic Illness on Yik Yak | i feel like i can’t even define pain from discomfort, like how do i rate my pain so doctors believe me and im not lying?

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Chronic Illness 13w

i feel like i can’t even define pain from discomfort, like how do i rate my pain so doctors believe me and im not lying?

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Anonymous 13w

my dad told me to always rate it higher than it actually is in order for doctors to do something about it

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Anonymous

#1 13w

That’s what I’ve learned to do, I used to be like “but it doesn’t hurt that bad so like a 1” now everytime I’m like “if I was normal this probably would be a 3-5”

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Anonymous

#2 13w

exactlyyyy. i have a high pain tolerance so my 5 is a 7 at the very least

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