I think having 2 kidney stones and a ruptured disc in my back at the same time was my worst period. Although dumping boiling water on myself as a kid was pretty bad, too. I also had a bad tooth that ranked up there in pain about 2 years ago. The weird thing about it was the pain wasn't near my teeth - it was up in my head. Craziest thing - we didn't know what the hell was the problem until a dentist said "hmmm... let's try a root canal on this tooth". And that worked. X-rays showed nothing wrong with the tooth, we tapped the tooth and I felt no pain, but the dentist "had a hunch". lol.
I wish I could be more positive, but my experience doesn't allow me to. I will say that you should avoid invasive procedures if there is any way to around them. Perhaps I could have kept waiting for physical therapy to do something. I was told, however, that there was a chance that one of my legs could lose partial function. That influenced me into going ahead. I wish I hadn't. Lots of people, though, don't have my experience No doubt a big majority don't have my exerience. That's not helpful if you're one of the minority who don't respond well to the surgery. Ouch! Yeah, I've talked about my back thingy before. Totally understand the pain you went through. I wish I had had a button to push. Instead, I had a night from hell where the nursing staff ignored my button pushing asking for more pain medication. My doctor had assured me that I would have whatever it took to handle the pain. Apparently, the nurse(s) overnight didn't get the memo.
I had something similar to this when I broke my femur right under the joint in a motorcycle accident. I ended up having 5 operations including an implant put into the center of the bone, that implant removed because it was defective and another implant put in. The actual break itself wasn't that painful but there was a lot of pain during the recoveries from the surgeries. That said the sheer concentrated pain of getting nailed full force in the cojones was worse than the pain of the pain of the surgeries.
When our family dog got ran over by my cousin. 32yr old daddy's boy feels the need to drive 40mph in neighborhood streets in his little stupid automatic truck. The next pain that I felt would have to be when I got my tongue pierced. The actual needle going thru my tongue wasn't painful. But I couldnt talk at all the first two days of my recovery. It was like I had to learn how to talk all over again. And I was on a ice cream/ramen noodle diet for about a week. I got kinda depressed during that time. But it was worth it. Girls think it's HOT. The last girl that I was seeing said she fell in love with my piecing.
Probably the pain of a killer hangover. For some reason I get some really, really bad ones with SEVERE vomiting and nausea.
I had lasik surgery and was not given any pain medication. I thought they gave me meds, but it turned out to be tylenol. I sat in my bathtub for 12 hours in complete darkness drifting in and out of conciousness from the pain.
Tooth ache much like the OP's had me going crazy. It happened on a Sunday night so I had until the morning to see the dentist, but I couldn't stand the pain any longer. I had taken some asprin and tylenol, but that did squat. So I got hold of some codeine. Not a good idea to mix these drugs people. In the morning I had chest pains for about 2 minutes. Think I may have had a heart attack or something. Anyway, got me some amoxycilin and cleared that **** right up.
This ^. Have not read entire thread, but I had kidney stones before. It took morphine to kill the pain.
Oh sticking with the thread. Probably after the meds wore off when I had my tonsils, uvula and part of my soft palate removed several years ago .
that's pretty intense. You apparently have a great dentist. i've been lucky in my life. only when I was 14yrs old and my sister tried to fry chicken for her first time. It was actually kinda funny...she was 16 and on the phone with her bf with a 20 ft cord (pre cellphones, I guess I have to add) and my 12yr old sister and I were playing cards on the kitchen table when the oil lit on fire. My older sister started yelling from a room away to put the fire out, while she is still talking to her bf. I go into a mode of lifting the flaming iron skillet off the burner which requires extreme concentration so don't realize my younger 12yr sister is filling a pot full of water. next thing I know is I'm holding 1 1/2" of oil in an iron skillet on fire and my little sister throws a pot of water on it. To this day I wonder what it looked like to her when her brother disappeared in a wall of flames. So the oil on my hands producing 3rd degree burns was not the most intense pain, it was the treatment afterwards, which my dad (a doctor) applied. I was wrapped up way too tightly and was afraid to tell my dad. But that's it for me. I've been lucky.
Kidney stone, nothing else is even close. See how many people in the thread have mentioned it. Now tooth pain can be awful awful awful, but until you have had to deal with the pain of a kidney stone, you just haven't felt genuine real physical pain. I don't know about you guys, but the way I describe mine, it was as though my body had been impaled by a large rusty pipe with broken glass and rusty nails spiked all over it, which had then been dipped in acid and perhaps some kind of extra special pain-enhancer product on top of everything else. ..all because of a little speck o'nuthin about the size of a lil freckle. you wouldn't think that something that small would be able to cause that much pain, but oh boy.. it hurts just remembering that, and that was over ten years ago.
