10 Your pain is intense, constant, greatly restricts your activities and it is impossible to go more tha 5 minutes without awareness of the pain.
9 Your pain is intense, constant, greatly restricts your activities but you can forget about the pain for up to 15 minutes at a time.
8 Your pain is significant, moderately intnese at times, but not constant. Most activities are affected, and you think about it once or twice an hour.
7 Your pain is significant, moderately but never intnese and not constant. Most activities are affected, and you think about it once or twice an hour
6 The pain is moderate, yet too frequent to ingnore. Some activities are affected. Hours can go by withoug be aware of the pain.
5 The pain is moderate, yet too frequent to ingnore. Almost no activities are affected. Hours can go by withoug be aware of the pain.
4 The pain is little more than a nuisance, and you go through your whole day frequently aware, but not really affected by it.
3 The pain is little more than a nuisance, and you go through your pain maybe absent for the whole day at a time and your never affected by it.
2 At its worse, the pain is best described as uncomfortable. Days can go by without being aware of it.
1 At its worst, the pain is best described as uncomfortable. Your symotoms do not recur more frequently than once a week.