Poll of the Day > What's the worst physical pain you ever experienced?

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For me it was either a kidney stone or when I got mono, strep throat and mouth ulcers at the same time and had to be hospitalized because I wasn't able to eat or drink

But this damn wisdom tooth is easily 3rd
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Shingles
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When I was a kid I tripped over a campfire and a pot of boiling water spilled on me. Gave me 3rd degree burns on my leg and side.
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Hydrocele.
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Muscles posted...

mono, strep throat and mouth ulcers

fucking gross, ok?

christ you're gross, muscles, ok?
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2nd burns on the tops of my feet.
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MY fingertip was bitten off by a hamster
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Having my finger bitten while in a fist fight back in high school, and then the subsequent infection. The infection made my finger turn green and purple, and swell three times it's size.
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Hm, i dont know. I guess diverticulitis pains, which are hard to describe but really terrible. when id get the first signs of it cropping up again id get a feeling of dread. But after a while I got used to it and didnt care even though it did hurt. when i went in for surgery the surgeon remarked to my mom how horribly infected my colon was and how brave i was. weeks before i knew i was having DT pains but just kept up the antibiotics and stopped caring knowing "eh, doc will fix it" even though the last time i saw him it wasnt quite as bad.

im fine now though

DDD- ive been in constant pain for 15 years and since it my lower back it affects quite literally everything i do, from sitting to sneezing. I threw my back out 3 times this month just from sneezing and moving too fast.

That or my open toe dislocation after the surgery, i was so bad i would stay up all night playing maplestory because i couldnt sleep.
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improperly sedated root canal, I felt the full sensation of having a nerve pulled out with a tiny drill-like toothpick.

the worst pain I never physically experienced was probably when I turned my broken wrist around for the x-ray, it seems I can't feel that kind of pain but it can overload my brain.
I was blind and deaf for a seconds, and I got motion sickness while sitting completely still.
I've had 2 similar(but less severe) events like that, both right after breaking a bone.

Getting off antipsychotics and being unable to sleep for 3 days, the withdrawals were crazy. Same with quitting cigarettes.

Concussion from skateboarding, headache the following day was unreal. Another time a nurse was looking inside my ear and wanted to clean it out, but she shoved this plastic pick so far inside and was scraping the inside of my ear, it actually made me a little dizzy and I reeled in pain and looked at her like "wtf are you doing".

Sometimes the pinched nerve in my chest acts up and can put me on the floor pretty easily.
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thedicemaster posted...

improperly sedated root canal, I felt the full sensation of having a nerve pulled out with a tiny drill-like toothpick.

I've felt that one too. Three times in the same root canal, they tried to start and it still wasn't numb enough. Torture.

The worst pain I ever felt and the second worst pain I've ever felt are part of the same event.

I had to have a spinal tap. Surprisingly, having a needle put in my spine to collect liquid was easy and fine. What came after was not.

So when you get a spinal tap, if you're unlucky, you get this thing called a spinal headache. It's caused by your spinal fluid continuing to leak out so that your brain is no longer properly cushioned. It's like having your brain fall on the floor of your head.

The pain was unspeakable. It's fine if you lay down, the brain comes to rest in a comfy position. But if you sit or stand upright for so much as a split second, the hammer comes down. It is not just a headache, it's being tortured. Pounding and burning and feeling like your brain is screaming.

I spent several days in bed, trying the at home remedies for it. Peeing felt like it took a hundred years since I had to be upright. Finally we went to the hospital.

The cure is almost worse than the problem.

I had to get what's called a blood patch. The doctor takes a lot of blood out of your arm and injects it into your spine. It's believed to patch over the leak causing the headache.

The needle used in this process is more like a tube. It is big. Biiig. You do not want it in your spine. I had to sit upright on a table, with too little local anesthesia, while this monstrosity was pushed into my spine. I think this took about a thousand years. I was trying not to scream, covered in sweat and about to either vomit on the nurse or pass out completely. I couldn't move for a very long time after they finally let me go.

I am never agreeing to a spinal tap again. LOL
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So far the recovery after my gall bladder removal. That's just because it was really painful to use my abdominal muscles for like a week afterwards so getting in and out of bed, going from sitting to standing, etc was all very painful and they don't give you very good pain medication nowadays.

The only other thing I can think of is my wisdom teeth removal recovery because they had to remove a portion of my lower jaw bone on both sides and that was crazy painful.
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Abscessed tooth

I had a severe ankle sprain that ripped a lot of the tendons. I had my boots on when it happened so when the doctor took the boot off to look at it, it swelled to a huge size that the doctor was surprised I didn't break a bone by the amount of tendons torn.
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Eh. Probably the total kneecap dislocation. Though that was only a few hours of extreme pain and months of recovery. there have been a few things that were really bad.

gravy posted...

Abscessed tooth

That's up there. Fuck. You can't think of anything else. I begged my ex to stab me in the face to relieve the pain, at which point he said the hospital was probably the best idea. Which led to...

thedicemaster posted...

improperly sedated root canal, I felt the full sensation of having a nerve pulled out with a tiny drill-like toothpick.

That was a bad one for me
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My right eye got an infection when I was 16, for a week it felt as if someone was stabbing me in the eye with a knife from the moment I was awake until I fell asleep. I had to stay out of any bright light since the pain would intensify a hundred fold if I didn't. As a result of it I got a scarred cornea on my right eye which has given me permanent blurred vision on the right side.

During this time I got an emergency appointment to see my doctor (useless bitch that's now been struck off and no longer allowed to practise medicine in the UK due to multiple blunders which ranged from permanent disfigurements, to miscarrage, and a few deaths).

On my first visit she said there was nothing to worry about, it's just severe conjunctivitis, gave me some eye drops and that was it.

A few days later no change, so I went back once again to see her. I told her vision in my right eye has gotten worse, the pain even more so. She looked at me then in a condecending tone said I need to get glasses. At that point I admit I lost it a little. I asked her if she was fucking serious, and I proceeded to ask her if she is infact a legitimately qualified doctor or if she downloaded her qualifications off of the internet.

After that I went to A&E where I was diagnosed with having keratitis. If I had listened to my doctor I was told I would've lost my eye. Since then doctors have put me on a cornea transplant list since they believe it'll eventually rupture so, I've still got that to look forward to >_>
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I cant really think of much, guess Ive been fairly lucky

When I had meningitis they had to do a lumbar puncture(spinal tap), it was painful but really didnt hurt as much as I expected. Other than that I had a severe case of tonsillitis about a decade ago that made it agonizing to swallow for about a week.
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Wow Runner, what an amazingly terrible doctor.
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I suppose it was appendicitis but that was so long ago. Shingles, toothaches, but the most recent was a bad ear infection about 3 years ago. I have now developed vertigo from that ear.

does constipation count as pain?
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Wisdom teeth removal while awake.

Yennefer posted...

Wisdom teeth removal while awake.

Was just about to say that.

Although I once had hemorrhoids so bad that I nearly passed out while trying to pass a hard shit. God damn did that hurt.
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Yennefer posted...

Wisdom teeth removal while awake.

awake wouldn't be the problem.
I've had 3 wisdom teeth removed while awake, but because it was properly numbed it I didn't feel a thing(unless you count the somewhat sore jaw from having it held open)

SpaceBear_ posted...

Shingles

I can verify. I even still get the nerve pain 6 years after having it
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Kidney stones.
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Almost breaking my arm backwards in a wrestling tournament.
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Needle scraping around in my wrist to destroy a cyst, wasn't the most painful pain I've ever felt, but if was the most disgusting.
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I've had some pretty awful charley horses
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Severe stomach pain. So bad I couldn't move.
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Having my guts crushed in a car wreck when I was 9. Actually, the actual crash didn't hurt, I guess I was in shock. It was the following week filled with such intense pain I couldn't stand it. I couldn't eat, drink or sleep the entire time. The only reason I survived is because of IV drips I got from the frequent trips back to the hospital and they said I was simply dehydrated. Turns out my intestines had been severed, and crushed, and had developed gangrene. I was told that the recovery after my surgery would be extremely painful, but honestly, compared to the pain I'd been in it felt like heaven.

I'll still get random pains from that today(25 years later). They're extremely painful, almost as bad as the pain from back then. They tend to happen every few weeks and completely cripple me until they pass. Any kind of movement makes it worse, I made the mistake once of forcing myself to the bathroom and peeing during a mild episode and I thought I was just going to die. Walking to the bathroom made it awful, then actually peeing intensified it so much. I literally passed out from the pain trying to get back to my room. It's bad sometimes, but I just have to wait it out.
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I had a biopsy taken from inside my chest when I was a teenager. The recovery didn't hurt too bad, but they had a blood drainage tube connecting the inside of me to the outside through my ribcage, which was really tender if you bumped it but otherwise wasn't horrible.

A week or so later, the tube had to be removed. They literally just pull it out. You feel it tugging on your innards. Exactly what you'd imagine being stabbed is like, except like 10 seconds long. Jesus Christ.
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Post-surgery anal fissure operation.
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Joelypoely posted...

Severe stomach pain. So bad I couldn't move.

Eating an entire pizza with IBS, lactose intolerance, gluten intolerance, and preexisting constipation.

My friend told me it was a GF dairy free pizza. I wanted to die that night, not that it compares to any of these stories. Got a hemorrhoid the size of a fucking watermelon for like a month.
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Probably the current physical symptoms I have from anxiety. Mostly the constant head pressure. I see it as the worse because it's hard to find a cure if one exists at all. Although with that said it's probably something to be controlled not cured.

Other then that I had a stomach ulcer for years. I didn't know what it was until the last few months I had it. It caused a lot of stomach pain and I ended up throwing up acid everytime I consumed something. In the end though it burst. It was scary when it did as I passed out and woke up throwing up blood. Still I went to hospital, had a stomach operation and had that fucker removed. No way was I taking the risk of it coming back. I'll live with the scar on my stomach over that.
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A short while back I had a headache so bad I was literally screaming in pain for almost a day before it passed. Felt like an elephant with spiked boots was stepping on my head.
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A headache that required surgery.
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Probably one of the times I cut one of my fingers off.

I dont remember the first time because I was a toddler, but the second time I was an adult and that shit hurt.
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someone threw a piece of cardboard at my head once. yyyyyikes
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Greenfox111 posted...

someone threw a piece of cardboard at my head once. yyyyyikes

Cardboard cuts are at least 3 times worse than paper cuts.
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Sciatica or an abscessed tooth. Both were unpleasant.
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Testicular torsion. Needed surgery to fix it. Thankfully it didn't leave any lasting damage.

MabinogiFan posted...

Testicular torsion. Needed surgery to fix it. Thankfully it didn't leave any lasting damage.

Even as a woman, I cringed in horror for you.
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breaking into my own dorm room, after locking myself out (never thought of getting the dorm supervisor). had the window pane open and extended, managed to get in and sat on the glass for a second. next thing I know, i'm sitting on the counter seeing blood. turns out, i'd managed to nearly sever my left pinkie finger, still have the scars.

other items are: surviving the effects of lyme's disease, and getting food poisoning from re-heating fried seafood
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sprained ankle I guess. It was swollen for a whole week
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@Far-Queue posted...

Probably one of the times I cut one of my fingers off.

I dont remember the first time because I was a toddler, but the second time I was an adult and that shit hurt.

Wtf

Why does this keep happening to you???
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faramir77 posted...

I had a biopsy taken from inside my chest when I was a teenager. The recovery didn't hurt too bad, but they had a blood drainage tube connecting the inside of me to the outside through my ribcage, which was really tender if you bumped it but otherwise wasn't horrible.

A week or so later, the tube had to be removed. They literally just pull it out. You feel it tugging on your innards. Exactly what you'd imagine being stabbed is like, except like 10 seconds long. Jesus Christ.

Ouch.

Ive heard patients talk about how painful chest tube removals are, most say it felt like they were being impaled
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