Worst pain you've had

Pawn · 12-04-2014 12:34AM

fussyonion wrote: »

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

Kidney stone.
I literally pissed myself.

D1stant · 12-04-2014 12:34AM

danger_here wrote: »

probably when I was decapitated, was fairly rough.

In one knee or both?

Rasheed · 12-04-2014 12:36AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:37AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:38AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:39AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:40AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:41AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:44AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:45AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:46AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:47AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:49AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:50AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:50AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:50AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:51AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:52AM

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 · 12-04-2014 12:54AM

Natural childbirth, haven't experienced anything worse.

Except a poo after constipation?

ThirdMan · 12-04-2014 12:55AM

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.

AlanS181824 · 12-04-2014 12:58AM

Broken ribs, every time I took a breath it was like being stabbed again and again...

Also I once fell off a roof and landed onto hard ground, my knee took the impact and it made this horrible crunching sound... Cringe!

But now I can lift up my knee cap and wiggle it around, freaks people out!

Mrs W · 12-04-2014 12:58AM

A severe kidney infection at 8 months pregnant, I actually thought I was in labour but the pain was constant and I was sure contractions should start slow then come and go. Labour was a breeze compared to it!

meoklmrk91 · 12-04-2014 01:00AM

Tooth abscess, I never want to experience that again, I have a fairly high pain threshold, walked around with a broken hand for a week not a bother on me but that abscess, it got so bad that I had visions of knocking my own tooth out of my head with a hammer and a chisel.

ABajaninCork · 12-04-2014 01:00AM

Digy123 wrote: »

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

I used to get migraines every day. The pain was so bad, I was banging my head off my bedroom wall to get relief. It was horrific. Had to take beta blockers in the end to break the cycle...

Now I get them every month. Still not nice, but manageable.

Closely followed by a trapped nerve in my back. Sat down and knew I wasn't getting up. Was wheeled down to the ambulance still sitting on my chair & carted off to Bart's. Not sure which was worse - the pain of my back or the embarrassment!

john the one · 12-04-2014 01:02AM

fussyonion wrote: »

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.

2 inches deep the surgeons cut, that's deep, not wide or long. And that was the small part of the operation! Still have to go in for the rest! 3 inches Deep, inch wide, 5 long, gallstones won't have a patch.

Throw in the daily packing of the wound on top of that which is excruciating

12-04-2014 01:04AM

I took an arrow to the knee once

131spanner · 12-04-2014 01:04AM

Definitely a tooth abscess. The amount of sleep I lost over it is unreal, looking back.

Lingua Franca · 12-04-2014 01:06AM

I had a massive abscess in my upper jaw that was pressing on my trigeminal nerve, causing what is charmingly known as "the suicide pain". I ended up asking a chemical-friendly person I know to source me some cancer strength painkillers which I washed down with vodka, because I was giving long, serious thought to smashing myself in the face with a hammer to cause the abscess to rupture.

Far less serious pain but still pretty awful, this morning I had an endoscopy which is where they put a camera down your throat to look at your stomach. When the camera goes in you think are choking so your body goes into panic mode and you start trying to gag the camera back up, but it's unyielding and so you end up with a very sore and bruised throat. I could cope with just that but I've either taken a bad reaction to the sedation or I have some kind of flu because I've been throwing up through my sore throat all day.

Lingua Franca · 12-04-2014 01:07AM

Heh, a bunch of tooth abscess posts while I was composing mine. I know your pain, buddies.

Tin Foil Hat · 12-04-2014 01:07AM

Broke three fingers on one hand. Pain to the point of vomit.

Worst pain you've had

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