When I held it still and did not talk, eat nor drink, I could almost believe I was fine.
Holding it still, however, caused my jaw muscles to ache, and the low-level pain caused my teeth to grind.
To talk, I had decide if what I had to say was really necessary. Then I thought again. If I absolutely HAD to say something (like “Duck!” or “FIRE!!!”), I would have to blow air into my cheek and try to separate that part of my tongue from my molar.
The pain would cause me to flinch and double over, and AWW WULD HALK HIKE HIS because I didn’t want to form any constantants that would immediately fuse my tongue back to my molars.
The pain lasted for five days, followed by two more where I would just wince.
My personal best before that was when I was crouched in the attic laying out insulation, and popped something in my knee. I’m up there in the summer heat attempting to stretch my knee and pop the cap back in without falling off the joists and sticking my leg through the bedroom ceiling. At least that was temporary.
Kidney stones. I’ve had four of them in the past ten years.
I’d rather have had ten kids in the past four years. There is no such thing as a painkiller for these mini-hells. Absolutely nothing.
Guys…if you ever want to know what labor feels like, without the ebbs and flows of the real thing, get a kidney stone. It’ll make you see Jesus…then make that baby cry.
I don’t have anything really to add, but I just found it interesting that in this case, the poster’s username can double as a sound effect for the post.
My son, as a baby, was bouncing on my stomach while I lay on the couch reading the Sunday paper. He thought it would be great fun to head-butt the paper, and caught me flush on the bridge of the nose–one of us almost went to the hospital, and it wasn’t me. If I had been able to see, he would have been in some kind of trouble. No, I didn’t beat him, but I wanted to.
An abcessed tooth. Went to my dentist for that one (as opposed to hospital) and I’d rate it as bad as labor pains.
Another vote for UTIs. I’ve been rolling around in pain on the bed wishing I could call an ambulance, just waiting for the gallons of water I was drinking to do their flushing work.
Vote three for UTI’s. Has anyone else with recurrent UTI’s tried a wonderful, life-saving, over-the-counter med called Uristat? Ahh, sweet relief. It gives you Amazing Technicolor Urine, but it keeps the pain down until the bacteria’s flushed out.
I sympathize with the kidney stones. Never had 'em, but known people who have. I bet that’s a bad one.
UTI’s? Am I missing something? I’ve had those and I’d equate the pain threshold with maybe a bad case of the flu.
My worst non-hospital admittance pain experiences are:
Quitting caffeine and tobacco combined with the 1st month of pregnancy. I think this is akin to quitting heroin cold turkey. There is not a moment when you are conscious that you are not in agony. Sleep was my only friend during this ordeal.
Another pregnancy nightmare. Chronic boils. All 9 months. Couldn’t take pain meds either 'cause of the pregnancy, of course.
I stubbed my little toes SO hard about 3 weeks ago, I can now wear shoes again. It’s lucky I live in California!
Stubbed them so hear they bled. Ow ow ow.
No no, I’m talking about baaaad ones, where (TMI!) you have to check the toilet bowl to make sure you aren’t peeing glass shards and molten lava. shudder I have a high pain tolerance, but GOD they hurt. I’m glad you’ve never had one that bad.
I did that. Sprained my left ankle falling off a bus and then re-sprained it stepping off a bus onto uneven concrete with little support 5 months later. That hurt so bad. I can’t even watch people hurt their ankles now without wincing and turning away. My ankle is throbbing right now in remembered pain.
But I think the worst pain has to be a migraine. It’s not just the pain. It’s the nausea and the sensitivity and the fact that everything lingers for days afterwards. Ugh.
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I don’t want to be argumentative, but I’m gonna have to insist on the third degree burn thing here, as the most painful thing you can experience.
I’ve been kicked in the groin, abscessed tooth, sprains, a shoulder ripped out of its socket, cuncussion, torn tendons, cuts, tears, breaks, athlete’s foot, snakebite, and been looked at with distaste by Claudia Schiffer.
A third degree burn is the worst because it builds. You have intense, screaming pain when you get the burn, but that’s just the warmup. All the nerves in and immediately around the burn die after sending you their chemical message of pain as loudly as they can. The nearby nerves that are only injured scream loudly and without surcease. Meanwhile, the healthy nerves nearby start their warmups for the long haul.
Nothing has ever come close to that pain either in intensity or duration.
Being burned is the only pain I’ve ever experienced that is so intense and lasting that it will completely overload your system. It will hurt so badly, that for short periods of time your body will turn off your ability to feel pain anymore because your brain can’t handle it. Unfortunately, that’s like giving the pain a break, so that whe it does come back a few seconds or minutes later, it’s brand new, fresh and worse than ever.
Never had a kidney stone or given birth, so I’d certainly defer to somebody who’s had a third degree burn and those.
If there is worse than being burned, I don’t wanna know.
Half to be a two way tie between two medical procedures, neither requireing hospitalazation
Mylagram, they stick a big ass needle in your spine, then pump you full of pookie and scan your cat
What ever that procedure is called where they shove a camera up your winkie to look at your bladder/prostrate.
I have been shot before, and both of these hurt worse.
Oh, and I severly burned one of my hands one time, its up there too(I forget what degree, but I grabbed a piece of metal that had just been heated near molten with a torch)