Okay, time to take Off Topic to a dark place. What’s the most physically painful thing you’ve ever experienced?
Me? Despite being into rock climbing and sport, I’ve been remarkably injury free throughout my 34 years on this planet. The most pain I’ve ever been in, however, was the result of a skateboarding accident.
A longboarding accident to be precise.
For one (admittedly) fun summer a group of my friends and I got fairly heavily into longboarding. We all bought boards and we all starting trying to hammer it down increasingly steep hills in the New South Wales area.
With each successful run we got more and more confidence. To the point where I felt a little bit invincible. That was to be my downfall.
I was alone. I decided to bomb it down this steep, narrow footpath hill. I hadn’t really thought through the super sharp bend at the bottom of the hill. Surprisingly I made it.
It was the next bend that got me.
I went flying into a pole. I turned my body into the pole to avoid a head injury, but I went arm first into the pole itself. I must have been going around 40-50 km/h.
The pain was instantly horrendous. The most pain I’d ever been in. The swelling was also instantaneous. To the point where I was certain I had broken my arm. I carted myself home and my wife drove me to the hospital. The Doctors were surprised I hadn’t actually broken a bone considering the swelling, but I was given the all clear and a hefty amount of pain killers.
A couple of days later, and the bruising came out. See pic above.
That was the most pain I’ve ever experience. What about you? let us know in the comments below.
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154 responses to “Off Topic: The Most Painful Thing You’ve Ever Experienced”
Either the time I burnt my hand or the time I fractured my clavicle (which I didn’t notice until 3 days later).
It took you three days to notice the most painful thing that ever happened to you?
You should probably go get a brain scan or something.
Well I had the accident on Friday and it wasn’t until I woke up on Monday did I feel pain. Could have damaged it then broke it in my sleep.
I can’t actually remember how painful it was, since I was on 6 or 7.
Riding my bike down a steep road one day, I lost control & slid face first down the hill.
One entire side of my face was covered in gravel rash & I didn’t go to school for a week or two because it healed in one giant scab.
Scared the shit out of my mum, but I came out of it without any scarring.
Bikes can be instruments of pain. My mum got one for Christmas when I was about 6 or 7, and I foolishly tried to ride it inside the house. I bumped into something and the bike came to a sudden halt. Not me though, I copped a metal bar straight to my tender young bollocks. I came to some time later – apparently I had blacked out and my dad had to carry me and put me on my bed to recover.
Bikes are dangerous. Came off one coming back from school, was around 9 or 10 years old, foot slipped from the pedal somehow (the pedal was one of those spiky grippy things)… anyway, the pedal spikes got stuck in the inside of my right knee, and the gear embedded itself an inch into my left inside knee. Had to walk the last half a km home with two gaping wounds in my legs, not to mention the superficial grazing.
OC spray.
+1
Squashed the end of my finger in a pneumatic log splitter – didn’t tickle. Fractured pretty badly – doctors official diagnosis: “you smashed it”.
When I was younger I had an operation to correct my hammer toes which involved swapping the upper and lower tendons on the three middle toes on each of my feet. Walking around after the operation was excruciating for several weeks, feeling like straightening my toes would lead to the lower tendons ripping off or ripping through the skin.
Now comes the painful bit. One of my ‘friends’ thought me hobbling around was hilarious and decided to come up and stand on both of my feet. He was a year older than me, considerably larger than me and a bit of a bully, but the adrenaline rush that I got from being dizzy with pain gave me the strength to shove him several metres away before I limped off with head spinning and tears streaming down my face. That was about 20 years ago and still remember with crystal clarity.
Hmm, most of the things that have happened to me haven’t really been “painful” so much as “unpleasantly uncomfortable”. I guess the recovery process after my tonsillectomy where they encourage you to eat rough foods to prevent scabbing is one of the worst incidences. I also had a particularly bad ear infection at one point (requiring pethidine for the pain) and having your toenails removed (because of in-growns) isn’t fun afterwards.
First time I had a tooth removed was a wisdom tooth. Got it done and stitched up. Pain as expected, nothing major.
Away for work for the week following and unbeknown to me the stitching had split a little and the hole got infected.
It was the worst pain I’ve been through (worse than broken bones, strep throat and ear infection) but since I’d never had a tooth removed I didn’t know if it was normal or not.
Barely slept, existed through half dosing pain mess to dull the pain all the time rather than have little pain and then full pain for a few hours when they wore off.
When got back home and went to them they said it had been infected the whole time, cleaned it, stitched again and antibiotics and it was good within a couple days.
I had all my wisdom teeth removed, due to two never pushing through, and two only half pushing through, then having no more room and stopping (I have a small jaw). It was essentially the same thing, I had two constantly open wounds in my mouth, and food would get lodged and then infection would set in. It took me a year or two of that happening before I had them removed on dentists orders.
Can confirm it is excruciating. Getting them removed wasn’t much better, but the long term pay off was totally worth it.
Parents passing away 🙁
Don’t mean to be a dick but physical pain?
It hurt emotionally, financially and physically too (I fell quite ill after their passing)
Fuck mate I’m really sorry to hear, like I said I wasn’t trying to be a dick. So have you managed to beat it?
Not yet, still seeing my physio once a week. As for the mental part, I’m much stronger now
It doesn’t have to be physical to hurt. In fact, pain that is emotional is infinitely harder to treat and cure.
Yeah I know this but as the post states in the first paragraph “Okay, time to take Off Topic to a dark place. What’s the most physically painful thing you’ve ever experienced?”.
Depending on the severity, physical pain may induce as a secondary side-effect to emotional pain.
Pun not intended but taking the topic further into emotional pain is not hurting anyone.
In fact those sharing their emotional pain here are to be commended as it takes a great person move forward but an even greater one to share about the experience.
I agree with you 100% and once again I have shown how ignorant People can be when they don’t understand something completely.
Lost my father when I was younger. Shit hurt way more than any physical injury I’ve ever experienced.
Sitting around a bonfire as a younger man just doing dumb shit like burning various things in the fire. Had a shopping bag on a stick, burning away, then dropped my stick. Reached down to pick it up, not realising my hand was under a friend’s stick who was doing the same thing. Giant glob of flaming plastic landed on my right hand. That got my attention. Still got a decent scar on my hand 20 odd years later. That really hurt.
That or when I jammed my finger in a shipping container door.
Oh man, burning plastic is the worst. Hot melted sugar almost as bad. I feel you.
I would’ve through the sugar would be worse. I imagine that would be a lot thicker.
For me it was when I was out cycling. I was on a road at about 6AM enjoying a beautiful summer morning when a Ute driver failed to stop at a junction and ran into me. I still dont have any memory of the incident I ended up with a broken collarbone, a fractured pelvis and a broken femur along with a bunch of other stuff. My $16000 Tri bike was destroyed. It took 2 years to heal and recover and I still have some problems. However, I was lucky in that another cyclist was literally 70 seconds behind me, even luckier that he was a doctor, he helped divert traffic around me and ensured that I was looked after and made all necessary arrangements with the hospital. The driver who drove through the junction left the scene and has never been found.
What a fucking dog. I know it’s a stressful and chaotic situation but if you hit somebody while you’re driving and just drive off you deserve the worse kind of punishment.
Glad you (mostly) healed up and are still with us.
Having bone marrow extracted, there are no words, it was like the void of space was suddenly present inside my bones and was being compressed into a singularity.
Second worse pain, it was 2am and my car headlights were getting dimmer and dimmer, so I pulled over and popped the hood. The fan belt had come off, so no charging and the car was severely overheated. I lent in to get the fantbelt back on and the radiator cap failed, fired into my face at high speed, followed by superheated, glycol filled water hitting me like a fire hose.
It burned all the skin off my face and neck, welded my ears closed and to the side of my head, my nostils welded shut and my corneas blistered.
All the skin that was once my face was hanging in strips around my neck, my ex-nose was hanging from the middle of my face. I ran up to an outdoor tap and got under cold water, but the pain was insane. I banged on the back door of the house, and then ran back under the tap, repeated that a few times, but no answer, so broke in, and use the old dial telephone. The 0-0-0 seemed to take forever to dial, and it took all of my concentration to get my shaking finger into the dial and move it a-l-l the way around.
I stood in their bathtub, running cold water from the shower over my face until the ambulance arrived. I saw myelf in the bathroom mirror, and I looked like Freddy Kruger. They carried my out of the house, and I went to the burns unit, the pain just kept ramping up. Eventually I got a shot of morphene, and like a miracle, the pain went away.
Until the next morning, when it came back with a vengence.
The treatment over the next weeks was actually more painful than the burn, you got a box of LUX flakes, and a chux superwipe, and would scrape off all of the scabs/scar tissue that had grown each night, with no pain killers. It was excruciating, and I certainly didn’t look forward to the mornings. I would stand, staring in the mirror, Chux in hand, and psych myself up for the pain and then go for it. It was worth it, the scarring was massively reduced over what it would have been, but oh god it hurt. Just moving your face hurt, let alone scraping at it.
I never did find the house again, I always wondered what happened when the people came home, found water all over their kitchen floor, and a bathtub full of skin, but nothing missing from the house….
I was going to say the bullet into my upper thigh…. but god-damn man….
Thats nothing compared to the sounds of your story…. I’ve had the radiator explode due to heat thing but obviously was very lucky and only copped some minor burns on my arms, but i cant imagine…
Holy Shit Dude,
I watched my old man fall in a fire when I was younger and then saw all the pain he went through with skin grafts and removing dead skin and stuff in his recovery. That was only his arm, I cant imagine what it must have been like for you.
you sir have my respect !!!
And that was his 2nd most painful thing!
Yeah, the bone marrow thing was a truly cosmic level of pain. It was so ridiculous that I just kept laughing, which freaked out the nurse. That was after half an our of thumping this thing into my hip, my bones are apparently freakishly dense, so they were thumping away, I thought that hurt pretty bad, but when they sucked the marrow out, holy shit, it was a religious experience of hurt.
Man. You always seemed like a Guy Who Has Seen Some Shit™, but that’s just… geez.
You win the toughest human award.
Jeez Poita!
I was going to post about dislocated shoulders, a flave virus that felt like I was crushed by a steam roller and smashing my clavicle, but a burn like that and the after effects… even I feel terror at what you must have gone through. I’m so glad you still have your vision.
I was so scared that I would go blind.
Holy crap Poita that sounds painful
jesus christ dude, that is some shit.
4 years of prowrestling. Ended up with wrists that sound like cement mixers, 5 concussions, bad knees and back, partial memory loss, and more injuries. So much for a “fake” medium huh?
More recently though… Scrolling through 5 pages to get to a lifehacker or Gizmondo article that looks like it’s worth a read lol
Ahahahahaha brilliant!
That second point tho
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/f4EwKrTgtLQ/hqdefault.jpg
I’ve been pretty lucky, mostly just soft tissue damage from playing soccer. Worst was probably when I recently tore my calf, or years ago when I sprained my medial ligament. Both were several weeks of recovery and pain with every step.
There’s also the time the guy decided to defend the goal by elbowing me in the face:
Warning: It’s pretty grossThat is one hell of a shiner
Shattered my fibula. Wasn’t too bad at the time as I was in shock, but the next morning was unpleasant to say the very least.
When I was 16 in high school, kid went to kick me in the nuts. Thinking too quickly, I stuck my hand in front to deflect the kick and copped the full force of the punt to my little finger, completely shattered the knuckle. Required micro surgery to pull all the little pieces out, 17 years later and my little finger is a good 1/2cm shorter than the other one..
Look on the bright-side, at least you didn’t have to have micro surgery on your nuts.
Arm Wrestling and having my Humerus bone snap in half during my mates 21st. It was my fault originally cos i locked my arm. The snap was loud enough to overpower the techno music playing(yes sandstorm has a different meaning for me lol). I still remember my friend holding my hand at a weird angle. It was surreal… until the pain came crashing down on me as i was being helped down the porch and i fainted. lol.
I don’t understand how you lock your arm?
It’s where i was holding my arm closer to me and using the pressure exerted by my opponent to be placed on the muscles around my humerus bone rather than the actual whole arm length.
Also we were arm wrestling incorrectly. Instead of pulling towards each other, we were going from side to side.
Yeah 7 (so about 13-14 y/o), school holidays, mum was working so we spent most of our days being looked after by the next door neighbour… Lunch time comes around, I go back home, make myself a bowl of noodles (the one with the freeze-dried veggies etc in the styrofoam bowl) with hot water straight out of the kettle, take it into the loungeroom, put it on a stable table, sit on the lounge and promptly up-end the whole bowl into my lap…
What made it worse was the nylon boardshorts I was wearing at the time… Surprisingly enough, it wasn’t that painful… Only I learned later from the doctor, the reason it wasn’t painful was because I’d received third degree burns and had basically fried some of the nerve endings on my thighs and lower stomach…
So anyway, basic burn treatment skills kicked it, I ran upstairs, ran a bath full of cold water, stripped off the shorts, jumped in, and almost straight away strips of skin came off my legs and started floating on the water…
Fast forward about half an hour later, the neighbour comes over because she hasn’t heard from me since I came home, I called out that I was in the bath, she came in and found me, called the ambulance straight away, you all know how this part of the story goes…
Long story short, I spent 10 days in hospital playing Mario Kart while my burns healed.
Man I’d say that’s a lucky story.. that could’ve burnt some pretty “life changing” areas.
2008.
Went to get into the car.
Opened the door, hit my head on the door frame, pinballed into the door, then back into the door frame.
That hurt like hell.
Sorry, can’t stop laughing.
Blew out my ACL and MCL in one fell swoop. My leg was so destabilised that i had to have 3 months of therapy before they could attempt surgery (And my wife was 3 months pregnant!) Longest 3 months of my life. My surgeon was so impressed with the damage he asked if he could use my scans and surgery video for training purposes.
Impaled myself on some bricks when I was younger. Had surgery to get all the pieces out of me. Still have the scar. And this more mental pain, but getting raped when I was 10 destroyed my childhood and teenage years. Tried to kill myself twice because of it and I’m dealing with the fallout a decade later. I find it crazy how people can joke about rape nowadays. They don’t have one fucking clue.
Nobody deserves that. You are tough to have survived it and brave to speak about it. Maximum respect!
While playing rugby, I ruptured a disc in my back. At the time it wasn’t too bad, quite stiff and sore for a week or two then came good (the joys of being young and brainless). However, about 10 years later, the rupture had calcified and I managed to twist my back the wrong way. It was now pushing on a nerve.
I can’t describe the agony. For about 6 months, I had trouble standing, sitting and sleeping. Usually lying down was ok but getting back up was horrific. Funny enough, it wasn’t my back that was too painful but my left leg. Phantom pain would shoot up and down my leg, with either a burning sensation or intense pins and needles.
Dropped a bookcase on my foot. Shattered 3 toes – 2 fractures on big toe, fracture on second and broke off the tip of the third. Lucky it was my left foot (so I could still drive) and it wasn’t a few centimeters further up.
Left leg completely dislocated from the socket with the ball joint grinding on my pelvis. I feel like I experienced childbirth
Ooh! I have a story.
I had my rather overweight friend (about 100kgs at 13 years old..) over when I was 13. There was a matress on the lounge room floor which he had slept on the night before. I was laying on this on a hot summers day watching TV. Meanwhile my friend was messing around trying to distract me. He persisted piling masses of pillows on top of me and jumping on them and rolling off. Didn’t hurt, of course. Until…
He rolled off the stack of the pillows and landed on my arm. My arm was half on the matress, half on the ground at an angle. It snapped straight in half like a twig with a big loud crack. I held out my arm in front of him, it rotated 360 degrees as if I had a second wrist halfway down my arm. It was like that moment in Harry Potter where his arm gets broken and all the bones get removed. It was just floppy and dead. My friend went pale and almost passed out, and after the initial shock, the throbbing started. It was horrible.
Went to the hospital, had to wait like 2 hours, then they had no rooms spare so I had to lay on a bed in one of the hallways in agony until they transferred me to another hospital 30 minutes away. Had a cast for 8 weeks all the way up to my shoulder. It sucked.
Sounds exactly like the arm wrestlers break I had. I know that feeling where at first you’re just staring at it and waving it around like it isn’t part of your arm. Then the realization hits you and WHAM… PAAAAAAIN.
I would have said dipping my finger onto a deep fryer which was an insanely disproportionate about of pain for what it was but waking up after having a stroke 2 weeks ago and my head felt like it was about to fall off or explode or both and all the connective tissue in my body felt like it was slowly dissolving. Thanks the gods I was in hospital with quick access to high quality IV drugs. 2 weeks later and I still haven’t fully recovered.
So while not on par with some stories here, I did have a freshly poured hot water bottle explode in my face whilst squeezing the bit of air out of it before sealing it. scorched my face and couldn’t sleep due to pain. The really painful thing however was that the only movie on TV that night was Vertical Limit.
Vertical Limit (shudders) I hope you had some strong pain killers to get through that !
November last year playing a game of basketball in the local bush league (I’ve played pretty competitively for my whole life but have slowed down in my old age and just play for fun now).
I was driving to the ring looking for a dunk (I am getting old and slow these days and dunks are few and far between) and the two centres were wrestling under the ring for position, my teammate threw the opposition centre (things were getting a bit heated) across the key just as I was full tilt at the ring and my leg somehow got hooked under his armpit and I whiplashed from head height (about 6 foot 4) and flat on my back. I had a non displaced fracture In my L1 vertebrae and a displaced fracture in my L2 vertebrae and 2 broken ribs thrown in there just for fun.
When I walked into the doctors (yeah that’s right I WALKED into the doctors) she told me that it was most likely just bruised ribs as if I had broken anything there is NO WAY I would have walked in there. On my pushing she decided to get me x-rays (after telling me it was likely a waste of money) had the x-rays then was immediately sent to the hospital for CT’s etc and the doctors/specialist could not believe I had been walking around like that, apparently I shouldn’t have been able to deal with the pain (doctor/specialist minds were blown)
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that broken ribs is the most painful thing you can ever do…….these people have obviously not had a broken back, as I barely even noticed my broken ribs the whole time.
More than 6 months later and it is still a day to day issue.
I tore the ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) in my right knee back in 2011 from an accident at judo, that was unpleasant. Had two operations on my knee shortly after that.
When the nurse pulled the draining tube out of my knee, that hurt a lot. A friend of mine also got a bit too excited about something and went to punch me in the knee, completely unaware that she hit my swollen, bandaged up knee that was operated on about a week or two beforehand.
Haven’t had all that much pain in my life. When I was 7 or 8 I jumped the last 2 metres out of a tree and landed on a plank in the grass that had nails pointing up. An inch of rusted iron in the middle of your foot isn’t fun but I can’t remember the pain. Did it again the around the same time while playing soccer bare foot in a friends yard.
The worst memomable pain I have is when I had a competition for sit ups and being the competitive person I am pushed myself way to far. Next morning getting out of bed my muscles didn’t work and the pain was incredible. It was like my muscles were saying what the hell are you doing man! LIE DOWN! I don’t know how your muscles just refuse to obey your brain but I had to use my arms to drag myself to a sitting position. But I don’t think that pain would compare to some things written here. Pain is a matter of perspective.
Haha I had a similar thing to that once. PE class at school, it was a sitting against the wall thing, like you’re on an invisible seat. I was determined to win (and totally did), but completely destroyed my legs in doing so. Could barely walk the next day, and still wasn’t walking properly for a week.
I had flat feet when I was a kid, which necessitated orthotics (for the unitiated – inserts that you put in your shoes that have an arch that’s meant to reshape your foot). I got them when I was in year 6, and going from having no arch in your foot to having one is a very slow, very painful process, especially for an 11 year old. For weeks every day my feet were in absolutely horrendous pain. I begged my mum to let me take them out but she didn’t (she was a good mother and I hated her for it). Now, ten years later, my feet are pretty much normal but I can’t wear shoes without my orthotics and if I stand up for more than 2-3 hours at a time even with them in my feet hurt like all hell.
Let your kids be flat-footed.
(I’m just kidding, don’t, it causes all sorts of back problems. Just don’t expect them to like you for helping them)
I Tore my MCL, ACL Meniscus and cartilage all in one go when i was 16 that wasn’t pleasant at all.
I also recently tore a 4.5inch Tear in my abdominal wall (not in the usual hernia spot) which also didn’t tickle.
Anyone here passed a kidney stone. The pain can be a bit variable but often rated as amongst the strongest pain you can get. I’ve treated people in my local ED and despair getting regular indomethacin (an NSAID) and morphine it barely touches the pain. Again I’ve not experienced it myself but it’s often described as the male equivalent of the worst pains in childbirth except stronger and more constant
Snapping my achilles tendon when I landed the wrong way jumping over a trolley on my skateboard. Pretty much shattered the bones in my ankle also. Best 8 months of my life.
It’s a long list.
Skateboarding:
1) Steep hill death wobbles easy to bail…. except 1 foot hit asphalt other somehow hit board. I went all over the place on rough asphalt. I lost quite a bit of skin up my back, elbow to wrist and chunks out of hands and fingers. Scabs kept breaking because everyday movement.
2) 6 years later and a lot less skateboarding was riding a skateboard on a drive with beer bottle in hand (half a case down) in a country town. Skateboard came out from under, used free arm to break fall. No real issue. Realised later in the night that I couldn’t get my arm out from pocket. Fell asleep and couldn’t get out of bed, you apparently need your elbows to get yourself up. Base Hospital, student doctor, “is one hand colder than the other normally?” I don’t know I don’t generally check…. “could have killed muscle and its dying” oh cheers… X-ray, sling, no break just busted elbow, still not the same and cuts off blood flow so goes dead easily in the night now.
Stick through hand:
Playing basketball trying to save ball from going in hedge, I go in hedge instead. Climb out with a stick the size of the big kindergarten colouring pencil straight through hand between thumb and index. Brother runs up street to get mum “he’s got a stick in his hand!” mum comes out ready to kick my arse for chasing him with a stick…..
Lobbing rocks through bushland:
Calling out heads, brother lobs rock from 30 metres away high. gets perfect trajectory to hit top of my head even though behind a 4 metre high granite boulder. Lots of blood and a walk home…. Not much skin at the top of your skull to stich. Kept pulling through when tying it up. Fun.
Have inflicted the following though:
Pushed brother into cactus at great aunts place.
Smashed brother in face with boogie board in pool putting tooth through lip.
Fighting with brother, his eyebrow connect with my heel with an instant lump and him thinking his eyeball wall pushed into his forehead.
He trusted me to guide him down a 55 degree hill once with his eyes closed. I walked him into the back of a parked BMW…. No injury but we still laugh at that one.
Had a random explosion of pain in my back while jumping on the trampoline as a kid. Found out from the chiropractor that my spine wasn’t in the shape so I had to go to the chiropractor for a year.
Broke a toe while sparring at karate practice, the pain came later after I finished.
Getting punched in the gut and windered during a karate grading.
impacted wisdom tooth cracking in half and having an exposed root
Had an ingrown toenail taken out, my GP put three needles in to numb the whole big toe but it didn’t work properly so he ripped it out with ‘surgical pliers’ anesthetic free. 🙁
Dislocated my right knee playing cricket in year 10. The muscle designed to pull the knee cap to the left detached and the other muscles pulled the cap around to the right side of my knee.
I had to have my knee in a brace for a few weeks before I had an operation.
Most recently, a kidney stone. That one floored me and I had to go to hospital. I missed a Devin Townsend concert that night so I was sore and sad 🙁
Getting bitten by 3 mosquitos in the space of 2 hours, not your usual broken limb severe burn story but without a doubt just as if not more painful.
Brace yourself….
I had butt-surgery….30+ stitches internal AND leading out the butt to external.
The first shit I did was the most excruciating thing I’ve ever experienced and after speaking to women who’ve given birth and had the same surgery – they say child-birth was easier.
Sorry to make this about poo.
Trigeminal Neuralgia. Wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemies. The Trigeminal nerve controls feeling in the side of the face and when there’s an irritation nearby it can’t work out what signals it should send.
Feeling becomes pain. So a light breeze becomes an sub zero ice pick combined with a super heated knife stabbed into the jaw.
What a bruise! And that’s why I no longer skate!!
As far as instant, soul-hurting pain, breaking my wrist playing football at school is up there. The shock, seeing forearm at a weird angle, and the pain all combined to be pretty horrific. However…
I managed to break and disclocate my femur walking up some stairs. I had just finished swimming and tripped on the bottom set of stairs inside my house. That caused the ball joint to slip from my hip, and landing on it broke the top of it.
It wasn’t painful right away, it almost felt like I’d pulled a muscle. But when I tried to stand and walk on it? Well, imagine trying to walk while your leg is not attached to the hip. It felt so terribly weird and uncomfortable. Things were moving that weren’t meant to move in those ways…
Still, the pain was all mostly discomfort. Six hours sitting in the ER, followed by surgery, a metal pin in my leg, days in hospital and six whole months on crutches came with it. Worst.
I busted my ankle playing soccer (which was actually the 2nd time I had injured that ankle). Didn’t break it, but did just about everything else to it that you could possibly do without actually breaking it. Blood vessels, tendons, ligaments, you name it, busted, torn, burst. Bruising extended halfway up my leg. I probably would have been better off actually breaking it because at least then I could have had it in a cast. Took me out for 7 weeks.
I’ve torn my hamstring too, which was also incredibly painful, but not sure if I’d put it on the level of the ankle injury.
In 2012 I was on strong narcotic painkillers such as Oxycodone, for an injury where a shard of glass penetratrated my right index finger and damaged nerves. This caused chronic constipation as all opiates do – the original injury was nothing vomoared to what happened next….
I was so blocked that over two weeks of not “going” my intestines literally became dilated to 10cm. They were very close to bursting and the pain was something I honestly wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. I vomited violently due to the pain and cried like a baby. I was in a rural town at the time and they contemplated airlifting me to the nearest major hospital. I was originally taken to the local hospital via ambulance and given IV Morphine which did not do a thing. Invasive procedures followed to repair my gut and stop it from bursting, which could have resulted in Septic Shock. Almost passed out several times due to pain as well. Urgh. 10/10 pain for me, every nanosecond was hell on Earth.
I have experienced this pain three times since and at the time I’m praying to god for mercy, or a quick death. It was 1000x worse than snapping, cracking and dislocating my wrist and surrounding bones as a kid. Which required surgery to wire everything back together.
Accidentally stuck my hand into a McDonalds deep fryer working as a teen. Still no comparison. Broken my wrist once, my arm, pinky finger dislocated/broken, had stitches in my knee and finger, had concussions, broken toes and other stuff. Still nothing compared to my gut incidents. I now refer to the gut pain as “death pains” as there’s no other way to describe it tbh.
Always use laxatives on opiates was the lesson lol.
I’ve broken most of my bones including my back but the most painful thing i’ve ever had to deal with was dual income tax… that shits just brutal…
I will take a broken finger any day over that!
I have three that I consider.
The first was breaking my arm when falling into a curb.
Second was dropping a wooden ladder on my big toe. That wasn’t too bad but blood began to build up behind the nail and until the pressure released it was pretty excruciating.
Third was getting kicked in the knee while playing football. On the one leg taking a shot and I got kicked in the side of the knee. The swelling was outrageous and the next few days I could barely walk without some intense pain. That same injury has occurred two more times this year.
Funnily enough getting knocked out in a football match wasn’t too bad because I didn’t remember the event.
And I split my forehead open as a kid but was too young to remember.
I’ve had three incidents that I can remember.
First was end of my first week at my second after school job at a deli. The owner asked me to use the meat slicer whilst she took a phone call. I asked her about a metal glove she told me not to worry. Naturally for the un initiated. I’m using a meat slicer and the first thing I did was slice my thumb, almost cut the tip clean off. Cue pain like you wouldn’t believe, blood like you wouldn’t believe and me almost passing out and banging my head on a concrete wash tub. Naturally my mother was in hysterics when she came to get me and the boss has to explain that one.
Number two was two months after I got my drivers licence I was sitting in the middle of a large intersection at the Gold Coast waiting to cross. There’s a truck on the other side, can’t see past him in my sedan as you sit so low. Light went orange which means I had to go and I’ve been cleaned up by a 4×4 with a bull bar running the amber light on the passenger side. I ended up facing the wrong way on the opposite side of the intersection resting against another car. I ended up with a face full of glass and concussion, and panicked to get out as the car fills full of white dust from the airbags going off. Very scary
Third painful experience would be that I have really bad ankles from years of rolling them due to bad walking and other things, these days they sound like cement mixers in the joints and I have to ware boots that come up well over my ankle to protest my ankles from me injuring them. Anyway my friend in the carpark is a bad manual driver. I was standing next to him talking to him and he’s rolled forward straight over my foot as I’m twisting the joint to walk away. Aside from the immense pain and me wanting to punch my friends lights out. The only thing that stopped me from getting a broken ankle were my steel capped boots.
Ironic
I think the worst I had was one time when I was young, I was very headache-prone but this one time it just felt like something had exploded in my head and I was on the ground writhing and screaming in pain. No idea what it was, but it went away at some point and thankfully never came back.
I generally try to avoid pain where I can 😛 Though given how many stupid things I do it’s a miracle I’ve never broken a bone or caused more serious injury.
I’ve had injections in the gums prior to 5 of my 7 wisdom teeth being pulled (at 8:30 am no less!), I’ve had numerous broken bones, I’ve had nasal surgery, I’ve had sprains aplenty, I’ve been kicked in the bollocks by a cow and I’ve experienced the agony of chopping habaneros then going for a piss without completely scrubbing the skin off my hands and consequently getting some habanero juice on my knob…
That said, I’d re-experience all of those things if I could just get rid of this fucking arthritis in my thumbs that’s stopping me from using a controller. I’d really like to be able to play Trials again and the Blood Starved Beast won’t just kill himself damnit!
Acute pancreatitis caused by codeine in over-the-counter cold,cough, & flu tablets causing a sphincter in my pancreas to spasm erratically. Feels like having a heart attack (according to Wiki) or like being run through with a spear while being kneed perpetually in the back. Aside from that, the best way to describe it is “two hours or otherwise indescribable pain”. Most external pain I can deal with because I know why and see where it is, but when it’s inside and moving around in your torso, it’s a whole new kind of panic that only exacerbates the pain itself. At least it only lasted a couple hours for me, the two times that it happened.
The crippling pain of hiding mental illness from everyone around me for 6-7 years. It got to the point where I could no longer sleep or eat properly. I would say that was worse then any proper injuries I’ve had.
Ooh I didn’t consider psychological pain! Yeah that’s probably beating any of my physical ones, it seems like one of the most painful things you can do is say “I’m fine”…
Did the Nuss procedure when I was 14. Hands down the worst pain I’ve ever experienced for about 3 weeks without respite. It has it’s own wikipedia page:
“Nurses who attend these patients post operation generally concur that this operation is one of the more difficult recoveries of any operations for children.”
Well o fell off the top floor of the house landed bolt up right on the concrete floor. Not sure entirely what I did to my ankles from that cause didn’t go to the doctor just limped around for a few weeks.
Dropped part of a laithe (that how it’s spelt?) on my finger in highschool woodwork. Lost the nail eventually. Had a cool bruse under the nail from it though.
And the five needles Into the sole of my foot was so bad I’ve had a phobia of them ever since.
All in all though I’d say I’ve been fairly lucky compared to many people.
Had a sibling kick me full pelt in the nuts once *they’re dead now*, next 5 minutes were not the greatest. I remember not being able to breathe properly for a good 30 seconds; just really shallow breathing. Stayed fetal on the floor for a good while too, lol.
Probably not too bad after reading some of the ones on here, haha.
I’d have to go with getting arm barred a bit to hard in BJJ training or getting my shoulder dislocated in training. Not really sure which one was worse.
Having a horse run in front of my ute while hooting through a pine forest doing about 160. Swerved and missed the horse, but ended up rolling for 100+ meters. Wasn;t wearing a seatbelt and my leg went out the window. The cab rolled over my leg and snapped it in half. I came too with the ute on its side and my arse sitting on the grass through the passenger window. I grabbed the drivers side window sill and hauled myself up, noticing my lower leg flapping around like a rag. I threw myself out of the cab onto the ground and thats when I noticed the bones poking out. I pushed them back in and proceeded to splint the leg with some rope and sticks. When I stood and tried to walk I passed out, decided I couldn’t walk anywhere and laid in the shade for about 8 hours before anyone found me.
None of that was overly painful, it was in hospital after around my 8th operation when the doctor decided it was dangerous to anethatise me again and decided a spinal tap was the safest way to knock me out, man that hurt like a bitch.
2 years ago I struck by a car doing about 65kph whilst crossing the road. I was extremely lucky no to be killed, however both my arms and left shoulder were shattered by the impact. My arms were bolted back together using titanium alloy plates, which gives me cool Wolverine-esque x-rays. My left shoulder was a mess and could not be operated on until a specialist was available. Which was two weeks later. For two weeks I could not be moved without me screaming in pain, even on the epic amounts of pain killers I was on, as the top of my left humerus was now in about 12 pieces. I was unable to sleep for more than about 2 hours at a time as any movement would cause these fragments to rub together. In hospital, when you can’t move yourself, the wardsmen and nurses have to move you every 3 hours (no matter the time of day) to prevent bed-sores. Continuous use of strong pain killers does a number on your body, so they had to throttle back on the doses, which of course meant that I was just in agony all the time. It took nine hours of surgery to put my left shoulder back together again and they did a great job. Once at home I had to adapt to sleeping in a computer chair to take the pressure off my arms and shoulders whilst I healed. The first time I slept for more than 4 hours in a row I wept with joy. It took 18 months of physio and exercise I now live mostly pain free without meds, but with a somewhat reduced range of motion on my shoulders. Don’t assume that cars will always stop for a crossing…
Chemotherapy and Radiation therapy. It’s not just the pain it causes but it’s also the extreme nausea and burning I could feel inside my face.
Inside my mouth was so traumatised that my teeth would cut into my tongue every time I moved my mouth.
The IV port inserted into my chest for chemo wasn’t much fun as they only make you drowsy for that. Not too painful but very unnerving.
The stomach tube being ripped from me at the end of treatment wasn’t exactly delightful either.
Respect to some of you guys and girls too. I had it awful but some of the stories sound truly excruciating compared to what I went through.
BTW, it was nasopharyngeal cancer (nasal/throat).
Oh, my wife leaving me about a year into remission did actually physically hurt at the time.
Not much fun but all good now!
There a few things harder than what you have been through. You have my admiration and respect. Congratulations on beating the big C.
Thanks.
And this is why I still read Kotaku after all these years – it has the best community on the internet, even if the articles themselves aren’t always awesome.
Some awful/painful stories here. Really puts everything into perspective.
Elbow tattoo. Enough said
My worst pain was when I was about 20 and I had borrowed a neighbours old shitty push mower as mine had died. Mine was a new one with a safety release catch so as soon as you let go the motor cuts out. The one I borrowed didn’t have this feature.
Now I knew it didn’t have the safety feature at the time but I guess I was daydreaming or something. So the grass was still a bit damp from some rain beforehand and it was clogging up the blades so I released the catcher and put my hands in to get some wet grass out, while the motor was running and the blades were still spinning. Did my 3 fingers on my right hand, but I guess I went into immediate shock because I didn’t even realise it at first. Pulled my hand out and it was a bloody mess but the digits were still attached. Then it sort of hit me and nearly passed out while waiting for the ambulance.
Doctors did an amazing job, as I had severely fractured them, but now the only evidence of the accident is I have a small 2nd nail bed on my pointer finger where they had to rebuild it.
Hmmm. Some very painful episodes in this Off Topic!
Being bitten while breastfeeding is very painful, I didn’t enjoy that. I also did not enjoy the recovery from the c-section – I couldn’t stand up straight for about 2 weeks (oh, and my abs have been permanently separated). Other than all that, I ruptured the lateral ligament in my ankle at 15 and getting that put back together was agony. I didn’t get surgery, but it took a good year of physio before I could walk properly again and it’s never been the same.
I always think I’ve topped it when I hurt myself with some new wonderful injury, but it always comes back to my kidney stones.
Ugh.
Damn some painful stories in here.
At the start of last year I didn’t know I had epilepsy or pretty severe osteoporosis. But I found out by having an extreme seizure and fracturing 7 vertebrae, my right shoulder and some ribs, just from fitting on the ground. I was alone at the time and thought I’d just fallen over for a moment, cause I never thought I’d have a seizure, so I just assumed I hurt a muscle in my back a bit, but god damn did it hurt. I managed to crawl somewhere and call my wife, but I still insisted I was fine and just strained a muscle. She talked me into an ambulance and they took me to the hospital. After a scan they discharged me with nothing and said you just hurt some muscles. After an hour being at home, in a lot of pain, they called me back and said don’t move, we looked again and you fractured about 7 vertebrae and could get paralysis… yeah.
Then I spent a couple of months in hospital flat on my back, but getting up again was the hard thing. Easily the most painful thing I’ve been through was standing up after 2 months flat. It’s indescribable, it’s a BIT like the head rush you get sometimes standing up. but times a million and lasts for weeks. For every week of inactivity your muscles get, it takes about a month to get them back to zero, that’s why astronauts struggle when they come back down the gravity well. It’s over a year later and I’m still just recovering. In the time I’ve been up I’ve broken ribs just from breathing hard. Basically I have the bones of a 70 year old in my 32 year old body.
Had gout then kicked my gout toe into the door. Needless to say, after that I joined a gym and ate better.
Getting a vasectomy.
“Just like going to the dentist” they said… Well yes, if the dentist is making balloon animals from your knackers. What could go wrong, did go wrong. The “butcher” put too little anaesthetic in, he lost one of my snipped tubes and had to go fishing around with a thing like a crochet needle, and it cost me 200 notes in the bargain.
Never again, I can tell you!
Childbirth. They say you forget, and I did kind of forget the first, but I can still feel the second if I think about it. And I get a pain almost as bad as that every month. One time earlier this year the pain was so bad I passed out.
And then there’s breastfeeding every couple of hours for 20 minutes a time for a few weeks even though one of my nipples was so injured it looked like a flip-top lid….
Bloody hell.
I’ve had a wide variety of lacerations, 3rd-degree burns, muscle tears, broken teeth and poison gas inhalation, but none of it was as painful as my first migraine. I thought I was having an aneurysm or something and going to die, to the point that I went to the ER.
The doctors looked very sympathetic and did an excellent job of not laughing as they gave me painkillers.
That was one hell of a strong curry!
…And I am no longer welcome at that restaurant.
They’d probably have to burn the place down to get rid of the smell
You can’t burn something down twice. 🙂
Ahhh I was picturing something more along the lines of extensive corrosive damage rather than fire, more “giant worm guts level from gears of war 2” and less of the “just emerged from the vault in fallout 3”
Most painful thing that happened to me was having a nerve get knotted around an artery in one of my balls.
Constantiant thumping pain every second whilst it ‘swelled’ to like 3-4 times its size due to blood build up.
Doctors said it’s more painful then childbirth and passing stones, at least the pain only lasted 3hrs until they knocked me out and did emergency surgery.
For me its a cross between the pain of a broken leg as the adrenaline wore off after wrapping my car around a telegraph pole, or getting hit with OC spray (in training, not as a criminal)
If pressed, I think I’d give it to the OC spray, seeing as it was instant pain
So I’ve had the following done:
Passed a kidneystone 1 week before end of third year uni exams. Spent 3 hours on the floor at 2am tryng not to scream. After getting another stone removed , waking up with a metre-long plastic tube (called a “stent”) in me, one end curled up inside my kidney, the other end attached to, er, my wedding tackle with cotton and tape. Had to pee through that tube for a week, which looked and felt like I was peeing fire. Then had it pulled out, at a speed of 2-3 cm a second , with no painkillers. God that hurt. (and then pissed pure blood afterwards)
Had an umbilical hernia operation.. that part wasn’t too bad, but for the few occasions where the muscles were ripping apart? forget moving for 2-3 days. Had to lie in bed, very still.
Also had a large blood clot in my leg. trying to walk, move, stand upright with that was agony. Having the clot move through a valve in your leg vein at 2 in the morning is enough to make you wake up and scream. And painkillers didnt work at all for that sort of pain.
Nothing like some if the horror stories I’ve read so far.
This past weekend I managed to bust a ligament in my thumb trying to squish a spider (the spider got away to add insult to injury) the pain was so intense that I thought I dislocated it!
Prior to that I’ve been stabbed (not fun but shock really does numb you)
Had a vasectomy with the anaesthetic wearing off (not fun at all!) and a million and one Charlie horses but the worst pain is undoubtably impacted molars caused by wisdom teeth – motherf*cker that hurts, basically you teeth trying to push other teeth out of your head and if it hits you then one side of your face is in excruciating pain for a day and no over the counter medication will take the edge off. I wouldn’t wish a wisdom tooth on my worst enemy
Mine was so bad I’ve kind of repressed events a little.
I know it was bad, but I can’t recall how bad.
There are also large amounts of intermittent time missing.
I was about 6, if I recall.
I lived in town by the beach, and me, my three sisters and my single mum would go for bike rides along the beach about once a week.
This particular week we rode a little further than usual. I was too tired to get back to where we had parked, so we hid my bike in the bushes along the track and I sat in the chair on the back of my mum’s bike.
While I was sitting there, I was a little too preoccupied playing with the wheel. Touching the wheel as it spun to make noise and what not.
I was so preoccupied that I accidentally let my foot swing in to the spokes as we were riding.
The spoke cut straight through my shoes and almost cut the entire bottom of my right foot off.
This is where I start to lose memories (and where my foot starts to feel awkward as I type).
I remember being in the car as my mum frantically drove to the hospital some 20 minutes away.
I had my foot held together by having a sock tied around it to keep the bottom attached to the top.
After that I can’t recall anything.
Somehow ended up in a Perth hospital (a three hour drive from the incident) in the blink of an eye.
I’m pretty sure I was helicoptered there…
The foot was so bad that nurses thought it was a burn from all the tyre grease in the wound.
I was in the hospital for weeks in and out of consciousness (because I was so doped up on meds).
Had to wear a cast for a few months I believe.
So anyway.
Yeah. Wouldn’t ever wish for anything even half as bad to ever happen again.
My foot feels incredibly weird while I’ve been typing this.
Almost like it’s reliving the memories…
Holy shit man, that one got me all achunder there for a sec. Hope everything works as it should.
Yeah, all works fine which is rather miraculous.
No limp or anything!
Sometimes it feels a bit weird, and hurts after lots of walking, but mostly it’s all good thankfully 🙂
animal hit me on freeway, then Car hit a stobie pole, Broke 45 bones in 30 seconds. Took 3 years to mend and repair, mostly. I was a 50/50 bar for 3 months.
Either:
About 20 years ago, walking along a wet steel bar on a dare and slipping, landing one leg either side of it. Hurt like hell at the time and I was bruised from gooch to navel so badly that it looked like I was wearing a black pair of bike shorts. Also the swelling caused my urethra to close up and I had to wear a catheter for about 4 days until I could pee normally again. Amazed my dick still works at all after that.
Or last year, when I was hiding on the roof fixing to pelt my kids with water bombs when they walked into the driveway (I am super immature and was also quite drunk) and a piece of rotted gutter edging I was crouching on gave way, sending me hurtling about 6 feet onto a sharp fence post which punctured my abdomen and broke several ribs. Multiple surgeries required to close the hole in my body, massive fucking scar. Still owe those kids a surprise soaking.
“Jokes on you dad; get rekt m8”
When I was little one of our dogs was an escape artist and we regularly had to go catch her out by the street. One time we were about to go swimming and she got out so I ran after her. Near the road I grabbed her collar, but somehow my hand slipped under it and got stuck. She proceeded to drag me across the road, bare chested, scraping off a giant patch of skin in the middle of my torso (think about 2 flat hands worth).
Birth.
More specifically, being birthed. It happened about 25 years ago, I was screaming for hours, and I’ve never quite recovered.
3.5 years ago snapped tibia & fibula just below the knee (tibial plateau also broke into the knee joint), thanks to wakeboarding at ludicrous speed. Fell backwards, board dug in and went from too fast to zero almost instantly, with all force channelled through the left leg.
Heard and felt the snaps, wasn’t sure what I had done (thought ligaments at first). Mate helped me out of the bindings and out of the water and my leg looked weird, thankfully no bones piercing flesh. The muscles had set hard all around my knee and down my leg and had blown up like a balloon. No pain until we got back to shore and I tried to put a bit of weight on it. Yep – had done something decent.
Was about 2 hours away from decent hospitals in Brisbane (was out at Somerset Dam if anyone knows it) and a police officer patrolling on the day said an ambulance would be 90 mins away, and would probably take me to a closer regional hospital. Mate drove me back to Brisbane. No pain meds, even when I first arrived at hospital – the dude in the emergency room thought I’d just sprained it and possibly thought I was exaggerating to get morphine, refused my request for morphine and sent me to get x-rays first. Should have seen him running with the morphine injection when he saw the x-rays.
2 titanium plates and 14 screws to put everything back together, and a week in hospital. Crutches for 6 months, full leg brace for 12. Had the hardware removed about 1.5 years ago as it was restricting range in my knee and was constantly uncomfortable and in pain. It’s helped a little but I still experience chronic pain, have to stay stocked up on oxycodone for the bad days.
Anyone want to buy a wakeboard?
Ruptured appendix.
I had a brain tumour removed at the end of 2013. Two days after the surgery the strongest pain relief they’d give me was Panadol.
That and having the inside of my arm and armpit tattooed.
Both different pains but both the worst I’ve experienced.
Everyone in this thread is about a million times more of a man than I.
Never broke a bone. Usually played it safe. About the only physical pain I can remember is reaaally scraping up my knee into a bloody number when I was 10-abouts. Playing chasey, tripping and getting a good scrape on the asphalt.
Mental pain on the other hand… best not to dwell on that.
Fracturing some ribs, and for me it was when my allergies were really playing up so it was god damned torture..
being set on fire:
on a trampoline, managed to catch a fully fledged hadouken (Kerosene fireball) in the chest.
Stop Drop Roll does not work on trampolines, You bounce back to your feet.
Cliffs: 2 weeks in hospital on the highest amount of opiates they could legally give me.
Riding a bike downhill as… possibly a 7 year old. Can easily guess what happened.
About 2007 I got pulpitis in one of my molars – the living tissue inside the tooth basically swells up, and because there’s nowhere for the pressure to go inside a tooth, it just crushes the nerve. I have never been in such excruciating agony in all my life.
I couldn’t sleep – painkillers didn’t work. The only thing that would numb the pain was sipping ice water and holding it in my cheek. I went to the dentist the day after it first hit me and after a night of not sleeping. He gave me the needle (the absolute best feeling in the history of anything was the pain just melting away) root canal and sent me on my merry way, but when the needle wore off a few hours later, the agony returned. Another night of no sleep, sipping ice water, passing out from being overtired, then waking up a minute later when my tooth warmed up again and the pain returned.
Went back to the dentist the next day and he performed another root canal, having discovered a fourth root. Needle wore off after returning home, and I felt pretty good… then the pain came back. A repeat of the previous night.
Dentist decides on the following day to pull the tooth out. Told him to yank it out like he was starting a mower. He needles me, then sticks the clamps in and starts pulling and wiggling from side-to-side. Calls the nurse over to hold my head in place. Eventually he stops, and tells me he can’t get it out. The tooth isn’t budging, cracking, bleeding – nothing. Sends me to an oral surgeon, who admits me to the emergency room. I’m given another needle and an IV, and then promptly pass out in the x-ray room from a combination of lack of sleep and food etc.
Had the tooth out the next day under general anaesthetic. Surgeon had to shatter my tooth with a drill and pick the fragments out of my jaw because my roots are apparently like fishhooks, and in all I spent probably three days in hospital because I was so messed up from the whole ordeal.
Jesus dude, tooth pain is the worst. That is horrifying.
I’m not sure I’ve had a fairly accident prone 27 years these all seemed to about tie, falling down a flight of 20 or so concrete stairs on my back, crashing my car on a country road, cutting my inner forearm open with a bow saw, splitting my head open on a cornice, melting plastic burning through the flesh on my pinkie finger or having my neck twisted by the idiot at high school that tried to put me in a full nelson and resulted in a 3 day headache.
for me its a toss up of two incidents.
in grade 5 i got what the school nurse told my mum on the phone was ‘a nasty gash in his shin’ and sent to a drs office to get it fixed up. that nasty gash was actually a hole 6 inches long, 1 inch wide and 2 inches deep. my aunt who took me to the drs fainted and the dr said it was a miracle in didnt lose my lower leg.
second was at TAFE training to be an electrician. you’re only allowed to work with 12 volts while learning, but some machines you can get up to 240volts. one of the asshats who was in that class thought it would be funny to prank me and got me to hold….something, i cant remember. 10 seconds later after one of the other guys pryed my hand off of that something, id had the veins in my right arm from fingertip to elbow burnt out. luckily hospital was a 2 min walk from TAFE. and yes, im not an electrician.
When i was but a small boy (perhaps 5-6), an evening came that i have not forgotten.
all was normal.. then i tried to piss, nothing was happening then bam razorblades shredding my penis to pieces. terrible feeling really.. the kind that makes you instantly hold your bladder with a face like that boy on the cover of home alone. after 30 minutes i tried again but the same scenario above happened… told dad and went to hospital. they put me on a table with my penis through a hole in some sort of medical antiblood cover cloth of sorts. and proceeded to force a syringe up my urethra, that was when the screaming began, and they didnt stop for at least 10-15 minutes.
at that point they kicked dad out of the room because he was about to go apeshit on them, seeing me like that i guess. of course after they did that and about 10 minutes more had passed, they said go to the bathroom again and see if its better. NOPE. tell dad i cant piss. he looks like hese ready to murder someone.
best part is that it wasnt the hospital that did anything helpful, it was a bottle of sprite that helped me return to normal. hence the story of why i have 0 trust in medical staff. im not really sure what was wrong in the first place.
Most likely an infection that was flushed out by the medical staff, you still would have had the pain for a while after that when trying to pee. It would have gone back to normal after a period of time after being flushed, the Sprite is just a coincidence, if you had had a glass of water instead, or a coke, a a flaming moe, the result would have been the same.
Blisters in my ear canals? Treated by my parents as blocked ears/common cold. They burst one night. Funnily enough…ice in a frenzied state doesn’t provide aversive stimuli when melting it in your hand. That beat placing my finger on a fresh tack weld.
I’m just standing here reading all these horrible things thinking back to the time in High School I got a javelin thrown at me and it ended up in a 50/50 seesaw position in my leg and I was sent to the hospital only to return and be accused of stealing the javelin from the school because somehow what had happened didn’t get around to any teachers. The kids that did it were likely the ones that dobbed me in for stealing it.
Anyway, a week after that finished healing I fractured my ankle and didn’t realize for 8 hours because compared to the previous injury it was like a splinter.
However it didn’t stop there. After that healed and I could walk on it again, due to not using my knee enough the ligaments and tendons around my patella had weakened to the point that one snapped and my knee dislocated while I was running, which made me fall flat on my face and I fractured my left wrist.
I’m also allergic to most painkillers.
Wasn’t so much that painful in terms of physical pain, but slowly sitting there waiting for my leg to heal, unable to do any sports or martial arts sent me into a depression. All good now though. haha
Other than those, never had any injuries.
Become a stuntman. You have the experience.
Kidneystones. Twice. Easily the worst pain I’ve ever had. I’ve been stabbed deep before accidentally, I’ve been burnt, I’ve had my leg run over (that was sure fun and a miracle it didn’t break!!!) But Kidney stones stand out as the goddamn worst I’ve ever had. It got so bad, they used enough morpheine on me to the point I was at risk of OD’ing (around 5 years back now) and could STILL feel it faintly.
The doc told me, that while high on morpheine, I was looking for a scalpel to cut them out of myself when I was told I’d ‘have to pass them’ and they wouldn’t operate. Apparently I got pretty agitated, started grabbing people begging and they had to put me out.
Now, passing a kidney stone…. THAT was sure as hell fun…
Yeah, I had gallstones and the pain was immense, I’ve heard kidney stones are pretty much the same.
Sorry to get super graphic, but I’d have to say it would be pooping post an external haemorrhoidectomy. Every muscle movement felt like being stabbed, and if the stool wasn’t soft enough it felt like your incision stitches were being split open. Went well beyond yelling pain, more like uncontrollable shaking and screaming.
Other than that, having a finger tendon detatch, be reattached and then the physio exercises the heal it would be up there!
It’s a three way tie between the day I got both my nipples pierced, getting my Brotherhood of Steel tattoo (it’s bigger than my palm, and just above my knee), and the time the skin under the nail on my big to go infected and started oozing.
Bailing out on ollying a bench at the last second. Both my shins went smack into that bench and i literally felt paralysed for a few hours. Had to be taken home on a piece of plywood my mates propped onto their skateboards.
I wish I could post a picture, but I had almost the exact same bruise from a little scuffle I got into years ago. Funny thing is I never even knew I was injured until the bruise appeared the next day. It wasn’t painful, but it was ugly as hell. Eventually turning black and you could see muscle fibers through my skin, very bizarre.
In descending order:
1: Meningitis at age 4 easily the worst.
2: Cramped calf following complete achilles rupture
3: Bone graft to repair broken arm
Goddamn you people are gluttons for punishment! I mean, I hope. Because I don’t particularly want to experience any of these things. As for myself, nothing too bad. When I was ~10, I was digging in the sand/mud out the front of my house barefoot. The rusty old shovel I was using to excavate all this mud plunged deep into my big toe, along with a fair share of said mud. Whole heap of blood and screaming haha, got a rad scar.
Fractured 3 ribs playing hockey being a fucking hero. Could not laugh, cough, sneeze (death) or even breath without a sharp reminder.