Most physical pain you've experienced?

Osteoarthritis.......

On my 38th birthday (6 years ago) I was diagnosed with this in my lower spine......too many heavy sports apparently did it to me.

Once or twce a year I'll get an attack that is so severe that I can hardly walk anymore than 1-2 "baby steps" at a time, before I have to stop and grab onto something. It's like a knife in the back !!

A couple of "Daypro" later though and I'm normal again until the next time.

 

It feels like I'm walking on hot coals every time I have to endure a large family get together!

DL

 

Oh, and here I was thinking that you guys did this for another reason...

 

I bit through my tongue when I was a kid. Jumping off the couch and landing chin first on the coffee table. I also placed my hands on top of the stove to hoist myself up to see, and the burner was still red, after making popcorn.
I broke both of my thumbs at the same time in a racing crash, at that point I started to write with my right hand, due to pain in my left thumb. Nearly 2 years ago, I nearly broke my back in another wreck. As for pain, my bout with colitis was the worse. I'm a pretty tough guy, but I couldn't stand/ sit up up. The pain was coming from inside the pit of my stomach and there wasn't enough morphin in the world to cure it.

 

Yeah that's "their" reason.

 

1) Several battles with kidney stones. No more, please.
2) Once had a thigh muscle cramp so bad that it literally hurt for more than a year afterwards.
3) An injection in my heel to prepare me to have a big wart removed.
4) A blast of water from the dentist on a sensitive root during crown prep.

Thanks for reminding me....

 

Bwahahahahaha...THAT's true pain.

I ruptured large intestine in May while on morphine pump...woke me up, absolutely excruciating, morphine bolus didn't help. Temp to 104.7.
Do NOT want to do that ever again.

 

Couple of years ago while I was still in Toronto I was working with a General Contractor and Stone Mason as chief Grunt and shovel prop when we had just finished doing a backyard fence and stone walkway gardens etc... Well we were on final clean up and the nice very pregnant lady we were doing the work for asked if we knew anyone who could clean out the gutters before the snow started to fall... As we were there and had the ladders we decided to take the time and do this. While working on the Garage roof I reached over to a tree to balance myself by holding onto a 2 inch thick branch, turned out that it was a dead branch and it broke sending me over backwards onto my back/arm/and touchie.

Well i don't know which was worse the Concussion... second degree

The arm broken in 2 places

or what came later. Ya see the edge of the walkway was bordered with 2x12 pressure treated lumber holding in the flower beds. I managed to land with my right leg on one side and my left leg on the other. my touchie came to land at the top of the exposed 4 inches of the 2x12 and i ended up with a rather nasty hit that went across the "Eye" of the matter. (if you want to try and grasp this the resulting Blood Blister went from 11 o'clock position across some very sensitive nerve intensive areas to the 4 o'clock position)

Now I had been to emergency and they set my arm but I had to come back the next day to be seen by the Orthopod. I knew I was in trouble when they tied my arm to the back of the examining chair with a velcro strap and then made sure the door was closed so my screaming like a little girl would not affect the people in the waiting room. They then pulled my fingers and hand so the bones would separate and they could shove the end of my arm bone back in place.
At this point i thought this was the worst pain one could experience... then the other injury's effect came relevant the next time i... I think you get the picture....

 

My two worst were being thrown off a horse onto cement, snapping my collarbone. Then the horse backed up and stepped on my ankle and sprained it. Oh, and the reason I fell of was because the horse bolted for a quarter mile and literally ran me flat into the barn.

The other was eating a whole fresh habanero pepper, as part of my buddies' "Habanero Challenge." Within 6 seconds it feels like hydrochloric acid steam being sprayed into your sinuses, eardrums and stomach with a pressure washer. I love hot food, but this was amazing how the pain receptors in your head just overload.

 

I broke my arm in 5 places falling off a trampoline when I was a kid, my right forearm as shaped like a "U". My doctor thought I damaged my nerves permanently. I spent 5 months in a cast & about year of therapy in order to get the feeling & use of my right hand back.

 

My job has offered me many opportunities to "enhance" my body through medical and surgical help. Here is a sample of just my feet! The top photo is the reason I'm on F-Chat so much now.

I've also got pics of my leg after ACL surgery, but I think the image of my half shaven swollen leg would be a bit much.
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Shoulder dislocation. After 6 of 'em within a year, I can testify it was the worse thing ever. It feels like ... just terrible. And the more you wait to put it back in place, the more painful it is. I had to go to the ER 3 times (the 3 other, it popped back in). When you are put asleep with anesthesiants and that you wake up in pain with the doc's foot on your chest and him pulling like a mad man to get the bone nack into place ... it is painful. Terribly painful. Enough that after the 6th time I went to the doc and said "I want a surgery. I don't care about the risks" (thank Canada for social healthcare). In comparison, surgery (and its tests ... like a 4" needle injecting whatever straight on your bone) went smooth as silk. Pain meds for 2 days and I was already comfortable. Since that day I have yet to say "that really hurts". And I'm glad.

 

3 months ago somebody crashed into my Porsche 944, pushing me head on into a telephone pole at around 50 miles an hour. This was my view after the accident. This hurt too, but losing one of my beloved cars even hurt more in the long run.
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For me it was a week after i broke my arm just above the wrist when i had 12 screws and 2 plates put in. Not too far behind was when i got the cast off and began physical therapy to get the tendons which had not been strechted extensively in over 9 weeks used to sliding over metal screw heads and plates. I now have full rage of motion, which doenst happen often with this type of operation. I'll try to scan the xray of the plates and screws. It looks pretty cool.

 

Two really stick out for me:
1. Having bone marrow harvested out of my hips for a Bone Marrow Transplant. They drill 3-4 holes and suck it out with a needle roughly the size of a #2 pencil.

2. Hit my middle finger on my left hand with the claw part of a hammer with a full strenght swing! (Don't ask) Broke the tip of the finger, had to have my finger nail ripped out in order to get 4 stiches and then stuck back on. Then having the nail pulled out again 3 weeks later because it wasn't growing out right.

 

Male patients frequently come to my office and tell me how bad the pain from kidney stones can be; wives then tell them they have no idea, as they have not had kids.

When my wife delivered our first son, she was having all the expected pain with 5 min contractions. I took her to the ER and found she was, in fact, in labor.

On the other hand, her pain was really severe and not timed with the contractions. I ultrasounded her and she was also passing two kidney stones.

She delivered 2 stones 5 min after our son. The pain from the stones was alot worse than from the first baby, but all was better with an epidural.

Thus, we have definitively answered the age-old question of which is worse-it is the stones, by a big margin.

The worst I see directly related to my job is when a tumor invades the brachial plexus. It is essentially impossible to control.

steve

 

When I was about 4 years old I was sitting on my father's lap while he was riding a bike. I was barefoot and my left foot/ankle went inside the wheel while it was turning. Apparently one of the spokes then dug a deep hole into my ankle. It was pretty ugly.

 

Lets see most of my pain I don't recall too well b/c it happened during my early youth stage. But,
-dyberticulitus(spelling) was 2.5 or 3 and almost died, had 3 feet of my small intestine removed due to gange green
-fractured my back
-cut my head open
-had 6 ear surgeries(those sucked)
-once had a pimple in my ear canal pressing against my ear drum which caused excrusiating pain.

 

Home alone, 11:00 p.m., shooting paint on my truck. I went to climb into the back of the truck and collapsed the disc at L4/5. The pinched nerve shut down the use of my right leg but the worst part was the full-back muscle spasms that curled me over backwards and blew the blood vessles in my eyes. I managed to get over to the phone by dragging myself across the basement floor (in between spasms) with my arms and knocking the phone off the counter with a 2 X 2.

The firemen had to break into my house and search for me because I couldn't get to up the stairs to the door.

I spent 4 days in the hospital on Morphine and Valium. I was issued a clear plexiglass 'iron maiden' to clamp about my midsection to support my upper body weight while I shuffled around with my walker.

A few months off work, physical therapy etc...........

Since then I have had two more fail but it only took a shot in the rear of Demoral to get me going again.

 

Ref kidney stones, the first time I had them I was sitting at the x-ray machine and the x-ray tech was a lovely young woman. She said "I've had kidney stones and I've given birth to two children and I couldn't choose which hurt worse."

I fell off a horse (foxhunting) and broke a couple of ribs and herniated a disc at the same time. I was a wreck for a month or so.

 

Dislocated my kneecap soon after surgery to repair two ligaments and remove chunks of cartiledge. The kneecap didn't pop back when I fell and stayed off to the side about 90 degrees from normal for about 30 minutes until EMT's got it to pop back. Went back in for more surgery shortly after.

Fell off my bike when I was ten at about 30 mph, landing face first on the pavement. Broke my thumb at the same time, but having to go to the hospital and scrape asphalt and gravel out of my face for two hours was slightly uncomfortable.

I think the knee was worse, shock set in fast with the bike wreck.

 

One of the worst I can think of is when I was getting a ingrown toenail taken out and the corpsman negleted to numb my toe for one reaosn or another. He shoved this big metal cliper all the way up underneath my toenail all the way to the back of the toenail and clipped off that side and the ingrown toenail part. I was in so much pain I couldnt even make a sound. And then for some reason after he was done he shot me with the local to numb it. I couldnt walk right for about 2 weeks. I had to change dressings about 3 times a day for the entire first week too because of the amount of blood involved.

 

I had a really nasty paper cut once on the tip of my index finger, ouwee.