"Ow! My pancreus!" What is the worst you've ever felt?

[DFDelta]

I've had my left arm shattered (3 fractures at the same time), 2 broken ribs from a sports accident, and managed to burn the inside of my right eye socket (managed to get burning ash inside).
All things that hurt A LOT, and still the worst pain I've ever felt was......
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wait for it...
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a simple bruise.


Yes, a normal bruise.
Was visiting a fair and dodged trough the crowd. Bumped my back on a stand there, next day I has a bruise over my lower spine, about elbow-height.
Everything was pure pain after that.
Even just wearing a shirt felt like somebody tried to hack his way through my back with an axe whenever the fabric touched my skin.
Things like lifting anything of any signifficant weight or twisting my body to look behind me were rightout impossible.
I pretty much spent the next 3 days in the fetal position trying not to move.

 

[Rickolas Walrus]

In high school this kid brought some hot sauce for me to try (partly because I love spicy food/a challenge, partly because he's a dick). I was going to save it for lunch, but I put a little bit on the very tip of my finger just to taste it. Mouth instantly on fire, swallowed some water because I thought it would help. It did not. All the water did was help me swallow it so that my stomach could feel a pain that I honestly think was worse than getting hit in the groin. And to top it off, about a half hour later I scratched my eye. With the finger that had the hot sauce on it

I'm sure that's not nearly as bad as what some people have felt, but I wanted to die

 

[Keymik]

I once stepped on a nail and it went through my foot. Sure it hurt but I was more shocked at the sight of having a nail through my foot.. Everyone around just looked at me with big eyes as I raised my foot and dryly said ''I stepped on a nail..''

Annoyingly though is that everytime I step on anything with a slight point I remember the feeling of that moment.

 

[ObsidianJones_v1legacy]

I've had my face torn off by an animal, and then sewn back on by a plastic surgeon. On the opposite side of the same face (mine) I've had my cheek and orbital bone shattered, and replaced with a titanium alloy.

I've also broken all 3 bones in my left arm by getting a stone wedged between the 3 of them, and then listening to them snap like little 11 year old twigs.

I've had a broken femur, tibia, several broken ribs, and a punctured lung from an auto accident.

I've had internal bleeding that no doctor could figure out where it was coming from (different circumstances than that auto accident).

I've had 4 impacted wisdom teeth, all needing removal by an emergency DDS, without any numbing agents because if they didn't do it, I wouldn't be here to tell you all about these little niggles.

I have no cartilage left in my left knee, and my spine was broken when I was 17. They told me I'd never walk again. They also said that if I did walk, I wouldn't be able to by the time I was 30. Showed them eh?

Right now however, is the worst I could possibly feel after all that. Rheumatoid arthritis has me pretty well house bound most of the days I live. The funny thing about all these little health related hiccups, I'm only 43 (yea, I know... old man) and I have so much to look forward to. Cancer runs in my family, as do heart issues, so if one of those doesn't kill me, the other might... or it might be the bus that's eventually going to run through my living room.

I don't ever want to fight you.

Ever.

Whatever side you decide to go on, I'm going on that side for my own safety.

 

[Lady Lucky]

It's so common to have stomach issues here, what we would consider a taboo subject in polite conversation is otherwise discussed to its entirety in everyday conversation.

That actually sounds quite a bit like the discussions my family used to have around the dinner table. Both of my parents are in the medical field, so dinner conversation used to involve the many wondrous sights and smells of working in a hospital.

On Topic: Due to me health conditions, I live every day feeling like someone is sticking an ice-pick into my spine, so I would say that the last five years is the worst I've ever felt. That or the time the anesthetic didn't work when I was getting a toenail removed, that hurt like a mother.

Ha! My friend is a doctor, he's always telling me gross stories over dinner about his hospital adventures.
About the toenail, my biggest fear is the anesthetic not working....

 

[JimB]

I occasionally get what I'm told are cluster headaches. I'm not totally clear on what the difference between that and a migraine is, but whatever they are, they...well, I was about to get into some hyperbole here, but that's not helpful, so let me try to be precise.

It feels like a spike has been driven through my skull, above my right eye and coming out above the base my spine. My eyes become so sensitive to light that I end up tying the belt of my bathrobe around my eyes like a blindfold, because any amount of light more assertive than "tea candle two rooms away" makes my eyes feel like they're being cut in half by a circular saw that somehow never just finishes the job and amputates them. The pain is physically nauseating, which is actually a good thing because I often induce vomiting to pass the time; puking is not pleasant, but the muscles in my face and throat seizing up so hard I think they're going to break my skull is, and I'm not kidding here, a welcome relief from the headache.

 

[Ratties]

Asthma attack that was really severe a couple of years ago. Really felt like I was dying at that moment. Collapsed on the floor and stared off into space. Have to say that it felt like there was an elephant on my chest. I remember taking so many treatments at the hospital. Eventually I could breathe normally again and I felt like a fish that was back in the water.

 

[Remus]

I've had food poisoning a couple of times. The last time I could have welcomed Ripley with a flamethrower because I felt like something was trying to claw its way out of my body. Once a loooong time ago I dropped a 50lb cinderblock on my big toe. Needless to say, I wasn't walking right for a couple months. I've dropped a 20lb barbell weight on my foot since, doesn't compare to that block. The toenail still hasn't grown back right after it fell off a week after getting squished.

 

[Robot Number V]

Well, get ready to cringe and instinctively close your legs, this one is...uncomfortable.

So a few years back, a routine blood test turned up some weird results. I'll spare you the details, but suffice to say that my kidneys were failing. They were at Stage 3 out of 5, 5 being "Failure". Some doctors determined that it had something to do with there being...well, to put it politely, more piss sticking around in my bladder then there should've been. The solution? Well, that's the uncomfortable part: A catheter. If you don't know what that is, you're lucky. But it's a tube that a doctor puts into your penis. Yes, INTO. Basically, they wanted to use it to drain all the urine out of my bladder(somehow, I don't know how it works), and go from there.

Now, the tube itself wasn't the painful part. See, they take this numbing gel and slide that in first. There are literally no fucking words to describe how bizzarre and uncomfortable THAT feels, but it's not painful. The same goes for the tube itself. Now, trying to pee after the procedure, gel and all? THAT is the fucking DEFINITION of pain. I don't even know how to describe it.

The exact feeling is like someone scraping out the inside of your uterus with a spoon or a fork.

Yikes, that'll do. So...Yeah. It felt like the male equivalent of that.

 

[Dirge Eterna]

There are only two occasions which spring to mind.

The most recent was getting my thigh tattoo. After the two hour mark, I was tired and it was absolute agony. I've never felt anything like it in my life. (So glad I persevered, though! Pain is only temporary.)

The other occasion was when I started taking the Pill for the first time in about 2007/8. I spent the first day in absolute agony, I had to lay completely still in bed because the pain was so bad. I can't really describe what it was like, but the only thing I remember thinking was, "Is this what childbirth feels like?")

Otherwise, I've been quite fortunate. That, or I have a high tolerance for pain.

I had a tattoo that was in my top 5. It was on my interior calf, 5 hour session to do it all in one shot. Almost done and everything is cool until the tattooist goes over an area again with white ink after already going over it at hour 2. I am fairly pale skinned so I needed the extra white ink to make the design stand out. So it had 3 hours or so to get extra sensitive, I spent the 20min he was doing it gripping the seat so hard I got cramps in my hands and fingers and left finger indents in the leather lol. Love the tattoo but damn that was pretty intense.

 

[Gordon_4_v1legacy]

There are two instances that spring to mind:

A few years ago I had a really bad infection in my throat and ears that made swallowing so painful I didn't eat solids for two weeks, water and soup for me

The other was getting hit (at low speed, about 50kM/h and decelerating) by a car. Although I suspect that was more the shock of 'Oh shit, I just got hit by a car!'.....and to add insult to injury after all was said and done (before I went to hospital) and I stumbled over to the cafe I'd been heading to, they got my breakfast order wrong.

 

[okyes]

my girlfriend broke up with me and i wanted to just kill myself cause it hurted so badly

 

[xmbts]

I'm gonna say being dead, granted I don't remember much what that feels like so I'll go with having my face rammed into a broken couch frame (concussion and a large facial gash, couldn't speak English after it happened), or possibly having my fingertip cut off in a swinging door.

My head hurts remembering these things.

 

[CaptainKoala]

I once spilled an entire pot of boiling water directly onto my hand and arm. Then I got stung by a wasp. Twice.

Twas a bad day.

 

[antidonkey]

I'd say the worst I've ever felt was two days after my motorcycle crash. While I walked away from that with a broken wrist and a fractured clavicle, I was at least walking. The morning of day two was surgery day for my wrist. It took me 30 minutes to get out of bed because every part of my body, save my head, was in pure pain. It took another 30 to get dressed and about 10 minutes to get to the parking lot to get in a car. Luckily I had some really good meds and slept for most of the rest of the day. I highly recommend not rear-ending a SUV while riding a Harley. It's a rather unpleasant experience.

 

[UltraDeth]

Believe it or not I have never broken a bone in my life. But the worst pain I ever felt is definitely fingers trapped in a hinge (happened more than once I'm ashamed to mention)

Another that comes to mind when I was a (foolish) infant, putting my hand on a hot stove (my hand was charred for days) and putting my face over a boiling kettle

 

[Frasman]

I had to get two toenails completely removed. The surgery itself was fine, but once the antithetic and muscle relaxants wore off........constant angony for 2 days. They gave me pills "for the pain", but they did nothing.

 

[Zhukov]

Never had any exceptionally painful illnesses.

Had a few injuries though.

Been stabbed in the side of the neck with a pocket knife, right about where it meets the shoulder. Bled a buttload but, oddly, it didn't start hurting for a few minutes. But once it got going... fuck me, that was not pleasant.

Had a kneecap momentarily dislocated. A few moments of severe pain, followed by a sensation that I can only describe as 'the ultimate knuckle crack', then a few weeks of serious tenderness.

Took a glancing hit from a passing car. Got away with massive bruising on my thigh. Wasn't really that painful, considering, but the worst part was that I could actually feel the internal bleeding in a way that I don't have the words to describe. Really odd sensation, a sort of pressure in the wrong place.

 

[triggrhappy94]

I once got shot, at point-blank range, in the balls by a very strong airsoft gun--I wasn't even playing either, one of my friend's brother's friend decided to chase us around the house with airsoft guns.
I ended up with a bruise the size and shape of an airsoft be-be.
It hurt so bad I felt like it couldn't hurt any worse. It was a pain singularity, a Zen state of pain