Worst Pain You've Ever Been In?

[ThePurpleStuff]

I've had my left ankle give out and bend at an angle, I can't walk on it for a whole day it hurts that bad.

But the absolute worst was where I had two back muscle spasms, in a row! I was in agony and bawling like a baby it hurt so bad. Nothing compares to it, not even both my ingrown toenails on my big toes. >_<

 

[Not-here-anymore]

I have Trigeminal Neuralgia so that. Not so much a memory though unfortunately.

That's the one where a selection of your nerve endings are basically in constant pain, right?

I've had some pretty bad migraines in the past, to the point where sitting in a room at dusk with the curtains closed and no lights on still caused such intense pain every time I opened my eyes that I wanted to vomit. And still, I'm pretty sure that was better than the depression. Just that didn't cause any physical pain.

Basically yeah, it's like having the nerves on all your teeth on one side of your face exposed and being poked (Essentially the nerve is misfiring with pain signals) You get places on your face that light touches trigger the attacks, and when I say light I'm talking a mild breeze can be agonising.

Also for me it is set off by loud/highpitch noises and temperature changes. Most medication does nothing at all for me now, and the frequency and intensity of the attacks gets worse as you get older.

Yeah, my Mum suffers from the same thing, and given her descriptions of it, I'm really hoping that it's in no way genetic...

Having said that, the whole migraine-y thing seems to be, since she has it, I have it, and my younger brother is developing it, so I'm a little worried for my pain-based future...

 

[Deleted]

Hopefully in before people talking about how their heart was broken...

My worst pain has to be when I broke my leg, I haven't been in much pain now that I think about it.

 

[xqxm]

Well, i've smashed my teeth out, broken a few bones, smashed an axe in my hand and lots of stuff, but i think the cake goes to the time a few years AFTER i smashed my teeth out, when the nerves in them were dying and rotting away. Pain went on for weeks and i didn't have and didn't get anything stronger than Tylenol to take it away. 7/10 for Pain, 10/10 for the frustration of not being able to do anything about pain that went on for bloody hours at a time.

 

[Tallim]

I have Trigeminal Neuralgia so that. Not so much a memory though unfortunately.

That's the one where a selection of your nerve endings are basically in constant pain, right?

I've had some pretty bad migraines in the past, to the point where sitting in a room at dusk with the curtains closed and no lights on still caused such intense pain every time I opened my eyes that I wanted to vomit. And still, I'm pretty sure that was better than the depression. Just that didn't cause any physical pain.

Basically yeah, it's like having the nerves on all your teeth on one side of your face exposed and being poked (Essentially the nerve is misfiring with pain signals) You get places on your face that light touches trigger the attacks, and when I say light I'm talking a mild breeze can be agonising.

Also for me it is set off by loud/highpitch noises and temperature changes. Most medication does nothing at all for me now, and the frequency and intensity of the attacks gets worse as you get older.

Yeah, my Mum suffers from the same thing, and given her descriptions of it, I'm really hoping that it's in no way genetic...

Having said that, the whole migraine-y thing seems to be, since she has it, I have it, and my younger brother is developing it, so I'm a little worried for my pain-based future...

The neuralgia isn't genetic as it stands I don't believe, no it may raise your susceptibility to it. It is also far more common in women age 50+, which is why I was annoyed as I am male and was diagnosed with it when I was 27.

Mine is essentially the aftermath of another condition which thankfully apart from the neuralgia, left me relatively unscathed. To put it very simply I had shingles in my ear. Stupid chicken pox virus *grumble*

 

[Diligent]

Pain from my Crohn's Disease before I knew that's what I had. All I could do was lie on the couch.

I feel ya. I was just diagnosed with Crohn's last year myself. With that, IBS, and lactose intolerance, about the only thing I can eat without being in the bathroom for hours on end is salad. On the good side, I've lost 50 lbs just in the past 6 months.
better.

Nothing to do with me, but I've seen through a former friend of mine who had it how badly that can mess you up. He ended up having surgery because of it, and immediately after getting out of the hospital he ended up at a corn roast, where the menu was corn and beer. I think you know how bad of an idea that would be with Crohn's disease. Bit of a moron this guy...

On topic, I had second degree burns once. It's a toss up between that, and when I landed on my arm in a way that dislocated my elbow and fractured most of my forearm.

 

[ogreloot]

I once stiff armed a lawn mower to prevent loss of a toe, and i put my hand right on the exhaust pipe....nice palm sized blister. Fractured the elbow on my left arm, and both bones in my right wrist(2 separate incidents). Torn ligaments in right knee and left shoulder. Crushed my left knee in an industrial accident. As I type this my left ankle is throbbing, from rolling it a week ago...and my right knee is swollen as well. But the most pain i ever endured was of an emotional variety, lost my mother to cancer 29 days before my 9th birthday. Here I am 28 years later, and im still a wreck whenever I remember her. Lost my older brother when I was 20, and my father passed away less than 2 years after that. Physical pain is a cakewalk compared to that.

 

[xqxm]

I ate spicy Indian food.

This comic sums it up nicely.
http://zcdn.leasticoulddo.com/licd/comics/20100615.gif

Ah. Reminds me of when me and some boys had a habanero eating contest whilst drinking, though sadly i was doing most of the eating in an effort to show it's not that bad (it is) and trying to give them courage to try.

The next morning, with a gastrointestinal tract filled with hangover and habanero, the shitter was no fun. Literally had a fire in my pants for like half an hour. Ugh.

 

[Diligent]

But the most pain i ever endured was of an emotional variety, lost my mother to cancer 29 days before my 9th birthday. Here I am 28 years later, and im still a wreck whenever I remember her. Lost my older brother when I was 20, and my father passed away less than 2 years after that. Physical pain is a cakewalk compared to that.

People tend to forget that emotional pain is longer lasting and harder to forget than physical pain sometimes, so while I can't relate to that sort of loss, my sympathies go out to you.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

I have Trigeminal Neuralgia so that. Not so much a memory though unfortunately.

That's the one where a selection of your nerve endings are basically in constant pain, right?

I've had some pretty bad migraines in the past, to the point where sitting in a room at dusk with the curtains closed and no lights on still caused such intense pain every time I opened my eyes that I wanted to vomit. And still, I'm pretty sure that was better than the depression. Just that didn't cause any physical pain.

Basically yeah, it's like having the nerves on all your teeth on one side of your face exposed and being poked (Essentially the nerve is misfiring with pain signals) You get places on your face that light touches trigger the attacks, and when I say light I'm talking a mild breeze can be agonising.

Also for me it is set off by loud/highpitch noises and temperature changes. Most medication does nothing at all for me now, and the frequency and intensity of the attacks gets worse as you get older.

Yeah, my Mum suffers from the same thing, and given her descriptions of it, I'm really hoping that it's in no way genetic...

Having said that, the whole migraine-y thing seems to be, since she has it, I have it, and my younger brother is developing it, so I'm a little worried for my pain-based future...

The neuralgia isn't genetic as it stands I don't believe, no it may raise your susceptibility to it. It is also far more common in women age 50+, which is why I was annoyed as I am male and was diagnosed with it when I was 27.

Mine is essentially the aftermath of another condition which thankfully apart from the neuralgia, left me relatively unscathed. To put it very simply I had shingles in my ear. Stupid chicken pox virus *grumble*

Ah. Actually, my Mum's version of the thing also came about as a result of shingles. However, you've assured me that you're 1) male, and 2) too young to be my mother, so chances are she doesn't have an escapist account.

In which case, it seems my brother may have a higher susceptibility to the thing than I will, since he also had some fun with shingles, whilst I exhibit a remarkable resistance to all bacterial and viral disease-type things

 

[phohouse]

When I was 10 I was swinging ridiculously high and jumped off at the peak of the swing. It felt like I was flying for 3 seconds. Then I hit one of those blue playground poles and blacked out. I woke up in the hospital.

 

[FallenJellyDoughnut]

Stabbed with a serated 6 inch knife. Fuck me it hurt, especially when I had to pull it out.

 

[microwaviblerabbit]

My worst pain is either biting my tongue off, or a fun trip to a hospital in a coma. They rank for different reasons.

The actual biting off of the tongue wasn't so bad, I actually hadn't noticed until a few moments later when I tried to talk and ended up just spraying blood and flesh. Then I had a bumpy ride to the hospital, a 30 min wait then they sewed it back on without anesthetic. It hurt a lot, but the worst was the next two weeks. Due to my tongue stitches, I could not eat solid food, and had to rinse my stitches with concentrated salt water after every meal or snack. I hate baby food. To this day, I cannot taste certain things, mainly bitter.

The going into the coma bit was relatively painless, OD to try to kill self, walk off into woods. The coming out was hell. The stuff I had OD on caused muscle spasms as a regular side effect. Thus I spent the first two days in the hospital unconscious, strapped to a bed after inadvertently punching two nurses and my dad. Upon gaining consciousness, I found I had a catheter installed. Imagine a pen shoved up your urethra, and it scraping against the inside of your penis every time you move, and I had muscle spasms. Despite the pain it caused coming out, it was worth being free.

 

[phohouse]

Why did you bite your tongue off? Like what did you accidentally do?

 

[Lem0nade Inlay]

When I was 9 years old I fell of my bike and my bone just above me elbow completely snapped in two, and it was pushing my skin outwards. (So another 2 centimeters or so and the bone would've stuck out through my skin).

THEN I had to have wires put in my arm while it was healing, unfortunately the surgeon botched the operation so one of the wires was pushing down on a nerve inside my arm...ow.

There are worse ones here, but that was pretty bad/

 

[goldsphinxx]

The day I found out Duke Nukem Forever was never going to come out.

 

[Antidrall]

When I got stabbed in the leg with a pencil. He wasn't feeling to well in the morning either.

 

[Snipermanic]

I had a breeze block fall onto my thumb from great height and to get the blood out they have to burn a hole in your nail, and the anaesthetic spray they were using only amplified the pain for me. Aside from that I've never had a major injury.