I've had a few teeth get broken in half horizontally without getting fully knocked out.
Runner up is a wrist fracture at multiple locations, and the two don't even come close - the teeth were WAY more painful.
Childbirth, my hand was killing me.
I was shot in the eye with a bb gun when I was in 9th grade. It was absolutely miserable. Right after it happened, I had to practically get carried back. My cousin and one of my friends held me up on either side because I couldn't see anything and wanted to just lay there due to how severe the pain was.
The trip to the emergency room is a story too. A nurse in the ICU thought I was hit by a baseball despite the paperwork and asked me, a teenager that definitely didn't get to the hospital myself, if I knew my mom when she returned from the bathroom. After getting to the ER, I vomited up the entire stack of pancakes and the half dozen bologna sandwiches I had eaten that day (I was 14, teenage hunger). 2/10, do not recommend.
Holy shit the rumours are true... you CAN put someone's eye out with that!
That's the kicker lol I was a lucky little shit, I blinked at the moment of impact which was enough to prevent me from losing my eye entirely. My retina detached and was operated on, a macular hole still exists today, and I still don't eat bologna. That Christmas, I got a Christmas Story tshirt from my grandma that says "you'll shoot your eye out kid"
I was stung by a bullet ant (see username).
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Gout in my knee. Gout anywhere has been bad. The knee was the worst.
No gout attacks in years though, keeping it under control.
Gout. Big toe on fire, throbbing with pain, joint swollen until there are no discernable features. Even a feather touching the area is enough to generate hot searing pain. The constant urge to 'pop' the big toe joint set against the impossibility to actually wriggle the toe without passing out.
Should drink lots of water to flush out the uric acid, but every trip to the bathroom has to be carefully considered because walking there takes 2-3 minutes of grabbing on to nearby things/people while stepping awkwardly on the outside edge of the foot, instead of 20 seconds of normal walking.
I've had severe tooth pain for a couple of weeks (a cyst - the pain killed the nerves in some of my teeth), and 3 days of gout until the meds worked well enough to walk less painfully were worse.
- Full bowel blockage
- Ruptured appendix
With number 1, by the time I got to the hospital my shirt was wringing wet with sweat, vomit, tears, and blood. I took it off and told the ambulance driver to just chuck it in the bin lol
I heard wild stories from paramedic about people with chronic pain.
It is not uncommon to get calls from relatives like: " Our grandma fell, broke leg, and didn't want to bother you. She is on other side of city and we can't get to her."
And it turns out that it is open fracture but because she is in pain all the time, she didn't think it is big deal.
pancreatitis. I spent half of my 2021 in the hospital. it's apparently more painful than childbirth, it made me faint and my skin was yellow.
Top 3:
- Shingles in my eye / face / scalp.
- Appendix ruptured while I was on the toilet.
- Kidney stones (multiple times)
I haven't had shingles, and my appendix lasted until I could get it out, but I am with you on the kidney stones.
I've had 5 or 6 kidney stones and "the big one" has been harmlessly hiding in my kidneys for a few years. Every time, I think I'm going to power through the pain because the ER only gives you like one or two does of Toradol and sends you on your way with FlowMax and useless NSAIDs which I can just get off the shelf. I've never powered through the pain. Every time I wind up paying like $250 for 4-6 hours of relief.
To this, I'll add I've had migraines that made me want to drill holes in my skull. They've been bad enough that if I'd had a gun, I'd have used it. I'm not saying they hurt more or less than kidney stones, but I can't tolerate headache pain like that. It's the difference between "my back is in agony" and "existing is agony."
I am picturing this all happening simultaneously
Oh no, shingles in your eye?? How was that?
It was the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced.
Also, I had so many eye doctors appointments. They were worried I’d lose vision in that eye. Luckily I didn’t.
The circumcision I had in my mid teens. Well, not the circumcision itself, but the erections I would get in the morning which would rip the stitches out of my cock, bleeding until I masturbated with anesthetic gel to orgasm just to stop the pain.
In which context does someone get a circumcision mid teens?
Phimosis
Chronic cluster headache sufferer here. To sum up, I’ve been: Shot, stabbed, shot a second time, broke 7 bones in various appendages, hit with a baseball bat, hit by a car, multiple teeth issues, and migraine headaches, sprinkled for fun.
Basically, I took steve-o’s motto and ran with it (your body is a ride, ride it until the wheels fall off).
None of this comes close to the lightest cluster headache I’ve had. The sheer panic, the knowledge of what’s about to happen, the inescapable amount of pain I know is coming… Fuck CH.
I'm an episodic CH sufferer. No other pain comes close in comparison. You're not alone, brother (if I can make that gender assumption given your user name).
It's the best remedy I've tried insofar as it's the only thing that has worked as any type of preventative, and the only thing that has disrupted a cycle for me. It doesn't work as an abortive, in my experience, but it beats every pharmaceutical I've tried in every other way.
Sourcing it has been an issue, and it sucks to open yourself up to criminal offense for not wanting to live in pain, but we do what we have to do.
Is there a connection between your lifestyle and the CH? Did one of these cause the other, in whichever sequence?
What do you do to get put through all that?
Made light of someone else's cluster headaches in a past life
The most intense physical pain I ever felt was waking up after impacted wisdom tooth removal. One side of my face was appr. 3x the size of the other.
The second worse was last week; waking up from anaesthesia after having all 22 remaining teeth removed. It's slightly better now and I'd put it at 8,5/10.
The worst pain I've ever felt was mental though. It started almost three decades ago when my father killed himself when I was a teen. To be honest, I never recovered. I'm a shell of a human being begging for release (death) daily while being too much of a coward to actually do it.
Oh, and after returning to work with 0 teeth, my coworkers now amuse themselves by making me say tongue breakers. I already knew they didn't like or respect me before all this, but this really drove a dagger into my heart because it was someone I never would have expected it from. I've been at this company for 10 years and in this team for 5 and I'm fighting a daily urge to follow in my father's footsteps.
He really had the right idea. I was pissed at him back then but I have more understanding and respect for his decision every single day.
That's fucking awful. I genuinely hope you find yourself surrounded with people who love and respect you. I know life can be utter shit, but I'm glad you're still here.
Perhaps you can get a gofundme for dentures or implants in the future? It'd improve your quality of life and is worth pursuing if you feel like it's something you have energy for.
22 teeth removed? What in the world?
Check my post history, there's a picture.
Kidney stones. I've had the tips of two fingers on my left hand chopped off, and even that didn't come close to the feeling of a kidney stone rattling down the pipework.
I have Medullary sponge kidney, which in short makes my kidneys a stone factory. It's a love/hate relationship at this point. On the plus side, I've found drinking at least 2 liters of lemonade every day has done wonders to stop my kidneys from feeling like they're trying to kill me all the time.
Reminds me of a person in Woodwork class who partially cut into their finger with the table saw
I also forgot one day to let the table saw get to full speed and was lucky I didn't get wood launched at me because the teacher noticed and stopped me from using the saw
I absolutely hated myself for forgetting that basic step because I had used the table saw perfectly fine before
How did you get your fingers chopped off??
By sticking them where they didn't belong... kind of hard to explain but I was working on a friend's lawn mower and lost my balance, I tried to push against the mower to hold myself up but my hand slipped, kind of bounced off the ground and the mower blade managed to catch them.
It didn't really hurt but I was more mad at myself for it happening. I brought the fingertips to the hospital but they were kinda smooshed, and they had to take a bit more bone out of my fingers so that they'd have enough skin to close it up.
Spinal Stenosis. Woke up one day feeling like my back was not only broken, but that I could feel the broken ends grinding against each other.
I've had so many accidents with some that needed surgery and nothing beats getting my finger stuck in the car door of an Uber. I'm just glad the driver didn't move until after I freed my finger.
My father
Did he birth you from his cock or something?
Some time ago I shitted a fucking big shit it almost broke my shit hole.
Not good.
appendix
Had had a couple of bone brakes, but it felt like nothing compared to that pain, it also got away, was saved by a blood testing and going straight to operation table, after the pain ceased.
I feel like I've heard that before. Something about it being concerning if the pain suddenly stops because it indicates that it ruptured. I'm not a doctor though, just something I heard so it might not be accurate.
A spinal tap. It felt like a toothache in my entire body while a demon choir sang in a high pitched whine.
When I was 11 there was a chance that I had contracted meningitis.
Wanted to post the exact same thing. Experienced that a few months ago. Absolutely horrible. And i think the doctor's instructions made it worse. They told me to slump together and not round out my back. But after several failed attempts I rounded out my back and it finally went in. But that's only the beginning. The sucking sensation was so awful. It felt like they were trying to drain my brain.
I can still feel it.
Yeah they had me round my back, were pretty clear about it, but this was 30+ years ago so maybe some medical knowledge has come around, but I've not heard of it.
Sorry you had to go through it, sure wish they had a better way to get spinal fluid for tests.
Getting my nail pulled off.
Also, not exactly painful, but tonic clonic seizure.
For me personally it was getting some of my arms skin getting shoved between two desks that I had my arm resting on after someone slammed them together tightly during high school
Left a red line that took a while to go away
Edit I just remembered something wven more painful then this
I'm going to copy paste my comment reply to someone else below
"You reminded me of the one time I was visiting my uncle as a child and I ended up puking in the car because the sun was hitting the back of my head in summer, and this was Australian summer where It can get hot and humid
I don't know if it was a migraine but it was painful as fuck"
There was also the time i got rope burn from tug o war in primary school but the car headache that was potentially a migraine was more painful
I had some sort of bad migraine episode where I couldn't stop puking. Every time I threw up, the force of doing so would cause a wave of pain that was like someone hit me in the head with a baseball bat.
You reminded me of the one time I was visiting my uncle as a child and I ended up puking in the car because the sun was hitting the back of my head in summer, and this was Australian summer where It can get hot and humid
I don't know if it was a migraine but it was painful as fuck
6 vertebrae, 4 ribs, base of my skull, scapula—fractured; it is a pain that has never faded and never fundamentally changed in 10.5 years. I can't escape it for even a minute. It is like a sword in my back, my spine feels like a twisted and knotted towel, and my mind like a voice shouting over the pain. Thanks for asking.
I had (and still have) a sore spot under my right shoulder blade, I think it's called rhomboid pain, which I visited a physical therapist for. He found the exact spot and massaged it with his knuckle and that was by far the most painful experience of my life. On the scale from 1 to 10, that was 8.5. At 9 I would start screaming and 10 would make me pass out.
What ever has been the second most painful experience doesn't even register compared to that.
