# What´s the most (physically) painful expirience you´ve ever had? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 6, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730 "2008-10-06T19:49:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frustrated\_Wonderer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a4c791/32.png) [@Frustrated\_Wonderer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frustrated_Wonderer)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/1 "2008-10-06T19:49:00Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/2 "2008-10-06T19:56:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/3 "2008-10-06T19:58:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/4 "2008-10-06T20:03:36Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/5 "2008-10-06T20:04:46Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![muttrox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a8b319/32.png) [@muttrox](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muttrox)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/6 "2008-10-06T20:06:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/7 "2008-10-06T20:08:28Z")
During my childhood, my parents relied on strappings with a belt to implement discipline. One morning they each beat me, separately. ---
**Author:** ![phouka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c5a1d2/32.png) [@phouka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phouka)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/8 "2008-10-06T20:10:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/9 "2008-10-06T20:11:16Z")
Five hour long gall bladder attack. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/10 "2008-10-06T20:12:08Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![BaneSidhe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c5a1d2/32.png) [@BaneSidhe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaneSidhe)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/11 "2008-10-06T20:13:59Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/12 "2008-10-06T20:17:01Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/13 "2008-10-06T20:36:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/14 "2008-10-06T20:36:21Z")
Scratched cornea;3 different times. ---
**Author:** ![CaerieD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@CaerieD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaerieD)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/15 "2008-10-06T20:39:53Z")
> [@muttrox](#): > > Kidney stones. 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. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/16 "2008-10-06T20:40:53Z")
> [@cowgirl](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/17 "2008-10-06T20:41:27Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/18 "2008-10-06T20:45:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Mississippienne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d2c977/32.png) [@Mississippienne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mississippienne)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/19 "2008-10-06T20:45:54Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730/20 "2008-10-06T20:47:26Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-s-the-most-physically-painful-expirience-you-ve-ever-had/466730.md?page=2)