Chronic - serious back injury that felt, at times during rehab, like someone was stabbing me in the back with a dull knife. Acute - in-grown toenail on my big toe I let go too long. The day I decided it was time to get it fixed, I hit the end of my toe against the door jam and felt as though someone had taken an ice pick and jammed it into the end of my toe. I laid on the ground whimpering before getting up and going to the podiatrist.
Chlamidia test. I dont want to go into the details, but its sorta the opposite of the kidney stone. Came up negative, however.
the kidney stone thing scares the crap out of me. i'm drinking lots and lots of water everyday, at least partially to keep those mother falcons away.
I have had that done during an STD test (negative) at the local health dept. It was bad but not as bad as my pain described above.
Probably when I was 13 and stubbed my big toe near the pool, it got locked inside the pole net, and in the process jarred my entire big toe nail loose. also happened when I was 9. Most pain I've been in
the irony of one of the biggest seinfeld fans having to pass a stone. JERRY: Hey! KRAMER: Hey. JERRY: What's with you? KRAMER: I got a stone. JERRY: What stone? KRAMER: A kidney stone. JERRY: What is that, anyway? KRAMER: It's a, it's a stony mineral concretion, formed abnormally in the kidney. And this jagged shard of calcium pushes its way through the ureter into the bladder. It's forced out through the urine! JERRY: Oh, that's gotta hurt. sorry to hear that codell, after I saw that episode I vowed to drink at least two glasses of water a day.
codell- Hope you recover and don't hurt too much. My worse pain was also after ACL surgery. I would not wish that on my worse enemy. That was painful. But the Music City Miracle was a bit of payback.
I don't know - hard to choose; you decide : 1) Passing a couple of kidney stones 2) Having a headache nearly making me cry because of a 200/145 blood pressure. 3) Flying off the hood of a car at 25-30 mph tearing up my back with scrapes and gashes. 4) Sciatica in my leg caused by a herniated disc causing a nerve to be irritated and slowly die (I had this while I had the kidney stones, btw - double whammy). 5) Second degree burns on my chest and part of one leg caused by dumping boiling water on myself. When I took my shirt off, the skin came off with it. As it healed, when they removed the gauze it stuck to the area, so imagine your skin being peeled off, then somebody gluing gauze to that area and then ripping it off. *EDIT* : after thinking about it, I would probably say it's close between the burns or the sciatica. The kidney stones were right there, but I don't think were quite as bad.
right after i had a sist removed from a lumbar in my lower back. after they ween you off the demerol or whatever painkiller of choice, the pain is just unbearable. i couldn't even sit up it hurt so bad. then when they tried to get me to walk (to make me leave the hospital as early as possible) it was the worst pain i've ever had. i had to stay an extra night in the hospital because i couldn't urinate on my own or get out of the bed the pain was so bad.
I just thought of something, has anyone ever had a pimple on their eyebrow or in the middle of their back right on the spine? I'm not talking about the small pimples either, I mean the big ones taht comes with a bump about the size of a dime. Mercy
I had a spinal tap when I was 4, hit straight in the face with a mailman's dog repellant when I was 11 (basically tear gas I think), got a flaming marshmallow stuck on the side of my face when I was 13 that stuck and wouldn't come off (it's much funnier now), I got shot in the leg when I was 15 (oddly, it didn't hurt at first), a shotgun pellet in my left hand the same year (not painful unless I moved my ring finger - in which case, it was excruciating), knocked my shoulder out of socket when I was 19 (and put it back in), accidentally put my hand on top of a big jellyfish when I was 22, I got a kidney stone when I was 28 (diabetes related somehow), and I stick hypodermic needles in my stomach every day (doesn't hurt much anymore - finger sticks are far worse, but I can do forearm testing now). I feel so macho right now. I'm going to light some nice fragrant lavendar candles and listen to some Barry White, because nothing can de-machoize me at this point.
...and I just realized I forgot a couple things. If I had to rank them in order of "sweet Jesus, I'm going to die", I'd put the spinal tap at the top.
Why is it so entertaining to read about other people's pain? I don't think I have anything noteworthy to add. I got a 16 stitch gash once from a kickstand when I was hit by a bicycle. But that wasn't too bad; it was a wholesome sort of pain. I got hit by a jellyfish once, but that was more excruciatingly uncomfortable than it was painful. I've had food poisoning which makes you want to die, but that's more illness than pain. In outright and unwholesome pain, probably the worst I've had was from a badly strained ankle. It swelled up real big and I couldn't walk on it for a couple of days; it didn't feel completely normal for months. When it happened, I was certain I tore something inside. Doesn't sound too impressive, does it?
My friend just had surgery on his torn ACL just last week, I guess it didnt hurt to bad compared to most. He said there were 2 other kids next to him who had the same surgery he did that day and the nurses would come around and ask them to rate the pain 1-10, 10 being the worst., the first patients said: "like a 9 or 10", the second patient said: "8 or 9", my friend says:"i'm ready to play some basketball, like a 2 or 3" Although he does say it sucks to do the leg machine he has and the leg exercise he has to do to get his flexibility back.
he's probably fibbing a bit the last thing you think about when you just get done with ACL replacement surgery is basketball. First of all, your body is still in shock over the invasion. it's not physically possible to say it doesn't hurt. Kinda reminds me of the guy who claimed he felt no pain during his circumcision (he had it done when he turned 13)
