Most pain you've experienced aside from major injuries/illnesses

[nytemare]

I have a monster ear infection, so, I figure I will apply my experience here in a poll.

What is the most painful thing you have gone through aside from fractures or serious illness?

:hi:

[miss_american_pie]

1. Migraines are worse than childbirth

:hi:

[nytemare]

5. Migraines suck.

My problem du jour is earache, so right now, that is the most painful to me. Now, if I had an earahce and a migraine, that would really bite.

All I have to say is, thank god for Imitrex. It is good there is treatment now. Before, we just had to deal with them.

[radwriter0555]

77. Yep, had those... Used to curl up in a ball, whimpering.

Check.

[Pacifist Patriot]

21. Had both. It's a toss up for me. But at least with childbirth...

you have something to show for it. Migraines serve no good purpose.

[miss_american_pie]

30. Yep, and they won't let labor go on for days and days

:hi:

[radwriter0555]

78. Childbirth. Check.

Had one... got morphine for the eventual emergency C section though.

[GreenPartyVoter]

116. Same here, plus making myself throw up did not ease the pain of labor

as it did the migraines.

[PassingFair]

53. Um...I've had both.

Childbirth is definitely worse.

Although, migraines ARE a close second!

:hi:

[grace0418]

65. I had an ear infection that was worse than a migraine.

So I guess childbirth should be a snap for me!

Seriously, I used to get migraines (don't anymore, thank goodness) but they paled in comparison to an ear infection I had once in college. I was staying with my brother over Christmas break, sleeping on his couch. I'd had a bad cold and one evening, I started getting a buzz in my ear, then it felt congested, then I couldn't hear anything in that ear. I went to bed early and by 2 or 3 in the morning I woke up screaming in pain. Well, I thought I was screaming. I was actually delirious with pain and just thought I was screaming. My brother said he came out of the bedroom and I was staring straight ahead, not even aware of him, tears were streaming down my face and I was whimpering like a puppy.

He finally got me to tell him where it hurt and called 911. That night it was below zero so the person he spoke to said to keep me at home because the cold would put me in worse pain. He said there wasn't much they could do for an ear infection anyway so he should just let me rest and "hopefully" (HOPEFULLY?) my eardrum would burst.

Well eventually my eardrum did burst and what came out of my ear I cannot even describe, nor would you want to picture it. If someone had taken a dagger and jammed it into the side of my skull, I doubt it would've hurt more than that. We went to the doctor the next day and I got some antibiotics, but it was months before my ear was back to normal. I know I lost some hearing in that ear, too. I would never wish that pain on anyone.

[Strong Atheist]

91. Wow, that is saying something. I know my migraines are killers

... BTW, I have found mine linked to caffeine injestion... I don't get them when I completely cut out caffeine...

[AwakeAtLast]

119. I've had both, and for me, childbirth was worse

:shrug:

Not enough drugs for either one, either! :D

[miss_american_pie]

148. That's a good point

I've been either pregnant or nursing since I started getting migraines, so haven't been able to really medicate them.

Maybe I should change my answer to an unmedicated migraine is worse than partially effective epi's.

[AngryAmish]

152. I had 2 migranes

Vomiting, etc. Some people have these every other day or weekly. I would kill myself. I'm not kidding.

[GOPisEvil]

2. I will never know childbirth, but my last UTI hurt like absolute hell.

[nytemare]

13. Bad back pain with those.

Stabby pain.

Those suck.

[GOPisEvil]

20. I got morphine at the ER.

Morphine = good. :)

[nytemare]

38. LOL, I imagine so!

I think the strongest med I ever got was hydrocodone. That is aside from whatever they give you to chill you out before surgery. I was a giggly fool on all of it.

[lukasahero]

154. "to chill you out before surgery' - Demarol. The best thing ever invented

Seriously.

[LynzM]

92. UTIs can be Terrible.

I've never had one bad enought to require morphine, but I did have one that prompted a 6 am visit to the college clinic... oy.

[SeattleGirl]

3. Meningitis

The absolute WORST headache pain I've ever experienced, even worse than the migraines I've had in the past. Even blinking my eyes was painful, and trying to walk was almost debilitating.

Thank god I got over it!

[nytemare]

6. Wow, I am glad you got through it!

Sounds awful.

[SeattleGirl]

14. It was awful. One of my brothers had it at the same time I did.

We were both happy campers to get over it!

[nytemare]

22. I bet you were.

Sounds miserable.

:(

[GardeningGal]

8. I had a migraine once that my mom was convinced was

meningitis. They had to come pick me up from work and take me to the doctor. It turned out to be a migraine, but it was worse than any other I have had. Couldn't even keep the pain meds down. Glad I haven't had a repeat.

[SeattleGirl]

19. Migraines are no fun either.

I had a string of them years ago, and finally figured out it was because of how much I detested this job I had one day a week (I also had a full time job). I quit the job, and the migraines quit me. Haven't had another one since.

[fishnfla]

15. Viral meningitis

I begged my wife to kill me. Nothing touched the pain

[SeattleGirl]

27. Yep. That's exactly what my brother and I had.

I was in high school at the time. I still remember to this day taking an excrutiating walk down the hallway to the bathroom. You're right -- absolutely nothing could make that pain go away.

[Red State Rebel]

69. Ditto - been there, done that....no thanks!! n/t

[SeattleGirl]

73. Definitely!

I never, EVER, want to experience that kind of pain again!

[Left Is Write]

4. I had a serious, advanced, persistent kidney infection...

that produced far more pain than I ever experienced in childbirth, and without the nice little reward afterward.

AllI can say is thank goodness for Percocet.

[nytemare]

9. Glad you are better

and that you had percocet!!

:hi:

[Left Is Write]

37. Thanks, me too!

It was a little over two years ago. The cause was most likely an incompletely treated UTI a few weeks earlier, but it took several doctors several days to figure out what was wrong with me (I wound up being sent to a surgeon about a possible bowel obstruction, and it was HE who guessed that what I really had was a kidney infection). I was in the ER twice.

[SeattleGirl]

32. I had one years ago.

It felt like a not knife had been plunged through my kidney.

[Whoa_Nelly]

7. Other--Stepped on a nail

that was in a board. It went through the ball of my foot. Ouch!

Was about 9 at the time.

[nytemare]

10. Ouch!!

You probably had to get a tetanus shot!

[Whoa_Nelly]

18. Yup!

and that hurt, too!

[LeftyMom]

11. Ooh, I did that

It was rusty, too. :(

[Whoa_Nelly]

23. Then, you know!

and pulling the nail out is the other half of such a memorable moment!

[LeftyMom]

28. That was the worst part.

:scared: I couldn't walk for days, either.

[Awsi Dooger]

52. I stepped on a nail and kept it a secret

Real genius. I was perhaps 9 myself, kicking a football in my grandfather's huge backyard over the homemade goalposts he built for me, which was two long narrow signs stacked atop each other between two trees maybe 10 feet apart. Behind the goalposts was sort of a junk pile and I had to traipse back there after almost every kick. One time I stepped on a board without knowing it had a long rusty nail thru it. It pierced my tennis shoe and deep into my foot. I screamed but no one heard me, and for some moronic reason I never told anyone and just relied on first aid cream and bandaids. Only a decade or so later did I realize how serious it could have turned out.

[Scout]

102. I did that once too!

playing where I wasn't supposed to, of course.

Mine went through the arch though, not the ball of the foot.

Got a tetanus shot from a really cute doctor--I was about 8 probably.

I don't recall a tremendous amount of pain but then I was more afraid of my mom and dad than of going to the doctor!

All turned out well in the end.

[Deja Q]

12. Middle scool

:7

[LeftyMom]

17. Oh god, tell me about it.

I'd rather break a bone and give birth at the same time than do that again. :scared:

[Pacifist Patriot]

24. Make that two of us.

[Jade Fox]

97. You got it. Nothing like that pain exists....

I hope.

[Pacifist Patriot]

16. Childbirth. Three times with not so much as an aspirin.

So I guess I'm lucky. I do have a pretty high tolerance for pain. I can't think of anything else.

[nytemare]

29. I suppose I should have put childbirth up there.

I will see if I can edit.

:hi:

[libnnc]

25. Kidney stones. Worst. Pain. Ever.

Ladies, imagine your worst menstral cramps. Multiply that by 10. The pain waxes and wanes for hours moving from your lower abdominal quadrant to your lower back. Add fever and chills to that--oh and the pain is so bad, you can't stop vomiting. I literally thought I'd die.

A whole weekend of fun it was. :puke:

[yellowdogintexas]

35. don't forget the feeling that there is a hot metal rod

running from your ribs down to your pelvis. Unbelievable.

this is childbirth at about a Mach 10

[nytemare]

40. Someone stuck one of those in my ear.

They used the same one from when I had the kidney infection about 4 years ago.

:)

[REP]

47. I Pass Stones Every 30-45 DAYS

And I am a "lady."

Kidney infections are worse. A LOT worse.

[libnnc]

58. My stone never passed

they had to go in and get it.

My kidney infection was caused by the stone. And I almost forgot, in trying to "get" the stone dislodged, the doc zapped a hole in my utrethra (sp?) and I got to wear a happy little stint for two weeks.
and I'm a "lady" too btw.

[REP]

122. Been There

I had an 8mm struvite lodged in the lower pole of the left kidney that was thought to be the nidus of the 2+ year kidney infection I still have (my kidneys are failing, so the scarring from the infection is Not Good). I had ureteroscopy with Holmium laser and stent placement last May; normally these procedures take 15-25 minutes but mine was so deep in the kidney it took over an hour. Because of the maneuvering of all that equipment, my ureter was torn (that was anticipated) and I had a stent in for 10 days. Of course the kidney tried to expel the stent, which felt like barbed wire. It was some of the most horrible pain I've ever had - so bad I couldn't even talk for 3 days afterward, let alone do much anything else. I also developed thrush from the antibiotics (Gentamycin) which was also unbelievably awful.

Six weeks later, I passed a 9mm stone out of the kidney that had been operated on. A *new* stone. And I still have an infection.

Still, MUCH better than pregnancy/childbirth because no babies came home with me.

(Urethra: tube from bladder to the outside world. Ureter: tube from kidney to bladder)

[xmas74]

26. When I smashed a few bones in my left hand.

That was pretty painful but the pain quickly subsided w/ a nice dose of something(I don't remember what it was-I was only 13). I still vote for childbirth. Labor was 40+ hours and I popped out my staples after my c-section.
Third would be the fractured rib.

[yellowdogintexas]

31. no contes: kidney stones. Worse than unmedicated childbirth

last longer, and you don't get nearly as nice an end result.

[REP]

49. Don't Have To Take The Stone Home and It Doesn't Cry All Night

I'll stick with passing stones thankyouverymuch! Over 150 and counting now.

[DainBramaged]

33. I have carpal, I had kidney stones and I had migraines

until I had my brain tumor removed. No lie. Haven't had one since the tumor was removed. 5 years+ tumor free. Kidney stones were worst pain I ever experienced. Period. Had to have them surgically removed. I don't want no more surgery rest of my life.

[nytemare]

36. Bet you were glad you had no more migraines.

I have had those things since I was 5. Maybe in another 15 years, they will subside.

:)

[DainBramaged]

39. Compared to the kidney stones, you bet

Had migraines from my teen years till I was 49 when they removed the tumor. Who knew? Took everything for them, nothing ever worked. After the tumor got eliminated, we knew why. Size of a golf ball. Now I have carpal. Can't win. Painfree a wish. It would be nice to go through long period without it pain.

[nytemare]

42. Bittersweet symphony!

I suppose we have to deal with this crap along with whatever good happens in our lives. The key is recognizing the good, I suppose.

:hi:

[purr]

126. I have carpal tunnel..

Had it operated on and the damn thing came right back. So never again will I get it done - rather live with the pain. My left one is starting to go and I just deal with the sucker since I already had one failed surgery :(

How did you find out you had a tumor? What kind of symptoms? I get to go to the neuro today - I think I have one - I'm having silent migranes (no headache). I already had a CT done and they just *gasp* found a brain :) Who knew? hehe.

[flamingyouth]

34. Migraine/neck pain/neuralgia

It's all bad.

Kidney stones too.

[radwriter0555]

79. Check. Had that... Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy. Feels like the hands

and feet are on fire or frozen stiff, alternating, with shooting pains from the toes and finger tips to the center of the body. GOOD fun for the whole family!

My hands feel as though they're dipped in FIRE.

[MichiganVote]

41. Skull Fracture. Hurts like a SOB

[sendero]

43. A kidney infection..

... when I was a teen. Passed out and fell into the nurses arms :)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

44. Abraded cornea.

Hoo boy, that smarts. Not nearly so bad as kidney stones, I'd guess, but it's nasty and debilitating -- you can't open your eyes at all.

[nytemare]

45. I bet that makes for watery eyes, too.

Ouwiie.

[radwriter0555]

76. Yep, had one of those.

Check.

[Patiod]

134. I'd vote abraded cornea

Which taught me The One Thing I Learned On Our High School Trip:
- Don't wear hard contact lenses on the rollar coaster all day

[libnnc]

46. This thread reminds me of these guys from SNL...

"I hate it when that happens..."

[KitchenWitch]

48. Cluster headaches

worse than migraines

make me want to :banghead:

[Mz Pip]

57. I used to get those

Thought I would die. Absolutely horrible. Worse than childbirth, worse than kidney stones.

I get regular migraines now but I can manage them with meds. Nothing worked on the cluter headaches.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[purr]

127. I watched a video of a guy going through a cluster

I sat here in horror - it looked like he wanted to rip his head off. He had someone help him and hold him while he thrashed about and grabbed his head. Was quite scary :( I hope yours are under control :hug:

[LynneSin]

50. Food Poisoning

I had it really bad about 15 years ago and ended up in the hospital for 2 days. I know that's a joke but when you get hit with it from every direction it's damn painful!

[DanCa]

51. I win this thread. I have young onset parkinson disease.

I am in pain 24 hours a day. Finally having a chronic neurological illness pays off.

[Shine]

55. aw sweetie....

:hug: I'm sorry to hear of your pain.

[DanCa]

59. That's okay I learned how to focus my pain into action..

My pain is what drives to fight against the right wing fundies at every given turn.

[Shine]

61. Gee, I'm impressed.

I've been dealing with some pain issues of my own for the past six weeks. It's a muscle strain injury in my left hip that basically has me in pain with every step I take. Not fun. I am normally a very active person and this has forced me to sloooooow way down and acknowledge what's happening in my body. Just today I finally went to my doc and got referred out to Physical Therapy, after doing lots of chiropractic, massage, jacuzzi...which helped, but not that much.

I've been humbled by the pain and have been extremely UNmotivated to do much of anything, which is hard when you've got two school age kids like me, so I'm impressed that you have figured out a way to focus your pain into action. I guess if you're living with it constantly that's the most empowering way of taking back your life.

Kudos to you, DanCa. :thumbsup:

[RandomKoolzip]

72. Oh shit, man....I'm so sorry!

That's rough. How are you being treated?

[DanCa]

86. May 2003 was when i was DXD (nt)

[lizziegrace]

114. Can I come in second?

Trigeminal neuralgia. Atypical kind. A major blood vessel (or artery) to the brain is sitting on the cranial nerve. As blood pumps through, it makes the nerve explode and throb like your pulse. It comes and goes for me. I've been in the middle of a major flare-up for about 6 weeks now. Sleep-deprived and always throbbing pain.

It's also sometimes a pre-cursor for Multiple Sclerosis.

:(

[Shine]

54. Childbirth, duh. Try pushing a 8 or 9 lb baby through 10cm. Yowsah!!

you don't forget THAT in a hurry.... :eyes:

Whew!

Baby #1 weighed 8lb. 11 oz.

Baby #2 weighed 9 lbs. 6oz.

[purr]

130. Owww!

All 3 of mine were 4 weeks early or I would've had huge babies -

1st son: 5 lb 2 oz
Daugher: 5 lb 6 oz
2nd son: 5 lb 2 oz

Im so tiny and I looked like the goodyear blimp :rofl:

[Shine]

156. Yeah, I sometime joke that I gave birth to 2 month old babies, in terms of

size.

YOU looked like the "goodyear blimp"?!? Honey, I literally cried the day I stepped on the scale and weighed 203lbs....at that point, MORE than my hubby weighed. :cry:

Ugh. Of course, I was 11 days PAST DUE with my second kid, who ultimately weighed 9lbs 6oz.

I was effing HUMUNGO.

:D

edit: spelling

[PittPoliSci]

56. multiple concussions.

hockey injuries, god i love it!

[NNadir]

60. Ignoring my one major injury - during which I was comatose,

it would have to be the brown recluse spider bite I got my hand.

It was amazing. It make every joint in my hand painful to move - extremely painful, and later my hand swelled to the size of a balloon.

These things can actually get much worse: One can get necrosis and even lose the hand, but my symptoms subsided within days.

They tell me I was lucky to have only the pain and swelling.

They're nasty little suckers, and rather common on the east coast, but they are found in many places in the US. This guy is from Nebraska.

[WarNoMore]

62. An abcess in my sinus cavity

following surgery, Demerol didn't touch it. The oral surgeon finally had to go fishing for it---lots of fun.

[liberaltrucker]

63. Little League

I was pitching and got hit in the balls by a batted baseball(sorry, guys).

Luckily the town doctor was there with his "black bag". Hit me with 10 mg
of morphine, IV. That's probably why I never tried opiates as recreational
drugs. They might not work if I need them:scared:

[alarimer]

64. Migraines

Last Saturday it was so bad I almost drove myself to the emergency room but I was afraid I would pass out on the drive.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

66. MY worst pain was childbirth......

But I have to say that after reading about everyone else's troubles here, my pain was a walk in the park!

At least, as more than one poster observed, you get to take home something very precious.......

:grouphug:

[LynzM]

93. Same here, CP

I had a pinched nerve in my lower back where I almost passed out and/or threw up, but didn't actually do either. I'm very glad to have never experienced the kinds of pain people are talking about here, and I feel bad that so many have...

[Bridget Burke]

144. A pinched nerve is a "minor" health problem....

But it does hurt like hell. One day, I stood up from my office chair & immediately felt a dagger going through my spine. Each morning, I'd wake up & lie rigid in bed, afraid to move. Who needs a job! But hydraulic pressure drove me to the bathroom & a warm bath allowed me to hobble in to work.

When I finally went to my doctor, she diagnosed a Pinched Nerve almost immediately. She prescribed Ibuprofens that would choke a horse & a muscle relaxer to take before bed. The very first morning, I woke up with a sore back--but without the icepick through the vertebrae effect. By the time the pills were gone, the pain was gone. Exercise is recommended to prevent recurrence; it's worked so far.

A pinched nerve doesn't indicate a serious health problem--just too spent much time sitting at a computer, reading or watching TV. But it does smart.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

67. Ripped (I heard the rip) a muscle in my leg in a ballet class

I was doing tour jetés and landed wrong. I learned that day what it means to be in such pain that you almost pass out.

I took ballet classes only for fun and never became very good at it, but that injury was definitely the end of my "career."

[trackfan]

68. Most pain was from a test: a rigid sigmoidoscopy

I've since had the flexible sort, and it ain't nothin'. That rigid sigmoidoscope was brutal.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

140. Oh man, I almost forgot about that one.

Fucking doctor asked me if I wanted to watch on the monitor. HELL NO I DON'T WANT TO WATCH!! JUST FINISH THE FUCKING THING!!! :grr:

[Vidar]

70. Scratched or burned cornea.

[happyasaclam]

71. Burnt by Hot Lead

When I was 13 I was splashed with hot lead. Suffered burns on my right leg, the top of both hands near my thumbs, and on my right arm.

That would just get it ahead of having my skull cracked by a brick.

We were fairly rambunctious children/teenagers

[GoddessOfGuinness]

74. Dry socket...

which occurs after an extracted tooth's blood clot is lost, and the bone and nerve ends are exposed to air, food, and whathaveyou.

I'd have another kidney removed or have another kid before I'd have dry socket again...:scared:

[Nicole]

83. Absolutely horrible

The worst pain I've ever had. I've had major surgeries & I thought the pain in the tummy from coughing was bad. Until I got dry socket.

[NMMNG]

75. Chronic, intractable migraines

About 23 years and counting. At my worst I'm curled in a fetal position and wishing fervently for unconsciousness.

[radwriter0555]

80. Riding to the hospital(s) twice with dislocated kneecaps. The kneecap(s)

sat on the side of my leg, alllllll STREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEETCHED to the shrieking and screaming point (me) more the 2 inches further than ligaments are SUPPOSED to go.

Yeah baby. That will exercise your vocal cords. I told the rescue squad to put their ear protection on.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

137. I've done that, but probably not THAT bad.

Of course, my dumbass finished the game both times it happened to me. :cry:

[Skittles]

81. they screwed up when I was donating platelets and dumped saline in my arm

I tell you I held my breath and could not breath for a minute - they squeezed my arm on both ends to spread it out...you know what it's like to get salt in a cut - imagine it being pumped en masse into your tissues.....AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[nytemare]

96. Ouch!

Holy shit, that must have burned!

[Skittles]

110. it started as a tiny burning sensation, then spread out in a circle

I cussed them out good when I was able to speak but I am still a regular platelet donor; I gave just today. I've donated hundreds of times and that was the only snafu. :o

[Seabiscuit]

82. My wife's uncle - a bushbot - and royal pain in the ass.

[KyndCulture]

84. Compression fracture of the spine... from saving a little boy...

In 2003, I was roller blading with my teenage kids at a skating rink that had wooden ramps and such...I was on the outer rink, a circular kinda thing, skating with my son and chit chatting... when a little blonde boy, no more than 4 yrs old fell directly in front of me, a foot or less in front of my skates. The rink did not require helmets although I made my kids wear them... I threw myself back wards quickly so that my front blades didn't puncture this little boy's skull and I ended up with a compression fracture of my spine in two of my lumbar vertebrae and am now an inch shorter than I used to be... I had 2 children and natural child birth and I can tell you there is NO pain like a broken back... nothing compares... you can't breath, eat, sleep or pee without agony.....


to this day I curse that little boy's parents for being so fucking irresponsible.

[LynzM]

94. Wow, dude.

I cannot even imagine how awful that was to go through for you. What a gift you gave that kid, though, his life. Yikes. How long did it take you to recover??

[Montauk6]

85. Suppressing a hard sneeze... felt like someone shot my throat.

After that, every cough and swallow becomes pay-hay-HAYYYYN city!

[bikebloke]

87. A presumed kidney stone

I was working in the Negev Desert, and didn't drink enough water. Plus, I kept putting it off while finishing more work (bitten by work ethic). Merde! did that hurt. Anyway, they couldn't find anything. So it either passed or was just an infection.

I learned my lesson and now keep myself thoroughly hydrated.

[jmowreader]

88. Bacterial corneal ulcer

There's kind a skin on your eye. If something scratches that skin (like, say, grinding rust off a car body in the wind while wearing a face shield instead of chemical goggles, so the crud can whip up and hit you in the eye) bacteria can get in there and give you the infection from hell.

It's treated by exchanging forty dollars for a teaspoonful of antibiotic eyedrops and putting one drop of them in the infected eye every fifteen minutes for the next week...unless your eye doctor tells you, like mine did me, to quit doing it after three days because you're cured.

I got knocked off the roof of a Blackhawk helicopter in 1984 and landed on my ankle...that was a gentle tickle compared to bacterial corneal ulcer.

[Catfight]

89. heartbreak...nt

[Guava Jelly]

113. Heartbreak also

"I love you but i'm not in love with you"...You haven't felt pain until the one person in the world you thought loved you unconditionally tells you this...I'd rather have holes drilled in my teeth while being stung by thousands of bees then hear that again

[RebelOne]

90. If the men on this thread ever had to experience it,

we'd have a lot more votes for childbirth.

[nytemare]

101. Kidney stones are getting a lot of votes.

I suppose passing one of those is somewhat equivalent for a guy.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

138. Ya know, I don't actually buy that one.

I've seen women who've gone through childbirth experience other things a lot less painful than what I've gone through and they were absolutely floored. I have no doubt that childbirth is immensely painful, but I have serious doubts that it's the most painful thing one can do.

[Ellen Forradalom]

151. Your mileage may vary

There is a huge range of experience in childbrith, from rapid, almost painless childbirth to agony that drags on and on to flat-out death. It is not necessarily, but there's an excellent chance it can be, the most painful thing one does in one's lifetime.

[lukasahero]

155. My mom describes it as: take hold of your upper lip, then

stretch that puppy up and over the top of your head. Kind of gives me the idea that it sucked. So while I admit to contributing to the "migraine" vote, it may well be because I have never given birth.

[Throd]

95. Drank an entire bottle of Southern Comfort

and layed on the floor shuddering in a fetal position for the next three days. Just the smell of that crap is enough to make me heave 18 years later.

[Scout]

98. other

rupturing appendix that wasn't removed until more than 48 hours after the rupture.

I have a really big scar. And couldn't even talk the doctor into doing some liposuction as long as he was going to be in there for a while.

Then it turned into a hernia that is still not fixed after two surgeries. It doesn't hurt, it's just weird feeling and looks bad if I wear tight or clingy clothing.

[Amaya]

99. Childbirth

... x( !!!!

[LSK]

100. toothache

About 3 weeks ago. Arggg. Ibuprofen rules!

[flvegan]

103. When she told me she was seeing someone else.

Took me a year to get over it (we were still sorta seeing each other at the time, so...). The animosity and anger just sat in my belly. Cooking.

I'm over it now, and thankful, as I have a wonderful woman in my life that I might not have been open to having in my life if not for this painful transition. Shit happens, and sometimes it's for a reason.

[BlueIris]

133. Yeah. A similar rejection in my life was so terrible that it easily tops

or at least ties the physical agonies I posted about below. And I think I could probably stand to have any single issue I posted about below happen to me again. But what he did to me? You couldn't pay me to live through something like that again (and I'm broke at the moment, thank you).

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

141. Yeah, that's a very different yet worse kind of pain.

I'd have doubled all of the surgeries and broken bones I've gotten over the years to avoid that one...

[YellowRubberDuckie]

104. Appendicitis

That is freaking painful!! Am I the only one?!
Duckie

[Scout]

106. see #98, you are not alone

hurt like a bitch right between and a little below my breasts.

My left foot was in a cast from bunion surgery too, so I had that to deal with and actually just spent a lot of time on the bathroom floor. I thought if I could make myself puke the pain would stop; there was nothing really in my stomach anyway except nasty bile or something. It didn't make the pain stop anyway.

My husband took me to my doctor's practice, but I saw a "sub" doctor as mine regular GP was on vacation. He gave me an injection for pain, and one for nausea and sent me home. This was Tuesday.

I started feeling crappy again late Wed. and then Thurs. am ended up at urgent care clinic, where they then sent me to the ER. I got to the ER before 11:30 am and was not seen until after 4pm. It sucked. Pain was bad but if I sat in my wheelchair just so it was tolerable. I should have exaggerated just a little and started screaming!

Finally, wonderful ER Nurse Pat gave me some morphine ... and that was very nice.

[smirkymonkey]

115. Another Appendicitis here!

Ugh! I was in so much pain I couldn't stop vomiting, and even the morphine they gave me barely touched it.

[emmajane67]

131. Yep, been there.

Got sick on the Sunday, worse on Monday, EXCRUCIATING on Monday night, Dad gave me 2 aspirin and said "We'll see how you are in the morning". 8am Tuesday at the doctors "Straight to A&E" he says. In A & E by 9am, shoved in the old lady ward (at 14) Saline to get my fluids up (I hadn't kept down water for 3 days), Oh No! Saline too cold, mild hypothermia, 5pm, temperature goes up to 104 and blood pressure drops in half. Surgery. BIG scar (it popped, the appendix I mean) Dad hit the roof about them maiming his daughter. (10 years on the scar is still huge and bright pink and all puckered up and horrible). 2 weeks in hospital in the old lady ward with cysts and abscesses all over my bowel and inside my abdomen from the exploded infected appendix.
Super fun times!

But I still think migraines are worse.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

105. Either The Beating With The Buckle Of The Belt Or The Whipping with the

electric cord.

[Scout]

129. ohmigod

:grouphug:

[Misunderestimator]

139. Yep.

Nothing since has ever compared to that. :hug:

[Omphaloskepsis]

107. epididymitis

http://www.google.com/search?num=50&hs=md2&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=define%3Aepididymitis&btnG=Search

Pure pain.

[politicat]

108. Snapping my Anterior Cruciate Ligaments.

Yes, plural. I have broken both of them.

Both times, I was in so much pain I nearly passed out. (When I did the second one, there was a cop sitting in his car 100 feet away and he didn't even come over to ask why I was doubled up on the sidewalk, but that's another story for another time...)

I'm not sure if the repair was more painful, though it lasted longer.

[Quixote1818]

109. I tore my ACL and had very little pain

It's completely gone! Messing up my meniscus was very painful however.

[gollygee]

111. Gall bladder attack first, childbirth and migraine tied for second

ouch.

[MissB]

112. I'm going with childbirth

even though I had c-sections both times.

[hunter]

117. Cluster Headaches or Kidney Stones. It's a toss-up.

I'd do any of those again and again to avoid some of the emotional pains I've been through.

[seemunkee]

118. Strep throat and Mono at the same time

Couldn't swallow for 3 days and couldn't lay down or I would choke. Had to spit in a cup because it hurt to swallow anything. When the antibiotics finally worked enough that my throat opened up a little I was so tired I didn't even make it to bed. My mom found me asleep on the living room floor.

[Scout]

128. add acute tonsillitis to those two...

and you'll have me, summer between jr. and sr. years of college.

Sucks when you have to get up the courage just to swallow spit! I slept on my side and drooled a lot...

I feel for you, that was some awful pain.

[sarahinmexico]

120. Toss up

Had a concussion, which had the same symptoms as migraines, I don't know how you migraine sufferers do it. I had a bone in my hand set with no anesthesia, I almost fell off the table as I passed out. The next time I broke my hand I knew better and asked for Novocaine first.

[nemo137]

121. Even odds between two

A pilonidal cyst (yes, like Rush had), which was like having a hot finishing nail slowly embedding itsself in my tailbone every second of the day.

Or

Getting a flake of insulating foam (I was carving it for a set in my HS theatre class) caught underneat my eyelid, right in the fold, on the side by my temple. That is a unique kind of pain.

[hyphenate]

123. Many of these ARE major injuries or illnesses

as well. Personally, the pain of angina, not just the heart attack itself, is terrible. But what was really painful was after 20 days of trekking through England and Scotland by mostly walking, I was so sore that even touching me felt like my skin was just one huge bruise. It took me a week to recuperate from my vacation!

[fizzgig]

124. it's a toss up

ear infection, sciatica (there are times i've nearly passed out from the pain) and getting an infection after my wisdom teeth were removed

[Cobalt Violet]

125. Burns.

Very painful, even minor ones. But abscessed teeth are no picnic either.

[BlueIris]

132. The time I broke the big toe on my right foot...

right at the part of it where the toe meets the foot...ow. But the more painful part happened after it was splinted but before the cast was on and I accidentally stepped on it--single most physically painful moment of my entire life, and that includes all of the mestrual agony, the time I had that horrible gum infection, the migraines, the complications from lingual frenulum removal and that time I decided it would be a fun idea to have sex with--nevermind. The toe steppage. Worst. Pain. Ever.

[noonwitch]

135. Gall stones

Horrible pain in the gut. I woke up the day after my surgery feeling better than I had felt in ages. My doctor told me I'd probably been making the stones since I was a teenager, and I had the surgery at 28.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

136. Having a catheter inserted after surgery.

Lemme be the first to tell you that the penis is NOT designed to be a two-way street! :scared: :cry: :yoiks:

On edit: Some of the effects of surgery were much, much worse, but I think those count as major injury.

[MissMillie]

142. KIDNEY STONES!!!

And yes, I've given birth too. Kidney stones are worse... hands down.

[texas1928]

143. Betadine swab stuck an inch into a bullet wound and twirled around.

I thought the nurse was twirling my pectorial muscle around the swab. Oh did that ever hurt.

[Love Bug]

145. Gall bladder attacks

right up there with childbirth.

[RetroLounge]

146. I'm still in the middle of it...

when it subsides, if ever, I'll let you know if it's the worst.

I think it is.

:cry:

RL

[Ron Mexico]

147. Strangely enough, it was a sprained ankle.

I've broken over 20 bones and have been shot, and nothing ever hurt as much as one particular ankle sprain that had me seeing stars.

[Tracer]

149. Leg gash "repaired" without Novocain.

While skiing in Switzerland, I was run over and knocked down by another skier whose skiis slashed my leg to the bone.

Went to the local "doctor" (perhaps a relative of Dr. Mengele), who sprinkled some powder (??) on the gash and then jabbed big staples into the cut and squeezed each staple shut with pliers.

My friend, who had accompanied me, fainted.

[AllegroRondo]

150. Im allergic to novacaine, and have to get teeth drilled without it

I take VERY good care of my teeth to avoid going through a drilling.

[Tracer]

I didn't mean Novocaine...

... I meant the stuff doctors inject into a cut prior to sewing it up. Couldn't think of the name.

[Tracer]

153. I didn't mean Novocaine...

... I meant the stuff doctors inject into a cut prior to sewing it up. Couldn't think of the name.

[Fox Mulder]

157. The pain I feel everyday is from my depression...

that really sucks.

I'd rather have a temporary migraine than lifelong depression. :(

[nytemare]

159. Awww!

:hug:

Has anything been able to help you?

:(

[SharonRB]

158. Bad sciatica problems

that affected my right leg, from my butt to my heel. First thing in the morning it was hell.

I also had a perforated eardrum once.