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Worst physical pain you have ever endured? (2 Viewers)

In college, I was sitting on bed in my little dorm room when I felt a headache come on.

Within a minute I was on the floor thinking I was about to die as I thought my head was going to explode.

I was crawling to the phone to call 9-1-1 when an enormous pocket of air came out of my nose and almost instantly the searing pain stopped.

Scared the hell out of me so much that I remember it clearly decades later. It never happen before or since thankfully.

 
I had shingles pop up last Wednesday (5/14) that have just about run their course. They've been a #####. I popped all of the blisters which I think helped them heal a little quicker, plus urgent care prescribed me some valtrex which reduced the spread a bit, or so I think anyway. These things throbbed like a mother non-stop for a week plus. They pale in comparison, however, to mental anxiety and insomnia I've suffered from. I'd take the shingles every time.

 
When I was in 5th grade I got fluid in my hip. I couldn't walk, doctors at first thought it might have been rheumatoid arthritis. It felt like there was knife stuck in my hip. Everything was excruciating, I couldn't walk or sit or anything without just crying in pain. Luckily it was just fluid and once they drained it, I felt fine.

 
Right before I went to college, the girl I was seeing called and told me she had chlamydia. Gave me the phone number and address of a clinic. I had no idea what to expect, when the Dr said, "drop your pants, we're going to take a swab", I was imagining a strep throat swabbing?

For those that don't know, he used what looked like a q-tip. Except it had a thin metal stem and it felt like he shoved it in the tip of my ####, and it came out my ###.

You'd think I would have learned my lesson. Nope. First week of college, I hooked up with some girl and got it again. The anticipation in the waiting room didn't help things.

 
Probably a tie between 2 things.

A month into my freshman year of college I caught some sort of absolutely wicked virus. It came on over the course of like 3 hours. Started with the chills and before I knew it, I was huddled up in my bed with 3 layers of sweats on begging for my roommate to kill me. The stomach pain was so bad. It was like someone was carving me up Braveheart Style. The continued for about 10 hours before it finally broke. Followed it up with 4 days of nonstop explosive diarrhea. I lost 16 lbs that week.

The other one was my bout with Sciatica like 4 years ago. Yes, I was a 26 year old with Sciatica. I tried to tough it out for a few days. Then one day the pain was so bad that I passed out getting out the shower. Cracked my head on the bathroom floor and decided it was time to go to the doctor. Took me 6 weeks of 4X a week PT before I could stand for more than 2 minutes at a time without wanting to die. It was like someone had a vice around my hip. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

 
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The day I met my wife. The separation of balls from self generated a primal scream heard from the hinterlands to the mountain tops.

 
Bridge of my nose got busted by a head butt in some bar in NY. But that wasn't very painful. Playing softball a few nights later I was running full speed for a foul ball down the line which was kind of over my shoulder, so I couldn't really see where I was going. Dove straight out for the ball and into a soccer goal post, instead. Hit head-first, right between the eyes. :wall: My broken nose was so tender already, that this demolished it. And my lip was sliced open up to the base of my nose. Flopped around like a mackerel for what seemed like forever; it wouldn't go away.

Things didn't get any easier when the nurse ended up being this girl I cheated on in college (with her roommate). Really uncomfortable.

To top it off, I didn't have insurance. So a Dr. buddy of mine sent me to this emergency room a few days later, where his friend would "re-position" my nose (break it a third time and mold it like he was in 5th period ceramics, stoned). A nurse shuffled me into a back room and when Doc came in, I handed him a nice bottle of scotch. He said I'd be needing it more than him, shortly, but gladly accepted. Waisting little time, he shoves the biggest needle huge I've ever had smack dab through the middle of the bridge. Then two more, each on the inside corner of each eye. He waited 5 minutes -- not long enough for the anesthetic -- because he didn't have time and told me to stand back against the wall. Using the palm of each hand, he shoved my nose back together, literally, cracking along the way. None of that hurt anything like the goal post impact but still...wasn't a good week for my schnozz.

 
Having my jaw unwired without meds. They offered to put me under and I said no, I don't wanna lose a day feeling goofy. What a goof.

 
Was in a car accident a few years ago. shattered my hip and when the ball of my femur went into my torso it blew through my sciatic nerve.

Couldn't move my foot for sixth months or so, but sure could feel it. Whole thing still bothers me quite a bit, but while I was waiting for the ambulance...I'd have eaten a gun.

Took a lot of morphine to even start to touch the pain, then every time the femur moved, it brushed the sciatic and was simply excruciating.

Dilaudid drips are fun though.

 
TLEF316 said:
Probably a tie between 2 things.

A month into my freshman year of college I caught some sort of absolutely wicked virus. It came on over the course of like 3 hours. Started with the chills and before I knew it, I was huddled up in my bed with 3 layers of sweats on begging for my roommate to kill me. The stomach pain was so bad. It was like someone was carving me up Braveheart Style. The continued for about 10 hours before it finally broke. Followed it up with 4 days of nonstop explosive diarrhea. I lost 16 lbs that week.

The other one was my bout with Sciatica like 4 years ago. Yes, I was a 26 year old with Sciatica. I tried to tough it out for a few days. Then one day the pain was so bad that I passed out getting out the shower. Cracked my head on the bathroom floor and decided it was time to go to the doctor. Took me 6 weeks of 4X a week PT before I could stand for more than 2 minutes at a time without wanting to die. It was like someone had a vice around my hip. Wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
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I have 2 and one includes sciatica. I wouldn't call the constant pain of the sciatica as the worst pain I felt, but if there was no way to get relief and I would have had to live like that for the rest of my life, suicide would have been something I would seriously contemplate. Worst one time pain I felt with the sciatica was while trying to put my shoes on, I was in a lot of pain and asked my wife to help. I was lying on the bed and she started to press on my foot to get the shoe on. It wasn't going on so I started to push back to provide enough force to get the shoe on. Suddenly my foot slid into the shoe and it all slipped out of my wife's hands and my momentum caused my leg to kick out straight. It felt like the entire leg clear up to the tailbone had been struck by lightening. I screamed as loud as I've ever screamed buried my face in a pillow and curled up with my whole body tensed up, unable to speak or move for abot 10 seconds. I didn't pass out but felt very dizzy/light headed for several minutes.

The second worst pain was a migraine that hit me very suddenly about 6 years ago. I had just gotten done working out and came home to watch my 1 yr old son while my wife went to the gym. It started slowly and once I knew what was happening, I called my wife but she didn't answer. Knowing that I was likely about to be incapacitated, I desperately called my sister to come over and watch my son which luckily she could do. I then settled on for what would be an excruciating hour. I had collapsed on the living room floor, curled up in the fetal position, was moaning and grinding my head into the carpet when my sister finally arrived. I couldn't move and my only communication was grunting between heavy breathing and moaning. I really did want to die or at least have my brain removed at that point. Finally I fell asleep and when I woke up 4 hours later, all that was left was a minor discomfort.

 
Gawain said:
Was in a car accident a few years ago. shattered my hip and when the ball of my femur went into my torso it blew through my sciatic nerve.

Couldn't move my foot for sixth months or so, but sure could feel it. Whole thing still bothers me quite a bit, but while I was waiting for the ambulance...I'd have eaten a gun.

Took a lot of morphine to even start to touch the pain, then every time the femur moved, it brushed the sciatic and was simply excruciating.

Dilaudid drips are fun though.
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My goodness. :X
 
A toothache. Seriously. I had to have it pulled the next day because the pain was unbearable. Worse than breaking a bone.

 
kidney stones, far and away the winner.

honorable mentions: herniated disc in lower back, wire brush cleaning in the ER of a deep roadrash wound

 
Wife's mom ran over my legs with a one-ton pickup followed by a trailer full of furniture while I was working on a car. Wheels went over both knees and bent both joints backwards like a grasshopper while crushing both patellas and severing several ligaments.

 
8 blood clots in my lungs.

Blown knees, broken hand, migraines, surgeries had nothing on those little bastards.

 
Overate at a Chinese buffet. It was the only time I wouldn't have minded passing away to stop the pain.

 
Henry Ford said:
Wife's mom ran over my legs with a one-ton pickup followed by a trailer full of furniture while I was working on a car. Wheels went over both knees and bent both joints backwards like a grasshopper while crushing both patellas and severing several ligaments.
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Have you ever been able to run again?
 
Henry Ford said:
Wife's mom ran over my legs with a one-ton pickup followed by a trailer full of furniture while I was working on a car. Wheels went over both knees and bent both joints backwards like a grasshopper while crushing both patellas and severing several ligaments.
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Wow, you sure she didn't do that on purpose?

 
drummer said:
Henry Ford said:
Wife's mom ran over my legs with a one-ton pickup followed by a trailer full of furniture while I was working on a car. Wheels went over both knees and bent both joints backwards like a grasshopper while crushing both patellas and severing several ligaments.
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Wow, you sure she didn't do that on purpose?
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I love my MIL as much as my own mother, but if she did this to me, even as an accident, I would have a very hard time with forgiving her. God would have to help me through it that's for sure.
 
Jayrod said:
drummer said:
Henry Ford said:
Wife's mom ran over my legs with a one-ton pickup followed by a trailer full of furniture while I was working on a car. Wheels went over both knees and bent both joints backwards like a grasshopper while crushing both patellas and severing several ligaments.
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Wow, you sure she didn't do that on purpose?
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I love my MIL as much as my own mother, but if she did this to me, even as an accident, I would have a very hard time with forgiving her. God would have to help me through it that's for sure.
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I'm wondering if Henry sued her for all she was worth or if there's something in the Napoleonic Code that grants your MIL one free grasshoppering.

 
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Playing catch in the front yard when I was 11. Friend was practicing his pick off move and wheeled and fired. Except I wasn't looking. Right in the nuts. I was literally biting grass for half an hour..

 
I've blown both knees out and had one completely rebuilt. I've torn ligaments, ruptured tendons, shredded damn near everything...my answer is kidney stones. Both times.

 
BRONG said:
Christo said:
Kidney stones :shock:
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I fear this more than death. Starting drinking lots of water as I got older, after hearing horror story upon horror story from friends. Does that even help much?
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Sorta? It helps flush them out/keep them away. It doesn't do much for the pain. I've had them a few times. Joy!!!! They are horrible, I mean horrible!!! First time I got them, I was only 23 or so, I thought I'd tough it out with no meds, I ended up in a fetal position in my parents living room begging for pain killers. I spent the next 2 weeks high as a kite on Vicodin. :eek:

After acl replacement surgery, plus major clean out of every moving part of my left knee joint, I had the true joy of Vicodin not doing a ### #### thing for my pain. Nothing. Zip. Nada. I had a nerve block for the surgery, that numbed my entire leg, ala an epidural, once that wore off, I was in the worst pain of my life. I took an ungodly amount of Vicodin that night, 17, 750 mg vikes, in a 12 hour span, with virtually no pain relief. (At the direction of the on call dr)

Fast forward to a couple years ago. I have an onset of the WORST pain in my life. The outside of my left foot, upper ankle feels as if it's being crushed, I mean pulverized in a giant metal vice. There was no event to cause this pain, it was just there suddenly. I literally was reduced to tears in front of my boss. Turns out this new joy is, The Gout. What a fantastical experience this is, mind numbing, crippling pain. Norco 10's don't touch it. All I can do is sit and wait of the colcrys to take effect and move as little as possible. And all the colcrys does is stop the attack at its current pain level and speeds the return to normal slightly.

 
Before I had back surgery 10 years ago. Went to the chiropractor to try to fix it, not knowing that 4 of my discs had already exploded. Every twist and turn was squeezing more and more fluid out of each disc. Doctor that looked at the MRI said it was the worst he has ever seen. Had the pleasure of getting surgery from the Penguins team doctor and have not had a problem since....

 
This is mighty lame in comparison to some of these stories...

I was 14, mixing a bin at a farm I worked at as a kid, when the nails of my left hand scrapped the bottom of the wooden bin. I felt a sharp, acute pain go down my arm and through my entire body. I pulled my hand of immediately to see a 2 inch piece of wood from the bin caught halfway under the nail of my left hand's middle finger. The slightest touch of the sliver sent shooting pain down my arm. Went to the doctors and they had to yank it out in pieces as it fell apart whenever they tugged it.

 
After reading some of these I am slightly embarrassed to post about getting the toenail ripped off my right big toe.

 
I have never had one but a kidney stone sounds like a great excuse to miss a few days work.

 
NewlyRetired said:
In college, I was sitting on bed in my little dorm room when I felt a headache come on.

Within a minute I was on the floor thinking I was about to die as I thought my head was going to explode.

I was crawling to the phone to call 9-1-1 when an enormous pocket of air came out of my nose and almost instantly the searing pain stopped.

Scared the hell out of me so much that I remember it clearly decades later. It never happen before or since thankfully.
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Brain fart?

 
Jayrod said:
drummer said:
Henry Ford said:
Wife's mom ran over my legs with a one-ton pickup followed by a trailer full of furniture while I was working on a car. Wheels went over both knees and bent both joints backwards like a grasshopper while crushing both patellas and severing several ligaments.
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Wow, you sure she didn't do that on purpose?
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I love my MIL as much as my own mother, but if she did this to me, even as an accident, I would have a very hard time with forgiving her. God would have to help me through it that's for sure.
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I don't believe in God. But it was a ####ing accident. How do you not forgive someone you love for an accident?

That said, when we're with her and I don't want to do anything, I half stand up and grimace.

 
About 12 years ago I went for a run. About two miles in my left leg starts to burn. I dont really think too much of it at first, but it keeps getting worse. After another mile or so I decide to turn around to head back home. I can't figure out what is going on, but my thigh is just on fire and it seems to be spreading. I stop and pull up my shorts and see it is all red and blistery. I start to panic because I have no idea what is going on. It feels like somebody threw napalm on me. It looks like somebody threw napalm on me. Then I am basically throwing salt in my own wound because I sweat like a madman.

I get home and there is nothing I can do to make it better and I probably made it worse. Burn cream, sunburn spray, ice, pain reliver, etc. I am literally in tears.

Long story short turned out to be a chemical burn from earlier in the day(that I wasn't aware of because it had a numbing sensation at first) that flared up like crazy when it got heated and sweaty. I had been working all day on ladders with a rag soaked in a urethane cleaner hanging out of my pocket.

 
Henry Ford said:
Jayrod said:
drummer said:
Henry Ford said:
Wife's mom ran over my legs with a one-ton pickup followed by a trailer full of furniture while I was working on a car. Wheels went over both knees and bent both joints backwards like a grasshopper while crushing both patellas and severing several ligaments.
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Wow, you sure she didn't do that on purpose?
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I love my MIL as much as my own mother, but if she did this to me, even as an accident, I would have a very hard time with forgiving her. God would have to help me through it that's for sure.
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I don't believe in God. But it was a ####ing accident. How do you not forgive someone you love for an accident?

That said, when we're with her and I don't want to do anything, I half stand up and grimace.
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That's easy. I would stop loving them after they did that to me.

 
I was 11 years old, and I was running down a blacktop hill with a (glass)coke bottle in my left hand. I then tripped and fell, and held on to the bottle. The bottle broke, and a large chunk of glass penetrated my palm. I'm talking 3 square inch piece of thick glass(circa 1981?).

I still have a large scar in the palm of my left hand.

 
First time I was forced to move after a 13 hour back surgery involving a ton of instrumentation (screws and rods) and fusing three lumbar vertebrae.

 
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