By any chance a pilonidal cyst?
If so, me too.
I’ve never, before or since, tried to scream but been unable to breathe.
Pain like that comes in colors.
Scratched cornea that became infected. Holy God, did that hurt!
Man, you guys make a kick in the nuts seem like a handjob. :eek:
I had that when I was a teenager, and the woman who was doing it told me it doesn’t hurt and showed obvious disdain as I was crying. :mad:
I’ve read this whole thread aloud to my husband, both of us having similar reactions to some of the stories here…“Oh GOD! Yeeeaach! Haha Wow!”
I have been fortunate enough not to have too many painful things happen to me outside of breaking my ankle in the middle of a huge campout in the desert.(Which was embarassing in it’s own right because I was drunk, but also culminates in a fight between my husband and a friend at the time wherein my husband went to jail for the night…ain’t too proud of that one. Long story.)
But my husband has had aaallll manner of things painful and disturbing happen to him including torn ACL, hernia, thigh fillet with skil saw, inadequate anesthesia during a vasectomy, root canals aplenty, infected lymph node (the story of which I posted to Sierra Indigo’s thread the other day) which also comes with periodic infections in the leg that cause cellulitis, falling down stairs and rupturing three discs that required surgery, gout, and I’m sure I’m missing one or two interesting things. He’s not really unhealthy, he just has weird things happen.
But out of all of those things, he says that by far the worst pain in his whole life, hands down was flashburn to his corneas. Listen folks, NEVER. Under any circumstances, EVER find yourself anywhere near someone whos welding ANYTHING without proper eye protection. He wasn’t the one doing the welding, there was just someone not too far from him doing it, and he was in the worst pain I’ve ever seen him in. The man was screaming and saying all kinds of radical things. He’s always been pretty good about things that should cause major pain, but this time it was bad enough to make him drop his basket completely. I’ve never seen someone so crazy with pain.
Jeez, we were just kids then…in our early twenties. There is nothing like seeing someone you love behave like that and having no basis for comparison or comfort of any kind. It did steel me for the many hospital visits I’d take with him over the years, though. 
The two worst were the Shingles & falling down the stairs & landing head first on a nail, with a possible skull puncture.
I tore ligaments out of my foot in 1983 at summer basketball camp. Thinking about the pain still makes me nauseated.
Migraines and cluster headaches are really bad. I sometimes get a pre-period headache right through my eye socket that makes me want to claw out my eyeball.
Currently I’m dealing with tendonitis in my foot. It’s not excruciating pain, just a dull throbbing that never, ever stops. Walking, lying down, sitting, driving . . . ache, ache, ache.
I had a side-of-the-nose zit (more of a sebaceous cyst) that had an enormous “root” and put an incredible amount of pressure on my sinuses. Popping that beast was excruciating, but the immediate relief (and half cup o’ pus) was very gratifying.
Yeah, you need to find a new podiatrist. The removal of mine was the easiest medical procedure I’ve ever had. 6 shots of Novocaine to the base of the toe and I felt nothing at all – until he put the Gentamycin on the nailbed. The burning from it broke through the Novocaine because apparently I’m allergic to Gentamycin. He washed it off with saline and then dressed the wound.
I went to the movies that night and back to my (standing up all the time) job the next day.
when my loved one, wife, of 12 years left me, with out any overt indications, for a younger woman (man, was she ugly [not that that matters]).
that put me into PTSD, for 2+ years.
And we talked about our goals annually.
No clue, dumb me.
Actually, it was a rather small wart, but the method for removing it was quite different. My doctor decided to actually burn it off. With a special torch. Thus, when the shot wore off, I could feel the flames burning my skin. Luckily, I was kinda numb anyways, as seeing portions of one’s hand get turned into black char tends to kinda throw you into a daze.
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20 years of migraines and cluster migraines so bad death would have been a deliriously-welcomed release.
fiorinal/fioracet was all they had at the time and it didn’t do anything more than make me dopey. i would bang my head against the wall in an effort to redirect the pain. sometimes it almost helped. the only thing that eventually saved me was the invention of that drug that acts on blood vessels to restrict them - i forget the name. shortly after it was prescribed for me i went into menopause and that stopped the migraines like somebody flipped a switch. got to love those hormone changes… -
the Root Canal From Hell.
abscessed tooth, deep tissue infection. i have a pretty high pain tolerance in the mouth (much to my misfortune). novacaine doesn’t work well on infected tissue and the surgery DID not go smoothly. even though they’d gassed me eight ways from sunday i was in a complete state of panic in the chair the whole damn time. the OS would ask me every couple of minutes if i wanted her to stop and i would keep right on crying and shaking my head. yeah, what was i going to do? go home with a half-drilled-out tooth? :rolleyes: as a result i too now can hardly sit in a dentist’s chair without battling the fight or flight syndrome. it didn’t used to be that way at all. -
The D & C From Hell.
(or whatever that one is called that’s done in the doctor’s office)
i had such a deathgrip the attending nurse’s hand, i left black fingerprints on her skint, and i know i cussed out the OB at least twice. my cervix is scarred all but closed from really bad mysemorea [sp?] in my youth. pain? oh, you betcha. great og did that hurt!!
it took him three tries to punch through and had he failed that third time he would have had to call for an ambulance and have me transported to the hospital for the whole on-the-table experience. fun, fun, fun.
what blindsided me was the nausea. who knew such a procedure could induce the kind where throwing up internal organs seemed like a good idea?
should i ever have to have one of those done again i sure as hell won’t be awake for it!
Mine is pretty mundane, but I once pulled a muscle in my lower leg–I was actually crying the entire time, just sitting there bawling like a baby. A 9 on the 1 to 10 meter.
This thread is making me cringe so badly. I want to administer a lethal injection on myself immediately so I never have to go through any of these.
The most painful thing I’ve ever endured was the phone call scene in Swingers.
Resume your horror stories.
Root canal gone bad. Actually, multiple root canals on the same tooth gone bad.
Appendicitis.
Rotator cuff injury.
The best part is that these have all taken place in the past 6 months.
I would also add the time, 4 years ago, when I had the flu. The real flu. The joints on fire, waiting for the sweet release of death flu. The “if the house catches fire, y’all are just gonna have to leave me here to burn because I can’t move” flu. The good thing about that episode, though, is that I was really feverish at the time, so the memory of it has become hazy and practically surreal.
Oh, I remember another one when I was about 12.
I was running along the side of our pool when I slipped. One leg went in the pool, one leg stayed on the deck…and my crotch landed square on the concrete edging of the pool.
I think I whimpered and rolled all the way into the water. I can only imagine what that would have felt like if I had been a boy! :eek:
Anxiety attack that felt like a heart attack
and I’m not being facetious but I’ve had my heart (very badly) broken twice and each time I swear it felt like something was physically jabbing me in my actual heart.
I have had a major problem with Frozen Shoulder syndrome–where moving my arm in any direction caused stabbing, tearing pain in my shoulder. That was pretty bad. But nowhere in the 8-10 range in rating pain, I’d think.
Just realized I forgot one. It only lasted for a few seconds, and to me lasting pain is much worse than momentary pain…but having my IUD inserted (I haven’t had kids) was one of those moments where I had to grip the side of the bed for a few seconds to keep from involuntarily scooting away from the person jabbing a sharp object through my cervix. The whole procedure from start to finish took maybe a minute, and the pain was only a little bit of that, but it hurt like a bitch for those few seconds. I’m getting it removed in a month, and I’m not looking forward to that at ALL.
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Torn ACL and PCL at the same time.
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Stupid doctor didn’t notice the PCL was gone, only replaced the ACL (synthetic fiber). So ripping that ACL out a few years later comes in second.
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Getting a tooth capped. 3 caps - no problem, 4th still makes me think of Marathon Man(the movie). Much shorter time than the the above but more intense. I cried.
From what I’ve seen, ruptured discs, child birth and broken bones are things that would top this list and which I hope to avoid.
On the other hand, I once cut both knees to the bone, severed a tendon, broke an ankle bone and lacerated my face pretty badly in a car wreak, then walked 1/4 mile to get help and never felt anything but a strange tendency for my foot to flop to the outside. The body can produce some kick-ass pain killers when it wants to.
He might not have repaired the PCL even if he had noticed. As I recently learned on this very message board, treatment of PCL injuries is controversial. From this article we learn that:
I agree, though, that tearing out your ACL twice must have been pretty fucking awful. Once was really quite enough for me.