On a pain scale from 1-10, what is the lowest level that prevents you from sleeping?
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Strong toothache do, it's 6-7 probably.
Second degree sun burns don't, they are like 5.
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If the pain is so severe that it prevents me from sleeping, surely that is automatically high on the pain scale? 🤔
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As someone who has had some seriously bad back problems I learned to sleep through it, although it's not great quality sleep. Hope this isn't related to issues you are having!
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Really the only pain I've had that has impacted sleep has been tooth ache. I've slept through broken bones, torn ligaments, back pain, etc. I cracked a tooth once and it got infected before I could see a Dr, I actually considered pulling it out myself due to the ridiculous pain.
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Physical pain, whatev
Psychological pain, doesn't take too much to lose sleep
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Can be surprisingly low! My mom taught me to take a Tylenol if I couldn't sleep, in case it was actually some low-level pain preventing me from sleeping, and actually it works about half the time.
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I'd be interested if anyone has noticed that pain tends to drop off when you need to sleep, not because you are relaxed (etc) but in a way that makes no sense other than perhaps your body dialling it down so you can sleep.
