The worst pain you've ever felt

[Jack Joe Tip Toe]

When I was 4 or 5 I was a very hyperactive kid. I would do anything that would amuse me. So I when I was watching a movie there was a part where everyone started dancing as a distraction. I decided to jump on top of my recliner and dance along too. When the dance was over I tried to jump off the recliner, but I forgot that the front was open. My arm got caught in the the front and the front closed itself back in with my arm in it. I've never cried so loud in my entire life. My dad heard my roars and let the front open again and pulled my arm out. I wasn't too hurt afterward. I had to wear a cast for a while, but everything healed up quickly.

So what is the worst pain you've felt?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I got hit in the face with a hockey stick once, I was about 10. I don't recall the pain but I remember seeing red/blue/green little dots - kind of like watching an old TV screen up close - and blacking out intermitently while I stumbled around. I wore an eye-patch for the rest of the year.

On a more recent note, I had a bad case of mononucleosis when I was 17 or so. Essentially your throat welds shut, making swallowing incredibly difficult and painful, so you cannot eat anything but soup and every gulp hurts a lot. I remember the pain more vividly on that one.

I've also been beaten up a few times but that never hurt so much for some reason. I think at some point in your adult-ish life, damage begins to be more shocking than painful.

 

[staika]

About two months ago I had Wisdom Teeth surgery but that wasn't too bad. The problem was that on my top left they didn't remove all of the bonechips so for about a month the rest of my mouth healed except for that. I went back to the surgeon and he took one look and told me I had a bonechip stuck in there. First thing that popped into my mind was "Oh shit, he's gonna have to pull that out." and that is what they had to do.

So first off he takes out these small little pliers and tries to get at it to no avail. That didn't hurt as much as I had expected so I thought it wouldn't hurt that much. Then he put the pliers he just used away and turned over to me with this pained look on his face. "So there's two things we can do. One is I can give you a shot of pain killers but I don't know if that'll hurt less than getting it pulled without the pain killer." so being the needle phobe that I am I decided to get it pulled without the pain killers. So he pulls out these large pliers that look sort of like this [http://site.ambercity.com/images/miltex/no-861-weingart-dental-pliers-74-82-miltex.jpg] and asks me if I am sure about this. At this point I am bursting with confidence and tell him to just get it over with. He then digs the pliers into my gums, twisting and just pushing them deeper into my gums until he suddenly pulls back with all of his strength. All I can say is that it hurt a lot, I was actually shaking for a good minute after as I tried to recover from that. Needless to say that I hope I never have to see that guy again =P

 

[krazykidd]

When i was 13 my left testicle randomly twisted . I had to go to the hospital , get x-rays and then get surery to have it removed ( there was no oxygen going to my left nut ). It was 3 days of intense pain and the recovery was no walk in the park either. I could barely walk around , and sitting hurt . . This happened after my birthday ( december 6) and before christmas ( december 25) . Worst month ever , however i did get a dreamcast for christmas lol.

That completly killed my self esteem , and i was afraid to approach/do naughty things with women . It wasn't until i was 17 that i got the courage to get my first girlfriend and have sex and stuff . Now ( i'm 24) i'm not self concious about it at all . Hell i think it makes my penis seem bigger than it really is .

 

[Zhukov]

- Momentary dislocation of my right kneecap.

During judo drills someone's heel came up and hit my kneecap from below. It was accidental, as in he was practicing a throw and it just happened, not because he was doing the special kneecap kick or anything. Doctor told me that what happened was my kneecap was dislodged, then the various muscles and tendons around it forced it straight back into place. All I know is that it hurt like all hell. I was writhing about on the ground for a bit, and it was sore for weeks. Still gives me a bit of a twinge if I put weight on it in the wrong way.

- Stab wound from a short blade to the side of the neck, just above where it meets the shoulder.

Strangely enough it didn't hurt for several minutes after it happened. I remember looking at the blood on my fingers thinking, "Shouldn't this be hurting, isn't that how it works?" Then it did start hurting and I wished it would go back to not. It didn't feel like I thought it would, more an deep, intense ache rather than a sharp pain. A couple of lovely, lovely painkiller injections and some stitches set me right.

- Stepping on a nail. Twice.

A room was being added onto our house. I walked into the construction sight at night in bare feet. Stepped on a nail. Thought, "Ouch, fuck, I've stepped on a nail". Raised my foot and set it down... on another nail. Started crying. I was only like nine years old at the time so it may have seemed worse than it was.

 

[PFCboom]

I had my wisdom teeth taken out when I was 13. There were some complications. First, the anesthesia from the surgery wore off before I could get my painkillers. Second, the painkillers were weak as hell. Third, either I was grinding my teeth and gums together too much, or whomever stitched up my mouth did a terribad job of it, because I had some pretty nasty mouth bleeding for the first couple days. I must've had an allergic reaction or something, because both my cheeks swelled up for a few days. I was on a liquid diet for a couple days, and I could barely make chewing motions anyway.

Yeah, that sucked. That was two straight weeks of owwwwwwww.

After that, there was the time when I had braces and stuff. So I had braces and retainer for a while, which I got used to. Then I got all that stuff out, which was great. Then they ground my teeth. The wisdom teeth shtick was worse overall because the pain lingered for so long, but the teeth grinding was the most painful afternoon of my life, especially since it was done without a drop of pain reliever. Also, my orthodontist had god-*&^%ing-awful breath. So flippin' nasty.

 

[Esotera]

Probably either stapling myself in the thumb or getting a deep laceration from scissors during a maths class. I'm sure it's nothing compared to breaking a leg or trapping a nerve.

 

[Stinovitch]

I once had a TV fallen on my hand and my left index finger split open. It hurted... a lot...

 

[Little Woodsman]

Well, I was once hit by an SUV, was knocked down & skidded 17 feet on my back...but I actually don't think that was the worst....
The worst was from a sub-dermal allergic reaction that was so intense anyone else who touched the areas where it was most intense pulled away as though they had been burned...took two weeks to really subside and I was unable to sleep for about 10 days....yeah, I think that was worse than being hit by the SUV.

 

[cerealnmuffin]

It is a toss between three things

I fainted and smacked the back of my head against a corner of a metal fireplace. Then I stood up and took two steps and fell backwards like a domino, smacking the same spot against the hard wood floor. Half of my head was covered in blood.

Then there was the time I went into convulsions from severe dehydration and I was at my lowest weight (rather bad anorexia bmi) and my back was in such pain lying on the hospital beds that IV administered pain killers didn't help.

I have frequent migraines that last 24+ hours where I can't even see correctly or walk in a straight line.

 

[MysticSlayer]

Had a 1.3cm kidney stone once. To make matters worse, it got lodged down towards my lower back, and I was in a moving vehicle at the time without knowing where the nearest hospital was. Thankfully, I wasn't driving.

 

[DefunctTheory]

I have some pretty nasty spinal problems that cause me horrible, excruciating pain if I'm not careful.

The worst, however, was when I had steroid shots in an attempt to fix my collapsed disk. Basically, they take a long ass needle (Big enough to qualify as some sort of stabbing weapon), jab it into your back (More like from the side. They start something like 6 inches to the side of your spine, so you can imagine just how big that needle has to be), and then insert it all the way into your spine.

And then the shot steroids into the spine. From both sides.

When they did it to me, the started on the side that hadn't collapsed. I didn';t really feel anything, and they let me look at the live xray as they did it, which was kind of cool, in a perverse way (Yes, live xray. I got to watch, from the inside, as they jammed an 8 inch needle into my spine and played fill the balloon).


Then they did the side that had collapsed.

I have never felt such pain in my life. It basically put a huge amount of pressure on a spinal nerve. My left leg felt like it had been torn off, and my back was set aflame with gasoline. The worst part was the disembodied pain - It felt like I had an entire extra body floating about 2 feet behind me, and that extra body was being torn apart by Satan himself. It was terrible.

On the xray, I could see what the problem was. Asshole doctor was literally trying to inflate my collapsed disc. You could see steroid literally exploding out of my spine (Which looked really cool, but it was something I was not prepared to appreciate at that particular moment).

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

One time I was running along a nature trail, one which I'm pretty familiar with and which I would run frequently, and at a spot where the trail wound around the side of a hill (with the hill making a wall on one side, and a large drop on the other side) there was a spot where there had been a small mud slide. Essentially some dirt from the hill had slide down onto the trail and covered the side of the trail that was near the wall of the hill. So in order to avoid that loose mound of dirt I tried to go around it along the lip of the trail, and not realizing that some of the dirt had eroded under it I stepped on a precarious spot, the dirt gave away under my feet, and I fell down a fairly steep incline, rolled about 40 or 50 feet, and only stopped when I hit a tree on the way down.

Well at this point I had sprained my ankle pretty badly, and my wrist, and skinned my arm and both my knees, and in this condition I had to climb back up to the trail, and then walk about 3 miles back to the entrance of the trail until I found some people who were kind enough to drive me to the hospital (which was thankfully only about 5 miles away), seeing as I couldn't drive my car with the sprained ankle and wrist.

The pain itself wasn't so bad, but the reason it was the worst pain of my life was because of how long I had to deal with it. Walking 3 miles on a sprained ankle, on uneven terrain, up and down hills, was absolutely terrible.

 

[Glongpre]

I was kickboxing without a jock. Nuff said.


Never broken a bone or anything so that is the best I've got.

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

About ten years ago I took a big fall that led to 4 broken ribs, a broken collar bone, a broken wrist and a compound fracture in my left leg, as well as a bunch of nasty cuts and bruises. They gave me something against the pain in the ambulance, but it barely did anything, so I pretty much stayed fully conscious for the entirety of the long and bumpy ride to the hospital.

 

[SwiftRyde]

When I was like 6 I was also hyperactive, so I was jumping in the bathroom and I fell into something (Don't remember what) and started crying because it was too painful. Seconds later I saw myself in the mirror....There was a hole on my head.

 

[ShiningAmber]

It was after my sexual assault. I really couldn't tell you which was worse, the emotional or the physical.

Physically, I felt like I had been ripped open and it hurt to move and take showers. I had some pretty big open scars on my hands and around my jaw line from where the guy tried to cut me and those hurt a lot. Moving my face caused them to stretch and sting. My hands and forearms weren't as bad in the pain department. It was showering that was the worst.

Emotionally, I felt pretty much dead. I was terrified, on edge, couldn't think. I was a mess. I couldn't stop shaking. Suicide was a constant thought. Not really a good time.

 

[Phasmal]

I'm fortunate enough to not have had anything extremely dire.
Shingles is pretty damn painful, and so is waking up after an operation to have a perforated eardrum fixed.
Also having to go to hospital with a skin infection.

I think the skin infection one was the worst pain, but I don't remember much really. They kept giving me medication and I think I went into shock because I wouldn't stop shaking and I actually don't remember much of that night other than by the time I got to see the doctor I was so off my face on medication I didn't even know where I was.

 

[carnex]

During wars in ex-Yugoslavia (I'm from Serbia) I developed huge fistula above my upper-right 2 and 3 tooth. I had to have it surgically removed. And I had no money for anesthetic.

All I will tell about the actual pain is that I literarily (as in original meaning of the word) managed to bend arm holder of the dentist chair. Operation took something like 30 minutes. I had whole new respect for survivors of operation before they invented total anesthetic.

What makes if funny from todays perspective is that I stayed wide awoke during the whole operation. And yet I almost passed out when dentist was drilling root canal of my lower-right 6 few weeks ago.