What is the worst physical pain you've ever endured?

[Tylanner]

Originally posted by: scauffiel
I pulled this from my website so I don't have to retype it:

One warm summer day in '93 I was rappelling out of a helicopter when my rope parted and sent me plummeting fifty feet to a hard packed field. Luckily it was the first run of the day and it was "Hollywood" meaning we were slick - no gear. I was a M-60 machine gunner, had I been fully loaded I would have died. As it was I shattered both of my heels, sending bones through the bottoms of my feet; shattered both of my ankles; compound fractured both bones in my lower right leg at the boot top; I crushed two of my vertebrae (L4-L5) to half of their original thickness; broke both of my wrists and broke the end off of my right arm. One of these days I'll digitize my accident video and put it up for y'all to check out. I spent three and a half months on an open ward at Portsmouth Naval Hospital. The first two weeks in a body cast from neck to hip. The bathroom was a bedpan for two months. Recall that I was on an open ward with about 16 beds. Nice. I spent a month in a wheelchair after getting out, and another month on crutches after that. Life is pretty much non-stop therapy now. I went into the hospital at a muscular 230 pounds; coming out I weighed 179 and literally had no ass. When I stood up it just disappeared - just had a crack in the middle of my lower back - it was pretty funny looking actually. With all of that damage it's amazing that I can do anything. The VA classifies me as being 80% disabled, and it'll get worse as I get older. I learned a lot about myself while in the hospital - I learn a lot about myself as I get older/lamer. Things that I used to place a lot of importance on, really aren't so important anymore; conversely the things that I didn't used to put much thought into seem to come to the forefront now. There isn't much that I cannot do - but there are a great many things that I think twice about, am careful with, or won't do because it asks too much of a demolished body.

Some pix while originally in the hospital:
Body cast and all four limbs pinned, or somehow immobilized. Note the little control sitting on my chest - I could push that once every five minutes for another shot of morphine. I've looked better. Not much, but better.

The "External Fixator" on my right leg. I believe they used these in my case because of the open wounds on my feet. You can't cast someone with open wounds like that. So they drill these neat pins into your bones and line the whole bad boy up with some more aluminum. Then they come by twice a day to swab the goo from around the pins; to keep your body from trying to assimilate the pins and reduce the chance of infection coming in from those areas. Groovy.

Here's my left foot. It was torn open on impact and with the swelling it just continued to tear, so they cut it open to avoid the harsher damage done by tearing. This foot was 180 degrees the wrong way (i.e. pointing down while I was laying on my back); the docs "pinned" the foot to the bottom of my leg using that rod poking out of the bottom there. It was quite amusing to see the low tech "vice grips" used to wiggle it back and forth when it came time for removal; almost a foot long when taken out.

More external fixators on both of my wrists. You can also see the wires they used to hold the end of my arm on while it grew back together.

Some Pix Here

S.

PS: During one of my surgeries I had an epedural (spinal block; they inject nerve block directly into your spinal cord) and I'll be damned if it didn't hurt like ten motherfvckers - to the point that it kept me from being able to breathe while they were injecting... Bad juju.

Ouch dude 🙁

 

[KidViciou$]

Originally posted by: scauffiel
I pulled this from my website so I don't have to retype it:

One warm summer day in '93 I was rappelling out of a helicopter when my rope parted and sent me plummeting fifty feet to a hard packed field. Luckily it was the first run of the day and it was "Hollywood" meaning we were slick - no gear. I was a M-60 machine gunner, had I been fully loaded I would have died. As it was I shattered both of my heels, sending bones through the bottoms of my feet; shattered both of my ankles; compound fractured both bones in my lower right leg at the boot top; I crushed two of my vertebrae (L4-L5) to half of their original thickness; broke both of my wrists and broke the end off of my right arm. One of these days I'll digitize my accident video and put it up for y'all to check out. I spent three and a half months on an open ward at Portsmouth Naval Hospital. The first two weeks in a body cast from neck to hip. The bathroom was a bedpan for two months. Recall that I was on an open ward with about 16 beds. Nice. I spent a month in a wheelchair after getting out, and another month on crutches after that. Life is pretty much non-stop therapy now. I went into the hospital at a muscular 230 pounds; coming out I weighed 179 and literally had no ass. When I stood up it just disappeared - just had a crack in the middle of my lower back - it was pretty funny looking actually. With all of that damage it's amazing that I can do anything. The VA classifies me as being 80% disabled, and it'll get worse as I get older. I learned a lot about myself while in the hospital - I learn a lot about myself as I get older/lamer. Things that I used to place a lot of importance on, really aren't so important anymore; conversely the things that I didn't used to put much thought into seem to come to the forefront now. There isn't much that I cannot do - but there are a great many things that I think twice about, am careful with, or won't do because it asks too much of a demolished body.

Some pix while originally in the hospital:
Body cast and all four limbs pinned, or somehow immobilized. Note the little control sitting on my chest - I could push that once every five minutes for another shot of morphine. I've looked better. Not much, but better.

The "External Fixator" on my right leg. I believe they used these in my case because of the open wounds on my feet. You can't cast someone with open wounds like that. So they drill these neat pins into your bones and line the whole bad boy up with some more aluminum. Then they come by twice a day to swab the goo from around the pins; to keep your body from trying to assimilate the pins and reduce the chance of infection coming in from those areas. Groovy.

Here's my left foot. It was torn open on impact and with the swelling it just continued to tear, so they cut it open to avoid the harsher damage done by tearing. This foot was 180 degrees the wrong way (i.e. pointing down while I was laying on my back); the docs "pinned" the foot to the bottom of my leg using that rod poking out of the bottom there. It was quite amusing to see the low tech "vice grips" used to wiggle it back and forth when it came time for removal; almost a foot long when taken out.

More external fixators on both of my wrists. You can also see the wires they used to hold the end of my arm on while it grew back together.

Some Pix Here

S.

PS: During one of my surgeries I had an epedural (spinal block; they inject nerve block directly into your spinal cord) and I'll be damned if it didn't hurt like ten motherfvckers - to the point that it kept me from being able to breathe while they were injecting... Bad juju.

i think we have a winner, althought blackheads come in at a close second 😉

 

[jemcam]

My big toe got cut off. The time to the hospital and waiting for pain relief seemed to last a week. You don't forget that pulsing, pounding pain and blood spurting out of you.

Holy crap, it makes me cringe even now, over 30 years later.

 

[CVSiN]

Originally posted by: Sluggo
This one time I was running home and tripped and fell on the sidewalk and banged my shin pretty good.



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HAHAH peter griffin strikes again!

 

[jEnus]

The Challenge: Hand vs Electric Car Fan

winnAr: Car Fan

Results: Two fingers w/ finger nails cut in half dangling and skin hanging bairly on

Required Action: 48 Stitches in 2 fingers

Total Time: 2 Two hours before surgery . . 3 hours for the stitch job . . 2 weeks of swollen fingers.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: CVSiN

Originally posted by: Sluggo
This one time I was running home and tripped and fell on the sidewalk and banged my shin pretty good.



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HAHAH peter griffin strikes again!

We should make this a standard response when someone posts an "I hurt myself" post 😀

 

[J Heartless Slick]

I once sprayed underarm deodorant on my crotch. It felt like I had pour liquid fire on my private parts.

 

[Yourself]

Another vote for Kidney Stones :thumbsup:

Last one I passed I needed the following to cope at the emergency room:

1 oxycontin
1 shot of Toridol(sp?)
2 shots of Morphine
3 bags of saline

Woohoo....only 2 more stones to pass :beer:

 

Well i have had a few, apendicitis, kidney stone, setting a broken bone in my arm, and food poisoning in costa rica.

 

[huxley0]

I nearly have had my tendon cut off, fell out of a tree, off a roof, all sorts of things but no pain ever matched the good ol' fashioned hard kick in the nuts. The only nice thing is that pain is temporary

 

[jEnus]

Originally posted by: J Heartless Slick
I once sprayed underarm deodorant on my crotch. It felt like I had pour liquid fire on my private parts.

This is God telling you to wash your junk rather than cover up the odor.

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: Andres3605
getting hit in the nuts by a soccer ball, that was so painfull i couldnt move for 3 hours, btw the guy who trhow the ball was a pro player in an exhibition game

You should try getting a full power strike in the nuts. Been there, done that. And full in the face too. Knocked me clean to the ground, face stung for 2 hours. :|

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: PumpActionWalrus

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
An ear infection that led to the ear drum bursting. Fvck me if it wasn't the worst head pain I have ever experienced.

No, the worst pain, PERIOD.

Done it, twice. Yes it hurts really really bad, but not as bad as a slickspot at 60mph on a bike that weighs 4 times your weight as it crushes your hip before you fly knees first into the pavement.

You win. :Q

 

[Apathetic]

Kidney stone. It lasted about 2 and a 1/2 days of pure hell.

Dave

 

[JonnyStarks]

Wow, mine pale in comparison.
I've taken a few fastballs to the nads catching, but I'd say pitching with a badly pulled shoulder muscle for about 3 innings would be it.
It was a constant throbbing pain that just got worse.
Just about everybody here has me beat though

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: Apathetic
Kidney stone. It lasted about 2 and a 1/2 days of pure hell.

Dave

I hope to god, drinking lots of water will prevent this from happening to me (I drink 1/2 - 1 gallon a day).

I can't even imagine...

 

[Dedpuhl]

I haven't broken a bone yet, but I've had the following:


5. Chronic ear infections - 4-6 per year. Amazingly, my ear drum has never ruptured.

4. (age 12) I downed my 80CC dirtbike (in the snow). I was wearing shorts and the exaust pipe seared the flesh off my thigh. That hurt like a mofo.

3. (age 21) Alcohol poisoning (3 days of puking bile; headaches).

2. (age 10) I cut my index finger to the bone with a hunting knife. My mom panicked and rushed me to the emergency room. It took 4 people to hold me down while they cleaned the cut, injected a numbing agent, and sewed the wound.

1. (age 20) During an operation, my surgeon had to maneuver around the sciatic nerve. Apparnently, he hit the nerve during the procedure. When I woke up, the pain was damn-near unbearable.

 

[Finalnight]

The first time I broke my arm, nearly fractured all the way through, and my motherfsucking gym teacher didnt believe I was hurt and had me do REVERSE PUSHUPS WITH THE REST OF THE CLASS!!!!
Then I went home, then i wnt to hospital, but the fracture was so bad they made me go to a regional hospital, basically i broke my arm about noon, no treatment till 9 pm or so....

 

[Spamela]

a kidney infection about 3 years ago was like the worst flu i ever had x 10.

 

[Kyteland]

Originally posted by: OverVolt
Waking up after having surgery on my nut. I will leave it at that. I was in bed for 2weeks

You only have one? :shocked:

 

[Excelsior]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: Anubis
Collapsed Lung

end of thread

...you don't mean "end of thread" as in "this is the most painful thing period, or in the thread", do you?

yes i do

My friend had a collapsed lung, he didn't complain much about the pain. He did pass a kidney stone though..that he bitched about, and rightfully so. I just don't see how you can consider a collapsed lung more painful than everything else in here.

 

[hondAS2ooo170]

riding a bike an fell hitting my jaw against the curb corner and dislocatting it.

 

[Juno]

Had sprained my ankles many times. Had to wear ankle braces/crutches while recovering. :frown:

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: Excelsior

Originally posted by: Anubis
Collapsed Lung

end of thread

...you don't mean "end of thread" as in "this is the most painful thing period, or in the thread", do you?

yes i do

My friend had a collapsed lung, he didn't complain much about the pain. He did pass a kidney stone though..that he bitched about, and rightfully so. I just don't see how you can consider a collapsed lung more painful than everything else in here.

ive passed a stone and yea it sucked but the collapsed lung wa smuch worse for me anyway

take a grilled cheese sandwihich and pull it apart, see how teh cheese does not wanna let the bread go, no imagin 1 side is your lungs and teh other side is your body cavity, the pain is unimaginable, couple that with teh fact they you can hardly breath and every time you take a breath of any decent size it hurts even more

 

[SchrodingersDog]

Appendicitis, about a week. I'm the toughest person you'll ever meet, and for a couple of days I cried like a little girl. Bright side was this really hot nurse that kept shoving various things up my ass while I drifted in and out of consciousness for a few days.