Most physically painful experience you've ever had?

[Captain]

Appendix started protesting. Was forced to wait out several days in hospital and endure horrible pain, I couldn't even get up (If I would, the pain would just slam me down).

It stopped after a week and they didn't even remove it. Damn.

[Satan]

When I was 14 I was around 210lbs and 5ft 5" and a friend of a friend who I never met before wouldn't stop taking shots at my weight for an entire day, so I called him over and kicked him square in the nuts as hard as I could and he literally ran in circles screaming. It was hilarious. He ran off home.

[BIL]

You mean, you were actually concealing empathetic pain for his ruptured testes? Satan you ol softie!

The whole thing lasted about 10 days, during which only narcotics let me sleep or swallow. I didn't eat or talk and was quarantined the whole time. Meanwhile my asshole

boss kept calling and emailing because he assumed I was full of shit and he wanted me at work.

[LSU]

Been quite lucky and not had many painful experiences, but a few spring to mind.

In my twenties I had a tumor removed from my neck which put me out of action for several months, it wasn't terrible fierce pain exactly but it was pretty constantly painful for many weeks after the op and I had to take lots of meds constantly.

More recently I broke a couple of ribs, but really that wasn't too bad at all.

Worst thing by far was last year though, I was carrying my son down a flight of wooden stairs and slipped, fell down a bunch of steps of course doing my best to protect him as I was falling, and luckily he was absolutely fine, however as my hands were full I couldn't also protect myself. I bashed myself up pretty badly, bruises everywhere and sprained my ankle really severely. Could literally not believe how painful this was, I was convinced it was broken but no, just a bunch of damaged tendons - but that was bad enough. Ankle still isn't quite 100% now, almost a year on.

[BIL]

Fuck stairs, seriously. They killed Kaneto Shiozawa. No forgiveness.

[JBC]

That's pretty awesome you were able to protect your boy through all of that.

I once worked in a furniture shop. I was putting together a booth for a pizzeria which was shaped like a giant 'C'. I had the thing propped up on its ends in an arch & was working the upholstery with a staple gun - the kind with the big 'U' shaped staples that's rigged up to an air compressor. I was crawling to get to a section & braced the gun into my kneecap, which pulled the trigger & sent a staple right into the joint. It was so deep it locked my leg up, so I just decided to remove it right on the spot. I stuck a flathead underneath it & yanked it out. It was pretty gruesome, but surprisingly not as painful as it sounds. Sore for weeks though.

[Mero]

Thankfully I haven't yet broken anything or impaled myself on anything, only thing I can really think of is sometime in the early 2000's I managed to kick the frame of my bed really really hard, my toes were covered in the type of bruising that you normally see on mugging victims who've had the shit kicked out of them.

[Lord Satori]

Thankfully I haven't yet broken anything or impaled myself on anything, only thing I can really think of is sometime in the early 2000's I managed to kick the frame of my bed really really hard, my toes were covered in the type of bruising that you normally see on mugging victims who've had the shit kicked out of them.

I did the same thing when I was younger. Though the embarrassing part is that I did it because I was masturbating and the time, and I whacked my foot. I didn't feel how painful it actually was until the ecstasy subsided, and I discovered that my big toe was bleeding.

[Captain]

I have a friend who's a pretty reckless biker.

He never got injured, even though he lost control a few times, he says he sometimes got lucky, and managed to jump off the bike in time a few times as well.

One day however, he was exiting his own house, and fell on the stairs...

He broke a combination of limbs which I couldn't bother remembering, some ribs, broke his goddamn skull and injured a part of his brain. They actually had to remove bits of his brain later on, thankfully not important ones, and by that I mean he now talks funny even though he knows exactly what he wants to say, which has to be horribly annoying.

TLDR Stairs are edgy fuckers, keep clear of them.

[nasty_wolverine]

I got robbed back in 2009, during which one of the robbers slashed my face, so i ended up with a Glasgow Grin kinda scar. I got around 20+ stitches for it. well that wasnt the most painful part.

So i was on my computer the day after i got slashed and stitched up. I decide to read Beelzebub, and found it hilarious, and started to laugh. the stitches pull, and i curl into a fetal position. No comedy/funny stuff for a month.

also the time i had a cut on my arm and it got infected with something, plus the bandages got stuck to the wound. worst redressing ever.

[emphatic]

I was carelessly cleaning a machine at work while it was running to save time. I used a cloth dosed in rubbing alcohol while wearing gloves and the as the cloth got caught in the machine, my glove got pulled along into a 12mm gap. Along with my hand. Luckily, I could reach the emergency stop on the machine, but before I did, the machine crushed most of my left hand. I panicked and tried to pull it out too late but before it got crushed and it's impossible to understand how your hand can even fit a space that small.

Well, it can't, but the machine doesn't care, and will make it fit even though I'll mean making your hand significantly smaller. Oh, and the skin, flesh and tendons will be torn up pretty radically too. A huge gash on the back of the hand, and a matching one across your palm. My left thumb was rotated to match the direction of my fingers, and was flattened to 12mm. Measure it, it's pretty slim.

The pain felt like the hand was on fire. I was stuck in there for a good ten minutes at least. The blood circulation couldn't keep my thumb fresh, so months later, I've lost about 20 percent of it to necrosis. But, I'm really lucky I could reach the emergency stop, or I might have died that day. The ambulance drivers gave me morphine, so I passed out before I was gently pulled out of the machine once they figured out a way to do it without further damage.

I was in the ICU for about a week, being roused once an hour to check the temperature of my dying thumb. 24hrs a day. A week after that, I was in the ER again as I had gotten several hematomas when they operated on me, two weeks earlier. Pretty scary stuff.

I can use my left hand about 80%, so I'm happy for it, but I rarely play arcade games now.

[neorichieb1971]

I had a rotten wisdom tooth that had a crater in it. I went 2 days of agony before swallowing a bottle of pills. The dentists in my town were booked up.. so it was the only choice.

Some sort of stomach upset that got me to my knees in agony.

I had a headache for 2 months in my 20's. Everyday It was there.. Then one day it just went away.

I've never broken anything or been involved in any accident.

[BIL]

I can use my left hand about 80%, so I'm happy for it, but I rarely play arcade games now.

God damn. Condolences. I'd keep my left hand if forced to choose one.

(and proudly tell anyone who asked why )

[nasty_wolverine]

I can use my left hand about 80%, so I'm happy for it, but I rarely play arcade games now.

wow, thats... i dont know what to say... well i have heard worse things about being pulled into machines or crushed by them (dad used to work in a factory), glad you made it out okay.

[emphatic]

Yeah, I feel blessed actually, considering. Funny, the first thought I had as I felt the hand break (I imagined all bones breaking, even though it was really the flesh tearing) was - fuck, I will never hold a joystick again. Really happy I'm not a pad player, as that tip is important.

I have to use the wine glass grip now, I used to have a tumb/index finger grip before.

[brentsg]

Yeah, I feel blessed actually, considering. Funny, the first thought I had as I felt the hand break (I imagined all bones breaking, even though it was really the flesh tearing) was - fuck, I will never hold a joystick again. Really happy I'm not a pad player, as that tip is important.

I have to use the wine glass grip now, I used to have a tumb/index finger grip before.

I tore all the ligaments in my left thumb last summer, in a much less spectacular fashion. I'm headed in this Friday to see what can be done to improve function and reduce pain. As it is, thing dislocates regularly and has eaten away all the cartilage. I'm in your boat with gaming now though.

Doc wanted to see how it healed on its own, and it seemed good for a while but been taking a ton of anti inflammatory drugs lately. They mentioned rebuilding ligaments or replacing the joint where it meets the wrist, which I'd obviously like to avoid.

So I feel at least some of your pain.

[Joe T.]

I don't know if I've had anything as bad as some of these, but I once had a molar that cracked and got infected. The infection was so bad it spread through my jaw and ear. My dentist was in Africa at the time, and didn't realize how bad it was. The pain medication he prescribed in the interim didn't do anything. I couldn't move, eat or sleep for days. My jaw had swollen shut. I blacked out a number of times from the pain though which I guess was restful. When I finally got to the dentist and had X-rays taken was the only time as an adult I've ever cried like a child because they had to pry my mouth open to do so. Even on painkillers, that felt like someone hit me in the face with a sledgehammer while simultaneously stabbing my brain with an icepick from the jaw up. At that point though, I was out of my mind from pain and sleep deprivation. I had oral surgery and the tooth was saved, but it took a lot of visits before it was healed and cleaned out enough to close up. It took a few weeks before I could open my mouth enough to eat solid food. The liquid diet and antibiotics fucked me up pretty bad as far as digestion went as well, which I guess is more funny than painful in hindsight.

[emphatic]

Doc wanted to see how it healed on its own, and it seemed good for a while but been taking a ton of anti inflammatory drugs lately. They mentioned rebuilding ligaments or replacing the joint where it meets the wrist, which I'd obviously like to avoid.

So, are you encouraged to exercise it continually? When I was healing, I was constantly opening and closing my fist to stretch the fingers out as much as possible. The surgeon who operated on my hand told me that this is what saved my hand from just becoming a useless stump. Many patients who come into the hand specialist ward just stops moving their fingers from shock and horror, and their hands just kinda give up too. My middle finger is crooked still, so I have a hard time scooping up small things with my left hand, like bread crumbs off the table. Very annoying, but I've gotten used to it. So if you're supposed to move it, keep at it.

I don't know if I've had anything as bad as some of these, but I once had a molar that cracked and got infected. The infection was so bad it spread through my jaw and ear. My dentist was in Africa at the time, and didn't realize how bad it was. The pain medication he prescribed in the interim didn't do anything. I couldn't move, eat or sleep for days. My jaw had swollen shut. I blacked out a number of times from the pain though which I guess was restful. When I finally got to the dentist and had X-rays taken was the only time as an adult I've ever cried like a child because they had to pry my mouth open to do so. Even on painkillers, that felt like someone hit me in the face with a sledgehammer while simultaneously stabbing my brain with an icepick from the jaw up. At that point though, I was out of my mind from pain and sleep deprivation. I had oral surgery and the tooth was saved, but it took a lot of visits before it was healed and cleaned out enough to close up. It took a few weeks before I could open my mouth enough to eat solid food. The liquid diet and antibiotics fucked me up pretty bad as far as digestion went as well, which I guess is more funny than painful in hindsight.

Shit, that sounds horrible.

[BIL]

the first thought I had as I felt the hand break was - fuck, I will never hold a joystick again.

Those are the words of a true samurai! (・｀ω´・)

headphone warning

[GaijinPunch]

I've had a lot over the years, as I went to the ER many times as a child. The one I can remember that hurt like a mother fucker and didn't seem to subside for days was getting an impacted wisdom tooth pulled by a Japanese "dentist". God damn... that shit hurt.

[broken harbour]

I once picked up a potato chip off the floor and my back was out for a month. We're talking... needed help to get to the bathroom out. I lost 30lbs that month because eating hurt.

Worst tho was a root canal, the anesthetic just wouldn't take, and it was pretty infected. I felt everything. Then, later that night, when the Oxycontin wore off I woke up weeping.

[brentsg]

Doc wanted to see how it healed on its own, and it seemed good for a while but been taking a ton of anti inflammatory drugs lately. They mentioned rebuilding ligaments or replacing the joint where it meets the wrist, which I'd obviously like to avoid.

So, are you encouraged to exercise it continually? When I was healing, I was constantly opening and closing my fist to stretch the fingers out as much as possible. The surgeon who operated on my hand told me that this is what saved my hand from just becoming a useless stump. Many patients who come into the hand specialist ward just stops moving their fingers from shock and horror, and their hands just kinda give up too. My middle finger is crooked still, so I have a hard time scooping up small things with my left hand, like bread crumbs off the table. Very annoying, but I've gotten used to it. So if you're supposed to move it, keep at it.

I'm not terrible certain. The hand specialist told me that I should not have moved it for the first moth or so after the injury, but since it took that long to get into the doctor, that wasn't helpful. When I asked whether I was doing damage or helping if I used it in ways that caused pain, he said to do whatever I could tolerate. Sometimes doctors remind me of lawyers. My wildcard is that I have psoriasis, and people that have this often get arthritis that is associated to the condition. The condition often causes the immune system to attack joints, particularly ones that have been damaged. I need to figure out if that's going on, because that's not good and will require medicate to suppress.

I'm definitely challenged with small things now. I have trouble with wine or beer corks. I have issues with door knobs, shampoo bottles, pill bottles, etc. Driving sucks now. It doesn't hurt at all when I drive, but it makes it a mess the next day if I go any distance. Obviously I have another hand, but I find that do things in an abnormal way and get that one sore too.

I have a feeling if I went to the doctor and said I was a professional sports folk of some sort, it'd already be fixed. Otherwise, they look at your age and figure it's not worth fixing under most circumstances. Either the outcomes aren't generally good, or the potential benefit isn't significant for most people.

[CHI]

Worst tho was a root canal, the anesthetic just wouldn't take...

About 12 years ago, I experienced a root canal treatment that lasted for about 90 minutes, the dentist had to inject me three times of anesthetic which didn't do much, never again...

48 consecutive hours with heavy thoothache. I took an entire pack of Ibuprofen (600mg) that time.

I had a rotten wisdom tooth that had a crater in it. I went 2 days of agony before swallowing a bottle of pills...

...getting an impacted wisdom tooth pulled...

That reminds me, since a teenager, one of my wisdoms was growing on its side so it was knocking the one next to it, never bothered me until 25-26 years later...
The pain is so intense that i had to cringe my face for about 4-5 seconds everytime it kicked-in, oh and the migraine was a killer too, I couldn't sleep properly and eating was a nightmare...
This lasted for 3 weeks while taking double dosage of Panadol Actifast soluble tablets, instead of taking 500mg every 4 hours, i was taking 500mg every 2 hours...
The next 3 weeks was bearable though until I got my appointment sorted... Two wisdoms within an hour



Regs, CHI

[broken harbour]

Worst tho was a root canal, the anesthetic just wouldn't take...

About 12 years ago, I experienced a root canal treatment that lasted for about 90 minutes, the dentist had to inject me three times of anesthetic which didn't do much, never again...

Mine was a 4 hour appointment and was shot over a dozen times with anesthetic.

It sucked. Probably still not as bad as an extraction I'd imagine.

[emphatic]

I'm not terrible certain. The hand specialist told me that I should not have moved it for the first moth or so after the injury, but since it took that long to get into the doctor, that wasn't helpful. When I asked whether I was doing damage or helping if I used it in ways that caused pain, he said to do whatever I could tolerate. Sometimes doctors remind me of lawyers. My wildcard is that I have psoriasis, and people that have this often get arthritis that is associated to the condition. The condition often causes the immune system to attack joints, particularly ones that have been damaged. I need to figure out if that's going on, because that's not good and will require medicate to suppress.

I'm definitely challenged with small things now. I have trouble with wine or beer corks. I have issues with door knobs, shampoo bottles, pill bottles, etc. Driving sucks now. It doesn't hurt at all when I drive, but it makes it a mess the next day if I go any distance. Obviously I have another hand, but I find that do things in an abnormal way and get that one sore too.

I have a feeling if I went to the doctor and said I was a professional sports folk of some sort, it'd already be fixed. Otherwise, they look at your age and figure it's not worth fixing under most circumstances. Either the outcomes aren't generally good, or the potential benefit isn't significant for most people.

That sounds absolutely terrible. The thing with the condition I had with my hand, it was so damn swollen, like 2.5 sizes bigger than it is now, so I had to move the excess fluids out of it, and the "pumping" motion helped this. If your hand isn't swollen, you should probably go easy on it. Leaving the fluids in the hand will cause the same kind of tissue that wrestlers get in their ears.

The arthritis symptoms match then? It sucks that you can't really single out the reason for your issues.

I hate handling delicate stuff now, but I have not had problems with corks or stuff like that. I used to be really good with my hands and loved tinkering with stuff, but now, I don't even wanna fix the JAMMA harness in one of my EGRET IIs.

[CHI]

Mine was a 4 hour appointment and was shot over a dozen times with anesthetic.

It sucked. Probably still not as bad as an extraction I'd imagine.

I salute you for going through 4 hour of root canal
I'll choose extraction anyday over root canal, that shit is just not acceptable

[rugdoctor]

Having my scalp sliced open to remove some benign cysts. I had 13 of them, but forgotten one towards the end of the process. My doctor friend was doing the procedure and he had to inject local anesthetic into each cyst area before he can operate and had to stitch one opening after another. I was a drooling mess afterwards and still wake up clutching my head in the middle of the night occasionally.

[Eaglet]

I haven't really experienced that much memorable pain.
Broke my left leg when i was 5 and passed out from the pain, so don't really remember it.

When i was in the armed forces we had a "beret test" to show that we had what it took to stay in our prospective units.
Got some pretty serious blisters on both feet because of my own stupidity (wanted to keep a high tempo throughout so we wouldn't get punished) that ended up taking away half of my foot soles and led to some bleeding.
Had so much adrenaline through the entire thing that i didn't really feel any pain (aside from nausea) until everything was finished and we'd passed.
Couldn't support weight on my feet for two days after that though. Completely crippled.
What made the whole thing memorable was that i had to go through about 45km (28 miles) of ruck marching and different physical/technical tests without foot soles...

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Back in October of 1980, was at the local park walking on the way back home when I found a lone beer bottle. Was playing with it and accidentally dropped it once (but it didn't break) and proceeded to pick it up again. Dropped the bottle a second time and somehow, the bottle instantly ripped a good chunk off my thumb. I recall the pain was intense and ended up screaming...ran to the woman's restroom and proceed to run some water on the bleeding portion of the thumb (could see the many layers of muscle that comprise of the inner thumb but luckily, it didn't cut all the way to the bone) -- it hurt even more this time around. Walked home and had to go to the hospital with my thumb being bandaged up. So everyday from that day forward, the soaked gauze would have to be removed and a new one wrapped in place in order for the healing process to begin -- it was a slow-going process, indeed, considering it was my dominant hand that the inner thumb portion got cut off instantly (so writing with my other hand, my handwriting wasn't so good). Sometimes a little piece of gauze would be stuck to the healing wound but would have to be ripped off to have an all-new gauze wrapped in place along with antibiotics cream spread on it.

Years later, took a stained glass class during my senior year in high school and would be doing a project that involved cutting glass with a metal glass scorer. Would get cut by glass sometimes but it didn't hurt as bad as the time when a portion of my inner thumb did get cut off back in the day.

Sometimes my co-workers carelessly dispose of broken glass in the trash and have to be careful about that particular known possible issue (as getting cutting by glass can be possible on any given day, hence wearing leather gloves would be ideal to lessen the chances of that possibly happening). Cleaning up huge broken wine bottle glass spills are the worst job hazards that one could face -- as it requires some common sensibility to clean it up and dispose of it properly + get the floor all properly cleaned up for employees and customers to go about at their leisure -- it's all part of the job.

What's even worse, is having an episode of back muscle spasm that comes on suddenly or develops slowly over a couple of days -- the kind that you can't stand up straight (and if you try to do so), the pain is so bad that even if you get a morphine shot, it'll wear off and then, you got that intense back pain that rears it's ugly head again. Trying to recuperate from a back muscle spasm is another slow-going healing process as well -- has happened to me a few times in the past. Just trying to use the loo would a long ordeal/adventure in itself -- would be literally clinging to the walls like Spiderman for physical support just to shower/use the loo/etc.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[mariusrhpsd]

literally exploded 2 fingers on my right foot when i was like 8 or 9, all i remember are my parents rushing to ER with my foot on a towel and all the muscle exposed.
dislocated my left shoulder while doing a handstand with only one hand and without too much warming up, didn't feel the pain until a few hours later, and then i barely could sleep for like 3 days, and had like 5 dyclofenac shots because oral painkillers were doing shit to calm it down.
lsat thing i remember was a fissure on my right foot (again) because i was feeling cocky and decided to jump as high as i could... it was higher than i expected and ended up landing horribly, was on painkillers for like a month