What is the most pain you've ever been in?
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Childbirth x 2. Completely redefined pain for me. Breaking my arm falling off the hoverboard was no big whoop in comparison.
Crushed part of foot and toes in a tractor mishap as a kid.
As an adult, full speed head on shoulder blow to my knee front on. When the guy got off, I was kneeling backward. For several l days after surgery, death was an option.
As an adult, full speed head on shoulder blow to my knee front on. When the guy got off, I was kneeling backward. For several l days after surgery, death was an option.
It is no call. Apendicitis or Gall Bladder locked up. Either one could have went bad. I was pretty non-responsive by surgery for each one.
But that doesn't come close to what others have been through.
But that doesn't come close to what others have been through.
Physically I sprained my ankle and tore my achilles in the same incident. Close 2nd was shingles but I found that more annoying than painful.
Mentally probably trying to tell both sides I agree with them politically in HBOT
Mentally probably trying to tell both sides I agree with them politically in HBOT
It was the worst post surgery experience of my life, and I've had I believe 7 surgeries now.
What really sucked is waking up. Hell, most every day when I wake up I head straight to the bathroom because that's what ultimately woke me up in the first place. When you're healthy...you're still half asleep, but no problem. But when you're half asleep and then have to piss fish hooks...my gawd. You've been awake 15 seconds, and the very first thing to begin your day is indescribably painful. You're simply not ready for that yet.
That first pain-free piss was so cathartic. It really was a miserably experience overall.
Passing a kidney stone and my infected tooth. The unhappy triad on my left knee, but, it only hurt bad for a day.
I had to get a biopsy on my tongue a few years ago. I don't know if they didn't give me enough numbing agent or didn't wait long enough after giving it to me, because it hurt like a mofo.
Two stories.
The first time I had it and learned what it was I had it in both feet at the same time. I walked in and the doctor said, “You have broken feet. What did you do?” I said not a damned thing. X rays were negative if course. Then he took blood and urine and said I have high uric acid and it was gout.
The WORST I’ve ever had it was in the Philly airport. It was so bad they had to drive me on the cart to my gate. The walk from my gate to the nearest restroom (20 yards max) was literally the worst 5 minutes of my life.
I can now feel it coming when I get a tingle in my feet when I take a piss. I immediately take the meds right then and there and it usually does the trick and gets it in time. Nothing compares. And I’ve had 3 back surgeries and have one kidney.
Getting a chest tube put in after a car accident was insane for a few seconds. It was the worst. Didn't last long but man did it hurt.
Had a bad frozen shoulder before I knew what the diagnosis was. Was working on my bike outside and slipped on a couple of stairs. Broke my fall with the frozen shoulder arm. Literally could not breathe for 30 seconds.
Shingles on the back of my head and neck. Get the shot.
Sciatic nerve pain shooting down the leg...couldn't move, couldn't sleep for days.
Had to get a tooth pulled, and the dentist didn't wait for the novocaine to kick in so I felt every second of it.
Hey we got to page 2 before some dickhead went and screwed it up. Bravo to the group but F this person
This due to bursted L4 and herniated L5. The things we do to stay in shape come back to bite you in the @$$.
Waking up to go to work. Painful.
Your comment is quite insensitive. Many of us still struggle with PTSD from that night.
Like several have mentioned, it's probably the first time I had a severe sciatica attack. Can't stand. Can't sit. Can't lie down.
A MRI last year of my lumbar spine showed bulging disks at every level, severe nerve impingement at two and advanced arthritis throughout. There is not a surgical solution so it's pain management moving forward. I had a bilateral nerve ablation earlier this year that has helped some. Hopefully, that will last for a while.
A MRI last year of my lumbar spine showed bulging disks at every level, severe nerve impingement at two and advanced arthritis throughout. There is not a surgical solution so it's pain management moving forward. I had a bilateral nerve ablation earlier this year that has helped some. Hopefully, that will last for a while.
I had turrible ear aches as a kid that lasted for hours before I could pass out. Unreal hurt. An abscess in a tooth ranked up there as well. Busted ribs in the second day of a five day mountain hike was awful. The worst part was changing from upright to sitting, kneeling, or worst of all laying down. Pulling the pack on and off totally sucked. Thankfully I had hiking poles.
Worst long term was several fractured vertebrae suffered at 14 that I didn’t realize happened until decades later. Me and a buddy would play with the chemistry department intramural team his ole man organized since they never had enough players. Two hand touch on the physical side. One Saturday we played the rugby club and I got demolished trying to stop a sweep. Dude crushed me. It wasn’t so bad at first, but later that week I hit the bed for several days. Along with scoliosis, that has left me with infrequent periods of debilitating pain. An X-ray taken in my mid 40’s prompted a Doc to ask me when I got fractured. Oohh, now I understand…
Worst long term was several fractured vertebrae suffered at 14 that I didn’t realize happened until decades later. Me and a buddy would play with the chemistry department intramural team his ole man organized since they never had enough players. Two hand touch on the physical side. One Saturday we played the rugby club and I got demolished trying to stop a sweep. Dude crushed me. It wasn’t so bad at first, but later that week I hit the bed for several days. Along with scoliosis, that has left me with infrequent periods of debilitating pain. An X-ray taken in my mid 40’s prompted a Doc to ask me when I got fractured. Oohh, now I understand…
I’ve always had a pretty high tolerance for pain. Broken numerous bones, ribs, sprains, pulls, tore a muscle / tendon from the bone, burns, etc. Not pleasant, but not killer.
I had a tooth ache once due to an abscess where the nerve was exposed. Whined like a baby until that thing got taken care of. Brutal.
I had a tooth ache once due to an abscess where the nerve was exposed. Whined like a baby until that thing got taken care of. Brutal.
Toothache/abscess for me too. I got four shots in my mouth and didn’t even flinch because of the pain I was already in, the Dentist told me I obviously have a high pain tolerance. The instant relief from the tooth being pulled was euphoric.
I have been told it is like pissing a sand spur. Eww.
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2 cm gall stone got stuck in my bile duct. Woke me up in the middle of the night while traveling in Omaha. Waited about an hr for it to pass and when I could tell it wasnt I got in the car to try and make it home. Barely made it to a Des Moines ER where my wife met me. They drugged me up and wife drove me to UIHC to remove it and my gall bladder. 2-3 hrs of pass out level pain.
Outside of the obvious it was definitely the gall stones stuck in my bile duct. I was at work when it hit and I was in so much pain I couldn’t stand. Went to the ER where they loaded me up on Percocet and scheduled an ultrasound for the next day. Surgery wasn’t scheduled for 2 weeks. Inhumane.
I wrecked a motorcycle when I was 18 and ripped most of the skin on the right side of my body off. I'm talking like when your body oozes plasma level burns. They treated me as a burn victim. Anyway, I'm in the hospital and they haveme hooked up to a morphine drip and I'm in so much pain my body subconsciously is hitting the button just to make sure I get the hit as soon as it goes in my sleep type shit. Anyway.
I gotta go home. Wounds like that scab this deep plasma thick white shit and if you **** up and can dry and actually start to scab but I had to physically clean my wounds as bits of gravel and debris came out of my body.
So after a day or two at home I have to take a bath. I'm 18, up until this point in time I'm an invincible stud. 6'2, 190, D1 Scholly, blonde hair, blue eyes, and now my mother, well respected in the cardiac cath lab Community looks at me and hands me a couple of pain pills and a glass full of whiskey and tells me to take them and go lay in the tub naked so she can take what is basically a bristle pad and physically scrub this top layer of plasma off my wounds.
I'm a tough guy. When she was tearing that shit off my muscles and I'm trying to maintain some semblance of manhood, that was as low as I've ever been. I was in enough mental and physical pain I wanted to quit.
* I've mentioned this before but as part of all of this I called the coach, laying in a hospital bed, from UW milwaukee and told him what had happened and they rescinded my scholorship. So as she was scrubbing I had no idea if I was ever going to play again.
Knee buckling pain to the point where you just curl up in a fetal position on the floor.
Something has to make it spike. Sometimes it’s just dehydration. Sometimes it can be shellfish. That Philly one was a week in New Haven destroying pizza daily and I’m guessing the sauce. Some people get it after drinking.
Nearly had my ear torn off in a ruck during a rugby match in high school. Didn’t break the skin, but tore the cartilage in my ear in half. Good news, the way it tore meant no cauliflower ear, bad news was it felt like a knife was stabbing my ear all day. I couldn’t sleep when the pain meds wore off.
In a college tournament, my back and shoulders were so sunburned from not wearing a shirt in between matches. I had an allergic reaction to ointment that caused my back to burn and itch so bad I was in tears, rubbing my back with a wet towel so aggressively I laid it on the floor and slithered on my back to get some relief. It doesn’t sound that bad but in the moment I wanted to sandblast my skin off.
Third place was my appendix nearly bursting. Felt like a knife in the gut. Got it operated on time right before it was bursting.
In a college tournament, my back and shoulders were so sunburned from not wearing a shirt in between matches. I had an allergic reaction to ointment that caused my back to burn and itch so bad I was in tears, rubbing my back with a wet towel so aggressively I laid it on the floor and slithered on my back to get some relief. It doesn’t sound that bad but in the moment I wanted to sandblast my skin off.
Third place was my appendix nearly bursting. Felt like a knife in the gut. Got it operated on time right before it was bursting.
