VOCABULARY when compared to what it feels like.

Here are a few useful sites to check out about your pain from a personal point of view and how medical types 'frame' our pain as well.

www.rsdhope.org
http://painconsortium.nih.gov/pain_s...FORT_Scale.pdf
http://painconsortium.nih.gov/pain_s...atingScale.pdf
http://www.cityofhope.org/prc/pdf/Pa...20Colorado.pdf
http://www.virginia.edu/uvaprint/HSC/pdf/020210.pdf
http://www.cityofhope.org/prc/pain_assessment.asp

And lastly my favorite:
http://shsskip.swan.ac.uk/Informatio...in%20Scale.htm

I hope these help you speak more clearly to your doctors when describing your pain[s].

GOOD FEELINGS! for all! - j