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Worst physical pain of your life?

Broke my arm and went in for an operation on it, operation was cancelled and they decided they needed to re-break my arm and put everything back in place manually.

So I sat there having had nothing to eat due to operation prep, wasn't allowed any pain relief, and the doctor sat next to me and used his hands to re-break my healing arm again and push everything back in to place.

My mum was with me and had to leave the room due to almost passing out.

Second worst pain was having a broken rib, it sounds like nothing having a single broken rib but the pain made me pass out twice in one night, thought I was dying.
 
CrunchyFrog said:
yep, had five of those suckers, worst 12 hours of my life
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Never got my gallbladder out as I started drinking water and haven't had an attack since (over a year) and by the time I got to the hospital the attacks stopped

Had 3 attacks last year two of them being within a few days of each other. Completely floored me I wouldn't wish that pain on anyone. I consider myself to have a high tolerance to pain but fuck gallstone attacks
 
Erekiddo said:
This month marks the 3 year anniversary of having my gall bladder removed, but also marks the anniversary of the worst pain I've felt in my entire life: having a drainage tube being pulled from my side.

What about you, GAF?
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I was in hospital when I was 18/19 to get surgery on one of my lungs, and I too had a drainage tube. However somehow, it just fell out one day when I was napping in my chair and had to be put back in.

That was way, way worse than getting it taken out. No anasthetic, just someone shoving a plastic tube into the right side of my chest.
 
A section of my small bowel perforated, causing an abscess which turned into a fistula. That area was a complete mess, and the pain was excruciating (think of someone taking a piece of broken glass covered sandpaper and rubbing it under your skin).

Having drainage tubes inserted to help it drain was awful, even under local anesthetic. This had to be done twice because the first tube fell out.

Eventually I had an ileocecal resection done to completely remove that section of bowel. The surgeon had hoped to do this via keyhole, but the area was so broken and damaged that he had to cut me open. The surgery itself was fine, but vomiting after having your abdominal muscles messed around with was truly horrible. Even sneezing hurt for almost a month.
 
I was born with glass bones and paper skin. Every morning I break my legs, and every afternoon I break my arms. At night, I lie awake in agony until my heart attacks put me to sleep
 
Broken arm because my friend who was riding at the back of my bike fell on me for a single instance. I was like 5.

Joining a frat then getting paddled for 70+ times I think. Made the back of my legs go purple.
 
my biggest pain was probably my crohn's disease induced mega inflammation fistulae leading to hospital, but honestly i dont remember how it felt like, i just remember it sucked and i coudln't move. would call it a 7

Pain is like one of my biggest fear so this thread is doing wonders on me
 
Shavaunne1 said:
What the hell?!
How in the hell did you put up with that for two years?
You must have had some cream or something to help you cope right?
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Only two types of ointment for fissures, GTN and Diltiazem, and I was allergic to the latter lol. And the former loses effectiveness over time. 7+ procedures before I bit the bullet and had a serious op to try to fix it for good. Which it did, thank fuck,
and didn't leave me incontinent, thank more fuck.
 
I am blessed. My answer to this question is definitely Marathon Number Two (out of five). It was agony/bliss for the last several miles and I felt like I was hit by a truck for a week or so afterwards. I know I am lucky to be able to identify something so trivial for this thread.
 
Worst pain was sneezing very hard with two broken ribs on the left side of my ribcage that I wasn't aware of. I think they were semi-broken (due to another incident), but after the sneeze they were definitely broken. In any case, it felt like someone stuck a knife in my lung. Screaming just made the pain worse.
 
Man, I feel like my own pain is next to nothing compared to what you've all been through. For me, it's diverticulitis. I'm actually going through my third round of this mess. Basically a pocket opened up in the wall of my intestine (a diverticula) which then got infected and makes me feel feverish as well as feeling like someone is stabbing you in the gut, to the left and below your belly button, every time your bowel moves. The remedy for this is to take antibiotics to kill the infection and to not eat anything for days so the bowel can rest and heal.

The first time this happened was 7 years ago and the stabbing pain got so bad my knees buckled and I fell on the ground screaming gibberish in my apartment. This time isn't as bad as then, but it's getting there.

Thankfully I know what the hell to look for so when I went to the doc and said I have diverticulitis he was able to prescribe me the antibiotics needed then and there. The first time I got diagnosed it took weeks because nobody wanted to believe that diverticulitis, a condition that's common-ish for people over 40, had developed in my 27 year old body. I ended up having two CT scans because the first time they were checking on my appendix, which is on the other fucking side of the body.
 
Broke my left arm and dislocated my shoulder from a fall when i was 8 years, i was running a race against another kid he got mad he was going to lose, during the race push me to the ground, my hand landed on a rock hidden by grass, plus with the awkward fall my shoulder pop....I cried long ass tears... that ruin my summer...
 
When I broke my femur when I was 10. Well, not that, but when I was in hospital later. I was on so much morphine I have no memory of my first week in hospital, but that night was something different.

The bone had moved so the the two ends were misaligned, so that the two halves of the bone were lying next to each other. There was about an inch either way, so to fix it I had to be in traction to pull the bone(s) back until they were aligned again, so they could heal.

So I was in a basic splint my first night, since I broke it in the evening. Getting ready to go into traction, I'd eventually requiring a pin through my lower leg to they could put more weights on the mechanism, they were so misaligned.

But to the point, the muscles spasmed, I'm not sure why, but they did. All the morphine in the world would've done nothing to the pain. It lasted I'm not sure how long, but all I did was scream at the top of my lungs until it ended. I would not wish it on anyone, that feeling of your body rebelling, torturing you. No one deserves that.
 
When I tore my ACL, MCL, and meniscus on my left knee playing baseball in high school. Playing first base and I stepped across the bag during a pick off play and the opposing player dove straight into the side of my knee.

Having your entire knee buckle under the weight of a 200 pound player is awful.
 
  1. Downing 2 teaspoons 360000 scoville hot sauce for a challenge. Ended up simultaneously vomiting and crapping myself. Burned going down, burned coming up, burned going out.
  2. Breaking ribs just by the sheer force of labor breathing becomes.
  3. Getting a tooth pulled with no anesthetic and no gas just because I was an idiot kid that was afraid of needles. My dentist was impressed that I didn't scream or yell, but I was kinda committed to toughing it out when I chose the "no needles" route. Mind you, this tooth wasn't loose, they straight up had to pull it for other reasons.
  4. Shingles along the right supraorbital nerve on my head. Constant migraines, light sensitivity, couldn't sleep except in one position. Even just barely touching my hair would set it off, the pain would blur my vision sometimes. Had to tough it out and host a booth for the underwater robotics team, study for finals, prep the robot for competition, run tests, etc.
 
I started getting acute lower back yesterday after bending my back. I have some experience with it as an MD, but holy shit this is more painful and debilitating than I could imagine. Slight movements of my back and left leg leads to unbearable spasms. My codeine effervescent tablets do not help with the pain at all, but added some nausea and dizziness to the mix. This shit will probably last for five days or more if I understand the science correctly. It is the last week of my vacation as well ... :(
 
Had a 8 hour surgery once. The anaesthetic faded during the operation. Wasn't the most enjoyable experience. They were working on the skull so I had to stay awake and boy did it suck hearing mini saws revving as it approached me. All the surgeons were surprisingly girls so had to act cool since girls were watching and I wanted to look cool. I was 16 so dumb teen bravado was still present.
 
Big up my polinidal cyst brothers.

I thought I'd broken my back. Went to hospital at 3am and was in A+E until 10am before I was seen. Just curled into a ball on the floor.

Got given antibiotics. The wrong ones I might add.

A week later I had surgery.

Open wound, getting it packed was disgusting.

4 weeks later, reoccurred. Surgery again.

6 weeks alter, reoccured. Surgery again.

About 3 months later, reoccured.

Finally stopped. That was like 5 years ago at this point.

Never again to I want to experience trying to wipe my ass without getting faces in 3 inch wound that's been left open in your crack.

It's painful, it smells. It's a real horrible time all around.

I was 22 when this all happened iirc.
 
I had a kidney stone that blocked my kidney and kept anything from flowing. I was in soooo much pain that morning.
 
I've got bulging disc in my back.

At the worst, the nerves over the body would light up all at once, as if an iron maiden targeted only my nerves.
 
Right now. Post shoulder surgery, 3 bone grafts, 6 metal pins to hold them and 28 staples from the side of my shoulder then chest down to armpit.

Fun times. Was just under 2 weeks ago, shoulder is to be immobialised for another 4 weeks, then physio.
 
Dropping a pot of soup that had still been boiling seconds before on my foot. Got 2nd degree burns over most of the back of my foot but the pain during the healing process was a joke compared to the seconds right after it happened. I rolled on the floor and was unable to breathe, not a pleasant experience.

Bursitis in the foot was not fun either. Could only sleep in very short intervals because the slightest movement led to some excruciating pain.

The only time I broke a bone was nowhere near as bad as those two.
 
Appendicitis. Didn't want to go to the doc because I didn't have insurance while starting a business, but by day 2 I was writhing in pain and my wife drove me to the ER. Ended up being covered by the Medicaid expansion so I didn't owe anything.

Thanks Obama
 
I've been lucky with breaking bones as I've avoided doing so. The worst pain for me was either getting bit by several hundred fire ants or getting stung by a single southern flannel moth (or an asp). Neither were pleasant experience but the pain from the fire ant bites lasted about a week while the asp sting hurt for only a few hours but the intensity of the pain was greater.
 
Probably one of the times I had the shits from food poisoning. Having acids burning my stomach, intestines, and anus as if they were on fire is quite the unpleasant experience, especially with multiple sessions on the toilet. Even pneumonia wasn't that excruciatingly painful, even though I felt like I dying inside.
 
Honestly I dunno. Maybe headaches so bad I can't fucking move. Not sure if that counts as physical pain. Outside of that, maybe having my wisdom teeth removed badly which caused me to not be able to eat for a week and due to me swallowing buckets of blood not being able to poop. I've been pretty lucky so far I guess.
 
Inner Ear Infection

Jesus christ that fucking hurt. Constant pain for a week straight, couldnt chew anything without constant extreme pain.

When my ear drum popped and that shit poured out...the relief was immediate to the point I couldnt believe it, though it coincided with the most foul liquid in existence flowing out of my ear.
 
My second cancer-related surgery was a lymph node dissection. They make an incision from your xiphoid process to below your belly button, and you wake up with a train track pattern of staples down your abdomen.
 
Hurricane_Chris said:
Shot 3 times... not something I'll repeat-- if I can help it...
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I was kinda surprised when I got hit, mainly because it wasn't nearly as painful as I imagined. The most painful thing about it was the big fucking needle the doc put right in the wound to sedate it before extraction and cleaning.
 
I had 4 cavities fixed in one run without anesthesia because I was young and dumb. It hurt during and just as much in the days after. Since then I haven't passed on anesthesia when the opportunity arises.

Not much else to complain about, luckily.
 
Dr.Phibes said:
I was kinda surprised when I got hit, mainly because it wasn't nearly as painful as I imagined. The most painful thing about it was the big fucking needle the doc put right in the wound to sedate it before extraction and cleaning.
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In the movies, the bullet always goes straight through cleanly or just grazes flesh. In real life -- not so much.
 
I've been lucky, I think the worst pain I've had was the first time I got cramp in my calf

I had to go for an x ray on my chest after a car crash but it wasn't as intense a pain
 
Chomped through a tooth shattering it. Had massive head/jaw pain and headache for hours. Wanted to roll over and die.
 
Really bad hemerrhoids/fissures... Flares up every now and then but sometimes it is bad, sometimes it is REAL bad. There is nothing I could do about it, but just lie there and wait for the pain to eventually go away. Then when things start to heal the itchiness is unbearable.

That being said, I ordered a bidet and it should be coming in on wednesday. Hoping it will help, especially when I won't have to wipe dry, coarse toilet paper over sensitive skin.
 
I was in a car accident in 2011. Some kid hit us head on while he was texting. The engine block in my car broke my lower leg bones. Surprisingly that wasn't the worst pain. It was after acouple surgeries and during recovery when my leg became infected with MRSA. Holy shit it was insane how painful it became. Usually the worst when I would get up from bed to use the bathroom. The blood rushing down to my lower leg made it feel like it was expanding and was just going to explode.
 
Had a series of cluster headaches for close to two months a few years back. I don't even want to think about it for fear they would come back. I seriously thought of rather dying than going through another day with them. I guess that's why they call them suicide headaches. Almost lost my job and sanity. Horrible incapacitating daily pain with little to no relief..

Fuck that shit.
 
Shingles; Definitely shingles.

That shit is terrible. The virus directly damages the end of your nerves (where your body feels pain) "simulating" the effect of of an intense burn in fire, or like many knife stabs wounding you deep into your flesh.

For me it was a completely debilitating pain that made me just cease to function. Comes in waves; could be 20 minutes or 10 seconds apart. Lasted for a few weeks.

Some deeply unlucky souls then get Postherpetic Neuralgia where that shit stays with them for months, years or even the rest of their lives; I can't imagine.
 
I had an infection in my mouth, they called it trench mouth. Shit made it pretty impossible to eat at a certain point and I was in constant pain. I didn't have dental insurance at the time but I couldn't take it anymore. I went in and they did a deep cleaning. It felt like they kept putting staples in my mouth. It was one of the most physically distressing moments of my life. Oral issues are nothing to trifle with.
 
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