Nurse Lady,

What you'll find is that you really have to slap your medical professionals around a bit to get them to understand what YOU are going through, particularly in the pain department.

Everybody is different especially when it comes to pain tolerances and since the Dr's doing the procedures have never had them done on themselves, they are generally clueless...go figure. I have a tendancy to let them know it ("Hey idiot, that f*cking hurt! next time drug me you dumb bastard!")and find it's the best policy.

My wife made a sign that hung over my hospital bed after my mandiblectomy/flap/neck dissection that read "Don't touch him without pain medication!"