Worst Pain you've felt/had?

[darin]

Saw this topic on another board, and thought it was interesting.

Here's mine:

First off, i'd have to say the WORST pain I've had was as a soldier.

I was playing BasketBall and back then, I had some 'hops'. I went up for a rebound, and when I came down, my chin hit the head of the guy in front of me. Seems my tongue was ill-placed and the guy's head snapped my open-mouth closed. I had to literally take a hand and PULL my tongue off my teeth, which were stuck into the bottom of it nearly half-way.

After I walked bloody-mouthed to the dentist, he sat me in the chair and stuck a novicane needle into the cut to numb my tongue. Holy Hell. Holy Bloody Hell.

He sewed up my tongue - about 3 days later the stiches burst and my tongue split open and got infected. Think about this - with every movement of my tongue it felt like I was biting it all over again. It was that same sharp cutting pain for weeks until it healed.


Next up is likely my Honeymoon. My wife and I spent the last day in Cabo snorkeling. That evening the 2nd-degree sunburns covering my body were too much to handle. My wife, slightly less burnt, went to seek help from the Hotel. A kindly Hotel worker broke off fresh aloe vera from the garden. My wife coated my chest with the miracle salve...seems I'm allergic to Aloe, as what was 2nd-degree sunburns became 2nd-degree sunburns with an ITCHY RASH.

Another Army Story - I once had a sinus infection which traveled into the bones of my skull. Have I mentioned the feeling of being stabbed in the forehead? That's very much what I imaged it was like.

Lastly, because I can't compete with some of y'all unfortunate souls...was my bike wreck.

http://www.d-mphotos.com/movies/indyvalleycrash.wmv

You might see my right lower-leg striking the telephone pole.



That happened September of 2004. To this day, that leg, when it's touched or bumped, feels like I've got a fresh bruise under the skin. When my kids play around and I get an elbow or knee there on my shin? Yup - Like getting stabbed by a knife each time.

[Noir]

Holy Christ that leg looks bad.

Worst physical pain was only yesterday, had my first step of root canal treatment, people awlays say it's painful but my gawd I wasn't it expecting to be so bad. The second stage is next Thursday and the dentist said next week would be worse =/

But I'm only young so I've got plenty of years with plenty of chances to face quite horrid pain left.

[Classact]

I have two in competition and both had lingering effects; first was a poorly placed parachute rigging on my family jewels while exiting a C-141 with a full combat load... when the chute snapped open my scream started! The other was the deveopment of a cyst between my family jewels and my butt...oh, I'm here to tell you it's much worse than broken arms or dislocateed elbow or having your teeth knocked out... I was in Germany and had to ride the bus to the hospital and back to my abode.

[dan]

1) Sinus infection. Basically a throbbing pain that felt like it was beneath the bone on the front of my face.

2) When I was 17, my ears got plugged up with wax (I have very bad waxy buildup, have to flush out the ears every couple weeks, TMI, I know), so I had to go to the doctor and it turns out the totally scientific medical procedure for dealing with this is to jam a giant plastic skewer into my ear canal and scrape all the wax out. The doctor hit my eardrum multiple times, which was absolutely blinding pain.

3) Age 17, again, I think, I had an ingrown toenail on my big toe that had gotten really bad and infected, so I had to get surgery to get it removed. The surgery itself was fine, no pain (the doctor numbed the toe before he even gave me the shot, so I didn't really feel anything at all), but later on, I was trying to change my bandages and nobody had told me to soak my foot first, so I was trying to peel bandages off my toe that had dried to the wound. I got about halfway, felt like I was close to vomiting from the pain, before my parents told me to soak my foot.

Unfortunately (luckily), I don't have pictures for any of these.

[stephanie]

I'd say mine was when I ruptured my eardrum..HOLY MOLY

[Hobbit]

In boot camp, I got a stress fracture. To you civies out there, boot camp at the Naval Academy results in a good 20+ miles of running/marching every day. Also, whenever we were walking in the dormitory, we had to 'chop,' which means that with every step, our knees had to come up to our chests. Anyway, back to the stress fracture. So, on this broken leg, I did all this running a chopping for 3 days before somebody told me that a sharp, mind-numbing pain in a specific spot that didn't go away when I stopped running was not normal. I was on crutches for all of a week before...the circumstances piled up. First, my company officer decided to short-date my medical chit to the next time I was going to physical therapy (a lieutenant overriding the orders of another lieutenant while outside her specialty...not kosher), then didn't tell the docs at physical therapy. Not knowing, they didn't renew the chit. Without an up-to-date chit, my company commander figured that was free license to take away my doctor-mandated crutches, despite the fact that a lieutenant commander had prescribed them for 2 weeks, minimum. I ran on that bitch for 3 more days. The pain was like a railroad spike being jammed into my leg. After leaving the Naval Academy, the DoD was kind enough to pay me to go to an orthopedic specialist. He showed me about a 4 inch fracture running vertically down my tibia (which wasn't on the x-ray after the first 3 days). If I had run much farther on that sucker (and on round 2, day 4, my company commander was ordering me to run the mile and a half PT test), it would have snapped like a dry twig and I would currently have a metal rod in my leg.

For the record, in case you doubt the horror of that kind of pain, it sapped my body's entire supply of high stress pain neurotransmitters. I have yet to replenish my supply, and that was over 8 years ago. To this day, whenever I'm nervous, stressed, or really pushing myself, I'm incapable of feeling pain. I can run until my legs collapse out from under me and not even know I'm tired until it's too late. I once got pelted in the forehead with a rock by some punk I was chasing down for defying the Camp Orr rules. I didn't break stride and I didn't even know I was bleeding at all, much less profusely, until it got in my eyes.

[avatar4321]

too many to choose a worst.

But then maybe I can tell you tomorrow.

[Nukeman]

I would have to say the absolute worst I felt was when I was lifting (dead lift) and popped a SI joint. Ohhh MY GOD. You have no idea it is a total loss of movement and the pain was horrible. the bright side it only took about 2 weeks to pop back in. when that happend it was like a loud "pop" and all the pain went away.

[Trigg]

While classacts parachute story does sound painful I think I have him beat.

Childbirth x4........2 of them completely natural because the little suckers were in a hurry.

My only other painful moment was when I was around 15 and my sister and I were caving with my dad. I fell off a rock and everyone thought I'd broken my tibia. We were just about to start a 300ft belly crawl to get back to the entrance. My dad thought they were going to have pull me out.

[LiberalNation]

hmmmm, the apendicitis was more sick than pain.

bad periods, really bad periods.

[avatar4321]

The headache Ive been having all day is pretty high on the list right now.

[Kathianne]

Oct. 1983, blinding pain from 2 herniated discs. 10 days in traction.

[manu1959]

sharp stick in my eye shaved my cornea.....so i can tell you lots of things are better than a sarp stick in the eye

broken pinky.....think 90 deg......almost passed out driving myself to the hospital....

broken ribs.....sex with my hot girlfriend was tricky....

dislocated shoulers....both...twice each.....

knocked out front teeth....

spiral fracture lower right leg......

but the absolute worst....i lost my son for 15 minutes in the mountains......

[crin63]

Wow, you guys been messed up.

The worst was a testicular infection where the tubes collapsed and formed to the boys from the puss created by the infection and the nerve damage done from having a vasectomy. The nerve damage has flat dropped me to my knees.

[5stringJeff]

Man, I was gonna write about twisting ankles and being kicked in the nuts, but that sounds like child's play compared to you guys.