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Mankoski Pain Scale
0 - Pain Free
1 - Very minor annoyance -
occasional
minor twinges.
No medication needed.
2 - Minor Annoyance -
occasional
strong twinges.
No medication needed.
3 - Annoying enough to be distracting.
Mild painkillers take care of it.
(Aspirin, Ibuprofen.)
4 - Can be ignored if you are really
involved in your work, but still
distracting. Mild painkillers remove
pain for 3-4 hours.
5 - Can't be ignored for more than 30
minutes. Mild painkillers ameliorate
pain for 3-4 hours.
6 - Can't be ignored for any length of
time, but you can still go to work and
participate in social activities.
Stronger painkillers (Codeine,
narcotics) reduce pain for 3-4 hours.
7 - Makes it difficult to concentrate,
interferes with sleep. You can still
function with effort. Stronger
painkillers
are only partially effective.
8 - Physical activity severely limited.
You can read and converse with effort.
Nausea and dizziness set in as factors
of pain.
9 - Unable to speak. Crying out or
moaning
uncontrollably - near delirium.
10 - Unconscious. Pain makes you
pass out.
© Andrea Mankoski
Organisations
Symptom Tracking
- CureTogether.com - Compare
symptoms with people like you,
Find treatments that work,
Optimize your health
- ReliefInSite.com - Real-time pain
mapping, monitoring, analysis
- MyMonthlyCycles.com - free
personalized tools to track,
monitor, and manage your
monthly menstrual cycles!
Endo Products
- HagRag.com - cloth
menstrual pads
- Lola's Loft - cloth
menstrual pads
- Naturally Hip - cloth
menstrual pads
- EndoFEMM - Microwavable
corn-filled cloth heating pads
(mention you saw them here
and get 10% off your order!)
- Bed desk - use for books,
writing, laptop, eating while
bedridden from the pain
Endo Blogs
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- Autoimmune Life
- Barb’s Bumpy Ride
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- Canadian Girl In Pain
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- Dear Thyroid
- Endo en Vogue
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- Endometriosis, Among Other Things
- Endometriosis: Facing The Battle Head On
- Endometriosis: The Silent Life Sentence
- Field Notes from an Evolutionary Psychologist
- Foxy In The Waiting Room
- Hope Garden
- I Will Not Suffer In Silence - My continuing Endometriosis story
- Jenny With Endo
- Life With Endo & PCOS
- light at the end of the tunnel
- Lupron Journal
- My Healing Journey
- My Journey With Endometriosis
- My Life With Endo & Infertility
- Resilience
- Sallie Speaks
- SansUterus
- Squidgeaboo’s Endo Blog
- Stuff Sick People Have To Put Up With
- Surviving Endo
- That Girl With Endo
- The Battle Continues…
- The Ins and Outs of Endo
- The Mud and The Lotus
- Whispered Words …
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4 users responded in this post
Hi
I live in Romania.
I have pain for 17 years. Now I”m pregnant, I have pain and the docter say that the pain are only in may head. They don’ t belive me.
I answer me every day. What will hapened after the pragnancy.
At me, the endometriosis is in a place when it can’t be surgery, is betweeen vagina and colon, very dowmn.
I had pay, in every day in last 7 years, and olso now even I’m pregnant.
I pray to be better in the future, but who knows.
I took part in the American study for endometriosis and no results.
I had laparoscopic surgery and nothing.
What can I do, I still waiting.
Thanks
Doina N.
Romania
Hi Doina,
I am sending positive thoughts your way that a doctor believes your pain, and develops a personalised pain management plan that works for you!
I also hope that your pregnancy results in lessened pain overall – some women in my own family have reported their pain to have lessened after having children. Much love to you, my endo sister! Stay strong and fight for a cure!
Thanks for sharing this powerful video! It is a very honest depiction of the disease. I feel for you sister. I’m living through the worst endo symptoms of my life. It’s every day, all the time. I encounter so many people who have never even heard of endo. Thanks for raising awareness & sharing your story.
Take care,
Jenn
Love the use of a Tool song. I had surgery for endo back in 08 at the CEC in Atlanta. Since then I experienced a drastic relief in symptoms, only to find I also have adenomyosis and am now suffering with that. I admire what you and other women are doing to bring awareness to this issue. It’s ridiculous and sad how we are treated by the medical community. These people must be held accountable for what they have done to us.