The Worst Pains That You Have Experienced

[TheAmazingOopah]

Though getting your heart broken or lose a close person are tough issues, this thread is mostly to deal with physical pains, like bringing a child to the world or getting shot in the knee cap (I don't know, maybe you're an undercover agent or something). Just present the most painful body pains you have ever felt.

To start off with myself:
In one year time, I had broken both my wrists, first the left one, and a half year after the left one had healed, the right one. Now even though breaking something isn't nice, I still found the basic thing of breaking a bone not that extremely painful, even at the age of 10 and 11. The thing is more that with both wrists, there was something extra to spice it up.

The first time, we thought the wrist wasn't excactly broken, just bruised, and were foolish enough not to go to the hospital. Aye, how foolish that excactly was, I felt the next night because the pain got very much worse, growing big in a throbbingly kinda way. Probably the worst night of my life.
Then with the second wrist, we did went inmediately to the hospital (hey, we are not THAT dumb), but the bone had broken in such a way, that it was shifted. Basicly, if the crack would heal the bone would have grown not completely right, so that it had to be set straight again first. The old fashioned way. I got an injection in my arm to soften the pain (that hurt like hell) and while one doctor held me, two other doctors were pulling and pushing to get the bone straight. It only took a few minutes and it went right, but even though I had gotten an injection, it still was a world of pain and it felt like the needle hadn't helped a thing. Afterwards I realise, thank God for that injection, as without it must've hurt a lot more.

Another pain to mention is a dental pain, more familiar to most people I think. I was careless enough to get one hole in my teeth a couple of years ago and had it filled without an injection. The pain of that monstrous, fast spinning instrument going right in your teeth just hits you right in the nerve of the teeth. It's a pain that seems to touch excactly the fundaments of your teeth and one that goes through your whole head. Feels like torture. Still, I'm glad I didn't got drugged, because the experience of that pain made sure and will make sure that I'm never getting caries again.

Oh yeah, and a special note for cramps as well. They are not as worse as the pains mentioned above, but every time I get one, it surprises me and reminds me how bad pain can feel. It shakes you all up. But I've gotten so many cramps in the past few years, that by now I've gotten used to them

Well, I'm sure other people have some painful stories to share too, probably even worse than what I told. Don't hesitate to post anything. Shock me.

[fable]

No offense, but I'm not qute sure what purpose is served by discussing such things. It reminds me too much of elderly (cough) people getting together to complain and bragg about their various operations. I could only thing when this happens, "Who cares? Everybody has to go through this. Share pain with your intimate ones, who can help. Share beauty with the world." But I rate rather low on a scale as a world class prophet.

Alright, your thread, your conditions. So I'll conform to your wishes, and post: I've had severe chronic asthma since I was two. An attack (of anaphylaxsis) is debilitating both in the short and longterm and extremely painful. I found this pain far worse than my heart attack last year, though I described the latter at the time like a two inch wide steel bar rammed straight through my chest.

[Phreddie]

Originally Posted by fable

No offense, but I'm not qute sure what purpose is served by discussing such things. It reminds me too much of elderly (cough) people getting together to complain and bragg about their various operations.

You should feel right at home Fable! I cant imagine all the problems a Babylonian god sucha s your self has experienced, please, share your wisdom.


As for myself, Ive had about twenty teeth pulled in my sixteen years of life, and while the yanking and the pulling can be rather aggravating, its the needle in the gums to 'help the pain' that kills me everytime. Honestly, who stabs someone in the gums?

[Gunofgod]

Originally Posted by TheAmazingOopah

Another pain to mention is a dental pain, more familiar to most people I think. I was careless enough to get one hole in my teeth a couple of years ago and had it filled without an injection. The pain of that monstrous, fast spinning instrument going right in your teeth just hits you right in the nerve of the teeth. It's a pain that seems to touch excactly the fundaments of your teeth and one that goes through your whole head. Feels like torture. Still, I'm glad I didn't got drugged, because the experience of that pain made sure and will make sure that I'm never getting caries again.

I always have holes in my teeth filled without an injection.

[fable]

Originally Posted by Phreddie

Honestly, who stabs someone in the gums?

Publically sanctioned sadists with long, pointed objects. In other words, dentists.

[dragon wench]

Hmmm.. This thread does indeed have the potential to sound like a group of elderly codgers sitting around discussing their various surgeries and problems with bowel elimination..

However, to topic..
The worst pain I have ever experienced is undoubtedly when my skin became a sore, weeping, and infected, mess. Every part of me felt as though millions of burning needles had replaced my skin. I have suffered from eczema all of my life, and around 18 years ago a number of trigger factors collided and I subsequently ended up in hospital under heavy doses of antiobiotics and cortisone (a steroid medication used for conditions with severe inflammation).

For myself, I do not view childbirth as painful, even though it was (I did it drug free) because it was 'positive pain'.. if that makes sense?

[Phreddie]

Originally Posted by dragon wench

Hmmm.. This thread does indeed have the potential to sound like a group of elderly codgers sitting around discussing their various surgeries and problems with bowel elimination..

However, to topic..
The worst pain I have ever experienced is undoubtedly when my skin became a sore, weeping, and infected, mess. I have suffered from eczema all of my life, and around 18 years ago a number of trigger factors collided and I subsequently ended up in hospital under heavy doses of antiobiotics and cortisone (a steroid medication used for conditions with severe inflammation).

For myself, I do not view childbirth as painful, even though it was (I did it drug free) because it was 'positive pain'.. if that makes sense?

To speak for my mother: Her arthritis, shes in constant pain in her hands in feet (she too will go for cortisone shots, if she desperately needs something), the medications she takes to dull the pains make her lethargic, she naps more than she used to, waking up to pain. While she is very strong with deal with it, and attempting to try to hide it from us, I know it must be one of the most painful things she has ever experienced.

@DW, wait for that 'positive pain' to grow up a little, those teen age years. You'll change your mind soon enough .

[Chimaera182]

When I was in high school, I don't know exactly why, but head aches became frequent, and migraines the norm. I was plagued with at least one head ache a week--it was seriously that regular--and a migraine came just about once a month. Usually, I was blessed with low-end migraines; painful, certainly, but nothing to cry about.

But two instances are burned into memory that were very tear-inducing.

The first was the one time the migraine hit me suddenly. It was just about the most painful thing I had experienced in my life, and to date still is. I had to lie down because the pain was so excruciatingly crippling. Lying down on a soft, comfortable pillow actually made the pain worse, not better. I had my TV on, and the noise made the pain even worse. The light in my room due to my having nothing but light curtains made it all the worse; years later my parents finally deigned to grace my room with blinds; too little, too late, as I moved out shortly thereafter. But not only did the light hurt my eyes, but when I covered my closed eyes to shut out all light, the pain still got worse. Aspirin didn't help. It was the first time in my entire life that I seriously thought my head was going to implode; I could actually feel my brain pushing outward against my skull, which of couse made the pain even that much worse. I had to bear with it for hours, and the pain was so strong and so constant that it reduced me to tears.

The second instance of a painful migraine actually beats out the first, not because of the pain itself but the longevity. You don't know pain until you have had a 48-hour migraine (unless you're a woman; I always take a backseat to someone who squeezes a watermelon through a dime-sized hole, even if DW thinks it was a positive kind of pain ). I woke up with it, I went to school with it, I came home with it; turns out, I was actually sick, and the migraine was a symptom. The pain wasn't quite as excruciating as the time I mentioned above, but it wasn't too far off, either, and it stayed with me for 2 whole days. Then, it went away, and then it came BACK! And for two more days still! Two consecutive 48-hour migraines. It's a long-lived agony.

[Dottie]

Originally Posted by fable

Everybody has to go through this. Share pain with your intimate ones, who can help.

This is where you are wrong Fable. Some of us, like me, live lives almost completely devoid of physical pain. The worst thing I can remember is the food bins being uncomfortable heavy when walking home from the store.

[VonDondu]

Originally Posted by Dottie

This is where you are wrong Fable. Some of us, like me, live lives almost completely devoid of physical pain. The worst thing I can remember is the food bins being uncomfortable heavy when walking home from the store.

What about humger pains? Don't you have a big appetite?

[Dottie]

Originally Posted by VonDondu

What about humger pains? Don't you have a big appetite?

How on earth did you know that? Anyway, my appetite for the taste far outweighs my daily nutrition needs, so it doesn't cause any pain.

Discounting the pain of seeing my waist measure increase, but I thought that type was off topic.

[TheAmazingOopah]

Originally Posted by fable

No offense, but I'm not qute sure what purpose is served by discussing such things. It reminds me too much of elderly (cough) people getting together to complain and bragg about their various operations. I could only thing when this happens, "Who cares? Everybody has to go through this. Share pain with your intimate ones, who can help. Share beauty with the world." But I rate rather low on a scale as a world class prophet.

If we would open a Nostalgia thread to complain and sigh how much better it was in the good old days, then we would definitely make a decent bunch off grampa's and granny's., but just talking about pain is I think really not just preserved for the elderly, nor a way to brag about your "achievements". Or I mean, I didn't meant to brag with my post, nor did the others I think. It's just that first of all I think it's an interesting subject (though I don't enjoy it, don't think of me as a sadist), and secondly sharing stuff like this serves an essential part, I think. Many people complain about how bad their lives are, and how many things they don't have and in how much pain they are. Though in some cases that really might be justified, in many cases the people are basicly just spoiled and do not know real pain. Which I think can be said about my case: looking back on the pain that I have experienced, I think I really have no right to complain about the meagre amount of small pains that I have experienced, since by excample Chimaera with his migraine really has been through some hell seemingly, with which I strongly sympathize by the way. Just view this thread as a way to regain more appreaciation again for your own life, and the things you still have (or the pains you don't have), instead of being so miserable about what seems to be missing. No accusations here, just defensing my thread here.

Originally Posted by Phreddie

As for myself, Ive had about twenty teeth pulled in my sixteen years of life, and while the yanking and the pulling can be rather aggravating, its the needle in the gums to 'help the pain' that kills me everytime. Honestly, who stabs someone in the gums?

Twenty teeth? Ouch, how did that happen? Did they were teeth both out of your child teeth, as your current teeth?

Originally Posted by dragon wench

For myself, I do not view childbirth as painful, even though it was (I did it drug free) because it was 'positive pain'.. if that makes sense?

I think that makes perfect sense. I suppose you mean a mentally thing here? That you know that you experience the pain for a good cause? That afterwards, you will be happy to have gone through the pain because of the great result?

[mr_sir]

When I was 11 I slipped on some ice and had a hairline fracture on my wrist. The doctors missed in on the x-ray and for some reason it didn't heal properly. When I was 14 it got infected and I had to have 6 months of physio before I could use my right arm again.

It did have its upside though cos I was allowed to use a laptop at school for 6 months

[dragon wench]

Originally Posted by TheAmazingOopah

I think that makes perfect sense. I suppose you mean a mentally thing here? That you know that you experience the pain for a good cause? That afterwards, you will be happy to have gone through the pain because of the great result?

I guess I do mean that in a sort of psychological sense. Clearly, it did hurt, in fact it hurt like Hell. I recall at the time thinking something along the lines of "I had no idea it would hurt *this* much."
Although, one's body does apparently produce natural, pain-reducing endorphins during childbirth, so that may have helped.
But, it was also a rather wonderful and magical experience as well...to give birth to this being who had lived within for nine months, there was very much the feeling of taking part in an amazing creative act. Plus, as I mentioned, I took no painkilling drugs, so I was entirely lucid throughout the entire experience.

Not to derail your thread though, I just wanted to answer your question

[Xandax]

Hmm - having been subjected to loads of pains through my life so far - I'd think .... the worst (physical ) would be the time some 6 years ago when I drove into a car on my bike with about 40-45 km/h and hit my head in the window and flew some distance and then hit ground.
(To my defence, the car was parked illegally on the area for bikes on a dark road at the bottom of a good distance hill)
However that alone wasn't the worst pain, it was when I got to the emergency room and they needed to clean my forehead with a nailbrush to get residue of asphalt cleaned out.
That hurt like I don't know what else, and when they were done spatter's of blood where up and down the walls (glad I shouldn't clean that up).
God that was painfull......

Hmm - another might be the time a car accidently opened its door into my side when biking past it, so I got slung into the middle of the road and hit by a rather large truck. Then as I was to be brought to the emergency room in the ambulance, I was positioned on the stretcher in a rather painfull position, which I couldn't move out of until I had been x-rayed. That was also rather painfull.

Or all the other times I've gotten injuered.... remarkably I've never actually broken any limbs. I only have huge scar on my shin from the truck (second time) and a still visible one on my forehead (carwindow/asphalt first time) - but I never broken anything (yet)