Most Painful Experience?

[Khaelis]

I was just thinking of this stuff (yes, I'm weird) and I wondered if this type of thread was made here yet. Didn't see anything... so, here I am making this thread. Anyways...


What was your most painful experience, physically? Be it a broken bone or a nasty fall you had. Nothing gore-y though. Keep it tame, please. I'll start it off.


One of my most painful experience that's not too gross or gore-y was probably being bit by a fairly large dragonfly. I had heard it was pretty painful, but my lord... I have pretty high pain tolerance but this bite made me tear up big time from the pain. It felt like someone dropped a dozen hot irons on my arm then decided to kick me on top of it.


So, uh, yeah. If this thread isn't allowed... just lock it, I guess.

 

[Disneyfangirl23]

Cutting my leg because I fell over and Ear ache

 

[DarkDesertFox]

When I was a kid, I tried to show off to my sibling's friend by jumping off of this ramp I owned with my bike. The handle bar stabs me right in the stomach and it hurt so, so bad. It left a bad bruise mark for awhile.

 

[DJStarstryker]

I've been stung by a paper wasp. They're pain level 3 (second highest) on the Schmidt sting pain index. I am not exaggerating when I said this hurt for literally days afterwards. I've been stung by honey bees and yellow jackets... They're nothing in comparison to a paper wasp. I would rather be stung by a yellow jacket 30 times (I was once stung by one about 5 times, so I'm partway there!) than a paper wasp once.

I got a root canal once too. The root canal was not as bad as the paper wasp either. But I had braces as a kid and got a bunch of dental work done, so I feel like I'm oddly tolerant of dental pain now, so maybe I'm just weird.

 

[sleepydreepy]

The worst pain I ever had was last year when I got really severe menstrual cramps. I still don't really know what happened, but it was possible that I had a cyst that broke or something. Regardless, the pain was so intense I couldn't move and constantly felt like I was going to pass out. The worst of it lasted for like 30 minutes, and by the time I got to the emergency room it was dying down. The doctor there said that the pain I felt was basically the pain you feel giving birth. So much to look forward too......
The pain itself was similar to normal cramps but amplified 1000x. It felt like I had a machine inside me that was grinding up my insides and I was very hot and very cold at the same time. I felt like my body couldn't handle the severity of the pain and I was going in and out of consciousness. It sucked lol.

 

[ReeBear]

After my wisdom teeth (which had become impacted) were taken out and got infected and I couldn't sleep for 2 weeks and was slightly high on codeine the whole time and still in constant agonising pain ;-;

 

[Midoriya]

I fell on my left wrist when I was much younger and broke it cleanly in half. Thankfully it was a clean break though, so it didn’t require surgery.

I haven’t experienced much physical pain in awhile, but I’m usually one of the fastest at recovering from it. The day I had my wisdom teeth removed I was up and walking like nothing had happened to me.

 

[oak]

The worst pain I ever had was last year when I got really severe menstrual cramps. I still don't really know what happened, but it was possible that I had a cyst that broke or something. Regardless, the pain was so intense I couldn't move and constantly felt like I was going to pass out. The worst of it lasted for like 30 minutes, and by the time I got to the emergency room it was dying down. The doctor there said that the pain I felt was basically the pain you feel giving birth. So much to look forward too......
The pain itself was similar to normal cramps but amplified 1000x. It felt like I had a machine inside me that was grinding up my insides and I was very hot and very cold at the same time. I felt like my body couldn't handle the severity of the pain and I was going in and out of consciousness. It sucked lol.

I recently went through the same thing and honestly I have never felt pain like a cyst breaking in my abdomen. I puked on my doctor because the pain was so extreme. I cannot describe it to others cause my explanation doesn't do the pain justice. I have slammed my fingers in the car door, I've had my fingers pinched in a load at work and had my nails go purple but nothing compares to uterus pain. I stepped on a rusty nail in bare feet and it went all the way into my big toe. I pulled it out myself and that still hurt less then severe uterus pain.

Last year I had a temporary tube put into my ear (for drainage) with no freezing and they made an incision inside my ear for the tube to fit and I was completely awake for it. That did not compare to uterus pain. Just incase anyone doesn't understand having a sick uterus lol.

 

[Mariah]

Getting a potassium IV. That stuff burns your veins like crazy. My left arm was numb for three days afterwards.

Getting a feeding tube. Stiff thick plastic tubes shouldn’t go up your nose and down your throat! It honestly felt like I was getting choked and drowned at the same time.

 

[seliph]

i woke up while being stitched up, wouldn't recommend

 

[Alienfish]

When I twisted my knee over 10 years ago..that hurt like hell yes.. Also can confirm wasp stings are also very painful, got stung when I was 18 when I stepped on one and also once as a kid I got told.

Luckily I haven't had too many physical ones which is good I suppose...

 

[daringred_]

when i was 7, my friend dropped a concrete slab on my bare foot. by some miracle, it didn't break anything but my big toe was bleeding from under the nail (with said nail falling off a week or two later) and i remember screaming my head off while my mum took me to the hospital. i don't remember the pain but i've no doubt it hurt like hell, especially given my age.

next worst thing would probably be some of my worst period cramps since i tend to get unusually severe ones. thankfully i haven't had many painful experiences because i don't have any pain tolerance to speak of so the idea of getting hurt gives me a lot of anxiety.

 

[Alienfish]

Oh and also my former co-worker accidentally drove a large and heavy "reserved books" wagon over my left toes once that was stuffed with books. I didn't feel it much at first but then I was like hnghglkfhngfh this hurts lol. Luckily only outcome was a bleeding and flat toe which doesn't bug me really but I felt really sorry for her...

 

[Roxxy]

i woke up while being stitched up, wouldn't recommend

Had that with a c section, not fun

 

[Khaelis]

Had that with a c section, not fun

Yikes. My mum had a similar experience. She's not a fan of pain anymore.

 

[Roxxy]

Sorry should share mine but had lots? Watching my dad die from brain tumour, mum many years later advanced dementia. Not physically painful so possibly not relevant

Post automatically merged: Oct 9, 2020

Yikes. My mum had a similar experience. She's not a fan of pain anymore.

It was worth it as it got me my beautiful son

 

[Bcat]

Pneumonia with a pluracy. It felt like I was being stabbed by hot-pokers every time I took in breath. Spent two weeks in the hospital, and it took months before I was fully “well”.

Aside from that, I also have UC which can be...an experience, let me tell you. I used to get cramps so bad that I would nearly vomit or pass out on the toilet. Fortunately, I haven’t had a flare up in a few years and hope to keep it that way.

 

[TheSillyPuppy]

Getting all four of my wisdom teeth removed. I got nitrous oxide (laughing) gas and local anesthesia, but I suppose the dosage wasn't enough? I felt all the pain throughout the procedure until maybe my dentist got to the fourth and last tooth. It was the most pain I've ever experienced, and I had tears unconsciously streaming down my face.

Runner-up would be getting bronchitis, after my S/O came back from Dubai in January 2019. Breathing wasn't painful per se, but it was very challenging. It didn't help that when my S/O took me to the ER, the bronchitis hadn't set in fully, so there wasn't anything unusual from the ECG and checking my breathing. A couple days later is when it fully set in, and the doctor I saw in the local walk-in clinic near my university immediately recognized it as bronchitis and prescribed me antibiotics.

ETA: got my dates mixed up. Thankfully, my brush with bronchitis was last year.

 

[xlisapisa]

Any time I have ever hit my little pinky toe on an edge of a table leg and/or chair leg (or pretty much anywhere really); feels like death for a good minute or two.

Also the contractions I had from labor before the epidural. Plus almost drowning on one of those water tube slides at six flags when I was younger. It was due to the fact that I flipped over off my tube and then slid down the rest of the way without one not knowing how to swim. Safe to say I have not been on one of those attractions since then, I have no idea what I was even thinking in the first place!

 

[Your Local Wild Child]

Spoiler: Gastrointestinal illness mentioned

the most pain I’ve been in was a when I had a bad bout of stomach flu. Normally, when I’m sick I can still go about my day. Not with a stomach bug. I was flat on my bed for 2 whole days because I was aching all over. The hot water bottle we had was an utter lifesaver!

Second worst pain I had was when I was pretty sick with a bad sore throat during my first semester at community college (keep in mind this was years before COVID happened so sick days worked like unless you were vomiting a ton or were carrying a high fever you need to go in). I tried my best to keep up but I didn’t take enough Advil with me so by the time of my last class I was feeling so rotten that I was crying, so my teacher dismissed me. I felt really bad about that but in hindsight I should’ve brought it up earlier.