Biggest pain you've ever felt?

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I went out to eat ramen for the first time with friends.

Then, at 2 in the morning, I woke up with excruciating pain in my gut. Like, rolling around on the bathroom floor groaning in pain for two hours kind of pain. I almost tried to induce vomiting, that's how much it hurt. I almost wished that I would just fall unconscious or die just so that it would end. Most agonizing 2 hours of my life.

>_< It was so bad that I have never touched ramen again since then. Even though it's probably just the cooks who !@#$ed something up, I am so scared of a repeat event that I don't think I'll ever have ramen again.

...I'll just stick to the instant noodle variety instead. I know that kind won't try to kill me.

 

[axlryder]

I fell down half a flight of stairs, and broke my ankle in two places. The ankle bent to where I ended up sitting on the outside of my foot. They used eight screws, two bolts, and a metal plate to put it back together.

The initial breaking, however, wasn't the worst pain. The ER gave me serious pain meds and crutches, which I had never used before. Then, after the pain meds had worn off, they told me to go home, using crutches. Because of this I ended up falling and landing with my full weight on the broken ankle. OH MY GOD. It hurt so much worse than the initial breaking. It was horrible. Bad enough that I didn't use crutches once during my entire recovery. I used a wheelchair for the first few weeks while my pain meds were to strong for me to really function, and then I used a walker. I will never use crutches, ever.

ouch, that happened to a woman I knew. That same damn thing. She actually re-broke it and said it was the most impossibly excruciating thing she'd ever experienced. She ended up developing an alcohol problem because of the whole ordeal.

OT: broken femur. I've got a genetic condition that causes me to be in pain constantly, so I have a very high pain tolerance, but damn did that ever stand out in my mind. I imagine that having my finger crushed in a bailer might have been equally as bad, but I don't remember the pain, having passed out immediately. Apparently I had very low blood sugar at the time because I hadn't eaten in like forever and the physical shock of the trauma caused my body to shut down briefly. Oddly enough, my finger looks normal now, so I guess I'm lucky in that regard. The only weird part is that there are no working pain receptors left in the nail bed, so I could rip off the fingernail and it wouldn't even hurt.

 

[Tallim]

I have Trigeminal Neuralgia, so that. It has the hilarious nickname of "Suicide Disease" and it is a barrel of laughs I can tell you :/

 

[Coeco]

Smashed my coccyx against one of these fancy office chairs, effectively scarring me for life. It didn't feel very nice at the time either, nor did the three following weeks of me being unable to sit down.

Made a nice, deep scar that's incapable of healing itself, making me bleed all the time from my back as I lose feeling in my waist when I sit down on something too long/hard but that Isn't even the fun part.

It also offset two kinds of scoliosis, making my spine too straight (which is clinically dangerous) and slightly bent to the left, crippling my ability to move every time I stay still for a couple of hours say like, trying to sleep do physical activities along with excruciating pain every time I try to breath thanks to the muscles in my back stiffening up for dear life which they've been doing for the past 10 years or so now.

 

[Shifty]

I suppose the memory of pain fades with time.

I have had my appendix burst,
Fallen off a excavator and smashed my back on the tracks (180 fall down from the cab)
Busted my head open in a fight (don't ever head but a guy that is trying to head but you at the same time)
Broken all my fingers at once when a car boot was slammed on them by accident when I was a child
Put a screw driver through my ankle
Stood on a nail that went straight through my foot
Knelt on a pin that went under my knee cap for its full length (I am now told that I will have arthritis by the time I am 35)
Had meningitis with the associated spinal tap
Put fencing wire straight through my hand
I have had concrete burns (they did hurt)

but since all the above happened over years they do not seem as bad.

Right now I have 2 broken ribs. Its painful when I cough, hiccup, laugh or take a deep breath but there is not much I can do (you can't put a cast on or anything) and it is not as bad as it sounds. But since it is happening right now you could say its the worst pain ever.

So in full the worst pain you have ever felt is the one you are feeling right now.

 

[Shifty]

Smashed my coccyx against one of these fancy office chairs, effectively scarring me for life. It didn't feel very nice at the time either, nor did the three following weeks of me being unable to sit down.

Made a nice, deep scar that's incapable of healing itself, making me bleed all the time from my back as I lose feeling in my waist when I sit down on something too long/hard but that Isn't even the fun part.

It also offset two kinds of scoliosis, making my spine too straight (which is clinically dangerous) and slightly bent to the left, crippling my ability to move every time I stay still for a couple of hours say like, trying to sleep do physical activities along with excruciating pain every time I try to breath thanks to the muscles in my back stiffening up for dear life which they've been doing for the past 10 years or so now.

That sucks.

 

[WhyBotherToTry]

My most recent would have been standing on a screw that went a fair bit into my foot. When I was about 8 I had a red hot clothes iron pressed into my face, (stupid accident). My worst one though was when I was around 7. I was over at the house of a guy I used to be friends with and I was on his swings, which were stood in a bed of gravel. Not the fine gravel that's made up of loads of tiny pieces and is more like sand, but big jagged pieces about the size of the palm an adult man's hand, let's say around 6cm long. Anyway, we were swinging away and it was at this point that the other child's dad decided to wet us with the power hose with which he had been cleaning his car. I got a full force blast of it and was thrown onto the gravel, which promptly split my head open. Imagine someone using a butterknife to pick a hole in your head and then sticking a chainsaw into said hole and turning it on, that's what it felt like. The back of my head is still misshapen from that particular incident.

 

[Blobpie]

When i broke my arm (i fell off my bike), both of the bones in my left arm were snapped right in half. I never cried.... it hurt too much to cry.

Like literally snapped in half? How the hell do you fix that?

They put a pin in

 

[Wolfhowl the shadow lurker]

when i was a child and my brother stomped on my head

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

A burst eardrum. A line blew near my head and the noise was so intense it burst. I laid on the ground for a good ten minutes holding my head. Balance gone, double vision. Never again.

 

[bandman232]

Probably getting shot. That wasn't very fun...

 

[tigermilk]

Out of every single injury i've ever had (and there have been a few) no pain has ever come close to standing on a UK 3 prong plug socket bare foot....

This, like treading on a Lego* brick times infinity.

*Fellow UK resident hence the spelling of Lego without the "s".

 

[Crazycat690]

The pain felt when betrayed by someone you love. I win some kind of cheesyness award?

...Not alot of bad stuff happen to me actually, never been physically hurt except when... Well I've been kicked in the balls, that counts.

 

[Kashrlyyk]

Burned the tip of my pointing finger on a very, very hot hotplate. If I stopped cooling it the pain started to wander up the arm until it became unbearable.

Second: After my heart operation everytime I had to cough to get rid of slime. The sternum had to be sawed in half and the scar above it really hurt when I coughed.

 

[Elidibus]

I didn't read the whole thread, so I don't know if anyone has shared in my pain, but the worst pain I ever had was a Kidney stone. I think it was 1.2mm

What was worse was that wasn't the reason I went to the hospital. I had severe gastroenteritis. It was literally coming out of both ends. Sometimes at the same time. It was insane.

Thankfully though, the kidney stone pain didn't start to manifest until after I had visited the first round of people at the ER. All of a sudden my side started hurting. And it wouldn't stop.

An MRI later and I have a kidney stone. I had been fearing these things all my life. So much so I stopped drinking sodas and crap and actively put more water in my diet. Oddly enough, drinking more milk could've helped. But my wife is allergic to milk, so we drink soy and almond.

And I don't know where those people are saying that morphine works immediately. Took a damn half hour for me to feel it. Of course, the ER staggered the two doses by like 30 minutes. Had I got the full one it might've been different. Now Oxy on the other hand. That stuff was legit.

And some advice if anyone has one. Citric Acid. Drink it by the gallon. It broke up my stone to the size of pepper flakes and didn't hurt at all.

All that was left was recovering from the gastroenteritis. When my stomach swelled to where it looked like I swallowed a soccer ball. That really hurt too.

 

[AngloDoom]

Migraines, without a doubt.

I remember having a migraine that lasted a couple of days when I was very young; I somehow managed to get to sleep at one point but it suddenly spiked and woke me up. That might I ended up screaming in pain until I tore my throat and vomited, and then as a result of being sick I laid there semi-conscious, unable to fully lose conscious because the pain in my head kept bringing me back to my senses.

Thankfully I've never had anything even close to that since, but my gods it was the first time in my life I was so helpless: it's just such an inescapable, unreachable pain.

 

[jhoroz]

Ingrown toenails were extremely painful too, as was having to cut it too (twice)

 

[Snowbell]

I had an allergic reaction to an intravenal drip earlier this year. My face swelled up, I couldn't breathe, I felt horribly hot and my head itched to much that I scratched my scalp until it bled. Definatly the worst pain/experience I've ever had.

 

[Broady Brio]

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:

OT: Second worst pain goes to when both my Achilles' tendons were cut for my operation. I thought I would never walk again.