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Greatest physical pain you have ever felt...?
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When i was little, i was playing in a small field covered in dead fires. Little did i know that coals can still be burning hot a week after a fire's been put out. Some coals can stuck inside my shoe and seared away at my ankle. Still have scars (this happened 6 years ago).
Also, i was once playing dodgeball in gym. I was on a roll, dodging everything that came my way. I was the last person, and we were playing up against a wall. One of the biggest kids was throwing the ball so hard that it echoed ridiculously around the gym. I was dodging them all well, then he threw it again... i tried to avoid the ball by kinda of spinning of out the way, but instead it hit the back of my head, slamming my nose into a concrete wall.
Holy **** that was so incredibly painful. It didn't break, but my nose was looked obviously hurt so the next few days; i could hardly touch it.
Also, i was once playing dodgeball in gym. I was on a roll, dodging everything that came my way. I was the last person, and we were playing up against a wall. One of the biggest kids was throwing the ball so hard that it echoed ridiculously around the gym. I was dodging them all well, then he threw it again... i tried to avoid the ball by kinda of spinning of out the way, but instead it hit the back of my head, slamming my nose into a concrete wall.
Holy **** that was so incredibly painful. It didn't break, but my nose was looked obviously hurt so the next few days; i could hardly touch it.
In 5th grade, I wrecked my quad and split my right shin open, about 5 inches long and down to the bone. That didn't really hurt. I ran down the hill I wrecked on and when I felt blood in my shoe I looked down to see it.
When I got to the hospital they gave me five numbing shots IN the gash, yeah worst pain of my life.
When I got to the hospital they gave me five numbing shots IN the gash, yeah worst pain of my life.
After my motorcycle accident, when the bottom of my right femur was poking through where my right knee cap used to be and my right knee cap was pointing directly at my left one. A doctor, probably wanting to make sure I could feel below the waist, picked my leg up and with a jaunty "Does this hurt?" twisted it ever so slightly to the right.
Spots before the eyes and very nearly a blackout. I've never felt pain to that extent since, and hope never to again.
Spots before the eyes and very nearly a blackout. I've never felt pain to that extent since, and hope never to again.
What exactly is it? I looked it up on Wikipedia and it said stuff about cocaine and it being used as a recreational drug. Is it a prescription?
It may not seem like it would be that bad, but taking Pepper Spray to the face during training sucked really bad. I've been tasered (hooks and all) before as well, and I'd let you hook the probes up to my nuts before I would ever want to get sprayed with Pepper Spray again.
I've had all kinds of physical injuries as well, but never broken a bone or anything, so maybe that's why Pepper Spray was so traumatizing.
I've had all kinds of physical injuries as well, but never broken a bone or anything, so maybe that's why Pepper Spray was so traumatizing.
When I was bodyboarding one time at the beach the wave crashed... the bodyboard was attached to my wrist and I was tumbling all the way to the shore. Gah... I felt horrible. In 5 minutes I was back in the surf though.
I went into the water at Myrtle Beach at high tide and didn't make it past the critical-at-high-tide first three feet or so and got hammered right onto the rocks. I thought my wrist was broken, but luckily it wasn't. However, sand was in every imaginable place; up my nose, in my hair, pants, ass, everywhere. It took half an hour or more in the shower to get rid of everything.
I've been pretty fortunate with my (lack of) injuries. I'd say the worst was when my ankle "collapsed." You know, when you step with the outer part of your foot by accident. Well I fell right over at bat in gym class (the hit wasn't too bad; could've easily made it to first base), and looked pretty stupid. It hurt like hell, but I didn't say anything. By the end of the day, I could hardly walk. It hurt so badly to walk on that ankle. I had to crawl into my house. The pain was gone in a day or two. I'm thinking it was a minor sprain.
I've been hit in the face by various items, many times right on the tip of the nose. Once it was a fully-loaded bungee cord; the small ones you use for camping. That was really terrible.
I also fell on some stairs at a playground once. Right on the gut. I couldn't breathe effectively for a minute. I thought I was going to suffocate.
Just a few days ago, I stepped a a stray charcoal briquette at (Corn Hill on Cape Cod) that was very hot; it came from a fire my neighbor setup. Man, can he make a fire. Anyways, I thought I was stepping on a stick 'til the pain got worse, then I finally moved my foot.
This probably sounds really weird, but I've always wanted to know what it feels like to get shot.
I don't think so. I'd rather not see it coming. Or I'd like to have my own gun in a Die Hard-esque situation.
amazingly getting shot doesnt hurt as much.
but about 5 min after feels like you are being burned/skinned/eviscerated all at once. (hit in upper thigh with 22, have the scar to prove it. ironically a firing range accident when dealing with range safety)
then numbness followed by sharp pain , then numbness
I listened to a podcast last night on the way home from Truro last night, and they said the best place to get shot is either of your hands or feet.
Getting Carpel-Tunnel and Arthritis at the age of 16 from finger drumming all the time. The pain doesn't stop me though, I can't be stopped.
I REALLY want to get tazed, no lasting physical damage on that one
Just a quick stop to your local Police station.
Had a really REALLY severely sprained ankle in February 2008.
Landed on somebody's foot playing basketball, I was okay for a few days; it hurt but I couldn't walk. Then after that, some nights the pain was so unbearable I couldn't sleep. I didn't have any medication or anything, my ankle was huge though and it hurt so much. I would ice it every day, as well as have it sitting in salt water.
In the end, I wasn't able to walk until the last week of March...
Picture of my swollen ankle
Landed on somebody's foot playing basketball, I was okay for a few days; it hurt but I couldn't walk. Then after that, some nights the pain was so unbearable I couldn't sleep. I didn't have any medication or anything, my ankle was huge though and it hurt so much. I would ice it every day, as well as have it sitting in salt water.
In the end, I wasn't able to walk until the last week of March...
Picture of my swollen ankle
When I was very young I had some hardcore food poisoning that put me in the hospital for a few days... I don't remember the details but I do remember the pain!
My worst pain was when I broke my wrist skateboarding, about 15 years ago. Snapped both bones in my right wrist. My hand was only being held on by skin...I'll never forget almost passing out after seeing it flopping over in a direction that it isn't supposed to. Doctors were surprised it avoided being a compound fracture (i.e., the bones breaking the skin). Eight weeks in a hard cast followed by four more with a removable cast.
The precise point that I remember as the most painful was when they had to set it at the hospital before putting it in a cast.
The precise point that I remember as the most painful was when they had to set it at the hospital before putting it in a cast.
Knee Surgery at 16. I had a tumor removed (benign) and prior to it being removed I had to live with it for almost two years and live with very limited mobility in my leg. Couldnt run, bend it, or anything really. Walking hurt like hell. The surgery went straight forward. I actually got pics of what they took out and have a nice like 5 inch scar down the middle of my left knee from it. I had a tube in my knee when I got out of surgery. The surgeons assistant ripped that out. Hurt like a bit**. He would have been speaking a few octaves higher if he was closer. And they tried to get me to walk after surgery (no crutches, no wheelchair) to the bathroom and I wound up puking what little liquids I had in me plus hitting my hip on the sink and putting weight on my knee right after I got out of surgery. Now, Ive got permanant damage to my left knee from the tumor, both from the time it was there and how I had to walk till it was removed, and my whole right leg, because I shifted my weight to keep my left leg from hurting as much as I could. This all started from a middle school fight, er well beating. 400+lbs. 5'11" black guy vs 130lbs. 5'3" white guy. Who do you thing won that? Guy got pissed cause his hat got thrown in the toilet at the school and it was said that I did it. So he comes barreling down the hall, screaming at me, decks me, pretty much throws me to the floor (tile and concrete), and I would up hitting my knee. He got a few punches in, but those didnt hurt as bad as my knee. That was 2005-2006, 8th grade. I was 14 at the time. Now I'll be 18 in October and I just started college today. So yeah. That and I have a permanent back injury from where i got thrown from my seat and hit the dashboard. Let me know if you want pics, the post surgery ones are kinda gorey.