This is fascinating and frightening at the same time. Because I suspect myself of being a lazy wimp, I would love an objective proof of my pain levels the way I have my skin biopsy and EMG/NCS results. On the other hand, what if it showed that I was a lazy wimp?

When I had my first child, a nine pound baby girl, without so much as an aspirin, the labor nurse kept saying I wasn't having a contraction because the monitor didn't show one. When she went off duty the next nurse told me that the monitors ( this was 30 years ago) didn't work on chubby moms. Technology is a two edged sword.