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

[Captain Oblivious]

Worst pain I've ever experienced is sciatic nerve pain. Second worst pain I've experienced was when I broke my front tooth exposing the nerve causing some crazy tooth ache.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Constipation fucking sucks

 

[Rand /pol/]

Cramps in both my thighs while fucking your mother. Oh, and a dozen cactus needles in my hand.

 

[PorcupineTree]

My anesthesia wore off while getting wisdom teeth removed but I couldn't move despite being able to feel everything. An intern proceeded to squeeze too hard on a tooth that was still under my (now cut open) gums and shattered it.

 

[Nick Gars]

Having to get a spinal tap because of viral menengitis. I'd rather die then ever get one again.

2nd worst would be falling down the stairs in a drunken stupor (probably the only reason it didn't kill me) and breaking pretty much every bone on one side of my body.

 

[Jeb-sama]

Suffered strong tinnitus for about a year.

If I still had it, I definitely would have killed myself by now. Concentration during the day is impossible, sleeping at night usually only takes place when your body has completely run out of energy (5am-ish for me), and little by little you can feel your mind slipping into madness.

Look after your hearing, because tinnitus is some serious shit (and permanent for a lot of people)

 

[Doctor Parker]

Fissures in your anus.

 

[glass_houses]

Acute pancreatitis. The worst "I'm dying now" esophegal spasm never came close to pancreatitis, and those things can be fucking agonising. I threw up from pain four times, obediently swallowed the fuckton of pills that were handed to me, and eventually begged for them to give me something that actually worked. I got a shot of fentanyl to the thigh, and spent a while high as a fucking kite. I was still in agony but the pain was... disconnected from me, it's hard to describe. I spent ten days in hospital, until they hacked out my gallbladder and sent me home. Keyhole surgery is supposed to be less painful than open surgery, but it wasn't a fucking picnic either.

Suffered strong tinnitus for about a year.

If I still had it, I definitely would have killed myself by now. Concentration during the day is impossible, sleeping at night usually only takes place when your body has completely run out of energy (5am-ish for me), and little by little you can feel your mind slipping into madness.

Look after your hearing, because tinnitus is some serious shit (and permanent for a lot of people)

I have strong permanent tinnitus courtesy of an imbalance in my auditory nerve. I used to take Endep, now I take Allegron. I still have the noise, but the Allegron dampens it so I only have one or two notes, as opposed to seven or eight different tones loud enough to drown out truck engines.

 

[1Tonka_Truck]

I had the bright idea to replaced a fried block heater in a tractor while the coolant was still south of 0° F. I knew coolant was going to come rushing out so I had the replacement out of the packaging and sitting on the front tire. What I had not considered, was the fact my ungloved hand was about to be bathed in the coldest liquid I will, hopefully, ever experience. Nothing really leaked until the last 1/8 of a turn, so things go from 0 to a 3" hole gushing hate and discontent before I can register more than "my hand hurts." I somehow manged to get the new block heater in the hole and screwed on far enough to stop the gushing before my hand went numb. I scream fuck a few times, think about how much my hand hurt before it went numb, and start to panic. I bolt inside and run my hand under cold water and the numbness is immediately replaced by seething, burning pain in my entire forearm. I've had my appendix almost burst, I just wanted to stop puking. Dislocated my shoulder rolled over and it popped back in, didn't know anything was wrong until I tried to lift my arm over my head. Broke my leg, didn't feel anything until I tried to walk on it. I had a pinched nerve in my neck to where I couldn't move my head, couldn't inhale, and barely slept while taking narcotics. If the pain I felt when the cold water hit my numb hand was a 10, that pinched nerve was a 5.

 

[Cinderblock]

You know the phrase "I have no mouth and I must scream"? Well, after a not complicated abdominal surgery, I woke up and the anesthesia had worn off, I suspect becuase of a low initial dose and my metabolism. Thing is, after that surgery, you are not allowed to mouthbreath nor speak.

It was half an hour after I woke up and the anesthesia had REALLY worn off that I NEEDED TO SCREAM BUT I KNEW I COULDN'T from the throbbing pain of getting stabby stabbed (When you speak the abdomen moves, making it SO much worse). That limbo feels the worst, where you are in massive pain and can't even express it clearly.

So I ended up raising "8" fingers, to signal my friends around me to get me some painkillers. It was probably more than eight, but I remembered than in "Fault in our Stars" book the MC that had cancer in her worst moment she put up "9" from "her lungs being on fire" so me being macho, I chose to not go as far out of respect for the character (I know :autism. After the painkillers I slept well and it was all good.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Getting a urinary tract infection. Fuck those fucking things. The constant discomfort and pain is horrible and some of the worst physical pain I've had.

 

[Trilby]

Reading these recent entries, I suppose I ought to be glad I have yet to go to a hospital for anything that serious in my lifetime. It's fascinating I made it this far without any complications, bone fractures and the like.

 

[SweetDee]

Had gallbladder removed. Doctor fucked up and didn't suture something up correctly. Ended up rupturing about a week later and began leaking bile onto my liver and pancreas. Passed out from the pain. Woke up in the ER. Ten day hospital stay. Repeatedly asked them to kill me. Never had anything hurt so bad.

 

[PorcupineTree]

I have strong permanent tinnitus courtesy of an imbalance in my auditory nerve. I used to take Endep, now I take Allegron. I still have the noise, but the Allegron dampens it so I only have one or two notes, as opposed to seven or eight different tones loud enough to drown out truck engines.

I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember but it must be pretty mild. It never caused me the kind of suffering that some people experience. It bothers me if I think about it, but my brain usually just tunes it out.

 

[J A N D E K]

The pain leading up to and including oral surgery for an abscessed tooth that had started to rot my jawbone (result of a botched root canal). It was misdiagnosed as sinus problems (it was a front tooth) after I was previously and repeatedly dismissed by ER doctors as faking to get painkillers. I was insane with pain. My entire face and head was searing and throbbing, had no idea it was dental. The surgery was brutal. Even after 6 needles of anaesthetic in the roof of my mouth I was still reeling with the pain.

The other one that is almost a tie was breaking and dislocating my shoulder in a cyclocross race. I sheared the ball joint in half, fractured the socket, and my shoulder was resting about 3 inches lower than it should have. I was almost nauseous with the pain. For some reason they took me in right away past a full waiting room and a nice doctor shot me full of morphine. That shit is amazing. I was literally floating in the clouds within seconds.

 

[thejackal]

out of ruptured patella tendon, broken foot requiring 4 pins, completely ripped off toenail and various minor fractures and other shit I have to say that for sheer agony it was probably the ripped off toenail. Post-op for the tendon repair was a close 2nd, but I had some pretty good opioids.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

Don't ever put lotion on an irritated (for whatever reason) penis. Trust me on this. It doesn't make it feel better.


Almost choking to death is a close second. Literally if I didn't have a bad gag reflex and made myself vomit, I don't think I would even still be here.

 

[User names must be unique]

Either toothache or the time I stepped on a burning coal barefoot, I've broken my foot and my finger severely I have a lot of scars but nothing compares in pain to burns and toothache imho.

 

[Trilby]

Either toothache or the time I stepped on a burning coal barefoot, I've broken my foot and my finger severely I have a lot of scars but nothing compares in pain to burns and toothache imho.

I almost had a toothache but managed to get to a dentist before feeling it.

 

[Anime-Free Penguin]

I held in a massive shit for 16 hours because I wanted to be like that guy from South Park that had Bono from U2 as his baby shit, and once I could not hold it in anymore, I screamed like a banshee letting it all out. Second worst is when I was kicked in the balls by some random girl.