Health
The Grichter Scale of Migraine Headache Intensity
Migraine Headaches Feel Like This.
Most of my life I’ve suffered from debilitating migraine headaches.
Now that you feel all sorry for me, here’s the helpful scale I came up with for rating their intensity. It’s pi-exponential so the pain slightly more than triples with each increment:
0: No pain, no gain
1: Slightly tense, no worries
2: Is that a headache coming on?
3: Push through; keep working
4: Starting to feel anxious about this
5: Just on the good side of bad
6: Get really distracting now
7: Remember to breathe
8: Take painkillers
9: With codeine
10: Call mom
11: Nausea, vomiting, want to die… Continue reading…