I don’t know if this has been covered before, but I’m curious. What is the most physically painful experience you’ve ever had?
In my case it was probably taking 4 stitches just above my right eye with no anesthetic.
Twisted intestine (I think; they never found out). I’ve broken several bones, including my collarbone 3 times, but I’d never actually experienced true agony before then. Took 4 shots of morphine to conk me out.
Breaking my tibia playing football. Almost snapped the bottom part completely off. Was only hanging by a thread of bone.
(Thinking the TIBIA is the big shin bone)
It’s a tie.
1.) Pilonidal cyst, inflamed and abcessed. I couldn’t sit, walk, or even breathe without intense, stabbing, gasping pain.
2.) My very worst menstrual cramps. (Yes, I’m serious. The pain can be mind-altering.)
I have a much higher tolerance for pain now than I would have otherwise.
Looks like I answered the dead twin post. Again …
Third degree separation of the acromion from the clavacle. Result of mountain bike riding in Whistler, Canada. Didnt get decent painkillers
until arriving back at Vancouver from Whistler. A very painful bus trip, I felt every pebble on the road - and then when I get to town, the bloody doctor offers me a homeopathic remedy - I kid you not. I said give me fucking codeine.
Short term - Labor and birth of a child.
Long term - Death of a child. (Yes grief is at times physically painful.)
Being run over by a horse doesn’t feel very nice.
I’ve been quite lucky so far. Most of the pain I’ve had has been in the form of minor cuts, burns and muscle aches. My worst pain of all that I can remember was about 12 years ago when a throbbing toothache started on a Friday evening and got worse and worse. It was very unbearable to say the least, even with as much Darvacet (sp?) as I was taking. It felt like someone was taking a pair of pliars and was pressing my tooth and my jawbone together with it. I thought I was going to have to suffer in torturous agony through the weekend, but luckily for me my dentist met me at his office the following Saturday to treat the problem.
Childbirth is a real eye-opener.
Catching a fish hook and weight in the eye was a real eye-closer.
I once had an infected hangnail that almost put me over the top.
Broken ribs (accompanied by a punctured lung) was hideous.
I once dropped a 1/2 gal. of rum on my thumb from three feet. I saw stars.
food poisoning
blegh
Vasectomy, no question. I believe he used the Destructo, Extra Rusty Sheers ™.
AG-O-NEEEEE
Having a wisdom tooth trying to come through where there was already another tooth was very painful.
The sinvgle most pain I’ve been in is when I had some sort of seizure after heating my head against a metal shelf.
Spinal injury. Lost my spinal fluid, which felt like a barbed-wire sword running straight up my spine and left my pore ol’ brain high and dry, which makes the word “headache” seem laughable. In addition, the spinal fluid in my system made me violently throw up—not pleasant, with all that other pain.
I would rather go through childbirth (again) than have a toothache. In fact there’s not much I WOULDN’T do if it meant not having another toothache.
Except go to the dentist.
The injury didn’t happen to me, but when told bout it,m i felt his pain…
Anyways, this guy went to a sauna with a few friends, so as you do he got his fashionable towel and sat on the sauna bench.
After a while of relaxing, other parts of his body had done their relaxing too… one of his testicles had managed to make its way between the wooden planks of the sauna bench and settled at the bottom somewhere.
After his relaxing session, he firmly stood up, only to fall back to the floor in agonising pain… ouch!
As far as i know, they managed to save the other one.
Pickled onions, anyone?
Kidney stones. Twice.
I wouldn’t wish them on my worst enemy. Well, maybe just once, but never twice!
Did he sue?
Labor and delivery! I have had broken bones, stiches, brusies and kidney infection but NOTHING beats labor and delivery. You are pushing out a watermelon the size of a lemon hole. Come on nothing could be worse!
I had to have a kidney biopsy without anesthesia.
Pretty much every other pain I have ever had pales in comparison to laying on a table on your stomach while people hold you down and you hold your breath so they can suck out a little piece of kidney with a very large needle. Then you wait while they determine they didn’t get enough tissue and they do it AGAIN!
(in their defense they tried to give me stuff so I wouldn’t feel pain but after an hour on the valium drip with no effect at all they were afraid of an overdose - they made me do calesthenics because they thought I was lying about not feeling the drugs. Then they gave me a bunch of shots of novocaine. Unfortunately I’d feel the numbness spread out and dissipate immediately)
I have to disagree. Speaking for myself, yes labour was painful, but it wasn’t scary because I knew WHY it was hurting so much, and it was for a good reason.
I think extreme pain can be exacerbated by fear of the unknown, adding mental pain to the physical.
Julie