Worst physical pain you've ever been in?

I'm sorry that happened to you. Would you care to say why you didn't go for medical attention?

R1 I don't like going to the doctor. The thought of being examined and touched makes me uncomfortable. If I feel like something can be dealt with at home, then I try to handle it myself. Also, I don't have a car and the scalding happened after midnight, so I couldn't take the bus and didn't want to call an ambulance or taxi. Once everything cooled down, it wasn't that bad.

In my entire life, I've only been to the hospital twice--once for a broken wrist, and the second time was for a burst appendix.

Were you scarred for life; does the skin still throb when you remember the incident?

Do you have any scars from it?

R3 and 4

I don't have much scarring aside from random patches that are still a bit pink and leathery. I think they were just first degree burns. The left knee and thigh got the worst of it, probably second degree. That area took longer to heal and was the only part that got blisters.

However, on the 3rd or 4th day, I was washing off the previous night antiseptic from the side of my thigh. I guess I rubbed too hard because the top layer of my skin slided off. It left a red patch the size of my palm. There's no pain, but the red colour never faded much.

Sciatica

I had never known what it was like to cry from pain...very very different from being sad.

I wouldn't wish that pain on my worst enemy.

CRAMPS! (endometriosis)

Kidney stone.

Accessed tooth

R6 Sciatica here too. From the base of my spine to the tips of my toes. I stupidly held off seeing a doctor and put up with it for three weeks then ended up being operated on - that feeling of coming out of the anaesthetic and being pain free was amazing.

Prostatitis

JFC, OP!

Thank god you didn’t develop an infection.

That’s horrible! I’m so sorry that happened to you! 🥺

A Toothache which was fixed by a root canal

There really are so many phobic shut ins on DL. Or is this also because of poverty? The absence of universal health care in the USA? Please get medical attention for serious injuries.

R14 Healthcare is free in my country, the UK. I just didn't want to see a doctor.

Sciatica definitely is number one for me. Plantar fasciitis second. Both are so painful plus limit your mobility which is a pain unto itself.

^ I just got overish my plantars after 18 months....still not 100% but greatly improved. After a year, I told my podiatrist I was done and I needed to go to physical medicine which did the trick. I also think there may have been some homophobia which is very surprising since I'm in Los Angeles.

Premiere of Dune.

One day, I had just started walking to work and my tooth must have died. The pain came like a thunderbolt out of nowhere, and it was constant. And it smelled bad, too.

Another time, I developed an anal fissure. A typical bowel movement was so painful that it took an hour. The rest of the day wasn't so bad, though. (And I was a vegetarian who always ate a lot of fiber.)

The recover from anal wart surgery....that was a motherfucker!!

I once had sciatica and the flu at the same time. I really thought I was going to die from the pain it was so excruciating. Only a kidney stone could’ve made it worse.

Testicular torsion while I was practicing on the hobby horse. I fell screaming to the mat and didn’t stop screaming until they knocked me out for surgery to untangle my balls.

That was the end of my interest in gymnastics.

Root canal on a "hot tooth." Four shots of lidocaine didn't numb it, so the endo gave me a ball to squeeze and assured me that it was ok if I cried. I didn't cry, but I did howl like a wolf.

I have broken a shitload of bones and had numerous surgeries, but they don't even come close to the pain of that "hot tooth."

Take care of your teeth, kids!

Kidney stones

A skin graft, to cover a large wound where I had a tumor removed. The site they took the graft from burned like fire for maybe a week.

Compound fracture

I can sympathize with OP. I burned myself in a cooking incident at the start of the pandemic and was terrified to go to urgent care. This was NYC at the height of the time when bodies were being loaded into refrigerated trucks in NYC... Let's just say cooking isn't my thing. The pain was absolutely horrific for the first few hours - and the fear of having to get medical attention was even more horrifying!

R14 unlike in The USA, healthcare is free in my country - Australia - I was just hoping to do whatever I could do to avoid another operation, after a childhood spent in way too many hospitals.

I’m neither a phobic shut in nor poor - nice of you to jump to the wrong conclusion. We’re not all at the mercy of the fucked American health care environment.

Have a great day.

Numbers 6, 15, 19, 26, 28, 37, 41 and 43.

I expected more.

The worst was kidney stone, second worst was when I was in a car accident and the airbag hit my face so hard it basically shoved my contact lens far back and scratched my eyeball. I had to be heavily sedated for them to dig it out. Odd thing is, I also broke my wrist in the wreck and that was nowhere near as painful as the eye.

I was attacked by hornets twice last summer. Not only did it hurt badly at the time and for several days, but the wounds itched for weeks. Miserable.

over the years I have gotten painful muscle spasms in my back. In 2019 they started one day and didn't stop until 2022. Everyday, all day. excruciating. I was at the point that I was going to buy a gun. I haven't had them since they stopped but the muscles in my neck going down my back tried to start the other day. I took care of it immediately and it stopped. thankfully.

Terrible case of food poisoning from an airport restaurant. I really can’t describe it but there was no way to be comfortable and I couldn’t even us the toilet to get it out of my system. I end ended up naked on the floor in a fetal position. Needless to say I never ate at that place again.

I had the same thing done as R25 but they gave me a lot of painkillers so it wasn't that bad. They took the skin off of my thigh. Tumor was on another part of the same leg.

Worst pain I felt was when I had a stye underneath my eyelid so my optometrist decided it would be a good idea to pop it with two Qtips. The skin graft was /nothing/ compared to that.

When I saw She-Devil.

I had a 1.2" perforation in my bowel a few years back. I was also very sick because the perforation allowed gross stuff to leak out of my stomach into my bloodstream and make me sick - septicaemia.

It was the worst pain I have ever been in. Terrible gripping spasms of pain. I couldn't sleep or sit down. I had to hold onto walls so I could stand up and crawl. No over the counter pain killers did anything.

I spent several weeks in hospital on an IV drip of antibiotics and had to revisit hospital several times over the next 18 months until it got better. I was told the perforation will never heal properly and will always be there lurking around.

One of my treating doctors said she had also had a perforated bowel and had had children. She said that the pain from the perforated bowel was worse that child birth. I'm male so I have no idea if she was correct - but fuck it was awful.

When I was 25 I went into sepsis due to the meningitis and it hurt a lot.

Luckily the pain was relatively short-lived because I ended up in a coma shortly after arriving at the hospital.

I had this:

I don't think i need to elaborate further on the pain

Pancreatitis attack. My first words to the EMT were to ask if I was having a heart attack. I was sure it had to be that because I couldn't imagine anything else could possibly hurt that much.

I had surgery and had 4 drainage tubes after. The asshole surgeon didn’t tape them down. Every time I moved it made me gasp with pain. Two came out after a couple of days but it took an entire week for the other two to come out. It wasn’t until I had to have another surgery, more tubes, that I learned they could all be taped down and they wouldn’t hurt.

That dr pretty much lost his practice, and is now teaching at a medical school on the other side of the country.

When I was a youngster, I bought a Mr. Coffee drip coffee-maker. It came with a packet of tea, so, of course, the first thing I did was to make tea. I think I drank it as iced tea.

Now, when I was a youngster, I had a rather unique habit. When we were smoking pot, I had mastered the skill of finishing off the joint by swallowing the remainder. It'd form a little depression with my tongue, where saliva would accumulate, enough to mostly extinguish the joint, though, rarely completely.

This talent came in handy when I wanted to impress my friends when we were all stoned senseless.

So, the day I got the Mr. Coffee and drank all that iced tea, I was sitting around getting stoned with my roommate and his girlfriend. All was well.

The next morning, I sat on the crapper and a bunch of blood flew out of my butt. So I ended up in the hospital.

One of the horrible things was that I had just switched jobs. My medical coverage ended 30 days after I left. my last job, and my medical coverage wouldn't start until 30 days after I started my new job. And this happened during the gap.

So, about a month after all of this, I'm at the hospital getting a "lower GI." This is where they make you take a laxative the night before, and then they give you an enema, of liquid barium. Which weighs like a pound per ounce. And they x-ray you to look for bowel problems.

A week or so before that, I got an "upper GI." In this case, I got to sip a strawberry "milkshake" made out of barium, Then they x-rayed me as the barium made its way down. I got to watch the x-ray unfold, seeing. my esophagus get coated, then the stomach appeared and started churning away. This was all the more interesting because I could highly see my ribs, lung and heart.

Before I went through all of this, I was at my HMO's clinic. I was working for Blue Cross, and could have the choice of medical insurance. I think Blue Cross was, like, $3/paycheck, but an HMO was like, $2/paycheck. Me, being single and young/healthy and all, I figured to save a couple of dollars each month.

At the HMO clinic, they figured that they'd track down the source of the blood from the beginning to the end. So, they forced a plastic tube through my nose down into a stomach, and started pumping out whatever liquid they could get.

There was blood--very little. The amount that could arise from having a tube shoved through your nose and down your throat.

Meanwhile, I was experiencing more pain than I ever would (so far, many years later). I made my mind up at that time that if I ever had to go through that again, I'd rather just be let go. I've been through some painful procedures since then, but maybe it just made it easier to experience them.

In the end, the diagnosis was "ulcerative colitis." But, through the years, I've never shown any symptoms of that.

I stopped swallowing joints after that.

A few months later, I came across the packet of tea that came with the Mr. Coffee. It was summer--I decided to fire-up some iced tea.

The next morning, on the crapper, I had about a pint of blood come out. This time I didn't worry. There was no way they'd force that tube through my nose into my throat. I trashed the Mr. Coffee and, at least so-far, haven't had to decide whether a tube down the throat is a valid cost of living.

[quote]Plantar fasciitis

One of the most painful things I have ever experienced. I got a splint from a CVS that held my foot in position while I slept. Pain went away in about a week. But I had it for about a month before I realized what it was. Never saw a doctor.

But the worst pain ever was a an abscessed tooth. I had a filling on Thursday and called the dentist, letting him know I was in pain on Friday (even though I had had no pain before the filling). He called in a prescription for Vicodin to a pharmacy, but the Vicodin wouldn't touch the pain. So Friday, Saturday, and Sunday I was in such excruciating pain that I didn't sleep for three days. Monday morning, called his office and got an emergency referral for a root canal. And that was the end of the pain. But those three days were hell.

Just last weekend I fell down the stairs going into the Paris Metro on the way to the airport and landed on my head, nose, knee and also broke my shoulder. I look like Mister Magoo if he got hella roughed-up. I mean it's bad, or whatever, but I'm back in New York now and spending all day every day seeing the latest shows with my free "press tickets," despite the fact that I am not employed as a theater critic (or anything else for that matter) by anyone. But back to the pain. It's bad. I am taking Tylenol and baby aspirin and I have to wander around in my underpants in the breakfast room at my hostel every morning asking randos to help me put on my sling, dirty jeans, and Macintosh. Is it worth it? Hell yes, it absolutely is. Everything connects! Next week I am going to live in a backyard shed in Santa Fe, but I would appreciated it if you bitches would refer to it as a Casita.

Onward into the light!

Have to say my greatest pain has been toothache, really awful. I had one really bad infection at the start of the pandemic when all dentists were closed and I will be forever grateful to the one dentist I found who wrote me a prescription and handed it to me on their doorstep.

I'm 73, and (so far, knock on wood) I agree with r7. We're talking screaming, punching one's own abdomen for some relief, walking like a crippled Quasimodo, bleeding like the proverbial stuck pig. Menopause came with its own 99 problems, but excruciating pain ain't one!

On another note: I had a root canal done last year. Dentist wouldn't give me Novocaine, said I wouldn't feel anything naturally. And I didn't!

OP, don't mess with burns. They can become infections too easily.

R46 how long did menopause last?

Out of them all - spinal fusions, root canal/extractions, brutal sciatica, and more - hands down, kidney stones are the WORST.

Not the worst but really severe sunburn is brutal as well, but quickly forgotten after it heals. Impossible to sleep comfortably

R47, Actually, I just wanted to use the song allusion!

Menopause for me really brought no problems, not even hot flashes, other than, well, getting old (bad hair loss, but it won't kill me, so....). I.e., the transition was so easy-peasy (I should post that term in the "slang" thread!) I have no real answer!

The worst migraine I had in my life was when I was at uni. The nausea was so strong I couldn’t move in bed. I woke at 5:45am and it took me 2 and a half hours to roll over in bed and reach for my phone to call in sick.

Equal pain minus the nausea was an outer ear canal boil. It was wedged against my mastoid bone. I would categorise the pain as 10 out of 10. I was in such debilitating pain that I was prescribed 2 courses of OxyContin, which I didn’t even ask for.

Trigeminal neuralgia, the suicide disease “The most excruciating pain known to humanity”

Kidney stone - I've had other, more acute pains, but kidney stone pain is unrelenting and goes on and on. Was almost crawling on the floor of the emergency room trying to get relief, until they saw me after 3+ hours, and determined that indeed I had had a kidney stone, which has passed (I was guzzling water by the gallon). When they administered dilatid, the relief was so instant I could have kissed the resident, except that I was so furious that I had to wait so long to get it. Second worse: I had an uncontrollable nose bleed and blood was spurting out of my nose by the gallon. Very terrifying. Had to drive myself to the emergency room. After they tried all the things that I had already tried at home, they shoved a nasal balloon called a Rapid Rhino all the way up my nose into my deepest sinus cavity (they had determined that the bleed was coming from above, not in the lower part of the nose). It felt as though a traffic cone was being stuffed into the tiniest, most sensitive part of my nose, by a pile driver. Then I had to keep that thing in for several days until I could be seen by an Ear Nose and Throat surgical specialist to remove it. Removing it was not pleasurable either, but at least the pressure of that enormous thing was out of my head. The doctor determined that I had the world's narrowest sinus passages and insisted that I have a nose operation to widen them. I was out for the surgery, but the aftermath was painful, and the doctor kept inserting things in this very narrow part of my nose to keep the passageway open and lubricated as it healed. That was like having hot pokers inserted into my nose - again, that pain was intense but temporary. If you're a glutton for punishment, you can look at the youtube of the device below.

R42 - Sidney Sheldon tells shorter stories.

r52, that sounds utterly horrifying. My deepest sympathy!

Well honey I'm sorry you burned yourself. Really. But yes you are phobic if you write this at R2: "I don't like going to the doctor. The thought of being examined and touched makes me uncomfortable."

Surprise Anal

Anal fissures from rough sex. A year later, had corrective surgery, and now I have the hole of a porn star!

I was sitting at my computer desk watching porn and blew and suddenly got pain in my side. I must have pulled a muscle as well. I took some aspirin but it seemed to have no effect. Then I threw up the aspirin. Unable to lay down or get comfortable to rest I called an ambulance who gave me some harder drugs that eventually stopped the pain. I didn't wait around to see a doctor in the emergency room.

Agree with r7 as well. Bad period pain - I remember crawling along the floor shaking, basically haemorrhaging. The pain is indescribable.

The most recent though would be the headache I had when I got covid (Delta). I was smashing my head against the wall as it was the only thing that quelled the pain.

I fell down a flight of stairs and folded my jaw in on itself. The recovery from that was bloody awful.

Another time I cracked my kneecap open (I could see the inner workings of the ball of my knee) and the doctors did the surgery without painkillers, that was painful. I was in a country where English isn't widely spoken, and they thought I didn't want painkillers for some reason.

I’m a Catholic, I can’t have surgery up there

R42 A long-term effect must be diarrhea of the keyboard. Learn brevity.

[quote] That dr pretty much lost his practice

How does one "pretty much" lose their practice? It would seem that they either do or don't.

[quote][R42] - Sidney Sheldon tells shorter stories.

Not to mention, r54, that r42's story makes no sense. Drinking tea and swallowing the remainder of a mostly spent joint will not cause "a bunch of blood [to fly] out of [your] butt", nor is it particularly an impressive skill to master.

As a gayling, I, too, used to swallow roaches (as we used to call them). I even sometimes washed them down with iced tea. I considered this thrifty. It got rid of the evidence, acted as an edible - and yet somehow it never once caused me to bleed.

Had a tooth extraction/bone graft and the flaming oral surgeon refused to give me a pain medication prescription.

Also, sciatica.

I've had chronic pain in my knees and legs for my entire life starting in early childhood. It was always written off as growing pains but it just kept getting worse throughout my life, I can manage alright with CBD but I'm very stiff and awkward moving around. When I came down with COVID I didn't get many flu symptoms but the pain in my legs and knees went to heights I never dreamed possible. I don't really know how to describe it. It was like all the bones in my legs were frozen in ice and being slowly crushed down by a baler or something.

It had to have been when my soufflé didn’t rise

Meningitis...absolute insane headache, I was praying for death. This went on for about 12 hours as I kept thinking it would resolve. Finally, my husband convinced me to go to ER. A spinal tap confirmed the condition. Take your typical 'ice cream headache' and multiply that by 10...It was bad.

R7, here. In those days I could get as much Codeine as I wanted - Tylenol #3. It made it tolerable...sometimes. On it two days a month, every month.

R36, did the perforation just happen? I have all sorts of GI problems including redundant bowel and colitis.

Kidney stones. Cramps (also endometriosis). One day I had the mother of all hemorrhages, woke up in a pool of blood, and they had to remove my uterus. That was really something. Terrible pain for a month after the surgery.

Yikes, LL r70!

There might as well have been, R71.

R64 - I just told what happened. Cause/effect? We can each have our opinion. (BTW, JIC, I have no problem with tea, iced or not.). The thing is...the tube down the nose was the pain. And it lasted a lot longer than the time it took to slog through my screed.

Thank goodness nothing too bad. But I had a pinched nerve in my neck. I couldn’t turn my head without absolute shooting pain. The physical therapy was hellish. took 2 months before I could move without wincing.

[quote][R64] - I just told what happened. Cause/effect? We can each have our opinion. (BTW, JIC, I have no problem with tea, iced or not.). The thing is...the tube down the nose was the pain. And it lasted a lot longer than the time it took to slog through my screed.

Ok, R42/r73, but here's the thing. You added details like the iced tea (twice), Mr Coffee, and swallowing joints that may or may not have been extinguished - none of which had anything to do with the pain you experienced having a tube shoved into your nose. I've had that procedure, also, but I was doped to the gills.

All I'm saying is, if you can't manage brevity, shoot for clarity. Help us to understand you.

I once stepped on a lamp barefoot and it cute my foot severely. A flap on skin was hanging off the bottom. It was so nasty

Giving birth.

The last six months - various GI and liver ailments. It never ends.

R78 I wish you health and an end to your pain.

I don't actually remember the specifics of the painof childbirth but I would guess it's painful.

IUD insertion hands down although I used to get migraines so maybe a tie.

Not a pain I can pinpoint to one specific place but a few years ago I caught some sort of stomach virus where in the span of 1 hour I fainted (in a drug store, getting aspirin), shit my pants while walking home and vomited all over my bed the minute I got home. I was in such a bad state that I decide to take a taxi to my mom's home because I really could not take care of myself. I grew almost delirious with fever, so much so that my mom told me she had never, in her entire if caring for me, seen me so sick. All she could do is put wet compresses on my head and feed me ibuprofen. Eventually I was able to sleep and woke up better, if still woozy and weakened, but shit, I never felt so shitty in my life, and it hit me like a brick truck.

Kidney stone. The worst.

It's a toss-up: Blowing out my ACL during a basketball game...or my first physical therapy session, following an Achilles Tendon tear & surgery (several years later).

The Achilles tear hurt far less than the ACL tear, in the moment. There was a split second of intense pain & it was over! Just turned into a dull ache. I could still walk afterward, albeit very slowly/hobbled. When I blew my ACL, I couldn't even speak for a solid 20 seconds -- there was only screaming & strange noises interspersed with a few "FUCK!"s. (and I was taken out of the gym on gurney)

I cried through my first two Achilles PT sessions, it hurt so fucking bad. My foot had been in a cast for 8 weeks, with my toes pointed at the floor (to shorten the Achilles)....and then they started s-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g it back it out. It was excruciating. Made me wish I'd torn my ACL again.

R82, both of my parents had Kidney stones. Mom said it was worse than childbirth, adding: "And you had a square head!"

R42, IMO, that was an unduly long and meandering story that ultimately made little sense. Also, it seems as though a Mr. Coffee machine and some tea get blamed for no reason.

When I was ~ 7th grade, I got strep throat and swollen mumps (lymph) glands. My throat felt like it was on fire and I really was incapacitated for a couple of days.

In my early 20s, I got constipated for a few days in a row. On maybe the fifth day, I was doubled-over in pain and my mom took me to urgent care. They shot me up with something that made me go to the bathroom immediately. To this day, I don't know what was in that syringe.

Pneumonia together with pleurisy. It wasn't the worst pain but the most disturbing one. I really thought I might die. The worst pain I have been in is a migraine without meds.

R79 thank you. It is appreciated. Wishing you all good things.

[quote] in the span of 1 hour I fainted (in a drug store, getting aspirin), shit my pants while walking home and vomited all over my bed the minute I got home

R81 Sounds like many of my hookups in the past

R84, I can't speak to your birth, but with humor you have a great delivery!

Have had a few tooth abscesses, a tumor the size of a lemon in my ass, and multiple surgeries, but a kidney stone wins the pain prize. A friend once told me that her kidney stone pain was worse than birthing her babies (Am almost certain she had epidurals for both. BTW, the kids, now in their late 20's/early 30's, are the best people on the planet).

Election Day 2016.

Yeah, I've heard kidney stones, for both men and women, are extremely painful. I've heard that, for a woman, a kidney stone is more painful than giving birth.

R93 “for a woman”

I bet men giving birth would be super painful!

Thank you, R75, for the studied evaluation and critique. I will keep your notes under serious consideration as I work on the next rewrite.

I had a kidney infection - oh my god it was the worst pain i ever felt.

Circumcision at age 20. Let's just say it's not an area you ever want to have surgical stitches.

What happened when you got to the bathroom, R86?

Breaking my ankle. Initially I thought it was just a bad sprain as I didn’t hear the bones snap, but when I gingerly stood on it, even gently to gauge the “sprain,” I screamed from the bolt of pain—everyone in my apartment building could have heard me. What was horrible yet kind of fascinating was seeing one of my ankle bones protruding.

When The Chantels broke up.

Oh, and like R80 said, IUD insertions - I actually had only one, as an attempted treatment for endometriosis.

A year after the insertion - smell this, Rescue-Chick -, the IUD became dislodged and had to be pulled out from inside me without anesthesia. It hurt so much I saw everything go black.

Being a woman is ridiculous.

I must have the hardest head in the world. Three concussions in my lifetime and walked off without any lingering headache. One was after a car crash, so I had to be monitored because I had some amnesia!

I had the most miserable case of food poisoning in college. That’s when I actually had a headache, the shakes, nausea and weakness. A friend said I was green…and then went a bit gray. I had to be hospitalized overnight to rehydrate and get stabilized. Covid was nothing compared to this. Never eat takeout food in the dark in a road trip.

A severe kidney infection towered above every other pain I’d ever had for years. Then I cracked a tooth in half on a peppercorn and the dentist office postponed the appointment for a week during peak COVID in April of 2020. It was agony.

FYI, if you ever have really severe dental or other pain and can’t get help immediately, the “3-3-3” method works in a pinch. 3 ibuprofen every 3 (to 6) hours, for 3 days. The other thing that really works short term is 2 advil plus 2 acetaminophen (all at the same time) every 6 hours. Very short term though. A study done by an ER doctor on common bone fractures found that the 2 ibuprofen/2 acetaminophen dose worked as well or better than opioid pain meds.

It happened on November 9th, 2016.

I had food poisoning, and my bf took me to the emergency room. I was so nauseous I couldn't sit - I had to lay on the floor. When I got taken inside the female doctor asked me about 3 times what I had eaten until I finally went full Shirley MacLaine and yelled Give me the shot! So she did.

“Female doctor”? They have those now?

I had plantar fasciitis in my late 20's, early 30's. It was painful, but I got the surgery for it and the pain went away. Not sure why they don't do the surgery anymore. I have several friends who have suffered from it for years and no doctor will do the surgery.

Food poisoning was probably the only time in my life where I was really hoping to die so the pain would stop. I was vomiting every 5 mins for 7 hours straight with the WORST stomach stabbing pains I've ever had. In hindsight, I should have gone to the emergency room but I live alone and would have had to drive myself. I couldn't eat food for days after.

But the absolute WORST pain I've ever experienced had to be anal fistula surgery. I had a cutting seton and would go to the doctor every few days to have her "tighten" it. But that wasn't even the worst part...when it came time to remove the seton, the doctor had me lie on my side and gave me not one, not two but THREE injections directly into my butthole. I literally screamed each time he did it. I honestly think he got off on it. I had suffered with the fistula for 20 years (no doctor could tell me what it was...I just assumed it was a cyst). I finally found out what it was and had the surgery thinking it was probably going to really suck. It did suck, but the next year I got breast cancer and had a partial mastectomy and am just grateful to be alive.

I forgot to add dry socket and an infection after a tooth was pulled. That shit was horrible. Couldn't sleep, couldn't eat.

Ah well, at least I know I can survive shit.

To the poster who said they spilled boiling water from a kettle on themself, I kinda smugly sniggered to myself.

Only to spill nearly-boiling water from a pot on my foot practically the next day! The pain was pretty bad, I guess it’s a 2nd degree burn, only about an inch & a half square on the top of my foot near my toes. The skin came off & it looks hellacious, but doesn’t hurt terribly, though I’m trying to stay off my feet until it closes up a bit.

In terms of sheer pain though, when I was about 8 I was walking on our decorative coral waterfall in the backyard & fell, cutting my knee open on the coral. I couldn’t believe how much blood there was, my sandals were ruined. It hurt like hell & I think I was in a mild state of shock.

My father wasn’t home & I needed stitches, but I somehow convinced my mother not to take me to the hospital. I was in a lot of pain, but feared the even worse pain of getting stitches. We ended up going the next day & they said we should’ve come in the day before so they could’ve stitched me up.

The worst pain was a heart attack a week after my mother died following a terrible illness...New Year's Eve in cardiac ICU is no picnic. I had sciatica years ago and it had been the worst pain that I had had until the heart attack. I will say that I would prefer the heart attack pain because it was hours of excruciating pain while the sciatica was months of pain with no relief. The heart pain stopped after I was given anaesthetic for a heart procedure (I still get bouts of pain) the sciatica eventually went away but it exhausted me mentally and physically...I don't recommend either to anyone.

When I was a kid I tripped on a step and cut a toe open. It wouldn't stop bleeding so my father had to take me to the ER. I remember him carrying me in his arms. The doctors had to apply a flame to stop the bleeding.

"cutting my knee open on the coral. I couldn’t believe how much blood there was, my sandals were ruined."

The last bit is the funniest.

R109 I loved the “sandals were ruined” comment, especially as your injury happened in the decorative coral waterfall in your backyard. Not laughing at your pain, which must have been frightful, but that is the gayest thing that I’ve read all day.

Tore my frenulum.

I just crossed my legs, R114!

R114 a fuckbud tore his frenulum during a 4-way we were having, he shot blood & cum all over his chest. I usually swallow but took it out as he was cumming for the “show” aspect. Someone was jacking him off & yanked too hard.

Another guy told me he’d had “distressed frenulum” & that was the first time I’d heard about it. I’m uc too so I can imagine how bad that must feel. I’d be skittish about having sex or even jacking off.

Cluster headaches.

I had one cluster back in November of 2014, and the pain was indescribable terror. It felt like my right eyeball was being fucked for 45 minutes by an electrified red-hot poker. The attacks came every other day at either 3:30 pm or 7:00 pm, once while I was at work and once during Thanksgiving dinner with family.

Unlike a migraine, which makes people want to be still and in the dark, people who have cluster headaches always automatically get up and run around, literally trying to run from the pain.

The whole phenomenon is bizarre. Most people get clusters of them around the autumnal and spring equinoxes—you can't make this stuff up.

I had that one cluster in 2014 and then in the spring of 2015, I was diagnosed with and treated for Lyme disease, and all my years-long neurological pain stopped, and I haven't had cluster headaches since.

Gallstones. I was in so much pain I was crawling on the floor I couldn’t get up.

I've had a lot of surgeries and health problems throughout my life, so it's hard to say. I had major throat surgery in my 20s which was horrendous, and I also had my gallbladder removed after having a flareup from gallstones, which was truly debilitating—it hit me like a brick wall, waking me up out of a dead sleep. I drove myself to the ER, completely clueless as to what was happening, and I'm not even sure how I managed to do it. I later had open-heart surgery when I was 30 to correct a congenital defect, which was terrifying and of course very painful, but I think the gallbladder attack may have been worse because I experienced it without the aid of any painkillers.

^ yup. And took a month for the VA to finally made the diagnosis of my gallstones that it got worse and had my gallbladder removed and botched the surgery. Got a 5 inch scar on my belly. They kept sending me home previously when I complained of pain and they couldn’t find out what’s wrong and refused to give me pain meds thinking I was an addict and just want to score painkillers

Wow, props to all of you that had to suffer so much.

I get this weird thing every once in a while in my neck like a cramp if I turn my head while swallowing or if I strain my neck too much. Never have found out why it happens. But it feels like a bone is stuck in my throat whenever I have to swallow. Started in my late teens. I have to try and sleep off the episodes.They usually last several hours. It also happens if I am undergoing a lot of stress.

The only thing I can think it might be is a tendon getting “stuck.” It’s extremely painful. The