Your most intense pain ever?
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This is the most depressing thread ever.4
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Jumped off a cliff into water (because everyone else was) at age 16. I went down so quickly that the water pressure ruptured my eardrum and forced water onto inner ear. I developed an ear infection so excruciating that I cried unknowingly IN MY SLEEP. It was even worse than the pain I had when I was pushed forward ice skating and landed face first on my front tooth. The pain was horrible. The tooth nerve died, and the tooth turned gray inside. I had to have that tooth until I got a crown at age 19.0
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I've had kidney stones a number of times... passing those is quite painful.
But the winner for me was from an accident on my motorcycle. Foot got caught under the shift lever during the accident, and the peg, the shift lever, and my foot all snapped. My left food literally snapped in half, all the way around so my toes were where my heel is. That was bad... only time I've ever gone into shock from pain.3 -
You guys are making me feel extremely grateful for my (mostly) pain free life.6
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Opened a hot radiator cap on my car when I was 17.. a volcano of hot water and steam erupted into my face and neck. I suffered 2nd and 3rd degree burns. Burn pain lasts forever... Luckily I made a full recovery and have no scars to this day.. although I was wrapped up like the Mummy for about 2 months.4
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@DebSozo I know what you mean about the earache!!! I tell people that the pain I experienced from an earache is worse than that of natural birth or a c-section....my scale of 1-10 with 10 being excruciating pain:Jumped off a cliff into water (because everyone else was) at age 16. I went down so quickly that the water pressure ruptured my eardrum and forced water onto inner ear. I developed an ear infection so excruciating that I cried unknowingly IN MY SLEEP. It was even worse than the pain I had when I was pushed forward ice skating and landed face first on my front tooth. The pain was horrible. The tooth nerve died, and the tooth turned gray inside. I had to have that tooth until I got a crown at age 19.
Torn ligaments, broken tailbone, scratched/scarred cornea-4
C-section, natural birth -6
Earache, toothache-8
Kidney infection/pain- 9
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Blood clot on my lung - ouch !!!2
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My knees are constantly popping out which is always a special kind of horrendous but I'm almost used to after so many years. I'd say unmedicated childbirth still wins the day for me, haha1
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I left out having MRSA on my spine affecting my entire nervous system. But the heartbreak still was worse.2
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Inguinal hernia surgery repair - because the mesh failed and I got a triple hernia to let me know.
I compare it to getting field dressed and getting kicked in my junk by a NFL punter - simultaneously.
On the plus side, oxycodone was amazing
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meganjcallaghan wrote: »My third child was 9lbs 12 oz..she was born completely drug free and broke my pelvis on the way out. Not pretty.
I was about 12 pounds....40 stitches later, I made my way out....messed up my mom's hips for life. I feel like I made up for it by a) immediately and consistently sleeping 11 - 12 hours through the night and b) giving my dad my kidney so she could keep her husband for a little longer
My hips are all f*cked up....more so because I didnt realize that my pelvis was broken for almost 2 months. I was in crazy pain but was told several times that it was just because of her size and how rough the delivery was. She was my third child (1 previous c/s and 1 previous natural birth....I KNEW something was wrong. The only thing that made them realize it was something more was when i went in for a checkup, dragging my leg behind me, sobbing hysterically, as I limped into the office carrying the baby.2 -
My knee is a mess, waiting for replacement, it constantly crunches and pops1
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meganjcallaghan wrote: »My third child was 9lbs 12 oz..she was born completely drug free and broke my pelvis on the way out. Not pretty.
I was about 12 pounds....40 stitches later, I made my way out....messed up my mom's hips for life. I feel like I made up for it by a) immediately and consistently sleeping 11 - 12 hours through the night and b) giving my dad my kidney so she could keep her husband for a little longer
My hips are all f*cked up....more so because I didnt realize that my pelvis was broken for almost 2 months. I was in crazy pain but was told several times that it was just because of her size and how rough the delivery was. She was my third child (1 previous c/s and 1 previous natural birth....I KNEW something was wrong. The only thing that made them realize it was something more was when i went in for a checkup, dragging my leg behind me, sobbing hysterically, as I limped into the office carrying the baby.
good gravy! what do they even do for that after it's been so long since the trauma occurred?1 -
All-natural childbirth. Nothing can ever compare after that.3
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Kidney stones. Worse than the pain from 2 c-section recoveries.2
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Broken ribs. Complete breaks. Nothing helps and everything hurts. Very painful.3
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AllOutof_Bubblegum wrote: »All-natural childbirth. Nothing can ever compare after that.
I have a friend who delivered 3 at home.. no meds no doctors... I would not recommend it but she is a nut case who is afraid of doctors.2 -
Too many . Im like a cat , i have 9 lives1
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when I was little I used to get these chest cramps that would hurt so bad that when I breathed in the pain would be almost unbearable to the point I almost would pass out or cry. It gradually stopped when I reached like 14 or 15...never found out why or what it was lol3
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Abscessed tooth with a cavity drilled too close to a nerve ending. I also have a lot of jaw problems that I'm getting corrected with surgery soon.1
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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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