Poll: Which hurts more?

[thethingthatlurks]

Burning has to be the most painful. I've experienced Freezer burn via Liquid Nitrogen treatments for my hands when i was only 7-9. Twice a week for 2 years, i had 24 warts on my hands systematically frozen off with LN. The pain is something similar to sticking a cigar there and smashing the wound with a hammer. All the fingernails on both hands fell off and my right hand was rendered useless for a year because of this stuff. Burning is the worst thing in the world, something I wish on nobody.

How did you manage that? Liquid N2 is harmless unless you dunk your hand inside the dewar flask. Brief contact, such as wart treatment, should have been completely painless.
While we're on topic, acid burns are no fun either. I've got a nice scar on my left arm from boiling concentrated nitric acid, fresh out of the microwave...

Anyway, my broken ankle hurt like a *****. Imagine (if you are a guy) being kicked in the balls, except you experience that pain all over your foot. It also happens spontaneously, even if you haven't done anything.

Nitric burns are not fun. How long were you a simpson for?

Is that a colloquial term for the yellow skin that follows the blisters? Sorry, I've never heard of it before.
Anyway, I had a blister for a few days, which was followed by a patch of brown skin that never really healed. I guess hot (it was boiling) nitric acid leaves deeper injuries. On the plus side, it wasn't really a painful experience, kinda like a bee sting.

Yes it is. Damn though, more minor burns just make you yellow for a bit. Unlike sulphuric which just rips you apart. My father was running a bench autoclave at 255C when the pressure relief blew, it ate through his labcoat giving him a nice burn. Fortunately the coat took the majority of the damage.

Didn't know there was another chemists here, pleased to meet ya!
Ouch, I'm sorry to hear that. Did your father make it through alright? You know, acid burns could always be worse. Imagine if had hydroflouric acid instead...

 

[thylasos]

Chemical burns suck more than any number of lacerations I've had.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Paper cuts... :S

 

[Red Albatross]

Kidney stones aren't on here, so I didn't vote. But good god do those things suck. I've had broken bones, dislocated joints, and had my hands burned by a goodly amount of molten solder once, and none of them were quite as bad as the stones...of course, I didn't get morphine for them, either, so I guess every cloud does have a silver lining.

 

[7moreDead_v1legacy]

Scrapes and crap hurt the most - I've suffered at least once from all of the above things xD

Since the lighter of the lot leave more nerve endings to send messages to the brain from the raw skin thats my reasoning (plus they are usually ignored and left to have cloths rub against them and then they itch and the cycle repeats ~scratches scab on her leg~.

 

[fix-the-spade]

Burn hurt by far the worst.

Broken bones, cuts, abrasion and even a slice out of my willy I have been able to cope with, it's physical pain.

However, being burned is awful, there isn't really a way to describe the physical and mental trauma of seeing the skin melt off of your arm and fall on the floor in stinking pink gelatinous blobs. Or the way that what doesn't fall off hangs from your arm is great sheets.

Normally I'm pretty good with pain, but when I burnt (technically boiled) my arm a few years ago I screamed (and screamed) like a baby. When burns heal it's pretty horrific too.

So, er my vote goes to burns.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Electrical/chemical burns by far.
Fire doesn't hurt that much, but getting a very bad shock hurts like a real *****.

 

[Nazz3]

Burns definitely, things such as breaking a bone or having a bruise dont mainly even hurt while healing, only when you move the bodypart.

Also, title is a bit misleading, should be 'Which hurts more during the healing process'

 

[liveslowdiefast]

burning, i stepped on a on fire piece of rubber (don't ask how) the scar still is clear as day. and ocassionly i still get sharpe pains. i don't reccomend it.

 

[Horizontalvertigo]

Surgical wounds hurt like a right bastard everytime I've had them done; sure they heal nice, but still, damn! I get nasty places cut up though, like sides of the chest, abdomen and throat, places that you'll bother no matter what you do.

 

[Hashime]

Burning has to be the most painful. I've experienced Freezer burn via Liquid Nitrogen treatments for my hands when i was only 7-9. Twice a week for 2 years, i had 24 warts on my hands systematically frozen off with LN. The pain is something similar to sticking a cigar there and smashing the wound with a hammer. All the fingernails on both hands fell off and my right hand was rendered useless for a year because of this stuff. Burning is the worst thing in the world, something I wish on nobody.

How did you manage that? Liquid N2 is harmless unless you dunk your hand inside the dewar flask. Brief contact, such as wart treatment, should have been completely painless.
While we're on topic, acid burns are no fun either. I've got a nice scar on my left arm from boiling concentrated nitric acid, fresh out of the microwave...

Anyway, my broken ankle hurt like a *****. Imagine (if you are a guy) being kicked in the balls, except you experience that pain all over your foot. It also happens spontaneously, even if you haven't done anything.

Nitric burns are not fun. How long were you a simpson for?

Is that a colloquial term for the yellow skin that follows the blisters? Sorry, I've never heard of it before.
Anyway, I had a blister for a few days, which was followed by a patch of brown skin that never really healed. I guess hot (it was boiling) nitric acid leaves deeper injuries. On the plus side, it wasn't really a painful experience, kinda like a bee sting.

Yes it is. Damn though, more minor burns just make you yellow for a bit. Unlike sulphuric which just rips you apart. My father was running a bench autoclave at 255C when the pressure relief blew, it ate through his labcoat giving him a nice burn. Fortunately the coat took the majority of the damage.

Didn't know there was another chemists here, pleased to meet ya!
Ouch, I'm sorry to hear that. Did your father make it through alright? You know, acid burns could always be worse. Imagine if had hydroflouric acid instead...

He didn't even tell his boss. Just a small patch on his chest was burned, it was a 2L titanium autoclave that fortunately was not at extreme pressure.
I should also note I am a chemistry student, well nanotechnology to be more specific. I am still considered a chem eng. right now though.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

Electrical/chemical burns by far.
Fire doesn't hurt that much, but getting a very bad shock hurts like a real *****.

I'd go with electrical burns as the worst. Chemical may hurt more in the short term, but electrocution has the possibility of internal burns and other nastier complications that can mess up the rest of your life if you're unlucky.

 

[Hashime]

Spoiler

Well, out of that list I have experienced... all of them. Including one you did not list, spice overload.
The most painful on my list is eating 1 000 000 scoville unit hot sauce without much previous tolerance. followed by breaking my ankle (post camping way up north, no pain meds in the first aid kit, had to 'hike' then canoe out), nitric acid burns (left hand, someone did not remove their glove opening a door), getting a filling drilled without freezing (it costs $80), and a burn of my hand from my high-temp glove failing.

Thing that do not hurt anymore (thanks to these experiences) : Cuts, even with stitches they are not painful, minor burns, the many number of times I have been "Crushed" in football (mostly fingers), and scrapes.

Just a note, my left hand has been burned by acid, heat, heat again, had a nail through it, been crushed in football, been scraped to hell (I always wear gloves riding now), been cut to the bone (3 stitches, cut pain nerve, but is healing) and has been blunt forced more times than I can remember (football again). I am also left handed.

do what I'm doing- learn how to write with your right hand. (I'm a righty, so I'm learning how to write with the left hand.)

Burning has to be the most painful. I've experienced Freezer burn via Liquid Nitrogen treatments for my hands when i was only 7-9. Twice a week for 2 years, i had 24 warts on my hands systematically frozen off with LN. The pain is something similar to sticking a cigar there and smashing the wound with a hammer. All the fingernails on both hands fell off and my right hand was rendered useless for a year because of this stuff. Burning is the worst thing in the world, something I wish on nobody.

How did you manage that? Liquid N2 is harmless unless you dunk your hand inside the dewar flask. Brief contact, such as wart treatment, should have been completely painless.
While we're on topic, acid burns are no fun either. I've got a nice scar on my left arm from boiling concentrated nitric acid, fresh out of the microwave...

Anyway, my broken ankle hurt like a *****. Imagine (if you are a guy) being kicked in the balls, except you experience that pain all over your foot. It also happens spontaneously, even if you haven't done anything.

Nitric burns are not fun. How long were you a simpson for?

Is that a colloquial term for the yellow skin that follows the blisters? Sorry, I've never heard of it before.
Anyway, I had a blister for a few days, which was followed by a patch of brown skin that never really healed. I guess hot (it was boiling) nitric acid leaves deeper injuries. On the plus side, it wasn't really a painful experience, kinda like a bee sting.

Yes it is. Damn though, more minor burns just make you yellow for a bit. Unlike sulphuric which just rips you apart. My father was running a bench autoclave at 255C when the pressure relief blew, it ate through his labcoat giving him a nice burn. Fortunately the coat took the majority of the damage.

firework burns hurt the most. I burnt my thumb last 4th of July.

I am a left hand dominant ambidextrous, that is I prefer writing left-handed, but can write righty if I feel like it, or get stuck in a right-handed lecture seat. My writing is the same on both hands, except if I switch it takes me a few minutes to flip the words around.

 

[trophykiller]

blunt force cuts, when you get hit so hard with a fist or other blunt item and it cuts your skin, its the worst pain ever.

Agreed. Second place goes to a serated cut, such as a saw. Ouch.

P.S. your avatar is awesome beyond words.

 

[iBananaCrazy]

Blunt force bone trauma for sure. Burns hurt, but you get over them quickly.

 

[spartandude]

paper cuts

 

[BlueGlowstick]

Spoiler

Well, out of that list I have experienced... all of them. Including one you did not list, spice overload.
The most painful on my list is eating 1 000 000 scoville unit hot sauce without much previous tolerance. followed by breaking my ankle (post camping way up north, no pain meds in the first aid kit, had to 'hike' then canoe out), nitric acid burns (left hand, someone did not remove their glove opening a door), getting a filling drilled without freezing (it costs $80), and a burn of my hand from my high-temp glove failing.

Thing that do not hurt anymore (thanks to these experiences) : Cuts, even with stitches they are not painful, minor burns, the many number of times I have been "Crushed" in football (mostly fingers), and scrapes.

Just a note, my left hand has been burned by acid, heat, heat again, had a nail through it, been crushed in football, been scraped to hell (I always wear gloves riding now), been cut to the bone (3 stitches, cut pain nerve, but is healing) and has been blunt forced more times than I can remember (football again). I am also left handed.

do what I'm doing- learn how to write with your right hand. (I'm a righty, so I'm learning how to write with the left hand.)

Burning has to be the most painful. I've experienced Freezer burn via Liquid Nitrogen treatments for my hands when i was only 7-9. Twice a week for 2 years, i had 24 warts on my hands systematically frozen off with LN. The pain is something similar to sticking a cigar there and smashing the wound with a hammer. All the fingernails on both hands fell off and my right hand was rendered useless for a year because of this stuff. Burning is the worst thing in the world, something I wish on nobody.

How did you manage that? Liquid N2 is harmless unless you dunk your hand inside the dewar flask. Brief contact, such as wart treatment, should have been completely painless.
While we're on topic, acid burns are no fun either. I've got a nice scar on my left arm from boiling concentrated nitric acid, fresh out of the microwave...

Anyway, my broken ankle hurt like a *****. Imagine (if you are a guy) being kicked in the balls, except you experience that pain all over your foot. It also happens spontaneously, even if you haven't done anything.

Nitric burns are not fun. How long were you a simpson for?

Is that a colloquial term for the yellow skin that follows the blisters? Sorry, I've never heard of it before.
Anyway, I had a blister for a few days, which was followed by a patch of brown skin that never really healed. I guess hot (it was boiling) nitric acid leaves deeper injuries. On the plus side, it wasn't really a painful experience, kinda like a bee sting.

Yes it is. Damn though, more minor burns just make you yellow for a bit. Unlike sulphuric which just rips you apart. My father was running a bench autoclave at 255C when the pressure relief blew, it ate through his labcoat giving him a nice burn. Fortunately the coat took the majority of the damage.

firework burns hurt the most. I burnt my thumb last 4th of July.

I am a left hand dominant ambidextrous, that is I prefer writing left-handed, but can write righty if I feel like it, or get stuck in a right-handed lecture seat. My writing is the same on both hands, except if I switch it takes me a few minutes to flip the words around.

I am a right hand dominant ambidextrous; both of my parents were left-handed & so my sister & I can do something with our left hands: I can write, she was able to bat left-handed in softball. I can't write all that well but...

 

[thethingthatlurks]

He didn't even tell his boss. Just a small patch on his chest was burned, it was a 2L titanium autoclave that fortunately was not at extreme pressure.
I should also note I am a chemistry student, well nanotechnology to be more specific. I am still considered a chem eng. right now though.

Ha! Not everything that goes on in the lab needs to be of the boss's business. Like dumping out about a liter of liquid nitrogen on the floor and having the soles of your shoes freeze...
Cool! I'm a chemistry/math double major. I've essentially finished everything except for the second semester of pchem lab. What do you plan on doing with your degree?

 

[Ghengis John]

What would you classify aches as, such as toothache or the gut-ache you feel as a result of hitting your balls?

Those internal pains with no direct external stimulation are pretty bad... perhaps you should have a new catch-all category for internal/organ aches and pains.

A splitting headache, stabbing toothache or stabbing gut pains are very painful, but they can't really be classified as puncture wounds, similarly the real pain of being kicked in the balls isn't really the blunt force trauma (in the soft tissue of your balls) that causes it, but a sharp, stabbing pain in your gut (which isn't a puncture wound).

I wanted two more categories, but exhausted all the options you can tack on in a poll. I figured a hit in the boys could count as soft tissue, but to my regret I couldn't add Tearing. (Muscle injuries, blunt force cuts).

 

[ApeShapeDeity]

I'm a boilermaker, so get bruned all the time. I barely notice. Same with cuts and bruises.

The most painful thing for me was getting rear-ended by a semi at speed. Ouch.