What's the most pain you've ever experienced?

[meaty]

Can be physical or mentally

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Broken heart

 

[wenrob]

Gallbladder attacks, hands down. For reference, I've given birth, had a C section, three abscessed teeth at once and have been stabbed. None of those compare to a gallbladder attack.

 

[Neesy228]

Shingles. Followed by natural childbirth.

 

[lizabu]

Natural birth with baby stuck in a posterior position

 

[pryncess527]

Physical -- kidney infection. Once in college, I had no idea what was happening, I just woke up at 2am in the most intense pain I've ever felt and made my boyfriend-now-husband rush me to the hospital. Turns out it was just a bad kidney infection, but I had no idea they could be that painful.

Mental -- watching my mother cope with the death of my father when I was a teen. Losing my dad was hard. Watching my mother lose the love of her life was harder.

 

[megster1123]

After my first c section I had some nerve damage near the incision. Any kind of sudden or unexpected movement would send this electrical current of pain straight through my body. It was like being electrocuted with a cattle prod. I sneezed once and it put me down on the floor in tears. After that I didn't sneeze for almost a month.

 

[Pluto's My Pooch]

With my 2nd Child there was complications of giving birth. I was planning to do it natural until the complications began. It turned into a pretty bad situation my Husband said as my child was almost lost in the process and I lost quite a bit of blood in the process.

 

[King Schultz]

When I was a kid, about 13, we were playing baseball in a park (not a regular ball field, just an open grassy area) and I went to slide and somehow managed to catch my knee on a hidden sprinkler.

The head of the sprinkler went into my knee about 3 inches deep, and my dad had to literally pry me off it.

But that wasn't the worst of it- my folks took me to the ER and because there was so much dirt, grass, and parts of my jeans in the wound, they wouldn't stitch it up right away.

So for the next three days, my mom had to irrigate the wound several time a day with Betadine. And that was extremely painful.

 

[aprilchem]

When I got my wisdom teeth out. The surgeon packed the wounds with charcoal laced with tetracycline and then stitched them shut. I went through months of excruciating pain, so bad that I considered quitting graduate school and even contemplated suicide. The surgeon wouldn't do anything for me and basically refused to see me again; my suspicion is that he thought I was just trying to get painkillers from him.

About two months later both wounds opened back up within days of each other and the charcoal came out one night while I was brushing my teeth - instantaneously the pain was gone. It was worst pain of my life (far worse than the 3 c-sections I've had) but that feeling of relief was the best feeling I've ever had. Later a doctor told me that I am probably allergic to the tetracyline that he put in the wound.

 

[Meriweather]

abdominal surgery

DD will say kidney stone......not fun at all

 

[kimblebee]

Most pain- getting stitches after a glass shattered in my hand while I was washing it. I got a cool scar out of it and I now refer to my pinkie as frankenfinger LOL

close second- I have really, really, REALLY bad veins so getting an IV is a challenge. It's not unusual for the nurse to have to dig around in my arm with the needle to try and find the vein. It doesn't tickle..

 

[Praying Colonel]

Gallbladder attacks, hands down. For reference, I've given birth, had a C section, three abscessed teeth at once and have been stabbed. None of those compare to a gallbladder attack.

Amen (except the C section and stabbing stuff ). I had gallbladder attacks for over 7 months (thanks to being misdiagnosed--don't ask). I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

 

[BrianL]

After having a general cystoscopy trying to go to the bathroom felt like passing flaming razor blades. It only lasted about a day thankfully.

 

[bcla]

I had a dislocated finger and an ER doctor tried popping it back in place without anesthesia. Didn't last long before I needed a shot to numb the pain. I even needed a second shot before it could be done. At that point someone could have taken a hammer to my hand and I wouldn't have felt any pain.

 

[wenrob]

When I was a kid, about 13, we were playing baseball in a park (not a regular ball field, just an open grassy area) and I went to slide and somehow managed to catch my knee on a hidden sprinkler.

The head of the sprinkler went into my knee about 3 inches deep, and my dad had to literally pry me off it.

But that wasn't the worst of it- my folks took me to the ER and because there was so much dirt, grass, and parts of my jeans in the wound, they wouldn't stitch it up right away.

So for the next three days, my mom had to irrigate the wound several time a day with Betadine. And that was extremely painful.

Oh, you reminded me. After I was stabbed they gave me shots to numb the area but didn't wait for them to kick in, irrigation, 16 internal, 8 external staples, it was brutal!

 

[Deb in IA]

Herniated L5-S1 intervertebral disc. I couldn't move, it hurt to breathe. Unlike labor, it didn't come and go, like contractions - it was constant. The only thing that saved me was after 12 hours, the nerve was so compressed, my leg went numb.

 

[Deb in IA]

Ooops - sorry! Meant to edit, accidentally quoted.

 

[jt'smom]

I have a brainstem tumor that sits at my 4th ventricle. When I lay down, sometimes it blocks that ventricle and the cerebrospinal fluid doesn't flow. Holy smokes, it creates the worst pain in my head that I've ever experienced. I've had migraines and this pain makes migraines seem like a mild headache. I'd say death would be welcome, but I've outlived a 2 year prognosis by 14 years, so I'm gonna go with I can deal with it, lol!

 

[Owlpost23]

After having a general cystoscopy trying to go to the bathroom felt like passing flaming razor blades. It only lasted about a day thankfully.

Fissurectomy-same thing! I've had kidney stones,and they didn't compare to that area under siege.Absolutely horrendous!