I have been around doctors for a long time and around pain for just a little less. I have gone through a great learning process with my disabled ex wife and now with myself. I find that pain in the eyes of a medical professional seems (to me) to be given a lower value or less intensity than it really has. I went with my mother-in-law once to her back doctor (she had 17 back surgeries during her 84 years) and when he asked her to rate her pain from 1 to 10 (1 is better) she answered, if you felt like me you wouldn't be at work today. I still don't think he understood but gave her the next level of pain meds saying that at her age it wouldn't matter if she got addicted to her medication. What's wrong with this picture, is it just my experience or are all the people including the medical staff incapable of understanding real pain? Why do we have to bleed out our eyes or something to get the recognition we need. I hope to find some understanding from all the experience on this board Thanks for listening.