Mention your most painful experience!

[waggy]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
two words...kidney stones
you will never feel a pain so awful as having to go through these. It goes to that place beyond pain where you can do is just wimper and vomit from the excruciating nature of a 2mm piece of rock coming through that small tubing system.

i heard for men kidney stones are the worst. 2nd is the collapsed lung. both of which there is very little in the way of pain relief you can do.

my dad had some HUGE stones last summer. they were able to break it up some but it was still to big. so they put In a sheath to let it pass a little bit easer. i felt so sorry for him.

 

[jme5343]

I was on a roof to put a co-worker's bike up there. I thought better of it and handed the bike down. My get down lan was to jump on the edge of the dumpster nearby. I missed. My stomach landed on the edge and folded me in half. There was also a large metal handle that my leg hit. I couldn't wear jeans for three or four days, I couldn't get them over my swollen thigh. I was VERY lucky not to have broken a rib or my leg.
^ And that's what you get, kids, for being an idiot

 

[Schadenfroh]

Bicycle accident when I was 10, still have a silver dollar sized scar to show for it.

 

[NuclearNed]

Appendicitis

I was so sick with it that I went to the emergency room. The ER doctor told me I had to flu, and to go home and ride it out. 24 hours later I felt like I was going to die, so I went back to the ER, where another doctor recognized the actual problem. Because of other people ahead of me in the surgery line, I had to have my surgery really late in the evening, which meant that I got to lie on a hospital bed in agony for 10-12 hours. At first the doctors tried laparoscopy, which meant that they cut 3 small incisions in various places on my abdomen. When they got in there, they found that my appendix was so enlarged that they had to go in the old-fashioned way: a 3" cut on my lower right abdomen. The next couple of days after the surgery were the worst days of my life due to the pain.

 

[LegendKiller]

The first time I dislocated my knee. I was pushing my Dad's stalled truck off of the road, had my upper leg braced against the truck and my lower leg folded, in half, under the truck. Before I passed out pushed in the emergency brake. I work up about 5min later, got into the truck and drove to school (manual shifting was interesting). I walked around for about an hour until I saw my knee was about 5x the size.

Went to the health room, she told me I needed a "pass" from my 1st hour teacher. I walked about 3 football fields there, got it, walked back. Ran into my swim coach who was pissed.

I eventually got to the doc's office, had my knee drained and had surgery 2 weeks later to remove bone fragments and to try and set things right.

In the following 7 years I dislocated it 8 more times. This included when I was helping my dad lift a cemented pole out of the ground, when we were deer hunting and my foot got caught in some snow/weeds and twisted, skiing in Utah, several others, and finally just getting out of my car.

Every time I dislocated I would hear ringing in my ear, see my vision fade, my heart race, and intense pain. I'd then pass out for 5-10 minutes. The deer hunting one was fun, as my dad and brother had to half-drag me 4 miles back to the car.

2 years ago I had a patellar tendon raidiotomy, where the essentially take the tendon, remove it from the bone, shift it over, and screw it down. THe next 3 weeks were hell as I was on drugs for the pain and also intense PT for months after.

Knee injuries FTL!

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: NuclearNed
Appendicitis

I was so sick with it that I went to the emergency room. The ER doctor told me I had to flu, and to go home and ride it out. 24 hours later I felt like I was going to die, so I went back to the ER, where another doctor recognized the actual problem. Because of other people ahead of me in the surgery line, I had to have my surgery really late in the evening, which meant that I got to lie on a hospital bed in agony for 10-12 hours. At first the doctors tried laparoscopy, which meant that they cut 3 small incisions in various places on my abdomen. When they got in there, they found that my appendix was so enlarged that they had to go in the old-fashioned way: a 3" cut on my lower right abdomen. The next couple of days after the surgery were the worst days of my life due to the pain.

oh man when i had appendicities mine was the same.

but now i have a 5 inch scare on my stomach. looks like a smile heh

 

[AeroEngy]

I have a couple good ones.

First 60 stitches in my leg from a run in with a barb wire fence. I was trying to climb over slipped and it just ripped right down my leg.

When I was about 13 my older brother thought it would be fun to try out some WWF moves. I got the pile driver head first into the wood floor. I had a pretty nasty concussion with lots of nausea, black spots in my vision and the doctors made my parents wake me up every hours for a couple nights for fear I would slip into a coma.

Another good one from my childhood was when I was about 15. I got bit by a rapid cat. My dog was mauling this little cat and I tried to save it and it bit me. When I told my parents they went and caught it and because of weird behavior had it tested. A few days later when they found out it had rabies I was taken to the ER for a whole crap load of shots. A number of which had to be injected into the bite site which happened to be my pinky finger. They injected so much of this thick serum that I thought my finger was going to exploded. It was about 3 times its normal size and looked like a sausage when they were done. Man did that ever hurt. Not to mention the dozens of follow up shots over the next month or so.

 

[musha shugyo]

Getting shot in the leg. Straight through my thigh, femur and all.

 

[clamum]

Originally posted by: jupiter57
Once I fell around 40 feet (another 30 ft. to the concrete below!), the only thing that stopped me was a piece of Uni-strut on which a light was affixed.
I landed with my left side on the Uni-strut, breaking (literally smashing) 3 ribs severely and separating 2 others in the process.
Mr. "I'll be all right" here decided he was too tough to go to the ER or even see a doctor, finished out the work day in so much pain I was crying.
After needing assistance even getting in and out of bed for over a month, the Engineer in charge kinda forced me to go to a doctor and get it checked.
Unfortunately, the healing had already started and the Doc. said there was little he could do other than wrap me so tight that I couldn't bend over.
Hurt severely for about a year before I started seeing any improvement, and was quite sore for many, many months after that. (Never missed a days work because of it either)
That was about 24 years ago, and if I press on my ribs in that area today, there is still a sore spot,though not bad, but I can sure tell where the damage was done.

Haha wow that's hardcore, you sent to work afterwards?!

Nothing major here. Probably the worst was hitting my head on the metal edge of our steps and getting stitches when I was a little guy (4-5 yrs old?). Happened on Easter morning as we were going to church. I don't remember it any but it probably hurt at the time.

 

[crab]

Spinal traction.

 

[40Hands]

It was either breaking my arm/wrist or when I hopped off 3 steps at my friends place and twisted my knee just a bit which resulted in immense pain for a while. (http://familydoctor.org/135.xml)

 

[49erinnc]

Probably the month prior to being diagnosed with Crohn's disease. Just unbearable pain that had me constantly doubled over. I lost about 20 pounds that month from having no appetite and relentless bathroom trips. Finally got so bad that I collapsed in the floor one night and had to be rushed to the emergency room.

2nd to that would be getting shingles once. That hurt like you would not believe. I had them on one side of my head and it felt like someone had about 10 mini branding irons stuck all over it.

 

[olds]

Tho most painful was probably shin splints in Army basic training. We ran four miles for PT everyday in boots. We ran to training/class, back to the mess hall at lunch, back to class and back to the barracks after class.
The intense pain went on for two months but I wouldn't tell anyone because I didn't want to get singled out. Finally during a run my left foot went numb and I fell to the back of the formation because I couldn't stay in step and I didn't want to screw anyone else up. It's hard to run when you can't feel your foot. The drill sergeant came up to me screaming and you should have seen the look on his face when I told him what was going on.

He had been ripped a new one when a doctor (Major) at the emergency room when the sergeant brought me in with a 104 temperature and pneumonia. I never told anyone I was sick till I couldn't swallow liquids any more. My tonsils were swollen and I hadn't been able to eat solids for two days, now I couldn't even drink.
That was in 1983 and shin splints still plague to to this day.

I've broken bones and blown out both knees but that pain didn't last as long as the shin splints. After runs my shins were bright red and I was sick to my stomach from the pain.

 

[interchange]

I broke my wrist in middle school and knocked the growth plate out of place. Had to wait 1 hr at dr's office only to tell me he couldn't cast it because of the growth plate. Had to wait 2 hrs for emergency apt at orthopedist. Later required surgery.

 

[jcuadrado]

gallstones...felt like there was a dagger lodged in my back for hours...until the emergency surgery.

 

[crownjules]

I was playing soccer on the JV team my sophomore year in high school. I was the sweeper (last guy before the goalie) and a kid on the opposing team was on a breakaway. He was fast and starting to cut across the field ahead of me. I closed in on him and stuck out my foot to stop the ball and trip him up over it. What actually happened was that my ankle gave way as he tried to run right through it.

I've broken my arm twice, cut myself badly, stubbed toes and fingers etc. There was no worse pain then the high ankle sprain I got that day. I was in agony for the next day. Suprisingly enough, I ended up only out for a week and came back to play. Unfortunately, that ankle was never the same after that injury and was always prone to getting tweaked.

 

[adairusmc]

Well, this is the reason I was medically separated from the military, and it was damn painful.

I had been dealing with Achilles tendonosis for about a year, but I was going on PT runs with my shop anyways. We were on a 5 mile run, and about halfway through, my Achilles ruptured and basically snapped off of my foot. All I remember is pain, and I passed out right on the sidewalk. At first, my warrant officer thought I was a heat casualty, until he saw my calf muscle all mangled on my right leg. I have a Polaroid of my loose calf muscle, if I can find a scanner, I will post a pic (not gory or anything, just looks wrong).

 

[K1052]

A Celine Dion concert.

 

[SirChadwick]

I've never broken a bone... so mine is....

doing a double flip off a 20 ft diving board and landing flush on my back w/ my arms out. I lost all control and visual perception and it almost knocked me out cold. My back was bruised for over a week and I felt like I had hit a brick wall. I have never attempted 2 filps since that day and it's been nearly 10 years.

 

[Uhtrinity]

Appendix, and it ruptured after the doctor sent me home, diagnosis, flu. That reset my scale on pain, 10/10.

 

[GCS]

I was 7 and staying with a Day Care facility for the summer (divorced parents) and the center took us to a place called Westhaven Lake for the day (basically an old school water park with slides and such). Well no one put suntan lotion on me for the day and no shirt.

Needless to say I spent the next few days in the ER/ICU with 2nd and 3rd degree burns on my chest, back, and arms. The nurses had to come in about every 10 mins to pop my blisters and change my bandages. I was oozing everywhere. It sucked.

Not as bad as some others here but at age 7 it sucked!


Only other REALLY bad injury for me was when I was 17 and working at a steak restaurant. I handled the prep work for the buffet line. Working in back making salad (cutting cabbage, heads, of lettuce etc). We used one of those "deli slicers" to do this and well my hand slipped and I cut the end of one of my fingers off (just the finger tip area). It was quick and painless because the blade was spinning so fast and is ridiculously sharp. After a minute or 2 I saw all the blood everywhere I realized something was FUBAR and then the pain set in -- BIG TIME!

Went to the ER for about 6 hours where they could not get it to stop bleeding. 2 hours later it did and they bandaged me up and sent me home at about 4 am. To this day I have no fingerprint at all on one finger and I basically cringe horribly whenever I go near a deli -- no joke!

Greg

 

[MisterJackson]

My arm and face were badly burned when I was 12. Thankfully my face didn't scar and my arm only a bit now. 18 years has faded those scars.

The really painful part was when I had to soak in a hot tub at the hospital and then they had to pull layer after layer of dead hanging skin from my arm. I've never felt something that bad since, and I have a spinal cord injury from a car wreck.

They (multiple Dr.'s I talked to) say being burned surpasses most "pains" and gives kidney stones and child birth a run for it's money.

 

[mugs]

Kidney stone.

Specifically - I had to have surgery due to a kidney stone not coming out as quickly as it should. This is not the type of surgery where they cut you... yeah. While they were up in there, they put a stent in because my kidney was inflamed or something like that... They needed a way to get it back out without another surgery, and the way they do that is by attaching a string to it and having the string protrude out the orifice through which they inserted the stent. It was not a terribly pleasant experience in general to have this string there for two weeks, but the worst was when I was taking a shower, and I dropped my hand down to wash my leg or something and it got caught in the string and gave it a good solid tug. I screamed, and I was on the floor for a while.

 

[xSauronx]

I fell off of a swing in the 1st grade and dislocated my shoulder

being 5 or 6, i was too much of a pussy to accept my teachers offer to "jam it back in place" so i stayed home for a couple of days and it worked itself out when i was asleep or something, i dont remember it well.

 

[Pocatello]

Broke my ankle when I jumped down a ledge and landed on a rock.