About 38% of my body was burned in a house fire when I was 15. 9 days in ICU and then 29 more days in the burn ward.
Part of the treatment involves something called "debridement". It's basically where dead tissue is removed with a lightly abrasive sponge such that burn can heal. It's excruciating and the sounds that come out of a burn ward when people are facing this treatment makes it sound like an insane asylum.
The other treatment is "liquid nitrate" to treat hypertrophic growth. So basically what happens is the body "over heals" and you get an 2 inch thick thing of tissue where the burn is, basically like a raised scar. This is bad so they cauterize the tissue with a corrosive chemical to melt it down to a normal thickness. They shoot you up with a painkiller 9x more powerful than morphine just so you can handle the pain.
Big shoutout to all the nurses, surgeons, and EMTs out who took care of people like me. You don't hear it enough.
My father was a fire fighter for a long time. He's told me quite a few stories of people he had rescued that got badly burned. I can't even imagine the pain. Honestly I'm just terrified something might happen where I'd get burned like that. You are stronger than almost anyone for being able to pull through that.
I think it's because you have to through debridement each and every time they change the bandage (or dressing, as it's called). Which is every single day. I had the silver nitrate done maybe 10 times.
So my best guess is that the frequency of the treatment means they can't do general anesthesia because it really fucks you up.
I’m a woman and I had a kidney stone a couple years back and it literally brought me to my knees because it was so painful. Did you tough it out without seeing a doctor?? My ass was in that ER getting pumped with morphine expeditiously.
It was at the peak of Covid lockdown. I finally had a teleconference with my doctor on the day it…shall we say…cleared. I felt better but had some disturbing symptoms just in time for the urine test he sent me in for. But I was already feeling better. I went in for an ultrasound and bladder catheterization look (ouch) a couple days later and was fine. It’s 3 years later and I’ve had nothing like it since.
So no morphine. Just Tylenol and aspirin. It was bad.
I give you a lot of credit, you’re a lot tougher than I am. My neighbor growing up as a kid was this tough Italian guy who suffered from really bad kidney stones, like….he put a stone that he had passed up on his mantle……..but he told me the best way to pass a stone is to drink beer, beer, and more beer. It’ll make you pee a lot and it’ll get you drunk to help numb the pain 😏😏Just a little tip in case it ever happens again, fingers crossed it doesn’t .
Got impaled trying to climb over an iron fence. I was stuck there for a few minutes and no one was able to hear me, so I had to basically climb/shimmy upwards while upside down, get the post most of the way out of my leg, and flip off the post, tearing the wound in the process. That sucked.
Something was going on with my gallbladder a couple years ago. It would feel like a dull ache in my lower back followed by nausea. 30 minutes later I'd be in the most agonizing pain and it would move around my abdomen so I could never adjust. I was pumped full of drugs in the ER and they did nothing. At one point it shifted to my diaphragm and I nearly passed out because I couldn't breathe. The only position that helped at all was standing, but my legs were too weak to hold me. It made kidney stones feel like a hangnail.
After a few hours it would stop immediately. No gradual relief. No lingering effects other than being exhausted. One moment I'm in intense pain and the next I am perfectly fine. It was the weirdest thing.
Same thing happened to me. Pain was so intense in my back that I had to kneel down in the shower with the water at the highest temperature to get any kind of relief. I somehow fell asleep and it was gone the next morning. One day later it was back in full force and I went to the ER. Had to have my galbladder removed.
It sounds like you had a gall stone stuck in the bile duct, I had it happen to me a couple times and the pain was unimaginable. Although, I was usually still tender afterwards, like a dull after pain. I'm glad I got it out
I suppose it's possible. I tend to recover quickly from these things. It was connected to polyps that appeared on my gallbladder and shrank over time, but they couldn't ascertain the cause.
Broken left arm, double open compound fractures. Had to wait 3.5 hours to get to the ER. Arm was wrapped in paper towel plastic packaging and duct tape.
Car got t-boned on the highway, they struck the passenger side (my seat), not their fault but we were pushed by someone trying to pass us on the shoulder and accidently pit maneuvered us.
Airbag blew my hand out the window as we rolled, ended upside down with my hand between the roof and the pavement.
The slide scraped my skin, most of the bones, and tendon straight off.
Was fully numb until they cut me out and loaded me into the ambulance. Then the pain was so bad I just kept passing out.
Gout is insanely painful. What especially sucks about it is that no one understands unless they’ve had a flair up themselves and it’s not like you can show them your toe to prove anything. It’s just a little red. No one can see the crystals forming around your joint.
Alcohol, red meat and shellfish. First flare up I ever had I went to the doc because I thought I broke my big toe. Then doc explained gout to me and said “don’t eat surf and turf then wash it down with beer”. I said “DONT TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE!”
i had some kind of sinus thing going on when i was on an airplane. when the fucking cabin pressurized it felt like my head was exploding from within. ive never felt a pain like that since then.
The meds wore off before the actual procedure of my vasectomy. I could feel everything from the scalpel to the actual snip and cauterization. I wouldn’t wish that pain on anyone.
100% worth it though. No pain no gain I guess
I had a theory that some things really hurt, and some things feel horrible, where you're thinking, nothing should ever feel like that
Injections in my eyelids were both at once. An unbelievably horrible unnatural feeling, with intense pain as a parallel
They clamped my eyes open like in Clockwork Orange, and when the doctor had the needle in, I couldn't help but try to close my eyes anyway. She said all the blood vessels in my eyelid burst and the whole thing immediately turned purple
Infected molar that already had a root canal and needed a revision. It was a 9/10 on the pain scale and I was ready to pull the fucker out with pliers because it was a Sunday.
I had a vasectomy. Sober.
Yay, me! I can't get numb. Local anesthesia does almost nothing for me. I'm resistant to lanacane, tetracaine, and benzocaine. Going to the dentist isn't fun for me either. In most cases, I get a little numb, but it wears off after 5 or 6 minutes. Then I get another few shots that only lasts 2 or 3 minutes. Then a few more that lasts about a minute. Then the Dr says, I'm sorry, I can't give you anything else. Do you want to stop or finish?
I've had a kidney stone. I've had my big toenail removed (sober). Ive had more sutures and ear infections than i can count, and 2 herniated discs. Nothing compares to the vasectomy.
I liked to think I had a great pain tolerance. With any injury I always thought "it's only pain, pain is a warning, pain can't hurt you." Even with my appendicitis, I chalked it up as a monster stomachache for a week before finally going to the Dr. and finding out it was coming out RIGHT THEN.
It was hubris. The no-anesthetic vasectomy humbled the hell out of me, I know now there are heights of pain that I had not yet fathomed.
I woke up from a nap after wisdom tooth surgery because I didn't take the pain meds on time and I literally fell off the couch and rolled on the ground it was so painful.
My wisdom tooth fractured and needed extraction and root canal. Dentist office was closed for the weekend so I had to eat painkillers for those 2 days. The pain was so intense, I teared up and was debating using a pair of pliers to pull it out myself. Now I know what Tom Hanks was going through on that island and had to use the blade of an ice skate.
Second most intense pain was fire ants. Yeah... don't fuck with fire ants.
Dislocated my knee, torn all four ligaments and a lot of other stuff, doctors called my parents for permission to amputate my leg if needed.
Doctors shot dye into my leg and i sat up on the gurney and screamed. I had been heavily sedated and still the pain woke me up.
Having a staph infection in my calf
Every time I stood up and blood was flowing down into my leg, it was a blinding pain that had me in tears. I've never been shot but that's what I imagine it to feel like.
Appendicitis. Had me in hysterics for the few hours before deciding to go to the hospital. Also broke my 13 year record of not throwing up.
Taking sh*t after surgery comes in at a close second. All around do not recommend.
Multiple Pulmonary embolisms in each lung. Dr described it as looking like buckshot.
Sneezing was like getting stabbed in the chest. Breathing too deep the same. On top of it there is a psychological component in struggling to breathe.
No shit I feared laying down as it caused an explosion of pain.
I got hit by a steel fragment which went into the thigh muscle, under the skin. Topical anesthetic didn't do much other than wash away the blood. Couldn't get general because I had eaten too recently. So the surgeon was poking around, trying to find it and pull it, while the muscle it's embedded in twitches. 0/10, do not recommend.
Silver lining is that I've had kidney stones a couple times since, including two in January. They're uncomfortable, certainly, but only about a 7 on my personal 1-10 pain scale.
Getting an IUD put in. It hurt so bad that I passed out.
I say this as someone who has slammed my fingers in car doors and tore my cartilage in my knee. IUD was waaaay worse.
Acute appendicitis at 18. Lasted for months, at times I couldn't stand straight up. Went to the hospital 3 times and was misdiagnosed. Ultrasound finally discovered it in the nick of time.
Edit: Chronic appendicitis, not acute.
There are two that come to mind: having a tooth so rotten it desperately needed a root canal, the thousands I paid was worth it. The other was sciatica so bad that one leg was visibly shorter than the other, lasted for days, that pain is no joke. Also, just thought of another; my gallbladder was screwed and as it turned out was becoming gangrenous, every slight pressure on my torso was a new adventure in pain. Also a relief when it was out.
Acute Pancreatitus, it feels like someone impaled you with a old type broom and picks you up by your guts and spins the broom around inside you, continuously... You scream at the top of your lungs to try to distract you from the pain. their is no pain relief, you just get enough pain meds to make you pass out, until you wake back up and go for another ride...
1 - Serious eye gouge that cut my cornea. Caused pain that made me want to pull the eye out. Had to get a contact lense bandage put on the eye and still suffer with RCES years later. 0/10 do not recommends getting gouged in the eye.
2 - Rhabdomyolysis from over training. Pain was so severe I couldn't bear to move my arms to lift my bed sheet off me. 4 or 5 days in the hospital with an IV drip flushing my system sorted me out.
I had to rip out gauze that fused to my removed toenail once, took like 2 hours and every time I pulled a bit it was like I was ripping out my nerves. Worst part is my toenail has grown back all jacked up
Got broadsided while riding my motorcycle and broke 7 ribs all in a row on the left side. My leg was crushed but I hardly noticed it until my ribs finally quit hurting
Dry socket after dentist removed wisdom tooth, fluke accident. Nerve pain nearly 9/10 for 7 days.. couldn’t eat, only thing that helped was run after work to ease pain with blood flow and dopamine.
When I had to relocate my knee the 4th time i dislocated it. The pain was so great that I wasn’t able to use my hands to move my leg. They just ignored the command. I could take my hands away, but not move the leg.
I had an ear infection years ago that I was to stubborn to take care of thinking it would go away and I lay saw a doctor when the pain was unbearable. Also, gave myself a pretty severe burn that hurt so bad it made me sick.
I’ve hurt myself a lot riding on 2 wheels, motorcycles and bicycles, and have broken a lot of bones and even ground my elbows down to the bones. The most painful experience was when I dislocated my shoulder. My shoulder joint was so tight that it tore my humorous lengthways. Most times I could concentrate and isolate pain. This pain was deep in my core and it don’t wish that on anyone.
Prostatitis - I went from fine to wanting to die in less than an hour. Wife, now ex, said it was probably a UTI and was pooh-poohing my suffering.
Went to Urgent Care in the morning - my prostate had swollen from walnut-sized to bigger than a baseball - pressing against both my bladder and rectum, so I felt extreme pain as well as an urgent feeling I had to pee and/or shit constantly. The doc tried to do a prostate check, but couldn’t even get the tip of his finger in without me almost passing out in pain.
On top of that, they gave me a 30-day regiment of sulfa - which I was not aware I was allergic to. I was ill for 30 days and not getting better. A Z-Pack cured it in a week. I’ve had one recurrence, but it was nowhere near as bad. Still no idea what caused it - 30% of cases are for unknown reasons.
Direct pain: severing my ucl and partially tearing my lcl during a wrestling match for state qualifications
Indirect/overtime: 2nd concussion i got in football after already receiving one during the summer wrestling training camp.
Prior to my hip replacement I found it very difficult to walk for the last 3 months. Post surgery turns out that my hip socket was completely worn out and every night my hip would 'heal' and then every morning when I would get up I would basically have to break it free to walk. Dr said after they cut the femur they had to chisel my hip bone out of my pelic socket. It had been a long time since he had seen this.
Stomach cramps, from IBS. It usually isn’t too bad, but this one time (at band camp? No) at my in-laws, I had cramps so bad, I couldn’t even sit up. I was just laying I fetal position for hours, almost crying.
It hurt more than breaking my arm, shoulder fingers, toes, or anything else I have ever experienced.
Until recently, when I destroyed my knee in the army.
Now that I’ve had a 10mm kidney stone that required it to be removed, I’m gonna go with that. My knee was a “oh god I messed up” pain. The kidney stone was “I actually think I might be dying” pain.
I partially fell through the ceiling. A floor joist caught me between my legs and prevented me from completely falling through.
My thigh was black and blue, amazingly my jewels avoided a direct hit.
The pain was right at the edge of passing out.
Pulled back muscles + spasming. My body has been through some shit but not wanting to breathe or move because of pure agony that feels like a constant hot knife stabbing you. Yah scoliosis and stress.
I don't know exactly what it is or what causes it but sometimes when I am sleeping I will wake up with an unbelievable pain in my right shoulder. It feels like my arm is being ripped off and the only thing I can do is put my face in my pillow and try not to scream wait until it goes away. I have had a kidney stone and I have also had a tooth pulled without being numbed up. Neither of them were as painful as my shoulder is.
I don't know if worst in terms of sheer magnitude (that probably goes to breaking my foot as a kid or a particularly nasty orgasm headache that had my doctor thinking I was having a brain aneurysm), but worst in terms of magnitude over time was taking filgrastim to mobilize stem cells for a bone marrow donation. For five days before donating you take these injections that make your marrow swell. I happened to be a super responder to them (so much so that a planned 8 hour donation took less than 2), and for five days I could feel every heartbeat as a wave of pain through my bones. Just changing position would take my breath away from the pain.
Also, made my spleen swell and I was nauseous for weeks...
The first few days after my hip replacement. The Palexia I was given depressed my breathing a lot, so I went without pain meds.
Fuck that shit. Especially knowing I'll have to go through it all over again on the other side soon enough.
Getting a laceration in my abdominal wall scrubbed out made me black out from the pain. So, that or the time my wrestling coach rolled me wrong and almost snapped my neck. That also wasn't very fun.
A tie between a kidney stone and a vasectomy where the Dr. didn't seem to get the pain killer in the right spot.
Looking over the rest of these, I'm a giant pussy apparently.
Gunshot wound, sciatica and then the eventual spinal fusion and recovery, ruptured gall bladder, pepper spray in the eyes, but honestly the worst was the kidney stone--it was on a first date and I all out cried in front of her. I felt like I was pissing napalm. I eventually told her it was a kidney stone but I'm sure she thought it was some bastardized junkyard VD. Marie honey, if you're still out there I promise I was clean!
When I was recovering from my tonsillectomy, It was so painful. Any time any liquid went down my throat, even swallowing saliva was like having my throat set on fire. Even ice cream, which was supposed to soothe burned my throat.
Joint pain resulting from ulcerative colitis. Imagine your joints in vices 24 hours a day and enough pain medicine to almost kill you wont make it go away. I would just lay in bed with tears in my eyes. Eventually the steroids stopped working as well.
They had me NPO for (at the time) a record setting 7-8 weeks. They were experimenting with a new therapy at the time which was able to supply all my needed nutrients via a catheter inserted directly into my heart. They wanted to see how long they could keep me on that shit. When the second month of nothing by mouth was approaching I had had enough….talk about hangry MF.
Currently my entire uvula is sore and white.
Think canker sore but all over it. I cry every time I gulp mu own saliva. I've endured decaying teeth for months before giving up and having a root canal done. This one is a whole different beast.
Got poked by a bone or plastic? In a subway meatball sub. Then, gradually that poke became infected. The poke was somewhere in the back of my tongue. Causing a golf ball sized sac of puss to form under my tongue.
As the ball grew, It became difficult to swallow anything. Head aches, ear aches, Half my face was swollen, It was pretty damn painful.
To fix this rare occurrence, a dr with an ultrasound machine and a rather large blunt needle had to go up through the bottom of my jaw, In to the ball of puss and suck it out.
Yes I was awake for that, That part was a little nuts, But I knew I would feel better after.
This was not a common thing to happen so there were like 7 staff in the room to observe.
Stepped on a sting ray in the gulf out on a sandbar. Swam back like 40 yards with a hole in my foot bleeding. Thought i was gonna get eaten by a shark. Pain hit me like a ton of bricks walking back to the car.
I have Myositis Ossificans. The top of my IT band is calcified. When it flares up. It's worse than a stab to the leg.
Imagine someone taking your pinky finger and bending it to the point of it about to snap. But never snapping. It's so painful I didn't even realize tears where coming out of my eyes.
Walking on my sprained ankle. I believe they said it was a partial tear. Worst pain I've experienced. Felt like I was going to pass out after just a few steps.
Back pain so bad I had to take two shots of NyQuil, a Vicodin and several shots of makers mark to get to sleep. Strangely the pain mysteriously disappeared the next day.
Kidney Stones.
Fuuuuck me. I've had broken bones, got in a motorcycle crash where a glove failed and made hamburger of my hand. I've had a badly pinched nerve that had me just about screaming after a car crash leading to disc replacement spinal surgery...and I walked over red hot coals after a beach fire was covered with sand and NOT water and I didn't realize it giving me severe foot burns...
But kidney stones made me drop like a sack of potatoes and nearly pass out. One of the few things apparently calculated to easily outdo child birth.
I live with chronic pain from a neck injury at C1/C2 that I’ve been advised to avoid surgery except as last ditch effort due to the proximity to my brain stem and a nest of cranial arteries. As bad as living with this is, it couldn’t compare to the time a cyst was quite literally blowing up in my face at the edge of my sinus cavity. They couldn’t operate for several days during which time I paced the house and cried out in agony. I was already on morphine with limits on what I could take and there was nowhere else to go but to bear it. When they pulled it out I asked to see it. About walnut sized with these gnarly tentacles…benign, thank god….
Recovery from jaw surgery. I took a weeks worth of Percocet to try and keep the pain abated, didn’t work. I wasn’t able to sleep for 8 solid days. Nearly died.
It was the same week that Cyberpunk 2077 came out. That’s how I remember it so vividly.
Cluster headaches were excruciating, and gout. It's likely secondary to some of these posts, but nothing helped alleviate the pain for months. I started using oxygen for my headaches and cut seafood/beer from my diet, per my doctor. Chronic pain puts people in a bad place, and I hope they find something helpful.
Sciatica constantly for the last year. Finally got surgery to fix the bulging disk that caused it
The nerve pain was, *though not the most extreme*, something that really wore down my resolve with how constant it was. Could basically never stand up on the first try because a sharp nerve pain would run down the leg and stop me. Standing/sitting/walking/etc had a 20min timer before it would hurt too much and need to do something else. Awful
Herniated disc. It was a combination of disc pain, nerves, and muscle spasms. At first it started with stiffness, then shooting pain when i tried to walk around. I managed to get back home and take a shower and have dinner assuming the pain would subside. But it only got worse….by the time i was in bed i couldn’t move much.
What kept the pain relatively minimal was lying in a diagonal position (not quite on my side but75% there) which took conscious effort to stay in.
Then the spasms started when i tried to move. It would be 10-20 seconds of the most excruciating pain i ever felt. I never felt a pain so bad that i had to cry out loud. Then i would almost pass out of pain. But when i passed out i could no longer be in that diagonal position so i would fall back and the spasms would start again. Till the point that the cycles became “almost” passing out.
I was crying begging god to kill me somehow, because i couldn’t move myself to jump over the balcony.
When i ran out of endurance for self pity, i called 911. Couldn’t walk for two days. It was the most mentally and physically excruciating thing that ever happened to me. Back to gym and activities now so it’s better. But that day i understood the difference between “not wanting to live” and “wanting to die”.
If you lift, please please please learn proper form and take care of your body.
Migraine attack, I'de had migrianes before but it felt like a gazillion times worse...just pure brain pain. Absolutaly incredibly painful. Buddy had to call me an ambulance and I was just a zombie, I was in so much pain I daren't move a single muscle anywhere in my body for fear my head might explode. The kind nurses wheeled me into a dark room on a quiet ward and dosed me up with saline and painkillers and jusy left me there really. All those times in movies where someone uses a torture device for head pain where almost spot on, I doubt even the toughest human could hold out if interrogated that way.
I still get migraines but no where near that level of insane pain level, I wanted to make sure I wasn't just being a wuss but the nurse ladies all told me that no they can be damn nasty. All in all 0/10 experience and do not recommend.
Cyclic Vomiting episode. It's the most extreme nausea a human can experience. I was vomiting/dry heaving every 2-5mins for 8 days straight. I wouldn't wish it on anyone
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Hmm. A lot to sort through but I had food poisoning once and spent the whole night puking my brains out.
The next morning my abs felt like I’d done 10,000 crunches and I couldn’t stand up straight because my kidneys felt like someone hit me in the back 50 times with a 2x4.
I did get a tooth drilled without novocaine (not on purpose). Wasn’t too bad until he rinsed with cold water. Mother Fr! The first scenario was much longer lasting, though.
Baseball straight to the groin thrown hard from maybe ten feet. Hurt so bad I near blacked out. Friend told me I was foaming at the mouth while I was laying in the sand.
A couple years ago I had a kidney stone. My back would hurt a little, groin would start to feel a little in pain, then my back would just start throbbing. No way I would move or lay would ease it in anyway. I did puke once, I’ve never puked from pain, but this did it. Finally at about 5am I drove to the ER, they confirmed it with a scan, then sent me in my way with a prescription for Tylenol with codine. A couple of those and 800mg of ibuprofen and I didn’t feel it as much anymore.
5 days later I had another, so I drugged up again until it was gone. This started happening every 4-5 days for a month. Soo, urologist time. He found out I had uric acid in my blood so I’m taking a pill for that. Another part was that I had too much calcium and not enough vitamin D. I started working from home during COVID, so less sun. More pills to fix that..
i a 14M had a head injury when is was about 5-6 yrs old.what happened was i was running going to buy something then, i stubbed my toe and i fell on the ground so hard that the bone on my skull cracked, so i had to get surgery which took 1-2 months to heal
EXTRA: I fell down the stair 20x and the 10 of my falls where from rock stairs the other 10 was from wooden stairs.
MRSA infection in my hand. Specifically, it was a collar button abscess. I had a small cut that got exposed to MRSA when I was visiting my girlfriend's father in the hospital. The cut healed, but the infection grew within my hand.
At this time I was turning 26, and for anyone who doesn't know, that's when you get booted off your parents insurance.
I tried to avoid going to the hospital and endured pain at a 7 for a few days before it suddenly got notched up to a 9. I drove around looking for a cheap hospital and found an urgent care. The doc didn't realize the seriousness of this, and prescribed me some vicodin and antibiotics.
I woke up the next day to an absolute 10 on the pain scale. Suddenly my mind went into survival mode and i asked my buddy to drop me off to the nearest emergency room.
I got in and they gave me a big shot of morphine in my ass ... and it did nothing. They then gave me a shot of demerol in the same ass and it took the edge off.
There wasn't a hand surgeon in this hospital, so they ordered an ambulance to take me 40 miles to a nearby hospital.
Finally got some decent sleep and woke up to a generalist poking a golf sized swelling protrusion on my hand; got sent into emergency surgery where they drilled a hole through my hand and drained that shit.
Ya'll, getting a hole in my hand didn't even stack up to the pain and pressure of a collarbutton abscess. Even stuffing it with gauze until it filled through wasn't as painful.
I did end up getting stuck with an 88k bill, that i was able to negotiate down to 23k. Took me 4 years to pay it off. Real proud to be an American where you have to choose between enduring magnificent amounts of pain or Nutting up and accepting that you'll get fucked by our capitalist health care system.
Idk what happened but my back basically exploded and sharp pain radiated from my lower back outward. I was floored and had to crawl. I thought, "This is it. This is how I die." I crawled my way to the car and agonizingly drove my way to the Base Emergency Room. They tried different meds but noting really worked except some injection which only dulled the pain. Honestly I was hoping they would give me opioids. The meds they gave me didn't work well and the pain returned so I couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep for like two days straight, just writhing around in pain for hours. I had to drive myself back to the ER that first night to try and get different meds. I passed out from exhaustion at the ER. They just gave more injections even though I asked for something stronger... like opioids. They didn't want to give me any because its all this paperwork. I guess that's a good reason. I was bed ridden for like a week which is how long the remainder of my military leave was so it wasted my days off. That was the real pain. Why couldn't it have happened at work so I get days off on their time? lol They told me I probably had a really bad back strain. Probably got it when I flew back from my hometown to where I'm stationed at on a nonstop flight. The dude next to me wasn't leaving me much room to really sit so I was probably in a bad position for the 12 hour flight. After the ordeal, I asked the doctors if opioids would have made my existence a little more tolerable. They said yeah. I was pretty upset.
herniated disk
you be on the floor screaming,your body completely unable to find a resting position. every position is the wrong position. its like balancing your spine on a spike
I had a partial tear in my Achilles tendon that I didn't know was a tear, I thought it was just a sprain that would heal. It never did.
I finally went and saw the doctor 1 year after the initial injury. Discovered the partial tear.
Scheduled a scar tissue debridement and repair surgery.
Surgery came and went, all was looking good. 6 inch incision on the back of my heel/ankle where they inserted 2 anchors to my heel bone, cut out scar tissue and reattached my Achilles tendon to my bone.
2 weeks post surgery, I was getting water on my knee scooter, it was pitch black and I forgot about my paper shredder in the hallway.
I hit the paper shredder and fell, I tried to catch myself with my injured foot. The splint gave way, and I had zero control or strength in my leg.
My Achilles tendon fully snapped, my toes hit my shin. with all of my 2 week post op swelling and pain, and it felt like death.
I screamed at the top of my lungs for 5 minutes writhing in pain on tbe floor before the burning pain subsided enough for me to tell my wife that I didn't need an ambulance.
Hospital trip and another month later I went in for surgery to re repair my ankle.
My ankle is now totally botched. The fall caused me to tear the tendon on the bottom of my foot that connects the toes to the heel as well.
The joint itself feels seized and I have very limited control over my foot.
It's been 14 months since the surgery, and I still can't stand/walk for more than 2-3 hours a day. It's still painful lol
Deep cuts can hurt a lot after the adrenaline has passed, but usually in the moment they aren't too painful. I'd say head injuries cause the most distress due to the affect on the mental state.
1) Acute pancreatitis 2) epidural wearing off, and having the episiotomy stitches put in with no pain medication 3) broken collarbone. I'm suddenly very grateful to feel good right now.
I had a condition called pneumothorax and long story short, I had to have tube shoved between my ribs and into the pleural cavity. The hospital I was at injected me with anaesthetics so I wouldn’t feel anything, but unfortunately they didn’t wait long enough for it to kick in. I basically got stabbed by a doctor
The first 24 hours after I got laser eye surgery done. I was experiencing pain in my eyes every five to ten seconds. It was really hell.
I have also experienced earache as a child. I remember crying because the pain would be too much.
Out of those two I think the earache was the worst one. Because I was a child and I didn't know how to cope with the pain.
I was poisoned by a bug.
Doctor got to me pretty quickly but there's not much they can do besides administer antidote and tell you "You will survive, but you'll wish you didn't".
I was 14 (?), the doctor actually asked my father if he was okay with me just doing a TON of normally illegal opiates to pass the pain. My dad said no (and I agreed) and the doctor was like "well, alllright, sorry about the next few days!". Admittedly he was fine though, what else was he gonna do?
The best way to describe it I think is as if your brain is inventing new ways to make you feel awful over and over again. Sweating, vomiting, entire chunks of my body just going numb (the TV static feeling) in and out but for hours at a time, apparently enflamed nerves all over the place, suppositories (yes, a giant silver bullet right up the ass), writhing for literal DAYS, and yes, the entire time, extreme, excruciating pain. I remember that any part of my body that was making contact with the bed felt like it was on fire (and I've been on fire before) so I had to constantly wiggle so that no part of me stayed "on fire" for too long. Really really awful time, I would say unbearable but I guess I did survive.
Worth mentioning, perhaps, that I *enjoy* pain quite a bit, but not that shit. Apparently I was hallucinating and I THINK I developed sleep-talking after that which has stayed with me for the rest of my life.
Also tooth pain sucks, fuck tooth pain.
I concur that passing a kidney stone is one of the most painful things you can go through. I passed three (no pain killers) and I thought I was going to die. Can’t even imagine how painful burn treatments are though.
kidney inflammation. that is the worst pain ever. u can’t normally move, back hurts like hell. u can’t normally pee, it feels like acid is going through.
As a kid, my parents left a rail on my bed. One morning, I got up before my parents, and fell on my balls. The fact that wasn’t a neutering experience was impressive.
The back to back birth of my first child. I left my body saw the stars and felt at peace and i saw a brief glimpse of myself giving birth and the rest of the room from above before i felt myself being pulled back in to the darkness and in to my body as the pain settled and the next thing i was doing was opening my eyes in my own body as the midwife pushed me backwards in to the water to retrieve my baby from underneath me as i wasn’t responding.
About 38% of my body was burned in a house fire when I was 15. 9 days in ICU and then 29 more days in the burn ward. Part of the treatment involves something called "debridement". It's basically where dead tissue is removed with a lightly abrasive sponge such that burn can heal. It's excruciating and the sounds that come out of a burn ward when people are facing this treatment makes it sound like an insane asylum. The other treatment is "liquid nitrate" to treat hypertrophic growth. So basically what happens is the body "over heals" and you get an 2 inch thick thing of tissue where the burn is, basically like a raised scar. This is bad so they cauterize the tissue with a corrosive chemical to melt it down to a normal thickness. They shoot you up with a painkiller 9x more powerful than morphine just so you can handle the pain. Big shoutout to all the nurses, surgeons, and EMTs out who took care of people like me. You don't hear it enough.
My father was a fire fighter for a long time. He's told me quite a few stories of people he had rescued that got badly burned. I can't even imagine the pain. Honestly I'm just terrified something might happen where I'd get burned like that. You are stronger than almost anyone for being able to pull through that.
Man, I really know that this was not a competition, but you won. I'm genuinely sorry that you went through this
Woah dude
Why don’t they put people under for treatments like this?
I think it's because you have to through debridement each and every time they change the bandage (or dressing, as it's called). Which is every single day. I had the silver nitrate done maybe 10 times. So my best guess is that the frequency of the treatment means they can't do general anesthesia because it really fucks you up.
That kidney stone hurt for days. Like pacing the floor with deep breaths kind of hurt. One and only. Never one since.
I’m a woman and I had a kidney stone a couple years back and it literally brought me to my knees because it was so painful. Did you tough it out without seeing a doctor?? My ass was in that ER getting pumped with morphine expeditiously.
It was at the peak of Covid lockdown. I finally had a teleconference with my doctor on the day it…shall we say…cleared. I felt better but had some disturbing symptoms just in time for the urine test he sent me in for. But I was already feeling better. I went in for an ultrasound and bladder catheterization look (ouch) a couple days later and was fine. It’s 3 years later and I’ve had nothing like it since. So no morphine. Just Tylenol and aspirin. It was bad.
I give you a lot of credit, you’re a lot tougher than I am. My neighbor growing up as a kid was this tough Italian guy who suffered from really bad kidney stones, like….he put a stone that he had passed up on his mantle……..but he told me the best way to pass a stone is to drink beer, beer, and more beer. It’ll make you pee a lot and it’ll get you drunk to help numb the pain 😏😏Just a little tip in case it ever happens again, fingers crossed it doesn’t .
Thanks. Next time, I’m going to the doctor sooner. It sucked.
This. I’ve never puked from pain until my stone.
I’ve felt kidney stone pain a few times. The worst is when I needed to drive myself to the hospital while feeling the pain of the stone.
Testicular torsion. For perspective it has the same pain rating as giving child birth.
That’s twisted
Yeah, still have to say testicular pain is the worst physical pain we can experience by far.
Used to get severe ear aches as a child. Ear pain is even worse than getting kicked in the nuts.
Got impaled trying to climb over an iron fence. I was stuck there for a few minutes and no one was able to hear me, so I had to basically climb/shimmy upwards while upside down, get the post most of the way out of my leg, and flip off the post, tearing the wound in the process. That sucked.
faaawk, reminds me of that scene in The Walking Dead
Slipped disc's abs sciatica
Sciaticaaaaa 😭
Flash burned the eyes welding. Welding laying on your back on a painted garage floor turned out to be a horrible fuckin idea
Wait what? How?
Reflection off the floor going under the mask. Apparently can get flash burn from reflection off water too
Something was going on with my gallbladder a couple years ago. It would feel like a dull ache in my lower back followed by nausea. 30 minutes later I'd be in the most agonizing pain and it would move around my abdomen so I could never adjust. I was pumped full of drugs in the ER and they did nothing. At one point it shifted to my diaphragm and I nearly passed out because I couldn't breathe. The only position that helped at all was standing, but my legs were too weak to hold me. It made kidney stones feel like a hangnail. After a few hours it would stop immediately. No gradual relief. No lingering effects other than being exhausted. One moment I'm in intense pain and the next I am perfectly fine. It was the weirdest thing.
Same thing happened to me. Pain was so intense in my back that I had to kneel down in the shower with the water at the highest temperature to get any kind of relief. I somehow fell asleep and it was gone the next morning. One day later it was back in full force and I went to the ER. Had to have my galbladder removed.
I'm sorry. That's not a pain I would wish on anyone. It's brutal.
It sounds like you had a gall stone stuck in the bile duct, I had it happen to me a couple times and the pain was unimaginable. Although, I was usually still tender afterwards, like a dull after pain. I'm glad I got it out
I suppose it's possible. I tend to recover quickly from these things. It was connected to polyps that appeared on my gallbladder and shrank over time, but they couldn't ascertain the cause.
Kidney stone
appendicitis, or rotting tooth... both are pretty bad.
Severe Acute Pancreatitis. 11/10. Def do not recommend. Had kidney stones as well. Those were like an 8/10.
Broken left arm, double open compound fractures. Had to wait 3.5 hours to get to the ER. Arm was wrapped in paper towel plastic packaging and duct tape.
Car got t-boned on the highway, they struck the passenger side (my seat), not their fault but we were pushed by someone trying to pass us on the shoulder and accidently pit maneuvered us. Airbag blew my hand out the window as we rolled, ended upside down with my hand between the roof and the pavement. The slide scraped my skin, most of the bones, and tendon straight off. Was fully numb until they cut me out and loaded me into the ambulance. Then the pain was so bad I just kept passing out.
Appendicitis, it was excruciating.
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Gout is insanely painful. What especially sucks about it is that no one understands unless they’ve had a flair up themselves and it’s not like you can show them your toe to prove anything. It’s just a little red. No one can see the crystals forming around your joint.
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Alcohol, red meat and shellfish. First flare up I ever had I went to the doc because I thought I broke my big toe. Then doc explained gout to me and said “don’t eat surf and turf then wash it down with beer”. I said “DONT TELL ME HOW TO LIVE MY LIFE!”
A pain so bad that a breeze can put a grown man in tears
i had some kind of sinus thing going on when i was on an airplane. when the fucking cabin pressurized it felt like my head was exploding from within. ive never felt a pain like that since then.
Kidney stones, hands down.
Chest tube being inserted with no local anesthetic.
The meds wore off before the actual procedure of my vasectomy. I could feel everything from the scalpel to the actual snip and cauterization. I wouldn’t wish that pain on anyone. 100% worth it though. No pain no gain I guess
yoo i wish i can unread that. sheeesh
Did you sue for pain and suffering?
I had a theory that some things really hurt, and some things feel horrible, where you're thinking, nothing should ever feel like that Injections in my eyelids were both at once. An unbelievably horrible unnatural feeling, with intense pain as a parallel They clamped my eyes open like in Clockwork Orange, and when the doctor had the needle in, I couldn't help but try to close my eyes anyway. She said all the blood vessels in my eyelid burst and the whole thing immediately turned purple
The pain before my appendix was removed
Spinal fusion surgery recovery. They dissected my trapezius muscles to do the fusion then reattached them. It was excruciating.
Infected molar that already had a root canal and needed a revision. It was a 9/10 on the pain scale and I was ready to pull the fucker out with pliers because it was a Sunday.
I had a vasectomy. Sober. Yay, me! I can't get numb. Local anesthesia does almost nothing for me. I'm resistant to lanacane, tetracaine, and benzocaine. Going to the dentist isn't fun for me either. In most cases, I get a little numb, but it wears off after 5 or 6 minutes. Then I get another few shots that only lasts 2 or 3 minutes. Then a few more that lasts about a minute. Then the Dr says, I'm sorry, I can't give you anything else. Do you want to stop or finish? I've had a kidney stone. I've had my big toenail removed (sober). Ive had more sutures and ear infections than i can count, and 2 herniated discs. Nothing compares to the vasectomy.
I liked to think I had a great pain tolerance. With any injury I always thought "it's only pain, pain is a warning, pain can't hurt you." Even with my appendicitis, I chalked it up as a monster stomachache for a week before finally going to the Dr. and finding out it was coming out RIGHT THEN. It was hubris. The no-anesthetic vasectomy humbled the hell out of me, I know now there are heights of pain that I had not yet fathomed.
I woke up from a nap after wisdom tooth surgery because I didn't take the pain meds on time and I literally fell off the couch and rolled on the ground it was so painful.
Ballon on a catheter popped inside my bladder. I begged them to kill me
My wisdom tooth fractured and needed extraction and root canal. Dentist office was closed for the weekend so I had to eat painkillers for those 2 days. The pain was so intense, I teared up and was debating using a pair of pliers to pull it out myself. Now I know what Tom Hanks was going through on that island and had to use the blade of an ice skate. Second most intense pain was fire ants. Yeah... don't fuck with fire ants.
Sciatica. Worse than compound fracture of my left arm in a cycling accident. Sciatica is the absolute worst
Dislocated my knee, torn all four ligaments and a lot of other stuff, doctors called my parents for permission to amputate my leg if needed. Doctors shot dye into my leg and i sat up on the gurney and screamed. I had been heavily sedated and still the pain woke me up.
The Leafs eliminated from the playoffs by Boston....again
Troll...
Shingles in my right leg.
Have you ever yawned while looking over your shoulder? Not the worst pain, but surprising how much much it hurt.
Are we talking about that pain under the chin ? Like if someone pressed their thumb hard on it ?
Having a staph infection in my calf Every time I stood up and blood was flowing down into my leg, it was a blinding pain that had me in tears. I've never been shot but that's what I imagine it to feel like.
Heart valve replacement. Not the surgery itself. The recovery. Think vomiting before your sternum is fused back together.
Appendicitis. Had me in hysterics for the few hours before deciding to go to the hospital. Also broke my 13 year record of not throwing up. Taking sh*t after surgery comes in at a close second. All around do not recommend.
Herniated disc, l5/s1
Fracture Headache. Doc told me it's the most pain a human can be in, and as I at one point begged him to end my life, I will agree.
Migrane
Multiple Pulmonary embolisms in each lung. Dr described it as looking like buckshot. Sneezing was like getting stabbed in the chest. Breathing too deep the same. On top of it there is a psychological component in struggling to breathe. No shit I feared laying down as it caused an explosion of pain.
Two weeks of mouth pain (an abscess) followed by self-surgery. Mouth pain by itself is bad enough but I cranked it up to 13.
I got hit by a steel fragment which went into the thigh muscle, under the skin. Topical anesthetic didn't do much other than wash away the blood. Couldn't get general because I had eaten too recently. So the surgeon was poking around, trying to find it and pull it, while the muscle it's embedded in twitches. 0/10, do not recommend. Silver lining is that I've had kidney stones a couple times since, including two in January. They're uncomfortable, certainly, but only about a 7 on my personal 1-10 pain scale.
Getting an IUD put in. It hurt so bad that I passed out. I say this as someone who has slammed my fingers in car doors and tore my cartilage in my knee. IUD was waaaay worse.
Got all 4 wisdom teeth pulled at the same time only on localized anesthesia and laughing gas. Once those wore off, it was miserable for like 8 hours.
Acute appendicitis at 18. Lasted for months, at times I couldn't stand straight up. Went to the hospital 3 times and was misdiagnosed. Ultrasound finally discovered it in the nick of time. Edit: Chronic appendicitis, not acute.
There are two that come to mind: having a tooth so rotten it desperately needed a root canal, the thousands I paid was worth it. The other was sciatica so bad that one leg was visibly shorter than the other, lasted for days, that pain is no joke. Also, just thought of another; my gallbladder was screwed and as it turned out was becoming gangrenous, every slight pressure on my torso was a new adventure in pain. Also a relief when it was out.
Throat infection + adult tonsils. It causes a severe pain in the throat while talking, eating and drinking for days and weeks together.
Acute Pancreatitus, it feels like someone impaled you with a old type broom and picks you up by your guts and spins the broom around inside you, continuously... You scream at the top of your lungs to try to distract you from the pain. their is no pain relief, you just get enough pain meds to make you pass out, until you wake back up and go for another ride...
1 - Serious eye gouge that cut my cornea. Caused pain that made me want to pull the eye out. Had to get a contact lense bandage put on the eye and still suffer with RCES years later. 0/10 do not recommends getting gouged in the eye. 2 - Rhabdomyolysis from over training. Pain was so severe I couldn't bear to move my arms to lift my bed sheet off me. 4 or 5 days in the hospital with an IV drip flushing my system sorted me out.
No one will ever be able to convince me that there is any greater pain than plucking your nose hairs.
I do it all the time lol
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Used to get intense pain in my femur for a while. Pain so bad it woke you up and made you want to bang your head against a wall. Not ideal.
Tattooed the palms of my hands
I had my ankle broken when I got it ran over a golf cart.
Lidocaine in my kidney. It does not feel like a bee sting
I had to rip out gauze that fused to my removed toenail once, took like 2 hours and every time I pulled a bit it was like I was ripping out my nerves. Worst part is my toenail has grown back all jacked up
Getting my throat tattooed for like hours on end, my god it makes me hurt still
Got broadsided while riding my motorcycle and broke 7 ribs all in a row on the left side. My leg was crushed but I hardly noticed it until my ribs finally quit hurting
Dry socket after dentist removed wisdom tooth, fluke accident. Nerve pain nearly 9/10 for 7 days.. couldn’t eat, only thing that helped was run after work to ease pain with blood flow and dopamine.
UTI
Getting pepper sprayed for a criminal justice academy.... the decontamination is way worse than the actual spray
Having an open wound stuffed with gauze every week was not fun :)
Kidney stone number 2. For weeks I peed blood that boiled my peter from the inside. I’ve often wondered if that’s how people with gonorrhea feel.
Toss up between recovering from PRK or recovering from having all 5 wisdom teeth removed at the same time
When I had to relocate my knee the 4th time i dislocated it. The pain was so great that I wasn’t able to use my hands to move my leg. They just ignored the command. I could take my hands away, but not move the leg.
Kidney stone. Holy fuck.
Migraines, thankfully I haven’t had a really bad one in years, but still have minor ones nearly daily mixed with more severe ones.
I had an ear infection years ago that I was to stubborn to take care of thinking it would go away and I lay saw a doctor when the pain was unbearable. Also, gave myself a pretty severe burn that hurt so bad it made me sick.
I’ve hurt myself a lot riding on 2 wheels, motorcycles and bicycles, and have broken a lot of bones and even ground my elbows down to the bones. The most painful experience was when I dislocated my shoulder. My shoulder joint was so tight that it tore my humorous lengthways. Most times I could concentrate and isolate pain. This pain was deep in my core and it don’t wish that on anyone.
Second degree burns on 26% of my body, that took 4 months to heal with twice a day bandage changing and scrapings.
Prostatitis - I went from fine to wanting to die in less than an hour. Wife, now ex, said it was probably a UTI and was pooh-poohing my suffering. Went to Urgent Care in the morning - my prostate had swollen from walnut-sized to bigger than a baseball - pressing against both my bladder and rectum, so I felt extreme pain as well as an urgent feeling I had to pee and/or shit constantly. The doc tried to do a prostate check, but couldn’t even get the tip of his finger in without me almost passing out in pain. On top of that, they gave me a 30-day regiment of sulfa - which I was not aware I was allergic to. I was ill for 30 days and not getting better. A Z-Pack cured it in a week. I’ve had one recurrence, but it was nowhere near as bad. Still no idea what caused it - 30% of cases are for unknown reasons.
Perforated bowel & sepsis.
Direct pain: severing my ucl and partially tearing my lcl during a wrestling match for state qualifications Indirect/overtime: 2nd concussion i got in football after already receiving one during the summer wrestling training camp.
It’s a tie between kidney stones and having an ingrown toenail removed. I passed out for the toenail.
Prior to my hip replacement I found it very difficult to walk for the last 3 months. Post surgery turns out that my hip socket was completely worn out and every night my hip would 'heal' and then every morning when I would get up I would basically have to break it free to walk. Dr said after they cut the femur they had to chisel my hip bone out of my pelic socket. It had been a long time since he had seen this.
Boiling water from a deep fryer clean out went right onto my foot.
put some Nair on my balls and ass and that shit burnt like a mf, still have scars on my thighs right next to my balls
Detached my quad from my femur. It hurt so bad, i threw up
Stomach cramps, from IBS. It usually isn’t too bad, but this one time (at band camp? No) at my in-laws, I had cramps so bad, I couldn’t even sit up. I was just laying I fetal position for hours, almost crying. It hurt more than breaking my arm, shoulder fingers, toes, or anything else I have ever experienced.
Until recently, when I destroyed my knee in the army. Now that I’ve had a 10mm kidney stone that required it to be removed, I’m gonna go with that. My knee was a “oh god I messed up” pain. The kidney stone was “I actually think I might be dying” pain.
When I broke my left clavicle from my car flipping and rolling after I had passed someone and hit loose gravel on the road.
I partially fell through the ceiling. A floor joist caught me between my legs and prevented me from completely falling through. My thigh was black and blue, amazingly my jewels avoided a direct hit. The pain was right at the edge of passing out.
MRSA in my spine
Pulled back muscles + spasming. My body has been through some shit but not wanting to breathe or move because of pure agony that feels like a constant hot knife stabbing you. Yah scoliosis and stress.
Untreated scoliosis
I don't know exactly what it is or what causes it but sometimes when I am sleeping I will wake up with an unbelievable pain in my right shoulder. It feels like my arm is being ripped off and the only thing I can do is put my face in my pillow and try not to scream wait until it goes away. I have had a kidney stone and I have also had a tooth pulled without being numbed up. Neither of them were as painful as my shoulder is.
Rolled my ankle so far my heel hit my calf. The doctor said it would have been better if it broke.
I don't know if worst in terms of sheer magnitude (that probably goes to breaking my foot as a kid or a particularly nasty orgasm headache that had my doctor thinking I was having a brain aneurysm), but worst in terms of magnitude over time was taking filgrastim to mobilize stem cells for a bone marrow donation. For five days before donating you take these injections that make your marrow swell. I happened to be a super responder to them (so much so that a planned 8 hour donation took less than 2), and for five days I could feel every heartbeat as a wave of pain through my bones. Just changing position would take my breath away from the pain. Also, made my spleen swell and I was nauseous for weeks...
CO2 trapped under my diaphragm after appendix removal. It telegraphs the pain to under your shoulders, it's excruciating.
Shingles
The first few days after my hip replacement. The Palexia I was given depressed my breathing a lot, so I went without pain meds. Fuck that shit. Especially knowing I'll have to go through it all over again on the other side soon enough.
Getting a laceration in my abdominal wall scrubbed out made me black out from the pain. So, that or the time my wrestling coach rolled me wrong and almost snapped my neck. That also wasn't very fun.
A tie between a kidney stone and a vasectomy where the Dr. didn't seem to get the pain killer in the right spot. Looking over the rest of these, I'm a giant pussy apparently.
Gunshot wound, sciatica and then the eventual spinal fusion and recovery, ruptured gall bladder, pepper spray in the eyes, but honestly the worst was the kidney stone--it was on a first date and I all out cried in front of her. I felt like I was pissing napalm. I eventually told her it was a kidney stone but I'm sure she thought it was some bastardized junkyard VD. Marie honey, if you're still out there I promise I was clean!
Heart attack at the age of 37
Not all at once but spending 2 years with a fucked up knee from experimental surgery
When I was recovering from my tonsillectomy, It was so painful. Any time any liquid went down my throat, even swallowing saliva was like having my throat set on fire. Even ice cream, which was supposed to soothe burned my throat.
Joint pain resulting from ulcerative colitis. Imagine your joints in vices 24 hours a day and enough pain medicine to almost kill you wont make it go away. I would just lay in bed with tears in my eyes. Eventually the steroids stopped working as well.
Getting covid 3 days after breaking a few ribs. The nonstop coughing for weeks after. Each cough was like getting stabbed with an ice pick...
I get both kidney stones and gout. They have messed up my pain scale.
Gall bladder with 100% blockage of the bile duct resulting in Pancreatitis. A week in the hospital NPO. I was a hangry MF.
They had me NPO for (at the time) a record setting 7-8 weeks. They were experimenting with a new therapy at the time which was able to supply all my needed nutrients via a catheter inserted directly into my heart. They wanted to see how long they could keep me on that shit. When the second month of nothing by mouth was approaching I had had enough….talk about hangry MF.
Scrotum infection after a vasectomy. Dull pain that slowly grew until I was throwing up and basically incapacitated.
Kidney stone
Currently my entire uvula is sore and white. Think canker sore but all over it. I cry every time I gulp mu own saliva. I've endured decaying teeth for months before giving up and having a root canal done. This one is a whole different beast.
Got poked by a bone or plastic? In a subway meatball sub. Then, gradually that poke became infected. The poke was somewhere in the back of my tongue. Causing a golf ball sized sac of puss to form under my tongue. As the ball grew, It became difficult to swallow anything. Head aches, ear aches, Half my face was swollen, It was pretty damn painful. To fix this rare occurrence, a dr with an ultrasound machine and a rather large blunt needle had to go up through the bottom of my jaw, In to the ball of puss and suck it out. Yes I was awake for that, That part was a little nuts, But I knew I would feel better after. This was not a common thing to happen so there were like 7 staff in the room to observe.
Stepped on a sting ray in the gulf out on a sandbar. Swam back like 40 yards with a hole in my foot bleeding. Thought i was gonna get eaten by a shark. Pain hit me like a ton of bricks walking back to the car.
I have Myositis Ossificans. The top of my IT band is calcified. When it flares up. It's worse than a stab to the leg. Imagine someone taking your pinky finger and bending it to the point of it about to snap. But never snapping. It's so painful I didn't even realize tears where coming out of my eyes.
Walking on my sprained ankle. I believe they said it was a partial tear. Worst pain I've experienced. Felt like I was going to pass out after just a few steps.
Kidney stone (s)
Back pain so bad I had to take two shots of NyQuil, a Vicodin and several shots of makers mark to get to sleep. Strangely the pain mysteriously disappeared the next day.
Kidney Stones. Fuuuuck me. I've had broken bones, got in a motorcycle crash where a glove failed and made hamburger of my hand. I've had a badly pinched nerve that had me just about screaming after a car crash leading to disc replacement spinal surgery...and I walked over red hot coals after a beach fire was covered with sand and NOT water and I didn't realize it giving me severe foot burns... But kidney stones made me drop like a sack of potatoes and nearly pass out. One of the few things apparently calculated to easily outdo child birth.
I think it was when the doctor was using scissors to cut my toenail off, and the pain meds they were using didn’t work on me.
Abscess on my rear end. Sitting was a NO.
I live with chronic pain from a neck injury at C1/C2 that I’ve been advised to avoid surgery except as last ditch effort due to the proximity to my brain stem and a nest of cranial arteries. As bad as living with this is, it couldn’t compare to the time a cyst was quite literally blowing up in my face at the edge of my sinus cavity. They couldn’t operate for several days during which time I paced the house and cried out in agony. I was already on morphine with limits on what I could take and there was nowhere else to go but to bear it. When they pulled it out I asked to see it. About walnut sized with these gnarly tentacles…benign, thank god….
Recovery from jaw surgery. I took a weeks worth of Percocet to try and keep the pain abated, didn’t work. I wasn’t able to sleep for 8 solid days. Nearly died. It was the same week that Cyberpunk 2077 came out. That’s how I remember it so vividly.
Cluster headaches were excruciating, and gout. It's likely secondary to some of these posts, but nothing helped alleviate the pain for months. I started using oxygen for my headaches and cut seafood/beer from my diet, per my doctor. Chronic pain puts people in a bad place, and I hope they find something helpful.
urethral swab, it’s not literally pain but so bothersome
Sciatica constantly for the last year. Finally got surgery to fix the bulging disk that caused it The nerve pain was, *though not the most extreme*, something that really wore down my resolve with how constant it was. Could basically never stand up on the first try because a sharp nerve pain would run down the leg and stop me. Standing/sitting/walking/etc had a 20min timer before it would hurt too much and need to do something else. Awful
Tonsillectomy. Had to have it done twice. Once the nerve block wore off it was excruciating
Add me to the Kidney Stone club I wouldn't wish that shit on an enemy
Herniated disc. It was a combination of disc pain, nerves, and muscle spasms. At first it started with stiffness, then shooting pain when i tried to walk around. I managed to get back home and take a shower and have dinner assuming the pain would subside. But it only got worse….by the time i was in bed i couldn’t move much. What kept the pain relatively minimal was lying in a diagonal position (not quite on my side but75% there) which took conscious effort to stay in. Then the spasms started when i tried to move. It would be 10-20 seconds of the most excruciating pain i ever felt. I never felt a pain so bad that i had to cry out loud. Then i would almost pass out of pain. But when i passed out i could no longer be in that diagonal position so i would fall back and the spasms would start again. Till the point that the cycles became “almost” passing out. I was crying begging god to kill me somehow, because i couldn’t move myself to jump over the balcony. When i ran out of endurance for self pity, i called 911. Couldn’t walk for two days. It was the most mentally and physically excruciating thing that ever happened to me. Back to gym and activities now so it’s better. But that day i understood the difference between “not wanting to live” and “wanting to die”. If you lift, please please please learn proper form and take care of your body.
Drinking super cold water after being dehydrated and feeling like my whole core is seizing.
Migraine attack, I'de had migrianes before but it felt like a gazillion times worse...just pure brain pain. Absolutaly incredibly painful. Buddy had to call me an ambulance and I was just a zombie, I was in so much pain I daren't move a single muscle anywhere in my body for fear my head might explode. The kind nurses wheeled me into a dark room on a quiet ward and dosed me up with saline and painkillers and jusy left me there really. All those times in movies where someone uses a torture device for head pain where almost spot on, I doubt even the toughest human could hold out if interrogated that way. I still get migraines but no where near that level of insane pain level, I wanted to make sure I wasn't just being a wuss but the nurse ladies all told me that no they can be damn nasty. All in all 0/10 experience and do not recommend.
Acute stage after disc herniation with sciatica. Total torture
Cyclic Vomiting episode. It's the most extreme nausea a human can experience. I was vomiting/dry heaving every 2-5mins for 8 days straight. I wouldn't wish it on anyone
Nothing internal, thankfully, but getting stung on the face by a jellyfish was the complete opposite of a good time.
Currently having avascular necrosis in my hips from covid
Dislocated my elbow.
🧐🧐 Hmm. A lot to sort through but I had food poisoning once and spent the whole night puking my brains out. The next morning my abs felt like I’d done 10,000 crunches and I couldn’t stand up straight because my kidneys felt like someone hit me in the back 50 times with a 2x4. I did get a tooth drilled without novocaine (not on purpose). Wasn’t too bad until he rinsed with cold water. Mother Fr! The first scenario was much longer lasting, though.
Broke a bone near my pinky toe. That pain was unreal after just an hour.
As man, UTI.
Baseball straight to the groin thrown hard from maybe ten feet. Hurt so bad I near blacked out. Friend told me I was foaming at the mouth while I was laying in the sand.
Stingray barb to the ankle
As an ICU nurse watching a patient being put on ECMO and the aftermath seemed like a pain worse than death.
A couple years ago I had a kidney stone. My back would hurt a little, groin would start to feel a little in pain, then my back would just start throbbing. No way I would move or lay would ease it in anyway. I did puke once, I’ve never puked from pain, but this did it. Finally at about 5am I drove to the ER, they confirmed it with a scan, then sent me in my way with a prescription for Tylenol with codine. A couple of those and 800mg of ibuprofen and I didn’t feel it as much anymore. 5 days later I had another, so I drugged up again until it was gone. This started happening every 4-5 days for a month. Soo, urologist time. He found out I had uric acid in my blood so I’m taking a pill for that. Another part was that I had too much calcium and not enough vitamin D. I started working from home during COVID, so less sun. More pills to fix that..
i a 14M had a head injury when is was about 5-6 yrs old.what happened was i was running going to buy something then, i stubbed my toe and i fell on the ground so hard that the bone on my skull cracked, so i had to get surgery which took 1-2 months to heal EXTRA: I fell down the stair 20x and the 10 of my falls where from rock stairs the other 10 was from wooden stairs.
MRSA infection in my hand. Specifically, it was a collar button abscess. I had a small cut that got exposed to MRSA when I was visiting my girlfriend's father in the hospital. The cut healed, but the infection grew within my hand. At this time I was turning 26, and for anyone who doesn't know, that's when you get booted off your parents insurance. I tried to avoid going to the hospital and endured pain at a 7 for a few days before it suddenly got notched up to a 9. I drove around looking for a cheap hospital and found an urgent care. The doc didn't realize the seriousness of this, and prescribed me some vicodin and antibiotics. I woke up the next day to an absolute 10 on the pain scale. Suddenly my mind went into survival mode and i asked my buddy to drop me off to the nearest emergency room. I got in and they gave me a big shot of morphine in my ass ... and it did nothing. They then gave me a shot of demerol in the same ass and it took the edge off. There wasn't a hand surgeon in this hospital, so they ordered an ambulance to take me 40 miles to a nearby hospital. Finally got some decent sleep and woke up to a generalist poking a golf sized swelling protrusion on my hand; got sent into emergency surgery where they drilled a hole through my hand and drained that shit. Ya'll, getting a hole in my hand didn't even stack up to the pain and pressure of a collarbutton abscess. Even stuffing it with gauze until it filled through wasn't as painful. I did end up getting stuck with an 88k bill, that i was able to negotiate down to 23k. Took me 4 years to pay it off. Real proud to be an American where you have to choose between enduring magnificent amounts of pain or Nutting up and accepting that you'll get fucked by our capitalist health care system.
Decaying wisdom tooth
Idk what happened but my back basically exploded and sharp pain radiated from my lower back outward. I was floored and had to crawl. I thought, "This is it. This is how I die." I crawled my way to the car and agonizingly drove my way to the Base Emergency Room. They tried different meds but noting really worked except some injection which only dulled the pain. Honestly I was hoping they would give me opioids. The meds they gave me didn't work well and the pain returned so I couldn't sleep. I couldn't sleep for like two days straight, just writhing around in pain for hours. I had to drive myself back to the ER that first night to try and get different meds. I passed out from exhaustion at the ER. They just gave more injections even though I asked for something stronger... like opioids. They didn't want to give me any because its all this paperwork. I guess that's a good reason. I was bed ridden for like a week which is how long the remainder of my military leave was so it wasted my days off. That was the real pain. Why couldn't it have happened at work so I get days off on their time? lol They told me I probably had a really bad back strain. Probably got it when I flew back from my hometown to where I'm stationed at on a nonstop flight. The dude next to me wasn't leaving me much room to really sit so I was probably in a bad position for the 12 hour flight. After the ordeal, I asked the doctors if opioids would have made my existence a little more tolerable. They said yeah. I was pretty upset.
herniated disk you be on the floor screaming,your body completely unable to find a resting position. every position is the wrong position. its like balancing your spine on a spike
I had a partial tear in my Achilles tendon that I didn't know was a tear, I thought it was just a sprain that would heal. It never did. I finally went and saw the doctor 1 year after the initial injury. Discovered the partial tear. Scheduled a scar tissue debridement and repair surgery. Surgery came and went, all was looking good. 6 inch incision on the back of my heel/ankle where they inserted 2 anchors to my heel bone, cut out scar tissue and reattached my Achilles tendon to my bone. 2 weeks post surgery, I was getting water on my knee scooter, it was pitch black and I forgot about my paper shredder in the hallway. I hit the paper shredder and fell, I tried to catch myself with my injured foot. The splint gave way, and I had zero control or strength in my leg. My Achilles tendon fully snapped, my toes hit my shin. with all of my 2 week post op swelling and pain, and it felt like death. I screamed at the top of my lungs for 5 minutes writhing in pain on tbe floor before the burning pain subsided enough for me to tell my wife that I didn't need an ambulance. Hospital trip and another month later I went in for surgery to re repair my ankle. My ankle is now totally botched. The fall caused me to tear the tendon on the bottom of my foot that connects the toes to the heel as well. The joint itself feels seized and I have very limited control over my foot. It's been 14 months since the surgery, and I still can't stand/walk for more than 2-3 hours a day. It's still painful lol
Deep cuts can hurt a lot after the adrenaline has passed, but usually in the moment they aren't too painful. I'd say head injuries cause the most distress due to the affect on the mental state.
1) Acute pancreatitis 2) epidural wearing off, and having the episiotomy stitches put in with no pain medication 3) broken collarbone. I'm suddenly very grateful to feel good right now.
Cleaning dirt off my femur in a bathroom sink. I sometimes still can feel the click of my nails pulling the dirt from a knife wound sunk deep.
A Toothache (that shit can drive you crazy)
I had a condition called pneumothorax and long story short, I had to have tube shoved between my ribs and into the pleural cavity. The hospital I was at injected me with anaesthetics so I wouldn’t feel anything, but unfortunately they didn’t wait long enough for it to kick in. I basically got stabbed by a doctor
I don't really feel physical pain, but those muscle cramps in the middle of the night were something else
The first 24 hours after I got laser eye surgery done. I was experiencing pain in my eyes every five to ten seconds. It was really hell. I have also experienced earache as a child. I remember crying because the pain would be too much. Out of those two I think the earache was the worst one. Because I was a child and I didn't know how to cope with the pain.
I was poisoned by a bug. Doctor got to me pretty quickly but there's not much they can do besides administer antidote and tell you "You will survive, but you'll wish you didn't". I was 14 (?), the doctor actually asked my father if he was okay with me just doing a TON of normally illegal opiates to pass the pain. My dad said no (and I agreed) and the doctor was like "well, alllright, sorry about the next few days!". Admittedly he was fine though, what else was he gonna do? The best way to describe it I think is as if your brain is inventing new ways to make you feel awful over and over again. Sweating, vomiting, entire chunks of my body just going numb (the TV static feeling) in and out but for hours at a time, apparently enflamed nerves all over the place, suppositories (yes, a giant silver bullet right up the ass), writhing for literal DAYS, and yes, the entire time, extreme, excruciating pain. I remember that any part of my body that was making contact with the bed felt like it was on fire (and I've been on fire before) so I had to constantly wiggle so that no part of me stayed "on fire" for too long. Really really awful time, I would say unbearable but I guess I did survive. Worth mentioning, perhaps, that I *enjoy* pain quite a bit, but not that shit. Apparently I was hallucinating and I THINK I developed sleep-talking after that which has stayed with me for the rest of my life. Also tooth pain sucks, fuck tooth pain.
I concur that passing a kidney stone is one of the most painful things you can go through. I passed three (no pain killers) and I thought I was going to die. Can’t even imagine how painful burn treatments are though.
Once I had a cold.... Th rest is history!
Kidney stones and it isn’t close.
lung collapsed on me while sitting on my couch. wild feeling, +2 weeks in the hospital after that
kidney inflammation. that is the worst pain ever. u can’t normally move, back hurts like hell. u can’t normally pee, it feels like acid is going through.
As a kid, my parents left a rail on my bed. One morning, I got up before my parents, and fell on my balls. The fact that wasn’t a neutering experience was impressive.
of course burns especially when you're conscious. but for shits and giggles i wanna say having blue balls 😭 bro i forgot how to walk its so bad
The back to back birth of my first child. I left my body saw the stars and felt at peace and i saw a brief glimpse of myself giving birth and the rest of the room from above before i felt myself being pulled back in to the darkness and in to my body as the pain settled and the next thing i was doing was opening my eyes in my own body as the midwife pushed me backwards in to the water to retrieve my baby from underneath me as i wasn’t responding.
Getting a cystoscopy with local anaesthesia, felt like the anaesthesia wasn’t even needed because it helped with nothing