No shit. The treatment for anal cancer involves radiation that turns your asshole into a roasted marshmallow. Along with collateral damage like burning your junk, but that’s a treat compared to the daily terror of having to send a stool through the charred goo of your shreiking sphincter. Good times.
I’m sure you all have covered just about everything and I saw toothache earlier, but yeah its serious when you’re pondering going to the emergency room to beg someone to yank out a tooth. Painwise I’ve been there but havent gone through with it.
Infected inner ear would be my worst one though. Never broken anything worse then a pinky, and a stress fracture I’m currently walking around with on my heel.
Another good one is playing basketball or football and landing on someone elses foot instantly rolling your ankle and hearing ligaments pop. That one had me screaming for at least 15 seconds straight,
edit: Strained lower back is pretty bad, but I havent had that in forever, and didn’t hurt unless i tried to walk…then it would take like two minutes to just cross a street.
I don’t think I’ve had many excruciating pain experiences. Probably the worst ones so far have been:
• Bad chiropractic / spinal-disks-out-of-place in my upper thoracic.
• Perennial fall campus flu stuff, severe soreness of throat.
• 1/4 cup of very hot cooking oil blurped onto the back of my hand and the skin all peeled off
• Getting tooth drilled at the dentist, novacaine didn’t kick in for unknown reasons
Beck, I hadn’t heard about all that but I have one question and you don’t have to answer. About the kidneys, did you get a transplant or do you do dialysis? See, I have only one kidney left, and I try to treat it very kindly as I want to avoid further issues.
No transplant. Not a good candidate. Too many other issues.
I do dialysis 3 times a week. An altogether unpleasant experience but I do the best I can.
And I’m alive.
Thank goodness for that. I’m sixty nine and I’ve been running on one kidney for over twenty years. I keep wondering if it’s waiting for the other shoe to drop. I think I did mention upthread my worst pain and that was kidney stones.
Yeah when my first one (Pancho)was removed they said my other one (Lefty)could carry on for a long time. But, alas, he crapped out on me too.
If you’ve gone 20 years, I would say you’re safe.
It still remains so weird to me how pain can be so disproportionate to the severity of an injury. IBS for example is often little more than your gut microbes aggressively digesting your food, but holy hell can it hurt. Eight on the pain scale, easy.
Or stubbing your toe doesn’t present the least danger but it feels like you’re gonna die.
I got a cramp in my foot while shoveling the other day and I had to talk myself through it. “It’s just a cramp. Don’t panic. It’s just a cramp.” The pain was unreal considering absolutely nothing was wrong with me.
Kind of like those calf cramps you get at night. As it’s happening I’m thinking, “how will I ever get through this?!”.
I just had to post this somewhere!
Last night, we were discussing this topic on another website, and when a doctor couldn’t believe the poster had passed a ginormous kidney stone himself, he replied, “Gosh, I didn’t know this could be outsourced.”
Ba-dump!
I was going to say dental extraction and implants (I just had all of my teeth removed and implants installed) but when I stop to think about it, the pain after a tonsillectomy is worse. Just blinding, constant pain that you can’t even aleviate with pain killers because you can’t swallow anything.
I was 17 or 18 when I had mine done. I can’t imagine how a young child would be able to deal with it.
How about the vomiting because you’d swallowed blood during the surgery? Fun times.
I’ve had emergency gallbladder surgery, and I’ve had gout. I’d say that the gout was worse. Not every episode of gout was as bad as the inflammation that led to my gallbladder being removed, but the very worse attacks, were much worse.
Anyway, they’re in the past now. My gallbladder is gone, of course, and I haven’t had any gout pain in four years - thank God for allopurinol.
Had the very same experience. I was 17 or 18, and the toe was swollen and very sensitive. Doc jabbed it 7 times trying to numb it but the anesthetic didn’t work.
Definitely not a walk in the park (in more ways than one, eh Capn_Carl?).
BTW, I discovered much later, as I’m sure you did, the proper placement of the anesthetic is around the base of the toe — after a short blast of some freezy stuff to numb it enough for needling.
BTW 2, if anyone in the Houston area needs the services of a first-rate foot surgeon, DM me for the name. Also, I know of a crack dermatology team in Houston (wildly different story).
My daughter was swallowing blood clots from the sutures after jaw reconstruction surgery; couldn’t keep food or pain meds down for days.
I empathize!
My parents said when i was a little kid and had a tonsilectomy, I could have as much ice cream as i wanted. And then after maybe half a bowl i threw up blood everywhere.
So was it a trick? Were the doctors intentionally getting me to throw up?
As for the OP. Infected ear after swimming.
No, they were not trying to get you to throw up on purpose. Often, if a fair bit of blood has collected in the stomach (like during tonsil or nasal surgery), it becomes irritating to the stomach (especially more than just a bit of blood) and the stomach gets rid of what is irritating or indigestible to it by ejecting it, often rather urgently. Likely you would have thrown up with or without the ice cream.
Drs or nurses wouldn’t encourage throwing up after that kind of surgery-the last thing they want is do to rough up the surgical areas or disturb sutures or dislodge clots. Plus, stomach acid can be hard on open tissue. Many reasons not, your irritated stomach over ruled them. That is quite common.
They gave me lime ice cream after my tonsillectomy. Lime ice cream. Who even makes lime ice cream???
In any case, it tasted horrible to me (I think mostly because of the blood I’d swallowed), so I stopped after one bite.