What is the most painful thing you’ve endured?
Me: Emergency appendectomy - my life was a living hell for 3 days before that, pain was worst ever, nothing would stay down, couldn't sleep or walk. I wished for a quick death.
my brothers death no physical pain ca be worst
Emergency appendectomy as well! Yep...the pain before and after was the worst I ever felt...my scar reminds me to do all I can not to have any more surgeries...
Passing kidney stones the size of a small marble, I thought I was dying, after the MRI and they knew what was going on my Dr and his nurse both agreed they had never seen a kidney stone that big.
I passed a 4mm stone and I thought I was dying. I'm a big baby.
I'll make it short. Abuse accidents fucked up back and neck. Live on meds 100x stronger than heroin
I had a stroke 6 years ago and sometimes still forget that my left leg doesn't always do as it's told .
This resulted in me thinking , one morning that I Could spin round quite quickly . Obviously
I fell .... Onto the corner of my wooden bed . I broke my sternum ..absolute agony even breathing ....for weeks .
I have endured kidney stones, diverticulosis, sinus surgeries, knee replacement, open heart surgery, food poisoning and traumatic brain injury. But the worst pain I have ever experienced was from Cymbalta Discontinuation Syndrome. The combined mental and physical agony was unbearable.
It's a toss-up between passing a kidney stone and a shingles outbreak. There's no way to get comfortable with the pain of passing a kidney stone. It hurt when it was traveling down the tube from the kidney and the bladder. It was only 4mm, but felt like a whole meter. I am such a wuss.
I don't think it rates high in comparison to some of the other experiences here but I had a weird viral infection that settled in both of my shoulders a few years ago For a while I was living like a T rex because it hurt so much to move my shoulders and I needed help dressing.My right side recovered because I was forced to use it but I guarded my left side and it froze.I don't have what I call pain in it now but I am having to work at getting it to move again
Needing a root canal on Sunday evening. I've done that twice, first time in 1985, second in 2017. In 1985 I went to an Army hospital ER which was 25 minutes from the base we lived in (USForces Germany), but they couldn't do anything for me except to get a dentist out of bed to open up his clinic at the base I lived on. I got an emergency root canal. In 2017 I had oil of cloves on hand, it works! I was able to fall asleep and call the dentist when they opened to get a root canal.
Collapsed vertebrae pinching sciatic nerve, had to 'walk' taking small steps and dragging left leg behind me at an angle. I could only go about 50 ft before I had to sit down. 2 months like this where every movement caused a severe sharp pain in lower back, most times severe enough to make you collapse and/or suck in air. Even breathing hurt, literally.
Bi-level fusion a year ago (today is the anniversay date) of L3-L4-L5 fixed most of it. I've been told I had better results than most people, at least I can walk now!!
My burst appendix was close, it was more intense, but that pain only lasted a few hours.
Hmm, physically, it would have to have been when I was involved in a bicycle accident as a child. I went ass over teakettle, got a nasty shiner (but no concussion) and lots of scrapes and bruises from it. I remember having to remain awake for a certain amount of time (late into the evening) out of concern over a concussion and watching The Incredible Mr. Limpett on TV. LOL!
Emotionally, two things. The first was having to watch how my daughter looked coming out of what was considered to be fairly serious surgery for someone her age (5). I don't think she was every in any real danger. The surgery was for removal of her tonsils and adenoids, and also widening of her sinus cavities (and I can only imagine how that was actually done). When she came out of the surgery she looked like she had been hit by a bus. Her face looked badly bruised. It just broke my heart to see her like that. Again, it was just my reaction to her shocking appearance. I hate seeing children suffer and seeing her like that, well. The other emotional pain has to do with heartbreak and I can't share it in detail here, but I feel emotional pain from it to this day.
The day I spent doing IT phone support...