What is the worst physical pain you've ever felt?

[two fingers]

Originally Posted by capnsandwich

Any woman who says child birth is "uncomfortable" must've had a great anesthesiologist. My wife, having 3 kids, still can't imagine having a child without an epidural. I can't imagine having a child come out of me.

My wife is a rock. She did one natural (no epi) and one C section. Both times she waltzed out of the hospital in about 18-20 hours and never popped a single pill, not even a Motrin. She breathed hard during the natural, but to this day has never described any pain to me. Both times she just couldn't wait to get home to take a bath (and hold those babies). On the way home from the natural, we stopped at the grocery store and shopped.

[capnsandwich]

Originally Posted by Alvaro Martín Gómez A.

Aside from my kidney stones problem referenced in my previous post, I also had laparoscopic surgery to remove my gallbladder because of stones. What I felt because of those stones before the surgery was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING compared with kidney stones pain during the first half of their travel through the ureters.

Obviously, you didn't have a dead organ in you. Not denying the pain from a kidney stone because I've had friends with them that have described the pain. However, if I had the choice of someone shooting me point-blank in the stomach with a 12 gauge shotgun and having another gallbladder attack with a necrotic gallbladder, I would've chosen the shotgun. It was that bad!!!

[capnsandwich]

Originally Posted by two fingers

My wife is a rock. She did one natural (no epi) and one C section. Both times she waltzed out of the hospital in about 18-20 hours and never popped a single pill, not even a Motrin. She breathed hard during the natural, but to this day has never described any pain to me. Both times she just couldn't wait to get home to take a bath (and hold those babies). On the way home from the natural, we stopped at the grocery store and shopped.

YOUR WIFE IS MORE OF A MAN THAN ME....

[Casting Thunder]

I had a tendon transfer on my right foot; second day home from the hospital I "fell" in the bathroom. My body reacted by naturally taking a step on the foot that was supposed to be non weight bearing for six weeks. Worst three seconds/next day of my life worrying that everything disconnected.

[sandmangeck]

Appadrayva.

[Exxcell]

Mine is probably when I was burning some brush in a field near my house, it wasn't lighting, so what does any good ole boy do? He grabs some gasoline. After drowning the pile in gas, I walk up to light it and the fumes explode, knocking me backwards and onto my back. As I get up, I find out I'm on fire, and did the one your not suppose to do; run. After a few moments I remembered to stop, drop and roll.
2nd degree burns over 60% of my body (including my face..) and 3rd degree burns on my right arm, right side of my chest, shoulder and upper back.

And if anyone has had a pretty bad burn, they know that the pain doesn't go away. It's there constantly till it heals.
I couldn't sleep for 2 or 3 days because it hurt to bad to lay down.

I thank God every day that I didn't scare.

[96tbird]

A DVT. Nothing I bet compared to your burns. Glad you are here to tell the tale!

[oniman7]

Originally Posted by capnsandwich

Now, I'm not trying to discredit the pain of child birth but Michelle Duggar, the lady who gave birth to 19 kids, said that her gallbladder attack was worse than anything she's ever had. I can't imagine giving birth, though. Glad I'm a guy and I'm glad my gallbladder's out too.

My mom had 3 kids all with complications and still maintains the gall bladder is worse.

On the topic of morphine, when I was 5, I had a tumor in my jaw the size of a golf ball. It was excess tooth material, not cancer, but was removed on the chance it would grow cancerous (and because my jaw was so swollen). I'm a calm person but on morphine I got mad and yelled at everybody, even at age 5. Apparently my mom does it too, and she's no stranger to surgeries.

As far as pain, honestly my top 3 are strep throat (which I used to get once every 2 months on the dot), migraines, and the time I broke my toe on an old console TV walking through the house one morning with no lights on. I was about 9. It hurt like a mother when it happened, but I didn't pay it any mind when I got home. I took off my shoes and it was incredibly painful, so I looked and about a quarter of my foot was swollen and blood red -- must've burst a vessel.

Then there was the time in 5th grade when I was playing baseball. The pitcher on one team was throwing what the coaches estimated to be between 50 and 70 MPH, and one of them hit me on the side of the hand. I dropped the bat instantly and by the time anyone got to me my hand was swollen and purple. It hit the fatty part of my hand and it swelled up pretty good for about 5 or 7 days. I had it in a hard cast. No fracture, or perhaps a tiny hairline fracture, but if it had hit my knuckle the nurse said it would have broken almost any bone in my hand.

Luckily I've been pretty fortunate.

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

Originally Posted by sandmangeck

Appadrayva.

Wow! Did you do that to yourself?

[Basstreble]

I stepped on a Lego the other day. Scarred for life.

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by capnsandwich

Any woman who says child birth is "uncomfortable" must've had a great anesthesiologist. My wife, having 3 kids, still can't imagine having a child without an epidural. I can't imagine having a child come out of me.

I'm just reporting what they told me.

Anyway, since we're on a gross-o-rama, I had a motorcycle accident back in '69. A drunk driver ran a stop sign and I T-boned him at about 35 miles an hour. My brother was riding on the back. My right femur came right out the side of my leg. I don't remember much about it, but I do remember saying, "Don't move me - I think my leg is broken." I couldn't figure out why my right foot was lying next to my head. I also severed my patellar tendon, tore my medial meniscus, had internal injuries and suffered a concussion. It was just a couple years ago I learned, after an MRI, that I had suffered brain damage at the base of my brain. (OK, go ahead ... ) I spent 5 months in the hospital. My brother? Released the next day with abrasions.

However, I don't remember any pain at the time of the accident (although plenty afterward), and the kidney infarction still holds the record.

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by capnsandwich

Now, I'm not trying to discredit the pain of child birth but Michelle Duggar, the lady who gave birth to 19 kids, said that her gallbladder attack was worse than anything she's ever had. I can't imagine giving birth, though. Glad I'm a guy and I'm glad my gallbladder's out too.

It's got to get easier after the first eight or ten, though.

[bootsox]

Originally Posted by sandmangeck

Appadrayva.

I hear those are relatively painless as far as "extreme" piercings go.

[Dave the Bass]

Popped a quarter-sized bone chip off the outside of my ankle bone, dislocated my kneecap and my hip all in one shot playing football in the backyard one day......it took 3 large men, pulling very hard, with straps wrapped around my leg to get my hip put back in place.

I was begging them to leave it out, less pain than fixing it.

[agent77]

Originally Posted by Junk420

Most disgusting feeling in the world was a spinal tap. Feeling a 6 inch needle in your spinal column is not something I care to remember

Never had a spinal tap, but an ear, nose, and throat doctor stuck a scraper thing in my ear for something or other, and I felt the scraping from inside my head. Creepy.

[agent77]

Oh, got a staple in my eye once too. Pulled it out myself, and the doctor said I should have left it in. The thought of someone leaving a staple in their eye during the ride to the ER seems unfathomable to me.

[Tituscrow]

Originally Posted by two fingers

My wife is a rock. She did one natural (no epi) and one C section. Both times she waltzed out of the hospital in about 18-20 hours and never popped a single pill, not even a Motrin. She breathed hard during the natural, but to this day has never described any pain to me. Both times she just couldn't wait to get home to take a bath (and hold those babies). On the way home from the natural, we stopped at the grocery store and shopped.

Meh....this is the norm for us Scientologists

[Tegzsa]

Cluster Headache

Like being stabbed in the eye and head with an ice-pick that is actually made of ice

Then waiting for it to start again same time the next day

[Hobobob]

I get migraines regularly, but I had one spectacular one which resulted in me actually losing some sensation on the left side of my body. The ER thought I was having a stroke. That was the closest I've ever been in my life to actually wanting to die. Felt like someone was shoving a tire pump needle between my eyeball and skull, and slowly pumping it up until my head would explode. Half my face and my entire left arm went numb, and I was unable to speak coherently.
I've heard that some cluster headaches can be even worse. I can't imagine how anyone could deal with that.

[carlos840]

Originally Posted by Tituscrow

Kidney stone.

Think being knifed by a hot, blunt, rusty blade. Repeatedly.

Then, just when you thought that was bad, imagine passing a spiky melon through hole several orders of magnitude too small.

+1

hurts like a bastard.