I haven’t experienced it yet (and hopefully never will), but my dentist today warned me that if I don’t get the huge crack now appearing across the surface of a 1973-era amalgam filling on one of my back teeth redone soon, one wrong chomp could send the crack downward, *likely spliting the tooth lengthwise down to the root.
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I don’t even own testicles and I could feel mine shrinking up into my abdomen at that moment.
I gave birth to an 11 lb 4 oz baby without any painkillers (not that I didn’t want them–my doc wouldn’t give me an epidural). It was the most pain I’ve ever gone through both physically and psychologically. At some point I realized/believed that I may actually, truly die from pain. Afterward I had nightmares etc, and was phobic about getting pregnant again. So when people ask why there are 11 years between Son 2 and Son 3…that’s it.
I worked in surgery for several years, and while it’s a different kind of pain, I never saw anyone coming out of anesthesia who looked more miserable than anyone who had sinus surgery. Of all the surgeries I saw, that’s the one I’d dread the most. Don’t know what the pain factor is, but the miserable/sucky/wish I was dead factor looked pretty high.
My two most painful were accidentally pouring petroleum based wax over my forearm and a skin graft. Not the grafted to spot, but where the graft came from.
And staying alive.
A nurse once told me about a patient who was about 95% covered in 3rd degree burns. She didn’t live long, fortunately.
having teeth pulled without being numb.
i haven’t experienced that one thankfully.
my most painful experience was giving birth to a nearly 9lb baby that should have been c-section birthed rather than vaginal.
he’s 9…and i’ll never have another one bc of that horrifying birthing experience.
I would guess that a burn (a severe one, not the “dammitforgotthehotpaddammitcoldwaterDAMMIT” minor kind) would be about as painful a thing as is physically possible.
Surgery without anesthesia wouldn’t be fun either… I’ve come closer to that than I like :(.
I had scrotum and penile surgery; granted there was no lye or boiling water involved but the recovery from that surgery was unbelievable. I’m sure there are things that would hurt more but I can only hope I am spared them.
I just had that happen last week, they pulled the tooth and it still hurts. while the area is closing up the nerve is still exposed, air hurts, food, drink, everything, and of course their suggestion. Oral surgeon who can fix it for some ridiculous amount of money.
Having pneumonia and not being able to breathe or move at all without intense pain was pretty bad. I haven’t broken any bones though.
I guess one of the reasons starting this is that I’ve had so many weird painful things happen, that I wondered if anyone else had experienced them.
I can’t say I had the kidney stone, or some of the other things, but one other thing which was psychologically the most terrifying is waking up in surgery from an anesthesiologist who was chatting with someone else, carrying on a conversation. He got moved out of rotation for it. Now I’m scared to death of hospitals and all I can remember is the pain and hearing get him back under now, my hands were tied down (blood pressure cuff, but also at the wrist, and I don’t want to talk about rest but wow I’m sorry Papergirl you had to go through that. My prayers to ya.
Oddly though, severe burns do not hurt like mild burns. Once all the nerves in the skin are gone, there are no receptors to register and transmit pain signals.
That said, amen to her passing. Sad, but merciful.
Huh, maybe they weren’t that severe then. The point of the story was how much intense pain she was in. It made my skin crawl to hear it.
I felt bad for the nurse, as she was helpless to do anything but watch the poor girl die.
I dislocate my knee quite frequently. It only stays out for a second or two but everytime the pain is incredible.
(I am terrified of a day when it doesn’t go back. Hopefully, I black out.)
Other than that, using medication to move a miscarriage along. Not as severe as the knee but seemed to never end.
Getting a painkiller shot into the tip of my finger that I had cut made me jump up on the hospital table from a supine position. You know it’s going to be bad when the doctor says “This is going to hurt.”
The most pain I’ve been in was when my doctor froze the warts off my foot.
According to surveys of medical patients, bone pain is the worst. Chest tubes are high on the list. mack, second degree burns are very painful, while third degree burns are not, due to destruction of the nerves. So, Jman, you would have less pain than some others, since both the lye and boiling water would cause third degree burns. That said, it is rare to have only third degree burns without second degree, so severe burn victims are in excurciating pain for long periods.
Pain caused by pressure, as in the swollen appendix, compartment syndrome, infected or impacted teeth or increased intracranial pressure is very high on the list as well.
The pain of a broken heart.
Seriously though, I once had a dream that I got nuked and somehow survived. It was the most painful experience I’ve ever had. Worse than getting a fractured tibia when I was kid. Worse than getting pinned under a quad and nearly having my balls ripped off. Worse than getting beaten and thrown around by my father (which came with a fair amount of psychological pain). That dream with the nuke… my brain cooked up some really amazingly unreal pain that there really aren’t any words to describe. It was a dry, burning pain that robbed my body of every ounce of water, and persisted… it was so bizarre. I will never forget it.
That is what I thought of when I read the OP. I only did it once, hurt so bad I puked. I have broken a number of bones, slammed fingers in car doors, etc, but nothing ever hurt as bad as that knee thing.
I did the old “bang your kneecap on the sharp corner of the desk in a swivel chair” once and woke up on the floor. That was a surprise. I thought getting big festering abscesses lanced without anesthetic was the worst pain before that.
I always thought the most painful thing would be to be impaled. That’s gotta hurt.
In my particular case, whenever I have one (or two, Deity forbid - But, it happens on occasion), and I end up passing it, the nausea comes over me in waves, I sweat like crazy, I have to ‘bear down’, such as when giving birth. The pain is much worse than contractions. Much worse than the worst intestinal pain you’ve ever had, I guess. I really don’t know how to explain how it feels, other than it’s almost like the contractions a woman has when she gives birth, only much, MUCH more painful. I guess because they don’t ‘go away’ after a minute or so…It just keeps hurting. It doesn’t stop until the stone passes.