What's the worst pain you've ever felt?

[gcvt]

What's the worst physical pain you've ever felt?

I think mine has to be the sciatica due to the two herniated discs in my back. Next to that would probably be when I broke my thumb in junior high school.

How about you? (no pictures please!)

[Andy16]

I have been lucky enough to not have any significant accidents in my life that I can say qualifies for bad pain. I have felt bad physical exhaustion in a few bike races though. I guess you could consider being dehydrated and being sick and tired all at the same time while racing a bike a pain.

[Cearbhaill]

I took a pretty bad dog bite to the face in '88.
That didn't hurt at the time, and the first round of stitchery was ok (had to have scarring removed in a later surgery).
But the "swelled head" I woke up with the morning after was not to be believed. My head was twice it's size, green and purple, and would put a world of hurt on me if I tilted it even 1% of a degree.
PLUS- I had to give a days orientation to a new class of vet techs- I was the Director of the school, a full class was scheduled and no one else had a clue what I did on opening day.

So picture a classroom full of wide eyed newbies just waiting to get into the "animal game" and then a Franken'headed Director walks in and says "don't be alarmed- they very rarely bite you!!"
Yeah right.

I'd have to say back or neck pain is the worst in the way of stabbing, heartstopping pain. For the dull throbbing type I'd say a bad tooth.

My childbirth experience was a breeze.

I sort of take a perverse interest in pain and the range of tolerances that different cultures and people exhibit. When I am in pain myself I try to go with it, get the full sensation of what my body is trying to say to me, then tell my brain to turn off those receptors.

It's a field that needs much study.

[dolphin7]

I've experienced several fractures in jumping & dressage. I must say the worst hit I've experienced was when I busted my ribs. Breathing was extremely hard & I couldn't stand up straight.

[ChicoRaton]

I'll have to go with phosphoric acid hittinf a nerve in my tooth in the dental chair... that was excruciating but only lasted a couple seconds.

Long term pain, my bike wreck two years ago.. flew over my bike, bike flew over me, tumbled down a steep embankment, got stopped by a friendly tree stump to the skull:P lots of gashed and a nice big bruise on my knoee... my mountain bike didn't look so hot either.

[125gJoe]

http://www.wesclark.com/am/ramshorn.jpg Sorry about the pic, but it helps..

As a kid, peddling as fast as I could, I had slipped off one on the peddles. The impact on the seat was incredible.... Took several to many hours to recover. :eek:

[Hans]

i think i will win, one of my "things" twisted all the way around... i cant explain teh pain, but most people pass out it hurts so much, luckly i got mine back around manualy... probably the scariest experiance of my life, i had surgery on them the next month so it will never happen again, im just lucky i twisted it back the right way!!!!!!

[Watcher74]

The worst pain I've experienced(and I've been bit by dogs, ripped open by razor wire, cracked my skull, etc.) was my first and only experience with Chris Oak.

Chris Oak is that black tar stuff that saturates telephone polls to keep them from rotting. It's a carcinogenic and acidic.

I was working for my father replacing telephone polls in the oil fields for the power cables to pumping units. I had to hold one end of the poles steady while the backhoe carried it to a trailer.

It was well over a 100 degrees and the insides of my arms started burning(where I had been resting them on the poles), slowly getting more and more intense. After a while the pain was almost unbearable. My teeth were clenched and I paced around and around in a circle trying to ignore the pain of my flesh boiling away on my arms.

I asked my father if I could go home early to try and scrub it off. He looked at his watch and said, "Nope. We've still got three more hours."

Ate off all my flesh on the insides of my forearms. I had huge scabs instead of skin.

But, hey, it builds character.

[Rockin_Sunset]

i think the worst pain i have had is when i was playing soccer for my middle school team. i was the goalie and really good at it. this one time there was a large girl kicking the ball and she kicked it but it didn't get to the goal line so i ran for it and got it but i fell so i was on top of it and she decided to try and kick the ball under me. well, she kicked my ribs instead and then fell right on top of me. i was so :mad: i could not get up but, once i could i went up to her and asked her "what the *!#* were you thinking?" but there was no other goalie so i had to keep playing. at least we won.(i am glad the ref didn't here me.)

[Bucho]

Worst pain I ever felt was when I tore the cartiledge in my knee. I stepped in a hole as I was turning and running. It sounded and felt like my knee exploded. Couldn't bend it for two weeks. Turned out to be a minor injury, minor surgery and a day on crutches. Tore my ACL a year later, a worse injury, but there wasn't any pain. I kept trying to play, but I kept falling over.

[val]

Originally posted by Watcher74

I asked my father if I could go home early to try and scrub it off. He looked at his watch and said, "Nope. We've still got three more hours."

Ate off all my flesh on the insides of my forearms. I had huge scabs instead of skin.

But, hey, it builds character.

Well, unless there's a lot more to this story than what you're telling us, I'd say it's your dad that needs a lesson in character.

Val

[jamjarjames]

the worst pain ive had was only a few months ago. i got toxic plant sap in my eyes. The effect was that i couldn't even open my eyes for the pain. I was rushed to hospital is it has a potential to blind where my eyes were constantly being rinsed with chemicals and examined for damage. The worst thing is no matter how much you wash your eyes with water it makes no diffrence. The pain lasted about a week before at last i could properly open my eyes. I know realise how much we take for granted being able to see things it really does "open your eyes" so to speak!

[valerie]

The worse pain i have ever felt is from having viral meningitis(sp?). It was the worse headaches i have ever had(and I always have headaches). Its like your head is going to explode. With every beat of your pluse it gets worse. PLus your neck hurts so much you can barely move. I also get headaches from low spinal fluid pressure and the meningitis is 100x worse. Good thing there is nothing the Docs can do for it :rolleyes:

I'm also facinated by pain tolerances. I have been sick most of my life and have to dela with daily pain. It takes a lot more pain for me to be worried about it then i think it would take otehr people. I"m always amazed when people complain of regualr headaches or back pain. THey would probably die if i gave them my pain. I wonder if pain tolerances are you you are born with or if you develope them the more you are exposed?

[dolphin7]

I think you develop them the more you are exposed, similar to emotional tenacity.

[Dangerdoll]

cramps.... definitely cramps (sorry ;) )

[Rockin_Sunset]

think about it this way. if you get a headache at least you know your head is there. :D :laugh:

[happychem]

Yesterday was day 2 of the first outdoor Ultimate tourney of the season. Well, not counting the "Tournament of Fools" played in the snow. Thursday my left leg picked up what I thought was shin splints. But Sunday it hurt to walk, but if I was on the field, I didn't feel anything (a cross between lots of ibuprofen and focus). I tried taping the leg, I've heard that's what you should do for shin splints, when I finished taping and tried to put weight on it, blinding pain shot up my leg. That may be the worst I've ever felt. Needless to say, I untaped it before going back on the field. I'm getting it looked at today for some more professional advice.

I am equally fascinated by pain. Somewhere in me is a balance between it being the body's way of telling you that something's not right and "don't let your body push you around". Frankly I think that our society (as a whole) is becoming less and less tolerant to pain. Softer and woosier, as it were.;)

[tomm10]

Most of my worst pain stuff comes from mountain biking. I've scooped out skin from my legs with the pedals and taken numerous wipe outs. The worst pain though was from a rather abrupt meeting between my @ss and the saddle. I had raised off of the saddle over a bumpy section to save my butt. unfortunately whatever I hit shot the rear end of the bike up like a rocket causing the narrow, harder portion of the seat strike my tailbone with a pretty amazing amount of force.

I usually have a pretty high pain threshold but this made me stop the bike and have a good cry. Not a blubbery, "Oh my God its NSYNC!" kind of cry but the involuntary eye watering. It was pretty intense.

I'm not sure If I broke it because I'm a knuckle head and never saw a doctor (Hey doc I think i broke my @ss! Can you put it in a cast?). The immediate pain was nothing compared with the following years worth of shooting pain every time I got up from a chair. The blood rushing back to the tailbone would make me whelp a little when I stood up.

Tom

[OrionGirl]

Hmmm...I've more scars that the average person, so can recall an awful lot of painful experiences. Some had more immediate pain that faded quickly, others were less painful but lasted longer. For immediate, sharp pain, I really couldn't identify one that was worse--this kind of pain is easy to sublimate. I've broken bones, hyper-extended and partially dislocated joints, ripped off more skin than I care to think about, fallen in cactuses, fallen in glass on tile floors, burns (chemical and heat--chemical are worse!), roadrash, stinging insects, etc. All were bright, immediately painful, but nothing too bad.

I had 'growing pains' from the 3rd grade to the 8th grade--went from average height to 5'11, and my shins and ankles couldn't keep up with it--constant, dull, throbbing aches every day for 5 years. Spent 2 months with a shoulder dislocation that wouldn't heal before having surgery--every movement of my right arm hurt. Prone to migraines (the real deal--sensitivity to light, puking, etc). Have to say, given my choice, I'd much prefer a quick, sharp pain to the lower level ones that grind on for days or weeks or years.

[dwayne]

I've had my fair share of pains and accidents...

In 4th grade, my neighbor's German Shepard bit my forearm and would not let go (he was usually the friendliest dog, and we always played w/ him and he loved to have his belly rubbed... but apparently he was in a foul mood that day... I never saw him again :( ). He was clamped on so tight I couldn't pull my arm out - he was sitting perfectly still though, not thrashing around... I yelled out for my dad and he came out, kicked the dog in the belly and he let go. I still have the scars from that bite. I think the stitching up hurt more than the actual bite, but that could have been just because I was in shock while he was biting me.

I threw out my back one Saturday morning while making the bed (**** hospital corners!) My husband was out playing b-ball, so I had to lie on the bedroom floor for 3 hours (!!) till he got home to help me up. Sadly the cordless phone was in the other room. Luckily the remote control was only a pillow-toss away :)

Just this morning the drawer of my nightstand fell off the runner and onto the second toe of my right foot. I cursed and screamed and cried *&!!@$, and now it's swollen and purple. I'm wearing sneakers right now and just biding my time until my manager realizes I don't have on 'proper footwear' :)

Childbirth wasn't bad at all. Thank god for epidurals. Though I did have about 4 hours of very painful contractions before I got the epidural, but the contractions weren't nearly as painful as most people describe them... Dangerdoll I'm with you - I've had some monthly cramps that were worse than those contractions!!!!

~Tara

[geoffgarcia]

I broke my nose
went in for the operation to fix it
they cut up my insides and did a few other things while they were in there (minor cosmetic stuff + turbanectemoy + cleared my passages of massive polyp infestations) anyway
they stuff ur nose with gauze....about 10ft per nostril or so it seems
the doc was under the impression he should leave it in for quite a bit of time, and I didn't know any better to second guess him

so...after 3-4 days from all the bleeding in my nose every single nose hair I had fused to the gauze
The doc couldn't pull it out fast because it would rip my face off (exageration) so he pulled out the gauze hair by hair...

[becky_e]

My worst pain was definitely childbirth, not the actual crowning, but the contractions before I got the epidural. I was in labor for 8 hours before I got my drugs ;)

My second worst pain was viral meningitis, like valerie! I came down with it 6 weeks before my wedding, it was so awful. I had a cluster headache behind both eyes, the migraine band around my head and my headache went down into my shoulders. Before I had any idea what was happening I took Tylenol, ibuprophen and aspirin and the pain still didn't go away. I had never heard of meningitis before.

When I was taken to the emergency room, I got a spinal tap (oh joy) and they told me the illness had to run its course, but it wouldn't kill me :(

[Sensei_the_dojo]

1985. The day of the first "Live Aid Concert" to pinpoint it. I was working at McDonald's and tripped over something "I" had placed on the floor. :rolleyes: My right arm went into a deep fryer. Second degree grease burns almost up to my elbow. They say I screamed so loud that several people in the restaurant didn't finish their meals.

I've also had some real nasty lower back spasms, and an occasional bout with assteroids that would make me swear my rear was stuffed with broken razor blades. :sad

[skippy2]

I don't know which pain was worse. The day I went through the windsheild and bounced off a tree is certainly near the top of my list. Compound fracture of my left arm, sliced half of my middle finger off (when my children were younger I told them a rabbit ate it for lunch), fractured my jaw and a concussion . Thirty yrs. later I still have problems with my arm and jaw.

Or, maybe the top of the list should be when I slipped on a piece of ice going down a flight of outdoor stairs. I only had 3 or 4 more steps to get to the bottom when I slipped. I landed on both knees in front of a wooden column. How I didn't slam my face into it I will never know. I heard a horrible crunching sound and couldn't move. My friend came over and helped me up and into the car. He kept asking me if I wanted to go to the hospital, but I just wanted to go home. A few hrs later an ambulance was called and I had surgery on my fractured hip. It's 7 yrs. and 3 surgeries later and I still can't walk without a cane.

Having babies was child't play compared to the rest of my 'mishaps'.

[Leopardess]

Oh good grief all of those sound really painful.

Thankfully, I'm very accident-proof. Very lucky. No stitches, no broken bones. Couple of sprains in the ankle.

I'd say the worst pain I've felt (that I can remember) is either:

Two months ago, I kept getting charlie horses in my leg. Right smack-dab in the middle of my calf muscle. I know it doesn't sound like much (and most cramps like that aren't that bad), but I had 3-4 that month on different days that I can't even describe. I woke up with each one, screaming and already in tears. They wouldn't go away and there was nothing I could do about it except lie there and writhe. It sounds so stupid now, but it was seriously sooo painful. Once I thought the second one was over, I went to get up to get a drink, scooted to the edge of the bed, went to get up and BAM. I guess it didn't go away after all. It started it up all over again and I toppled over and had to have Chris pick me back up.

Or:

When I was in first grade, my dog got loose and I went chasing after him on my bike. We lived on a loop so when he came back to our house he quickly turned left and went straight down the driveway like a good boy. Well, I apparently wasn't so quick on the turn and ran my front tire right into the end of the rockwall that lined the driveway. The bike flipped over and the next thing I know, I'm laying stomach-down on the rockwall, my bike is on top of me, and I've got a rock poking through the skin of my chin. I couldn't open my mouth and I had to eat out of a straw for the rest of the week.

[jamjarjames]

i surpose my worst looking injury was when i fell 10ft out of a tree when a branch gave way i hit concrete chest first and luckly didn't break any ribs but i got my front tooth stuck through my lip. i had to got to hospital and have my lip and tooth seperated and get sown up. 6 years later i still have the scar. The only other thing i did was bruise my bone in my knee where it hit the concrete and cut the palm of my hand after trying to grap bits of the tree on the way down. It didn't look pretty a mouth full of blood and a bit of tooth protruding with blood dripping off it. However it didn't hurt that much so i gues it doesn't class just sounds painful

[tomm10]

Oooh just thought of a good one. It goes along with OG's idea of prefering brief, sharp pains over the lingering dull ones.

In college all the design students had studio space in a high rise type building. A few classmates and I were scavenging the building for supplies and found a closed floor used for storage. Very little light, lotsa crap everywhere. We each managed to find a big drafting arm to attach to our tables in our studios and proceeded to walk out with the monstrosities.

Well, I mentioned it was dark which is why I didn't see the piece of electrical conduit sticking out of the floor. My shoe lace wrapped around it when I was in full stride stopping my feet immediately. My first instinct was to throw the drafting arm away (landing on it would have been BAD) but that didn't give me enough time to get my hands back in front of me to break my fall. I landed, with all my weight, flat on my chest. Knocked the wind out of me good and hurt like heck.

Of course because of my knuckle head status I never went to a doctor over this either. It was a month before I could sleep on my side, laugh, breath deeply, move without thinking about it first, etc.

Tom

[Lila]

So. I would have to say all four labors and deliveries. Of course, all of them were unique in pain from each other.

Yeah. That's it.

;)

Lila

[sprite42]

Childbirth wasn't that bad, I have a very high pain tolerance. Getting run over by a car and acquiring 2 broken ribs, a broken collar bone, and a broken should bone was painful, but tolerable.

Having my nose broken, another rib broken and a vertibrae in my neck cracked was also painful, but tolerable.

The absolute worst pain I have ever felt in my whole life (I am over 40) was having to bury my 9 year old son's beloved dog, in the rain with him watching and crying. I never want to go through that ever again. I was the worst thing I have ever had to do and 'hands down' the most painful.

[happychem]

The crushing pain of heartbreak, and the subsequent toying with of emotions...

...man I hated being a teenager!:rolleyes:

[Lila]

I would have to say... finding out kids at school are picking on my son because he's autistic. He's such a nice and polite boy. His friends mean everything to him. Even if they really aren't his friends, they are to him and he loves them.

I now have to teach him that not everyone are his friend. I have to find a way to prepare him, as well as myself, to be picked on and bullied.

Kids, they are as cruel as they were when I was younger. But I never, never picked on someone who was different in that way. Never.

:(

Lila

[Snake Eyez]

Originally posted by Lila Boffins
I would have to say... finding out kids at school are picking on my son because he's autistic. He's such a nice and polite boy. His friends mean everything to him. Even if they really aren't his friends, they are to him and he loves them.

I now have to teach him that not everyone are his friend. I have to find a way to prepare him, as well as myself, to be picked on and bullied.

Kids, they are as cruel as they were when I was younger. But I never, never picked on someone who was different in that way. Never.

:(

Lila

Kids, can be and will be cruel. I use to pick on kids back in the day, but I'm a more enlightened person now. Not proud of it, and I wish I could take the insults back.

Sorry to hear about you son. Dealing with kids must be hard enough, and that's not even dealing with a kid that has special needs. Kids will pick one what they don't understand.

[Rockin_Sunset]

Hey happy-Being a teenager does stink everyonce in a while.

[RioXingu]

Watcher74
Chris Oak=creosote?

This most common of wood preservers is a distillate of coal tar and contains many nasty chemicals, and definitely is a serious skin irritant.

happychem--
yep, I agree, the broken heart is something else.

Bill in WI

[Slannesh]

Leopardess: I wouldn't discount a 'charlie horse' so quickly.

I used to get them quite frequently and with increasing intensity untill I found out what often causes them. Potassium defincency. I have grown to love bannanas :)

The worst one I ever had seized up my entire calf muscle for 15 minutes and ripped a hole approximately 2 inches deep and wide right in the middle of the muscle, When I got to the emergency clinic the first doctor I saw took one look at my calf, which by now was the size of my thigh (no small feat :) ) promptly turned white and bolted out of the room to get a more senior doctor. (I found out later that she thought I was bleeding out internally) Ultrasound later indicated that it was swelling up a lot but the bleeding wasn't as bad as they first thought. Even so my leg from lower thigh to my toes turned dark dark purple and I was bedridden for about a week with icepacks and drugs for the swelling. To this day I still get occasional 'twinges" in my calf that really freak me out.

[Must4ng s4lly]

Yeah, Leopardess, Ditto to slannesh... ny hubby has had these so bad we went to the emergency room b/c we thought he had a blood clot! YYeow! What will REALLY help is taking daily calcium, Potassium anad magnesium. It may take 3 months to totally heal. These three things have really helped my hubby!

Now on to pain.... the worst was Nose & throat surgery! Had a golfball size cyst removed from my throat at the same time I had the sinus (deviated septum) surgery discussed earlier. OUCH!

I have to say I have had some good accidents when I was a kid, but never any broken bones... have sprained my ankle a bunch of times and had my foot crushed (not broken tho') by a guy while playing volleyball. Made the emergency nurse sick! LOL!
I think you all have me beat!

I do understand the chronic dull pain thing tho.... I have fibromyalgia pretty bad and my legs (sides of thighs and shins) and my back and neck always hurt. Can't explain it... sometimes achy, sometimes feels like a bad bruise... I get massages every week for it...

[Leopardess]

Slannesh - I know! I don't discount them because I've had them and I know how bad they hurt (at least the really big ones)! But when I tell other people I usually get, "Eh, it's just a muscle cramp. No big deal." :eek:


"I used to get them quite frequently and with increasing intensity untill I found out what often causes them. Potassium defincency. I have grown to love bannanas."

You know, my dad said that to me, and I didn't believe him at first. But I tried it and now I haven't had one since. Plus, I've heard it mentioned a few times, too.

[Must4ng s4lly]

Good Leopardess! I am glad the Potassium works.... For my hubby it took all the other stuff too. I think the Calcium has finally helped him, but man, those things are HORRIBLE! He almost drown one time from a Charlie Horse he had....He ripped the muscle in his leg too and it took about three months to heal...

[skippy2]

My mom is 84 and deals with leg cramps at least 3 or 4 times a week. Of course, it's always about 3 in the morning. She doesn't want to wake my dad up (85) so she gets on the computer. :lol: all the calcium and bananas aren't helping her.

[Rocketman]

I'll keep it short, but...

12 years old I was hit in the nose with a pitched baseball. It was practice so I wasn't wearing a helmet. Haven't played catcher since.

Few months ago I had been sick with back pain (which I'd had about 5 years prior, growing pains I guess,) and in bed. I stood up to get out of bed when my legs gave out. I sat on the floor crying in pain, practically unable to speak, until my brother found me. I was taken to the hospital (I was unable to move/feel the lower part of my body,) where they thought I had menigetus. For awhile my temp was hovering about 104, and I was sweating profusly yet shivering and asking (whether anyone understood me...???) for more blankets. Finally they gave me some knockout painkiller, and came back in 5 minutes and asked if it helped. I told them no, so they said they would put more in my IV. That knocked me out for the next 5 hours...
I was on 4 Motrin every 4 hours for the next 2 weeks. Only time I ever took painkillers. Strangely enough, my back pain has never returned.

Just finished with physical therapy for a knee that's been out for about 6 months. The cartiledge is grinding and I've been unable to walk on it until I started physical therapy to rebuild all my atrophied muscles. 2 months later I was 30% better (considered "remarkable"), out of physical therapy and with strong enough muscles so I don't have to use the joint, but with reassurences that knee surgery is imminent.

[Nippy]

Mine are nothing compared to some of the others on here. My oopherectomy(ovary removal) surgery was probably painful at the time, tho' I don't remember much of it(morphine, heh). Other than that, the time the screen door slammed shut and the handle rammed right into the middle of my bicep wins some points. That hurt so bad I actually screamed. Another one would be ulcer pains. Feels like someone's stabbing you in the gut over and over again. :sad

[got_nailed]

I would have to say it would be living with a shoulder that would dislocate about 3 times a week or the 2 days after I had it operated on.

[vato]

The worst pain I've ever been in was when I ruptured my spleen. The worst part about it was that I didn't know that it was ruptured, and the doctor said it was a couple broken ribs. The pain lasted about 5 days untill I was rushed to the hospital with severe enternal bleeding. I was literally minutes from dying when I got into the operating room.

[Guy W]

Originally posted by gcvt
What's the worst physical pain you've ever felt?


Kidney Stones, about a year and a half ago...

[Somethingsfishy]

Slicing my thumb open while cutting up an orange :(

[got_nailed]

Kidney stones are nothing. I had 15 stones in 3 weeks. Yes it was painful and a bit bloody but not as bad as a join popping back into it’s socket.

[OrionGirl]

:) I've had sloppy joints for most my life--first time I went into therapy it was for a hyperextended/partially dislocated shoulder (not comfy, but not as bad as it gets). During the evaluation, the therapist wanted to make sure I wasn't hurting myself--said my injured range of motion was way more than a normal persons. Asked me to repeat all the moves on my uninjured side--and he was revolted, couldn't watch some of them. I've had to work at reducing my range of motion in both shoulders and hips--best way to prevent them from becoming a problem in a few years. Muscle development would not work in the long term.

Before I had my right shoulder operated on, it would slide partially out of socket. You could see the difference, and I had several friends trained in pulling it back into place. Not the screaming pain of a dislocation, just a constant ache.

[Finaddictfred]

2nd & 3rd degree burns to my right forearm..the removal of the dead tissue every day for 7 weeks was the most pain I have ever felt. You are in such pain that you cannot even scream..you just lay there either passed out or in shock while they scrub the wound clean and redress it. There is no pain that can comapre to this..it goes beyong bone deep..it affects you to the soul

[Dangerdoll]

ugh.... thaat makes me want to pass out just hearing about it.... :(

[skippy2]

Finaddictfred: omg, that is so awful. I wish I hadn't complained in my post. I hope you are doing better. If not, I hope you at least have some great drugs.

[Must4ng s4lly]

OK Finaddicted wins! HOOO WAAA! OOOOOUUUUCCCHHH!
I am in pain from thinking about it... I will never complain again after that one...I always knew burns were really bad, but oh gosh and that was just your arm, not whole body! Yeeeowch! I hope it is OK now...

[Leopardess]

Sorry to be graphic...but it is a pain thread...sooo

Speaking of burns, I was watching some emergency room show and a guy had been burned (1st, 2nd, and 3rd degree burns) really bad all over his legs from the waist down. It was gruesome. The worst part was when they were helping fix the problem. They took what resembled a meat slicer and set it on 2" thickness and proceeded to slide it down his legs and remove the top 2" of flesh all the way around in slabs. They then put the "slicer" on extra thin and used to remove donor skin from other parts of the body which they then ran through something similar to a pasta maker that perforated the skin to allow it to cover an area twice as large as the original graft (pretty good idea, I thought). Then, as finaddict mentioned, they had to keep removing the bandages and scrubbing the legs. It was AWFUL to watch and I can't imagine how much it hurt to endure, so yah, that's pretty bad, finaddict!

[Dangerdoll]

UGH...... LEO!!!! that IS awful!!! how could you even watch it!!! I remember a few weeks ago, a friend of mine's whose mother has diabetes and is bed-ridden had a huge (and I mean huge) blister on her leg and when the nurse was looking at it and cleaning it...... I had to kneel onm the floor before I went head first..... just thinking about it is getting me dizzy and hyperventilating..... where did that sick icon go.... (no comments from Lila please, I'll get it there after I leave work ;) )

[skippy2]

My son-in-law loves the reality er shows. The more graphic the better. I just discovered Nip and Tuck on the Fx channel. At least I get Chris's bare bottom along with the gore.:laugh: :laugh:

[kmgriff72]

Having your c-section incision reopened with no anesthesia then, having all of the infection scraped out. A procedure which is usually done under anesthesia but they would not bump any surgical cases to get me in. It was done on an exam table in a room on the OB floor. Oh well, it was worth it to get the end result, a beautiful healthy baby boy.

[fishcatch22]

well, i've only lived sixteen years so far, so the worst pain i've ever felt was probably popping my knee the first time. I howled for hours!
(wow, someones been doing a bit of digging!)

[cheech]

ear infection . ..

Last year when I got back from vacation... went a little too deep in the water and it caused the infection. . . .


My whole face, ear, shoulder, head, jaw, teeth, were absolutely killing me. .

took tylenol, codeine, antibiotics, went to the hospital twice...

5 sleepless nights, constant unbareable pain...

never in a million years would I have thought that an ear infection would cause that much pain. . . .

I don't wish that upon anyone!!!

[dorkfish]

Like fish catch, I haven't lived very long, but the worst so far was when I got my cut open arm frozen before being stiched up. I almost kicked the guy who was doing it.

[fish_freak]

Definately a Direct Blow to the family jewels. Its impposible to describe the pain of getting hit or kicked there. Your whole body just has this insane pain felling. Ive had cuts, breaks, ear infections, sinititus, pretty good burns and nothing compares to it. Burns is close but to me that is the worst.

[bettagurl]

im not sure which was more painful,i got hit by a car that broke two ribs.or when i was at the beach recently and got stung by 3 or 4 tentacles of a jellyfish(it had gotten washed up after a hurrican)this kind of jellyfish kills animals and in rare cases people,i had a bad reaction to it(im really alergic to jellyfish),it felt like my skin was being burnt off my throat,chest and arm.i had welts for about a week or two where the tentacals got stuck to me.i wasnt a happy person.

[jm1212]

sometimes i get migranes. if i dont take pain meds fast enough ill throw up before they start working.
ive got a really bad knee, that really lets me know when its had enough, especially when i go mountain biking with my grandparents.

[rbishop]

I'd go with the OP from two years ago. I have had two L5-S1 surgeries. On both of them, I was all but incapacitated the day I went to the hospital.

[sumthin fishy]

Worst pain in the world? A broken heart :(

[bettagurl]

poor SF..........oh and i forgot,the next worse pain is i have migranes,anyone who has them knows pain.

[Chickieepooh2u]

Oh, a gall Bladder attack. No question. It is indescribable.

[gst4life]

The worst pain I felt is when I broke both bones in my wrist. Didnt hurt at first, went to hospital, they put me on a 1 HOUR WAIT, my wrist felt like you got a hammer and banged your arm, it was that bad. I was literally almost passed out.

[naps]

KIDNEY STONES!!!! You never know what pain is until you get a tube put...well use your imagination :eek:

[boofish2]

Natural Child Birth - ALL 30 HOURS OF IT..... Think poop, think bowling ball,
and when I say bowling ball I mean bowling ball size AND weight...oh then theres the stitches thereafter - think FIRE :)
Can't wait for #2 :clap:
Oh, oops, how could I forget about the failed epidoural?! Instead of the needle going right in to the center of my spine (fun) she missed and hit the nerve to the left of my spine yea!!!
Nothing like pooping out a bowling ball with one numb leg :D

[zoo york 207]

my worst pain was when i got credit carded by my skateboard olling a gap man you dont know pain! i couldn't walk straight for weeks.

[plah831]

wow, this is a great thread! Thanks to kmgriff for digging it back up.

Like others have said, I get migraines all too often. Yep, the pain is so bad it makes me throw up. Luckily for me, I can take a prescription medication and it works for me (costs $20 a pill, though, ouch!). Others can't do a dang thing about them but suffer through it. In those situations, I can understand wanting to put a gun to your head to stop feeling anything. I heard someone say that on a documentary about headaches.

I met a gal last summer who gets stomach migraines! I had never heard of them, but for weeks her stomach will spasm uncontrollably. She can't keep any food or liquids down. She's gone to the hospital several times and they can do nothing for her, except give her IV fluids to keep her alive. Her roommate got eye migraines, where her vision will blur and she can't study or drive for days. It usually happens along with a headache, poor girl.

So comparitively, I'm lucky. Never thought I'd say that about having migraine headaches.

oh, my goodness. Some of you guys' stories about pain sound awful. Stitches bursting, natural childbirth. You must feel so much stronger after having gone through that.

[jencrane63]

Definitely getting the novacaine shots at the dentist they are excrutiating. I even cried. :sad:

[Swiftwind]

I've experienced several fractures in jumping & dressage. I must say the worst hit I've experienced was when I busted my ribs. Breathing was extremely hard & I couldn't stand up straight.

Ouch! :( I've broken my tail bone from a jumping accident (the horse majorly acted up and cat-lept over the jump and continued to gallop off) - now that was painful!! I also broke my ankle when I slipped off the side of an 18hh horse when he decided to be a broncho horse and buck 6 times in a row! That was so painful and it's been like 1 1/2 years since the accident and my ankle still feels just as bad some days.

[Chickieepooh2u]

Natural Child Birth - ALL 30 HOURS OF IT..... Think poop, think bowling ball,
and when I say bowling ball I mean bowling ball size AND weight...oh then theres the stitches thereafter - think FIRE :)
Can't wait for #2 :clap:
Oh, oops, how could I forget about the failed epidoural?! Instead of the needle going right in to the center of my spine (fun) she missed and hit the nerve to the left of my spine yea!!!
Nothing like pooping out a bowling ball with one numb leg :D

LMAO!!! Been there done that! Last Epi failed with me too...same thing happened. HAHA (Never had bad labor though. Longest one was 6 hours...3 pushes, last one 2 hours and no pushes. lol (Nurses delivered her)

[debaric]

the worst pain i've ever felt was losing my first fish, a pretty little zebra danio. :thud:

[plah831]

the worst pain i've ever felt was losing my first fish, a pretty little zebra danio. :thud:
:(

[kmgriff72]

Thanks for what????? The subject was worst pain ever felt...... I answered it. :)

[plah831]

I just didn't know you you found this thread again. It's almost two years old :D

I know old polls pop up on the homepage, but not threads :huh:

[Lobo.]

getting a stress fracture around mile 2 in a 3 mile race, then finishing the race in less than 20mins on a cracked tibia... i was so pissed off that soo many people were passing me that i just kept goin....

[mostlycichlids]

Mine would have to be When I broke both of my colar bones at the same time in a moped accident some a hole hit me. Although it only hurt when it first happened. Too bad it was a hit and run.

[kmgriff72]

Oh, sorry, I was bored and just started reading forums. I didn't even look at when it was started. Oh well, maybe people who answered 2 yrs ago now have a new "worst pain" lol.

[plah831]

cool! That must have taken some reading to get to it!

Not a problem at all, especially for General Chit Chat. It's only lame when someone responds to a thread with a suggestion, when a fish had a problem years ago :D

I'm glad you resurrected this one. It's very interesting, but sad. I feel bad hearing about everyone going through all that pain, but it's revealing nonetheless :)

[rosita]

two compete:
1) riding my horse in the icy cold, she spooked at birds rising up and spun into a sapling with big old bare briars; it smacked forward from her, then slammed into/across my face. Blood on the saddle for sure, small rips across my flesh, hurt like a big dog.
2) hearing my ex-husband tell me that he wanted to have sex with other women, preferably strangers, and I hadn't turned out to be the woman he thought I was (after 17 yrs) so he wanted a divorce. Literally physical pain, like I'd been kicked in the stomach, my heart wrenched from my chest, and my brain exploded.

[mostlycichlids]

two compete:
1) riding my horse in the icy cold, she spooked at birds rising up and spun into a sapling with big old bare briars; it smacked forward from her, then slammed into/across my face. Blood on the saddle for sure, small rips across my flesh, hurt like a big dog.
2) hearing my ex-husband tell me that he wanted to have sex with other women, preferably strangers, and I hadn't turned out to be the woman he thought I was (after 17 yrs) so he wanted a divorce. Literally physical pain, like I'd been kicked in the stomach, my heart wrenched from my chest, and my brain exploded.
wow Im sorry that must have been terrible and The birds that sucks.

[starrystarstarr]

having surgery with no anesthesia :(

[plah831]

Literally physical pain, like I'd been kicked in the stomach, my heart wrenched from my chest
I hear ya, rosita. Having my heart broken definitely feels like I become hollow inside. It is absolutely a physical sensation. So sorry that happened to you :(
*hugs*

[vidiots]

I've had numerous broken bones, stiches and pulled muscles. But the worst pain I've ever felt is hard to describe. Last year I came down with something that was causing my muscles to twitch and tighten while I was sleeping. It got to the point where most of my major muscles were literally tearing themselves. I had troubles even standing, or picking up something to drink. I endured multiple doctors doing countless tests and they couldn't find the cause. All they could do is give me pain killers that were so strong, they made me so sick I couldn't take them anymore. After a couple months of torture, it went away on it's own as mysteriously as it came on.

[skippy2]

2) hearing my ex-husband tell me that he wanted to have sex with other women, preferably strangers, and I hadn't turned out to be the woman he thought I was (after 17 yrs) so he wanted a divorce. Literally physical pain, like I'd been kicked in the stomach, my heart wrenched from my chest, and my brain exploded.[/QUOTE]


The worst pain was having the police come to my house and telling me my husband died. That literally tore my heart right out of my chest.
That was not quite 19 yrs. ago.

[plah831]

oh, skippy, I'm terribly sorry. That's my worst fear in the world :(

[rosita]

Man I'm amazed at the pains we have personally experienced or seen---jeez, how could you watch that dude get his layers of burned flesh cut? Aiyeeee.
Taking pain---for a year I had a rarely found appendix stone rolling around creating infection that slowly leaked into the abdom cav; always just sort of sick but not totally; when it ruptured I was at work (school) and just thought it was the old IBS acting up--lived with that pain for 5 days, ended up at home in bed in agony, so delirious I didn't realize how bad the pain was--no sleep, couldn't keep water down, and just mere hours from death (peritonitis?)a friend came and took me to the emergency room. I think the truck ride was the most painful, I felt every pebble in the road!!! Ever since I can't get enough water--I could live in it!!!!

[flyte00]

Well my most horrible pain was definatly when I woke up from my ileostomy surgery. They took out my entire large intestine and gave me a fun bag instead.
The epidural didn't do crap. I cannot begin to explain how much it hurt. I was literally gutted.. lol. Incision is from just above my belly button and goes all the way down. (I plan to tell people I was attacked by ninjas.)
I can't explain the pain though. Was just this rediculous oh my god someone shoot me in the head horrible pain. I couldn't even talk, just cried and cried like a baby. The nurses told me that childbirth should be a breeze compared to what I was going through so I guess thats good :/
Fortunatly after about 2 days of this they decided hey her epidural isn't working lets try something else and started giving me better drugs. I went home after just 6 days and did great. For my second surgery(the reversal) last month, I told them if they tried an epidural again I'd kill them. They gave me a morphine pump instead. woohoo!!
I'm doing GREAT now!! Was SO worth it.

[Emg]

In this order........

Childbirth...(made it through the first one with no meds at all...hardest thing I ever did in my life..good thing I was in great shape at the time) I have a small pelvis, childbirth for me was NEVER an easy thing.

A gall bladder attack....I got up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and all of a sudden it felt like someone was driving a knife right through my back and it was coming out my chest. I sat on the bathroom floor gasping for breath thinking...."geesh, my husband is going to come in here in the morning and find me dead on the floor !" Lasted about 20 minutes then it just went away. I got up and went back to bed...never did get that checked out... :rolleyes: )

Inflamation of the lining of my lung...can't remember what that's called....happened after the C-section for my 2nd child. (Oh yeah, first time out of bed after THAT surgery !!! couldn't figure out why they brought 2 nurses in when I said I had to use the can, till I tried to stand. :eek: )......anyway.... Guess I wasn't using that breather thing often enough. Knifelike pain in my chest everytime I breathed in and when I tried to lay down to go to sleep. I didn't sleep for 4 days because I couldn't lay down. Went in the hospital for that for about 4 or 5 days, can't remember.

[fauna]

Dislocating my ankle in Taekwondo class with a jump side kick gone terribly wrong. When I popped it back in myself the pain went away - until the next morning.
2nd worst is some of the migraines that I have had. I am so grateful for the meds for those things now!!!!

Susan

[S.A.]

Two miscarriages... worst pain in the world, losing your babies.

After that, a case of shingles.

[DawnieGA2006]

Well, Let's see - Worst pain I would have to say for me - Migraines - I would rather give birth than have these headaches !!!!

Other than that I have been through several surgeries - Appendectomy only to find out it wasn't my appendix - I ended up having to have a hysterectomy which was horrible I was only 27 at the time ** 33 now **spent a week in ICU because I coded several times during the surgery... Had to go 3-4 months of Home Health nurses coming to clean the site 2x a day only to find out that I had to go BACK in for surgery to have part of my small intestines removed because it was causing the site not to heal I dealth with that pain well of course with pain killers . Was hard to walk but it was nothing compared to the migraines I get.

But reading some of the other posts - It's amazing how some of you can still be alive after reading your injuries and accidents !!!!!

[gatotsu77]

I could write a book on this topic, but I'll keep it short and sweet. Broken 7 bones, torn mcl in my right knee twice, had severe scoliosis for the last 6 years, fallen out of the top of a 50' pine tree, (ironically that one didn't contribute to the broken bone list) impaled my hand, impaled my thigh, cut off the tip of my finger, set my hand on a soldering iron.... I could list a lot more things, but these are the first few that come to mind. (mostly because of the scars I have from them) Lets just say that there was an emt that actually recognized my face and remembered my first name... I think that explains a lot of it.

[DiXoN]

falling onto a wrought iron fence which peirced my body (it went through my thigh) and having to hang there whislt being held up by a passer by until the paramedics arived.

[Buggieboy]

Let's seee have a few. frist one i can really thank of is 18yrs old and riding dirt bike at the river, When I hit a steel gas pole right below the knee cap. Shoved the bone out of my leg 3.5in and spend 6m flat on my back with a pin running throw my ankle with 150pds of wight hanging 1in off the ground pulling the leg bone back in place and resetting it, secound thru I got hit in the back with a 1in thick by 10ft wide by 20ft long peice of steel plate broke my back in 2 places. I've had 4 major back surgies at the L4,L5 a fussion at L4,L5 with two steel plates and 8 screws with 4 steel rods holding my back in place. Then the most pain ever was when I was in jr. wrold rodeo at got hung up on 2,400 pd bull for 5mins and drug around the area face frist getting steped on and head ran into pins. 3m in hospital for that one.
After all this I can still walk.

[wesleydnunder]

My worst has to be kidney stones. The first time it happened the pain was so intense I barfed up my lunch. Once the x-rays determined what it was they gave me a shot of demerol. The transition from complete agony for eight hours to numbness was so profound I immediately fell asleep. My aunt is a retired RN who has suffered kidney stones and she told me that's the closest a man can come to feeling the pain of childbirth. The next day I bought my wife an emerald ring as I had a new appreciation for what she went through having our four kids; 18 hours labor for our first.

Mark

[JamesC]

My worst pain is when I trip and fell down the stairs of Sac State University and I hit my head on the brick steps. I had a major head ache!

[Chickieepooh2u]

Holy cow! You people need to be wrapped in bubble wrap. (Especially you Gatotsu). Makes this headache I have now seem like peanuts. lol

[RISK2123]

Holy cow! You people need to be wrapped in bubble wrap. (Especially you Gatotsu). Makes this headache I have now seem like peanuts. lol


hahahahhahaaaaha, bubble wrap, lmao.

[rosita]

Holy cow! You people need to be wrapped in bubble wrap. (Especially you Gatotsu). Makes this headache I have now seem like peanuts. lol

Hey, now, that's a GREAT idea, chickie!!! You ought to perfect it and market it--different kinds of "suits" for different activies--bullriding, being up in trees, possibility of being impaled on anything. . . . the list goes on!!!! Are we some tough folks or what?

[woodie1976]

ok my turn.... all i can say is WOW i feel for everyone in this thread.... you all have been thru a TON of pain....for some it might feel small but others its the worst they have ever felt...... mine not seem like that much to someone but it still hurt like a SOB anyway..... here goes

physical pain #1

18 to 20 foot in the air on a 4-wheeler durring a race and my foot sliped off the foot peg and went thru my nerf bar flipin me sideways landing on only 2 tires.... SUPRISINLY i did not break a bone.... BUT i was brused to the bone and dislocated my hips both knees ancles and my left sholder and brused my colar bone .... layed in a bed with a bed pan for about a week then moved to awheel chair for about 3 weeks then started rehab

phys pain #2

snowmobile accadent..... keep this one short.... 80+ mph down a gravel road and ducked in to the first part of the s curve and missed the 2nd corner and landed in the ditch..... about 10 foot from my sled..... landed on a tree.... brused both thies soo deep they thought part of my bone was missing..... and my thie was black blue purple ALL THE WAY AROUND.....from knee to just about a inch from my cratch..... pulled my self to my sled.... drug my self out of the ditch.... rode home... crawled in to the house.... called the ambulance....

emotional pain....

lost my grand father on easterday 1991 (cancer talked to him 5ish mins before he passed)..... lost my father on fathers day 1991 (heart atch @ about 3 am... talked to him at 2 am said he loved me)..... lost my god-father on newyears eve 1993 (snowmobile accadent was there)