Your most intense pain ever?
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This is making me realize I haven't felt real pain. I had a natural birth of a 10+ lb kiddo, but I didn't think it was that bad. Some of y'all have been through serious trauma.1
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Probably when I was 13. I fell off one of our horses, broke my lower leg on impact, and then the horse stepped on my thigh(same leg) and broke it lol I still have a scar on my leg where the bone came out, it was so nasty and I vaguely remember telling the doctor that he might as well just cut it off lol4
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When I partially tore my left hamstring and had to drive to work each day............................in a manual drive car. Pushing down on that clutch put me in near tears each time.
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One night I woke up with a slight pain in my side. It woke me up, but it wasn't bad. I figured I had a cramp and was dehydrated. So I headed downstairs for a glass of water. By the time I got back up stairs, I was crawling on the floor and vomiting. I tried to scream for the wife, and squeaked. She found me writhing on the bathroom floor and hugging the bowl to barf.
Somehow, I knew what it was. "I think I have a kidney stone," I croaked.
I thought I was vomiting because the pain was so intense, because it was really horrible. But, I found out later that vomiting is just another, associated symptom, not a part of the pain.
Anyway, it is the middle of the night and the wife is tired, and she just wants to go back to her slumbers. So, she is looking at me, sprawled out on the floor there, with a bit of contempt.
She yawns and says: "You know, It cannot be THAT bad. My coworker had a kidney stone. I believe he drove himself to the hospital."
I imagine myself driving, alone, when a wave of the pain arises, and it is so deep and overwhelming, that I cannot even move my foot to the brake, and I go straight where the road turns and careen into a tree. The car explodes.
I howl: "My gawd, woman! I'm not sure I can walk, let alone drive. Help me!"
Well, the wife is flinty. But she is not pitiless. So, she sighs and helps me up and into the car and off to the hospital. An hour or so later, I got a shot of demerol and it was AMAZING!
But the wife is still a bit miffed as she leaves for work because she had only gotten a few hours sleep and she hates being tired. She never actually apologized.
Not until later.
That evening, she gets home from work and she says: "My bad. You know I told you my coworker drove himself to the hospital? Well, he scoffed when I told him I remembered that. He said: 'Are you kidding me? I never could have driven with that pain.'
"He was living in an apartment, by himself. It was the middle of the night. He could not walk. But the pain was excruciating that he willed himself out into the hallway. He rolled down the stairs to the next floor. He knocked on a complete stranger's door and begged the woman who answered to call him an ambulance, or the National Guard, or to hand him a pistol so he could end it all and escape his torment."
'Drove himself.' Psshaw!10 -
I get cluster headaches... Doctors tried to link them to concussions from football but nobody really knows why I get them. It is essentially a brain freeze that last for 15-20 minutes at a time.1
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Gallbladder attacks. Searing, radiating pain that won't let up for hours and has you nauseuos and blinded like a migraine and feels like your back is breaking and guts are tearing open1
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The most intense pain I have ever experience was the time i gave birth, I found out at last minute it was going to be a C-Section due to the fact my daughter was loosing oxygen
The recovery was horrible and then I had complications but it was worth through it all because I have a healthy baby girl
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The worst (and I've done all manner of stupid things resulting in broken bones, dislocations and the like, torn muscles and so on) was a dye injection into the salivary gland under the tongue while suffering from an infection. I developed a 20 year fear of needles from that pain - I just remember lying there crying and the radiologist saying "I'm so sorry, we have to wait to check the x-ray before we can do anything else".
I've had many a filling done without pain relief and that's not even a scratch compared to the pain of that injection.
Broken ribs was also a bad one (managed to break the same 3 ribs both at the sternum and half way across my back - meaning they weren't attached properly at either end). They were sneaky buggers, it was fine so long as I didn't move. Once I did move I immediately regretted it, and would try to get back to the old 'comfortable position' - that was not fun. Still not as bad as that needle, not even close.
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So many Frankensteins.0
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I do healing, if anyone needs it.1
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I thought it was passing kidney stones on 3 different occasions. Turns out urinating afte waking up AFTER having surgery for kidney stones...and it lasted at least a week. Whoever told my urologist that Vicodin would handle the "discomfort" was sadly mistaken.
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Gall stones!! Had my gall bladder removed in 2006. That was some pain! I've rolled my ankles several times each and dislocated fingers playing volleyball. Broke my had playing softball. But gall stones that was some pain.2
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I've had children with no meds and two major back surgeries after breaking my back in the military... But the absolute worst pain I've ever had was when I contracted bacterial meningitis from pain injections in my back... I was literally on a morphine drip in the hospital for a week!! When I was discharged I had a port put in for antibiotic and pain medication for another month.. Definitely the worst pain I've ever had.1
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Prolonged dry socket.0
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20+ hours of labor pains, emergency c section and 5 days in the hospital after my incision became infected. I literally thought my intestines would just fall right out of me after that. Terrible.0
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Cracked rib and steroid shot in my heel.
I had to have a shot in my palette when the other shots failed to numb my tooth when getting a cap.
The shot it self wasn't painful it was the feeling that the liquid was going in my nose.0 -
Dr1nkbleachndye wrote: »Got hit by a dirtbike when I was 6, was about an hr away from gangrene. Couldnt have a graft surgery then because I was too young. Had to redress/bandage my leg every day for 2 years until I had grown enough to be able to have a successful skin graft. I don't want to try to explain what it was like because it would be useless.
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It's strange that the couldn't do your skin grafts at 6yo. The reason I said that is I was hit by a car when I was 6 and it tore up the front of my leg and foot. I was already going to give this story as the most pain I have every had. The redress/bandage of my leg and foot every day was the most intense excruciating pain. You are right it is almost useless to try to explain, 49 years later it is still seared in my brain.
That said I only had to endure it for 28 days until they did skin grafts. I wonder why they had to wait for you to grow up. I will say this, I did have to have 3 different skin grafts at 6, 7 and 9yo for it to finally be completely successful. However I would gladly go through even more skin grafts than go though the redress/bandage during all that time.1 -
Dr1nkbleachndye wrote: »Got hit by a dirtbike when I was 6, was about an hr away from gangrene. Couldnt have a graft surgery then because I was too young. Had to redress/bandage my leg every day for 2 years until I had grown enough to be able to have a successful skin graft. I don't want to try to explain what it was like because it would be useless.
Fun times
It's strange that the couldn't do your skin grafts at 6yo. The reason I said that is I was hit by a car when I was 6 and it tore up the front of my leg and foot. I was already going to give this story as the most pain I have every had. The redress/bandage of my leg and foot every day was the most intense excruciating pain. You are right it is almost useless to try to explain, 49 years later it is still seared in my brain.
That said I only had to endure it for 28 days until they did skin grafts. I wonder why they had to wait for you to grow up. I will say this, I did have to have 3 different skin grafts at 6, 7 and 9yo for it to finally be completely successful. However I would gladly go through even more skin grafts than go though the redress/bandage during all that time.0 -
Ruptured a disk in my back. Close to deploying and was scared I'd get medically discharged and lose my daughters insurance coverage. Felt like I was stabbing me with a knife 24hrs a day. Stopped sleeping, but somehow kept working out/running. Thought about killing myself every minute of every day, figured I would get myself killed once deployed just to get some relief. Right before leaving I could hardly walk and had to go see a doc that told me no way in hell I was deploying. I broke down in tears, because I let my squad down and my kids. Got surgery and 8 months later was gtg!
This. I ruptured/bulged a disc in my back about 12 years ago, it completely mashed my sciatic nerve going down my left leg. The pain was so excruciating that when the nurse asked me "on a scale of 1-10 how much does it hurt", I replied "b*tch if you cut it off it would hurt less", she said "that's a 10!". It hurt so damn bad I wanted to die to make it stop. Nothing but morphine would touch the pain, and even then it was short lived relief. Eventually it completely impinged the nerve and I had to have emergency surgery (lost the feeling below my waist). That was, without a doubt, the worst pain I've ever felt. I had another bout with it last year when I managed to rupture 2-3 discs in my lower back doing too much high impact walking trying to lose weight (I was seriously overdoing it based on my current weight at the time). Pain was almost as bad. Since recovering from that (without surgery this time thanks to some yoga and steroid shots) I've made my core the focus of my daily exercise and it's helped a lot.2 -
Road rash on both arms with three cracked ribs thanks to a blowout on my front tire while doing about 65mph.0
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