What´s the most (physically) painful expirience you´ve ever had?

In My Humble Opinion (IMHO)
#1

This one time in college, I behaved like an idiot an mixed quite a bit of drugs.

I took two X pills, drank 3 whiskies and then smoked weed.

After I finished smoking, my heart started racing. It was easily going 150 bpm´s, maybe more. It felt like someone was hitting my heart with a bat each time it beat.

This lasted about** 3 and a half hours **before my heart slowed down, it was so agonizing and painful that I would not wish this on my worst enemy.

Not to mention the feeling of “OMG I´m gonna die!”.

Horrible.

Lesson learned to say the least.

What has been you most painful expirience?

#2

Plane crash. Multiple contusions, lacerations, deep penetrating wounds. Fractured humerus.

But: The most exquisitely painful injury was the hole I bit thru the center of my tongue. Far more painful than everything else combined.

Far worse than subsequent pains like heart attack, migraine.

#3

I was hit on my bicycle a little over 4 years ago. Broke the femur, tore away part of the hamstring and severed the sciatic nerve. I was put into an induced coma for 2 1/2 weeks. When I was brought out of it, I was on a morphine pump, demerol, hydrocodone and on a few occasions fentanyl during most of the 2 month stay. Fun times.

#4

All natural childbirth, times 4. Unbelievable.

You’d think I’d have learned after the first time or two, but I always forgot until labor began and then I suddenly remembered how excruciating it is, but by then it was too late.

#5

After a botched stomach surgery in '03 my stomach perforated in '05. I screamed and cried and beg God to take me home. Had there been a switch that would turn off the pain, but from which I wouldn’t wake up, I would have flipped it in a heart beat.

#6

Kidney stones.

I woke up out of bed vomiting (I didn’t know at the time that vomiting could be a reaction to pain). By the time I got to the hospital I couldn’t think straight. I was incoherent - when the nurse asked me something about forms I threw my wallet at her and growled something while kicking her filing cabinet, trying to focus what was left of my head… an awful night.

#7

During my childhood, my parents relied on strappings with a belt to implement discipline. One morning they each beat me, separately.

#8

In order:

  • colposcopy (where they scrape the outside and inside of your cervix to check for cancerous cells)
  • migraines/sinus headaches
  • throwing out my back
  • falling off my bike, breaking my elbow, spraining my wrist, bumping my knee, and spraining my ankle.

Funny how that pain stuff works.

#9

Five hour long gall bladder attack.

#10

Sinus infections, the worst being when they occur on an airplane. I convinced myself that my head was quite probably going to explode, and it didn’t take too long before I was actually looking forward to it.

#11

My Morgan gelding, Mickey, kicked me in the gut one evening several years ago. It was both our faults as he was kicking at a fly and I was a lot closer than I thought I was. I ended up in the ER with luckily no internal injuries, but two bruises in the exact shape and size of his back hooves, complete with horseshoe nails. If I could have breathed after the kick, he would have gotten an ass whooping, but as it was, he got this look on his face that said :eek: and :smack: and kinda sidled off.

And yesh, it hurt like a mofo.

The tie is the car accident a few years back that scrunched the hell out of my left knee. That kind of pain you DO NOT forget.

#12

Endless ear infections have been bad. A raw and rubbed nerve after having my wisdom teeth taken out was worse…

A vasectomy in which the anaesthetic couldn’t be properly applied on one side and I told him to go ahead anyway figuring that half of one wouldn’t be doing me much good. Man, that was harsh.

#13

Getting stung by a bee. Seriously.

I’ve had my share of pain in my life: sprained ankle, beaten with a bat, wedged against a rock as a raft went over my head, multiple near drownings… the list goes on. But the kicker, IMHO, was getting stung by a bee.

I was about 23, swimming in a swimming pool on a nice summer’s day. The little bugger got me on the elbow. I remember frantically slapping at the water trying to get revenge on the little bastard before the urgent need to get out of the pool and… I dunno what, amputate my arm perhaps? The pain was excruciating and immediate, and all other thoughts in my head were evacuated as the only thing on which I could concentrate was how FUCKING BAD MY ELBOW HURT. It was like somebody had stabbed me with a sword. Scratch that; I’ve been stabbed with a sword, and it didn’t hurt nearly as bad.

The funny thing, I’m not even allergic.

#14

Scratched cornea;3 different times.

#15

This. There was nothing to do but just sort or “ride” the waves of pain. The only time in my adult life that I can recall actually moaning in agony.

#16

I thought my teeth were going to crack, I had tears running down my face from the pain, and once we finally landed I couldn’t hear properly for hours. I always told everyone it was the worst pain I hope I will ever experience and people always said “oh, no, childbirth will be worse”. Well, I’ve had a child now. It wasn’t.

#17

I’ve given birth both ways and had thyroid surgery, but nothing comes close to the pain I felt after I stepped on a stingray in the surf on Hilton Head while playing toss football. I came down on the stinger and then twisted my foot to reach for the ball.

Yowsa!

But the initial puncture wasn’t anything compared to the pain that followed. I could track the toxin as it traveled up my leg. My leg shook so uncontrollably I couldn’t look at the bottom of my foot to try and figure out what I’d stepped on. The pain was so severe I was ready to head to the emergency room, until the very helpful lifeguard came by and assured me that I wasn’t going to die.

Anywho, the only thing that helped was sticking my foot in a panful of near boiling water, at the recommendation of said lifeguard.

#18

Kidney Stones.

I had 4 in the past 2 years. Each one hurt with the pain of a thousand hot pokers each sticking themselves into my back.

Unlike others here, I can think of 2 people I would wish this pain upon.

#19

My mother says her kidney stones were 10 times worse than either of her childbirths (and having me was like 8 hours of puking and screaming).

I got stung by a jellyfish this summer. Felt like my skin was being scalded off. It was so bad I swam for shore and made my bf-at-the-time hold a towel over me so I could strip out of that swimsuit.

Getting busted in the nose made me momentarily black out. The next thing I knew, blood was streaming down my face and someone was screaming bloody murder. Then I realized that someone was me.

#20

Being stung on the nipple by a White-faced Hornet while asleep was certainly a contender.

I’ve been worse hurt many times, but that one stands out in terms of sudden pain.