So what's the worst, most excrutiating, painful pain you've ever felt?
I had an ingrown toenail once, mega ouch
I had an ingrown toenail once, mega ouch
Biggest pain you've ever felt?
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I've had ingrown toenails too, and while not necessary the most excruciating pain I've ever felt, it's constant.
Every slight bump is agony, I was always very conscience about where my feet were, shifting my weight etc.
So glad I got the nails on both my big toes permanently removed.
Now, for the worst pain I've ever felt.
Appendicitis. The night before I went into hospital was the longest, most agonising night of my life, like someone was twisting my guts around their fist.
I can understand why people get addicted to morphine.
That shit is awesome and takes effect almost instantly.
Every slight bump is agony, I was always very conscience about where my feet were, shifting my weight etc.
So glad I got the nails on both my big toes permanently removed.
Now, for the worst pain I've ever felt.
Appendicitis. The night before I went into hospital was the longest, most agonising night of my life, like someone was twisting my guts around their fist.
I can understand why people get addicted to morphine.
That shit is awesome and takes effect almost instantly.
One of two things.. appendicitis.. that stuff hurts.. or my infected nailbed on a finger.. let me explain it this way.. once we managed to open it up and get most of the pus/gunk out.. and i put it in severely boiling water to sterilize it.. the pain from the finger hurt more then the boiling water.. the water actually SOOTHED it... crazy.
For a week I had random colon spasms, causing my stomach to feel like someone was shoving a hot poker into my stomach.
Cluster headaches. Fuck those to the pits that are deeper than the deepest pits of hell. I literally felt like I was being stabbed thousands of times at once, while having salt poured all over me. I think the picture on wikipedia sums those up real nicely:
Had about 30 shots of local anaesthetic in my back once... It still didn't mask the pain of having a 3 inch needle directed through my coccyx and having a shit load of steroids pumped into the tiny gap where the main leg nerve is...
If you've ever experienced nerve pain you'll know how I might have felt whilst having this done.... For those that don't, imagine having a knife cut down your entire leg and then filling the slit with boiling water...
If you've ever experienced nerve pain you'll know how I might have felt whilst having this done.... For those that don't, imagine having a knife cut down your entire leg and then filling the slit with boiling water...
I've broken numerous bones and dislocated joints. Its a toss up between dislocated shoulder, dislocated knee cap and breaking my fibula. My fibula was when I was only 8 so the pain may be exaggerated by my young age.
The shoulder and knee cap were both equally excruciating, I really can't pick between them. Maybe leaning to the knee cap, simply the sight of it completely out of place made the pain that much worse.
The shoulder and knee cap were both equally excruciating, I really can't pick between them. Maybe leaning to the knee cap, simply the sight of it completely out of place made the pain that much worse.
I had a spike of wood go through the bottom of my right foot and get stuck. It was pulled out without freezing the foot. I have never felt anything worse that the solid minute of the doctor pulling it out slowly, wiggling it...
My foot is now hurting again remembering it.
My foot is now hurting again remembering it.
One particular night I spent a couple of days after being taken out of the intensive care uni in hospital after a spina fusion operation. Turns out I was slightly allergic to the morphine, not enough to be dangerous, but enough so I didn't get any. I ended up on tramadol or something.
Anyway, during that period, I had recovered enough to have attempted assisted walking, and could sit upright and talk normally. Now, as I later discovered, I apparently nearly contracted pneumonia. So, combine intense, constant, heavy coughing with having half-metre scar going down my back, which hurt every time I breathed in, let alone tried to cough with, and top it up with being on a considerable weaker painkiller than usual.
Anyway, during that period, I had recovered enough to have attempted assisted walking, and could sit upright and talk normally. Now, as I later discovered, I apparently nearly contracted pneumonia. So, combine intense, constant, heavy coughing with having half-metre scar going down my back, which hurt every time I breathed in, let alone tried to cough with, and top it up with being on a considerable weaker painkiller than usual.
I used to get those a lot last year. Was damn near clawing my eyes out before I went to a doctor.Black Arrow Officer said:Cluster headaches. Fuck those to the pits that are deeper than the deepest pits of hell. I literally felt like I was being stabbed thousands of times at once, while having salt poured all over me. I think the picture on wikipedia sums those up real nicely:
Currently got 2 ingrown toenails, one on each foot. So yeah, ouch.
Also, I've never been stung by one, but these make me want to stay out of the marine when I go to Brisbane:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_jellyfish#Irukandji_syndrome
Also, I've never been stung by one, but these make me want to stay out of the marine when I go to Brisbane:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irukandji_jellyfish#Irukandji_syndrome
Migraines. It's not so much the pain as the crippling disorientation and nausea that accompanies the whole 'white-hot spike through the skull' feeling. Thankfully, I get them very infrequently.
The ways it screws with your vision can be really fun, though, until the sickness and pain starts. Live in a green-filtered world for a bit, or have your brain edit out your own arms from your vision. Trippy shit.
The ways it screws with your vision can be really fun, though, until the sickness and pain starts. Live in a green-filtered world for a bit, or have your brain edit out your own arms from your vision. Trippy shit.
I had to deal with a toothache brought on by a tooth that needed root canal surgery.
Essentially what the problem was was that I had an exposed nerve and an abscess in the tooth, the abscess itself is bad enough since it pushes down upon the nerve causing pain but the addition of the exposed nerve meant even simple things like eating or drinking or even breathing through my mouth became a test of my tolerance for pain.
Imagine a regular tooth ache and magnify it by 10 or 15, then imagine that pain unceasingly for over three months; i'm sure that in itself it is not the worst pain in the world but because of the constant inescapable nature of it it becomes one of the most excruciating, sanity destroying pains you're ever likely to experience.[footnote]I can imagine Phantom Limb Pain to be worse since at least with a tooth ache you know that it can be fixed but with PLP there is pretty much nothing that can be done to completely stop it.[/footnote]
I mean, because it never stopped I even found it hard to sleep and the only way to deaden the pain enough to bring sleep was to (carefully) lance the abscess and then to wash the tooth out with some very strong vodka but even then within an hour the pain would return in it's full fury and wake me up again so the exhaustion caused it to be magnified yet more; towards the end even the lance & vodka trick stopped working so the only times i'd ever really sleep was due to passing out from exhaustion.
People seem to say that root canal operations hurt but to be honest in my experience as soon as they stuck the anesthetic in me I felt like I was in heaven.
And you can bet your ass I brush my teeth twice daily now.
Essentially what the problem was was that I had an exposed nerve and an abscess in the tooth, the abscess itself is bad enough since it pushes down upon the nerve causing pain but the addition of the exposed nerve meant even simple things like eating or drinking or even breathing through my mouth became a test of my tolerance for pain.
Imagine a regular tooth ache and magnify it by 10 or 15, then imagine that pain unceasingly for over three months; i'm sure that in itself it is not the worst pain in the world but because of the constant inescapable nature of it it becomes one of the most excruciating, sanity destroying pains you're ever likely to experience.[footnote]I can imagine Phantom Limb Pain to be worse since at least with a tooth ache you know that it can be fixed but with PLP there is pretty much nothing that can be done to completely stop it.[/footnote]
I mean, because it never stopped I even found it hard to sleep and the only way to deaden the pain enough to bring sleep was to (carefully) lance the abscess and then to wash the tooth out with some very strong vodka but even then within an hour the pain would return in it's full fury and wake me up again so the exhaustion caused it to be magnified yet more; towards the end even the lance & vodka trick stopped working so the only times i'd ever really sleep was due to passing out from exhaustion.
People seem to say that root canal operations hurt but to be honest in my experience as soon as they stuck the anesthetic in me I felt like I was in heaven.
And you can bet your ass I brush my teeth twice daily now.
Sciatica?Raven said:
My dad sometimes has problems with his sciatic nerve.
My dad is a hard man, he's had fingers crushed by machines, he's had a hernia, a tonne of metal dropped on his foot, and that's just the stuff I remember.
He said none of that compared to when his sciatic nerve was at it's worse.
The aftercare for my septoplasty or my post concussion headaches. My face around my nose is really sensitive and everytime the doctor sticks the needle up my nose to suction my sinuses, it feels like he is poking my brain.