Pain

[sachmo71]

What is the most physical pain you have ever experienced?
A few days ago, one of my teeth started hurting. Fast forward to today, and I find out that a bad root canal 10 years ago has left me with an abcessed tooth. I am now in more pain then I have ever been in my life.

Sympathy? Empathy?

[Lathum]

when I was a kid I stuffed a flagpole up my nose. That hurt really bad.

[sachmo71]

Originally Posted by Lathum

when I was a kid I stuffed a flagpole up my nose. That hurt really bad.

Ohh. I once had the reverse happen, so I feel ya.

[jetpunk2000]

Much sympathy. Had the same thing happen to me around Christmas. It sucked. Probably the worst tooth pain I've ever had. Unfortunately they weren't able to save the tooth. It was pretty much my own fault. I had root canal done, and never went back to have the permanent crown put on because my dental insurance had lapsed.

[Lathum]

Originally Posted by sachmo71

Ohh. I once had the reverse happen, so I feel ya.

Yikes!!

[flere-imsaho]

Twisted two vertebrae in my back. "I've fallen and I can't get up! Actually, I can't even move!"

[Schmidty]

Breaking both ankles within a two-week period.

[primelord]

Originally Posted by sachmo71

Ohh. I once had the reverse happen, so I feel ya.

You stuffed your nose up a flagpole?

[Hurst2112]

hmmm, I bet circumcision hurt me...if I could remember back 2 weeks

Seriously, I would have to give the nod to back pain. But I do have sympathy for all physical pain.

[Franklinnoble]

I had a chlamydia test that hurt like a SOB, but that was pretty brief...

[st.cronin]

I had a skiing accident a couple years ago where I dislocated my kneecap and tore up most of my ligaments in there. Well, that wasn't so bad, I thought, so I took my other ski off and tried to walk down the hill... OW... so I wait for ski patrol ... they look at my knee, and tell me they have to put a brace on it... so they put the brace on, which pops the kneecap back in place. THAT was unbelievable agony.

[judicial clerk]

I have had a variety of injuries in my life, but I don't think anything hurts quite as bad as good old fashion gonad trauma. I mean, getting rocked in the nads has been one of the few injuries that just stops me in my tracks.

Its like when an ice cream headache starts. You know its going to get worse before it gets better and there is absolutely nothing you can do about it.

Another really painful thing that is probably similar to the abcess tooth is an unchecked ear infection. Once I had an earache that started as mild irritation and ended with me wanting to jam an icepick in my ear.

[st.cronin]

Dental pain is pretty awful. I have a living will which states that I am to be kept alive using whatever technology is available, under any circumstances, no matter what, for however long it takes, unless it requires a dentist, and then I am to be shot like a dog.

[Bad-example]

I can attest that pancreatitus is pretty painful. I was on the maximum dosage of dilaudid and it still hurt like hell.

[SackAttack]

My shins are raising holy hell right now after I took the dog for a two mile walk. I can barely shuffle around the house, and that's IF I hold onto stuff.

[sabotai]

I was lucky. I ran face first into a basketball poll (on accident, obviously) and broke a front tooth clean in half. But, the nerve was not damaged in any way. Off the hospital where they sent me to an oral surgeon and had it pulled. I was lucky I didn't break my jaw too. Had I, for some stupid reason, not gotten it pulled right away, they told me I would have been in incredible pain.

I do get migranes though. Those suck.

[stkelly52]

A few months ago I broke my collar bone. I don't remember the accident at all. I just remember waking up in bed (after going to the hospital and being released) in absolute agony.

[Craptacular]

Originally Posted by sabotai

I was lucky. I ran face first into a basketball poll (on accident, obviously) and broke a front tooth clean in half.

Was there a trout option?

[Craptacular]

I'm guessing it was when I got an aluminum baseball bat across the face when I was five, but I don't remember it well enough to know for sure.

[illinifan999]

migranes easily. and I get them so frequently.

[Draft Dodger]

broken ribs. twice.

[sabotai]

Originally Posted by illinifan999

migranes easily. and I get them so frequently.

Take anything for them? Relpax works wonders for me, but it's a perscription and pretty expensive. ($130 for 6 pills w/o insurance). I usually just put up with them if they're not too bad and use the Relpax when it gets very bad. Nothing over the counter does anything to them for me.

[Schmidty]

I take Maxalt for my migraines, but mine are generally an off-shoot/symptom of epilepsy.

[Bea-Arthurs Hip]

Was climbing an electrical pole , fell about 11 feet down and hit my nuts on a horizontal steel bar. I was 11 and my best friend had to run and get his mom. Worst part was she had to "check me out". I could not walk for days. I cant even describe the pain, my god it hurt, make it go away....getting flash backs.....

[terpkristin]

I've had a few painful times, I'm not sure which exactly was the most painful, luckily they were spread out by a bit...

1. Adult tonsillectomy. I could hardly swallow without feeling like somebody was sticking daggers of fire into my throat and ears simultaneously. I didn't eat much food for about 3 weeks, dropped a lot more weight than was healthy.

2. Screwing up my ankle: I went up for a head ball in soccer and came down on the outside of my ankle, snapping all the ligaments on the outside. I remember extreme "bring me to puking" pain, but according to teammates, they could hear my ligaments snapping from the other side of the field, and then I let out a "blood curdling" scream. They knew something was wrong because they'd never heard me even say "ow" before, much less scream. What hurt even worse was my decision on the field that my ankle wasn't in fact broken, so deciding to try to jump on it to see if it would hold so I could continue playing.

3. Getting my ankle fused (ankle surgery #4). Wow. Excruciating. There's a reason they gave me 20 mg Oxycontin for use twice a day and heavy-dose Percocet for the breakthrough pain (perscribed for every 4 hour use).

4. Trying to walk on crutches with a deep bone bruise in 3 ribs. 4 days after my second ankle surgery, while still on crutches, I tripped over a kid at a movie theater whose mother had let him sit in the aisle. I pitched chest-first into the armrest of one of the seats, bruising 3 ribs. I had to be on crutches for 5.5 more weeks, and that was virtually impossible given my rib situation. The docs perscribed 10 mg Oxycontin and high dose Endocet to get me through it. Once I was off the crutches, I abruptly quit the narcotics, and went through opiate withdrawal for 3 days. Yick is all I can say.

5. I had my nipple pierced in Dec. 98. The piercing itself didn't hurt too much but the night I had it done, I'd walked "breast first" into then-bunked beds (in a dorm). It only hurt for a few minutes, but talk about uber-sensitive!

6. I had an abscess in a very awkward place to have one. To make matters worse, when I went to the ER, they didn't feel comfortable taking care of it and I had to wait from Saturday a.m. until Monday morning so I could go to the proper doctor to take care of the matter.

7. On a side note, I have endometriosis, and the cramps associated with my monthly friend usually cripple me enough to confine me to lie in a ball on my bed for a day. They've been bad enough on 3 separate occassions to send me to the hospital. You "boys" have it easy, I tell you.

/tk

[Radii]

Originally Posted by Bea-Arthurs Hip

Was climbing an electrical pole , fell about 11 feet down and hit my nuts on a horizontal steel bar. I was 11 and my best friend had to run and get his mom. Worst part was she had to "check me out". I could not walk for days. I cant even describe the pain, my god it hurt, make it go away....getting flash backs.....

You win.

[Buccaneer]

Probably last year after my hole-in-the-head surgery. The bottom part of the incision had to cut the neck muscles below the ear. For about a day, I couldn't (or didn't want to) make any movement in my head or jaw lest I would start silently scream in pain. Nurse would come in and ask what is your pain level 1-10? I would say 17. She just rolled her eyes.

There was this other painful day back in 1996 when I had kidney gravel but I don't talk about that...

[larrymcg421]

WHen I had kidney stones. I literally thought I was gonna die. Let's just say I know exactly how Al felt on Deadwood. Until they stuck a pole in his penis, that is.

[duckman]

Moderate damage to the sensory nerves of the right leg. It can feel like someone putting a blow torch on my leg.

[sachmo71]

Some of you get credit for making me forget about my damn tooth. Sheesh.

[EagleFan]

Migraines and a similar tooth problem (a coulpe years ago) top my list for extended pain. The worst sheer moment of pain was while getting the root canal done and finding out the hard way that the novacain (sp?) had not worked on the nerve of the tooth as the dentist drill hit the nerve. That was mind blowing pain.

[Tigercat]

When i was a kid I stuck a piece of metal into an electric socket, it was weird because being electrocuted in such a way for 10 seconds isn't so much the worst pain as the most unique kind of pain. A mixture of all your muscles cramping and being frozen alive at the same time. I am not even sure how I eventually let go of the metal.

[JeeberD]

Hope you feel better soon, Sach!

[MJ4H]

reading this thread

[illinifan999]

Originally Posted by sabotai

Take anything for them? Relpax works wonders for me, but it's a perscription and pretty expensive. ($130 for 6 pills w/o insurance). I usually just put up with them if they're not too bad and use the Relpax when it gets very bad. Nothing over the counter does anything to them for me.

The most i use is excedrin migraine or advil and neither really do anything. I just hate it because I also get this thing where my left eye's vision just goes. Like parts of it are blind, but I can still see out of it. It's hard to explain. Like if I look at my left hand with my left eye, I can see my thumb, middle finger, and pinky finger but the other two i can't see. And that basically lets me know that one is coming, and I always just get to anticipate it. What seems to work the best for me is to just stay active with the vision thing and then the migraine isn't nearly as bad.

[DeToxRox]

I was knocked out cold in our Regional Semifinal game in hockey last year. I came to a minute or so later and somehow was allowed to stay in the game (I play goalie). We lost 5-3 to the #5 team in the state, and I can't tell you much about the game, but no way was I leaving my last game ever.

[Cringer]

Ok, the wife is sitting here next to me as I read this thread and so you all know what is coming, the typical "I GAVE BIRTH!!" comment.

Personally, I have twice had kidney stones, and the second time was probably worse because it started to kick in while I was driving the truck. I had to stop because. It is the only time I have had enough pain that it made me get sick to the stomach and I threw up. Each time it took A LOT of drugs to kill the pain.

[DeToxRox]

Originally Posted by Cringer

Ok, the wife is sitting here next to me as I read this thread and so you all know what is coming, the typical "I GAVE BIRTH!!" comment.

Personally, I have twice had kidney stones, and the second time was probably worse because it started to kick in while I was driving the truck. I had to stop because. It is the only time I have had enough pain that it made me get sick to the stomach and I threw up. Each time it took A LOT of drugs to kill the pain.

Explains the name Cringer.

[Pumpy Tudors]

The worst pain that I can remember came from a kidney infection I had a couple of years ago. It started with the burning during urination (and throbbing afterwards), and then I got a terrible back pain. I think that back pain is the only pain I've ever had that's kept me from standing up. When I finally managed to get myself to a doctor's office, a nurse took blood from me. Well, she tried to take blood from me. My blood vessel was a little too weak, I suppose, so she started corkscrewing the needle deeper into my arm. That was worse than the back pain, but it only lasted a few seconds. I thought that would be the worst of it, but the doctor didn't think he'd get anything from my urine sample I'd put into a cup, so he decided to get a little closer to the source. That was the only time I'd ever had a cotton swab jammed into --

Never mind.