Worst pain you've been in?

[SleepyChan]

The worst pain I've experienced was emotional. My mother was dying of breast cancer that had spread throughout her body--namely, her brain. We had her set up with in-house hospice care--basically, the hospice workers were on call if we needed them. I was on duty that morning, and had gotten up to give her the anti-inflammatory medicine for her brain. I found her lying in her bed, alive, but staring blankly at the ceiling, her head nodding, and her body cold as ice.

By the time I'd finished frantically shaking her and calling her name, my brothers were behind me, pulling me away. I heard the famous death-rattle coming from the bed, and then she was gone. I'll never forget how cold she was or the sound she made before the end. No amount of therapy will erase that.

I know that this not technically what the OP had in mind...but nothing I've experienced compares to this incident.

 

[Shirokurou]

I was due for operation and damn the anesthetic shot was THE most painful thing ever. They did it into my leg, somewhere above the knee and the nurses had to literally hold me down as I writhed in pain.
Though afterwards I was wasted with no sense of time or anything. Slept for a day I think.

 

[drbarno]

Probably having a tennis ball thrown full force into my junk, by my brother.

however, since we are talking about pain, theres something I want to find out.

sometimes I get an injury which does not hurt until I notice I have actually sustained that injury (I think the worst one I had which this happened was when I had my leg slashed by a random piece of glass that was stuck in a field, felt my leg limping first.) does anyone else get this at all?

 

[Unusually_Witty_Name]

I get really really REALLY bad stomach aches from indigestion. So much that it hurts to move at all, and it's extremely tender to the touch. Seriously, any amount of pressure on the stomach will send it into a painful fury.

Thankfully, I can take a couple of tums and be fine in a few moments.

My sinus headaches are pretty bad too. It's constant pressure that lasts for about 2 weeks, stops for a few days, and then comes back.

I know, I'm boring.

 

[Sarah Frazier]

I would have to say that the worst pain I ever felt was after taking some medicine that is pretty much super concentrated ExLax before the pain I was feeling was diagnosed as Colitis. You're not supposed to take harsh bowel softeners like that with stomach issues like that, but the ER didn't think of running any tests before handing a prescription because they thought I was just blocked up.

In one or two days it was all I could do to not throw up any time the intestines tried to contract as normal. It felt like twisted razor wire was being dragged through every minute without end. Trying to drink water, even warmed, made the cramping worse until I was in tears. I ended up asking for morphine once or twice a day at the hospital just to take the edge off to a manageable level until they added anti-inflamitory stuff to the IV mix.

Worst three weeks of my life and now I can't feel much of anything besides dull pain from my abdomen. :/

 

[Shadowtek]

Knee dislocation, torn meniscus, ripped and dislodged cartilage from between the joints, and torn LCL w/a hyper-extended ACL. All from falling down the stairs. I only took the Dr three years do believe i was actually in pain. After the three years (without any form of painkillers other then ibuprofen) he sent me to a specialist and he took one look and said "yep, it'll take surgery to fix that". Now in still in recovery

(BTW, all of that was in just one knee)

 

[Hulten]

I dropped an entertainment stand on my toe once and I it started to swell with blood. So to relieve the pressure I had to put a hole in my toe nail with a kitchen knife. Most painful hour of my life.

I also feel head first going upside down on a swing set and cracked two vertebrates in my spine. It hurt like hell, but I walked to my car without a single tear or gripe. Like a man should *manly fist pump*. Then drove my sorry ass to the hospital to get radiation shot through my chest about four times spread out between three weeks. Each day being nothing but pain pills and farts that hurt like a mother.

Both being pretty equal.

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Either a bad burn I got on my leg or a severe infection in one of my molars.

 

[Yassen]

Well when I was 14 I had half my left foot cut off.... that was fun.

Luckily I wasn't awake when it happened. Had an infection that almost killed me within a day so the doctors amputated my foot while I was knocked out. Still, sitting in a hospital bed for a month was still excruciating and due to the boredom was even worse. Every day felt like a week and a week felt like a year. Luckily I can still walk and it's behind me.

But if I was to describe the pain, imagine a rusty nail being driven in between your big toe and the space next to it, while also shoving your foot into a lit fireplace. For a month. With nothing to distract you.

 

[LandoCristo]

I'm a very cautious person with my life, and no random car has hit me yet, and any accidents I have had were too long ago to even remember if there was any pain at all, so I can honestly say the worse pain I can remember is when I fell down the last few steps, and landed on one knee, on marble flooring.

Or when I cramped up running. While at the turning back point of the run, and a deadline to get back (had a TV show to watch).

 

[LostTimeLady]

Eeep this page makes me feel queezy with empathy just reading a few of the painful things people have had inflicted upon them.

Anyway, the worst pains I've been in are:

Paintballing related: A massive bruise from paintballing once paralised my upper leg so much I couldn't walk down stair. At the time when I sustained 13 bruises, 2 hand- and 2 head-shots when paintballing the actual being pelted was one of the post painful moments of my life.

Other seriously painful stuff includes when my cronic backache first started. I was in tears of pain for weeks.

Also, I got an infection in my toe that meant every time I walked shooting pain went up my leg. It's taken an absolute age to heal.

Oh yes, Symphathy to everyone for their pains. Most of what I've read sounds worse than what I've suffered.

 

[Dwarfman]

Icy Hot + Scrotum

Boot + Scrotum

Knee + Scrotum

I thnk you get the picture (My junks been hit more often then a hooker's naughty parts)

EDIT: I'd like to change my answer.

Well jeez not even my brother could top that and he's missing a testicle after a disagreement with a trampoline back when he was a kid.

I suppose the most painful thing to happen to me was when I gave myself a partial thickness burn in my wrist. Hot salmon fat and olive oil. The skin melted from me like burned clingfilm. Ohh I suppose the time I took the tip of my finger off on a kitchen madoline was pretty painful too.

 

[CRRPGMykael]

broke my fuckin arm 4 days ago...oh and also ive been hit in the balls by a soccer ball too many times to remember

 

[A.A.K]

We got the psychological pain of 3 friends being murdered, 2 committing suicide, some in car crashes and others from cancer...
we also got my feet being torn open when i was a wee lad by broken glass.....
There's also the ribs getting caved in by a cage fighter nd then having them poorly mend.

lame.

 

[NoMansLand 666]

sometimes I get an injury which does not hurt until I notice I have actually sustained that injury (I think the worst one I had which this happened was when I had my leg slashed by a random piece of glass that was stuck in a field, felt my leg limping first.) does anyone else get this at all?

I asked one of the anaesthetists at my placement about this after I cut myself on a (thankfully) unused scapel, and didn't notice it until someone commented on the blood being visible through my glove, at which point it hurt like hell. And he said there's no definate answer, but it's more than likely you don't know it until you notice it, and the brain kicks in thinking 'Oh shit, pretty sure this is meant to be hurting' so it then causes the pain reflex to kick in to let you know somethings up.

My most painful experience through my own stupidity was back when I was 13-14 and doing a paper round, I was on my bike, and stuck my left arm out to indicate, didn't notice the wooden telephone pole with a big ol' nail sticking out of it, which then stuck in deeply enough to pull me off the bike, then hit the floor and cracked my head open on the curb.

Most painful one that couldn't be helped was appendicitis. I was crawling on the floor in agony and I had to be bent in a right angle to get mostly pain free, my mum thought I was trying to skive off my GCSE mock exams so kept forcing me into school, it was only when I had a mock that me and her both knew I was failing anyway that I got took to the GP surgery who got me sent into hospital and from there into theatres within 2-3 hours. Got told by the surgeon it had 3 abscesses on it and it was a miracle not 1 had blown causing a full blown rupture of a) the appendix, b) the other abscesses and c) the faecal matter that can escape afterwards.

 

[GenericAmerican]

I've been stabbed while at school.

Wow, that's kinda extreme :L

Can I ask what exactly happened? Why were you stabbed?

Me and this kid, Jesse, never really got along. And as the years passed the situation deteriorated; I don't know why, it was just one of those things where a person doesn't like you. He was a punk and a druggie, anyway...maybe because I owed him money. (That's another story.)

Nearing the end of the year, we had been in several fights already, and I had received several death threats.

After a confrontation one day between third and fourth period, I walked into class; I knew he was behind me, I should have been paying attention...

Sharp blinding pain in my lower right back, blood, and many profanities thrown around. Not the funnest day I had at school. But luckily the dummy didn't put all he had into the attack, that and a friend who saw it coming stopped him from getting the knife more than an inch into me.

Good memories...there was that time I was shot at also.

School is dangerous kids!

EDIT: I just remembered somethign that may have been more painful than that. When I was a wee little boy, I tripped and dropped a glass of water...would have been fine if I didn't land on the shattered glass. My chest was torn UP!

 

[Calcium]

It's strange but the most pain I've been in started in a dream/nightmare. Something happened in the dream that carried over to when I woke up. Probably the only time I've whimpered - still don't know if the pain was real or not.

I've been pretty lucky not to have anything worse happen to me.

 

[Ice Car]

I've never really been in much pain like you guys have, so the worst I've had was, having Stomach Flu I guess and throwing up every minute, stomach in pain 24/7, etc. etc.

 

[Brandon237]

I got stung by a bloody blue-bottle. It wrapped around my leg, behind the back of my knee, up my thigh as high as my shorts came down, around my calf. I was only around 11. I screamed so loud the whole beach heard it. I did not bloody well care, that HURT!
I had a bright scar that you could FEEL like a deep ridge in my flesh for almost a year. It was a big white-pink mark for another year and then it slowly faded.
I freaking hate blue bottles.

 

[radioedit420]

remember that episode of scarred where the guy cut his sack open on a board? well same thing but it was a smash not a cut. nothing creeps your girl out more than a purple mushy thing below your dick thats shooting clumpy bloody stuff that looks creepily like ejaculate.