Bloody ouch!! just reading this thread is painful. Can’t compete with some of the stories here, but the worst pain I’ve personally endured was when I had a couple of ruptured discs in the upper back. It pinched a major nerve running down my right arm. The fingers & hand were numb and partly paralyzed, the rest of the arm from shoulder to wrist was in continual cramp mode. The pain was bad - I rated it a 9 out of ten - but worst of all it was unremitting. Imagine a severe charley-horse that continues unabate for 6 weeks before being surgically relieved.
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I’ve got two ruptured discs (L3-L4, L4-L5) and when they go nuclear…OMG, the sciatic pain is just excrutiating. Horrendous burning down my left leg, absolutely nothing relieves it, I am pretty much writhing on the floor for days.
I think I have fairly high pain tolerance but that…that just sucks.
Wasabi in my eyes - at least the most painful thing that actually happened to me.
Open abdominal wound seeping bowel contents onto excoriated and infected skin - most pain I’ve seen someone have.
Fine cheese grater to my skin, slowly & alternating with jalapeno juice with rest periods for the nerves to de-shock - imagination.
Edited to add: That scene in Marathon Man with the evil dentist. I couldn’t watch it again.
President Michele Bachmann
And, getting your dick caught in your zipper.
Mine is dental.
I had a root canal on an upper tooth in which the numbing agent had zero effect (apparently, the upper area is more tricky to numb).
After the drilling was done, the filing commenced. I can say with confidence there was an exposed nerve up in there. And it was not a brief period of filing, it was endless. He would file, then pause. Then begin again. With each pause I’m thinking we’re done. There must have been 7 or 8 pauses. And with each upstroke…let’s just say he got on my nerve.
I shall never forget that pain.
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I’ve experienced this. Every dentist I visited noticed the molar and suggested that I get it taken care of immediatly. I didn’t listen. On a trip to the Gulf Coast one fall weekend, it happened. My fiance’s daughter handed me a couple of small jawbreakers and while foolishly biting down on one, the molar in question cracked. It actually split down into the jaw. Almost 300 hundred miles from home and I had no good pain killers with me. Also, I had to drive home because my fiance’ had night blindness and was unfamiliar with the way back.
This is nothing I ever want to experience again.
I’m missing something here, I’ve had painkiller shots and even pricks like you are being tested at the blood center and it wasn’t painful at all. What am I missing?
The top of my leg burns, I hit my pain pump bolus button and take a pain medicine, but they don’t address the issue immediately. I found sitting in a recliner is the only thing that helps. The medicine kicks in around 25 minutes later and I can sometimes go back to standing again.
But, that burning feeling, you just can’t relay to people how bad it hurts.
Good Lord, what does intrathecal mean? I can’t find it in the dictionary.
It certainly sounds invasive.
When I was having a PICC line sewn into my arm for chemo, it didn’t work in my left arm, so the surgeon moved to my right. He said, “Mrs._____you’re worrying me. You’re not even reacting.” Really? I’d already had/ got/sustained many health doeys. And I 'd found that I never satisfied the medical staff. If I said, “That hurts and I’m feeling bad,” they’d tell me not to whine. If I didn’t say anything they’d say, “You’d need to let it out.” lol
As far as an invasive “done to you” pain I’d have to nominate getting a blood gas reading (in the artery in your wrist.) Doesn’t sound like much, but it’s such a bone wrenching pain I chalenge anybody to get one and not pee in your pants.
But that’s not what I deem most painful. And thank God I’ve never experienced this.
Being burned, badly. When the skin is burned away the nerve endings are exposed to air, causing an exquisite pain that can barely be imagined. My heart goes out to all those burn victims who have survived.
I’d rather freeze to death, like on a ice floe. Supposedily you’re just overcome with a need to sleep. With little pain. And when you do you just freeze to death.
I think that dying in your sleep is a long shot.
I’ve been hit in the head with both a hammer and a metal bat. I’ve had hedge clippers dropped through my shin and played a soccer tournament with 26 stitches the next week.
Nothing compared to being burned with 425 degree grease spilled all over my wrist. At first, it wasn’t bad, went to the office where I worked for some burn spray and was informed that I needed to go to the hospital.
I (stupidly) drove myself and what was “normal” pain turned into me screaming at everyone on the road on the 15 min drive.
That burn was the worst pain I’ve ever had but I’m sure it doesn’t compare to many other things.
Thank you! I laughed out loud.
My cousin’s kid overcame neuroblastoma, but has a couple tumors on his spine that are (thankfully) not currently malignant. Still, the chemo continues, along with plenty of biopsies on his lower spine.
He is six and needs at least three grown people to hold him down when they put the wide freaking needle in his lower back and suck out a sample. Have you seen these wide needles? There’s no pediatric sized needle to poke him with. Looks as wide as a McDonald’s straw to me. :eek:
I would require more than three to hold my large ass down, plus a lawyer on hand to help drop the assault charges I inflict on the docs as soon as they are done! UGH!
At the risk of oversharing in my first post, when I was 18 I had to have an emergency D&C due to a miscarriage, and the pain was so bad that it put me off even having sex for THREE YEARS.
It isn’t outrightly painful, but opiate withdrawal is like torture. People who haven’t been through it can’t understand. It’s not like the flu, or even severe flu. It’s chills/sweats, skin crawling, body aching, twitching, and can’t sit still if your life depends on it. You also can’t sleep or sit comfortably. Sometimes you get diarrhea, sometimes your guts are just in knots. It’s the most head-to-toe misery I can think off. I would not wish opiate withdrawal on anyone, not even a terrorist. It is truly that awful.
The most painful thing I’ve had so far, was two urinary tract infections. Those stupid orange pee pills and Tylenol didn’t help a bit. I hope I never have another UTI again. All your bits hurt and then the pain doubles when you have to piss. I probably could have killed a person for some Percocets at the time.
Oddly enough my right kidney about to explode from an advanced infection didn’t actually rank that high on my pain scale - more or less. I have asymptomatic bladder infections, no itch, no pain while peeing. I don’t feel a thing until it hits the point that it feels like someone just wound up with a baseball bat and nails me full on home run swing over a kidney. By that point in time, when I show up at an ER they admit me. <shrug> I have to admit, I did the whole labor thing, I did various broken bones, but a full on pseudogout flare is sheer hell on earth. Only thing compares to it is one of my 3 day migraines. Honestly, blowing my brains out during one of those migraines would be a welcome release from the pain. I prefer to take a frova when I get the first tickle of my aura and hole up in a quiet dark cool room.
Migraines! For god’s sake, migraines.
Breaking bones is about a 5 on the pain scale. Migrainea would be a 10. I performed in a musical with a uncast arm (and the girl next to me at the end didn’t know, and when we took a bow, she yank my arm) and I also smashed that wrist horribly a few years later, and oddly enough, I had just finished another performance. We were about 2 hours away from home and planned to stay in a hotel. So, my family refused to just drive home. Then the next day, we had to drop my brother off at his soccer photos, finally I then got to the hospital. ( I think I was in a cast for about 3 months…)
And my migraines are nothing compared to that. Not only do I get horrid pain, I also vomit, and sadly, they are much more frequent then broken bones.
Childbirth is the worst pain I’ve personally experienced. Pleurisy was pretty awful as well.
I have been told by medical professionals the most painful thing ever is going through a debridement after a major burn.
I second this!
sorry I gotta’ do this to you people, it’s nothing personal, I do apologize if this gives you nightmares:
Wood chipper feet first.
This, I do believe, has been used as an execution method. It’s just an insane mind that would want to kill someone like this, it’s done to send a message, but mainly because the person is plain sick.
Too fast. Steam roller, feet first.