What's the most painful experience you've had?

was trying to do a fancy trick with a knife at a Japanese restaurant I worked at and cut my carotid artery. The pain of humiliation at coming back to work after the surgery and my first customer recognized me from the accident and asked to be moved...

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da bern wrote:

1. Kidney Stones. Mother of God, that hurt - even morphine didn't cut the pain.

2. Run over by a car (both legs) when I was 13.

3. Falling down the stairs and breaking my back, bones in my feet and fingers.

4. Prostate biopsy without anesthesia because the f-ing insurance company wouldn't pay for it.

5. (5 weeks ago) Retina detachment surgery. Done while you are awake and they stick needles and an ice-cold cryoprobe in your eye. The local anesthetic does very little.

6. Dragged the wrong way over a small bridge by a horse (i.e. across the width of the bridge; not the length) Broken ankle and fingers and dislocated shoulder.

Reading this is like watching the three stooges. How the heck did you get yourself into 6?

On top of my day job, I own a horse stabling operation. The horse of one of my clients HATED me and tried to hurt me at every opportunity. In this case, she knocked me down and my hand became wrapped in the lead line. The horse ran about 50 feet, dragging me with her, and she went over a small wooden bridge spanning a drainage ditch and I slammed into it as a result. The horse died a few years ago, thank God.

I've also had a number of broken fingers and toes, but that's not unusual when you are around horses, even when they are mild-mannered.

At my 1st post-doc job for a UN group in Israel. My testicles were hooked up to a wall power switch and I was tied to a chair by Israeli Paratroopers. They beat me over the head, shocked my testicles, they separated both shoulders for weeks w/o re-setting. They called me a 'self-hating' this and that. My boss risked his life searching for me for a month. The only reason we lived is because we are both casual Jews. I still have PTSD but am over suicidal tendencies.

1) TASER

2) oleoresin capsicum "OC"

While TASER hurt worse I would rather get tasked 5 times in a row before getting OC'd again as it is a horrible pain that lasts longer...

When I got a filling without anesthetic. Ooooh boy. It was my first time to a dentist to get a filling, I was 22. She had a thick German accent and asked me "Are you okay with needles?" I had no idea what she was talking about. Me being the laid back no trouble guy was like no no don't worry about it. She gave me a funny look and her assistant looked at me like I was crazy.

Oh man the pain. She got halfway through drilling my tooth, it felt like the right side of my skull was melting. Imagine having a toothache and something picking it with a knife. I managed through the pain until she hit a certain spot and it felt so painful I felt sick and nearly threw up. Almost passed out so they quickly gave me a cup of water with some sugar, how ironic considering the time and place.

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I have ulcerative colitis. If I was not lucky enough, I developed enteropathic arthritis during a severe flare. Like someone turned on a switch - one minute pain free, next minute what the He!! happened. Involved my wrist, knees and of all places my head. The pain to the wrist and knees was awful but the worst was the pain in my head. My jaw hurt like a MoFo but my cranial sutures where the worse. It felt like my head was in a vice and someone was hitting me with a bat at the same time. I lasted about 4 hours before I cried uncle and went to

ER. Amazingly, once they loaded me up with steroids and morphine the pain was gone in minutes. Kidney stones was nothing compared to this.

Precipitated withdrawals. This can happen when you take Suboxone (an opiate-replacement drug to help get people off opiates, like heroin) before you are fully into opiate withdrawals.

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It was a f---ing nightmare. The pain was so bad that if it had gone on for more than a day or two, I would've considered suicide. Heroin withdrawals are already miserable, TERRIBLE, but this just felt so much more intense. Never going through that again....

Tinkle tinkle wrote:

Kidney stones. No other pain, physical or emotional is even close.

Passing kidney stones while running a marathon wasn't a lot of fun, started passing it / them around 20 miles into it, 1:30 last 10K with everything I ate the previous couple of days left on the road

Over three years of R side radiating pain. Brutal sciatica. I was a decent age-group runner before this thing hit. No more running.

Back in early 70's when I was held prisoner in Nam, the viet cong would muse themselves by pushing the tips of needles underneath our fingernails and see how far up they would go. It hurt real bad

One time I was ready a really good thread and out of nowhere I clicked to the next page and it was just gone.

I faceplanted while riding my bike. Broke my upper and lower jaw in many places, eye socket, nose, teeth, hard pallette, forehead, and crushed the jaw sockets, including permanently torn cartilage. It was an incredibly painful blur (yet probably more manageable than something like kidney stones) and very long recovery, including additional minor and major surgeries over three years. I look pretty good and feel pretty well, considering.

Recovery from chilectomy with resection - kinda like bunion surgery. Wasn't prepared for the pain level post surgery. A week after surgery, I started having panic attacks when I realized that I would be out of pain meds in a couple of days. After returning back to work, a female coworker stopped in to check on me - she had previously had bunion surgery. She said that she had 2 kids via natural childbirth and the pain from childbirth was on par with the bunion surgery but would rather have another natural childbirth than have that surgery again.

While running, I was hit square in the chest by a cyclist with his head down. Knocked me out and left an impression of his helmet on my chest. When I came out of it, I thought that I had been in a car wreck and didn't want people to call an ambulance because I didn't want my insurance to go up.

When I was 10 or 11, I was salt water fishing by myself and got a very large hook caught in my face. I picked up my tackle box, rod and reel, then walked down the pier, across the beach, up the trail and back to my parent's house with the hook and sinker jiggling all the way home.

Had a sore back for a while, stupidly did some gardening which involved moving big rocks around. Then went for a super steep & hilly ride on my cyclocross bike on fire trails. Back got tighter.

Got home and laid on my back in the living room. Back went. I had slipped a disk. Any movement was pure agony with spasms seemingly in my back, stomache and soul. Stayed there for 7 hours in the cold, until my wife got home. It took her an hour to cox me on to all all fours.

Agony all evening, but somehow made it to bed. Had to get up for a pee. Just getting out of bed made me cry from pain for the first and only time in my life. I have dislocated my foot/broken my femur and crunched the foot back in place myself before. It was bliss in comparison.

This all happened 2 weeks after I quit my job to train fulltime as a triathlete. 10 weeks recovery basically doing nothing. So depressed. I don't garden anymore!