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The levels of pancreatic pain vary greatly from person to person. Some people suffer from severe pancreatic pain while others barely experience any pain to no pain at all. Although I suffer from an ongoing bout (over a month) of Acute Pancreatitis my pain is generally dull and I usually choose not to take pain killers, even over the counter pain killers. The reason is because I want to know what is happening with my pancreas and I feel that if I make it so I can't feel the effect - what is cause the pain - I won't know if I am making the symptoms worse by some action I have taken and as a result I won't know what to avoid in the future. Of course, if I had severe pancreatic pain I can only assume I would be reaching for the pain killers. But, I don't. My pain is annoying, uncomfortable and comes and goes depending on if I am eating or drinking, presently. Sometimes, eating and drinking doesn't hurt it. At present I am experiencing another attack so the pain exists. If I were on pain killers I would be more inclined to eat because I wouldn't be able to feel the pain and therefore wouldn't know the negative impact eating would have on my pancreas. From what I have read and from my personal experience, the pain level a person feels in relation to pancreatitis is not directly related to the progression of the disease. Some people never feel pain. Other people no longer have pancreatic pain once the symptoms worsen yet feel pain during the onset of the disease. 
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