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

[SunnyD]

Sadly, despite a broken finger, a few sprains, probably a concussion, catching a hot soldering iron by the tip in my hand, wisdom teeth, etc...

Probably the most painful thing I've ever endured was a migraine - at about 8 years old, not knowing what a migraine is. Imagine writhing in pain in a dark room at night as a kid with a headache so bad that you literally would rather be dead at that point. The only point where it didn't hurt anymore was when I finally passed out from either exhaustion or the pain.

Yeah, it doesn't compare to something like the asphalt burns physically, but for a kid to get severe migraines regularly - I wouldn't wish that upon any child.

 

[Muse]

Originally posted by: shocksyde

Originally posted by: mb
in grown toenail removal

Did you get the shots in between the toes? YUMMY!

I got shots there when I suffered from two Morton's neuromas in the same foot (used to be a daily runner). Got a 1/2 dozen cortisone shots in the foot on different occasions. No biggie. You just turn to the doctor and thank him and go your way. I had surgery on the foot eventually. Recovery from that was a bitch, but as long as I kept the foot above heart level for the next month, the pain was tolerable. A cool little folding wheel chair was very helpful in that regard.

 

[Juddog]

For me I was in a car accident and my left femur was broken in half. I passed out on the way to the hospital in an ambulance; I woke up to them drilling 2 holes through my lower leg bones in order to put my leg into traction, with no painkillers whatsoever. Most painful thing in my entire life, as they were drilling for what seemed a few minutes and the drill literally had to go from one side of the leg, through the bone, out from the other side.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: aesthetics
When I was little, my dad was standing on a stool putting up some blinds, and I was looking up at him. He had a drill in his hand and brought his arm down, and the tip of the drill went right into my eye. I had to go to the ER and the doctor removed metal shards from my eye-- they were from the magnetic tip. I had to wear an eyepatch.

Yowch. Anything about the eyes totally freaks me out.

When I was 12-13, I had a mishap with some gasoline. Long story short, the fumes flashed taking my eyebrows, a half inch of my hairline, what little body hair I had from the waist up (no shirt on) and giving me a light toasting on the front half of my body. No scarring, only minor blistering, but still a lot of area roasted.

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: 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!!

I don't think I can top this

 

[meltdown75]

wiped out on my dirtbike, went over the handlebars. open face helmet, no gloves

hands + face + gravel road

gravel stuck in my nose, chin and hands

hands skinned to the bone in both palms

dunked my face in a salt + hot water solution afterwards

 

[Atheus]

When I was working on building sites in New Zealand (we had no safety equipment at all) I once fell off a 2x4 spanning a gap about 3 meters up - landed sideways on a sawhorse. Ouch. That's nothing though. My boss at the time told me his previous labourer had fallen off a roof onto some exposed D12 reinforcing steel bars sticking straight up out of the ground and one went right through him... they had to saw it off and take him to hospital with the thing still attached...

 

[JJ650]

I literally "ripped myself a new one" while having fun day of boating and swimming. Of course, it WAS a fun day until that point. Hip was exposed and everything in between saw the light of day. Fractured the hip, and the coccyx is permanently curved to one side.

I couldn't sit for a good 3 months. Driving was out of the question. Everytime I laughed hard, sneezed or coughed, it felt like burning, searing pain thru my rear. You may not know it, but every muscle is connected to your ass end some how.

Something so simple as using the bathroom was SO unbearble and akward that I stayed doped on painkillers for months. I immediately had to bath with Betadine soap after each seesion on the porcelain throne. The pain killers made it worse by causing me to become constipated. Trying to use the bathroom involved serious amounts of pain and usually a fair bit of blood letting. Everything down there was a mangled mess.
The "boys" were spared any damage. Another inch down and it would be a different story.
It stayed an "open" wound for 6 months before healing & left a wicked scar!

My GPA took a serious nose dive that fall semester. It's hard to retain quantum physics lessons when you're stoned on opiates.

 

[GasX]

sitting in an ER for four hours with a broken collarbone

 

[GasX]

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1

Originally posted by: 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!!

I don't think I can top this

Yikes - that is horrible. There is a reason the debridement room is soundproofed... :Q

 

[krunchykrome]

I cracked my head when I was 7. I was riding a bicycle and make a sharp turn. I tipped over sideways and my head hit the corner edge of the sidewalk. I walked home bleeding everywhere and my mother went nuts. Apparantly, I was calm and I wasn't crying though. We went to the hospital and they stitched my head up.

This is per my mother. Despite what she says, I think I would have been crying and in a lot of pain.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: mb
in grown toenail removal

I had several when I was younger.

The dr puts a big rubber band around my big toe joint and then injects me with pain killer about 4-5 shots. Then he starts cutting with a pair of dykes..

Its not so much the pain as i can feel the pressure and its like he's hacking off my foot.

Horrible feeling to know you are being cut up and can feel the pressure but not so much the pain.. drives you crazy.

 

[rh71]

do migraines count? agony in the worst place. can't sleep, can't move, can't do jack.

 

[wheresmybacon]

I broke my leg in my freshman year of college playing indoor soccer. Shattered my fibula and fractured the tibia. That hurt pretty bad. I was on morphine while I was in the hospital for a couple days.

Worst pain ever though was detoxing from alcohol. I could have died. My body felt like it was on fire; it felt like I was being burned alive. I was freezing but sweating buckets. I didn't sleep for 2 days. I couldn't feel my tongue/face, and I was having these little mini seizures. I was also seeing and hearing things that weren't there. DT's ftl.

 

[compuwiz1]

I dunno, I suppose it was that time I fell on my ass. It hurt like hell and ever since, I've had to live with the crack. :laugh:

 

[Nemesis 1]

Having the lower left part of my left leg torn from the upper part at the knee. Ya it hurt bad and it was ugly. But from experiance thats not the worse a constant deep bone pain can rip your world apart also.

 

[acheron]

I had a couple ingrown toenail removals, but none of them were painful, really. Though one time I had just recently had one removed on the big toe of my right foot, and it was still healing, and my wife accidentally stepped on it. I screamed like a bitch. That was damned painful, and might be my answer. (Not quite up to the asphalt story, admittedly.) That hurt much more than the actual removal, and also more than when I broke my foot, or was in a car crash, or other times.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

Botulism. Shat blood for about 4 hours then went to the ER. By the time I got to the ER I felt like there was a live raccoon in my stomach trying to claw its way out. Unfortunately, it was late night when I got there and there had been a bad car crash somewhere nearby just before, and there were two people in the ER who were soon to die. I pretty much wanted to put a gun in my mouth for about 12 hours until Vicodin kicked in.

Took a low heater off the front of my big toe, which drove the nail backwards into the toe about a half inch and shattered the end of the bone in that and the adjacent toe. 1 Hour of INTENSE pain, one month of limping. If you are ever going to be tortured and have your nails pulled out, just talk, trust me.

 

[Ruptga]

Attacked by 20-30 bumblebees because I ran the lawnmower too close to their friggin nest. Protip: bumblebees can fly up to 35mph, so running like hell only works if you're actually running into shelter, picking a random direction across a field does not work. Anyway, the stings sucked a bit, but they didn't really hurt compared to what happened the whole next day. My throat didn't swell or anything, I just felt terrible, didn't want to do anything but lay on the couch, sleep, and puke every once in a while.

 

[theknight571]

For me it's been Kidney Stones... and their passing... or not passing.