Poll: Which hurts more?

[trophykiller]

blunt force cuts, when you get hit so hard with a fist or other blunt item and it cuts your skin, its the worst pain ever.

Agreed. Second place goes to a serated cut, such as a saw. Ouch.

P.S. your avatar is awesome beyond words.

 

[iBananaCrazy]

Blunt force bone trauma for sure. Burns hurt, but you get over them quickly.

 

[spartandude]

paper cuts

 

[BlueGlowstick]

Spoiler

Well, out of that list I have experienced... all of them. Including one you did not list, spice overload.
The most painful on my list is eating 1 000 000 scoville unit hot sauce without much previous tolerance. followed by breaking my ankle (post camping way up north, no pain meds in the first aid kit, had to 'hike' then canoe out), nitric acid burns (left hand, someone did not remove their glove opening a door), getting a filling drilled without freezing (it costs $80), and a burn of my hand from my high-temp glove failing.

Thing that do not hurt anymore (thanks to these experiences) : Cuts, even with stitches they are not painful, minor burns, the many number of times I have been "Crushed" in football (mostly fingers), and scrapes.

Just a note, my left hand has been burned by acid, heat, heat again, had a nail through it, been crushed in football, been scraped to hell (I always wear gloves riding now), been cut to the bone (3 stitches, cut pain nerve, but is healing) and has been blunt forced more times than I can remember (football again). I am also left handed.

do what I'm doing- learn how to write with your right hand. (I'm a righty, so I'm learning how to write with the left hand.)

Burning has to be the most painful. I've experienced Freezer burn via Liquid Nitrogen treatments for my hands when i was only 7-9. Twice a week for 2 years, i had 24 warts on my hands systematically frozen off with LN. The pain is something similar to sticking a cigar there and smashing the wound with a hammer. All the fingernails on both hands fell off and my right hand was rendered useless for a year because of this stuff. Burning is the worst thing in the world, something I wish on nobody.

How did you manage that? Liquid N2 is harmless unless you dunk your hand inside the dewar flask. Brief contact, such as wart treatment, should have been completely painless.
While we're on topic, acid burns are no fun either. I've got a nice scar on my left arm from boiling concentrated nitric acid, fresh out of the microwave...

Anyway, my broken ankle hurt like a *****. Imagine (if you are a guy) being kicked in the balls, except you experience that pain all over your foot. It also happens spontaneously, even if you haven't done anything.

Nitric burns are not fun. How long were you a simpson for?

Is that a colloquial term for the yellow skin that follows the blisters? Sorry, I've never heard of it before.
Anyway, I had a blister for a few days, which was followed by a patch of brown skin that never really healed. I guess hot (it was boiling) nitric acid leaves deeper injuries. On the plus side, it wasn't really a painful experience, kinda like a bee sting.

Yes it is. Damn though, more minor burns just make you yellow for a bit. Unlike sulphuric which just rips you apart. My father was running a bench autoclave at 255C when the pressure relief blew, it ate through his labcoat giving him a nice burn. Fortunately the coat took the majority of the damage.

firework burns hurt the most. I burnt my thumb last 4th of July.

I am a left hand dominant ambidextrous, that is I prefer writing left-handed, but can write righty if I feel like it, or get stuck in a right-handed lecture seat. My writing is the same on both hands, except if I switch it takes me a few minutes to flip the words around.

I am a right hand dominant ambidextrous; both of my parents were left-handed & so my sister & I can do something with our left hands: I can write, she was able to bat left-handed in softball. I can't write all that well but...

 

[thethingthatlurks]

He didn't even tell his boss. Just a small patch on his chest was burned, it was a 2L titanium autoclave that fortunately was not at extreme pressure.
I should also note I am a chemistry student, well nanotechnology to be more specific. I am still considered a chem eng. right now though.

Ha! Not everything that goes on in the lab needs to be of the boss's business. Like dumping out about a liter of liquid nitrogen on the floor and having the soles of your shoes freeze...
Cool! I'm a chemistry/math double major. I've essentially finished everything except for the second semester of pchem lab. What do you plan on doing with your degree?

 

[Ghengis John]

What would you classify aches as, such as toothache or the gut-ache you feel as a result of hitting your balls?

Those internal pains with no direct external stimulation are pretty bad... perhaps you should have a new catch-all category for internal/organ aches and pains.

A splitting headache, stabbing toothache or stabbing gut pains are very painful, but they can't really be classified as puncture wounds, similarly the real pain of being kicked in the balls isn't really the blunt force trauma (in the soft tissue of your balls) that causes it, but a sharp, stabbing pain in your gut (which isn't a puncture wound).

I wanted two more categories, but exhausted all the options you can tack on in a poll. I figured a hit in the boys could count as soft tissue, but to my regret I couldn't add Tearing. (Muscle injuries, blunt force cuts).

 

[ApeShapeDeity]

I'm a boilermaker, so get bruned all the time. I barely notice. Same with cuts and bruises.

The most painful thing for me was getting rear-ended by a semi at speed. Ouch.

 

[The Shade]

Y'ever broken a rib?

'nuff said.

 

[Railgun88]

Anyone who doesnt pick blunt force trauma has probably never had a shattered limb

Ever had a shattered sternum. Yah, fucking sucks dude. I had to keep my back perfectly straight for it to heal and to avoid pain. I had to do that for 8 months till it healed. Needless to say my back hurt intensely every day. Also any muscle twitch in the torso, and from the fact I had to keep my back perfectly straight didn't help, it would send shockwaves of pain through my chest.

 

[Zantos]

Anything a physics lab can do is an absolute twat. I eventually had to make the choice to never ever enter one again.

 

[Super Six One]

Electrical burns are nasty to look at but not the worse i'd say. (i have had one, it was small on my hand, barley felt anything)

 

[Hashime]

He didn't even tell his boss. Just a small patch on his chest was burned, it was a 2L titanium autoclave that fortunately was not at extreme pressure.
I should also note I am a chemistry student, well nanotechnology to be more specific. I am still considered a chem eng. right now though.

Ha! Not everything that goes on in the lab needs to be of the boss's business. Like dumping out about a liter of liquid nitrogen on the floor and having the soles of your shoes freeze...
Cool! I'm a chemistry/math double major. I've essentially finished everything except for the second semester of pchem lab. What do you plan on doing with your degree?

Either bio-med or materials. I would not mind doing nano-circuits though.

 

[demoman_chaos]

The worst type of wound is a tearing wound (at least it will bleed the most and take longest to heal). Something like having a rough grit metal file dragged across your arm.

 

[notsosavagemessiah]

i'd say the puncture wounds. I've had mutltiple punctures to the bone, and nothing i've experienced has matched that pain.

 

[templargunman]

Why are people picking scrapes? Oh yeah, we're on a gaming forum, so occasionally you run across someone who's never done anything besides walk from the house to the school bus. I picked chemical burns, mostly because i feel like with blunt force trauma you'd go into shock at some point.

 

[Biosophilogical]

I have absolutely no idea, but my money is on either burns or crushing.
Depends on if you die directly after the crush in question?

Holy crap it's TheNamlessGuy (you have no idea how pathetically long that took to type, I kept trying to put spaces between each bit). I haven't seen you around in ages!

OT: The worst kind of pain, in my limited experience, are decay pains (tooth-aches, burns, appendicitus, etc (I have no idea how to spell it, stop judging my not-perfect spelling ability you horrible, wonderful people who are completely able to hear (see?) sarcasm through text)). They aren't like a cut or something that gets ignored or fades off, they either get progressively worse, or have the unfortunate property of being a pulsating, sharp ache (you know the type, where it is an ache but whenever you get close to blocking it out it's like it decided to get itself stabbed, jsut for shiggles) or both.

 

[Ghengis John]

Why are people picking scrapes? Oh yeah, we're on a gaming forum, so occasionally you run across someone who's never done anything besides walk from the house to the school bus. I picked chemical burns, mostly because i feel like with blunt force trauma you'd go into shock at some point.

Well, scrapes can be anything from a skinned knee to road rash. I wanted to leave the categories a little open for interpretation. (You can kill a man through scrapes, terrible way to go, drag a man by a horse for instance)I fell out of a pick-up truck once when I was a kid that was moving along the road at 20-25 miles an hour. I was leaning against the door, seat belt on then *pop* I fell clear out. In such a manner that my arms went first onto asphalt. I guess the seat belt slid open because the brakes weren't depressed at the time. Anyhow even at that relatively low speed that smarted a bit. Luckily in those days that part of town wasn't developed. Now a days I'd have met with sidewalk or traffic the way I rolled out. Back then I met with dirt, sage brush and olive trees.

Burns definitely, things such as breaking a bone or having a bruise dont mainly even hurt while healing, only when you move the bodypart.

Also, title is a bit misleading, should be 'Which hurts more during the healing process'

I contemplated it then figured a little ambiguity would entice people to poke their noses around in here. There's a full explanation above the options which I hoped would suffice. Frankly I'm just happy so many people voted in the poll and commented. I thought nobody would so I'm happy to see three pages. I think the numbers are interesting to look at. Wish again though I'd had space for Tearing. Tore a ligament in my hand once in a fight, punched a leg that was kicking at me. Didn't go well for my hand. Hurt for a long time. Happened earlier this year, still hurts sometimes. I couldn't make a fist for months.

 

[klakkat]

Of those, burns, but only fairly bad heat burns. Chemical burns are hit-or-miss; some hurt, some don't (for a long time, I mean). Electrical burns don't hurt much at all (personal experience...) unless they get very extreme.

The most pain I've ever experienced was actually due to disease. Specifically, appendicitis. The runner up was my wisdom teeth, though not during the healing process; they caused a sharp bone pressure before removal that nearly drove me insane (seriously, I was frantically pacing the apartment the night before I got them removed, ceaselessly pacing for no reason, just because I wanted to run from something but had nothing to run from). After removing the teeth I was fine though; it hurt a little but I didn't even bother to fill the prescription for the pain killers the doctor gave me.