Worst Pain you've felt/had?

[darin]

Saw this topic on another board, and thought it was interesting.

Here's mine:

First off, i'd have to say the WORST pain I've had was as a soldier.

I was playing BasketBall and back then, I had some 'hops'. I went up for a rebound, and when I came down, my chin hit the head of the guy in front of me. Seems my tongue was ill-placed and the guy's head snapped my open-mouth closed. I had to literally take a hand and PULL my tongue off my teeth, which were stuck into the bottom of it nearly half-way.

After I walked bloody-mouthed to the dentist, he sat me in the chair and stuck a novicane needle into the cut to numb my tongue. Holy Hell. Holy Bloody Hell.

He sewed up my tongue - about 3 days later the stiches burst and my tongue split open and got infected. Think about this - with every movement of my tongue it felt like I was biting it all over again. It was that same sharp cutting pain for weeks until it healed.


Next up is likely my Honeymoon. My wife and I spent the last day in Cabo snorkeling. That evening the 2nd-degree sunburns covering my body were too much to handle. My wife, slightly less burnt, went to seek help from the Hotel. A kindly Hotel worker broke off fresh aloe vera from the garden. My wife coated my chest with the miracle salve...seems I'm allergic to Aloe, as what was 2nd-degree sunburns became 2nd-degree sunburns with an ITCHY RASH.

Another Army Story - I once had a sinus infection which traveled into the bones of my skull. Have I mentioned the feeling of being stabbed in the forehead? That's very much what I imaged it was like.

Lastly, because I can't compete with some of y'all unfortunate souls...was my bike wreck.

http://www.d-mphotos.com/movies/indyvalleycrash.wmv

You might see my right lower-leg striking the telephone pole.

http://www.d-mphotos.com/images/leg7.jpg

That happened September of 2004. To this day, that leg, when it's touched or bumped, feels like I've got a fresh bruise under the skin. When my kids play around and I get an elbow or knee there on my shin? Yup - Like getting stabbed by a knife each time.

[Noir]

Holy Christ that leg looks bad.

Worst physical pain was only yesterday, had my first step of root canal treatment, people awlays say it's painful but my gawd I wasn't it expecting to be so bad. The second stage is next Thursday and the dentist said next week would be worse =/

But I'm only young so I've got plenty of years with plenty of chances to face quite horrid pain left.

[Classact]

I have two in competition and both had lingering effects; first was a poorly placed parachute rigging on my family jewels while exiting a C-141 with a full combat load... when the chute snapped open my scream started! The other was the deveopment of a cyst between my family jewels and my butt...oh, I'm here to tell you it's much worse than broken arms or dislocateed elbow or having your teeth knocked out... I was in Germany and had to ride the bus to the hospital and back to my abode.

[dan]

1) Sinus infection. Basically a throbbing pain that felt like it was beneath the bone on the front of my face.

2) When I was 17, my ears got plugged up with wax (I have very bad waxy buildup, have to flush out the ears every couple weeks, TMI, I know), so I had to go to the doctor and it turns out the totally scientific medical procedure for dealing with this is to jam a giant plastic skewer into my ear canal and scrape all the wax out. The doctor hit my eardrum multiple times, which was absolutely blinding pain.

3) Age 17, again, I think, I had an ingrown toenail on my big toe that had gotten really bad and infected, so I had to get surgery to get it removed. The surgery itself was fine, no pain (the doctor numbed the toe before he even gave me the shot, so I didn't really feel anything at all), but later on, I was trying to change my bandages and nobody had told me to soak my foot first, so I was trying to peel bandages off my toe that had dried to the wound. I got about halfway, felt like I was close to vomiting from the pain, before my parents told me to soak my foot.

Unfortunately (luckily), I don't have pictures for any of these.

[stephanie]

I'd say mine was when I ruptured my eardrum..HOLY MOLY

[Hobbit]

In boot camp, I got a stress fracture. To you civies out there, boot camp at the Naval Academy results in a good 20+ miles of running/marching every day. Also, whenever we were walking in the dormitory, we had to 'chop,' which means that with every step, our knees had to come up to our chests. Anyway, back to the stress fracture. So, on this broken leg, I did all this running a chopping for 3 days before somebody told me that a sharp, mind-numbing pain in a specific spot that didn't go away when I stopped running was not normal. I was on crutches for all of a week before...the circumstances piled up. First, my company officer decided to short-date my medical chit to the next time I was going to physical therapy (a lieutenant overriding the orders of another lieutenant while outside her specialty...not kosher), then didn't tell the docs at physical therapy. Not knowing, they didn't renew the chit. Without an up-to-date chit, my company commander figured that was free license to take away my doctor-mandated crutches, despite the fact that a lieutenant commander had prescribed them for 2 weeks, minimum. I ran on that bitch for 3 more days. The pain was like a railroad spike being jammed into my leg. After leaving the Naval Academy, the DoD was kind enough to pay me to go to an orthopedic specialist. He showed me about a 4 inch fracture running vertically down my tibia (which wasn't on the x-ray after the first 3 days). If I had run much farther on that sucker (and on round 2, day 4, my company commander was ordering me to run the mile and a half PT test), it would have snapped like a dry twig and I would currently have a metal rod in my leg.

For the record, in case you doubt the horror of that kind of pain, it sapped my body's entire supply of high stress pain neurotransmitters. I have yet to replenish my supply, and that was over 8 years ago. To this day, whenever I'm nervous, stressed, or really pushing myself, I'm incapable of feeling pain. I can run until my legs collapse out from under me and not even know I'm tired until it's too late. I once got pelted in the forehead with a rock by some punk I was chasing down for defying the Camp Orr rules. I didn't break stride and I didn't even know I was bleeding at all, much less profusely, until it got in my eyes.

[avatar4321]

too many to choose a worst.

But then maybe I can tell you tomorrow.

[Nukeman]

I would have to say the absolute worst I felt was when I was lifting (dead lift) and popped a SI joint. Ohhh MY GOD. You have no idea it is a total loss of movement and the pain was horrible. the bright side it only took about 2 weeks to pop back in. when that happend it was like a loud "pop" and all the pain went away.

[Trigg]

While classacts parachute story does sound painful I think I have him beat.

Childbirth x4........2 of them completely natural because the little suckers were in a hurry.

My only other painful moment was when I was around 15 and my sister and I were caving with my dad. I fell off a rock and everyone thought I'd broken my tibia. We were just about to start a 300ft belly crawl to get back to the entrance. My dad thought they were going to have pull me out.

[LiberalNation]

hmmmm, the apendicitis was more sick than pain.

bad periods, really bad periods.

[avatar4321]

The headache Ive been having all day is pretty high on the list right now.

[Kathianne]

Oct. 1983, blinding pain from 2 herniated discs. 10 days in traction.

[manu1959]

sharp stick in my eye shaved my cornea.....so i can tell you lots of things are better than a sarp stick in the eye

broken pinky.....think 90 deg......almost passed out driving myself to the hospital....

broken ribs.....sex with my hot girlfriend was tricky....

dislocated shoulers....both...twice each.....

knocked out front teeth....

spiral fracture lower right leg......

but the absolute worst....i lost my son for 15 minutes in the mountains......

[crin63]

Wow, you guys been messed up.

The worst was a testicular infection where the tubes collapsed and formed to the boys from the puss created by the infection and the nerve damage done from having a vasectomy. The nerve damage has flat dropped me to my knees.

[5stringJeff]

Man, I was gonna write about twisting ankles and being kicked in the nuts, but that sounds like child's play compared to you guys.

[jimnyc]

Pilonidal Cyst - It wasn't the cyst nor the surgery that hurt as much as the bandage changing. They leave the incision open when completed and stuff it with gauze. You need to shred it out and reinsert the new gauze a few times per day. The first few times pulling it out was a nightmare.

Ear infection - Got infected while in Georgia and slowly but surely built up pressure until my head felt like it was going to explode. Drove home 15hrs with my ears either ringing or making a "shooshing" sound the whole time.

I once shut my finger in a car door, which was painful enough. But the blood built up around the nail and had nowhere to go, and the pressure makes you want to cut your finger off. Had to go to the hospital and have a hole drilled in the nail to release the blood (pressure).

[crin63]

Pilonidal Cyst - It wasn't the cyst nor the surgery that hurt as much as the bandage changing. They leave the incision open when completed and stuff it with gauze. You need to shred it out and reinsert the new gauze a few times per day. The first few times pulling it out was a nightmare.

Ear infection - Got infected while in Georgia and slowly but surely built up pressure until my head felt like it was going to explode. Drove home 15hrs with my ears either ringing or making a "shooshing" sound the whole time.

I once shut my finger in a car door, which was painful enough. But the blood built up around the nail and had nowhere to go, and the pressure makes you want to cut your finger off. Had to go to the hospital and have a hole drilled in the nail to release the blood (pressure).

A friend of mine has had 3 surgeries for a Pilonidal Cyst. It keeps coming back. She was down 3-4 months each time after the surgery. The doctors said it was an undeveloped twin.

I had an ear infection like that also. It felt like my ear drum was trying to come out of my head. It was worse than when I punctured my ear drum with a q-tip. That was just one loud pop, some blood and deaf on the right side for 6-8 weeks.

[avatar4321]

Ive decided that puking my guts out for the last 5 hours is the worst pain ive ever felt.

[Sitarro]

My cat Felix, in the picture below, bit the shit out of my hand 2 weeks ago, I've got about 2 days of antibiotics left to take. It's amazing how powerful the jaw of a solid 21 pound cat is, he bit hard and didn't let go except to get a better grip and bite harder........ he was pretty much out of his mind. Even though I drenched it with hydrogen peroxide and let the wounds bleed under hot soapy water for quite a while, it still became infected. It looked like I had a red boxing glove on for a couple of days.

No I didn't kill him, he's my buddy and I forgave him, he didn't know what he was doing....... it was kind of like an epileptic fit only my hand was right there and he bit the shit out of it!

[LiberalNation]

speaking of really bad periods, that gyno can die, if she isn't gona let me double up on birth control and just not have one like I did for like a year she is gona hafta give me some better pain control/pills. Been doubled over half the morning, this laptop on my lap is acting as a nice heating pad at least.

[5stringJeff]

speaking of really bad periods, that gyno can die, if she isn't gona let me double up on birth control and just not have one like I did for like a year she is gona hafta give me some better pain control/pills. Been doubled over half the morning, this laptop on my lap is acting as a nice heating pad at least.

Don't stay on BC for too long. You increase your risk of a heart attack. Take a break every few years or so.

[dan]

speaking of really bad periods, that gyno can die, if she isn't gona let me double up on birth control and just not have one like I did for like a year she is gona hafta give me some better pain control/pills. Been doubled over half the morning, this laptop on my lap is acting as a nice heating pad at least.

Er... you bragged for a long time on here about being a lesbian. Why do you need birth control?

[LiberalNation]

read it again verrry slowly, hint, the keyword will be period.

[LiberalNation]

Don't stay on BC for too long. You increase your risk of a heart attack. Take a break every few years or so.

I'd rather risk it but she was more worried about high pregesterone leading to vaginal thinning and all that. Of course I'm not screwing guys so it hardly matters. Too much info yet........

[5stringJeff]

I'd rather risk it but she was more worried about high pregesterone leading to vaginal thinning and all that. Of course I'm not screwing guys so it hardly matters. Too much info yet........

You won't want to risk it when you have a heart attack. Trust me on this, it happened to my wife.

[Mr. P]

The worst? Oh gosh..

The 7 iron at full swing in the forehead at age 7 hurt.

Falling outta a tree at age 8 catching a dead branch in the chest on the way down the trunk leaving two 10" parallel scares (one still remains) hurt.

Tonsillitis was always painful

Penicillin shots (3cc) for the Tonsillitis hurt like hell, my butt still throbs thinking about that and it's been over 40 yrs.

Ran into a steel pole head first at a full run at age 11..that hurt

Taking a failed baseball nose first while playing catcher without a mask at age 11..hurt

A dog hitting me in the eye with her paw scratching the cornea..HURT LIKE HELL for DAYS!

Breaking my shoulder while trout fishing:laugh2:...Gawd the pain!

There are more but...One that gives me pain to this day happened in 1998 while flying an EMS helicopter..

The call was for a 14 yr old boy hit by a car while riding his bicycle. He was in cardiac trauma arrest so he was taken to the nearest ER instead of being flown. I dropped the medical folks at the scene so they could tend to him in the ambulance and then flew to the hospital.

The ambulance arrived 10 mins later. The floor of the ambulance covered with blood. The boy had a massive head injury. He was dead. I asked where the parents where and was told that at the scene someone told them we would be flying him to an hospital in Atlanta. They were told that before we arrived or knew he was in full arrest.. They had headed for Atlanta. My heart and soul all fell at the same time when I heard that, knowing these parents were on their way to Atlanta some 40 miles away to see about their child who lay dead here in a local ER and wouldn't be where they were going and expected to see him, just brought me to my knees...I cried in the ER that day. I still shed a tear thinking about it.

[LiberalNation]

You won't want to risk it when you have a heart attack. Trust me on this, it happened to my wife.

there is always a risk for blood clot/heart attack, most gynos don't think the risk is that big if your young and a non-smoker.

[KSigMason]

Well, I've had my joints on the left side of all places swell and it hurt to breathe and move my arm. I've blown my knee out several times, over extended it, and had surgery. I've shattered my left arm. I've been hit by a car. I've fallen on a nail that went right into my knee (I know, no luck with the knees).

[Bonnie]

When I was knocked down by a wave into the sand and the force of it popped my kneecap to the side, on top of which waves were coming over my head so I couldn't breath. I managed to pop it back into place, luckily I did it right so I did not need surgery. The real pain however came that night trying to sleep with a knee cap that was swollen to 5 times it's inteneded size...The next week was horrible.

The other time was feeling actual heart ache which I always thought was just a metaphor..I know differently now :(

[Mr. P]

When I was knocked down by a wave into the sand and the force of it popped my kneecap to the side, on top of which waves were coming over my head so I couldn't breath. I managed to pop it back into place, luckily I did it right so I did not need surgery. The real pain however came that night trying to sleep with a knee cap that was swollen to 5 times it's inteneded size...The next week was horrible.

The other time was feeling actual heart ache which I always thought was just a metaphor..I know differently now :(

There's a song about that..I can't remember the title or the singer though...

EdiT: HERE IT IS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8VGQTtENSs

[Bonnie]

There's a song about that..I can't remember the title or the singer though...

EdiT: HERE IT IS. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8VGQTtENSs

Yeah I know about that song:beer:

[darin]

Bonnie is a breath of fresh air... :)

[DragonStryk72]

Okay, well, mine goes back to Navy. When I first got to my boat, the Bataan, everything started out fine, and I start putting in my hours as a Machinist's Mate in the Aft Shaft Bearing (Bottom most, rear most section of the ship, for reference to non-sailors), but apparently, I had PFS, or Patella Femeral Syndrome, which usually doesn't cause too much of a problem to anyone..... unless you spend most your time climbing steel ladderwells, and moving about on steel decks on a regular basis.

The first time I went to medical about my knees, I got a doctor who was apparently in his last week or so before transfer to shore, and didn't really give a rat's ass, so he threw some motrin, told me it was "adjustment pains", and off I went. Well, the motrin did well for the leftover pain, but it did absolutely nothing for the actual problem, which was that every time I stepped on a steel deck, a shock went up my leg, and sent the bone just above my kneecap scraping down the back of the kneecap. Now, to clarify, as a Machinist's Mate, I worked regularly more than 100 hour weeks, doing watch rounds that had me climb up 5 decks, then down three, back up three, then climb down a long vertical shaft all the way down to the bottom of the ship, then back up the shaft to go back down to the Aft Pit to start it all again.

As one might guess, the increasing amounts of pain were getting to me, so I went back to medical, where the doctor, upon which I said that the Motrin didn't work (military guys are probably already smirking at this), and was treated to the same look I would have gotten had I said that the sky was purple, and that fish swam through the air.

Well, I essentially got a "tough shit" response, and sent on my way once more. About a week later, the new doctor came in, and apparently, he actually wanted to be a doctor. When I explained what was going on, he checked my knees by hand (very very uncomfortable), then took xrays. With that done, and some various scribbling, he then informed me in one long run that I had PFS, or patella femeral syndrome, which meant that my knees were bent at an odd angle, that it effected about 10% of high school athletes, and that I would be cripple by 25 if I stayed on ships. then he got the longest needle I've ever seen, and explained that he was going to give me a steroid lanocane injection behind both knees, so that I wouldn't be in pain for the rest of the run back to port. so he sticks me from the front, altering the path of the needle as he went to get it angled back behind my knee. And then we got to repeat this action on the other knee.

Now, it's about this point that my LPO decided I was malingering, and started pushing me even harder (such a happy, warm person) down in the pit, with the only thing saving me being the lim-duty chit that was set to expire a week after we got back, so I'd have time to get over the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth.

[Abbey Marie]

When I was knocked down by a wave into the sand and the force of it popped my kneecap to the side, on top of which waves were coming over my head so I couldn't breath. I managed to pop it back into place, luckily I did it right so I did not need surgery. The real pain however came that night trying to sleep with a knee cap that was swollen to 5 times it's inteneded size...The next week was horrible.

The other time was feeling actual heart ache which I always thought was just a metaphor..I know differently now :(

Hi Bonnie! Great to see you here. :beer:

I also dislocated my kneecap. Very painful. I went see our quack doctor the next day (after suffering all afternoon and night with no pain relief or anything) and he examined my knee by putting my leg on an extender that he pulled out from the end of the exam table. When he was done, he quickly pushed the extension back in without warning, letting my dislocated leg/kneee drop like a stone.

But- not as painful as delivering the head and shoulders of our daughter without an epidural. Dear God, that hurt. Apparently, when my husband was looking at our daughter in the nursery area later that afternoon, some man asked him if he heard those two blood-curdling screams at about 2:10 pm. My husband laughed, because that was me.

[johnney]

i would have to say the worst pain i have ever felt was this last tuesday. i back had gone out and i was having spasms. during one of the spasms my stomach decided it wasnted to spasm also, so i was getting it from noth sides. i thought i was going to pass out because of the pain

[Bonnie]

Hi Bonnie! Great to see you here. :beer:

I also dislocated my kneecap. Very painful. I went see our quack doctor the next day (after suffering all afternoon and night with no pain relief or anything) and he examined my knee by putting my leg on an extender that he pulled out from the end of the exam table. When he was done, he quickly pushed the extension back in without warning, letting my dislocated leg/kneee drop like a stone.

But- not as painful as delivering the head and shoulders of our daughter without an epidural. Dear God, that hurt. Apparently, when my husband was looking at our daughter in the nursery area later that afternoon, some man asked him if he heard those two blood-curdling screams at about 2:10 pm. My husband laughed, because that was me.


Same here Abbey

OUCH and OUCH :(

[jimnyc]

Same here Abbey

OUCH and OUCH :(

Hi, Bonnie, Love your avatar! Will you marry me?

[Bonnie]

Bonnie is a breath of fresh air... :)


Shucks Thank you Darin:cheers2:

[johnney]

Hi, Bonnie, Love your avatar! Will you marry me?

:laugh2:

[Bonnie]

Hi, Bonnie, Love your avatar! Will you marry me?


Hello Jim...Thank you and wow right to the point:coffee:

[jimnyc]

Hello Jim...Thank you and wow right to the point:coffee:

Yes, I am now 40 years old pushing 41. No longer have time or patience for wining and dining. Need fulfillment in my life, and a hottie wouldn't hurt. I'll take your reply as a yes. PM me for further details on our liasons. :coffee:

[Abbey Marie]

Talking about marriage in a thread about the worst pain you've ever felt. Hmmm...

:laugh2:

[Jeff]

I would have to say the worst I had was when I had rotatory cuff surgery , when I woke up they had me on a morphine drip and a 24 hr Novocaine drip going directly into the shoulder, I had no pain at all that day , but when it was time to go home and they disconnected everything the Doc told me it would start hurting and I'm here to tell you that Doc didn't lie. They had my shoulder in a sling strapped to my body so the shoulder couldn't be moved but i some how manged to bump into things or when the sling was off the slightest movement would shoot lighting threw my body, was a very fun time.

[Bonnie]

Talking about marriage in a thread about the worst pain you've ever felt. Hmmm...

:laugh2:

Hey some one's pain is another person's paradise:laugh2:

Just kidding