The Most Horrific Pain of Your Life

[ScRaT_the_destroyer]

compound fracture of my left arm age 7 (DEAR GOD BONE IS REALLY WHITE), skidding down road on my face age 7 after falling spectacularly from my bicycle (antibiotic cream applied to the face for 2 months to help heal the scab tissue HURT SOMETHING SHOCKING), 6 paving stones falling on my leg pinning me age 6. it seemed not a week would go by at that age without me getting some sort of horrible injury

 

[Xanian]

Slipped disk, base of my spine. Even taking a single step forward was like being electrocuted right up my back.

Just about the worst pain in my life too. I had my discs herniated in a car accident when I was 14, and they slip out now and again. The doctors say I'll need back surgery when I'm 40 because my discs have been ground down so far! ;D

Also, double kidney infection. I work in Korea right now where it's kind of unheard of to call off of work. I complained to a doctor during one of my lunch hours earlier in the week...but...well...I don't speak Korean and he just gave me cold medicine (?). By the end of the week I was pissing straight blood and tissue every five minutes and could barely walk AND I WAS STILL WORKING! Finally my supervisor took me down to the hospital and made my boss cover my class. I gave them a urine sample and the lady at the desk asked me to do it again because they hadn't asked for a blood sample. My supervisor informed them that WAS my urine sample.

I still had to show up for my next class after I got some pain medication down. I worked through my whole infection. I ended up having my Mom send some additional antibiotics from the states to knock the rest of it out.

My Mom has had the same thing, and according to her it was more painful than natural birth.

 

[kwagamon]

I tore my cornea in my right eye, and am still not sure how it happened. (No joke, the doctor thought I had syphilis in my eye which is extra funny because I'm a virgin so I don't exactly go burying my face in syphilis-ridden-people's body parts.) Even though it was only one eye, the pain was so intense I couldn't open my other eye because I had to squint. Because I couldn't open either eye, all I could do all damn day was lie down in pain and try to sleep. The only thing that helped was some eye drops the eye doctor prescribed.

 

[Ldude893]

It's a tie between a stomach ache and "football in the groin."

 

[Quiet Stranger]

Not that it hurts now but it might in the future. When I move my right shoulder up something inside it makes a cracking sound (I can do it any time) I don't know what it is but I'm sure it will hurt like a mother fucker in the future.

 

[DelphiSantano]

Physically, when I snapped my femur.
Mentally, currently since my fiance ended it last week.

 

[Vrach]

Lymph node drainage and biopsy on my thigh, somewhat close to my pubic area (too close for comfort), some 6 years ago or so (would make me 17 or so at the time).

Was done with a ridiculously mild dermatological(?) anesthetic, the kind that's rubbed on your skin rather than anything injected or such. Now I ain't a doctor, but seeing as the lymph node was somewhat painful on it's own to a point and that I could still feel that same pain-on-touch after the anesthetic was administered (and after it had time to kick in), I can only draw a logical conclusion and determine it's strength to have been somewhere between the realms of "nonexistent" and "fuck all".

The experience could be summed up by a lot of teeth grinding, clenching my fingers and pressing my legs firmly onto/against the gurney and holding myself down (with several nurses/staff ready to do the job standing over me if I go for the needle to stab the fuck in the eye and run away to a real hospital), some tears and a few screams of pain.

Call me a pussy but it's some 5-15 straight minutes (not sure on the time here cause I imagine it felt a lot longer to me than it really was) of a hack (I refuse to call that moron a doctor/surgeon/toilet cleaner or whatever the fuck he was supposed to be after he quick-lunchtime-diagnosed my, by then, third enlarged lymph node as possible hernia cause he cba taking the time and answering a question for more than 5 seconds) stabbing you with a biopsy needle, getting what he needs (which is actually a lot slower process than you'd like), then cutting and draining you, all done on an extremely sensitive area with what's at best a very, very mild anesthetic (I still maintain it was completely ineffective).

I've had a wisdom tooth removed recently, it was out to a point, so was done in the classic way rather than by a surgeon. So while I was dosed up a little with the classic local dental anesthetic (slightly larger amount than for usual drilling), the worst pain of it (yanking the tooth out moment) was literally a fucking breeze in comparison. The above experience included stronger pain and instead of it being divided into chunks/moments, was basically one continued torturous experience for a relatively extended period of time (with extra painful chunks/moments that brought the above mentioned tears/screams).

 

[Super Toast]

...spinal tap when I was fifteen. Worse than being shot (and that's from experience).

...Holy crap.

I... just... wow.

 

[Udyrfrykte]

Just a quick, intense pain moment:

Being a kid and sticking a screwdriver in my ear.

I remember the pain was so intense I froze up for a good few seconds like "o_o" before I cried like a mad man.

 

[ConnorB96]

A really bad ear infection. When I was about 9 years old, I got an ear ache in the middle of the night. It was so bad that I couldn't sleep, and I thought that it would be a good idea to pour a water bottle into my ear. After I did this, I went deaf in my left ear. I went to the doctor, and it turned out that the fluid buildup in my ear had actually drilled a hole straight into my ear drum. It eventually healed and my hearing returned to normal, but I'll never forget that pain. It felt like having a lollipop jammed into your ear and being pulled back and forth, and as a young kid, pouring cold water into my ear seemed like the only way to stop it. It didn't work.

 

[Koroviev]

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

Was the headache by chance a cluster headache AKA suicide headache?

 

[blankedboy]

I hate reading this thread.
I haven't experienced any intense pain, but I wouldn't be surprised if I did sometime.
I'll leave now, I need to get fit :|

 

[Vrach]

...spinal tap when I was fifteen. Worse than being shot (and that's from experience).

Might be wrong by this, but gunshot wounds shouldn't be too painful (depends on the area ofc), not as much as you'd imagine anyway considering we see guns as the ultimate death (and therefore pain) bringers.

That said, a spinal tap is just about the worst thing you can experience I imagine. My sympathies for having to go through that mate, I hope the results weren't anything serious or at least nothing chronic.

 

[Stevanchez]

Root abscess, easy. It was behind my top lateral incisor and the top of my mouth swelled to the size of a large gum ball. Do to the pain, I couldn't eat solid food or sleep for 2 weeks and I received Vicoprofen after week one and it still didn't help very much with the pain, mostly it just reduced the swelling slightly.

 

[loc978]

...spinal tap when I was fifteen. Worse than being shot (and that's from experience).

Might be wrong by this, but gunshot wounds shouldn't be too painful (depends on the area ofc), not as much as you'd imagine anyway considering we see guns as the ultimate death (and therefore pain) bringers.

That said, a spinal tap is just about the worst thing you can experience I imagine. My sympathies for having to go through that mate, I hope the results weren't anything serious or at least nothing chronic.

Thank you for the sentiment, and you're right, being shot is less painful than most people imagine. Still sucks worse than a minor broken bone, though.
And yeah, the spinal tap turned out negative. No meningitis, just pneumonia.

 

[Arduras]

Tearing a tendon in my leg (I know, sounds meh, I've had worse, but its what I pushed through with it).

Happened during my Division's Unit Readiness Evaluation: basically 36 hours of running, shooting, sleep deprivation and drills.

was on my 8th hour when I slipped during a run-swim-run, which hurt but I was waaay to stubborn to stop.

By the 34th hour I was very close to crying during our Parade Drill when my Petty Officer noticed me slopping on a right incline and twenty minutes later the base ambo rocked up, dragged me to the Medical centre and 2 weeks later I was put on 12 month injury leave.

Fucking sucked it did!

 

[I Max95]

id imagine it was when i was a small child and i was kicked in the face (accidentily, and not exactly a kick) hard enough to somehow cut my face open and scar it, but i dont remember much of that

so im goign to say it was when i sprianed my ankle a few years back
i hobbled on a cane that whole month whenever i tried walking on it it just hurt like hell

i lead a sheltered life, never went to the hospital for anything

 

[Whitenail]

The worst pain I've experienced in recent memory would have to be having my big toe operated on, wherein the operation consisted of a bed (or bench, those doctor's room set-ups are hard to classify) gripping, teeth-gritting twenty minutes or so of having the Doc jamming around the side of my toe (between the nail and the flesh) with small scissors, a scalpel, tweezers and any small metal instrument that would do the job in order to dig out a few segments of nail that'd been stuck in that space and were causing me grief. Thankfully he'd stop and go for a different angle whenever the searing through the my teeth got too much.

Aside from that a kid once skated over my hand at an ice-rink many years ago, and any horrible headaches, cramps etc that have come naturally have been pretty bad. Oh yeah, and once (for some utterly idiotic pursuit of curiosity) I stuck two dog toys up to my ear (squeaker side) and squeezed, not only was the noise piercing but it was so intense I was practically deaf for the next ten minutes and I felt like I was going to throw up. Oh yeah, and on year 9 camp last year I didn't have time to get the sun-screen out of my ruck-sack due to having placed said ruck-sack on an ant hill (some kind of stinging, biting ant) so I spent virtually the entire day completely exposed to the hot, sweltering Aussie summer sun deep in bushland with almost half the day spent canoeing to where we made camp (i.e completely exposed to both the sun beating down and it's glare off the water), not to mention this was sun-burn combined with so many ant-bites I lost count. It was so bad by nightfall that our supervising teacher had to use the emergency burn gel just to stop the stinging that stayed with me for the camp and beyond despite the many cold-showers and tubes of sun-screen I used to calm it down...for ages afterwards I used to freak out wondering why we never see any of the full-clothed, desert-based mercenaries of TF2 put on sunscreen even for the brief exposure of a match. I've never once broken a bone or been to the hospital though, so there's something to smile about.

 

[Koroviev]

I have nothing to contribute. Any attempt to do so would make me look extremely petty. I don't know how more than half of you are even still here. Christ, I've been fortunate.

 

[KingTwelveSixteen]

I slept with my head in the wrong position one night, and when I woke up I literally could not move my neck from the horrible angle all the way to the left without the hideous pain getting even worse.

And then my neck started to ache from holding my head like that constantly. Luckily it went away on its own in like an hour.