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Greatest physical pain you have ever felt...?

I had a ruptured disk in my neck resulting in a pinched nerve. I would turn my head, pass out, then take an hour to get myself back off the floor! The worst part of it was the muscle cramps from trying to keep my head still on top of the pain from the pinched nerve. The pain of surgery didn't even register compared to what I was in before.
 
A kidney stone when I was about 47 years old. I wanted a good night sleep and went to bed at 10pm. At 12:15 I woke up and thought I had a vicious stomach ache. I rolled over and then the inside of my back started to kill me. I couldn't even drive myself to the hospital... my wife drove me. Inside body pain... nothing like it.

1973 Panama Canal Zone, Fort Clayton pool. I thought to myself, hey, I've been here a year and have never gone swimming. So I went to the pool. As heavily clorinated as I have ever experienced. That night both my ears started to hurt. I never had an ear ache in my life but I was having two of them now. It got worse... both ears swelled shut and the pain was inside my head about 2 inches into the ears on either side. I remember thinking that with pain like that I could understand why people commit suicide. The next morning I went to the doctor. They took all the civilians first. I waited about 8 hours the pain was so intense I passed out on the waiting couch. At closing time the nurse shook me awake and let me see the doctor. When the doctor looked at my ears he got real mad and wanted to know why they let me wait there since 7am. He gave me a bottle of antibiotics. I put the drops in my ears and within hours felt a lot better. Bacteria infection from that pool. Doctor told me a few more hours I could have died from it. I think that pain beat the kidney stone... but not by much
 
I got hit in the balls 3 times in 30 minutes one afternoon while playing street hockey with friends. I was goalie, but forgot my cup.

One shot was low enough that it actually hit the sack directly without hitting the penis. :eek:
 
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I got hit in the balls 3 times in 30 minutes one afternoon while playing street hockey with friends. I was goalie, but forgot my cup.

One shot was low enough that it actually hit the sack directly without hitting the penis. :eek:
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That counts as self-inflicted pain. You forgot your cup? That's when you turn around, go home and get it. ;)
 
Not sure what it was(never bothered telling me, I was a minor), pinched nerves or something in my back, when they found out what it was I remember them all acting shocked and asking how I was even able to stand without screaming.

The worst I've had for lingering pain is without a doubt burns, I work in fast food and am constantly burning myself. In one day I had hot(400F) oil spill on my right hand, covering about 60% of the palm and 3 of my fingers. Not 20 minutes later I spilled oil on the same hand. Incredibly unpleasant.

Another close tie for worst was stepping on some red hot coals, they stuck to the skin and kept burning, I was so desperate to get them off I was pulling them off with my fingers.

Then there are the minor things, soft tissue damage in the back hurts fairly bad, as do knee injuries(a snowmobile, me and a tree were involved, do the math).
 
I'm not so sure I want to tell you my story, but here goes...

You know those little chunky plastic zippers on cheap dress slacks - the ones that you have to really reef on to get moving? Well, I was in the bathroom right after taking a leak, and I reefed on it mighty good this one time. It got moving alright. Unfortunately, it didn't move that far before bogging down on *ahem* something (shall we say I'm not exactly Jewish) and getting yanked out of my fingers. Now since it had become bogged down and wouldn't, obviously, continue its journey up, the only option was to grip it tight and reef it back down. I was just about on my knees for a few minutes it hurt so much.. bled a bit too, of course.

...I would've said cracking my head (and needing stitches) on the cement blocks off the back porch when I was like 10, but I was knocked out for a bit and don't remember any pain, per se.
 
xlii said:
A kidney stone when I was about 47 years old. I wanted a good night sleep and went to bed at 10pm. At 12:15 I woke up and thought I had a vicious stomach ache. I rolled over and then the inside of my back started to kill me. I couldn't even drive myself to the hospital... my wife drove me. Inside body pain... nothing like it.

1973 Panama Canal Zone, Fort Clayton pool. I thought to myself, hey, I've been here a year and have never gone swimming. So I went to the pool. As heavily clorinated as I have ever experienced. That night both my ears started to hurt. I never had an ear ache in my life but I was having two of them now. It got worse... both ears swelled shut and the pain was inside my head about 2 inches into the ears on either side. I remember thinking that with pain like that I could understand why people commit suicide. The next morning I went to the doctor. They took all the civilians first. I waited about 8 hours the pain was so intense I passed out on the waiting couch. At closing time the nurse shook me awake and let me see the doctor. When the doctor looked at my ears he got real mad and wanted to know why they let me wait there since 7am. He gave me a bottle of antibiotics. I put the drops in my ears and within hours felt a lot better. Bacteria infection from that pool. Doctor told me a few more hours I could have died from it. I think that pain beat the kidney stone... but not by much
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The chlorine didn't kill the bacteria?
 
I've put a rusty nail through my foot, an iron rod through my thigh to the bone, cut off a fingertip, 75% of my thumb, had 4 wisdom teeth pulled, torn a tendon, had my nose broken, been run over, hit by a car and thrown ~10 feet, fallen thirty feet, been stung by a wasp in the throat and the eye, and I would have to say that I've had migraines more painful than any of that.
 
Impacted wisdom tooth. Hurts until you go blind, then it hurts more.

Two kinds of salmonella food poisoning, at the same time. You really can throw up your butt.

Having a vasectomy, and being dumb enough to insist on driving home. Hitting a bump on the way...

Standing at the edge of a cliff on a hunting trip, suddenly attacked by swarm of bees. Stumbled, fell over cliff, but not like Coyote. Bounced a lot on rocks. Over 40 stings plus broken wrist, two ribs, collar bone. Badly bruised dignity. Broken shotgun (hastily jettisoned at beginning of fall).

Fell off a motocross bike, knee landed first, on a small rock. Rock went under kneecap. 36 stitches.

Stuck hand under lawn mower I was sure had stopped running. It had one more "chug" left in it.

Probably some more dumb things I've done to myself... hope I'm done.
 
I've been through major surgery, but I was given so many pain meds, that even during my few months of recovery the pain was tolerable.

My worst experience was when my friend accidently ran over my big toe with the wheel of a executive chair. The pain was so intense I literally fell to the floor and cried for about 30 minutes. My toenail darkened and fell off a few days later. Took a few years to get back to normal. Not fun at all.
 
Getting a baseball bat straight swung at full strength to the forehead is no fun, I'll say that much.

(I don't know how much it would've hurt at first, because I was out cold within moments. But the pain when I came too was pretty indescribable. )
 
I had a mandibular and maxillary osteotomy in 2003. They also removed my 3rd molars at the same time... The actual pain was well controlled with medication for a while, but I couldn't eat anything that involved chewing for a month or so.... that sucked.
 
Prof. said:
For me, when I was 15/16, I accidentally put my hand on the electric stove. Needless to say, I received a 3rd degree burn on the palm of my hand. I had circles on my palm for a good 3-4 weeks. Thankfully I don't have any scars. :)

Your turn! What is the worse physical pain you have ever felt?

I know, it's a weird thread.
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I can't help but think about the "Cornballer"
 
When my leg was impaled on a branch. I live in the middle of nowhere, no ambulances available, my parents had to drive me three and a half hours to the city with this thing in my leg, had to wait another 5 or so hours before I could get into surgery. With no painkillers. Next day had a second operation, while awake, to remove a clot that had formed after the initial surgery. Hurt like an absolute bitch when the meds wore off after that one.
 
Hiccups. Unlike most people, mine are like full body convulsions that make it feel like my chest is collapsing. They come once a year, almost like clock work. Last time I had them, I started to vomit. My parents even took me to the hospital one time is was so bad. It sucks... :/
 
Dislocated Kneecap.

It was quite odd having my kneecap on the outside of my knee joint. It was also quite painful...couldn't move my leg for 2 weeks, or walk for nearly 4...
 
Life is PAIN!!!!

In the mids of a lovely dreamy sleep, my current girlfriend accidentally kneed me in the groin crushing my nuts with her full weight, while she reached over to turn of the lights. I immediately woke up in agonizing pain, completely voiceless and for the next few days, I felt like I just wanted to vomit
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This happened a few months back and today I can still feel the pain...Thankfully we're still together after all the rough times, it seems it's only brought us closer.
 
When I had appendicitis and the General Surgeon at the local Hospital was on vacation in Cuba so we got to drive and hour and a half to a better equipped Hospital. Then I got to sit in Emergency for six or seven hours while the debated whether or not it was appendicitis and when they could book the ultrasound. It ended up rupturing at some point. Then a resident came down and decided to poke and prod a little. The pain that little poked caused was enough for me to wish that man fall dead on the floor right then and there. Father Trucker it hurt.

Then the doctor tried to yell at my parents for not "getting me into surgery soon enough". Momma tore him several new ones, at least thats what my dad says, I was in the la-la-land of morphine :D

gilkisson said:
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That was my very first pain..."

The doctor said, "Egad, I can imagine! What was the second pain!??"

"When I hit the end of that &*&#%$ chain!"
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I don't get this joke :confused:
 
I've got two

1. the obvious heartbroken one(this really is terrible)

2. a few years ago I managed to get pneumonia several times, ultimately ending in me going to the hospital, I almost failed because of how much school i missed:eek:
 
balofagus said:
I don't get this joke :confused:
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The first pain was the bear trap clamping on his family jewels.

The second pain was when they were ripped off. After the first pain he started running. When he hit the end of the chain that connected the bear trap to the stake or tree off came the family jewels.
 
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