A burst eardrum. A line blew near my head and the noise was so intense it burst. I laid on the ground for a good ten minutes holding my head. Balance gone, double vision. Never again.
Biggest pain you've ever felt?
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The pain felt when betrayed by someone you love. I win some kind of cheesyness award?
...Not alot of bad stuff happen to me actually, never been physically hurt except when... Well I've been kicked in the balls, that counts.
...Not alot of bad stuff happen to me actually, never been physically hurt except when... Well I've been kicked in the balls, that counts.
Burned the tip of my pointing finger on a very, very hot hotplate. If I stopped cooling it the pain started to wander up the arm until it became unbearable.
Second: After my heart operation everytime I had to cough to get rid of slime. The sternum had to be sawed in half and the scar above it really hurt when I coughed.
Second: After my heart operation everytime I had to cough to get rid of slime. The sternum had to be sawed in half and the scar above it really hurt when I coughed.
I didn't read the whole thread, so I don't know if anyone has shared in my pain, but the worst pain I ever had was a Kidney stone. I think it was 1.2mm
What was worse was that wasn't the reason I went to the hospital. I had severe gastroenteritis. It was literally coming out of both ends. Sometimes at the same time. It was insane.
Thankfully though, the kidney stone pain didn't start to manifest until after I had visited the first round of people at the ER. All of a sudden my side started hurting. And it wouldn't stop.
An MRI later and I have a kidney stone. I had been fearing these things all my life. So much so I stopped drinking sodas and crap and actively put more water in my diet. Oddly enough, drinking more milk could've helped. But my wife is allergic to milk, so we drink soy and almond.
And I don't know where those people are saying that morphine works immediately. Took a damn half hour for me to feel it. Of course, the ER staggered the two doses by like 30 minutes. Had I got the full one it might've been different. Now Oxy on the other hand. That stuff was legit.
And some advice if anyone has one. Citric Acid. Drink it by the gallon. It broke up my stone to the size of pepper flakes and didn't hurt at all.
All that was left was recovering from the gastroenteritis. When my stomach swelled to where it looked like I swallowed a soccer ball. That really hurt too.
What was worse was that wasn't the reason I went to the hospital. I had severe gastroenteritis. It was literally coming out of both ends. Sometimes at the same time. It was insane.
Thankfully though, the kidney stone pain didn't start to manifest until after I had visited the first round of people at the ER. All of a sudden my side started hurting. And it wouldn't stop.
An MRI later and I have a kidney stone. I had been fearing these things all my life. So much so I stopped drinking sodas and crap and actively put more water in my diet. Oddly enough, drinking more milk could've helped. But my wife is allergic to milk, so we drink soy and almond.
And I don't know where those people are saying that morphine works immediately. Took a damn half hour for me to feel it. Of course, the ER staggered the two doses by like 30 minutes. Had I got the full one it might've been different. Now Oxy on the other hand. That stuff was legit.
And some advice if anyone has one. Citric Acid. Drink it by the gallon. It broke up my stone to the size of pepper flakes and didn't hurt at all.
All that was left was recovering from the gastroenteritis. When my stomach swelled to where it looked like I swallowed a soccer ball. That really hurt too.
Migraines, without a doubt.
I remember having a migraine that lasted a couple of days when I was very young; I somehow managed to get to sleep at one point but it suddenly spiked and woke me up. That might I ended up screaming in pain until I tore my throat and vomited, and then as a result of being sick I laid there semi-conscious, unable to fully lose conscious because the pain in my head kept bringing me back to my senses.
Thankfully I've never had anything even close to that since, but my gods it was the first time in my life I was so helpless: it's just such an inescapable, unreachable pain.
I remember having a migraine that lasted a couple of days when I was very young; I somehow managed to get to sleep at one point but it suddenly spiked and woke me up. That might I ended up screaming in pain until I tore my throat and vomited, and then as a result of being sick I laid there semi-conscious, unable to fully lose conscious because the pain in my head kept bringing me back to my senses.
Thankfully I've never had anything even close to that since, but my gods it was the first time in my life I was so helpless: it's just such an inescapable, unreachable pain.
Black Arrow Officer said:Cluster headaches. Fuck those to the pits that are deeper than the deepest pits of hell. I literally felt like I was being stabbed thousands of times at once, while having salt poured all over me. I think the picture on wikipedia sums those up real nicely:
OT: Second worst pain goes to when both my Achilles' tendons were cut for my operation. I thought I would never walk again.
A biopsy on my thigh with some really shitty excuse for an analgesic. Took a while, hurt like hell from start to end.
I also had a migraine or something that sure as hell felt like it last year. The pain wasn't enormous, but it was bad and present for a week or so. And I don't mean that in a "it came on and off" way, I mean it quite literally hurt every moment of every one of those days.
I also had a migraine or something that sure as hell felt like it last year. The pain wasn't enormous, but it was bad and present for a week or so. And I don't mean that in a "it came on and off" way, I mean it quite literally hurt every moment of every one of those days.
Probably the worst I can remember is calf-cramp. I get it several times a week, usually around 4am if I'm sleeping by then. Woken up by agonising pain, and have to lie rigidly for minutes for it to subside.
Compared to some of the stories on here though, I've had nothing.
The worst pain I've ever seen is when assisting in lumbar punctures. It reduces the toughest men in the world to screaming and crying.
<spoiler=Probably not for the squeamish>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Thisisspinaltap.jpg/230px-Thisisspinaltap.jpg
For those who don't know, a lumbar puncture involves taking a sample of Cerebro Spinal Fluid by sticking a needle into your lower spine. It's a bigger needle than the one used for epidurals, and you are only under local anaesthetic (which again, has to be inserted via a needle in your spine).
Compared to some of the stories on here though, I've had nothing.
The worst pain I've ever seen is when assisting in lumbar punctures. It reduces the toughest men in the world to screaming and crying.
<spoiler=Probably not for the squeamish>http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Thisisspinaltap.jpg/230px-Thisisspinaltap.jpg
For those who don't know, a lumbar puncture involves taking a sample of Cerebro Spinal Fluid by sticking a needle into your lower spine. It's a bigger needle than the one used for epidurals, and you are only under local anaesthetic (which again, has to be inserted via a needle in your spine).
Ingrown toenail, sharp edge right into the flesh. Oh, and no anesthesia. Hurt even worse after the operation, but then, 5 minutes later, no pain. None at all. Just one moment, intense burning sharp pain, then the next, nothing. All good.
I've never experienced a pain I couldn't manage, but I did get a 2nd degree burns one summer. Almost 48hours on the dot after getting my wicked sun burn my back began to itch. The skin itself was completely numb so scratching did nothing. The itching was like an unbearable torture, I couldn't sleep, and I was shacking from the need to scratch. I was told to use aloe lotion to help the burn and stop the itch but all that did was increase the itching and make my skin that was numb feel like I was burning. I didn't sleep for 3 days, sometime on the third day I passed out. I woke up almost on the 5th day the the itching was far less extreme and the skin was no longer numb, scratching still didn't help but at least the shaking stopped.
After going through that I'm pretty sure I can last through being tortured for at least 3 days before spilling all my secrets.
After going through that I'm pretty sure I can last through being tortured for at least 3 days before spilling all my secrets.
Hmm, that sounds familiar. I had the same thing happen to me, only it was just half an hour before the pain hit. I was twisting and bending and pulling on my arms and shoulders, anything I could think of to take my mind off how much it hurt. Ultimately all I could do was wait it out, was quite miserable for days after that. Must be something in the ramen that caused our bodies to reject it. :Iaegix drakan said:
Stepping on lego, migraines and those random cramps that REALLY hurt (really).
Yeah I guess I've gotten lucky so far
Yeah I guess I've gotten lucky so far
That's odd cos I had to have lumbar punctures when I was 6 or 7 and I don't remember it being that bad. Unpleasant, and I'd be ill afterwards, but not excruciatingly painful.TheBobmus said:
I got a strep infection in my kidneys in fifth grade. It felt like someone bashing my lower back with a sledgehammer over and over again. Had to spend two or three days in the hospital to get it all cleared out.
Blew out my knee in 10th grade. Wrestling 5 & 1/2 minutes with a broken hand at the state meet for wrestling. (Yes, I lost, but I didn't get pinned)
Also had an ingrown toenail on my big toe a few years ago that got super infected. Doctors had to numb it and stick q-tips covered in acid on the sides of my toe to kill off the infection. The nail never grew back quite right and it ended up infected again last spring. Rather than go to the doctor again, I got a small pair of pliers, a metal spike from my tool chest and a sock to bite down on while I did the "surgery" myself. I ended up pulling the entire nail so at least I don't have to worry about that getting infected anymore.
The other would be a pec tear. This picture isn't me, but the bruising on my arm was quite worse.
http://www.professionalmuscle.com/forums/attachments/members-photos/10406d1165872235-torn-pec-pec-tear002.jpg
Also had an ingrown toenail on my big toe a few years ago that got super infected. Doctors had to numb it and stick q-tips covered in acid on the sides of my toe to kill off the infection. The nail never grew back quite right and it ended up infected again last spring. Rather than go to the doctor again, I got a small pair of pliers, a metal spike from my tool chest and a sock to bite down on while I did the "surgery" myself. I ended up pulling the entire nail so at least I don't have to worry about that getting infected anymore.
The other would be a pec tear. This picture isn't me, but the bruising on my arm was quite worse.
http://www.professionalmuscle.com/forums/attachments/members-photos/10406d1165872235-torn-pec-pec-tear002.jpg
Worst for me was a few years back when I had a badly impacted wisdom tooth. It was pinching on a nerve in my jaw, giving me near constant earaches for a month. But the worst part was the extraction. 2 and a half hours in the dentist's chair. It was so badly impacted it had to be drilled into three pieces to be removed. When I finally got out, my face was bruised from having my mouth forced open for that length of time, plus all the usual pain associated with dental surgery..