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I've had periods of terrible heart burn. Weeks where I couldn't stand to drink anything other than water or milk, and I could only really eat cereal or turkey sandwiches. It is like your insides are on fire, but it just keeps going.

When my TMJ acts up, my jaw practically locks shut for a week. That is no fun either...

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Originally posted by: bob4432
i honestly thought breaking bones would hurt a lot more... wasn't that bad
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I snapped the smaller bone in my right wrist, and it hurt a LOT less than some of the greenstick fractures ive experienced...
 
Kidney stones and lower back muscle spasms have been the most painful experiences I have had. The kidney stone went away after eight hours but it took weeks to recover from back muscle spasms.
 
Probably more emotional pain than physical. I did sprain my ankle once, I was little and it hurt sooo bad🙁


Then there was that time I stapled my thumb, but we won't get into that...
 
Originally posted by: Dr Smooth
Kidney stones and lower back muscle spasms have been the most painful experiences I have had. The kidney stone went away after eight hours but it took weeks to recover from back muscle spasms.
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I sprayed Mr Floppy with underarm deodorant once. It felt like I had sprayed liquid fire instead of the deodorant
 
The first time I sprained my knee... think i tore the miniscus, but the first time it happened i thought I heard a loud crack and thought i was a goner. Man did it hurt. It's also happened a few times since then, as a matter of fact it happened Friday night and i have to call out of work today cause i can't walk.
 
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
I have never had any *really* painful experiences. If anything, I think that I have suffered more emotional pain than physical pain.
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Same here actually, or else I just can't remember the events. I'm told I fell down a few stairs when I was little, can't remember that. Never had any broken bones or sprains. I was only ever in one car accident, and I just smacked my lip on the seat in front of me - no shoulder harnesses in the back seats back then (when I was about...10?), so I just folded in half. It was only at about maybe 5-10mph too. So here's to hoping that I don't have to experience any worse pain. Though I probably will need to get my wisdom teeth removed. Moshquerade - your post on that doesn't help things. 😛 I already had 4 teeth removed to make room for when I got braces. Now I got more teeth? How big a mouth does my DNA think I've got??? Geez.
 
Originally posted by: HotChic
Originally posted by: FoBoT
i had a shot in my knee, some of that cortisone stuff, extremely painful going in . it did make my knee feel better for about one month, but i will NEVER get another shot in a joint like that :frown:
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Every 3-6 months I get cortisone shots (read: more than one) in the joints in my hands. Liquid fire. The temporary pain is better than the everyday pain I otherwise go through from arthritis though, where I can't walk and can't close my hands into fists.
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Sorry to hear it hot one.
Fractured pelvis w/anus split. Major hi-side at 90mph on M/C. Surgery? yes. The bike tried to find a new home,92'. This stuff can't be made up...
Minor fractures in four vertabre. Dirt bike get-off in 74'. No sugery.
CTS both wrists. Surgery three years ago, both hands still buzz daily. Wakes me up sometimes..
All of these hurt and can not do a comparison, nor do I care too.
The funnyest most painful was catching part of my joint in my zipper as a child.
Dad laffed and hid his face, mom, well moms help you out and provide a damp washclot and ice.....😉
 
i had a kidney infection once that gave me a few days of pure hell - much worse than the broken bones i've had.
 
I've been pretty lucky to not have had to experience with much pain... probably the worst thing was a stomach virus I got when I was younger. Couldn't move one bit for 48 hours, curled in a ball and I couldn't go anywhere. My mom took me to one of her softball games to try to get me fresh air, I just layed curled up on the bench, all of the players thought I was dying lol

Once I puked, I was all set...very odd, especially after all that
 
Originally posted by: DainBramaged
I have never had any *really* painful experiences. If anything, I think that I have suffered more emotional pain than physical pain.
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funny how the trouts have led similar lives..... 🙁

hey dain, when's our next group therapy session 😉
 
Possibly the most painful thing I ever saw happen in person was a guy on my high school wrestling team dislocate a testical. He made this high pitched scream, puked, and passed out.
 
lost a couple fingernails via slamming them in a car door. By far the worst pain I've ever felt. Wisdom teeth are coming out soon though.....
 
It's a tie between tearing my trapezius (sp?) muscle in my back whilst engaged in some spirited grappling, or the time I squashed my foot between the moving 4 wheeler I was on and a closely-missed tree. Was only going about 15mph, but the result was my foot pointing the other way and swelling up to the size of a pineapple.

Actually, I'm gonna go with the ankle. Ankle injuries are crazy painful. I bit a chunk out of my tongue when it happened it hurt so much, and I didn't do that with my back.
 
Got in a bad car wreck on my way back to college, messed my face up pretty good. That wasn't the painful part though. The next day after I got back to school (college) I went to the emergency room there to get checked out and the small town hospital that treated me right after the wreck missed a nasty cut inside my ear.

The doc had to clean it out and he called over to rather large orderlies to grab my arms and legs and I'm thinking wtf is going on here. He poured some kind of liquid in my ear and I screamed so loud most of the ER stopped whatever they were doing to look at me (that's what my roomate told me).

Damn that hurt.
 
I crashed in a bike race years ago doing about 35mph and removed a fair amount of the skin on the right side of my body. The combination of abrasions and bruising from the fall were infinitely less than fun.

To get an idea of what this felt like; open the door of a car doing 35 or so and look down at the pavement flying by. Now imagine jumping out of the car at that speed wearing almost nothing.
 
Broke my arm when I was 10 years old. It was shaped kinda like this
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Landed on a football. Freakiest thing I've ever seen in my life.

EDIT: Bah. Just imagine an upside U. That was my arm 😀
 
Originally posted by: Azraele
I did that. I made my mom pull it out for me.
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nice quote 🙂

getting thrown out of a 2nd story window and landing across my lower back on the pool ladder sort of sucked for 4-6 months.

biting off my tongue

whatever I did to my right foot now 😉

getting shot through the hand

getting hit in the back of the leg with an explosive which left a 2" x 1" deep hole and set me on fire...just singed body hair and some surface burns from that as I jumped into a pool fast enough.

Another thing was not so much pain as major major discomfort when I got exposed to some allergen (I have no known allergies) and I broke out in bumps all over my body and severe itching.


 
I had this sharp, searing pain in my lungs once and everytime I breathed in it felt like a knife stabbing me. It didn't start off that bad but I hate going to the doctor's office so naturally I tried to wait it out. After it got to that point one night I was actually in tears from the pain and had to go to the emergency room. I found out it was Bronchitis, which I had never experienced before. I hope that's as bad as it gets.
Recently while playing doubles tennis (if you can call it tennis we were really just hitting the ball back and forth) I got nailed in the family jewels and collapsed to the ground, writhing in agony. I doubled up in a fetal position for at least 20 minutes and it took three freaking weeks to feel back to normal. NEVER underestimate the speed and power of a tennis ball 🙂
 
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