Your Most Painful Experience

[Flerbizky]

#3 getting my nipple pierced, pain only lasted a few seconds but was like the pain of all the above crammed into those few seconds

Yikes :-|

#4 having the above nipple ring being ripped out when catching it on a door latch

Ever since I first watched Airheads - I have thought of that as THE single most painful thing... Double Yikes - With sprinklings...

 

[Josh]

Anthrax shots hurt like no ****ing other. Burns for hours, and I literally get a knot the size of half a golfball for several weeks on my arm.

When I was 4 my older brother slammed a hospital door shut on my hand and cut my middle finger clean off my right hand. That was painful, but thankfully being in a hospital at the time it just took a quick walk upstairs, and about 15 minutes later it was sewn back on and I was drugged up.

When I was 18 I drove my friend's Accord into the back of a semi with about a 60mph speed difference. Hood flew through my windshield and hit me in the face - shattering my nose and cheekbone. That hurt pretty bad.

 

[ceiling_fan]

Worst pain I've ever had was passing a kidney stone. That's the only time I've ever vomited from the pain. Felt the first twinge and thought I just had a cramp. Twenty minutes later I couldn't walk or do anything but lie curled up in the back seat of the van while my wife drove me to the emergency room.

I've had numerous other painful injuries, but nothing compared to that, at least until the morphine hit.

My dad has had that, he said it's not the kind of pain where you lay in bed all day. It's climb the wall pain.

 

[Duke]

My dad has had that, he said it's not the kind of pain where you lay in bed all day. It's climb the wall pain.

I walked in and told the nurse "someone's shoving a red hot wire from the left side of my back through to my scrotum". She said "it sounds like you're passing a kidney stone". I basically laid on a gurney in the hall with a morphine drip for about 6 hours, and then suddenly I had to pee worse than I ever had in my life. That was step 1. Step 2 was actually peeing. That was no fun either, but it was far better than waiting for it to get from my kidney to my bladder.

I got lucky, because I only had to feel the worst of it for about 90 minutes, and it was all over in one business day. I've heard of it lasting much longer.

My wife was a real trooper. She sat in the hall with me even though I was out of it, and had to listen to the oxy junky in one of the semi-private rooms try to wheedle prescriptions out of anyone who walked by. Apparently he got pretty belligerent before they threw him out.

 

[FoolKiller]

I got lucky, because I only had to feel the worst of it for about 90 minutes, and it was all over in one business day. I've heard of it lasting much longer.

My brother had one in college. He thought he had appendicitis as it went for days getting from his kidney to his bladder. The doctors gave him some medicine that had a small chance of helping pass it. The pain suddenly stopped and he thought the medicine had worked. He went a week with no problems and then while peeing one day he was suddenly hit with excruciating pain. The stone passed and he was much better. Then, in his biology major mindset, he decided he wanted to keep it, so he reached into a dorm toilet with his bare hand and grabbed it before flushing. My brother's a weird guy.

 

[Dave A]

Oh, "emotional pain" doesn't count.

Damn, because you know, I'm a really emotional guy.



It was either ripping my knee open, and I mean right open so you can see the knee cap. Or chopping my right thumb off, though that was too long ago for me to remember how I felt then. When I ripped my knee open on a concrete slope that hurt a little. I've been hit by a dart in my arm, that didn't hurt, to my suprise. I guess it was more like having an injection with a slightly bigger needle. Fracturing my foot was very painful at times, it felt okay most of the time but then I'd suddenly get a really hard sharp pain.

 

[Sakiale]

Swinging from two poles and falling flat on my face onto rough sharp asphalt when I was little... getting allergic to fertilizer and then to the antibiotic they gave me and not being able to breathe and almost dying when I was little... constipation...

 

[Danoff]

#1 - When I busted my head open, I had to have the area numbed before getting stitches. The needle they used to numb it hurt like a b**h. I remember distinctly the doctor saying "this is going to hurt, a lot" and thinking "ooohhh, they never tell you that. This is not good."

Let's see, I split my finger right down the middle with a hatchet, I got my tooth drilled without Novocaine, I had a case of Mono that made doctors cringe (eating was very painful).... have you ever had diarrhea that you thought was going to kill you?

None of it was as traumatic as getting my wisdom teeth pulled despite the fact that I couldn't feel it.

...and none of it hurt as bad as losing my first girlfriend (yup, I said it). I'm convinced that the worst pain you can feel is psychological. Losing a girlfriend isn't even that bad and I thought I would never recover. I was a wreck for months. I can't imagine coping with something really emotionally painful, like the death of your child.

 

[Pupik]

When I was 8, I stepped on a wooden golf tee that was lying around on the carpet. It was from a simple little game that uses 14 wooden tees with 15 holes cut into a triangular piece of wood. (If you've ever been to Cracker Barrel, you see them at every table.) Well, I'm running around the house with my brother, fighting and playing as usual after school. I stepped on one of the golf tees with my left foot. I didn't feel a thing, for some reason. Well, after a few moments, I see a little spot or two of blood on the tile part of the floor.

I lifted my foot up, and saw what appeared to a broken tee that was stuck to my foot, just below the toes. I tried pull out the tee, thinking a smashed part of it was on my foot. Not quite...the entire tee had punctured my foot. Of course, I winced at the sight of this, and when I tried to pull harder, I freaked out, and stepped down on the same left foot with the tee in it, promptly causing the tee to puncture the top of my foot.

Aaarrrggghh!

Now all I could do was stare at a light-green golf tee impaling my left foot through to the top! My brother tried to call my mom, but my sister was coming home just as this happened. I'm screaming my head off, and she tells me to sit down and look the other way, while she yanked out the golf tee form my foot. That part didn't hurt, but there was a ton of blood all over the kitchen floor. I bled for about 3-4 hours straight, and really thought I'd run out of blood and die at that moment (well, I was 8). A quick trip to the hospital confirmed that I'd live to run around like an idiot for another day.

I was limping for about a month on that foot, but it healed up quite well. One advantage was that the doctor said I had to elevate my feet for a week, so I was the envy of some of the lazier kids in the class. For many years I could see a little red "X" where the golf tee made a poke through my foot. (Wow, I'm getting a phantom pain in my left foot just thinking about this episode all over again.)

Now you can play this simple, but tricky little game online! You have no fear of an injury like mine. Apparently Cracker Barrel feared litigation...

 

[Dave A]

...and none of it hurt as bad as losing my first girlfriend (yup, I said it). I'm convinced that the worst pain you can feel is psychological.

I actually agree, I'm not an emotional man, but I have felt hurt emotionally far more than I have ever felt in physical pain. And I've had plenty of knocks, falling 20 foot from a tree and catching a branch on the way down that ripped a nice trench right up my back being one of them, fortunately it hasn't left much of a mark.

Speaking of splitting your finger open, my dad did that working on a band saw, he slipped and cut his finger right down the center, it went in by about an inch. The problem with the male side of my family, we never go to hospital, my dad didn't when he did that, I didn't when I ripped my knee open. I did when I cut my thumb off, but that's a bit different.

Actually, I have an image to live upto, scrap that first paragraph.

 

[Kylehnat]

#1 - When I busted my head open, I had to have the area numbed before getting stitches.

Damn you, Danoff! I was just thinking that I had never really had any pain like what has been described here. I broke my arm in 4th grade, but I didn't even have that looked at until the next day, because it wasn't really bothering me too bad. Then you had to go and remind me about stitches in head! I split my forehead (also in 4th grade), and those shots indeed hurt like a mofo. I guess I had just repressed that memory until now .

Really though, I've not had any pain too excruciating. I guess I'm not trying hard enough to get hurt .

 

[Danoff]

I split my forehead (also in 4th grade), and those shots indeed hurt like a mofo. I guess I had just repressed that memory until now .

Glad I could help jog your memory. I think it has to do with the fact that the needle has to get under the skin - but right under the skin is a big flat bone. So they end up actually scraping your skull. It must be a hard area to anesthetize. My injury was on the back of my head near the top. Not much but skin and bone there either.

 

[UnoMOTO]

Here is the list

1. Broken arm
2. Fractured the same arm the day I had the cast removed
3. Broken leg
4. Attacked by a dog = 52 stitches
5. Removal of 52 stitches
6. Pulled the medial collateral ligaments on the insides of both knees at the same time. (cliff jumping anyone?)

And the winner is #6 Due to the months of healing that it took to become normal again.

On a side note 1 thru 5 happened by the time I was ten years old. Many, Many sorries goes out to my mom.

 

[Alfaholic]

Here is the list

1. Broken arm
2. Fractured the same arm the day I had the cast removed

I feel for your misfortune, but I just can't help thinking (apart from the pain) what must be going through your head, when, after having your arm in a cast for, like, 6 weeks solid, happy day, you finally get it free and ... crack. That truly has to be the pits.

 

[UnoMOTO]

That truly has to be the pits.

I can't believe you said that?!?!

I fractured it because I was standing on an outside cellar door and the door gave way. Some how I managed to grab the side as I was falling in to the "pit" which caused the freshly healed break to open up again. Or...it might have been when my dad game running and yanked me up out of the hole. Looking back on it...it might have been better if I had just went down with the door as it was only 10 feet or so to the concrete steps.

 

[FoolKiller]

On a side note 1 thru 5 happened by the time I was ten years old. Many, Many sorries goes out to my mom.

In a six month period when I was 2-3 I fell down steps twice and got bitten by our dog. Three visits for stitches in a six month period had protective services asking me questions while I was being stitched up from teh dog bite. Fortunately, I still had the dog food I was teasing the dog with in my hands and when they saw that realized that it was a legitimate dog attack.

 

[Flerbizky]

I broke my lower arm, in 2 places, and the pain from that was no where NEAR what I described earlier...

But to this day, I still get aches where it broke...

Ohh.. Good thing about being in cast - You can do some Serious volleyball serves !....

 

[Michael88]

* 2x Tooth root canal treatment of pretty raw tooth (removing root) - without working narcosis - Most kinds of narcosis does not work with me, a really small percentage of people have that and I was lucky enough to have it too.
Thats for sure something you'll remember your lifetime. I tell you the pain was unbelieveable as the dentist put his driller into the root canal of my tooth to drill the root to pieces. It took three days to remove the root, clean the tooth and removing infected gum. To clean my root canals he put 2 inch barbed needles into them to scratch out the last pieces of infected root, you can hardly imagine the pain without narcosis.
That was the worst pain I ever felt, breaking my elbow multible times wasnt even half as bad as this.

* Getting multible fractures at elbow after falling of my bike driving at a icy surface.

* Hornet sting at head.

* Having salmonella, stomachache. I am sure I was close to death, the pain was so strong I couldnt even think. I lost 26 pounds in one week.

 

[Bram Turismo]

So many people with removed tooth? Are you sure you actually brush them?

j/k, I had 3 tooth removed, but I didn't feel anything, but that's not a big surprise since he gave me some drugs (You know what I mean!)

Anyway, some months ago, I had a rather nasty bikeaccident (with cycling). I cycle pretty much, so I can easily go up to cycle 40 km/h non-stop for 30 kilometres, but anyway, one time my foot slipped off the pedal, my foot got jammed between the chassis and the front wheel and the blade where the chain lies on managed to get into my leg and leave my with a 20 cm scar...I was rather painful, as my whole leg was covered in blood...

On that, another painful experience, but not on the bloody side I once let a big fart in class (I was 10 I believe), while we were working and it was deadly still

 

[Driving Park]

Getting hit in the eye with a golf club at 8 years old. THAT HURT. When that happened, I screamed so loud my mom said she heard it from the other end of the neighborhood (I was at a friend's house).

 

[Robin]

HAHAHA You guys end up smashing up alot of your bodies...

Ive never broken any bones but my hands seem to be a magnet for sharp objects....

1. The most painful having the top of my thumb taken nearly clean off by a rusty gate which swung back...(freak accident tell me about it!!) it was hanging by nerves and stuff...literally threads, was stitched back on and its fine apart from the fact I have slighty less feeling in the tip.

2. Opening those stupid hard plastic blister pack material, stupidly used a huge pen knife pushing towards my other hand, suddenly slipped through the plastic and strait into my index finger, at first i didnt notice and I pulled it out of my finger then out through the plastic... then it hit me apparently I went white then fainted/blacked out for like a minute and it bled like hell, I regained conciousness and man it was painful. Was of all things bank holiday weekend so had to go miles to an open a&e where they said what the hell were you doing messing round with plastic and a knife at 11:00 at night! Oh well they stitched me up and its fine now. I dont touch that knife now.. my finger remembers it!

3. When I was younger a kid decided to attack a piece of paper i was holding with scissors (WTF!) and it went into my finger, luckly was only a long gash.

4. Got electrocuted taking apart a fully charged disposable camera all 2 AA's transfered to me and it burned my finger and it blistered'

5. Put my knuckle accidentally in a computer fan whilst fiddling... not so much damage but the skin came like off and it was kinda paper cut pain were it was small but hugely painful.

thats about it really... its its more chop than break for me...

Robin

On that, another painful experience, but not on the bloody side I once let a big fart in class (I was 10 I believe), while we were working and it was deadly still

Was it painful for you cos im sure it was painful as hell for everyone else in the room! Must have been bloody hilarious!

 

[Mrs. Famine]

Giving birth once was enough for me thankyouverymuch...

Incidentally, passing a kidney stone is about as close as anyone can get to experiencing labour pains. So guys, if a woman tells you you've never felt pain like childbirth and you've been unlucky enough to pass a stone, then you can tell them that they're wrong

Second to giving birth, i've not really had anything major happen to me although I remember feeling a fair bit of pain when I sprained my ankle, dislocated my little finger (not at the same time!) and when I burnt my wrist with hot cooking oil. I don't have any battle scars though.

 

[Mr P]

I fell through a roof when I was 15 .. It was only a factory roof with a concrete walkway in the middle of the room surrounded by machinery at both sides, luckily for me i fell through a fibreglass skylight that was situated directly above the walkway so I managed to avoid the machinery or the injuries would have been much worse possibly fatal anyway the fall was just under 30 foot and here's the injuries that kept me in a hospital bed for nearly 10 weeks ..

1. Crushed a few vertebrae in my spine causing years of intermitent backaches ever since.

2. Broke both wrists and the right wrist bone was coming out of my skin and had to be operated on.

3. Broke both thumbs that weren't noticed until nearly 2 weeks after getting my plasters on and they had to be replastered to support the thumbs as well as the wrists.

4. Broke my right ankle and a hairline crack on the sole of my foot somewhere.

5. The most memorable injury comes last since it was not the worst pain but it sure was sickening and scarey at the time I bit a hole into my tongue when i hit the floor which caused my tongue to swell up horribly and the blood filling my mouth was not nice at all

These all happened at one occasion and it was the first time in my life that I ever broke any bones and I've never had any since as I got all mine in one bundle to cut the **** so to speak

 

[Michael88]

5. The most memorable injury comes last since it was not the worst pain but it sure was sickening and scarey at the time I bit a hole into my tongue when i hit the floor which caused my tongue to swell up horribly and the blood filling my mouth was not nice at all

Good memories.....happened to me too.

I almost forget about that one: I was 5 years old back then so I dont remember all the details and my parents told me a lot of things I forgot about that but as far as I can remember I was chasing the cat and fell over something solid. I banged my chin hard at the kitchen desk and almost bit through my tongue right in the middle. After half an hour of bleeding and filling my mouth, my parents called the ambulance but the couldnt stop the bleeding too. At the hospital they heated the tissue of my tongue so that the wound was closed. I lisp a bit since that happened, I dont have 100% tongue control anymore I guess and the scars from my teeth are quiet impressive.

Cannot remember the pain, but I guess it didnt feel very good.

I think I would have been bleeding to death if my my parents werent at home.

I also stepped onto a pincushion full of needles my sister forgot to put back at that age , I got a tetanus shot from the doc right after it.

OT:
@ Milford Cubicle

Does your name come from the ''Milford Cubicle'', the finger puppet from salad fingers?

 

[FoolKiller]

2. Opening those stupid hard plastic blister pack material, stupidly used a huge pen knife pushing towards my other hand, suddenly slipped through the plastic and strait into my index finger, at first i didnt notice and I pulled it out of my finger then out through the plastic... then it hit me apparently I went white then fainted/blacked out for like a minute and it bled like hell, I regained conciousness and man it was painful. Was of all things bank holiday weekend so had to go miles to an open a&e where they said what the hell were you doing messing round with plastic and a knife at 11:00 at night! Oh well they stitched me up and its fine now. I dont touch that knife now.. my finger remembers it!

Use a flesh knife (at least that's what my dad calls it). They have a straight blade edge and no outward facing point. You lay the package down on a flat surface and run the knife around the edge with only slight pressure. Opens right up.


If you don't know what a flesh knife is: Let's just say farmers use them to give hogs more pain than any of us have known (to my knowledge). You can get them on regular pocket knives. Mine is on a pocket knife I received on my wedding day. Most useful blade ever.

The blade on the left in this picture.
http://www.dlttradingcompany.com/images/Senator.Mastodon.jpg

 

[Perfect Balance]

When I was around 10 I slipped on a napkin in the school cafeteria and hit my lip on a table, ended up biting a hole clean through my bottom lip.

 

[Danoff]

Giving birth once was enough for me thankyouverymuch...

Shouldn't you basically not feel childbirth? I mean, they have drugs for that sort of thing.

 

[Michael88]

Shouldn't you basically not feel childbirth? I mean, they have drugs for that sort of thing.

I dont know how its exactly called in english , but there is a method where you get needles into your spine that you dont feel any pain from stomach downwards. A lot of mothers I know do it that way, they said the didnt feel any pain at all and it was very easy.

 

[Duke]

Shouldn't you basically not feel childbirth? I mean, they have drugs for that sort of thing.

Well, by the time the anesthesiologist got around to my wife to give her a spinal block, it was too late, and she was most of the way through labor. So she went through the first labor pretty much heads up, with just a little anaesthesia to take the edge off.

For the second one, she had a saddle block which more or less made her go away from the navel down, and since it was the middle of the night, she slept through the worst of the labor.

But there's a limit to what they can give you without affecting the baby. Our first daughter was pretty sloped out at birth from whatever they had given my wife. She was clearly on a downer, and she lost a few APGAR points for being less responsive than normal.

The second one, OTOH, was not affected by the spinal (because it doesn't enter the bloodstream) and was royally pissed with the whole experience.

 

[FoolKiller]

When I was around 10 I slipped on a napkin in the school cafeteria and hit my lip on a table, ended up biting a hole clean through my bottom lip.

Guess what I did BOTH times I fell down stairs? I grow a soul patch just to hide the scar that still remains after 26 years. Fortunately, I do not remember the accidents.

I dont know how its exactly called in english , but there is a method where you get needles into your spine that you dont feel any pain from stomach downwards. A lot of mothers I know do it that way, they said the didnt feel any pain at all and it was very easy.

We have it too. It's called an epidural.