What's the worst pain you have experienced?
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Xelebes said:
I still think your actually a computer, and if your not I definately thought you were surgically attached by your fingers to a keyboard.
So I am really confused about how you managed to hurt yourself in real life and not in virtual reality!
Gosh, I learn something new everyday.
Glad your ok now
WyldChylde
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I'd say the worst pain I can remember (aside from emotional pain) was when I played a 3-hour gig 2 days after a vasectomy.
During the show it was not so bad, the next day was hellish all the way around though... and I'm into CBT!
During the show it was not so bad, the next day was hellish all the way around though... and I'm into CBT!
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For me as well emotional pain is far worse than physical pain .
I am not greatly keen on physical pain but I have an high pain threshold and in the past, even in difficult times , e.g. major surgeries , bad toothaches or earaches ( the worst in my opinion ) I was able to cope quite well with it without take great amounts of painkillers . On the other side even if I am rather strong emotional pain can hurt me really badly .
So if I should be compelled to choose between the two alternatives , I think I'd choose a physical pain rather than an emotional one . b.
I am not greatly keen on physical pain but I have an high pain threshold and in the past, even in difficult times , e.g. major surgeries , bad toothaches or earaches ( the worst in my opinion ) I was able to cope quite well with it without take great amounts of painkillers . On the other side even if I am rather strong emotional pain can hurt me really badly .
So if I should be compelled to choose between the two alternatives , I think I'd choose a physical pain rather than an emotional one . b.
Physically?
Well.. I'd have to say that there's two experiences, that I can't quite designate as worse than the other:
1) When I was a kid, my class went on an outdoor ed trip. When we were almost at our hike destination, we were given permission to go off the path, to run down to the lake. Long story short, the kid in front of me stepped in a beehive that had fallen to the ground, but was running fast enough that he didn't get many stings.. only about 20. I ended up with a swarm so deep around me that I couldn't see well, and was frozen to the spot, going into anaphylactic shock. (sp?) Anyway, it turned out that I got around 70 bee stings.. and then one or two more on the way back to camp. PAIN, let me tell you.
2) Slipping a disk in my back. Augh. Bad.
How did I deal? *shrug* I dealt. The bee stings.. I wasn't even taken to a doctor or hospital by my school (for which we should have sued like MAD, but didn't, as my mother didn't at that time believe in suing), and went days before seeing a doctor. By that time, I'd spent those days horribly sick, and even feverish (though I think that was more stress than anything else), but had sucked it up, and continued on with the camp. I had pancake-sized welts all over me, and am now allergic to bees.
The back? It wasn't just a slipped disk. The disk hemmoraged. It split open, the fluid leaked out, which caused the disk to slip. I have permanent nerve damage down my left leg, which often acts up, when I lay in certain positions. As to coping? Well, I had to be on bedrest for 5 weeks, and off work for 8. I tried to keep as busy as I could, reading, watching movies, balancing my checkbook, etc. It was a heck of a wake-up call, though. I realized that I needed to get better. I want to have kids one day... in order to do that, I need to have a strong back, and a strong body. So it's woken me up, and it's made me rethink some of my habits. *shrug* It was a very painful, very positive thing. My doctor and physiotherapist told me it would probably take me 2 years to bounce back from it, without the surgery... but both recommended against the surgery (most doctors won't do back surgery on someone as overweight as I am). Anyway. Within 6 months, I was almost good as new. My progress shocked my doctors, and while now and again, I have temporary relapses (back pain, not slippage), I'm exceeding expectations.
Well.. I'd have to say that there's two experiences, that I can't quite designate as worse than the other:
1) When I was a kid, my class went on an outdoor ed trip. When we were almost at our hike destination, we were given permission to go off the path, to run down to the lake. Long story short, the kid in front of me stepped in a beehive that had fallen to the ground, but was running fast enough that he didn't get many stings.. only about 20. I ended up with a swarm so deep around me that I couldn't see well, and was frozen to the spot, going into anaphylactic shock. (sp?) Anyway, it turned out that I got around 70 bee stings.. and then one or two more on the way back to camp. PAIN, let me tell you.
2) Slipping a disk in my back. Augh. Bad.
How did I deal? *shrug* I dealt. The bee stings.. I wasn't even taken to a doctor or hospital by my school (for which we should have sued like MAD, but didn't, as my mother didn't at that time believe in suing), and went days before seeing a doctor. By that time, I'd spent those days horribly sick, and even feverish (though I think that was more stress than anything else), but had sucked it up, and continued on with the camp. I had pancake-sized welts all over me, and am now allergic to bees.
The back? It wasn't just a slipped disk. The disk hemmoraged. It split open, the fluid leaked out, which caused the disk to slip. I have permanent nerve damage down my left leg, which often acts up, when I lay in certain positions. As to coping? Well, I had to be on bedrest for 5 weeks, and off work for 8. I tried to keep as busy as I could, reading, watching movies, balancing my checkbook, etc. It was a heck of a wake-up call, though. I realized that I needed to get better. I want to have kids one day... in order to do that, I need to have a strong back, and a strong body. So it's woken me up, and it's made me rethink some of my habits. *shrug* It was a very painful, very positive thing. My doctor and physiotherapist told me it would probably take me 2 years to bounce back from it, without the surgery... but both recommended against the surgery (most doctors won't do back surgery on someone as overweight as I am). Anyway. Within 6 months, I was almost good as new. My progress shocked my doctors, and while now and again, I have temporary relapses (back pain, not slippage), I'm exceeding expectations.
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Emotionally, bad enough hurt at 15 by a parent that I attempted suicide. (never going to that place in my mind to live again- one year as a zombie post attempt was enough)
Physically I haven't had as much damage as the rest of the group and I am 41.
At 13 I was sitting on the asphalt basketball court doing my homework and my foot fell asleep. I stood up on my ankle. It became softball sized by the time I got home and I wasn't able to walk for a few days. It didn't hurt all that bad, but now that ankle gives out at the slightest imperfection of walking surface - I think I must have torn the ligaments to the point they don't do their job so well. I've had lots of scraped knees and palms from it.
Worst pains:
Jarred an elbow when the handlebard of my bicycle came off in the middle of a street as I was making a left turn (I was 18). Woke up in the middle of the night in extreme pain when I moved that arm. Went to the ER got an x-ray and pain meds. Had some fluid build up due to the smack the process of my elbow took, but no fracture (but the ER made me go to see an orthopedist just to be certain) had my arm in a sling for a few weeks.
late 20's, slipped on an icy staircase at night (was cleared during the day which was sunny and melted the stuff piled up off the walk) back was protected by my backback full or RPG books, twisted my knee badly (was the most painful injury but I think I mush have also whacked a hip too at that point. I managed to stumble to my car and get home and to the Doctor the next day (thought I might have broken it).
Car accident just a couple of years ago. Ruptured two disks in my lumbar region. I now have a handicapped parking tag because if I walk more than a few hundred feet without sitting down and taking a break or standing more than a few minutes at a time, my back feels like it is bending in half in a direction it was never meant to go. Thank goodness for Chirporacty!
I have seen signs of arthritis in my back, neck and hips... the neck injury from the car accident has aggravated my carpal tunnel by pressing on nerves and the inflamation response associated with it.
Physically I haven't had as much damage as the rest of the group and I am 41.
At 13 I was sitting on the asphalt basketball court doing my homework and my foot fell asleep. I stood up on my ankle. It became softball sized by the time I got home and I wasn't able to walk for a few days. It didn't hurt all that bad, but now that ankle gives out at the slightest imperfection of walking surface - I think I must have torn the ligaments to the point they don't do their job so well. I've had lots of scraped knees and palms from it.
Worst pains:
Jarred an elbow when the handlebard of my bicycle came off in the middle of a street as I was making a left turn (I was 18). Woke up in the middle of the night in extreme pain when I moved that arm. Went to the ER got an x-ray and pain meds. Had some fluid build up due to the smack the process of my elbow took, but no fracture (but the ER made me go to see an orthopedist just to be certain) had my arm in a sling for a few weeks.
late 20's, slipped on an icy staircase at night (was cleared during the day which was sunny and melted the stuff piled up off the walk) back was protected by my backback full or RPG books, twisted my knee badly (was the most painful injury but I think I mush have also whacked a hip too at that point. I managed to stumble to my car and get home and to the Doctor the next day (thought I might have broken it).
Car accident just a couple of years ago. Ruptured two disks in my lumbar region. I now have a handicapped parking tag because if I walk more than a few hundred feet without sitting down and taking a break or standing more than a few minutes at a time, my back feels like it is bending in half in a direction it was never meant to go. Thank goodness for Chirporacty!
I have seen signs of arthritis in my back, neck and hips... the neck injury from the car accident has aggravated my carpal tunnel by pressing on nerves and the inflamation response associated with it.
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snowy ciara said:
Nah, I was doing what boys normally doing.
The first accident when I was four happened during my sister's sixth birthday. I did it out of stupidity.
The second incident happened when I was six years old and I was crawling through this tunnel bored through this man-made hill (hey, it was Saskatchewan.) I decided to stand up for some reason and banged my head on the concrete. I still don't know why they kept that thing there.
The third incident - with the axe - happened when I was in the ninth grade. We were cutting down the trees in our backyard - simply trees grown too old to stand up much longer. So anyways, we used bowsaws and axes to shocp down the trees. Anyways, I has to cut a log in tow - it layed horizontally so it was hard to miss. Anyways, I took a swing and it missed the log and hit my shoe. I didn't think nothing of it until my mom and neighbour told me I should take a look at it. I didn't know it had gone all the way through to my toe and my toe was bleeding quite profusedly. Not enough to call for a blood transfusion but enough to soak the shoe. I was quickly rushed to the hospital and given painkillers to sew up that cut.
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Last Christmas I got a terrible middle ear infection and was praying for my ear drum to burst to relieve the pain and pressure then followed by Quinsy, the pain in my head and jaw was the worst I've ever had for 3 week solid. I never want to go through that again.
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For me ... crashing a motorcycle in the woods and screwing up my neck/spinal cord. When I came to, I was a quadrapelgic for a short bit with nothing except eyes and ears working. When the nerves/spine started to recover the smallest movement or touch or breath of wind left me feeling like my skin had been peeled back and boiling oil poured on it. Then I went to the hospital.
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RomyDelaney said:
Oooh! This reminds me! When i was younger, i had this...problem...in my ear. It would occasionally get irritated, and it would have stuff build up. Eventually one night i would wake up crying and in excruciating pain, the kind where it hurts to move and hurts to stay still. i would take some tylenol and in about an hour the pain would subside enough for me to get back to sleep. In the morning, thick pus would be running out of my ear. i went to the ear/nose/throat doc at about 15, they said they didn't know what it was and to come back in six months. Six months later they said, "It has either gone away or gone further into your ear. Come back if it happens again." It didn't, and although it did affect the hearing in my ear, i'm still in the high average range.
This happened three or four times. They suctioned some kind of plaque off my eardrum too.
i have since discovered that the pain was my eardrum perforating. When the pressure became too much, the stuff found its way out, through my eardrum, which would heal up until the next time...the plaque was probably scar tissue, which would explain why it hurt so much to remove.
i also used to get menstrual cramps where i was vomiting and stuff, and not only were they bad, but they had the added pain you get before you throw up. i actually punched walls.
Even with my migraines, the worst are the eardrum thing, followed by the tooth thing. Funny how so many of us have tooth stories.
However, for sheer misery, i vote for the strep throat where my tonsils were so swollen they were pressing on the pain nerve in my ear. i didn't eat for days and the pain lasted far too long.
My mental pains are too personal to share.
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Wow! Looks like a bunch of clutzes we all are! Everyone has a different pain tolerance (mine is very low) and I am convinced that each pain seems to be the worst you have ever felt at that moment. Until the next time of course.
I have broken my toes so many times, I now just curse and move on with my day. Hitting my funny bone always sucks really bad.
Once I walked into a lolly column in the local Walmart, slamming into the fire extinguisher. Left a circular bruise on my upper chest where the gauge was. Not sure which hurt more, the embarassment in the store, or the pain from the bruised rib.
C-section for me was not painful at all. That morphine afterwards was one hell of a fun trip! I was on Jeopardy, went to Disney World, all without ever leaving my bed! The UTI afterwards was pretty bad though until it was properly diagnosed.
I have had kidney stones and it was horrible. But the entire sequence of events that happened connected to them was so ridiculous, it would make most people never go to the ER again.
Panic/Anxiety attacks are painful because they are completely out of your control and it is really hard to pinpoint their cause at that moment.
But I think the WORST pain, the very worst, is the ache in a parent's heart when their child is hurting.
I have broken my toes so many times, I now just curse and move on with my day. Hitting my funny bone always sucks really bad.
Once I walked into a lolly column in the local Walmart, slamming into the fire extinguisher. Left a circular bruise on my upper chest where the gauge was. Not sure which hurt more, the embarassment in the store, or the pain from the bruised rib.
C-section for me was not painful at all. That morphine afterwards was one hell of a fun trip! I was on Jeopardy, went to Disney World, all without ever leaving my bed! The UTI afterwards was pretty bad though until it was properly diagnosed.
I have had kidney stones and it was horrible. But the entire sequence of events that happened connected to them was so ridiculous, it would make most people never go to the ER again.
Panic/Anxiety attacks are painful because they are completely out of your control and it is really hard to pinpoint their cause at that moment.
But I think the WORST pain, the very worst, is the ache in a parent's heart when their child is hurting.
