Pain is a squirrely thing. It's sometimes burning, sometimes drilling, sometimes a deep-in-the-muscles clenching ache. Mine can depend on my mood or how much attention I afford it, and can recede, nearly entirely, if I'm engrossed in a film or a task.
Even 10+ pain can be bearable when it's endured for good reason, like giving birth to a child. But what's the purpose of the pains I have now, the lingering effects of a head injury?
Doctors today have a fuller understanding that they can (and should) think about treating pain, as well as the terrible consequences of prescribing opioids so readily. What they are learning only now is how to better measure pain and treat its many forms.
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