Worst pain you've had

fussyonion

What was the most pain you've ever been in?
What happened to you?

I have a high pain threshold but gallstones are horrific.

If you've had them, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
When you get a gallstone attack, you think it's never going to end. You go hot and cold all over, you're sweating one minute, then freezing the next, then this burning, gnawing twisting pain starts right under your breastbone and radiates through your back.

Lying down makes it worse and the only way I could sit was cross-legged on my bed, rocking back and forth like Linda Blair.
Vomiting was the only way I could get relief.

The pain can last for hours and enduring it is torturous. You really feel your body cannot cope with this pain and I remember a woman who'd had gallstones saying to me "I've had six children. I'd rather have all six of them again, one after the other, than endure a gallstone attack."

So what's the worst pain you've experienced?

foxy06

a migraine. Used to think they were just headache. They ain't

NTC

+1 on the gallstones.

Nothing worse!

The Backwards Man

Poured a full kettle of boiling water on my finger as there was a hole in the glass that I was making a hot whiskey in (no, not that hole).

It was owwy.

But as they say, 'a sore finger is a sore thing, but a sore thing isn't a sore finger.'

amcalester

Burst appendix, the pain built up for 3 days before I finally relented and went to the hospital.

RayM

Barefoot, stood on upturned mobile phone plug.

Spent the next ten minutes creating several new compound-swearwords, mixing blasphemy, profanity and references to illegal sexual practices.

wretcheddomain

Triple amputation on two limbs.

robertxxx

Fell off a wall onto my thumb when I was a kid, the nail split and for weeks there was this on and off throbbing pain, worst pain ever.

Dr Turk Turkelton

NTC wrote: »

+1 on the gallstones.

Nothing worse!

Try a kidney stone.

Sam Kade

After being bucked off a 15hh horse and landing on hard ground in a sitting position, must have been a 6' drop. Pulled a muscle in my thigh and woke up every morning for a week after in a lot of pain the same as if I was ran over by a train :eek:

Period pre-pill.

I know there are things more painful, but for me this is the worst I've felt in my life. It wasn't just the pain though, it was made much worse due to the other symptoms (severe pain in my head, chest, bowels, vagina, all the muscles around my uterus, while simultaneously wretching uncontrollably, having diarrhoea, not being able to move except to squirm around on the floor and going through the ol' sweaty/cold/hot/cold/sweaty shakes at the same time makes it much worse!).

Rasheed

Broken ribs. Every breath is a new kind of agony.

Aidric

Ear Abscess..My whole head was spinning.

kryogen

Some sort of kidney problem, was pissing blood, like feckin razorblades! Bent over double in agony not able to piss and then when a bit comes out its like razors, absolutely horrible

Tokyo

I stood on a lego once....

Stavros Murphy

I was in A&E last night with a fractured larynx, seems people die from that, the cissies. Pfft. I wandered out to get coffee. I appear to attract horrific injuries that ought to kill me but don't. I reckon even God has it in for me. The A&E actually phoned asking the missus to talk me into coming back in. Nurofen is your only man.

Digy123

Migraine,First time I got one I thought I ruptured a blood vessel in my head.They run in the family
Get them almost monthly now,the very definition of agony

danger_here

probably when I was decapitated, was fairly rough.

Chazz Michael Michaels

fussyonion wrote: »

What was the most pain you've ever been in?
What happened to you?

I have a high pain threshold but gallstones are horrific.

If you've had them, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
When you get a gallstone attack, you think it's never going to end. You go hot and cold all over, you're sweating one minute, then freezing the next, then this burning, gnawing twisting pain starts right under your breastbone and radiates through your back.

Lying down makes it worse and the only way I could sit was cross-legged on my bed, rocking back and forth like Linda Blair.
Vomiting was the only way I could get relief.

The pain can last for hours and enduring it is torturous. You really feel your body cannot cope with this pain and I remember a woman who'd had gallstones saying to me "I've had six children. I'd rather have all six of them again, one after the other, than endure a gallstone attack."

So what's the worst pain you've experienced?

Torn ankle ligaments.

Sam Kade

RayM wrote: »

Barefoot, stood on upturned mobile phone plug.

Spent the next ten minutes creating several new compound-swearwords, mixing blasphemy, profanity and references to illegal sexual practices.

Try doing it with a rusty nail that goes though your foot.

Rasheed

Chazz Michael Michaels wrote: »

Torn ankle ligaments.

That is shocking bad. And the fecking sound is desperate too.

e_e

Bone marrow injection. Drilling through bone while awake = not very pleasant.

Banjo String

Not me, but I remember Hugh from my class in secondary school dislocating his thigh bone on the hurling field one Fri afternoon.

He squealed like a girl.

The paramedics quickly arrived on the scene though. Snapped that thigh bone right back to whet it belonged.

Only Prob is, they trapped (forgive me, it was twenty ago) his nut or something in the joint socket.

He squealed like a lady then.

debabyjesus

Toothache is the worst pain I've felt. I've been burned pierced broke arms ribs you name it. Now through fear I go to the dentist every 6 months and brush 2-3 times a day, floss and mouthwash.

chloe90

panic attacks , feeling like your about to die lasting hours at a time , some one after another . and anything can trigger mine . symptoms can be anything really , depends on the person. sometimes singing karaoke or exercise can cause me to have one , or if i hear a person talk very fast it can trigger it.

orangesoda

In all seriousness the time I ate a large amount of cheese and had severe stomach cramps, even woke me up out of my sleep

fillefatale

true-or-false wrote: »

Period pre-pill.

I know there are things more painful, but for me this is the worst I've felt in my life. It wasn't just the pain though, it was made much worse due to the other symptoms (severe pain in my head, chest, bowels, vagina, all the muscles around my uterus, while simultaneously wretching uncontrollably, having diarrhoea, not being able to move except to squirm around on the floor and going through the ol' sweaty/cold/hot/cold/sweaty shakes at the same time makes it much worse!).

Yeah I get this sometimes, it comes on unpredictably and you feel like you're dying for 2 days. I fainted in public from the pain. Discovering codine has helped enormously.

stefan idiot jones

I was flying to Egypt via Schipol with KLM.
I suffer a little with sinuses but I was good at the time. As we were descending into Amsterdam they altered the pressure in the plane as usual.
I had a sharp stabbing pain around my left eye. The pain was incredible, it felt like I had a red hot molten pinball bursting through my eye socket. The pain didn't let up for an hour or so and the tears were pouring out of just one eye like a waterfall.

I must have had some kind of blockage in the sinus canals that run just over the socket and it just pressurised ready to blow out.

I have flown hundreds of times before and after without this happening, so God damn you KLM.

I had a headache for another day, but that fortnight in Egypt was awe inspiring.



Childbirth, pfft.

Bassfish

Rasheed wrote: »

Broken ribs. Every breath is a new kind of agony.

I once sneezed hard after breaking a rib the day before, the pain was so bad I passed out right there in Woodies, next to the compost.

D1stant

fussyonion wrote: »

Lying down makes it worse and the only way I could sit was cross-legged on my bed, rocking back and forth like Linda Blair.
Vomiting was the only way I could get relief.

Snap. Gallstones are the worst. My strategy was to stab myself in the eye with a compass for mild pain diversion

Moonbeam

Childbirth by far the most pain but migraines are the worst .

Pawn

fussyonion wrote: »

What was the most pain you've ever been in?
What happened to you?

Kidney stone.
I literally pissed myself.

D1stant

danger_here wrote: »

probably when I was decapitated, was fairly rough.

In one knee or both?

Rasheed

Bassfish wrote: »

I once sneezed hard after breaking a rib the day before, the pain was so bad I passed out right there in Woods, next to the compost.

Oh I can imagine. Even today I fear a sneeze coming on. I had 8 broken and even with a morphine pump, I was still in ferocious pain.

Kovu

Fairly major operation, was in hospital for a month after it. Anyway, after a 3 hour surgery, I had 3 drips on me, one of them was morphine that I was meant to click every time I needed pain relief. I used it all up early and I swear to fcuk when that wore off, I was nearly screaming the hospital down. Have a pretty metal looking 8 inch scar now though :cool:

Sarah Bear

Moonbeam wrote: »

Childbirth by far the most pain but migraines are the worst .

Was hoping no one was gonna say child birth...

john the one

Try a pilonidoal cyst. You don't know pain til you know this.

Also, I'd your squeemish, check out some YouTube videos on the matter

Close thread please

LizzieJones

I slipped on some water once and cracked my elbow on a concrete wall. The pain lasted for weeks. I still feel a twinge now and then.

Smidge

I've had quite a few injuries including broken back in a couple of places, several broken bones and more "garden variety" ailments like migraine(although I by no means want to bellitle the impact those little feckers have :mad::()
So I wouldn't be any stranger to pain as such.

The worst pain I ever experienced was after a lumbar puncture that I foolishly agreed to let a student doctor perform, albeit with 2 doctors assistance.
I was given the consent and they said there "may" be side effects but very rarely so I thought "Sure everyone has to learn" and agreed. Big fecking mistake.

Turns out the student dr didn't get it quite right and there was leaked cerebrospinal fluid(CSF). Not that I was told this mind you. I went home that day and then experienced the worst "headache" ever.

It was like I was literally dying, I screamed for days. No-one can imagine the pain until experienced.
Since then I am a full supporter of people who are living with terminal illnesses right to die. No-one should ever have to live in that kind of pain, and I only had it for 8 days.

whatdoicare

Labour was fair bad but then a disc went in my back trapping the sciatic nerve in my thigh muscle when the babby was a few weeks old and my god, I thought I knew pain but I actually wished for death.

I was on two types of morphine, nerve medicine they give to people with epilepsy and more pain killers on top of that and I was still in insane amounts of pain! Literally trapped on my bed unable to move, sit, stand or roll over - watching the clock until I could take more meds. The medication gave me horrendous stomach cramps and insane constipation - and I couldn't even eat. I thought about killing myself every day for 4 months. I couldn't read or concentrate on anything - I just lay on my side half watching Netflix and passing out every so often. Morphine gives you insanely realistic horrible nightmares too - so if I was lucky enough to fall asleep, I had that to look forward to. Joy.

Luckily I was helped by a doctor who sorted me out and I'm in no pain now but I sometimes have nightmares about that time when I was in that amount of pain. *shudder*

emeldc

Was sleep 'walking' one night and went for the high jump off the bed. Landed out in the hall and broke my leg in two places.
Had a kidney transplant as well. It was a doddle compared to the leg.

Witchie

fussyonion wrote: »

What was the most pain you've ever been in?
What happened to you?

I have a high pain threshold but gallstones are horrific.

If you've had them, you'll know exactly what I'm talking about.
When you get a gallstone attack, you think it's never going to end. You go hot and cold all over, you're sweating one minute, then freezing the next, then this burning, gnawing twisting pain starts right under your breastbone and radiates through your back.

Lying down makes it worse and the only way I could sit was cross-legged on my bed, rocking back and forth like Linda Blair.
Vomiting was the only way I could get relief.

The pain can last for hours and enduring it is torturous. You really feel your body cannot cope with this pain and I remember a woman who'd had gallstones saying to me "I've had six children. I'd rather have all six of them again, one after the other, than endure a gallstone attack."

So what's the worst pain you've experienced?

Oh god I was nearly vomiting reading that coz it brought it all back. I remember the first time I had them and they got infected and I was in such pain I thought I was dying.

I couldn't sleep so ended up going to the sitting room, keeling on the floor, bum in the air, head on a pillow on the floor watching people sleeping on big brother until I passed out with exhaustion/boredom.

Awful awful pain.

The next worse was when I broke my ankle in 8 places, dislocated my ankle and tore the ligaments all in one go at Oxegen from dancing to Paul Weller playing A Town Called Malice. Boy was that sore. My foot was just about attached to the rest of me by the skin and no more. It was dangling when I was hobbling out through the crowd. Yuck.

Child birth is a piece of piss compared to the 2 above.

Stavros Murphy

Sam Kade wrote: »

Try doing it with a rusty nail that goes though your foot.

I trod on a 6" ring shanked nail in a 1" plank once. It went up through my foot and out the top. That was bad. The infection 3 days later- Owww. A mate crashed his car while sticking out his tongue concentrating - hit the steering wheel with his jaw and bit off his tongue. I'm going with that being pretty damn sore. Then again, I caught a knife blade and yer man pulled it back, cutting off my thumb, and that hurt too. A world of pain.

ElChe32

Dislocated my knee at my friends place, we were about 15 at the time so he couldn't drive me to hospital. Ambulance got lost for an hour, I kept passing out every time I moved. Nothing like a bit of morphine to take the edge off!

fussyonion

john the one wrote: »

Try a pilonidoal cyst. You don't know pain til you know this.

Also, I'd your squeemish, check out some YouTube videos on the matter

Close thread please

I've had that. Piece of pi** compared to gallstones.I'm not saying it wasn't painful because oh God, it was, but not as bad as gallstones.

Rothko

Chazz Michael Michaels wrote: »

Torn ankle ligaments.

I tore a ligament in my ankle a few years ago and it's definitely the worst pain I've ever felt. I thought I had broken my leg.

beks101

chloe90 wrote: »

panic attacks , feeling like your about to die lasting hours at a time , some one after another . and anything can trigger mine . symptoms can be anything really , depends on the person. sometimes singing karaoke or exercise can cause me to have one , or if i hear a person talk very fast it can trigger it.

I had my first panic attack about a month ago during breakfast with a friend after an overnight shift.
Sitting there casually drinking my latte one minute, next minute the room's spinning, there's a ringing in my ears and I couldn't breathe - literally, could not get a breath in.
What was worse was I had never had one before so no notion what was happening to me, nearly got the poor lad to call an ambulance for me - "I'm dying Al, I'm fukcing dying, I'm dying I'm DYING"
On top of that the panic sent me into a state of hyperventilation - took me weeks to recover from the absolute terror of it.
On a scale of how horrifyingly scary an experience can be, panic attacks are definitely right up there.

Smidge

Witchie wrote: »

Oh god I was nearly vomiting reading that coz it brought it all back. I remember the first time I had them and they got infected and I was in such pain I thought I was dying.

I couldn't sleep so ended up going to the sitting room, keeling on the floor, bum in the air, head on a pillow on the floor watching people sleeping on big brother until I passed out with exhaustion/boredom.

Awful awful pain.

The next worse was when I broke my ankle in 8 places, dislocated my ankle and tore the ligaments all in one go at Oxegen from dancing to Paul Weller playing A Town Called Malice. Boy was that sore. My foot was just about attached to the rest of me by the skin and no more. It was dangling when I was hobbling out through the crowd. Yuck.

Child birth is a piece of piss compared to the 2 above.

Couldn't have did it to a better tune though

Witchie

Smidge wrote: »

Couldn't have did it to a better tune though

I know and that summer Clarke's used it in their Back to School shoes ad. So here I would be laid up on the sofa with ankle in a cast and that song would come on and no matter how hard I tried I still couldn't get the other leg to stop dancing.

Ihatecuddles

Natural childbirth, haven't experienced anything worse.

Except a poo after constipation?

ThirdMan

I had my adenoid gland removed a few years ago. The procedure itself wasn't that sore, but I was a day patient and the hospital wouldn't release me until I had something to eat. All they had was dry toast. And the butter was too hard to spread. I just wanted to get out of there so I shovelled two dry slices down my red raw throat. I'm male, so I don't know what it feels like being broken in by my best friend's uncle, but it must have felt something like that.