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

[Pixiedustaway]

I've had 2 c sections. 2 emergency c sections. Both kids are fine. With my 2nd kid I had a nasty cough when I had my c section. She wasn't due for another week or so. Any mom that's had a c section knows how painful it is imagine having a coughing fit after a c section. And it took an act of congress to get robitussin in the hospital. Worst pain ever.

 

[Poohlove]

I've had two babies. I've had multiple hospital stays for asthma and depression (which truley is "mental pain") but nothing...and I mean NOTHING can touch having an abscessed tonsil lanced with a scalpel while complety wide awake and not numb in the slightest. I don't know if this is a normal thing to do in a situation like that or if it was because it was a crummy overseas military hospital or maybe because my airway was about to be compromised they did what they had to do. This happened when I was I think 13 and I can still recall the pain. Also being held down and having someone come at you with a scalpel is completely traumatizing.

When my daughter was 5 she was complaining that her toe hurt. It looked like she had stubbed it on something. The next morning it was bigger and more red so I took her to the ER. They thought it was broken also. After an xray the doctor came into the room with a nurse and told us to hold her down he had to do a procedure. The procedure was lancing her foot because she had an infection! She almost kicked him in the head but once he was done she felt better immediately. Where she went to summer camp they went swimming everyday in a pool that was concrete as opposed to having a liner. She had scraped the bottom of her toes because she didn't wear her water shoes. At 5 she told me the were wierd lol. Needless to say she wore them diligently after that.

 

[Jennasis]

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.

Me too! Same thing but my leg never went numb. I wound up with foot drop (right foot totally dead)...couldn't walk. Had to crawl to the toilet and scream in agony while attempting to sit up to pee. It started on a Sunday, the searing agonizing pain shooting down from my lower right back, down my leg into my foot. A chiropractor nearly crippled me on Monday (foot drop began after he "adjusted" me). On Wednesday my good friend had her DH (a pain specialist) order me an emergency MRI. An hour after the MRI he called me and told me to lay flat on my back and not to move until he got me in to a surgeon...he said my L5-S1 was wrecked and I needed immediate surgery. He got me in to an ortho the next day, Thursday. Surgeon took one look at me crying on his exam table unable to sit up and then the MRI and scheduled me for his next opening, first thing Tuesday (that was Easter weekend). I was in agony right up until the anesthesia took me under, and when I woke up in recovery I was 95% pain free. Just sore from the surgery. The surgeon was standing over me with a huge grin, holding a jar with my disc in it and proudly proclaiming it the largest thing he'd ever removed. Apparently the disc had not only herniated, but it had jammed into my spinal cord like hair clogged in a drain, and he had to call in a neurosurgeon midway through to oversee the discectomy.

Best thing I've ever done for myself. Had to have another discectomy of the same spot 4 1/2 years later though when it happened again. Next time it will likely be a fusion.

 

[ronandannette]

Can be physical or mentally

Why don't you tell us yours? You ask a lot of personal questions for a guy that never answers any...

Natural birth with baby stuck in a posterior position

I'm going with this one, except that after 33 hours I finally got an epidural. I also ended up with a splintered coccyx from the pressure which to this very day (19 years later) can hurt bad enough to take my breath away if the weather is weird or I've sat on it wrong.

 

[bellebud]

mentally, when my dd16 had an hour-long seizure at 15 months old and we didn't know for a while if she would make it.

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

Broken tail bone from not being caught after being thrown high in the air during a basket toss in cheerleading.

 

[Monykalyn]

peritonsillar abscess-went in Friday with what the doc thought was beginning of strep (not my usual doc but the other one in the office, had had sore throat progressively worse for couple days), gave me amoxicillin (which with my history of strep my reg doc would never have given me, I was too sick too notice til DH filled it and brought it home). By Monday I was ready to kill someone for pain relief (in hindsight prob should have gone to ER). Reg doc takes one look and gets me emergent appointment for oral surgeon-who numbed me up (in office) and drained it. Worst 5 minutes ever but felt 1000% better within an hour. Lost 10# in 3 days. And I have had 3 kids-2 without drugs (except pitocin with first one) and third had an epidural (finally learned my lesson LOL) Childbirth hurt like heck but the throat pain is waayy worse for me!

 

[here757]

I've neither had shingles nor have I given birth (if I had, I'd be famous) or abscesses or been stabbed. But, I, too, say gallbladder attack. It felt like getting stabbed in the ribs.

I hear ya!!! I don't prey often but during my attacks I preyed for death! Lol

 

[ols386]

Cervical spine surgery, C5-T1, pins and rods.

C-section was a second close.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Physical: some kind of crazy migraine headaches I used to get when I was younger.

Mental: being married to my EX

 

[low-key]

big poop

 

[rodeo65]

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.

Mine was S1-S2 and yes excruciating! I could not walk for days, had to crawl and slept on the floor because the bed had too much give.

 

[Scootypuffjr]

I had a medial branch nerve block done in my neck and the Dr accidentally nicked the nerve root and unleashed the shingles virus. The shingles pain was immediate. Between that and the nick of the nerve the pain was excruciating and easily the worst I've ever experienced. As a point of reference, I've had multiple bouts of kidney stones (some greater than >5mm), a c-section, and my wisdom teeth pulled with only a local anesthetic. This was exponentially worse.

 

[Scootypuffjr]

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.

I couldn't read past sprinkler head. Whatever happened next had to be awful. If I was your mom I would have fainted. If she didn't you should give her a hug.

 

[King Schultz]

I couldn't read past sprinkler head. Whatever happened next had to be awful. If I was your mom I would have fainted. If she didn't you should give her a hug.

She was a nurse (LPN) so she could deal with it- me, not so much.

 

[Scootypuffjr]

She was a nurse (LPN) so she could deal with it- me, not so much.

Haha. I'm okay with things happening to me, but when things happen to other people I get a little faint. Or nauseous. Let's just say I'm not the person you want in a medical emergency.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

I probably had a few paper cuts or skinned knees.

 

[tigercat]

I have had migraines, C section, hernia operation, gall bladder out, root canal without any anesthetic, and many other bad horrible pain problems but nothing compared to the 2nd and 3rd degree burn I had over the whole top of my leg the day after having knee surgery on that leg. I couldn't use the leg for 6 months.
tigercat

 

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[jevs]

When I turned my ankle and tore the ligaments walking up my driveway. The pain was intense, and I sat in the dirt with tears and almost passing out. Still have problems with that ankle 7 years later.

Second would be toothache/earaches. Followed by the birth of my firstborn who was face up and fast - no time for drugs.