Your most intense pain ever?

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  • rabblescum
    rabblescum Posts: 78 Member
    Having three teeth pulled without without being numbed. Close second dual kidney stones.
  • caammph
    caammph Posts: 105 Member
    Multi-disc herniation. By far, worse than gallstones and unmedicated childbirth.
  • NovaDuck
    NovaDuck Posts: 63 Member
    I had a gangrenous twisted ligament in my groin in my mid-teens. It flared up a day after doing some sit-ups in PE class. Couldn't walk without pain but had to to get to a doctor who decided to poke and prod it.

    Surgeons tried to push it back in thinking it was a hernia. Didn't know it was the ligament until they took the thing out. Probably my most painful experience ever... so far.
  • sijomial
    sijomial Posts: 19,809 Member
    Both motorcycle related....

    Car pulled out on me and I almost managed to swerve past his from bumper (US=fender) - took full impact on my knee, ruptured posterior cruciate ligament and bucket-handle tear of lateral meniscus. Ligament snapping is apparently one of "the big three" pain episodes. Felt like it.

    First time racing rode my evil handling bike straight into the Armco barrier at about 80mph, bent the steel handlebars with my knees, crushed the fuel tank with my "gentleman's vegetables". Came round minus my crash helmet with head, knees and nuts competing for first place in the pain stakes.
  • rakowskidp
    rakowskidp Posts: 231 Member
    festerw wrote: »
    I've had the popped knee multiple times, it's great compared to a kidney stone.
    nitroalley wrote: »
    First kidney stone. You could have cut me open with a rusty knife.

    Ain't that the truth! I've had 'em 4 times now, and the first... I simply can't describe it. I tore my ACL and meniscus, I've suffered migraines... nothing like kidney stones. My wife, who gave birth 4 times (including one C-section) had kidney stones. She said, in her opinion, the pain was worse than childbirth.
  • 143tobe
    143tobe Posts: 620 Member
    I had a basketball sized tumor removed from my abdomen. Since they wanted to get a good look all surrounding organs to be sure the cancer didn't spread, they sliced me up the middle past my belly button. Waking up from that surgery was the worst pain ever. They had me on morphine which didn't even come close to touching the pain. I mean...even with morphine, it was still a 10. I just remember sobbing and not being able to sleep for my entire hospital stay. I don't know why it hurt so bad, I mean people have abdominal surgery all the time. Because of that experience, when my second son was breech I was terrified of being given a cesarean. I ended up giving birth in a hospital that specialized in naturally delivering breech births. It worked.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    I have chronic pain from crohn's and almost always in pain. It is excruciating when I am in a flare. I also broke my leg in three places which wasn't fun and have had lots of overuse injuries and achilles tendonitis.
  • lisahebert186
    lisahebert186 Posts: 736 Member
    I've had three c sections.
  • DonM46
    DonM46 Posts: 771 Member
    Kidney stone
  • wfh1902
    wfh1902 Posts: 1 Member
    Dental pain, had 7 abcesses under a molar, even breathing hurt.
  • jenovatrix
    jenovatrix Posts: 219 Member
    I got rear-ended. I was stopped and she was doing 40.

    I didn't break anything, amazingly, but my right leg was a giant bruise from ankle to hip, the next day I couldn't turn my head so much as a quarter inch in either direction. I got good drugs and physical therapy for 3 months and I'm fine now, that was 10 years ago. I only wish I had sued the stupid twit.
  • JoeKeese
    JoeKeese Posts: 4 Member
    Ruptured a disk, ouch! That sounds extremely painful, I've had buddies who have been medically discharged for back issues, that being one of them. Worst "pain" I've experienced was waking up a day after having testicular torsion surgery, it was a very bad groin pain. Actually made me throw up a couple of times in pain. It only lasted for a day or two but it was worst than an ACL tear, right thumb tendon laceration and Lasik eye surgery.
  • MsDeeHawk12
    MsDeeHawk12 Posts: 52 Member
    In January I had eight kidney stones, all too large to pass and one stuck in my "duct work". Three surgeries in two and a half weeks.

    And the worst part, there are more forming that they cannot do anything with YET! Sigh.....
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
    I've been stabbed, shot and burned, but the worst pain I have suffered is from Gout.
  • Just_J_Now
    Just_J_Now Posts: 9,551 Member
    Shana67 wrote: »
    Hands down, giving birth to my 1st child, without the benefit of any pain medication. There IS no greater pain. Ladies, if you have the choice, TAKE THE EPIDURAL.

    I have to agree with this. 36 hour labor with my first son. Not all those hours were excruciating but the last 10, I almost had to have an outer body experience to cope. No drugs? WTF was I thinking. TAKE THE EPIDURAL!!!
  • strozman
    strozman Posts: 2,622 Member
    caammph wrote: »
    Multi-disc herniation. By far, worse than gallstones and unmedicated childbirth.

    Glad to know someone else feels it was that bad
  • Just_J_Now
    Just_J_Now Posts: 9,551 Member
    I will say this, I would go through disc herniations, unmedicated childbirth, stab wounds, broken bones, tooth extractions, etc. any day to never experience the unexpected death of a loved one. THAT HURTS!!! Not to diminish the physical pains people have mentioned but a mourning broken heart tops them all to me. That's just me though.
  • yogi1129
    yogi1129 Posts: 4 Member
    Hands down when I had a staph infection on my arm. My mom and I had no idea what it was, and my aunt who was studying nursing told us to drain it. My mom squeeze it and I could hear and feel it "pop" and then all of the infection started coming out. I was shaking and crying and throwing up and almost passed out. It was so bad that mom took me to the doctor and he told us what it was and how bad it was. Definitely learned to never, ever squeeze an infection! Bad idea. Still have the scar and everything. :(
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    kidney infection or when my jaw snaps back after locking from tmj
  • capnrus789
    capnrus789 Posts: 2,736 Member
    I had a hangnail last week. Oh my heavens...
  • RockinTerri
    RockinTerri Posts: 499 Member
    A combination (all at once) of endometriosis, fibroids, a twisted ovary, and blocked fallopian tubes. That was definitely the worst! Second place would be Basillar migraines - my whole head, face, and ears felt like they were being stuck into a vice squeezed to the max.
  • mkakids
    mkakids Posts: 1,913 Member
    My third child was 9lbs 12 oz..she was born completely drug free and broke my pelvis on the way out. Not pretty.
  • capnrus789
    capnrus789 Posts: 2,736 Member
    But seriously...prostatitis combined with epididymitis.
  • DWBalboa
    DWBalboa Posts: 37,259 Member
    Some might think I would say it was my broken back (L1,2,3, and 4), ruptured spleen, or my ruptured colon or the fact that I suffered them all at once. However, they fail in comparison to my first heartbreak. That still hurts!
  • LoveEpifanie
    LoveEpifanie Posts: 37 Member
    Kidney stone, never felt pain like it!
  • DonM46
    DonM46 Posts: 771 Member
    LoveEpifanie wrote: »
    Kidney stone, never felt pain like it!

    When I had mine, the nurse in the ER told me that women who've had kids and kidney stones have told her there was more pain with the stones.
  • annherrin
    annherrin Posts: 35 Member
    IUD insertion with no pain meds. It only lasted 15 seconds, but I almost passed out. I've had plenty of painful experiences (tattoos in places with just bone) but that one was nothing like anything I've ever felt before.
  • jrami24
    jrami24 Posts: 18 Member
    Vasectomy

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