What was the event that led to the most physical pain you've ever felt?

[lupi]

After one surgery, they didn't like my response in postop so decided to pump some antinarcotics into the iv line.

 

[lupi]

Just remembered another fun one. was riding a moped around the block, went in fast to a well sloped driveway and my speed was fast enough that it started to do a wheelie on its own. As I started to slide back in the seat, my arms pulled back which increased the throttle. bike ended up shooting out from under me, felt like the coyote paused momentarily in mid air, then came crashing down straight on my ass.


Seeing how I had rode my bike over to my friends house, had to go inside and lay down on the couch an hour (with a froozen veggie pack sitting on my ass) or so till the pain reduced enough to ride my bike back home.



Also the time I broke my femur, but no interesting story there and they gave me memory blocking drugs so I don't remember the pain, just that everyone there cried from listening to my screams as they tried to reset it.

 

[BoomerD]

Susie Rottencrotch broke my heart...after giving me a dose of the clap. Pissing liquid fire is possibly the most painful thing...

OR, it could have been the quarter-sized piece of shrapnel I caught with the inside of my knee when one of the guys in my platoon stepped on a land mine. Knocked me off my feet...and burned like a motherfucker. Corpsman hit me with a syrette of morphine, pulled the shrapnel out of my knee, threw a couple of stitches in it and some bandages, and we were off. I didn't get to an actual doctor for over 2 weeks.

I've fucked up so many parts of my body over the years...torn ACL and shredded meniscus, torn rotator cuffs, FUBAR'D back including 3 herniated discs...I don't remember any of those actually hurting more than one of the others...they all hurt like hell.

Fortunately, the human body has no "pain memory." We can remember that something hurt...and even remember that it hurt like hell, but we can't remember the actual pain.

 

[theknight571]

Tell me everything you eat and drink so I can avoid it like the plague

I had most of them when I was younger... I think only 2 in the past 8-10 years.

The doctors told me to lay off the colas and the calcium. So I cut way back on the pop and milk I was drinking and cut way back on the amount of cheese I use.

Through trial and error (yes I did it once on purpose), I discovered tea will produce a stone. I can drink a 20oz iced tea and will produce a stone within 2-3 days. It's happened 3 times... once on purpose as a test.

So I no longer drink any tea, iced or hot.

 

[kn51]

Halfway through a vasectomy, they are in there snipping away and hit a part that wasn't numb.

Used to get bad nose bleeds. ENT doc found the cause was due to vessel that needed to be cauterized. So during the procedure he's way up my nose burning the vessel (not a great smell) and again, found a spot that wasn't numb.

 

[mikeymikec]

pericarditis (inflammation/infection of the sac that surrounds the heart to protect it, results in inhibiting heart function, can be the precursor to a heart attack) combined with worry/bordering on panic (a good way to raise one's pulse and experience symptoms more strongly) and attempting to walk home (an even better way to raise the pulse!). Tip: don't try to "walk it off".

Morphine is a wonderful drug though.

 

[Paratus]

My most painful physical experience was waking up a couple years ago with back spasms, something I never had before. Every slight move in any direction felt like strips of flesh being torn off my back with a pair of pliers. It took me 90 minutes to get up from the floor, with help, where I had slithered down to in hopes it would be easier to climb back up to my feet (which it wasn't by any measure.) I had no idea back pain could be that ridiculously crippling!

Obligatory: reading your posts.

 

[fenrir]

My most painful physical experience was waking up a couple years ago with back spasms, something I never had before. Every slight move in any direction felt like strips of flesh being torn off my back with a pair of pliers. It took me 90 minutes to get up from the floor, with help, where I had slithered down to in hopes it would be easier to climb back up to my feet (which it wasn't by any measure.) I had no idea back pain could be that ridiculously crippling!

Been there twice before and both times it was excruciating trying to even move. One of the worst parts is thinking if you move your leg slightly one way that it might reduce the pain, but it only makes it worse and you cannot get the leg back to the less painful position.

The worst pain I have experienced so far is a tie between two lower back issues. The first is being 500 miles from home and waking up in a hotel bed in a ton of pain in the lower back. I had microdiscectomy surgery 6 months earlier for a herniated disc and it herniated again. As bad as the pain was, it was nothing compared to when I managed to sit in the car and had to work the manual transmission all the way home. That was one long trip home and I had to stop for gas. Then there is the second microdiscectomy surgery where about an hour before I was discharged after the overnight stay, the lower back muscles started cramping and spasming and they want you to sit in a wheel chair so they can wheel you out to your ride home.

 

[Pulsar]

Talk about dang ol zzt zzt zzt zzt zzt zzt... ouch man

Ok. I'm still laughing here. I picture Boomhauer from king of the hill saying that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GGA1a4nyVs

 

[slightlyhuman]

Won't ever forget it, actually got a picture of it right before it happened. Was trying to land a backside 180 out in the flats while wakeboarding. I landed it but as I did my hand went through the handle. I got pulled about 50 yards before getting out of the handle. Destroyed my left shoulder and to this day I still have issues(8 years ago).

 

[shortylickens]

drinking led to kidney stones.

I'm up to 18 now. First one was the real pain.

 

[Naer]

had this procedure done to me in 2004. The modified ravitch

 

[Red Squirrel]

I got this boil/absys thing on my butt once, it started off feeling like a bruise, I figured I must have sat down hard or something, but could not really remember what caused it. But then it did not go away and I knew something was up. I then started to feel a lump in that area and knew something was very wrong. Gave it a few days but the pain started to get very excruciating so went to the ER.

Long story short, it was an ingrown hair, needed surgery to remove it and drain it and had to go back to the hospital every 2 days to get it filled with packing and then have that changed. That thing was excruciatingly painful. I was on heavy antibiotics and pain killers for a while because of it and I ended up getting C Difficile. Think of a 24 hour flu, except it lasts for a month. That was not fun at all, that whole situation. It basically ruined a good half of my summer.

I would not wish that on my worst enemy.

 

[ksheets]

Shingles- it felt like someone was rubbing the skin off my back with a brillo pad that was on fire- lasted about 10 days too....

 

[Red Squirrel]

had this procedure done to me in 2004. The modified ravitch

I'm glad doctors know what they're doing when they look at that, because I sure as hell would not. "Where's the diagnostic port on this thing?"

 

[Humpy]

had this procedure done to me in 2004. The modified ravitch

Was it excruciatingly painful and/or permanently disabling?

 

[lxskllr]

I screwed up my back ~20 years ago. I never had it looked at, but I suspect it's one or more blown disks. Once or more a year it goes out, and the pain leaves me gasping for air. It lasts ~5 days before I'm more or less functional, with the first two or three being almost unbearable. It'll take me 15 minutes to even get out of bed, or roll myself over. My speed moving around once I get on my feet is glacial.

I've hurt myself almost as much several times with a hammer, but the pain is fleeting enough not to matter. My back just never stops when it goes.

Edit:
Oh, how I screwed it up was bullpinning wood into compacted road base. I used too much back, and not enough shoulder. After I did it, I was driving around with a heating pad plugged into an inverter for half a year, and my back hurt chronically for ~10 years afterward. That's mostly gone, but it was replaced by the excruciating pain mentioned above. Not sure which is worse :^/

 

[Imp]

Basketball bounced into my balls in gym class.

The flu a few years ago... Not so much painful as cold, very cold.

 

[BrainEater]

That's a very good picture , slightlyhuman !!!!
Great shot.I hope you are better.
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Kidney stones/childbirth are harsh yes , and I don't want to triavialize anyones pain.pain sucks.
But , That's nothing !
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Here's my story :
I did hard labor for 25 years.(as a job) .I was a coffin nail.I got a job at my second career , at a brewery , 4 years ago.I was fat and soft 18mos later , (but still thinking I was a coffin nail !)...I decided I could still throw around 106lb concrete weights (16 of them) , and I exploded my L5S1 disc.Impacted on my Sciatic nerve.I did not feel anything at first.It took a week....It started out like I had pulled my quadrucep/gluteus maximus.

At that point the four fucking months of the worst pain ever transpired.There were times my right leg felt like it was on fire , for days....On the good days my whole leg felt like a charliehorse.
I did not sleep for a month . I tried every painkiller out there , nothing helps nerve pain.I lost all 'reflex' action below my thigh for 4 months ....The toenails on that leg did not grow for six months.
It was life changing pain.
I'm back to skiin the double black diamonds .All I did was get professional physiotherapy , and :

Lift with you legs FFS !!!
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[Mayne]

waking up with an exploded appendix as a little kid..then spending the next 6 months in the hospital from complications.

 

[vi edit]

I've done kidney stones.
Done broken arms.
Broke my hand.
Broken collar bones.
More broken fingers and toes than I can count.
Sprained ankles.
Collegiate career ending plantar faciitis.
Unsedated cystoscopy.
Vasectomy.
Lost toenails on my big toes multiple times.
Tore my quadriceps(grade II, not III).

What has probably hurt the most though was a TFCC injury. It's a bunch of little tendons that hold your wrist together. I tore those from a basketball injury. I got effectively karate chopped on my wrist while shooting. Actions as simple as closing the trunk of my car would send a shock of pain up my arm and to my elbow that would double me over in pain. I'd wake up in the middle of night in cold sweats if I rolled over on it the wrong way. Took me a good 6 months to finally recover from it. Had to wear a brace at work because just bending my wrist while typing would leave my arm tingling for 30 minutes. It sucked. 5 years later my wrist is still cracking from it and it hurts like a bitch when bad weather comes around.

 

[glenn1]

Been pretty lucky over the years, but once during a training mission for night direct action attack on an airfield, I did a parachute fall onto one of these bastards from 500 feet AGL. I'm actually pretty lucky because I could have been disembowled by it.

 

[vi edit]

Been pretty lucky over the years, but once during a training mission for night direct action attack on an airfield, I did a parachute fall onto one of these bastards from 500 feet AGL. I'm actually pretty lucky because I could have been disembowled by it.

Rectum? Damn near killed 'em!

 

[glenn1]

Rectum? Damn near killed 'em!

There was blood upon the risers, there were brains upon the chute,
Intestines were a-dangling from his paratroopers suit,
He was a mess, they picked him up, and poured him from his boots,
And he ain't gonna jump no more.
(CHORUS)
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,
Gory, gory, what a hell of a way to die,
He ain't gonna jump no more!

 

[ctk1981]

Spring for a boat lift cover broke and came back for a direct hit. Eye was full of blood, went into panic mode because I thought I lost it when I couldn't see.

7 stitches, which wouldn't be a big deal..except this ER doc was pretty crafty. He did nothing to numb it as he claimed that would cause it to pull apart and cause a scar. Well, he apparently knew what he was doing...no scar.

Breaking my ankle in 3 places wasn't any fun, but the initial pain wasn't anything...in fact it wasn't until 16 hours later I found out I broke it.

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