The Most Horrific Pain of Your Life

[Singularly Datarific]

I ate a bag of Sour Skittles once. Apparently my teeth are not that resistant to acid, and I lost a layer of enamel, exposing loads of nerves.
I could not eat until I got a load of anesthetics.

 

[AngelOfBlueRoses]

Giving birth.


I win.
/thread

My mother-in-law gave natural birth all but two times, and she's given birth quite a bit (I have a lot of brother and sister-in-laws). She says the pain of natural birth is pretty horrible, buuuuuuuuuuut according to her nothing beats the pain of passing a kidney stone.

OT: This could be one of two things. I once got my foot ran over by a forklift. Yeah, I hobbled for a week before I could put any amount of pressure on it. Oooooor last year when I got a MRSA infection. We didn't know it was MRSA until it was already pretty developed into an abscess. ...yeah, I'm going to go with the later. That was constant pain for about three days straight.

 

[-Ulven-]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qenzQaXM6Pw

I stepped on a stonefish once...

I think you won... a pain that is so sincere tha tsome poeple actually goes to the lenghts of cutting off the infected area (I mean Saw style) just to relief the pain. Ouch...

I've had a tooth pulled out with wrong anasthetics... and I've cut my finger countles times.

 

[Quesa]

I'd have to say, it would probably be dealing with all the repeat threads.
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.117662-This-is-the-worst-pain-ever#2231763

Seriously, you're flaming the guy for not bumping a 19 month old thread?

OT: Gout. Not world ending, but it's rather painful.

 

[ryanxm]

after surgery (for my acid reflex) they had appearently pumped me up with air to help with the surgery and for the past 2 weeks i could not move eat or drink because of the horrible pain and any time that the morphine wore off i experience what a mild heart attack felt like.

mind im only 13 but i hope to god (if he exists im agnostic you see!)that i never feel anything nearly as bad let alone worse

 

[Quextamon]

Migraines. I had Meningitis, so I got them really bad. I still have a mild constant pain in my forehead.

 

[galatt]

Sounds like a dental abscess, it's one of the most painful afflictions of the mouth there is (second to dry socket). Even if not, any jaw pain and your first stop should be a dentist - whether tooth related or not, dentists know the mouth/jaw better than doctors and even if the pain was something like TMJ or trigeminal neuralgia, they can help.

I have trigeminal neuralgia. Imagine all the pain receptors in your face turning on and staying on. Fortunately they have medicine that helps.

 

[Jaranja]

First time i had sex with a black man. Sober.

... Right...

Anyway, I'd say snapping my toe in half for the worst instant pain.

I'd say the time I had AWFUL pharyngitis was the worst pain over a long time, as it was constant for 10 days. It felt like I was swallowing shards of glass. Not even exaggerating >.>

For emotional, seeing my dear old Dad lying dead in a hospital bed tops the list.

 

[Rewdalf]

Kidney stone.
It's horrendous...
There's no position you can lay in, no way you can clench or push, that soothes the pain.
It took some heavy-duty painkillers to keep me from yelling out, and even then I felt a numb pain for a full two months...

 

[DuctTapeJedi]

I'm going to have to say emotional pain from my childhood.

 

[northeast rower]

There are a few. Number one is going off of a bike and faceplanting on a gravel driveway after a ten foot fall, sliding about 5 feet. Of course, as I turned up to get air, the bike landed on my face, chains-first. I looked like Freddy Kruger for about six months.

Number two? Generator ignites while I was working on junking a car. The blast threw me through a corrugated tin wall (flimsily held up, but still one hell of a blast) across a lot and into another car. Luckily, that second impact somehow re-started my blood flow.

 

[woots7]

When i broke three fingers on my right hand, that wasn't the bad part the bad part was that my index finger was twisted round 90 degrees to the left and it was broken in 3 places.

 

[DevilWolf47]

Hm... if i had to choose...

Sometime in the 90s i heard a car crash, was running to check on the driver who was calling for help when i tripped and cut my face up badly on the broken glass. Fortunately my instinct was to actually keep quiet and punch the ground to relay that i was in severe pain, because if i shouted i probably would have spit my cheek completely open. I came out of that one with a scar i still have to this day, and i broke two of my knuckles.
...i've also heard Justin Bieber music, that was quite agonizing.

 

[bushwhacker2k]

When I was having swimming ear plugs made for me, they stuck fuzz in my ears to prevent the mold(used to make the shape of swimming ear plugs) from going too far into my ear. So it molded into shape and he removed one side and then tried to take out the other one, I stopped him immediately after he had started, because the pain was intense.

We eventually ended up at the hospital, where a doctor kindly yanked out the mold and the tube in my ear with it, I nearly passed out. No pain has really compared, even the time when my knee-cap slid out of place. Goood times.

 

[exarkunsith]

flash burnt my eyes, sot of thing you get from welding without eye protection.
Hurt whn eyes open, closed and if they exist.

 

[Tolly]

Worst short-term pain: Falling off my bed (LONG story but let's just say I blame the cat and be done with it) and landing on the metal fan. I cracked two ribs and bruised three more and sprained one foot so bad I was on crutches for a month, but the medication did rather make it all better.

Worst long-term pain: I am still suffering this, which isn't helping... Fluid buildup in my ear. It's like being repeatedly stabbed in the ear with a skewer coated in lemon juice and salt. This has been going on for six damn months, my doctors won't prescribe me anything more powerful than codiene (which used to be over the counter, thankyouverymuch tasmanian government and fuck you too!) which only takes the edge off, it's another two weeks before I can see a specialist and it's likely I'm going to have to have minor surgery to fix it. In the middle of semester. Something tells me passing my certificate is going to be kinda hard this year.

 

[BNguyen]

I had my collar bone broke when I was five.
I went stiff as a board all the way to the hospital and when I got there, I had to walk from the farthest parking space up to the front and then to add salt to the wound, the doctors had me undergo physical tests - like a weight test and a walking test before they did anything.
All they did was put me in a tight vest device for about three weeks and during that whole time I couldn't lift let alone touch anything that weighed more than a quarter.

 

[technoted]

Getting my septum pierced, sticking metal through a tonne of nerves stings a lot.

 

[Xanian]

I was just diagnosed with stage 4 non-hodgekins lymphoma cancer with a tumor sitting on top of my heart, but days after my initial hospital visit, a tumor no one knew about on and in my intestine ruptured and spent 4 hours with the equivalent pain of a gunshot wound to the belly from what the nurses told me. I was breaking out in a cold sweat from forcing myself to stay awake since I was convinced I would die if I let myself pass out.

Had emergency surgery and a two week recovery where I was kept from eating for one of those weeks. By the end I was so hungry, that while I was watching No Reservations on TV where they were using brain in a sauce with stir fry somewhere, I thought it looked like the most awesome thing in the world and HAD to have it.

Try not to die.

 

[starkiller212]

Sorry about the long post, I have quite a few experiences I'm eager to share lol.

Here's my top 4, based on how much the instantaneous pain hurt:

#4: Meningitis with a white blood cell count of over 12,400. IIRC, 1-2 is considered normal, 5 means you're sick, and anything over 20 can be very dangerous. Many people with a count in the thousands die within hours, but I was very lucky to be treated in time. Over the course of my 10 day stay in the hospital, I: lost consciousness for 18 hours while I was "combative"; had 2 spinal taps; had 2 catheters put in me (the first attempt wasn't pretty); had about 15 IV's put in my arms because they kept falling out or filling with blood (and I have a phobia of blood and needles, lol); and had my first herpes breakout while immunocompromised, which nearly caused fatal encephalitis. It was definitely the #1 worst time of my life, at least.

#3: Ear infection I had for a week while my family was camping. The only medication I had were some ear drops that my doctor later told me had probably only made the pain worse. It was severe enough that I couldn't sleep for 3 days, and I broke down crying and flew into rages several times before we got to a doctor who could help me. It went away quickly after he administered some medicine via a "wick" he stuck into my ear.

#2: Accidental dural tear during a routine epidural steroid injection (to manage my chronic back pain). Not only was it roughly the equivalent of a surprise spinal tap, but the needle hit a nerve too, so I had to fight to keep my legs from spasming up to my chest and causing further problems with the procedure. The doctor quickly administered more painkillers to relieve it, but the minute of nerve pain down my legs and pressure in my back were the worst pain I had been in at the time...

#1: ...until I got the "thunderclap headache" 15 minutes later. While my dad drove me home, I suddenly felt an unfathomably bad pain in my head (like even I literally cannot imagine how severe it was anymore) and could not stop screaming for 3 minutes. Apparently I said "my head is exploding!", and among other things that makes my doctors and I think that the injected dye and/or the CSF leak that followed caused a big pressure fluctuation around my brain, almost as severe as a brain hemorrhage. I seriously rank that pain as a 12 or 13 on a "pain scale from 1 to 10" so I don't have to underrate everything else. The worst part? I got the meningitis 3 days later, from either a bacterial infection or an allergic reaction to the injection. And I had a chronic CSF leak and then hypersensitivity to pressure fluctuations for 2 years, because of the unhealed tear in my dura.

In my experience, pain never becomes any easier to endure. Fortunately for me, I've been relatively healthy for the last year or so. I hope everyone else here can avoid pain as much as possible in the future