What is the most physical pain you have experienced?

old feller · Mar 28, 2019

Re-setting a broken arm...both bones no anesthesia

STLDisney_Freak · Mar 28, 2019

A stuck kidney stone. I had to have surgery for it after I visited the ER twice.

It was worse than my gallstones and giving birth twice.

disney4us2002 · Mar 28, 2019

I had two failed crowns resulting in broken teeth so oral surgeon had to cut out the broken roots and then bone grafting so I could later plan for implants. I ended up with two black eyes and my face swelled so much by skin hurt from the stretching. I swear I laid on the couch for a week moaning and wishing for death.

Can you believe I actually went back to the same oral surgeon to get my implants? That was pretty painful too but nothing like the initial extraction and bone grafting.

dbug 89 · Jan 4, 2020

slipping on a cranival ride landing straight on my lady bits on the piece that come between your legs followed very closely by gall bladder pain

ponyboy · Jan 4, 2020

I'm kind of an expert in this area. A few of the major injuries/illnesses I've had...

1. 3 broken ribs (at same time) 6 broken in total
2. Broken arm
3. Cracked skull
4. Appendix burst
5. 4 knee surgeries
6. My lower back is titanium
7. Torn muscle/infection in leg that put me in ICU and 10 day stay in hospital for IV antibiotics
8. Piece of bullet in my eye
9. Left leg impaled on stick
10. Nail through foot (basically board was nailed to the bottom of my foot)
11. Dislocated shoulder
12. 2x dislocated fingers

I'm sure there's some other stuff I'm forgetting. But out of all this stuff, the most painful thing I've ever incurred......Kidney stones.

I've had several and some are painful inconveniences and others are unbearable. I've had surgery on 2 of them. One was 6mm and the other was 10mm but pain was equivalent.

Until I had a good kidney stone I had no idea you could be in that much pain and still survive. I didn't know what it was and I honestly thought I was dying. You could chop my hand off and I don't think it would hurt as much.

Figment Mom · Jan 4, 2020

Induced labor, a subsequent epidural that was not working properly, followed by c-section during which the anesthesia stopped working.

It was a nightmare for emotional reasons also.

NYCgrrl · Jan 4, 2020

Child birth which I found a good form of birth control.

mousefan73 · Jan 4, 2020

Having a whooping cough and a cough fit while my ribs were broken/ bruised. Now I understand how the elderly and babies die from whooping cough. Nothing like not getting air as it hurts to breathe as each breath/ cough was multiple hot iron stabs to the ribs. Peed my paints too during those episodes. Was lovely, not
Btw. I would rather deal with natural, no Eli, childbirth than get my teeth worked on. Told the dentist that too. He laughed, i was serious.

EveDallas · Jan 4, 2020

Childbirth. I thought I was dying.

ZZBane · Jan 4, 2020

Had a D&C and was knocked out but apparently my cervix closed prematurely and clots started to form in my uterus. They gave me medicine to see if it would clear up. The contractions I had to pass the clots were mind numbing. Far worse than when I actually went into labor with my son. Anyway, after about a week, they realized it wasn’t working. I had to go back in to get my uterus scraped and vacuumed out. No pain meds. Nothing. If any of you have seen Braveheart and at the end when Mel Gibson’s character is getting disemboweled and he can barely breathe or speak...ya, that’s how I was on the table. It was unimaginable.

I was opening a door very quickly while also trying to block my dog from getting out. I stubbed my toe and shut the door. Of course, I let out several mother effers as I was limping away. I looked down and saw a trail of blood. Turns out, I ripped my entire big toenail off....well, it was hanging by a thread. That’s not actually what hurt. It was the fact that the doctor gave me 12 shots of lidocaine through and into my nail. And then proceeded to stitch my toenail back into the bed of my toe.

Oddly, giving birth was nothing. I even had pitocin. My pregnancy and the issues that I had during it was far worse that actually giving birth. I had sciatica so bad one day at work, that I couldn’t walk to go to the bathroom and I was in tears. My boss/best friend put me in the office chair and wheeled me to the bathroom. I was maybe 5 or 6 months pregnant at that point. It was terrible

Finally, I had one migraine in my entire life. I thought I was having a brain aneurysm.

mamamary · Jan 5, 2020

ponyboy said:
I'm kind of an expert in this area. A few of the major injuries/illnesses I've had...

1. 3 broken ribs (at same time) 6 broken in total
2. Broken arm
3. Cracked skull
4. Appendix burst
5. 4 knee surgeries
6. My lower back is titanium
7. Torn muscle/infection in leg that put me in ICU and 10 day stay in hospital for IV antibiotics
8. Piece of bullet in my eye
9. Left leg impaled on stick
10. Nail through foot (basically board was nailed to the bottom of my foot)
11. Dislocated shoulder
12. 2x dislocated fingers

I'm sure there's some other stuff I'm forgetting. But out of all this stuff, the most painful thing I've ever incurred......Kidney stones.

I've had several and some are painful inconveniences and others are unbearable. I've had surgery on 2 of them. One was 6mm and the other was 10mm but pain was equivalent.

Until I had a good kidney stone I had no idea you could be in that much pain and still survive. I didn't know what it was and I honestly thought I was dying. You could chop my hand off and I don't think it would hurt as much.

I had yet another kidney stone leave my kidney right before Christmas. It was the most painful one yet and I also thought there is no way to go on with this kind of pain. Luckily it only lasted about 6-7 hours. Had a CT scan and the doctor says it is quite large. Still no sign of it yet but I'll tell ya that pain was killer.

bellebud · Jan 5, 2020

I can't remember... I just recall saying to people "the pain was worse than childbirth", but I don't remember from what, lol.

Moliphino · Jan 5, 2020

Abdominal migraines and cramps while on progesterone.

wgeo · Jan 5, 2020

I think I have a fairly high pain tolerance level, like I hate novacaine and prefer to have small dental work done without it if possible.

My theory is that anything is manageable if it is short term - so for example I know that if I count to 60 by the time I get to 60 the drill will be back out of my mouth and somehow I get by.

However I think I would be a disaster with any type of chronic pain. People who function day to day with continuing pain are incredible and deserve all the help and compassion.

Praying Colonel · Jan 5, 2020

I had Gallbladder problems for about 7 months in 1997. I've broken my pelvis, collarbone, arm and 2 fingers and dislocated my hip, but the pain when I'd have a gallbladder attack beats them all.

scrump · Jan 5, 2020

superme80 said:
Contractions on pitocin withOUT an epidural. Yeah big headed baby didn't come out and I ended up with a C-section.

This is my story as well.

Maybe because I was at least prepared on some level for the pain of labor, I feel my kidney stone experience was more painful. That came out of nowhere, and I honestly thought I was dying. In fact, I passed out from the pain in the ambulance ride to the hospital.

diznymom · Jan 6, 2020

Child birth

diznymom · Jan 6, 2020

Child birth

bcla · Jan 6, 2020

I haven't been through that much physical pain in my life.

Maybe a dislocated joint. It didn't hurt popping out, but in the emergency room the initial attempt to reduce was made without anesthesia. I always imagined it would be like I'd heard about with football players getting it pretty much snapped back in. No - it had to be constantly forced back in, slowly and painfully. However, after a couple of shots of local anesthesia I could have had a finger cut off with diagonal pliers and I wouldn't have felt any pain.

Even after oral surgery I wasn't in that much pain, but I still took the Vicodin.

Now I've seen why a morphine drip is needed when a family member had major surgery.

mousefan73 · Jan 6, 2020

ZZBane said:
Had a D&C and was knocked out but apparently my cervix closed prematurely and clots started to form in my uterus. They gave me medicine to see if it would clear up. The contractions I had to pass the clots were mind numbing. Far worse than when I actually went into labor with my son. Anyway, after about a week, they realized it wasn’t working. I had to go back in to get my uterus scraped and vacuumed out. No pain meds. Nothing. If any of you have seen Braveheart and at the end when Mel Gibson’s character is getting disemboweled and he can barely breathe or speak...ya, that’s how I was on the table. It was unimaginable.

for the love of god why no pain meds????!! You poor thing.
Childbirth was also nothing for me. I must be lucky. With both births the fear of that epidural needle outweighed any labor pains. So Inwent for it. Wasn’t that bad and felt like I could run a marathon right after my second. With my first I tore so that sucked.

What is the most physical pain you have experienced?

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