Kidney stones...or most pain you've experienced?

Keyzer · 08-12-2015 05:48PM

fleet_admiral wrote: »

Cellulitis. I have had it twice and its agony. Im amazed that there is so little awareness of it

My dad had that before, looked like someone put his leg in the oven for 2 hours.

Many years ago I had a temporary filling put in shortly before going off on holiday to Crete for 2 weeks of sun and booze with my mates. There must have been some gank in the tooth before it got filled because my gum over my front four teeth swelled up like a balloon. Acute and intense pain, I devoured neurofen to beat the band hoping it would pass but it didnt.

Day before the holiday I went back to the dentist who presented me with two options:

1. Remove the temporary filling to relieve the pressure but look like Harold steptoe on my holidays.
2. Lance the swelling with a scalpel to relieve the pressure. Catch was he couldn't numb the gum because he would be injecting into the swelling.

I went for option two.

I howled like a baboon when he cut it. The pain was horrible.

Nothing compared to some of the other stories in this thread but by god it hurt and felt bloody horrible at the time.

08-12-2015 05:54PM

captbarnacles wrote: »

Was travelling in Europe and had an abscess in a tooth. Went to a student dental hospital and I guess they thought the nerve was dead. It wasn't. Two of them held me in the chair while the other drilled a hole through a live tooth. Excruciating pain. I deeply regret not sueing them.

Very hard to sue for medical negligence in most countries, and presumably even more so if you went to a student hospital.

jester77 · 08-12-2015 05:58PM

Trying to hold in a fart when you are in bed with someone or in an enclosed space with a group of people. You can feel it moving down, you clinch and then it changes direction and starts moving back up. The pain when it gets to your side, often close to fainting from it.

Tarzana2 · 09-12-2015 12:00AM

Crohn's abscess pain that was so severe, it caused me to pass out.

Bone cancer pain so bad I couldn't stand up straight.

Both excruciating in their own special way.

westernfrenzy · 09-12-2015 12:05AM

Had a spinal fusion a few years ago. It was super painful for like a month after it.

Hilly Bill · 09-12-2015 12:15AM

bnt wrote: »

With kidney stones, I learned that there are two different ways it can hurt: the first is renal colic, when a stone blocks the ureter and the kidney backs up. I've had that, and the pain was Epic. It's wasn't that sharp as pain types go, but there was just so much of it. :eek:

I still have a stone in me, haven't yet had the displeasure of passing one from the bladder on out. With some luck, it will dissolve without the need for me to experience the second type of kidney stone pain. :eek:

Had 2 of them until they decided to try and break it up using shock treatment. It's 40 minutes of getting electric shock in the side. It needed 3 goes and hurt like hell.
Now gout in the big toe is a killer, the slightest touch off anything is agony.

Fr_Dougal · 09-12-2015 12:20AM

Abdominal blood clot. Pain started off as a minor inconvenience, by the time I got around to having it seen to the pain was so bad no drugs could elevate it. Was throwing tramadol back like smarties, nada. Was never so happy to go under GA.

El Weirdo · 09-12-2015 12:26AM

Had a cigarette get stuck to my bottom lip last week.

El Weirdo · 09-12-2015 12:27AM

Oh, and I'm a QPR fan.

Knine · 09-12-2015 12:32AM

Had Gallstones Ouch Ouch. Definitely the worst. It made having a baby seem like a walk in the park.

Ulnar · 09-12-2015 12:43AM

Posted this last year

3 years on I still can't sleep properly :-(

Being awake during an Operation (C-Section with No Anaesthetic )

Spent 6wks in a Maternity hospital trying to avoid an early delivery. Genius junior Doctor removed a a much needed canula and refused to replace it.

Roll on 3hrs and I suffered a massive blood loss, rushed in for emergency section only for them to find no canula for anaesthetic. Blood loss meant I had no viable veins( they stuck needles in my toes, jugular to name a few spots trying to locate one)

Finally Dr thought he found a vein(he didn't) and pumped in a bucket load of Ketamine. Eyes close and Surgeon begins cutting and I tried to scream and move but body was paralyzed. Could hear and feel everything from the first cut, pain knocked me out for bit then back to feeling pain

Got to the recovery room and as soon as I could move my feet I tried to get up from the trolley shouting I felt everything. Cue a crap load of medical staff trying to put me back to bed.

Anesthetic guy came around and said he didn't think it was possible 1/1000 but when I could tell him what he was saying after I was 'asleep' he nearly died. Seemingly my shooting heart rate was put down to massive blood loss not being in pain.

HalloweenJack · 09-12-2015 12:51AM

Had a circumcision and during the operation, even with local anesthetic, I could feel far too much of what was happening.

09-12-2015 12:52AM

Ulnar wrote: »

Posted this last year

3 years on I still can't sleep properly :-(

Being awake during an Operation (C-Section with No Anaesthetic )

Spent 6wks in a Maternity hospital trying to avoid an early delivery. Genius junior Doctor removed a a much needed canula and refused to replace it.

Roll on 3hrs and I suffered a massive blood loss, rushed in for emergency section only for them to find no canula for anaesthetic. Blood loss meant I had no viable veins( they stuck needles in my toes, jugular to name a few spots trying to locate one)

Finally Dr thought he found a vein(he didn't) and pumped in a bucket load of Ketamine. Eyes close and Surgeon begins cutting and I tried to scream and move but body was paralyzed. Could hear and feel everything from the first cut, pain knocked me out for bit then back to feeling pain

Got to the recovery room and as soon as I could move my feet I tried to get up from the trolley shouting I felt everything. Cue a crap load of medical staff trying to put me back to bed.

Anesthetic guy came around and said he didn't think it was possible 1/1000 but when I could tell him what he was saying after I was 'asleep' he nearly died. Seemingly my shooting heart rate was put down to massive blood loss not being in pain.

Don't watch Alien!

salamanca22 · 09-12-2015 12:59AM

Worse pain for me was gallstones 2 years ago. I usually get an attack every 6 month or so but they are usually small and they pass in about 2 hours with just moderate discomfort. This time was different though. The pain lasted 3 days . It was like it was sideways or something. I could feel the stone in my body when I moved around like it was jabbing my insides. It was horrible.

Saying that. I fear death, but what I fear most of all is kidney stones. I never had one but I know it is a matter of time with my lifestyle. And I am too stubborn to change

Colser · 09-12-2015 01:02AM

@Ulnar..That sounds horrific,did they offer any explanation?Im not surprised you cant sleep since as it sounds like a nightmare tbh.:(

whatismyname · 09-12-2015 01:08AM

Emotional pain due to mental health problems.

Much worse and more intense than any physical pain ever experienced.

salamanca22 · 09-12-2015 01:10AM

whatismyname wrote: »

Emotional pain due to mental health problems.

Much worse and more intense than any physical pain ever experienced.

You must not have had much physical pain then

I am bipolar and have had the worse downs but nothing like being doubled over on the floor in pain.

whatismyname · 09-12-2015 01:12AM

salamanca22 wrote: »

You must not have had much physical pain then

I am bipolar and have had the worse downs but nothing like being doubled over on the floor in pain.

I've been doubled over on the floor with emotional pain, and a lot more besides.

Have had some serious physical pain, but emotional pain has been much more intense and way harder to deal with.

To be so crippled in emotional pain that another second with it is unimaginable and completely unbearable is pretty horrific in itself for me.

dragona · 09-12-2015 01:15AM

Kidney stone and .pancreatitis . I actually begged the nurse to kill me.omg the worst pain pain ever and I've had three children

salamanca22 · 09-12-2015 01:17AM

whatismyname wrote: »

I've been doubled over on the floor with emotional pain, and a lot more besides.

Have had some serious physical pain, but emotional pain has been much more intense and way harder to deal with.

To be so crippled in emotional pain that another second with it is unimaginable and completely unbearable is pretty horrific in itself for me.

Not saying emotional pain is not debilitating (It is, and it is good to acknowledge it.) but I have been on the edge both mentally(And I mean, right on the edge) and physically with pain and I would take the mental anguish any day of the week over being the sobbing lump on the ground vomiting into the closest receptacle.

But that is me. I can see how others would think otherwise though, both forms of pain are terrible.

screamer · 09-12-2015 01:20AM

Pain from trapped gas after a micro surgery, felt like someone had skewered me through the shoulder every time I breathed. Pain worse than giving birth.

Diamond Doll · 09-12-2015 01:21AM

Corneal ulcers. I wanted to gouge my eyeball out!

mynameis905 · 09-12-2015 01:46AM

salamanca22 wrote: »

You must not have had much physical pain then

I am bipolar and have had the worse downs but nothing like being doubled over on the floor in pain.

Depression and anxiety can cause intense physical pain for some people. Unexplained pain without any underlying pathology is one of the hallmarks of depression.

Extreme psychological stress has also been known to result in temporary paralysis and blindness

We've known since the 1960s that anti-depressants, in addition to helping with mood disorders also exert an analgesic effect on sufferers of some pain conditions. Think carefully before you make light of emotional pain not being as bad as the physical - the two are inextricably linked.

jimbis · 09-12-2015 01:48AM

3 lumbar punctures (spinal tap) in the same day. The first two times the big giant needle (more like a feckin screwdriver) broke, they only got it on the 3rd attempt. All while I was fully awake and a local anaesthetic does nothing for the pain.

But in reference to the last few posts I'd go through that pain again if it meant I didn't have anymore emotional pain.

Totofan99 · 09-12-2015 01:55AM

The worst pain I was in was after I woke up from surgery after having my large intestine removed and a stoma formed, and the epidural had not worked. They gave me morphine and a local anesthetic but it took a while to take effect. I remember finding it difficult to breath because I was so sore. Truly horrific.

09-12-2015 02:34AM

mynameis905 wrote: »

Think carefully before you make light of emotional pain not being as bad as the physical - the two are inextricably linked.

I did kinda mean physical pain, but I appreciate that there are other forms, emotional pain, the pain of losing a loved one etc. All very real.

09-12-2015 04:38AM

On my 12th hour on a trolley in the Mercy in Cork.

But proximity of painkillers means I'm happy out. A hundred times better than being at home, 90 minutes from a hospital...not knowing when the next attack might come.

The Sidewards Man · 09-12-2015 04:55AM

Deleted User wrote: »

On my 12th hour on a trolley in the Mercy in Cork.

But proximity of painkillers means I'm happy out. A hundred times better than being at home, 90 minutes from a hospital...not knowing when the next attack might come.

Is this a live update Conor?

09-12-2015 05:34AM

The Sidewards Man wrote: »

Is this a live update Conor?

Yep. It's actually been a grand experience so far, just that the room has a fellow who keeps talking.

The Sidewards Man · 09-12-2015 05:37AM

Deleted User wrote: »

Yep. It's actually been a grand experience so far, just that the room has a fellow who keeps talking.

Lob something into his gob to quieten him Conor.

Kidney stones...or most pain you've experienced?

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