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What's the most painful thing you've ever experienced?
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Giving birth. 0/10 do not recommend. Still have scar endometriosis 26 years later.
The recovery of hemorrhoid surgery, I dreaded having to poop every day, it was traumatic. At some point after one week I didn’t eat for two days just to be spared of having to poop one day.
I flipped over with my bicycle and went down a hill, lost consciousness, came back to life from my own screaming because I had broken teeth and bones. Less enjoyable experience of life.
Were you with people or did you have to be found?
I was found by someone that heard my scream while wearing ear protection and renovating their house a across a road and further down the hill.
Oh wow, so sorry that happened to you.
Thanks, me too. Turned out after the bones had healed that I bumped something inside my head pretty bad. I have permanent fatigue now and get sensory overload very fast. Fortunately my helmet made it through without a scratch.
Sounds like it would be way worse without the helmet. Permanent fatigue is no joke though.
I’ve no idea why I thought reading the comments would be a fun experience, but holy moly… I’m so sorry you guys had to go through that, holy shit.
My worst pain that I can remember was probably when I fell on my knee from my bike after tripping over a pothole. It hurt like a bitch. But yeah… But now after reading the comments… I’m glad this was my worst experience lol
This is NSFW so I’ll cover it in spoiler text…
The incident…
In my teens I had warts in a very intimate place. Our insane family doctor handed me a bottle of Podophyllin (either mixed with salicylic acid or two bottles, I don’t remember) and a toothbrush. He said to apply it wherever was needed. If you know about salicylic acid you will already know how insane that was. I slathered it on completely ignorant of the impeding consequences. It burnt my exit so badly I was scream crying constantly. Because the doctor had made it sound like he did a normal thing I thought I was just being a baby. I remember spending a lot of time in baths being looked after by my then gf just in constant, near passing out, agony. It’s easily the most pain I’ve ever experienced. Also, it didn’t get rid of the warts!! I had to wait till many years later and a very gentle medicine called Aldara. No pain and no more warts, thank goodness.
The pain in my head after I received a spinal tap. Getting up in the morning came with pain that made me puke. Had to be hospitalized for a few days after a week at home.
Nearly died from a ruptured appendix over 20 years ago but the pain was way less than this headache. Never again!
That’s interesting. My problems started about 20 minutes after the procedure. I could not be even slightly vertical without the worst pain ever. I was in the hospital for a week before they finally did a blood patch and then I was able to go home the next morning.
My doctors may want to do another spinal tap in the future and I will happily tell them to fuck allllll the way off. :)
The procedure was done early in the morning. The doctor told me upfront that caffeine reduces the following issues but that I’d be up on my feet after 1-3 days. And right after the procedure I felt alright. I was waiting outside, my spouse picked me up and I spent the rest of the day on the sofa. When I felt some headache coming up I just went to bed early.
The next morning was quite different though. When getting up the pain hit me so unprepared and hard, I nearly wasn’t fast enough to reach the bathroom before hugging the toilet for a while. Spouse went out to get me caffeine pills ("No need to get them right away, you likely wont need them” my doctor said) but they did nothing. Lying down was the only time I didn’t feel like my head is going to explode.
Walking bent over so my head was haning down turned out to be an acceptable way of moving. Eating was… challenging.
Within a few days, the physical stress and the caffeine pills made me sweat out all my Kalium so in addition to the pain my whole body started to shake unctonrollably. That’s when I asked my spouse to call an ambulance since I didn’t know at the time where the shaking was coming from. (And I live in a country where this whole ordeal only costs 75 €)
Because of the constant shaking the MRI wasn’t conclusive so the doctors decided to keep me in the hospital for a while and think about whether they want to give me a patch or not.
In the end they didn’t. Though they now knew I had a leak, they took so long to realize this, that it started to close on it’s own. I was then sent home. Took me another 3-4 weeks to be actually pain free.
A few things I learned: * The intensity of the headache is related to your body type. Small, thin people are more likely to develop so called thunderclap headache (sounds a bit like your experience as well) * If you need to combine pain medication and caffeine pills, ask your doctor about something for excess stomach acid * If you start to get the sweats take care of your electrolytes * If you feel lik the pain is not getting better demand a patch until they give you one. I felt so much like they really, really didn’t want to do a patch. But no amount of discomfort can make me go willingly through this amount of pain again. * And the most important one: if there is even the possibility of you having ME / CFS don’t do it, unless it’s absolutely necessary and there’s no other way. In my case, we just could have waited a few months longer. I would have loved to know this upfront.
Dilated all the way to have baby. My body decided that wasn’t for us, so I got the c-section too! I’ve broken bones and it feels like nothing compared to that.
When the local anesthetic wore off between sides during my vasectomy. I felt the scalpel slice into the side of my scrotum. Not a huge fan of that.
oof and every small nudge in that area during recovery feels like you’ve been kicked square in the balls.
I thought it would be the ruptured appendix, but it turned out to be the dental abscess that made me wish for death.
Life has a way of surprising you. Take care of your teeth
Had a c-section on a Thursday afternoon. For some reason, late Friday afternoon my doctor said I had to confirm if I wanted her to order any pain medication because no doctor would be on the floor overnight.
Still don’t understand why I had to confirm ordering the meds, instead of her just leaving an order in case it was needed. Anyway, I asked if the epidural had fully worn off and if I was already in as much pain as I would be in. She said “yeah pretty much,” so I declined. Turns out that wasn’t true.
A few hours later, a nurse came in to my room to check on why I was just letting my newborn keep screaming. She found me squirming around like a turtle on its back and sobbing while my husband was snoring and sleeping through all of it.
I remember telling her I could feel my stitches tearing every time I tried to move (they weren’t, it just felt like it). I was begging for anything to help with the pain, but since the doctor left without putting in an order for any medication, she couldn’t even give me Tylenol.
So far in my life, that has definitely been my most physically painful experience.
Losing my dog.
As for physical, ear drum self exploding from infection, beat out badly broken limbs and other other organ issues etc.
My first thought.
Both of my dogs became very ill (separately, almost 2 years apart) and the kindest, best option was to put them down - their conditions were incurable.
Each of those days was my most painful, as well as the weeks afterwards.
Physically for me, probably a lung/pleura infection.
Despite experiencing second degree burn on my hand, ripping open my tight down to muscles from a motorbike slide on hard gravel, raming my spine into climbing knobs while climbing down, getting my frontal tooths broken off almost to the nerves of the tooth, hitting an industrial cable roll in the warehouse in my face, and being hit with sling shot rock in the balls,
Probably the most pain was when i was 4, i was at my aunts and her dog attacked me, i fell down stone stairs into her cellar, and the dog bit my nose clean off. I dont remember any exept the before, then a fall, me crying, then black then me in car crying, and thats it. The scar on my nose is probably gone now. But for years it was visible.
you sound tough. i will probably reference this post next thanksgiving
Spite is hell of a fuel to keep going in life
Ingrown toenail removal. Worse than wisdom tooth romoval by far. The pain was so bad I couldn’t leave my bed for that first day, and I didn’t sleep until my third.
Great, I have that procedure in a few days and wish i didn’t read this
I thought I could kick a football with an ingrown toenail once. BAD idea.
Why do we as human species have to endure such things as ingrown toe nails? It’s one of most unnecessary things ever
One of my wisdom teeth literally shatter, exposing the nerve.
3rd place: abscess on tailbone. had to be lanced and drained.
2nd place: cracked rib recovery; every sneeze, cough, laugh, or fart, would hurt like hell.
1st place: herniated disc. holy mother of god!
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Distant second was deep bone pain when my knees were smashed together. But in first by a great margin are kidney stones. Mother of god! That pain is unparalleled.
Came here to write “kidney stones,” and yours was the only other mention. Gallstones hurt to a similar degree, but as they move in and out, you get some relief from the pain.
I sat on a bear trap to form a chastity cage around my anus, as I live a permanent chastity straight top lifestyle.
Interesting, my PA was essentially painless.
As for actual pain… I was 15, and had to get one wisdom tooth extracted. Thing is, I have that gene that makes anesthesia fucky.
I did warn the surgeon, they doubled the lidocaine, and yet… the moment he started cutting my gum, that lidocaine went right out. They had to call FOUR more nurses to hold me down so he could finish the extraction and sew things up.
Pain was so bad I nearly passed out, and couldn’t talk for two weeks.
I got a tongue split in 2017 so uhh probably that. I have a high pain tolerance.
Unintentional pain, probably the last time I ended up in the ER with severe food poisoning. I had fully emptied my stomach by then but my body kept going. The bile burns your throat and mouth when it gets that far along. It was so painful
Tore a muscle in my back. My vision whited out and I thought I was having a stroke. I couldn’t move without the world spinning so hard I wanted to vomit, but every muscle contraction was a new wave of pain.
Moving that cabinet turns out not to have been worth it. 2 years later and I can pretty much bend at the waist again so that’s nice.
I find small pains, like papercuts to be extremely painful while a lot of more intense pain more tolerable. Like when I broke my arm I was cool and collected, but hot water from the faucet is extremely painful.
My worst pain ever was kidney stone. Woke up so confused because I felt completely numb and had the urge to vomit. Then I moved and the pain came rolling in as waves.
Went to the ER and they wanted me to pee for a test, but I couldn’t pee and the pain meds they were giving were worthless because of the whole pain med panic and had to convince them to give me a catheter so they could confirm what it was.
Found out both ends of the pain spectrum are horrible!
i am not sure if it was the MOST painful, but i fell on my tailbone while flat-out running on black ice (it looked like wet pavement). i was writhing.
ps: thanks for your post. i always wondered about the PA. my friend got one, but he was like ‘nah, didn’t hurt’. Suuurre buddy…
Did your dom instruct you to come here and humiliate yourself?
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Probably as a child when I cracked my head open on a rock garden, that hurt so badly that I can’t even properly remember it
Breaking a bone in my big toe and then subsequently stubbing it weekly for months. It calmed down just to once a month after that.
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Torn Achilles. Fuckkkk it hurt. And the recovery process even more so. I was on a four hour oxy schedule and god damn the last two hours or so, every time, were unbelievably painful. Looking back I’m surprised I didn’t somehow let myself just take the next oxy ahead of schedule
This was six years ago
Bottom half of my leg didn’t follow me up when I pushed myself up from laying on my stomach doing home repairs. Sublocated my kneecap, 100% do not recommend
Spinal stenosis. I went to bed fine one night and woke up with my brain screaming that my back was broken. Not just that, but that I could feel the broken ends grinding against each other.
For the next 12 months, the pain was so intolerable, I was taking 10 vicodin a day just to function. 2 to get out of bed, 2 when I got to work, 2 at lunch time, 2 when I got home, and 2 to go to sleep.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/lumbar-spinal-stenosis
To be clear, I’ve had 2 heart attacks, open heart surgery, 6 kidney stones, and stage 2 colon cancer… I’d gladly choose any of that over spinal stenosis.
Going five hours without pain meds the day after my total dickectomy has to be up there. I remember crying a lot by the time the nurse came in.
Still worth, but damn that sucked.
Let me start by saying there are various types of pain. I’ve cracked my head open on a brick fireplace, I’ve had a finger hit with ammonia anhydrous spray and freeze almost instantly, freeze burn sucks worse than fire. I had my hand caught between a tractor tire and a 3 point cultivator and the pressure burst open a finger. I had a 1000 gallon water tank fall on my foot and lost a nail, I’ve had a completely ruptured disc in my back and needed a fusion.
I think I’d rather go through all of those again at the same time than ever experience a kidney stone again. The pain is indescribable and unlike other pain where you get brief moments of relief in waves, a kidney stone pain is always on and does not relent.
The second worst pain is peeing after you have it surgically removed. Nothing like pissing pure blood at the temperature of molten lava.
The third is having the stent removed, it’s like a tiny thorny vine and the thorns are pointed towards the exit
My urologist didn’t believe me when I told him I have a very high tolerance to local anesthesia. He also didn’t believe me when I told him I could feel the incision in my scrotum.
So I had a vasectomy without anesthesia. Would not recommend.
Most painful? Well, likely from herniated disc. According to people who try to measure pain, this seems to be quite far up.
Otherwise, the extraction of cerebrospinal fluid can also be quite unpleasant, but not really hurtful.
A gum/cheek tissue infection, when one of my wisdom teeth erupted. Pericoronitis.
My jaw was in so much pain I couldn’t move it. I ended up tying a bandana around my head to immobilize it. None of the medications I had on hand worked; took me several hours to get to an emergency room for proper painkillers. But even those weren’t much help; it took days for antibiotics to have an effect.
A close second would be a case of hiccups, the day after I was in a serious car crash. My pectorals were on fire.
Teeth/mouth pain is so incredibly painful! All those nerve endings make it really unpleasant.
Getting my braces removed.
Maybe don’t get a reverse prince albert then :P
Childbirth for sure was up there. 4 days of labor and then an emergency C-section. It’s very painful to have had abdominal surgery and then not be given pain meds afterward.
My husband at the time refused to wake up when our new baby was crying that same night. Having to haul myself out of my bed with no pain meds and a new incision across my stomach to care for a crying newborn was traumatizing.
OMG that’s awful.
Broken rib.