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

[vesuvius333]

I was playing basketball when both me and the person guarding me became entangled in the air. I came down first with his 200+lbs right on top of my left knee. Torn acl with pain that I have never felt before in my entire life. I somehow was able to get up and walk home after writhing in pain for about 10 minutes. The pain would eventually subside until my knee became locked. This means that I was unable to straighten out my knee no matter how hard I tried. When I tried to straighten my leg the pain was excruciating. Sleeping became a whole new ballgame as I had to spend an inordinate amount of time to find a position that wasn't like someone was stabbing my knee with a sword. The pain that I felt when I tore my acl would be put into 2nd place when I would have reconstructive acl surgery. After the anesthesia wore off it felt like someone was inserting hot pokers inside my knee with knives going back and forth on the wound. Every time I got up to go to the bathroom I turned white as a ghost. My parents told me this and at first I didn't believe them. Then one day I saw myself in the mirror and completely freaked out. I became Casper. That pain lasted for a good 3 weeks, recovery was 6+ months. I took no painkillers during any of these incidents

 

[FirewolfX]

ACL reconstruction and meniscus tear in each knee--not at the same time (though that pales in comparison just a bit to 3rd degree burns!!!)

 

[imported_apocalypse]

Sheeeeet @ darwin's incident.

My own is nothing in comparison, broken collarbone.

 

[AstroManLuca]

Originally posted by: 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.

Yeah, I'm a lightweight... worst thing for me was similar, getting liquid nitrogen treatment. I'd had it done before and it sucked but wasn't THAT bad. What sucked was that I had about a square inch of skin between two of my toes that was composed entirely of wart material. So instead of a few seconds it was a few minutes. And instead of one quick treatment it was three. My toes were black after. So I imagine it was somewhat like getting 2nd or 3rd degree burns on a small part of my body.

Yes, it sucked, but it can't hold a candle to most of the other stories here. I've never broken a bone, torn a ligament, or any of that stuff.

 

[Triumph]

Kidney stones. You know that feeling you get in your stomach when you get the wind knocked out of you? Now imagine, instead of decreasing with time, the pain increases. For oh, a couple hours. And it's an order of magnitude more painful than simply getting the wind knocked out of you. Imagine someone hitting you in the gut with a baseball bat. Repeatedly.

 

[JohnCU]

i've been pretty lucky. maybe a toothache... wisdom teeth removal was actually fun because of all the drugs. probably the worst pain was a hangover that wouldn't quit.

 

[jlee]

OC spray or taser...leaning towards OC.

 

[Fritzo]

I had a segmental break in my right forearm...that was pain like you would not believe. I actually passed out from the pain twice on the way to the hospital. They they had to set it by suspending my arm and squeezing the bone into place. UGHH!!!!

A close second was when I had a sinus infection and something got caught in my sinus cavity. I actually felt like my head was going to explode, and nothing made it feel better. I would just rock back and forth breathing heavy for 15-20 minutes until the pressure subsided, then it would start again an hour later. Luckily I found out about nettie pots and that took care of the problem within a day.

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: Triumph
Kidney stones. You know that feeling you get in your stomach when you get the wind knocked out of you? Now imagine, instead of decreasing with time, the pain increases. For oh, a couple hours. And it's an order of magnitude more painful than simply getting the wind knocked out of you. Imagine someone hitting you in the gut with a baseball bat. Repeatedly.

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Chipped bone in arch of right foot, being stung on the gums by a wasp that flew in my mouth and persistent bursitis in my left shoulder due to having a nerve being pressed on by herniated disks in my neck causing weakness in my arm/shoulder muscles(the pain itself was not too excruciating it was the fact that it wouldn't lessen appreciably or go away completely for no more than a few hours at a time no matter what treatment I received-steroid injections/pain killers/physical therapy for close to a year when they finally found the herniated disks).

 

[olds]

Tore my left ACL in half, took the meniscus with it. ACL went into my calf. I walked on it for 4 weeks before I found out what it was and got surgery.
Compound fracture of left collarbone was pretty painful too.

 

[Muse]

I don't remember. Fortunately, you forget intense physical pain. I had a bike accident a month or so ago, and not realizing I'd suffered a not insignificant contusion to my upper forearm I continued my plan to workout at the gym. Before I was done I could see in the mirrors that my arm was swelling quite alarmingly. Within 4-5 hours the condition became extremely painful. Icing the wound brought down the swelling and alleviated the pain.

 

[TallBill]

Pleurisy, also known as pleuritis, is an inflammation of the pleura, the lining of the pleural cavity surrounding the lungs. Pleurisy has a variety of infectious and non-infectious causes. Pleurisy can cause painful respiration (also called pleuritic chest pain) and other signs and symptoms, some of which may remain long after the pleurisy has gone away.

HORRIBLE!

 

[CrazyLazy]

Broke my right leg pretty bad. Had to have 4 metal rods inserted into it and look at them sticking out of my leg for a few months.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: mb
in grown toenail removal

For me, ingrown and infected toenail, before removal.

I can't decide if that was the worse, or the first time I got an anal fissure after a bad case of hemorrhoids.

 

[JohnCU]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: mb
in grown toenail removal

For me, ingrown and infected toenail, before removal.

I can't decide if that was the worse, or the first time I got an anal fissure after a bad case of hemorrhoids.

:shocked:

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: Quintox
I've had this happen about 2 - 3 times: after getting out of the pool, I would put Swimmer's Ear in my ear to get the water out. For some reason, after putting it in and waiting for 30 seconds then turning over it to come out, I got the most painful feeling in my ear I've ever had. It feels like someone is taking a screwdriver to your eardrum and it actually hurts so bad I have to lay on the bed holding my ear and literally moaning in pain. It lasts for about 20 seconds and hurts so badly it's unbelievable.

I've had this happen 2 - 3 times over the years, and it's easily the most pain I've felt.

What is Swimmer's Ear? I used to swim 2 miles/day 7 days/week. I used a swimcap, don't recall ever having a serious issue with my ears. After ten years of this (I used to push myself as much as I could stand), I developed a painful condition in my left shoulder and had to give up swimming. A few years later I had arthroscopic surgery, and when they went in there they found a labrum tear and repaired it.

 

[ballmode]

Thread is even painful to read....

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: WingZero94
Men = Kidney Stone(s)
Women = Childbirth without drugs

I'm not female, but Alan Watts says that childbirth is not necessarily a big deal in terms of pain and that in many societies women (at least used to) give birth in the fields and go right back to crop cultivation. All in a day's work.

 

[SagaLore]

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.

Someone else posted about a co-worker that was standing on the counter and slipped his leg up to his knee into an oil fryer, and couldn't get it out for 30 seconds. He said the leg looked like cooked meat after they removed the pants in the ER.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Muse

Originally posted by: WingZero94
Men = Kidney Stone(s)
Women = Childbirth without drugs

I'm not female, but Alan Watts says that childbirth is not necessarily a big deal in terms of pain and that in many societies women (at least used to) give birth in the fields and go right back to crop cultivation. All in a day's work.

Yea for those women it probably wasn't a big deal. For some reason these days most (not all) women get pampered and eat insane amounts of high calorie food, without doing much physical activity, so by the time they're giving birth they're completely out of shape and can barely put up with their own body let alone another small one trying to escape. The rate of epidurals and c-sections is staggering.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: AVAFREAK182
Foot surgery a week ago or so. I had a 3 shots in the bottom of my foot

Oh, I had foot surgery almost 3 years ago. Two Morton's neuromas in the same foot. Having one isn't rare, but two in the same foot at the same time is a rare condition. And they were big. Leading up to what turned out to be the inevitable surgery, I had many cortisone shots in an effort to resolve the condition "conservatively," but they didn't bother me too much. Recovering from the surgery was a bitch. It was necessary to keep the foot elevated for weeks or suffer pretty bad pain that got exponentially worse very quickly until I elevated the foot. I got around the house in a mini-wheel chair and would prop my foot up to heart level or higher whenever possible.

 

[Darwin333]

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......

Most Painful Thing YOU Have Experienced?

Starts at the bottom of the third page.

PSA: You probably don't want to read it.

 

[Harabec]

Motorcycle accident, flying into a ditch at 90kph, breaking bones, crushed foot, severe concussion, fun stuff.
But...the concussion made sure I didn't remember any of it (now, anyway) even though I was awake.
Only got 10% disability from that.

 

[Darwin333]

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.

Not much. 6 months of 2/3 a 40 hour check. It was only a summer job so I didn't make much hourly but I made hella overtime. Worked out to be about 1/3 of my normal check. Better then nothing I guess.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: mb
in grown toenail removal

For me, ingrown and infected toenail, before removal.

I can't decide if that was the worse, or the first time I got an anal fissure after a bad case of hemorrhoids.

Was it hemeroids...or did you go black?