3 kidney stones at the same time, couldn't piss them out. After 2 weeks of pain, the urologist finally agreed to take me in the hospital. Even then he wanted me to go a night with fluids before taking them out. Found out I had them when I was at work, and started pissing blood. Finally as I went to pee for the 3rd time in 30 minutes, I could no longer pee, but had the feeling of needing too. Went to the ER where they drained my bladder of 1000cc of urine. Nurse told me it was on the verge of exploding. That was also one of the most relieving experiences ever.
Every morning when I wake up. Plantar Fasciitis in my left foot. Literally have to stretch for 15 minutes before I can put any weight on it. I've been fighting it for about 2 years. Trying one last thing before I resort to surgery.
1. I was robbed and refused to hand over my money. Got shot in the leg hit my femoral artery. Flat lined in the ambulance. Next couple weeks was in constant pain. The first few days was the most pain I’ve ever been. 2. Angry young suicidal. Jump out of the back seat of my cousin’s car. Rolled was almost run over by a car behind us but they were able to avoid me. And my other cousin pulled me out of the freeway. This was 2-3 in the morning so luckily it was empty.
Same event. The ulnar nerve was injured by the fracture. It happened in a freak accident playing slow pitch softball as an adult. I hit one down the third base line. Thinking it was a routine play, I didn’t run to first. The third baseman bobbled it, so I took off. Shortstop was backing him up and threw to first. Bad throw down the baseline, and the first baseman came off the bag into the base path. I pulled up trying to prevent a collision, but my left shoulder clipped him. I fell down and caught myself with my forearm instead of my hand and it snapped. A couple of people threw up. It was wild.
Boo kindey stone boi when i had a vasectomy they made my balls swell up real big. i sent my friends a pic bc it was funny. your pic is not funny
I have a broken bone in my wrist that won’t heal because the doctors think I have a disease that doesn’t allow enough blood flow to get to my hand and heal. The bone is necrotic and is only getting worse. I wake up in the middle of the night in horrible pain. Sometimes I’ll do something as little as brush my fingers against something and it will send crippling pain down my entire arm. Shit fucking sucks.
Dislocated jaw. I went to steal the ball from an opponent in basketball. Another defender cut him off, so he pivoted back into me. Wrist bone right into my bottom jaw. Somehow no teeth were knocked out and the other guy thought his wrist was broken. Very sharp pain at times but chewing certain items helped.
It’s embarrassing how many men have sent me pics of their junk I think I only have a pic of you naked sitting on the toilet
“Superior mesenteric vein thrombosis (SMVT) is a rare yet frequently fatal cause of intestinal ischemia. Despite its severe consequences, SMVT often presents with nonspecific symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain. It can occur with or without gastrointestinal bleeding, and symptoms may be present for hours to weeks. ” I’ve had kidney stones and an appendix rupture at the same time. The results of the appendix surgery was the above mentioned SMVT. It hurt worse than all of it. Imagine someone heating up an ice pick and shoving it just below your diaphragm for days on end. Then your bowels completely shut down for 7 days and they’re talking to you about ileostomy bags all the while starving you because fasting is the only known treatment to keep you from going septic while your intestines decide if they want to fire back up. Miraculously, good things happen to bad people and I’m alive and well minus one appendix and about a month of my life I don’t remember aside from pain. I was also on Eliquis for a couple of years and it has impacted my memory. They say it’s not a side effect but if you read message boards/support group literature on that medication you’ll see it’s pretty commonly a side effect your doctor will deny. There’s more to that story but that’s already long enough.
I had a dull ache in my stomach for a few days and hadn’t been on schedule for dumptime and attributed it to that. Was sitting in a grad school class one afternoon and just red hot pain started shooting through my entire abdomen. I staggered back to my apartment and called my dad who was a nurse for decades. He called it, correctly it turns out, as appendicitis so I went to an urgent care and they sent me to an imaging center attached to a hospital. I’m really fortunate I was married because my wife drove us in rush hour Dallas traffic and I lay in the passenger seat in agony. Had to drink the potion and get whatever scan so all in all it was nearly 5 hours between onset and admittance into the ER and some morphine. When they cut it out the next day the doctor was shocked my appendix never actually burst as it was inflamed to about 3x normal size. That entire afternoon was terrible.
I had 3 wisdom teeth removed when I was 21 and my mom went and did like a full slate of errands instead of getting my pain meds and bringing them back right away. Whatever they give you for local anesthesia started to wear off and the pain was debilitating I've pinched a nerve in my neck and that was pretty unpleasant in a different kind of way
Had a very similar tubing accident. It was the first nice day of the end of Spring and warm enough to hit the lake. My cousin had a boat and a tube, and the tube was both old and had been laying outside all winter (snow, ice, etc in NY). This tube was weathered beyond belief - faded cover, fraying in places, etc. But fuck it, it’s finally nice out and we’re going tubing. I end up going first and within 5 seconds of my friends hitting the throttle on the boat, the cover goes from fraying to beginning to tear. I start yelling and waving my hand to try to indicate something is wrong. They took this as a sign to speed up. The acceleration jerks the tube just enough to rip the cover in half, shooting the inner tube portion out from under me. My body twists and the remaining torn cover wraps around my arm pit. My friends begin dying laughing because the inner tube apparently flew comically far and the whole thing was I’m sure bizarre to watch. What they don’t realize immediately is I’m getting dragged by my armpit at 40ish MPH. This lasts for a good 15 or so seconds. The lesions and abrasions it left around my arm pit and upper side of my body were incredibly gross. Couldn’t apply deodorant for weeks. Extremely lucky to have had no structural damage. Pac_Lion was one of the assholes laughing.
Posting just because I haven’t seen anyone else post it. for context I’ve torn acl 3x times, had a micro fracture surgery, separated AC (ligaments gone); plenty of cuts requiring stitches, I think like 5 broken bones, including both snapping in forearm which gave me the double elbow effect but deep ear infection resulting from burst capillaries from scuba diving was far worse than any of that. Normal drops wouldn’t hack it. Infection got bad enough my ear smelled like mildew. ENT had to insert a ‘wick’ into ear because it was swollen shut to get medicine down there. Felt like what I would imagine a red hot ice pick would feel like if jabbed a few inches into your brain.
It wasn’t painful but this sure didn’t sound pleasant. Some type of flying bug: gnat, mosquito, moth flew into my brother’s ear and got stuck in his ear canal. The only solution the doctor could find was to fill my brother’s ear with fluid and drown it so it would be still enough to remove. So, my brother has felt an animal die inside his body.
Not as gnarly as some in here, but gout fucked with me pretty hard. It felt like someone was digging a knife into my toe joint. Learned pretty early on about my family's genealogical inability to filter out uric acid. Also had an impacted lower wisdom tooth removed while I was awake and only on local anesthesia. That was dumb.
Nothing compared to what I’ve just read in this thread to unlock multiple new fears but: 1. I cut the tip of my thumb off using a deli meat slicer when I worked at a restraunt in college. Was warned how everyone else had done it too, used it multiple times and it finally got me. Happened so quick I didn’t feel it at first but the sound it made caused me to look and yeah. Owner was pissed until I told him I didn’t need to go to a doctor. I dumped a bunch of that new skin stuff on it which burned like crazy then wrapped it in gauze. It bled for like 24 hours. After a couple weeks it finally healed. Few months later it “grew back”. Now there’s just a small scar on the edge of my thumb, but it still hurts sometimes if I hit that spot on something or if I’m trying to squeeze/tighten something it causes pain. #2 My shoulder popped out when I was playing baseball in high school but when I reacted to the pain I must have moved it back into place. Now it will randomly move out of place and I have to just suffer in pain until it figures itself out. The most random movements will cause it too. The only time I’ve ever gotten a massage the lady asked if I was dealing with a serious injury, because I guess it doesn’t feel like it should, but I’ve never looked into it.
I don’t really remember any of the most painful events in my life. My top and bottom lips have been stitched up, my left wrist has been broken twice (I tried to pop it back into place the 1st time). I was knocked out at a Little Italy in Tuscaloosa, but don't let it distract you from the fact that in 1998, The Undertaker threw Mankind off Hell In A Cell, and plummeted 16 ft through an announcer’s table.
I’ve had 3 that stick out in my mind 1. In 6th grade at basketball practice I was driving the lane and that kid in every league who tries to draw a charge was guarding but instead of falling backwards he just took my legs out. I fell forward and stuck my hands out to catch me but I was like catapulted to the ground. I broke both my wrists. My dad didn’t think I was hurt and made me try and finish the practice. I could feel my wrists grinding as I dribbled the ball and passed it. Finally he let me come off the court and apologized vehemently after seeing the x-rays. 2. I got bronchitis, pharyngitis, and walking pneumonia, strep throat, and an awful sinus infection in 10th grade. Couple that with the bane of my life—asthma and it was a terrible week. I was coughing up every form of phlegm you can imagine, unable to breathe without breathing treatments and massive amounts of corticosteroids. I thought I was going to die. It wasn’t sharp or throbbing pain as much as agony. I lost 15 pounds in 3 days and looked like death. 3. In college one day my ear started hurting. Like unbearable pain. It basically seared pain to touch it. I went to a walk-in clinic and they gave me an antibiotic which did nothing. Two days later I went to the ER because I woke up with brown goop dripping out of my ear and on my sheets. By this time throbbing had joined forces with the searing pain and I couldn’t sleep, go to class, or do anything really. The ER nurse looked in my ear and said “hey Ryan come over here and check this out. I’ve never seen anything like this. Go call the doctor.” That felt awful. 3 people later and similar exclamations and they were befuddled and told me they couldn’t do anything more than the clinic and that I should go see an ENT. I went there the next morning and the nurses there said the same thing. The ENT doctor was the man though and took one peek and knew immediately. Basically I had a fungal infection in my ear with a staphylococcus infection growing on the fungal infection. He gave me a fungal pill and put some purple drops in my ear and took this vacuum cleaner thing and went to town on my eardrum. It was the loudest thing ever and unsettling but I welcomed the pain because it wasn’t near as bad as the former.
No memory of the incident but I fell into a fire ant bed as a barely learning to walk toddler. Laid there long enough for them to swarm my leg and went into anaphylactic shock. They hospitalized me and said my foot swollen looked like an elephant’s. Mom said she saw me fall from a distance and took her time coming to my aid because she assumed I was crying because I fell. Hooray neglectful parenting!
I woke up one day and noticed my left pointer finger was numb. I thought it was from me sleeping on it so I paid it no mind. By lunch time both my left pointer finger and thumb were numb and sort of buzzing like when you hit your funny bone. By dinner time my left arm alternated from feeling like lightning was shooting through it to being burned with a blowtorch. My C5-C6 disc has herniated which caused the nerve endings of my left thumb and pointer finger to blow out. Felt like I had lightning pulsating through my left elbow up to my finger tips for 3 days until my nerve endings just finally died. The pain was so intense I sat in my bed and cried like a child begging for it to end. I would have done anything to make that pain stop but no pain killer or muscle relaxer could help. Nerve pain is just the most debilitating thing I can imagine. I’ll never get full feeling back in those fingers again. It feels kind of like when you hit your funny bone on your elbow, that buzz that goes through your arm and fingers, I have that feeling permanently. Gabapentin 4 times a day and metaxalone before bed helps a bunch. On the plus side, I found out I have spinal stenosis so playing contact sports was like gambling with paralysis for years. I’m not allowed to see a chiropractor for terrifyingly obvious reasons. The steroid shots directly into the epidural space of my spine did nothing to help. Normally I’d get my C6 replaced but my C5 and C7 are bulging so they want to wait to see if they herniate or inflammation goes down first. I have major PTSD from the C6 herniation so the thought of it happening again terrifies me.
Nothing particularly traumatic, but I always forget how awful muscle strains are until I do it again. Lower back sucks, but the worst one I've had was a strained glute. I couldn't walk at all without holding on to furniture/walls, so just getting up to go to the bathroom was torture.
In chronological order… - Had a hardo dentist growing up that convinced 12 year old me to get a cavity filled with no Novocain. Big mistake. I am still scared of the dentist 30 years later. - Worked in a warehouse after high school and had my foot run over by a 40000 lb side loader. Didn’t feel anything at first but realized something was wrong when it felt like my boot was filled with water. Went to the ER where the doctor burned holes in my toenails to relieve the pressure. Three of my toes still exploded like balloons and needed to be stitched back together. - Has the world’s worst vasectomy last year. The surgeon must have clipped a blood vessel because my nuts swelled up to the size of a grapefruit. The infection and 103* fever a few days later wasn’t fun, but the weeks of carrying around a huge, heavy, painful, blood filled nutsack got old quick. I couldn’t lay still for more than 30 minutes at a time before the throbbing got unbearable. Gabapentin, nsaids, etc didn’t do shit for the pain and I refused to take opioids. I still have a small hematoma in my sack over a year later. Spoiler This was after 24 hours. It got much much worse, but I was no longer in the mood for dick pics by then.
Nothing too bad but got drilled by a fastball in the face in high school breaking 18 bones and my jaw. Needed surgery where they sewed my eye shut but the real pain came from therapy for my broken jaw. They sit me down in like a dentist chair and start sticking these giant popsicle sticks in my mouth and keep stacking them on top of each other until my mouth is so wide it can't even move anymore. It was so painful there were tears pouring out of my eyes and I wasn't even crying. Legitimately should be a torture technique the terrorists would rat on each other real quick.
Compared to a lot of people I feel pretty lucky that's the worst I've experienced, painful but nothing life threatening or anything like that
I got hit by a car walking home from work a couple years ago. Flipped over the car and landed on the side of my face. Initially it didn’t hurt because of the adrenaline I guess but that night laying in bed couldn’t move my head without everything hurting. And the concussion for a few days after was awful, couldn’t read a book, look at a tv, or get my heart rate up without my head exploding.
somehow I have never broken anything, but I had shingles a few years back and it basically felt like someone running a soldering iron down my side for a week straight
Think the most pain I’ve seen someone in was a little kid that came to the ER with testicular torsion.
I was stung on the stomach by a velvet ant (“cow killer”) a few years back while scoping a gopher tortoise burrow. My immediate thought was I had laid on a juvenile rattlesnake because the feeling was intense and searing, literally as if someone inserted a red hot, large gauge needle into my abdomen over and over. The initial pain was by far the worst, lasting probably an hour or so; afterward I had an area about 6” in diameter that was incredibly tender and sore for several weeks but once the immediate venom onset subsided, it wasn’t too bad. That initial rush was something else though.
1) Herniated disks in my lower back 2) Urologist fed a camera in my dick hole to diagnose bladder issue. I had to be restrained on the table it hurt so bad.
Fuuuuck, did you get a settlement or did the drivers insurance cover anything? Tell me it wasn't a hit and run.
Woke up from back surgery where they put in an artificial disc at L5S1. A general surgeon went in from the front and moved my organs to the side so the orthopedic surgeon could put the disc in place. I felt like I had been hit by a bus when I woke up in recovery.