Poll: Which hurts more?
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During the healing process? Absolutely burns, no question. All those things suck while they're happening and in the immediate aftermath, but for sheer horrible miserableness that just never seems to end, or even get any easier to deal with, severe burns just can't be beat.
I'm not sure why burns are broken down into two categories. The immediate consequences are different, but the healing process is the same for them all. And even if you do want to break them down, why heat and radiation in one category and electrical and chemical in the other? Heat and electrical seem to have more in common with each other, as do radiation and chemical. The only thing I can think of in common for heat and radiation is that they're the two most common kinds of burns, and there's no quality that electrical and chemical burns share that isn't common to all burns to the best of my knowledge.
I'm not sure why burns are broken down into two categories. The immediate consequences are different, but the healing process is the same for them all. And even if you do want to break them down, why heat and radiation in one category and electrical and chemical in the other? Heat and electrical seem to have more in common with each other, as do radiation and chemical. The only thing I can think of in common for heat and radiation is that they're the two most common kinds of burns, and there's no quality that electrical and chemical burns share that isn't common to all burns to the best of my knowledge.
Burns in my experience. It's excruciating and I've never really had a serious burn.
That and stubbing your toe is unnecessarily painful.
That and stubbing your toe is unnecessarily painful.
I guess the question is misleading. Initial pain versus long term pain are two very different categories and the level of injury makes a big difference to the length of the healing process as well as the pain involved. Blunt force, bone is pretty horrific as it takes months to heal properly with regular pain being felt throughout the process. Burns tend to deaden the nerves after the initial damage but the healing process of growing new nerves can result in major discomfort. Alternatively severe burns can result in permanent nerve damage resulting in life long pain.
Given your comment on paper cuts, I suspect you're not talking about any real damage but just the irritating bumps and bruises you get throughout your life.
Given your comment on paper cuts, I suspect you're not talking about any real damage but just the irritating bumps and bruises you get throughout your life.
Getting hit with blunt objects is pretty damn painful, and the pain becomes worse if something gets damaged. Cuts from some kind of bladed object can really hurt depending on how they are done. Burns can do some serious critical damage if they are even somewhat serious. Which is the worst? Not sure but out of all of them, blunt force is a pain i've experienced more so my vote goes to blunt force.
I'm a Physical Therapy student right now, and I can say that a 3rd degree burn(no matter what caused it) on a large area of the body(say 70% of the total body surface area) will torture the patient during the time they are healing(if ever they survive it).
Of the common injuries, I'd say blunt trauma. Scrapes and cuts, even when relatively deep, are relatively painless when acquired and often heal quickly. Puncture wounds and deep blunt trauma on the other hand is enormously painful to sustain and is more painful to recover from.
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.SirNerd said:
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.
I'm going to go with burns of any type. Mostly because they take a long time to heal and get infected easily, aren't really all tha easy to treat if they're severe enough, and are just all around nasty. I've been burned several times in the kitchen, and once in a lab, and it's not fun at all. I've also been stabbed, and received blunt force trauma. Knives and bats don't hurt as much as people would have you believe.
...Not that I would recommend trying. XD
...Not that I would recommend trying. XD
Either burns or bone damage. I still remember being sunburned so badly on the back, all I could do was lay on the couch and get aloe applied to me. The bone damage was fracturing both my arms at the same time. I felt like I was going to puke, I admit to screaming when it happened.
