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

[farscythe]

migraines and having my wisdom teeth pulled tie up for me.(had my wisdom teeth pulled coz the doc said they might be causing the migraines... they werent...have a new doc now)

but yea worst pain ever would have to be breaking all the bones in both my hands(not fingers and thumbs just all the ones in the big handy part of my hand)crashed my bike and went over the handlebars but managed to get my hands stuck between the handlebars and the brake levers.
(on a side note... im not sure if it was the pain that hurt..or the sight of my hands)

never quite healed properly either still cant move some of my fingers without moving others and just making a fist makes enough noise to make people think im trying to show of some times. meh

 

[Johnny Impact]

I was once so feverish I felt cold despite wearing thermals, lying inside two blankets, inside a heavy sleeping bag, under two heavy comforters. I mean the kind of cold where the shivers are more like spasms and your teeth chatter so hard you bite your tongue bloody. Hobbling thirty feet to my phone to call out of work was exhausting. I slept twenty hours out of 24 and spent the other four vomiting, wishing I was dead, and feeling as if I soon might be. I've wondered many times if I lost IQ points from brain overheat.

 

[Varrdy]

I suffered a sudden and total pneumothorax (collapse) of my left lung in 2005. It was so sudden and painful I thought I was having a heart attack!

 

[The Funslinger]

I'm gonna say being dead, granted I don't remember much what that feels like

That happened to me when I contracted some freaky illness in which my own antibodies turned on me and my organs went into shock.

How'd it happen to you?

 

[Something Amyss]

You might want to get an X-ray or an MRI to make sure. I say that because my dad also had kidney stones, but instead of passing them one at a time like I did he had to do a surgery because he had this cluster of 40 or so in both his gall bladder and kidneys.

I've had X-Ray, CT, MRI, and diagnostic ultrasound all in the general area for other reasons. Most of the reports commented on my kidneys, in part because there was an unexplained enlargement following the surgery I had to debride my burn. This is actually, evidently, not uncommon amongst people who have undergone surgery, but they were concerned anyway.

Anyway, long story short, I know the status of my kidneys pretty intimately and, for the time being will continue to.

 

[xmbts]

I'm gonna say being dead, granted I don't remember much what that feels like

That happened to me when I contracted some freaky illness in which my own antibodies turned on me and my organs went into shock.

How'd it happen to you?

Hit by a pickup truck, caved in the ribs fractured my skull, ruptured organs, and otherwise messed my day up.

 

[Zhadramekel]

The worst ones for me in recent memory were when I got some really bad aches in my whole body in late 2011. It started with a simple back ache and stayed that way until Friday when, in the afternoon, it escalated until I couldn't move. It was painful to sit down, stand up, kneel, take shoes off, everything. The worst part was when I then had to walk to the nearest NHS centre and around Morrison's before retiring to my bed for the night. The other time was when I broke my elbow last December, after slipping on the ice. Big surprise there. And I chose the wrong day to wear a fitted t-shirt so that night I had to spend about ten minutes finding the least, although still painful, way to get it off.

 

[FamoFunk]

Earaches. I used to really suffer with my ears, to the point of needing hospital treatment. It was horrific.

 

[Estranged180]

snippage

Holy Shit. You win... whatever award is appropriate. What do you do for a living!?

Actually, I'm currently redoing my house (painting, woodwork, etc) because it's a damned nightmare in here. As for a living, I'm woefully unemployable. That's because I won't take anyone's bullshit, and I'm quite quick to call them on it. Also, every place I've ever worked has closed and gone out of business... so yea, that's that.

 

[Johanthemonster666]

I have gone through most of my life not getting any serious illnesses or debilitating injuries.

My only serious hospital visit was due to an appendicitis (swollen appendix).It was horrible for the first 12 hours I dealt with it, so much so that that pain trumped my fear of doctors and needles. I was so happy to see that operating table, the morphine and finally the anesthesia. Even the post-op pain was nothing by comparison.

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

I have had many injuries and multiple surgeries. Top two most painful things I have ever endured:
1) The single worst pain was having a skewer impale my little toe up against the bone and come out the top. That wasn't the worst of it. It was when they tried to lay it flat without pain meds to x-ray after 2 1/2 hours of them refusing to take it out because they thought it was stuck in the bone. You have 6 inches of a skewer sticking out of the bottom of your foot, yet they are trying to lay this thing flat jerking the skewer up against the bone repeatedly. I do not swear, but that day, you could hear my cursing from all corners of the hospital. Then they ran a scrubber all the way through it, even after 17 shots in the foot I could still feel that, and it was the worst ever.

2) In gymnastics 2 weeks before state. I was coming off the uneven bars without a spotter and the mat wasn't aligned properly. Basically broke everything in my ankle and only had the skin holding it on. Had 7 surgeries and can walk again, but yea that one hurt like hell as well.

EDIT: Looks like I am going in for surgery #8 on the ankle next week. It tried to collapse again. I thought I had just twisted it and had been keeping off it for a couple of days, Had X-rays today and they have to work on it some more. UGH!

 

[Jamieson 90]

Chickenpox + complications as an adult and while it wasn't that painful I certainly felt like I was dying, which to be honest isn't that far off considering chicken pox can be fatal for adults.

 

[SsilverR]

Too many, when I was 9 a car practically took my leg off (it dangled and there was only the tiniest bit of skin keeping it attached) 13 I got rushed by 7 guys, hammered with the claw end for the better end of a minute, 15 bar fight in camden someone stabbed through my elbow with a trench knife (hit the bone) Bccma tournament 15, most epic knee clash in the first bloody round (me and my opponent just both fully stopped and crouched down in pain lol) 17, bruised kidneys and fractured ribs after getting hit by a car working as a bike messenger, 19 busted nose during sparring session (my fault, i attended boxing lesson hung over) 19 frozen glass shattered as i tried to open frozen over window ... bit of glass went right through my wrist and out the other side (slight nerve damage) 19, burning artery pain from suicide attempt.

all in all i have to say most of all that pales to a bad paper cut .... up until this day it baffles even me ... the first one was brutal though ... forever etched in memory.

And this is all the stuff i can actually remember (Stone sour: made of scars. was my song lol)

 

[Hawk of Battle]

Another appendicitus over here, only in my case it was a dull ache that lasted a week before it ruptured, which lead to me ending up doubling over on the bathroom floor for 30 minutes. Then I spent 24 hours in hospital being poisoned by my own useless organ whilst the doctors did fuck all. Then the week in recovery that followed lead to near starvation due to the inedible hospital food and sheer boredom that nearly made me lose my mind. Not shit, in the end I had to beg them to let me leave because I could feel my sanity slipping after being stuck in an empty room on my own for days on end. That was worse than the appendicitus.

... I'm not bitter at all.


But all of that was nothing, nothing to what I had a few years before; a slipped disk at the base of my spine, specifically my coxis. Allowed me to describe to you the agony of this; imagine being electricuted up your entire spine. Now imgine this will happen every time you sit down, or take a step, or move your hips in any way that is require to walk, or take a shit. Now also simoultaneously have the worse hay fever you've ever had and sneeze every few minutes. Continue for several days. Then you shall know pain unending the likes of which man was not made to suffer.

 

[wrightguy0]

i had whooping cough about a year ago and not only did i lose my voice, i was coughing so hard and so much that it induced vomiting. the worst part is i was alone for two weeks while my parents were in europe, my sister bitched me out about taking care of her cat, totally unaware that i was too sick to look after myself, so mentally and physically the worst i've ever been

 

[cerealnmuffin]

...bit personal to mention but here it goes...

Two Sundays ago, I was in the ER for gastrointestinal problems and was suffering such dehydration that I was going into convulsions. I am also only 104 pounds and I'm 5 foot 7 (dealing with about 15 years of a version of anorexia that has gone into a very serious state over past year or so) so I'm always in constant pain. You can see every bone in my back and lying down/sitting hurts... add in that the ER beds are like rock hard. Even morphine couldn't stop the constant pain in my whole body due to my bones pressing against the skin (I have bruises on my back from my bones pressing against). Right now, I'm still in pain pain and still losing weight as I'm struggling to eat=(... it has been years since I can remember not experiencing this much pain.

Last Christmas, I suffered two near fatal head injuries by falling backwards into the corner of a metal stove and it took over an hour to get to a small hospital and had 10 sutures put in for the 6 inch gash.... and that hurt far less than how I felt two Sundays ago and almost now. This was caused by fainting from being so underweight.

My picture is at 115 pounds, but at 104 now I look almost like a skeleton.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Ever have strep throat? It was NOT fun. I couldn't swallow, let alone gulp because of the pain...

 

[Screamarie]

Spoiler: A bit gross so you were warned.

One night I woke up in the middle of the night, say 3,4,5 a.m. and my back hurt. It was a noticeable ache but nothing too alarming. I figured I'd just slept badly and decided to go take a hot shower to help relax the muscles and get my mind off the pain by relaxation and distraction.

I went to the bathroom and started the shower and my back was starting to hurt more. Still, nothing terrible, but it was getting more uncomfortable. I laid out in the shower (it's a bath/shower combo) and the pain kept getting bigger and started spreading. My shoulders, my stomach, my chest, my breasts, pretty much my entire torso was in pain and it kept getting worse.

I ended up resting on my forelegs and my torso folded over my legs, racked with pain, moaning from it and crying. I couldn't move, I couldn't get my voice very loud, and so I was quietly moaning out "mom, mom" who was asleep in the next room but could never hear me because I obviously needed help.

About this time I started feeling sick to my stomach and I felt that I needed to vomit, but for a long while actually committing the act never came on. Finally I rushed to the toilet to vomit, mostly missing, and I started to feel a little better after that. I washed myself up after that, still aching, but slowly recovering and crawled out of the bath and then went back to bed.

I felt better as I fell asleep, spent the rest of the day in bed feeling weak, but fine. I have absolutely no idea what happened, the only explanation I have been able to come up with is the chocolate milk I made earlier in the night was bad, but I don't know for certain.

....And that's my story.

 

[Harlemura]

Had a case of my hereditary angioedema go berserk about a year ago.
I usually have it flair up once every couple of moths or so. Some deficiency in my blood results in some part of the body swelling up. I'm lucky I don't get it around my face because it can block your airways and suffocate you and stuff, but having your intestines swollen every couple of months isn't exactly pleasant. Usually just results in a night full of stomach cramps, persistent vomming and general pain, but knowing it only lasts a night gets you through.
Last year though, I was spewing in overdrive. It hurt way more than usual and I think I ran out of stuff to throw up because there was definitely blood coming out. I haven't had to go to the hospital for it before, and the fact the pain was so bad that I had to got me scared.
Anyway, night full of hospital painkillers and missing my Biology exam and I was all better. Got stuck with my predicted grade which is probably better that what I'd have got, so I guess it's all for the best. I like happy endings.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

For me, it was back in 2006 right after my high school graduation when I had a case of severe acute pancreatitis.

One night I started to feel this kinda dull throbbing abdominal pain on my left side. I figured it would just go away, and tried my best to ignore it. A few days pass, and the pain is still there, and getting increasingly worse. Whenever I tried to eat or drink anything, that dull throbbing pain would become an incredibly sharp throbbing pain. I would describe it as how I imagine getting repeatedly stabbed in the side with a red-hot shiv over, and over, and over again would feel.

I told my parents what was going on, and they took me to the nearest hospital to get looked at. The ER doctor completely dismissed my abdominal pains as gas (heh) and sent me home. That night was excruciating to the point where I couldn't drink, couldn't eat, and couldn't even sleep.

When I asked my parents the next day to take me back to the hospital, they knew something was very seriously wrong. I've always had an incredibly high tolerance for pain, and I've always hated hospitals, so this behavior was way out of character for me.

The first thing the new ER doctor wanted to do was take some sort of scan that involved drinking a ton of liquid that I guess lights up during that scan. I kept trying to explain to the doctor that I couldn't drink it because of the pain. I could barely drink a small dixie cup of water without immense pain, let alone a half-gallon of liquid that was supposed to taste like bananas (which I hate, even beyond the fact that the stuff somehow managed to be worse than banana flavoring). They kept forcing me to drink more and more of the shit, until I told them that I really just couldn't handle any more, and that pissed them off because I hadn't had enough of it for the scan - so they didn't do the scan, making all of that pain completely for nothing.

I ended up spending the next week and a half in the hospital hooked up to IVs and constantly telling various nurses and doctors that, no, I don't drink (since apparently the vast majority of people that get this condition are alcoholics). I never even got an answer as to why my pancreas decided to flip the fuck out, since I didn't meet any of the usual conditions.