# Most Painful Condition?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-condition/718612>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 27, 2015, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-condition/718612 "2015-04-27T03:00:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2015, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-condition/718612/61 "2015-05-04T17:50:30Z")

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> [@May\_20](#):
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> Yep.
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> I wouldn’t wish migraine on anyone, no matter how much I detest that person. When I have a severe attack, I can’t even lie down because it hurts to much to be horizontal. I sit very still and wait for the worst of it to pass.

Yes, before I found the treatment center where I am currently a patient, my migraines ruled my life. At their worst, I would be utterly non-functional, even going to the ER, where NOTHING gave me relief; not even direct injections of morphine. Sure, they make me fucked up and intoxicated but all that did was increase my nausea and make me vomit. I actually thought about killing myself, only to stop the unending misery.

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**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2015, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-condition/718612/62 "2015-05-05T02:01:23Z")

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Clubbed in the forehead with a wine bottle: not too painful, all things considered.  
Gout: really painful.  
Testicular torsion: way worse.

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [May 5, 2015, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/most-painful-condition/718612/63 "2015-05-05T04:31:11Z")

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> [@JcWoman](#):
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> It was agony and the only way I could walk on it was to put weight on it until the pain increased in intensity that it numbed out. So I did that for a couple months.
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> Then when it came time to take the pin out, doc grabbed a pair of pliers, yanked really hard and ran out of the room. I wasn’t expecting any pain so the suddenness and the intensity of it made me scream like someone had chopped my leg off.

Is this really how this is supposed to work? Is there nothing they can do to relieve the pain of that??!

Why do I read these threads – I’ve gotten off easy so far and can only imagine what could happen. At least I can’t get testicular torsion. (Don’t remind me about ovarian torsion.)

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