What's the most painful (physical) thing you've experienced?

[Chronoshock]

Last time we had a thread like this, the guy who worked at his dad's construction business and was covered in hundreds of pounds of burning hot asphalt was the clear "winner", that story was horrific.

 

[AVAFREAK182]

Foot surgery a week ago or so. I had a 3 shots in the bottom of my foot

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Last time we had a thread like this, the guy who worked at his dad's construction business and was covered in hundreds of pounds of burning hot asphalt was the clear "winner", that story was horrific.

Yeah, the one I mentioned. He wins forever.

 

[Brainonska511]

The most painful thing I've ever experienced was probably having my foot lasered when I was younger to remove a plantar wart. The crazy ass dermetologist was using the laser without giving me any local anesthetic and it felt like someone was stabbing my foot with a pencil about once a second.

The next most painful thing that I can think of is probably when a desk fell over and landed on my hand. It was one of those old style desk/chair combos where books get stored in the chair portion. I was sitting in the desk at Sunday school and went to reach for my pencil which fell on the floor. The desk started to tip, so I put my hand down flat on the floor to brace it, but it just resulted in the desk continuing to fall and land squarely on my finger. It swelled like a balloon and I had to have it splinted for 6 weeks due to 2 hairline fractures in my middle finger.

 

[rudeguy]

Head
Shoulder
My chest crushed it

 

[daveshel]

Getting hit in the eye by a freshly 'whipped' tetherball when I was maybe 14.

I guess I must have gotten through nearly 52 years without much physical pain, because that's the only thing I can remember that compares to the emotional pain I've been through.

 

[Trey22]

Asphalt story wins.

But this happened to me... try having your knee bend in the wrong direction.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSySFNv9xNE

 

[woodie1]

Hernia was mine but a drill bit to the eye has me beat.

 

[adairusmc]

Achilles tendon snapping off of my foot mid-run is right up there.

But the physical therapy after the surgery was much worse.

 

[zinfamous]

You guys are all beaten by that one dude who posted his response to this very same question ~1 year ago.

You know: the guy THAT FELL INTO THE TROUGH OF MOLTEN ASPHALT? Don't remember his name off the top of my head, but I'm sure the God's of the broken AT search can help me out here....His many, many-year ordeal of excruciating pain and misery will never be topped by the typical AT dweeb.

As for me? probably racking my balls on the double bars in the playground. Think I was 6-8 yrs old......

 

[Aberforth]

I was hit by a train, my shoulder hurt pretty badly for a week.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Last time we had a thread like this, the guy who worked at his dad's construction business and was covered in hundreds of pounds of burning hot asphalt was the clear "winner", that story was horrific.

Yeah, the one I mentioned. He wins forever.

I'll see if I can dig it up...but I suck at it

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Split my head open pretty good, luckily I did not fracture my skull.

Seven staples later the Dr. in the Disney Goofy tie had me all staples back together and the blood had stopped flowing.

Was a good time on the 20-mile drive to the ER while I proceeded to freak my buddy out and pretend I was going into shock.....

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: joshsquall

Originally posted by: Chronoshock
Last time we had a thread like this, the guy who worked at his dad's construction business and was covered in hundreds of pounds of burning hot asphalt was the clear "winner", that story was horrific.

Yeah, the one I mentioned. He wins forever.

 

[Pacfanweb]

I was 6 years old, in 1st grade, and was in a school bus accident. I was sitting on the bottom step, doors open, with my legs dangling out the door as I held onto the hand rail for dear life until the bus stopped in a ditch.
Compound fracture of my lower right leg, bone gleaming from knee to ankle.

Bad memory.

 

[Kadarin]

Mine's pretty simple, and not even an injury. I was working the graveyard shift, and I had eaten some (apparently bad) Arbys just before coming in. I had very intense gas pain that lasted for the entire night, the kind that has you doubled up in a fetal position on the floor, unable to move.

 

[Brainonska511]

Originally posted by: zinfamous
You guys are all beaten by that one dude who posted his response to this very same question ~1 year ago.

You know: the guy THAT FELL INTO THE TROUGH OF MOLTEN ASPHALT? Don't remember his name off the top of my head, but I'm sure the God's of the broken AT search can help me out here....His many, many-year ordeal of excruciating pain and misery will never be topped by the typical AT dweeb.

As for me? probably racking my balls on the double bars in the playground. Think I was 6-8 yrs old......

Darwin333: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...erthread=y&STARTPAGE=2 (found it via Google's site search).

 

[Q]

By Darwin333 so others don't have to find it in that link:

3rd degree burns over 1/3rd of my body caused by 700 degree roofing asphalt when I was 16 years old and working a summer job. Basically, I was hauling some material backwards and the crane driver, who was acting foreman while our normal foreman was on vacation, pushed a mop cart directly behind me without warning me. I hit the back of my knees on the cart and fell backwards into the hot asphalt. My right hand instinctively went back to brace my fall and actually sat in the asphalt for a good 60 seconds. I was leaning back to far to stand straight up so I rolled over to get out of it and the whole thing basically dumped on my back and arms.

Asphalt isn?t like cooking grease. Grease gets on your skin at 500 degrees and a minute later its at room temp. Asphalt on the other hand just keeps on cooking so the crew threw two water coolers full of ice water on me to shock the asphalt. That saved my hand but presented a new problem. When I got into the burn clinic the asphalt was basically fused to my skin and they only had one way to get it off, by peeling it off (along with the skin it was fused too). Think being flayed alive. They couldn?t put me to sleep because I was in shock and they couldn?t give me massive doses of morphine for the same reason. So, for 4 hours they peeled my skin off while I screamed like a bitch in more pain then I thought the human body could endure before shutting down. It was so bad that, even though I didn?t want to die I wouldn?t have thought twice about shooting myself at the time simply to make the pain stop.

Unfortunately the story doesn?t stop there. The treatment for burns like that is almost as bad as the injury itself. Every morning they woke me up and brought me to a room with a stainless steel chair that sat on a pedestal with all kinds of hoses coming out of it. There I went through my daily debreedment (sp?). That is where they basically take a steel brillo pad and scrub the hell out of your fresh burn wounds. The point is to remove all the dead skin to avoid infection and to allow new skin to grow. The mental and physical pain is unexplainable. I tried to stay awake at night as late as possible because I knew as soon as I went to sleep I would awake to that god forsaken room. I begged and pleaded with the nurses to not bring me to that room everyday but every god damned day they would wake me up and take me in there.

The two skin graft surgeries that I got while in the hospital where a cakewalk compared to the rest.

Holy shit

 

[Tiamat]

Originally posted by: Quintox
By Darwin333 so others don't have to find it in that link:

3rd degree burns over 1/3rd of my body caused by 700 degree roofing asphalt when I was 16 years old and working a summer job. Basically, I was hauling some material backwards and the crane driver, who was acting foreman while our normal foreman was on vacation, pushed a mop cart directly behind me without warning me. I hit the back of my knees on the cart and fell backwards into the hot asphalt. My right hand instinctively went back to brace my fall and actually sat in the asphalt for a good 60 seconds. I was leaning back to far to stand straight up so I rolled over to get out of it and the whole thing basically dumped on my back and arms.

Asphalt isn?t like cooking grease. Grease gets on your skin at 500 degrees and a minute later its at room temp. Asphalt on the other hand just keeps on cooking so the crew threw two water coolers full of ice water on me to shock the asphalt. That saved my hand but presented a new problem. When I got into the burn clinic the asphalt was basically fused to my skin and they only had one way to get it off, by peeling it off (along with the skin it was fused too). Think being flayed alive. They couldn?t put me to sleep because I was in shock and they couldn?t give me massive doses of morphine for the same reason. So, for 4 hours they peeled my skin off while I screamed like a bitch in more pain then I thought the human body could endure before shutting down. It was so bad that, even though I didn?t want to die I wouldn?t have thought twice about shooting myself at the time simply to make the pain stop.

Unfortunately the story doesn?t stop there. The treatment for burns like that is almost as bad as the injury itself. Every morning they woke me up and brought me to a room with a stainless steel chair that sat on a pedestal with all kinds of hoses coming out of it. There I went through my daily debreedment (sp?). That is where they basically take a steel brillo pad and scrub the hell out of your fresh burn wounds. The point is to remove all the dead skin to avoid infection and to allow new skin to grow. The mental and physical pain is unexplainable. I tried to stay awake at night as late as possible because I knew as soon as I went to sleep I would awake to that god forsaken room. I begged and pleaded with the nurses to not bring me to that room everyday but every god damned day they would wake me up and take me in there.

The two skin graft surgeries that I got while in the hospital where a cakewalk compared to the rest.

Holy shit

Yeah, fuck that. God damn, that is terrible. I wonder what kind of workman's compensation he got for that.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Brainonska511

Originally posted by: zinfamous
You guys are all beaten by that one dude who posted his response to this very same question ~1 year ago.

You know: the guy THAT FELL INTO THE TROUGH OF MOLTEN ASPHALT? Don't remember his name off the top of my head, but I'm sure the God's of the broken AT search can help me out here....His many, many-year ordeal of excruciating pain and misery will never be topped by the typical AT dweeb.

As for me? probably racking my balls on the double bars in the playground. Think I was 6-8 yrs old......

Darwin333: http://forums.anandtech.com/me...erthread=y&STARTPAGE=2 (found it via Google's site search).

haha, I always forget to just use Google

so many times have I gone to company websites and used their own search function to find products. I always get confusion, then enter the same query in Google: 1st hit is always the necessary page in that same damn company's site.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Tiamat

Originally posted by: Quintox
By Darwin333 so others don't have to find it in that link:

3rd degree burns over 1/3rd of my body caused by 700 degree roofing asphalt when I was 16 years old and working a summer job. Basically, I was hauling some material backwards and the crane driver, who was acting foreman while our normal foreman was on vacation, pushed a mop cart directly behind me without warning me. I hit the back of my knees on the cart and fell backwards into the hot asphalt. My right hand instinctively went back to brace my fall and actually sat in the asphalt for a good 60 seconds. I was leaning back to far to stand straight up so I rolled over to get out of it and the whole thing basically dumped on my back and arms.

Asphalt isn?t like cooking grease. Grease gets on your skin at 500 degrees and a minute later its at room temp. Asphalt on the other hand just keeps on cooking so the crew threw two water coolers full of ice water on me to shock the asphalt. That saved my hand but presented a new problem. When I got into the burn clinic the asphalt was basically fused to my skin and they only had one way to get it off, by peeling it off (along with the skin it was fused too). Think being flayed alive. They couldn?t put me to sleep because I was in shock and they couldn?t give me massive doses of morphine for the same reason. So, for 4 hours they peeled my skin off while I screamed like a bitch in more pain then I thought the human body could endure before shutting down. It was so bad that, even though I didn?t want to die I wouldn?t have thought twice about shooting myself at the time simply to make the pain stop.

Unfortunately the story doesn?t stop there. The treatment for burns like that is almost as bad as the injury itself. Every morning they woke me up and brought me to a room with a stainless steel chair that sat on a pedestal with all kinds of hoses coming out of it. There I went through my daily debreedment (sp?). That is where they basically take a steel brillo pad and scrub the hell out of your fresh burn wounds. The point is to remove all the dead skin to avoid infection and to allow new skin to grow. The mental and physical pain is unexplainable. I tried to stay awake at night as late as possible because I knew as soon as I went to sleep I would awake to that god forsaken room. I begged and pleaded with the nurses to not bring me to that room everyday but every god damned day they would wake me up and take me in there.

The two skin graft surgeries that I got while in the hospital where a cakewalk compared to the rest.

Holy shit

Yeah, fuck that. God damn, that is terrible. I wonder what kind of workman's compensation he got for that.

read the thread.....THE HORROR!!

 

[manowar821]

being stabbed.

 

[will889]

Acute decompression. More than once.

 

[Jeff7181]

Originally posted by: will889
Acute decompression. More than once.

:laugh:

 

[ChaoZ]

The pain before you finally decide to get a root canal.