Pain

[Bob The Mercenary]

Think fast. Most/worst physical pain you've ever experienced.

Got this idea from the root canal I had last week. The night before that I didn't get to bed until 5am. The pain inside my molar was out of this world. I've never felt anything like it. I was literally inches away from hurting myself elsewhere so I wouldn't be so focused on the toothache. It felt kind of like a sensitivity to cold, only times infinity. Every five minutes it would go away completely, then it would give me just enough time to think I could make it to sleep before it came back with a vengeance. It was unreal. Pressing on it, chewing gum, tylenol, ibuprofen...nothing worked. It was torture, at one point I was punching myself to try to get it to go away. My mom even gave me a vicodin and that still only bought me two hours of sleep.

Granted I've never broken a bone or anything like that. I'm sure it's only a matter of time until it's topped.

[TopHatAssassin]

Abscess on my undercarriage. Couldn't walk, couldn't sit, couldn't move without it flaring up like a thousand agonizing suns. And it's happened more than once, so SOMETHING must be wrong.

I've never broken any bones either, and I hope it never happens. I can't even imagine what it's like to crack something like that. Not just from a pain standard but also from an ickyness one. I mean, here you are, one of your bones is busted and presumably capable of wiggling around in your tender body meats (if left untreated of course, which I doubt anyone would let happen). Kinda makes me wanna hurl a bit. :p

[bluestarultor]

Well, I've never had any dental problems or broken a bone, but falling a good 10 feet out of a tree as a kid was an experience. Especially given it was on bare dirt and rocks. And my cousin thought I was dead because I had the wind knocked out of me and wasn't moving. XD

[DarkDrgon]

Well, I've never had any dental problems or broken a bone, but falling a good 10 feet out of a tree as a kid was an experience. Especially given it was on bare dirt and rocks. And my cousin thought I was dead because I had the wind knocked out of me and wasn't moving. XD

Thats a lot nicer then my tree story. I fell out of a tree, landed feet first on the street (brooklyn, so it was asphalt, not dirt or rocks), and then was hit by a van. it hurt. a lot. messed up one of my knees real bad and craked 2 ribs.

[Whomper]

I pinched a nerve in my left shoulder after dislocating it. That's what I got for playing some football with friends sans padding. I still recall my father giving me a hard time about it, as if I was just whining about the dislocation. I was able to prove to him that it wasn't the dislocation when I basically shrugged off a dislocated knee after one game.

Pinching a nerve of that size hurts like hell.

[Corel]

Hmm, I always always prefer intense short term pain to that of longer term pain which isn't as intense.

Example: Getting smashed in the face and feeling not very good for a whole while vs. having a Urinary Tract Infection for a few weeks with no option of treatment. I know what I'll pick everytime!

To anyone who has ever experienced the latter and having quite a bad case of it, you have my sincerest sympathies.

[Azisien]

Tripping and falling on my left leg just after getting my 4-month-long brace removed due to a fairly severe knee dislocation.

It was about five times worse pain than the dislocation itself, which probably takes second.

[Seil]

I don't remember pain that well. When I get hurt somewhere, I forget about it after the pain/ailment goes away. But I think I'll go with getting pegged in the hip with a cars side-view mirror.

It was late, and late in the year - so it was also dark and cold. Anyways, I was biking through town, and went to cross the street (after looking both ways) and was suddenly hit by the cars side-view mirror in my hip. I fell of my bike, and immediately the street was filled with stopped cars and pedestrians who saw me get hit. But I felt fine, well enough to get up and walk away from the encounter.

What I didn't know was that I had broken this... gel-pack thing in my hip, which stopped my muscles from rubbing against each other. The more I "walked it off," the more my muscles rubbed against each other and the more it hurt, so the more I tried to walk it off. That night, I got me mum to take me to the E.R.

It was 2AM, I was sitting awkwardly in the car because it hurt way too much to sit properly, and we were listening music from Urine Town, since my mum was music director for the show. I used a combination of her support and a kitsch walking stick I had bought from Spencers to get to the doors, and guessed I looked in a bit of a pain as a few attendants started to unfold a wheelchair for me. I managed to get in without their help and get my hands on a few pain killers, though.

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Or - ooh! This. (http://forum.nuklearpower.com/showthread.php?t=31583)

[Geminex]

I had a root canal in one of my incisors. Thankfully, that tooth's nerve was dead and I felt nothing.

Worst pain... I sprained my ankle quite badly at tennis, and then walked home before realizing how badly I had sprained it. In my defense, I was 10 and my dick of a trainer didn't once offer to drive me.

Other than that, when I was 2 I fell and busted open my forehead on a radiator. I don't remember it, mind you, but I'm sure that if I were to remember it, it'd rival the ankle.

That will be all.

[Krylo]

Unlike Bob, I have broken bones, I've taken spills off of bikes going full speed and had the handlebars end up somehow RIGHT IN MY SOLAR PLEXUS, I have been thrown over someone's head directly onto the corner of a hardwood table, I have been in a car as it went spinning into the ditch at 70 miles per hour, I have had surgeries.

All of that pales to the pain of shattering, yes shattering, one of my wisdom teeth. I broke it, literally, in half, so that the still living nerve was fully exposed. It did this in the middle of a meal--which I finished, and then stayed that way for over a day before I was able to get into the dentist's office to get a temporary cap. Which then fell off before I was able to go in again, leading to the same pain all over again.

When I had my wisdom teeth ripped out it felt BETTER.

I survived this pain with no medication--unless you count swishing straight 151 over the exposed nerve until it numbed.

That is, far and away, the worst pain I have ever experienced.

[The SSB Intern]

I think I've been pretty spared when it comes to pain and dismemberment. It's kinda disappointing actually; I've had friends that bragged about the time they tore open their leg tendon falling 30 feet after being thrown from their bikes and all I have to match is the time in Tae Kwon Do I sprained my big toe executing one of the most retarded ninja leaps in recorded history. I seem to be plagued with a series of incredibly lame annoyances.

One instance that stands out in memory is the time I contracted the stomach flu. The pain itself was bad enough but with it came an intense feeling of shittiness. At some points, I think I started hallucinating.

[Wigmund]

I have experienced the worst pain imaginable (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=323909610753051544#).

[Eltargrim]

I have experienced the worst pain imaginable (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=323909610753051544#).

Oh fuck you. You almost got me there.

Fucker.

[BitVyper]

When my eyes were first diagnosed (I have chronic pain in my eyes), they tried me on this one medication, I think it was called Trynalyn, or something like that. Anyway, I had a really bad reaction to it, and that put me in an indescribable amount of pain - like I was seriously contemplating pulling my eyes out of my skull.

Aside from that... "pain" is kind of a weird word to apply to most of the injuries I've had. Like, when I was ten-ish, I put a sharp metal tube into my stomach (fell on it), and that wasn't so much painful as frightening because I couldn't breathe. I want to recount all my other grievous wounds, but honestly, I think the shock has helped me through those. I've broken fingers and toes before, but never anything major, so I imagine that's probably worse. I got stabbed clear through the cheek with a pencil once, but again, shock.

Oh! I've had a number of burns before. Those can be pretty painful. Also I got stuck by a porcupine once, and I didn't have anything to cut the needles with (if you cut the needles, they contract a little bit so the barbs are easier to get out), so I wound up just pulling them out one by one. The funny part is HOW I got stuck though - I decided I wanted some of the needles from a porcupine skin I found out in the bush, so I put my foot down on it and yanked. My foot wasn't on it quite as good as I thought, so the whole thing whipped up and caught my hand and arm. Yes, I am capable of being that dumb.

I had a couple teeth pulled without adequate sedative once. That was fairly unpleasant.

Still, I think I've never had anything quite as painful as the time I reacted to that medication. That was a fucking horrifying experience. And I mean, my eyes are pretty constantly in pain, but this was just fucking awful.

That is, far and away, the worst pain I have ever experienced.

Okay yeah, that sounds pretty terrible.

[Loki, The Fallen]

When I was a young lad, I enjoyed the odd bicycle ride on my dirt road. Well, I enjoyed every ride except the one when I coasted downhill at significant speed.

Now actually, that part was enjoyable, it was the part immediately following the striking of a large rock that made it less enjoyable. This rock had the magnificent effect of introducing me to flight for the first time.

Unfortunately my first landing was on the gravel. In shorts and a T-Shirt.

Sure this was quite painful, all those tiny little stones buried slightly below countless areas under my skin. It felt as though my entire body was on fire. The dirt in the eyes was the icing on the cake.

But that paled in comparison to the worst pain ever.

Cleaning all of those wounds.

I may have never broken a bone, but I've been burned, cut, fell fair distances, hit trees on skis, rolled a vehicle, struck with blunt objects in areas one cringes to think about, experienced what I can only describe as a minor embolism and more. And I'd go through all of those injuries simultaneously rather then experience the pain of cleaning out dirt and gravel from significant portions of my body.

I remember it being the middle of summer, and I was shivering!

Heck, it's what, 20 years later and I still remember that.

[Green Spanner]

I don't tend to feel massive pain, as I tend to get little bits, but stretched over a much longer time period.

As such, probably the worst pain I've felt is when I jumped off a wall once, and landed on my ankle.

Like, literally on my ankle. My foot was practically 90 degrees.

Fortunately, there was no long term damage, saving being unable to walk for a little while.

[Amake]

Watching my kid die. Yeah that's physical pain. But I get the sense from this thread you want to be like, scientific, so I'll go with root canals. With the needles deep into each root of the tooth and the pain gets as bad as it can and then it gets worse and it doesn't go away.

[Toast]

Nothing super agonizing has ever happened to me. Even some of the injuries that I've had over the years didn't really hurt much.

I do however suffer from chronic arthritis, most prominently in my knees but also in my back, for the past ~15 years or so.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

It may not sound as horrifyingly painful as some that have been mentioned, but a slipped disk on your spine is massively painful, and the most pain I've ever felt. It was at the very base of my spine, and left me unable to walk, sit down or move in any way. I couldn't even turn around, because that would involve moving my legs, and thus my hips, which would alter my spines position. Every time the pain stuck, it was like being electrified right up my entire nervous system. Made worse by the fact that at the time I was also experiancing the worst hayfever I had ever suffered. Every time I sneezed (which was happening every few minutes, and no tablets were helping) it felt like my body was going to snap in half.

The only other pain that would come close to this for me was the moment just before my apendix ruptured, which left me doubled up on the floor for half an hour, but even that was nothing by comparison.

[BitVyper]

Watching my kid die.

Geez, that's awful! I don't know when it happened, but I'm sorry.

[Nikose Tyris]

I have a 2.6 cm rock inside my left kidney. I suffer from Renal Colic.

The pain is so bad that if I don't take my morphine at the onset of a pain spike, I am limited to lying on the floor, crying and vomiting.

I was turned away from the Hospital in Quebec- the only way I could see anyone was to throw myself down a flight of stone steps outside the Hospital, at which point I was taken into Emergency and given enough Morphine to drown out the pain.

I don't like my kidney stone. He's a jerk.

Actually I recently put all this in my forum signature, so just google anything there. Except for the things that say "Do Not Google" those will return un-worksafe things.


P.S. Oh, and I have Priapism thanks to scar tissue on my penis. That's not really pain, it just means that if I have an erection that lasts more then 4 hours I can die. I've had 16 encounters with this lovely issue so far.

[Wigmund]

Oh fuck you. You almost got me there.

Fucker.

It's true. That horrific...thing...is the worst thing to have happened to me.

I've been rather fortunate otherwise in the pain department, nothing serious has happened to me.
I've sprained an ankle, when I was younger I fell off a slide and broke my top front teeth requiring several years of speech therapy to get around a lisp until my adult front teeth grew in, and I have slashed open a finger when opening a can of cat food (have a nice tiny scar there), and recently I slipped on a slick sidewalk during a rainstorm and scuffed off several layers of skin on my wrist leaving a red scar patch.
All of these have been temporary pains, nothing compared to what others here have or are still experiencing.

[Whomper]

All of that pales to the pain of shattering, yes shattering, one of my wisdom teeth. I broke it, literally, in half, so that the still living nerve was fully exposed. It did this in the middle of a meal--which I finished, and then stayed that way for over a day before I was able to get into the dentist's office to get a temporary cap. Which then fell off before I was able to go in again, leading to the same pain all over again.
That same situation happened to me earlier this very year. I distinctly remember eating nachos when that sudden sharp stab hit me, causing me to drop everything. Naproxen Sodium seemed to have enough of an effect to get me to sleep, but only for a couple hours. I was willing to chalk up my rather large co-pay rather fast to get the teeth pulled.

Pinching the main nerve in my left shoulder still hurt worse, but that would have to come second.

[Funka Genocide]

hey guys, here's a tip!

BRUSH YO TEEF!

other than that, the worst physical pain I've ever experienced hmm...

I don't know, most of the really bad beatings I was all juiced up on adrenaline so didn't really feel it, the things that hurt the worst are the ones you don't see coming. So it was probably something inoccuous like jamming my finger in a door or crushing my shin on a little plastic playground thing after falling off a skateboard.

[Whomper]

hey guys, here's a tip!

BRUSH YO TEEF SCUMBAGS!I do, thanks. Also, I'm 27 years old. According to my dentist, I should've had the wisdom teeth pulled long before this last summer to avoid the overcrowding which ultimately brought enough pressure to crack my tooth.

Here's a tip: don't judge people. It's quite inflammatory, and can be taken the wrong way, even in jest. Kthx.

[Funka Genocide]

eh whatever, I removed the scumbag portion to honor your sensibilities.

[CelesJessa]

hey guys, here's a tip!

BRUSH YO TEEF!


This. I don't care if you already brush them two or three times a day, brush them more! After getting part 2 of a root canal that was started over Thanksgiving this morning I am going to live the rest of my life with a tooth brush in my mouth. Waking up, after class, after lunch, after a movie? It's tooth brushing time. IT IS THE ONLY ANSWER DAMN YOU SENSITIVE TEETH.

Other than that I haven't had much pain. But I have a low tolerance for pain sooo-

Oh wait, I remember one. When I was pretty young I rode a ride at the county fair called the scrambler and got whiplash. That hurt pretty bad if I remember right.

[Melfice]

Getting my hand slammed in a car door, far as I can remember.
Mind you, the part where it got slammed didn't hurt.
It was when my hand was freed when it started hurting like a motherfucker.

[Whomper]

Can't let you do that, CelesJessa (http://stanford.wellsphere.com/dental-health-article/is-it-possible-to-over-brush-your-teeth/388597).

[Bells]

I can't ride a bike.

Well... i can, but just barely. And if i try there is a decent chance i'll fall.

Why?

Well, when i was about 13 i was going for a ride and as soon as i give the first pedal a push, the handlebars came off and my big toe went straight for the dented wheel.

The cut was of surgical precision on that spot where the nail meets the flesh. 1cm deep. I passed out from blood loss.

I'll leave you with that...

[Bard The 5th LW]

The most painful thing for me was a stomach virus I once had that basically impaired y ability to eat for about a week. And it was a long week.

By day 4 I was literally vomiting the food I hadn't eaten. And when I say that, I mean I was trying to throw up, but there was nothing to throw up.

[BitVyper]

brush them more!

Aside from that being bad for you, it also really doesn't do much for you anyway (overdoing it, that is). It's like taking your car through the carwash fifty times a day but never changing the oil.

[Hanuman]

I can't remember the most painful thing in my life... but last week I wore my hands down raw on chains just practicing endlessly until the blisters ballooned out and popped, and got fuel, soot and chemical residue in them... and i was fire performing so the adrenaline rush was keeping me from knowing what pain i was inflicting on myself... then afterwords wave after wave of paralyzing pain... which because of my history was quite fun actually... like eating a whole mound of wasabi, or a really hot pepper, I'm sure we've all had those phases.

I like looking it that way because it aspires a more zen philosophy, good is good, but bad is interesting! Truly!

[CelesJessa]

Can't let you do that, CelesJessa (http://stanford.wellsphere.com/dental-health-article/is-it-possible-to-over-brush-your-teeth/388597).

Well....

Nevermind then. XD

[Kyanbu The Legend]

There was that time I sled/fell down a fleet of stairs when I was a kid. I was okay, in pain, but okay. I was scared of heights ever since.

And then there was the time I cut the very tip of my thumb half way off trying to mod my Hiyata Beyblade back when I was 14/15. It didn't hurt, but only because I was in shock. The doctor placed some disinfectant stuff on it and glued it back with some skin glue and it was better after a month or two of healing.

[Rejected Again]

Most painful thing ever for me was when I was 8 years old. I was jumping on my bed and bounced headlong into the wall. On said was was a protruding nail. 18 stitches later, I gave up jumping on the bed.

[Funka Genocide]

Most painful thing ever for me was when I was 8 years old. I was jumping on my bed and bounced headlong into the wall. On said was was a protruding nail. 18 stitches later, I gave up jumping on the bed.

This give me an idea, perhaps if I ever have children I shall leave random dangerous objects protruding from my walls to sharpen their skills.

Like the danger room in X-Men.

[Nightshine]

1 day without painkillers after my wisdom teeth were removed.

[Toastburner B]

I've broken my right arm twice, and sprained both arms a time or two. But those were a pretty long time ago, so I can't really recall the pain.

The pain that most comes to mind right off the top of my head is the time the dentist convinced me that "it was only a small cavity", and that I wouldn't need a pain-killer shot.

Now, truth be told, the drilling itself didn't hurt much at all. It was unpleasant, but it didn't hurt.

It wasn't until he rinsed my mouth out with the coldest water imaginable that it hurt. Seriously, this water must of been 32.1*F, and he was spraying it in extremely liberal doses upon my poor, exposed nerve. I was breathing in the "happy gas" so hard I must of emptied out that tank.

Needless to say, when he tried to suggest the same thing next time I had a cavity, I couldn't say "GIVE ME THE PAINKILLER!" fast enough.

[Darth SS]

Surprisingly, given my long illustrious history of self-injury, my most severe injuries (epic concussions) have been relatively pain-free. My absolute worst would have to be a toss up between two events.

1) Breaking my wrist in a lacrosse game, convincing my coach I was still okay to play, and then getting two handed hard on my next shift. After that, the coach was like "You can't move your fingers, and your wrist is twisted at the wrong angle. It's DEFINITELY broken now."

2) Playing hockey, I was racing for an icing call and got slew footed on the way in. I went straight into the boards on my left ankle, and compound spiral fractured my fibula and spiral fractured my tibia. Other highlights of that include the subsequently sprained ankle and biting clean through my mouthguard from the pain. Thankfully I passed out pretty quick.

[Amake]

Geez, that's awful! I don't know when it happened, but I'm sorry. It was a long time ago. But thanks.