ITT: The worst physical pain you've ever experienced

[sjd]

I've been kicked in the head by a horse when I was younger, gone over the handlebars on my bike and hit my head on the asphalt. I'm sure both resulted in a concussion but I never went to the hospital in either case.

However the worst pain I've ever experienced is much more recent. I was diagnosed with Crohn's disease 12 years ago and have had surgery twice (1998 & 2000) there was several painful episodes associated with both surgeries and hospital stays (the first one was 6 weeks) I also had a fistula that was created from my intestine to my bladder but the worst pain is what I am suffering from currently, as frequently as once a week.

I've had some scar tissue resulting from my Crohn's and currently have a partial intestinal obstruction, which means if I eat something that gets "stuck" I can't have a bowel movement or pass any gas, so my stomach ends up bloating which means massive cramping, and I usually end up vomiting. But that doesn't always help. I have to stop eating for a day or two and usually end up writhing around in pain in bed for several hours. It's the worst feeling when you can't eat even though you are hungry and when your involuntary muscles cramp. The pain is a 10 out of 10 on my scale.

No pain medication, even when administered at the hospital, causes the pain to subside. However after trial and error I am now on a medication that seems to help, although I might need surgery again. There is still a long list of foods I can't eat such as nuts, popcorn. raw vegetables, etc.

I wouldn't wish Crohn's on anyone.

 

[Harold falcon]

Stabbed in the left shoulder area with a rather large kitchen knife during an attempted car jacking in San Francisco some years ago. The tip of the knife broke off and any sort of movement by my left shoulder was excruciatingly, mind-deadeningly, dear-heavenly-baby-jesus painful. But it only lasted a couple hours before the hospital hepped me up on tylenol 3 with codeine, and then all was right with the world.

 

[J'aimelescravates]

This contusion in my hip is really been bothering me lately. Injury occurred 9/2009 and it is still not healed. I run when it feels better but anything more than 10 miles causes it to swell, weaken, increase pain to the point where I am limping afterward and the next day.

Car accident a few years back was really bad. I hit a tree in a pickup truck as I slid off a road at 60 mph. Broke my leg, arm, ribs. I remember looking up at the windshield while I lay on the bench seat and saw a reflection of my face covered in blood. i guess the light was from the fire department lights. Anyway, my leg was gashed open and I still have glass embedded deep in my forearm. The fleeting moments that I do remember were mainly of intense physical pain and blood everywhere.

I was in a fight when I was probably 8 or 9 at summer camp. A kid pushed me and I cut my back open on the rocks surrounding the camp fire. Then, I fell in to the camp fire. I spent about a month with the camp nurse.

A few years ago I had a friend who had some psychological issues. One incident resulted in the police being called to his home. The police thought I was him and shot me with a beanbag shotgun twice. Hit the side of my torso and my butt. Ouch is all I can say to that one. The officers on scene apologized with a nice letter. I appreciate their work so no hard feelings.

 

[skyman]

I had epidymititis (or however you spell it) that had spread and caused pain in my lower abdomen (I was to proud to go see a doctor to get medication or see what it was untill the pain was to much) about a week later a girl threw a calculator that hit me corner on straight on the infected duct. This resulted in unbearable pain where I could not walk or stand and a trip to A&E. Where I was subjected to some VERY painful examinations. I wish never to repeat that experience.

 

[FidelCashflow]

Originally Posted by onion

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holy fff'in hell

Originally Posted by DentistCare

once at time in a party I fell down the stairs because someone throw water on the floor and not clean it, then I slipped and fell the stairs like in movies. I crack the coccyx and had to sit in an air donut for 2 months.
I was puke and I could not breathe through the pain, I went to ER and they gave me morphine for ******
oh god... i don´t want remember...
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[Polemarch]

3 words,

Bone Marrow Biopsy.


About 2 years ago now. A 2.5mm thick needle first pucturing my skin, then being drilled, pushed, scraped into my pelvis bone by hand while I am fully conscious. No anasthetic. Quite agonising.

 

[gamelan]

bulging disc at L5/S1. the most excruciating pain i have ever felt. i never knew the human body could withstand that much pain. the last week before surgery was the worst because i couldn't take any of the painkillers that thinned the blood. yeah, i would not wish low back problems on my worst enemy.

-Jeff

 

[Matt]

Originally Posted by JLee

Back in the old days (1978) in the jungles in Nam took a three rounds from what was most likely a AK47. Two through the left shin and one through right shoulder. So bloody painful that all I remember was reviving in the copter and thinking that the world was nothing but pain and knowing that there wasn't enough morphine in any of our kits to help. An I was one of the lucky ones! Kidney stones, ACL's, broken legs, dislocated fingers, splinters in the eye are simply refreshing in comparison. Now I'm shivering just thinking back.

but the Vietnam War ended in 1975

 

[Svenn]

Originally Posted by Matt

but the Vietnam War ended in 1975
Lol, did JLee just make up that story?


Has anyone mentioned severe nausea yet? The worst I've ever felt was food poisoning in Cambodia- it envelops you're entire consciousness and you can't even rest enough to have a coherent thought, as the tension just constantly seizes you. I remember falling down in the middle of a lobby and then vomiting all over the hospital floor. Mind you this is accompanied by stomach pain and diarrhea.

 

[darkdream]

The worse pain I experienced was when I was in my very early teens and very healthy but I got angry to the point my nose started bleeding, coughing out blood, and finally I felt an intense pain in the heart and fell to the ground unable to move for quite a period of time. Seems nothing compared to what some of you have experienced, but then again I am probably younger than most of you.

 

[allure]

I've broke several bones, some cases extremely painfully, but the worst pain I've ever had is a toothache. Hellish, hellish toothache.

 

[TheD0n]

Two weeks ago I caught an elbow in a basketball game that split my chin open. I was stunned and fell over, but got up an kept playing. I couldn't feel a cut because my chin was numb, but two possessions later I wipe my chin with the back of my hand and it was covered in blood. Turns out the cut was about the size of an almond. It needed 5 stitches, and the experience showed me what boxers must feel when their face is cut. I always thought those Q-tips must really hurt, but their face is probably numb, and they just feel the bruising and not the cut.

Last spring I fell on my knee playing basketball and fractured (shattered) my kneecap. I got up immediately with the intention to continue playing, but couldn't put any weight on my leg. Almost 12 months later and my knee is only 50% of what it was. I don't think it will ever fully recover. The physical pain wasn't all that bad, but it was emotionally tough to endure 2 months of physical inactivity.

Five years ago a propane tank fell on my big toe. The force was concentrated on a small area because those tanks have a thin metal ring so they can stand on the round bottom. It probably broke the toe, and my nail fell off and now grows in 2 separate pieces. The toe immediately started throbbing. Probably the worst pain I've felt.

 

[toogies80]

6 bouncers VS Me. I lose

 

[TheD0n]

Originally Posted by toogies80

6 bouncers VS Me. I lose

Is this story in another thread?

 

[toogies80]

No, Unless one of the bouncers is a styleforum member as well.