I am laying here, full of self-pity. I had a gum graft done on Wed…which sounded like such a minor thing.
Okay. Ow. I realize it’s not life-ending pain, but it’s surprisingly uncomfortable. It got me thinking, we have all had the BIG OUCHIES…what about the ones that sounded like NBD until it actually happened…?
Breaking a toe. The memory still gives me chills.
I know it’s fairly temporary, but whacking a shin on something can be incredibly painful!
I’ve accidentally whacked my elbow twice within the last week.
I’m also Mr. Tentacle Eyes with little growths on my upper eyelids that I remove from time to time. It seriously hurts, which is why I always put it off.
Post nasal *&^###@! drip. When it goes down the back of your throat and makes the entire throat feel like glass shards are digging into your mucous membranes. And it gets so much worse every damn time you have to swallow.
Few ordinary mundane conditions give me such a serious case of “somebody please shoot me now”
Dropping a quarter so that it lands edge-on on your bare big toe, just above the quick. Drove me to my knees…
Timely thread for me. I had a hangnail get infected. The whole last joint of my finger is now blown up like a balloon, a nasty shade of purple and the throbbing is so bad I couldn’t sleep last night.
I kept thinking of Reek in Game of Thrones: “Cut it off!!!”
Gout of the big toe
Soak that bad boy in some as-warm-as-you-can-stand-it saltwater.
I know exactly what you mean, and agree!
As a young teenager, I frequently got ingrown toenails on both of my halluxes (or if you prefer, halluces). One day, my mother took me to the family doctor about them; his judgement was that the most effecient was to deal with the problem was to remove both toenails down to the nail bed and let them start from scratch.
The first step in the process was, of course, to administer an injected anaesthetic into the surgical sites. No big deal, right?
WRONG! I never felt that much pain before in my life (and I’m pretty sure I haven’t felt that much pain since).
Oh, last year about this time I cracked, or broke a rib. They didn’t take x-Rays because nothing could be done anyway.
Oh God. When it hurts to breathe, I mean REALLY hurts to breathe, you know you’re in trouble.
It took me 6 weeks to return to normalcy. I’m not sure why I blanked on that originally. Try doing anything without your ribs being involved, including sleeping.
ETA: This was a small thing because it was an innocuous tumble off a bicycle at an almost stopped position.
Whacking your shin - yes! One time I hit mine on a stair and almost puked it hurt so bad.
Needle in the toe - omg yes. I had the same reaction when I had my ingrown nail done! Owie!!
Mines kind of weird. I have TMJD so I can do something like eat an apple, or popcorn, or a somewhat large sandwich, or even talk too much and my WOLE BODY hurts because my jaw got irritated. Shoulders, back, hips, even my calfs sometimes. It is a crazy thing to have to go lie down because you just ate too chewy of a piece of bread.
This was mine. It only hurts when you laugh. Or sneeze. Or cough. Or move. Or breathe.
Yeah, cracked ribs suck.
Mine are both food related…
That weird, electric Zaannggg! experience in the back of the jaws where they join with the skull that I sometimes get when I first taste something, especially if it is sweet or sour. Lasts only a couple of seconds at most; hurts like a mofo for those two seconds.
This one’s even worse, and scarier because of its longer duration: sometimes when i swallow a bite of sandwich or something. It feels like swallowing a rock, literally, and getting that rock stuck halfway - bigger and harder than the ort, jaggedy, and doesn’t go down all the way. Again, it feels like i just tried to swallow a hunk of rock, and halfway succeeded. The impulse to take a sip of water and sort of sluice it down…doesn’t work! Makes it worse! And since sooner or later I have to swallow some spit, the increased pain is inevitable and inescapable. There’s nothing I can do to make it stop until the piece of edible finally goes the rest of the way down, or whatever it is happens. A scary and unpleasant experience that my partner says I bring on myself by eating too fast, but I don’t think so…
Poysyn, a gum graft sounds seriously hurty to me! :eek: But then I don’t deal well with tooth pain of any kind. Dentist visits are like real-life horror shows to me.
Oh hell yes! I have the same thing, sometimes even with just a swallow of water and it triggers. Hurts like damn and you think it’s never going to stop. It’s like your whole throat just closes up around whatever you just tried to swallow and won’t let go.
I am a wimp, but sometimes paper cuts hurt like crazy, especially when you can’t quite see them. The “invisible” ones are the worst.
Yup. Fell off a ladder in the garage and landed on the edge of a cooler, broke two ribs and bruised my kidney. Slept in a chair for weeks and couldn’t even walk without twisting my torso so I looked like quasimodo. Frigging hellish pain.
Also canker sores that are on the tip of your tongue. Not the most painful things ever, but holy crap are they annoying.
Tonsillectomy. Holy crap. There are so many nerve endings around your speech organs, and the all get irritated and swollen. And you can’t swallow. You end up drooling. And your idiot doctor give you pain PILLS, so you crush them, and take them with pudding.
I have had two other surgeries, one was a c-section, and the other was the removal of a bone fragment from a long-ago fracture from my ankle. Neither of those was in the ballpark of pain compared to the tonsillectomy (which I had when I was 34-- and they took adenoids too, but it was my lower throat that hurt).
For such a minor surgery, holy crap.