If pain had it's own ugly rash that was like no other, the health care team might do a better job in treating it. The rash should be intense in color when pain is severe and fade as pain is being successfully treated. As long as I'm wishing for something, I'll wish that the rash was invisible to everybody but the health care team. Yah, that would do it, it would save embarrasment for you and maybe help the health care team to put it at a higher prioirity. Some People can rate pain using numbers with zero representing the least amount of pain possible and 10 pain as bad as it could possibly be.
Numbers are quick and easy.
Unfortunately some people can't put a number to their pain, if you are one of those people we will try to find a way to talk to each other about pain. For example, a patient I recently cared for told me that he felt like had been hit by a truck. So I said was it an 18 wheeler, delivery truck, pickup, or a toy truck. That helped me understand as time went on whether or not his pain medicine was working. We started at an 18 wheeler but by the time we were done the amount of pain was a toy truck.