Ocerheard once: I’d give birth without painkillers before I’d use my epilady again.
I’ve had chest tubes, which didn’t rank up there on the pain chart for me, but on the squoogee chart, 'cause when the doctor pulls them out, the end sort of slides around in your innards and feels like an alien is preparing to burst out. I think I stopped breathing in sheer horror.
For me, the top has got to be a bone marrow tap. Lay on your stomach and the doctor takes a hammer and chisel to knock a hole in your hipbone, then sucks out bone marrow. I was partially sedated for the first part – was woozily muttering at the doctor,but when he sucked out the marrow I thought they had poured boiling acid in my hip. I levitated off the table, screamed and passed out. Unfortunately, I can’t beat up the doctor because he’s a midget and I would feel too bad.
A Burn. When I was a child, I was toasting a marshmallow over the BBQ grill. It caught on fire and I, in all my years of wisdom, decided to shake the stick to put it out. It landed on my thigh, still on fire and splattered. When I think about it, I can still feel the pain of the burning and then the cleaning of the marshmallow out of the blisters at the hospital. Child birth, C-section, kidney pain, back pain and a broken ankle have nuttin on that kind of pain.
I’m always glad to hear someone else say that a dislocated knee is very high on the pain scale. I dislocated mine years ago and the pain was so excruciating that i could hardly believe it. Mine was out for a few minutes and I had to use my hands and push the kneecap hard before it would snap back in (this broke several pieces of bone of the back of my patella). I’ve never broken a bone and for years I was terrified of breaking something because I felt sure that it must be worse than the dislocation. Since then I’ve heard from people that have done both that the knee was much more painful, which at least makes me feel a little better.
The weirdest part about it was that a few hours afterwards I was lying on the couch in my shared apartment when one of my roommates came in and said “does it really hurt that bad?”. I didn’t understand what she meant until she pointed out that I was making this strange, high-pitched, animal like noise that I wasn’t even aware of (yes, I should have gone to the doctor, but for reasons that escape me now I didn’t go until the next morning).
I’m sure there are many more painful things, but I really hope I never have to experience them.
My SO was in a car accident 8 years ago. He broke every one of his ribs.
It was almost six months before he quit waking me up with random screams in the night.
Oddly, the only visible scar he has from the whole ordeal are the spots where the put the drains into his lungs.
Necrotic digital ulcers due to ischemia. My wife described it as burning the skin off your fingers, then slamming them in the car door. When morphine wasn’t enough, she added dilaudid, which dulled it somewhat. But it never went away.
Toss up between having an EMS lift too hard on my leg while carrying me (20 minutes after) I dislocated my kneecap followed by him letting the leg go when they got me to the gurney allowing it to suddenly bend the other way, and having someone who thought I was my best friend fucking me over for a girl I had a huge crush on.
A burn. Just a LITTLE burn has an incredible amount of pain. I’ve experienced a lot of other pain in my life, but burns are … different.
And after my husband set his hand on fire and was in the hospital for two weeks for debridement, I’ll always say a burn.
~VOW
My stomach perforated in 2005. It hurt so bad I begged god to take me home.
While I was recovering the person who was watching my parrot asked why I taught her to say: Please God, help me. She was saying it over and over. She could have only heard it that night.
If there is anything that hurts worse than that, I don’t want to know what it is.
I think we need a pain chart.
To wit:
http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/02/boyfriend-doesnt-have-ebola-probably.html
When I had my first back surgery I woke up after the operation and they had me on injectible morphine for the pain. Unfortunately for some reason the injectible stuff didn’t have any effect on me (however, the pill form of morphine does work, go figure). Anyway, when I woke up I was in unbelievable pain. I can’t even put into words how bad it was. My whole back was cut open and screws put into my spine. OUCH OUCH OUCH. To this day I have never experienced pain like that.
FWIW, I would think a screwdriver in the eye would be pretty bad.
I have to have that on one leg. I had it done 10 years ago, and I can’t remember it being bad. Please tell me you’re kidding, exaggerating, something.
Mine would be for upper part of leg, but they only have scheduled for one leg, not both. I do remember they starting off at like a 1 and then they said OK
a little higher 3 and then it did get up to there it was involuntary jerks but they only did it for 3 seconds.
Ya got me worried, like maybe I’ve forgotten some of the pain all these years lol.
The pain of a broken heart, yes.
The back pain stuff does hurt, and I’ve heard the pill vs IV story also. And also I’ve heard the pill didn’t work, but the liquid (drinkable pain medicine) worked for some) with access to the back I noticed basically anywhere the dr touched sent the worst pain through the whole body.
Herpes in the eye. Yup. Maybe a 7 or 8 on a scale of ten and only when going from dark area to bright.
Burn? 1st and 2nd all over my chest and stomach from a burst radiator. Call it an 8.
Bad tooth that needed a root canal? Hurt at a 7 or so for the first day but by the time I got to a dentist 4 days later the pain and I were old friends.
Want to see a doctor flinch? Tell them you broke your heel. Your feet are just chock full of nerves. And I swear every single one of them went bat shit when I fell. This for me was the perfect 10 on the pain scale.
If it wasn’t that bad for you 10 years back, it probably won’t be this time either. The subject came up among another group of online friends who’ve had the procedure and it ranged from “??? not that bad!” to “OMGI’LLCONFESS”.
If it’s of any comfort, I think I may be more sensitive to some sensations in the legs than some folks. I loathe pedicures for example (while a close friend LURVES them); OTOH, I can take a serious mangling from a massage therapist, leg-wise (and everywhere else - when they ask how firm I like the massage, I say “hurts good, if that makes any sense”), while my same friend cannot STAND a massage.
Corneal puncture. Without a doubt.
I’ve had MAJOR spinal surgery (opened from my neck to my buttcrack), bone grafts, ripped tendons, bursitis, gum grafts, teeth pulled, MAJOR dog bites, bleeding ulcers and broken bones. The corneal puncture had me writhing in the ER and being unable to be examined until morphine was given. It was horrible.
You’d think so, but it’s actually not. Really severe burns do so much damage that the nerves are destroyed, and it has the same effect as a root canal. No more pain!
That’s it. That’s the winner.
I was trapping a semi-feral cat and he bit me on the wrist. Didn’t just hit non-essential tissue, but sunk a canine tooth into my median nerve. The pain made me want to pass out and vomit at the same time. It hurt less than breaking my nose.