Your most intense pain ever?

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  • daniellek30
    daniellek30 Posts: 171 Member
    I used to work in a FROYO joint, and when I was pouring the liquid mixture into the hopper of the machine, I must have overextended because I felt a sharp pain in my ribs.

    I could barely move, and so my husband took me to the hospital. They gave me two shots of dilaudid, and it didn't work for the pain. So after a TON of tests, apparently I tore the muscle that is attached to my rib cage. Very painful and to this day, 5 years later, I still get a dull ache if I press in the right spot!
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    Here's one for ya....It didn't happen to me, but to my brother-in-law's friend....they were out in the bush playing capture the flag. A group of them would go out old logging roads and find forested area with no trail to set up their boundaries. Anyway....he was running, but there was a little drop off.....because the height of the growth around him was about the same as the height of the taller bushes and trees coming up from the bottom of that mini cliff, he didn't realize the ground would drop off and just kept running. I picture this like Wiley Coyote running off a cliff and hanging in mid air while his legs keep running and then down he goes. Anyway...it wouldn't have been so bad if it weren't for the fact that there was a skinny, dead, branchless tree sticking straight up below him. He fell onto it straight up and down....straddled the thing. It pierced him right between his front and back bits.....gave him what we now fondly refer to as a "panus" (or maybe "painus" would be more accurate) since a new orifice was created at the halfway point. Rescue folk had to "top" the tree and leave it in to get him to the hospital....which would also have sucked. Luckily, although I'm sure he'd probably say that was the most painful thing to ever happen to him, his new "piercing" missed everything important on the way up and didn't cause any permanent organ damage. Yay!!
  • pie_eyes
    pie_eyes Posts: 12,964 Member
    Ive had some really debilitating headaches

    Then I started drinking
  • OneHundredToLose
    OneHundredToLose Posts: 8,523 Member
    One time when I was younger I had a large burn on my arm and I didn't change the bandage for like 2 weeks. I then had to rip my own skin off to get the bandage off. That was...awesome.
  • InfoomaousTete
    InfoomaousTete Posts: 1,383 Member
    Writing the college tuition checks for two boys! :D
  • miakristmann
    miakristmann Posts: 27 Member
    Running races with a herniated disk, would come through the finish line bawling my eyes out. Or soaking a very infected road burned foot bone exposed and all.
  • shank35l
    shank35l Posts: 102 Member
    GSW to the L. hip that cracked my illiac crest. Felt like some one hit me with a sledgehammer in the hip, then drove ice picks in for fun.
  • MarkaStone
    MarkaStone Posts: 55 Member
    Diverticulitis (Diverticular Disease) not something I'd wish on anyone felt like someone had ripped a hole in my side and was pouring lava into my guts.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    MarkaStone wrote: »
    Diverticulitis (Diverticular Disease) not something I'd wish on anyone felt like someone had ripped a hole in my side and was pouring lava into my guts.

    Abdominal pain is the worst @MarkaStone I have Crohn's and it's oh so fun
  • gabrielleelliott90
    gabrielleelliott90 Posts: 854 Member
    edited May 2016
    Probably Charlie horses
  • HoolaHoopsMcGee
    HoolaHoopsMcGee Posts: 2,749 Member
    SuperheroSadie wrote: »
    I snapped my tibia in half skateboarding. That hurt a lot. For a month straight.

    So did I!! Plus two places in my ankle. I was going to put that, but the gall stone pain was worse.
  • TJnTexas
    TJnTexas Posts: 44 Member
    Kidney Stones. Largest was 9MM. Ouch.
  • backontheattack
    backontheattack Posts: 3,178 Member
    In no particular order, getting methotrexate injecting into my bone marrow during chemo, migraines, and tearing my ACL, then trying to run on said torn ACL and having my knee give out again...
  • ROBOTFOOD
    ROBOTFOOD Posts: 5,527 Member
    When EA discontinued SKATE games. -__-
  • dozenmonkeyz
    dozenmonkeyz Posts: 150 Member
    Broke my tibia and fibia is a sort of twist fracture but was in shock so fast the pain wasn't terrible... until they set it by sitting me on the edge of a bed and letting it drop down and twisting my ankle back straight.

    But worse, was breaking my metacarpal bone in my hand behind the pinkie (boxer's fracture). To numb it before setting, they shot Novocaine straight into the marrow of the cross section of the bone. Instant white hot fire from my groin to my ears, only felt for a second before I passed out from the pain. Never felt anything like it and hope to never feel it again.

    So many awful stories in this thread but I can't help but read :p
  • meganjcallaghan
    meganjcallaghan Posts: 949 Member
    dozenmonkeyz wrote: »
    So many awful stories in this thread but I can't help but read :p

    riiiiiiiiiight? it's like a bad car accident....you don't WANT to see it. You just can't look away.

  • rockgoddess2016
    rockgoddess2016 Posts: 8,663 Member
    Childbirth
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  • kingjethro
    kingjethro Posts: 17 Member
    Got hit broadside by a car running a red light while on my bike. Got thrown about 30 feet. Shattered tibia, fibula, and ankle with a severe compound fracture. Unbelievable pain and nearly a year of recovery.

    Good times.
  • neldabg
    neldabg Posts: 1,452 Member
    edited May 2016
    So the top pain written here seems to be stones. I've promptly Goggled my risks of getting a stone. After reading these stories, I'm relieved to see that my risk is low.

    I guess I'm somewhat lucky in that the most intense pain I've ever contracted was a leg cramp. I'm not sure why it happens, but for as long as I can remember, every so often, in the middle of the night, I'll get a terrible leg cramp that's mostly in my calf. It usually goes away really fast, but there have been a time or two where the pain dragged on for a good hour or so. These cramps never last past the night though, thankfully.
  • ElenaYan
    ElenaYan Posts: 81 Member
    Lmao giving birth.
  • littlebrittfit
    littlebrittfit Posts: 27 Member
    Definitely childbirth.
  • trayborn114442
    trayborn114442 Posts: 57 Member
    Spinal headache.. Went in for surgery. The anesthesiologist hit a nerve while doing my spinal. I ended up missing two weeks of my child's entrance into the world because of it. I had to have two spinal injections to close the area where my spinal fluid was leaking. A migraine multiplied by 1 million.
  • strozman
    strozman Posts: 2,622 Member
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  • joolie1234
    joolie1234 Posts: 126 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.

    Lol I say this all the time! I was such an idiot. I kept passing out, I was so delirious with pain.

    My son broke his collarbone last week and told me it had to be more painful than childbirth. I laughed at him, but since I've never broken my collarbone and he'll never give birth, I guess we'll never know!
  • Ramlupa
    Ramlupa Posts: 111 Member
    my worst pain ever was probably bone pain. I have had many surgeries, owies, kids, kidney stones and bone pain I feel is the worst!
  • HStheBusyBee
    HStheBusyBee Posts: 1,366 Member
    Breaking my kneecap was pretty bad or having a root canal was torture when they hit a nerve. Way worse than childbirth! Having my son was actually not even in my top 3 for pain I've felt!
  • hdatres
    hdatres Posts: 635 Member
    1) c-section,......my first daughter was a C-section and my second daughter was natural, but when she passed through I ripped from the front to the back completely.having baby both ways I can say for myself ,the C-section was worse.
    2) tubal ligation,.... When I started to wake up from surgery my site was blurry and I thought I was on a spaceship and they had probed me, I would have to say that was very scary!!! I got my senses back and the nurse came over to ask how bad my pain was, I told her I felt like I was dying.two days later my (then ) husband told me I started to hemorrhage during the operation and they had to take extra procedures, whatever that was.
    3) knee operation ......I had a mass removed form my knee that cause some deterioration of the bone and cushion between my knee joints. I'm going to need a replacement but I'm only 40 so I'm holding off as long as I can. After I'm on my legs for a while it sends a shocking pain through my leg, because my bones are rubbing together.
    4) IBS...... Good old irritable bowel syndrome. Abdominal Pain ,yes and vomiting at times. Yay!
    Other than that I'm OK........ There are more people out there that have way worse problems than I do,I can get out of bed every morning. I can enjoy my friends and family, so I try to be optimistic. It's the only way to be.
  • hdatres
    hdatres Posts: 635 Member
    I was in a car accident slid on ice going down a mountain into a phone pool. The steering wheel bruised my chest and I had damage to my right lung. Thank God I didn't have any head injuries, but it was still outchy
  • hdatres
    hdatres Posts: 635 Member
    edited May 2016
    I was in a car accident. I slid down an icy mountain into a phone pool. The steering wheel bruised my chest and I had damage to my right lung. Thank God I didn't have any head injuries. But it was still Outchy

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