Whats The Most Painful Thing YOU Have Experienced?..

[imported_Imp]

Bowel pains for hours, waiting for lunch so I wouldn't have to use the school toilet...

Also, got hit/"shoved" by a car when young (~grade 8). Fell on my hand, didn't go to hospital so had to live with a sprained wrist for an entire school day. Went to family doctor after school, thank god it wasn't broken, but my god it hurt like hell.

 

[Nutdotnet]

Originally posted by: Darwin333

Originally posted by: MrWizzard

That?s pretty incredible, I am not sure I would have made it, I sometimes wonder where the line is when the human mind just gives up and the body soon follows. How did you cope day to day did you just tell yourself it was going to get better? Where you staying alive because people didn't want you to die?

The first day when they where pealing the tar off was by far the worst. I begged them to put me to sleep. Then I begged for any blunt object to knock my damn self out. Then I simply hoped and prayed that my body would just shut down. I honestly thought that I physically couldn't take anymore and I would just shut down and I actually wanted that.

Physically it was never quite that bad but mentally it just got much worse. I don't know how I got over the mental part but I did. My mother helped me through it a lot. She stayed with me all day at the hospital. She even slept there at first but she couldn't take hearing us in the debreedment room which was just down the hall. I'll admit that I screamed like a baby in that room just like the other 12 people in the burn unit did. I guess its not too manly to say that I was screaming like a girl but reflecting back it doesn't embarrass me a bit considering.... At any rate, my mother would show up at 10 am or so and bring lunch (Hospital food is cruel and unusual punishment) and wouldn't leave until after she helped me from my recliner type chair back into my hospital bed and either went to sleep or pretended to go to sleep so she could go get some rest. If it wasn't for her I highly doubt that I would have made it.

The nurses helped a great deal as well. I tell ya what, they are a special breed of people that do a job I could never imagine doing. In order to do their job and help heal people they must cause them immeasurable pain. Yet they where some of the most compassionate people I have ever known.

Other than that, I really don't know.

Dude...you win, you win, you win...reading your post nearly turned my stomach...I can just picture a teenage kid covered in hot asphalt...and how easy that can happen in the situation you were in...

Crazy...

 

[Aquila76]

Originally posted by: Jahee
Touch wood i haven't had anything too bad happen to me, the most painful thing i can think of is spraining my wrist.

How about everyone else?

Also, the stories behind them!

I'm gonna go with intestinal abscesses I developed last fall. Yay surgery and month-long hospital recovery!
http://aquila76.googlepages.com/hospital

 

[Darwin333]

Originally posted by: Nutdotnet

Originally posted by: Darwin333

Originally posted by: MrWizzard

That?s pretty incredible, I am not sure I would have made it, I sometimes wonder where the line is when the human mind just gives up and the body soon follows. How did you cope day to day did you just tell yourself it was going to get better? Where you staying alive because people didn't want you to die?

The first day when they where pealing the tar off was by far the worst. I begged them to put me to sleep. Then I begged for any blunt object to knock my damn self out. Then I simply hoped and prayed that my body would just shut down. I honestly thought that I physically couldn't take anymore and I would just shut down and I actually wanted that.

Physically it was never quite that bad but mentally it just got much worse. I don't know how I got over the mental part but I did. My mother helped me through it a lot. She stayed with me all day at the hospital. She even slept there at first but she couldn't take hearing us in the debreedment room which was just down the hall. I'll admit that I screamed like a baby in that room just like the other 12 people in the burn unit did. I guess its not too manly to say that I was screaming like a girl but reflecting back it doesn't embarrass me a bit considering.... At any rate, my mother would show up at 10 am or so and bring lunch (Hospital food is cruel and unusual punishment) and wouldn't leave until after she helped me from my recliner type chair back into my hospital bed and either went to sleep or pretended to go to sleep so she could go get some rest. If it wasn't for her I highly doubt that I would have made it.

The nurses helped a great deal as well. I tell ya what, they are a special breed of people that do a job I could never imagine doing. In order to do their job and help heal people they must cause them immeasurable pain. Yet they where some of the most compassionate people I have ever known.

Other than that, I really don't know.

Dude...you win, you win, you win...reading your post nearly turned my stomach...I can just picture a teenage kid covered in hot asphalt...and how easy that can happen in the situation you were in...

Crazy...

Sorry about the detail.

I don't think I have ever explained my experience in such detail. I have always tried to forget the details when I told the story but it was much easier to tell to a computer screen and to be honest it felt relieving to tell some of the details. One of those things that you try to forget about but can't so you try to bury it somewhere inside... if that makes any sense.

 

[Jahee]

Originally posted by: Imp
Bowel pains for hours, waiting for lunch so I wouldn't have to use the school toilet...

Also, got hit/"shoved" by a car when young (~grade 8). Fell on my hand, didn't go to hospital so had to live with a sprained wrist for an entire school day. Went to family doctor after school, thank god it wasn't broken, but my god it hurt like hell.

I'll let you off since you were in 8th grade.

 

[Jahee]

Originally posted by: Darwin333
Sorry about the detail.

I don't think I have ever explained my experience in such detail. I have always tried to forget the details when I told the story but it was much easier to tell to a computer screen and to be honest it felt relieving to tell some of the details. One of those things that you try to forget about but can't so you try to bury it somewhere inside... if that makes any sense.

Don't apologise.. I'm glad you could use this as an outlet for it, its always good to get things out, and sometimes being anonymous is the best way to do it, glad you made the recovery anyway and had your mum there to help you through it

There's nothing like a mothers love for her child, and theres nothing like feeling the care and love a mother can give.

 

[imported_Imp]

Originally posted by: Jahee

Originally posted by: Imp
Bowel pains for hours, waiting for lunch so I wouldn't have to use the school toilet...

Also, got hit/"shoved" by a car when young (~grade 8). Fell on my hand, didn't go to hospital so had to live with a sprained wrist for an entire school day. Went to family doctor after school, thank god it wasn't broken, but my god it hurt like hell.

I'll let you off since you were in 8th grade.

Well I was kind of in shock in the morning. I've never been in a hospital-worthy accident alone (note last word*), and um...I didn't want people freaking out when the hospital said so and so got nailed by a car... Oh, to add the cherry ontop, I didn't tell anyine till I got home that day.

 

[potato28]

I broke 3 ribs when I fell down a set of stairs... but the worst pain I've experienced is a dislocated tail bone. I couldn't sit without it feeling like something ramming in my a$$checks as bad as it sounds, and this kept going for 5-6 days. Thank god for pain killers

 

[Sasiki]

I've never experienced any sort of real pain. Hearing the other experiences here though, I'm having second thoughts about ever leaving my house again!

Props to Darwin333. I commend you for being such a strong human being! I can't even begin to imagine how a situation like that would be.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Babbles
When I was six I had what is called a slipped capital femoral epiphysis, which is essentially where the ball of the femur detached from the rest of the femur at the epiphysis - the growth plate. I had to get my leg in traction and then the surgeon put a few screws in my hip to hold things in place. Afterwards I was on crutches for a good six months with a good amount of physical therapy. Then a few years later when I was ~9 it happened to my right hip, so I had to go through that again and additionally they opened up my left hip to remove the screws they put in there the first round. When I was twelve they went back into my right hip to remove the screws in that one.

The real pain from all of that, though, is the osteoarthritis I suffer now. I was the only six year old kid I knew that had arthritis. So dealing with the constant arthritis in my hips at one particular point in time isn't all that bad, but compound living with a chronic pain in my hips - albeit sometime there is no pain, sometimes in both, but usually just one, which happens to be my right one right now - anyhow living with constant pain for 23 years now isn't too terribly fun. When I was ~25 I just about broke down and cried because the constant throbbing was just particularly bad for a month and nothing - not a single damn thing I did - would make the pain go away. I went back to my orthopedic surgeon, and he took some X-Rays which basically said as a 25 year old my hips (the left one worse) looked like they belong to a 40-something. So the thrilling part of this is I am going to have to have a hip replacement surgery sooner than what may be considered typical.

With all of that being said about my pain, I think Darwin333's asphalt injury sounds entirely more painful than anything I have suffered.

Originally posted by: jadinolf
In 2002 I had a total hip replacement. They get you up on the second day and make you walk. I have never experienced such pain in my life.

If I ever had to have the other hip replaced, they would have to take me kicking and screaming into the operating room.

If you don't mind me asking, how old were you and what type of material did you git for the replacement?

I was 68 and I'm sorry but I have forgotten what the material is.

 

[Roguestar]

Originally posted by: Darwin333

Originally posted by: Nutdotnet

Originally posted by: Darwin333

Originally posted by: MrWizzard

That?s pretty incredible, I am not sure I would have made it, I sometimes wonder where the line is when the human mind just gives up and the body soon follows. How did you cope day to day did you just tell yourself it was going to get better? Where you staying alive because people didn't want you to die?

The first day when they where pealing the tar off was by far the worst. I begged them to put me to sleep. Then I begged for any blunt object to knock my damn self out. Then I simply hoped and prayed that my body would just shut down. I honestly thought that I physically couldn't take anymore and I would just shut down and I actually wanted that.

Physically it was never quite that bad but mentally it just got much worse. I don't know how I got over the mental part but I did. My mother helped me through it a lot. She stayed with me all day at the hospital. She even slept there at first but she couldn't take hearing us in the debreedment room which was just down the hall. I'll admit that I screamed like a baby in that room just like the other 12 people in the burn unit did. I guess its not too manly to say that I was screaming like a girl but reflecting back it doesn't embarrass me a bit considering.... At any rate, my mother would show up at 10 am or so and bring lunch (Hospital food is cruel and unusual punishment) and wouldn't leave until after she helped me from my recliner type chair back into my hospital bed and either went to sleep or pretended to go to sleep so she could go get some rest. If it wasn't for her I highly doubt that I would have made it.

The nurses helped a great deal as well. I tell ya what, they are a special breed of people that do a job I could never imagine doing. In order to do their job and help heal people they must cause them immeasurable pain. Yet they where some of the most compassionate people I have ever known.

Other than that, I really don't know.

Dude...you win, you win, you win...reading your post nearly turned my stomach...I can just picture a teenage kid covered in hot asphalt...and how easy that can happen in the situation you were in...

Crazy...

Sorry about the detail.

I don't think I have ever explained my experience in such detail. I have always tried to forget the details when I told the story but it was much easier to tell to a computer screen and to be honest it felt relieving to tell some of the details. One of those things that you try to forget about but can't so you try to bury it somewhere inside... if that makes any sense.

Don't apologise. It's great that you can share it and finally get some off your chest. I know what you mean about it being easier to tell The Internet as a faceless anonymouse entity, though.

 

[Darwin333]

Originally posted by: Sasiki

Props to Darwin333. I commend you for being such a strong human being!

I wouldn?t consider myself a strong human being, at least not in or because of that situation. Hell, I took a massive dose of painkillers knowing full well that it could very likely cause me serious harm or even kill me just to not feel the pain for a few hours. Long after I was out of the hospital the I allowed the mental part of it to negatively affect my life. I got out of the hospital about a week before I started a new school. I couldn?t play football anymore so I just felt sorry for myself. I even had to enrole in special education because I could not write at all. Personally, I think the school just wanted the money as it barely affected how they taught me. The teachers made me copies of their notes and I dictated tests to them. Most homework I could type with my left hand. It still gave me more to feel sorry for myself about. The previous year I was in a school with tons of friends and starter on the football team. All of a sudden I was a ?special ed student? and I didn?t know a soul in the school. A stronger person would have overcame that but I did not.

Took me a while to stop using it as a crutch.

Originally posted by: Jahee
Don't apologise.. I'm glad you could use this as an outlet for it, its always good to get things out, and sometimes being anonymous is the best way to do it, glad you made the recovery anyway and had your mum there to help you through it


There's nothing like a mothers love for her child, and theres nothing like feeling the care and love a mother can give.

Originally posted by: Roguestar
Don't apologise. It's great that you can share it and finally get some off your chest. I know what you mean about it being easier to tell The Internet as a faceless anonymouse entity, though.

Thanks, I appreciate that.

 

[archiloco]

broke my right arm right below the wrist when i was in 4th grade. clean break but both bones where completely miss aligned(one ontop of the other, did not go thru skin). first doctor said i needed surgery/bolts. second doctor 80 year old had breath of alcohol (most likely wine) he said to the first doctor, look and learn. he told me he was going to pull my hand out about 3"and realign the bones just with touch. he said that he hoped that was going to be the most excruciating pain i ever felt in my life because he was not going to use any sedatives. i asked for them he said no because there was no time he needed to do it now and if he waited for them to set in there might be some problems. so he pulled my arm out so much it must have been more than the 3" he said and slowly set them back in place. the first doctor was amazed that after looking at the x-ray's they where only off by a few mm. no surgery and recovery was quick. it hurt, but better than surgery/bolts.

 

[Amused]

Probably a bad case of the shingles.

It felt like every bone on one side on my body was broken. Not just broken, but shattered and on fire. My skin was on fire and my organs felt like they were being run over by a truck.

 

[meltdown75]

dirt bike wipeout
gravel road
open faced helmet, no gloves
over the handlebars
faceplant
gravel stuck in face, hands skinned to the bone in both palms

ouchies 4 lyfe dawg

 

[Papagayo]

The day after I had all 4 wisdom teeth pulled.. I drank orange juice.
I wanted to die for a minute..

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: zixxer
My SO passed a kidney stone - I didn't feel the pain, but from the looks of it - worse than anything I've experienced.


I've never been hurt 'that' bad. Probably separation of my pinky finger from the rest of my hand - all the way to my wrist during a boxing match.

and you bitch at her for not doing the laundry?

tsk, tsk.

 

[Kelvrick]

I guess I'll give it a shot. Had an operation on my little man to correct something when I was like 12.

Anyway, a tube was inserted inside of it connected to my bladder to let the flesh heal correctly without closing off and letting me still pass liquid waste out of my body.

Yes, operation itself left me in pain obviously and the fact that since the tube was there, my muscles couldn't control the piss and so I got to constantly empty a bladder attached to my leg.

On the the good part. I woke up with a belly ache and needing to piss real bad. Bladder was empty, and I couldn't get anything to come out. Long story short, trip to emergency room, middle of the night call to my surgean and the nurse pulld that tube outa me nice and slow. No pain killers, just straight up tube getting pulled outa your little man.

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: alyssa

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei
Definitely not the most painful, but the thing that drove me the craziest was vicious sunburn. A couple days after the damage was done these stinging prickles set in. Felt like my skin was cracking open or on fire. I was jumping around frantically and nothing would soothe it. I could NOT hold still and made a big fool of myself. Good times, good times.

OH, I can top that.

Went to a swimming pool and only put on sunscreen once, mind you, this pool is outside. Grabbed a floating noodle thing and jumped in, lazed around for hours. Got home, discovered a viscous sunburn. I was like, "OK, this sucks, but whatever". Um, no. Wrong.

Next couple of days, I realize my shoulders are covered in blisters and spent the next couple weeks in excruciating, constant pain. Couldn't even shower, couldn't sleep for very long...Nothing would help. It was terrible.

Yeah, I never got blisters and the pain only lasted for a day or so.
Thing is, I was only outside and unprotected for an hour or so, so I was surprised at the severity. I was on the beach in May in the Florida panhandle... so... beware.

 

[superHARD]

Well all my fingers and toes got broke in my 4 years of Karate.
My arm, wrist, collar bone.
And when I wrecked my motorcycle, I proke my pelvis in 3 spots, my Secrum, and my leg...I wasn't wearing a helmet...and not a scratch on me (except for the broken bones)

 

[mugs]

Kidney stones.

 

[MikeyLSU]

I had surgery to remove polyps from my nose. They stuff packing way up there in your sinuses and 3 days later, they pull them out...like a band aid. That was by far the most painful thing.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Breaking my collarbone playing flag football, having my coach and vice principal try and fix my "dislocated shoulder" until I cursed them out, and then waiting a full 6 hours to go to the hospital after school to check out my "dislocated shoulder."

Intense pain in my stomach and intestines last summer due to some infection I had in my digestive tract. I'd get REALLY REALLY hungry, pig out once the anti-nausea medicine had kicked in, and then proceed to unleash hell through my bowels. Lasted for about a week, it was horrible.

 

[Eli]

OMFG.

This thread is causing me to make the most horrible faces... :Q

 

[cheapgoose]

it'll either have to be when I shattered my heel or when I got "something" pierced.

then there's the two times I dislocated my knee.