I was just browsing the recent posts over at Chronic Pain Lifestyle and while reading "The Pain Scale...Before and After Science" I was struck with a brilliant epiphany.
If we could break down our descriptions of pain into D&D style dice rolls wouldn't this be more accurate than the standard, highly lacking '1-10' style pain scale? I mean with chronic pain especially there are so many fluxuations in pain. For example if I could say to my doc, "my back pain is 2 die-20 (a roll of two twenty-sided dice added together)" this is much more like my real life pain experience than selecting one number on a 1-10 scale. O.k, O.k, call out the Geek Police but just think about it.
Wouldn't it be great if pain medications came with their own THACO?
I mean come on, we all know that taking a pill is like rolling the dice. Will my pain decrease? How much? Will it make me nauseas, dizzy, fall over?
Wow, I think I need to lay off the caffeine. My brain is is overdrive today, but does this make sense to others? Or is it just me?