What is the most pain you have ever felt

[veni vidi vici]

I’ll catch up later but have a couple

 

[NeedAClew]

After my second-leg knee replacement, in the hospital PT next day. My nerve block had worn off and the internal locals did too, just as they were wheeling me to PT. I tried to do my leg lifts, but started feeling really weird and it hurt a LOT. Nothing like the other leg had. I apparently turned pale, started a cold sweat, they lay me down and called the head nurse....I told her I never have said this but on a scale of 1-10 this is 11. Very low BP. Gave me a morphine shot.
Turns out they had my painkiller regime wrong and I was severely undermedicated. Very severely.

 

[Bus Driver]

Herniated the disk between L5 and S1. Going through PT, hoping to avoid surgery - one day, it got immeasurably worse. I was given Hydrocodone, which didn't touch it. Scheduled for surgery, I was on the couch for 2 days, feeling like someone hooked my sciatic nerve to a 220 volt circuit. Unrelenting. Upon admission, got a morphine drip. Blessed relief.

Surgery was at 10:30 on a Friday morning and I walked out of the hospital at 9:30 that night. Pain free. Walked a mile that Sunday. Eventually got back to running.

Turns out the herniated portion broke free and dropped into the area where the sciatic passes between vertebrae, crushing it. Lucky the damage wasn't permanent.

I can't compare it to childbirth. My wife insists there is no comparison.

 

[Frank White]

Ruptured an Achilles tendon. At the time I told my wife that it was the most pain I had ever experienced, she told me I was just being dramatic and to shower and get changed so we could go out for dinner.

 

[Goodvibes]

Crushed ring finger sailing, with the ring stupidly still on. Flattened the tip completely initially.

Cut the ring off with wire cutters after the finger got infected and blew up, still really bad by the time saw a doctor an it was a candidate for amputation. It was yellow and purple. Doctor didn't 'kit-up' before touching the swollen digit with the tip of a syringe. It exploded puss and blood all over his white shirt and tie. The temporary relief was enormous. Antibiotics saved it.

Had other painful things, but bone crushes are right up there. Finger still a bit spoon-like.

 

[justsomeguy!]

Exiting inside center from a Twin Otter, caught my right heel in the corner of the door. A 220 pound guy had a death grip on my left leg.
Limped around for a couple weeks after that, and now the pain is back 22 years later.
Sucks to get old.

 

[Gissie]

Not sure you really feel the ba shit. Had a car crash, can't remember any pain but surely must have been there. Do remember the morphine allowed me to be calm, to the point of joking about the whole thing. Recovery certainly wasn't pain free.

Also fractured T1 and T2. That was on the extreme level.

 

[oldsurfer]

Crushed ring finger sailing, with the ring stupidly still on. Fattened the tip completely.

Getting out of a two door from the back seat and the door was shut hard on my finger, which hurt enough, but then they drove off with my finger.

 

[P_Wop]

My lovely wife of 17 years came back to California from a six-week vacation in Hawaii to the house we'd just bought, and I'd been busting my buns for those six weeks to make habitable, new hardwood floors etc... After picking her up from the airport, I gave her flowers and the grand tour, which she liked.

Then she sat us down on the sofa and calmly said, "I don't want to be married any more." "What? Can we talk about it?" "No." "Can we go to counselling?" "No." "Well what do we do?" "Nothing. I already filed for the divorce."

Stunned shock, then pain that I'd never imagined possible.

Pain is not just physical.

 

[Goodvibes]

I can't compare it to childbirth. My wife insists there is no comparison.

My wife claims to have had pain worse than childbirth, not sure that is a really good benchmark.

 

[tommays]

Breaking the left Shoulder and not being able to have the Surgery until 10 days later because the ER fucked up and sent me home in a sling was savage

Using up the remains of that repair for 26 years until the arm had about zero function and needed a reverse replacement was also harsh

 

[Goodvibes]

Breaking the left Shoulder and not being able to have the Surgery until 10 days later because the ER fucked up and sent me home in a sling was savage

Using up the remains of that repair for 26 years until the arm had about zero function and needed a reverse replacement was also harsh

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You are the winner so far.

EDIT: except for P-wop

 

[Goodvibes]

Turns out they had my painkiller regime wrong and I was severely undermedicated. Very severely.

The fuckups can go the other way too.

Appendicitis. Had it out just in time. Three days later, no pain at all and the nurse came in yet again to inject pethadine.

"Look, can we not do that now? No pain and ... well, I can no longer read the time on the clock!"

The clock was a dinner plate size facing me about 4m away. My eyes could not change focus.

A week after discharging I went back to the doctor and reported nausia, sudden sweats and severe abdomonal cramps. Me thinking they left a swab in there or something. Checked me out and concluded I was undergoing withdrawals.

Many years later after again being over medicated on morphine, a medico told me that there is sometimes systematic theft of opiates that oddly contributes to over medication. The vials are checked out in packs of three, the patient is given one or two and the balance goes missing. The more medication packs checked out, the more that goes missing, for sale on the street. Nurses aren't paid much, or can have a habit.

 

[LeCanard]

Being slapped in the face, not deserving it, by a female classmate in school.
it really hurt, if it would been within reason, I’d accepted it… but no.

 

[veni vidi vici]

I’ve had sciatica from blunt force trauma to my back far offshore in gale force winds that took me 30 minutes to get my foulies on and off each watch , double handed sailing so there was no choice, that felt like a red hot poker down my leg.
Various broken bones, 2nd and 3rd degree burns in a scalding .
The worst was facial nerve pain that was never completely understood or diagnosed. It would come in crescendo waves on the left side of my face. I could not lay down because that would set it off , it would come and go during the day and night. Air blowing across it would set it off. Pain meds just kept it bearable , oral surgeon work up, ENT work up, CAT scan, panoramic xray, still nothing definitive other than “diseased sinus tissue “ which I think was just an observation that the ENT didn’t feel concerning, 3 rounds of antibiotics and 3 prednisone only slowly over 30 -45 days diminished the strength and occurrence.
Never did find out exactly what but it was simply beyond description .

 

[Marty Gingras]

My wife claims to have had pain worse than childbirth, not sure that is a really good benchmark.

Had a co-worker who'd given birth twice then had lower back pain that she said was far worse than giving birth.

My worst pain was in the lower back and --- oddly --- a knee cap. In both cases it was clearly nerve pain vs 'mechanical' damage. Pants touching the knee cap caused excruciating pain. Always wear knee pads when kneeling now.

 

[he b gb]

Getting out of a two door from the back seat and the door was shut hard on my finger, which hurt enough, but then they drove off with my finger.

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You could get a gig on the Simpsons with that hand!

 

[Goodvibes]

Had a co-worker who'd given birth twice then had lower back pain that she said was far worse than giving birth.

My worst pain was in the lower back and --- oddly --- a knee cap. In both cases it was clearly nerve pain vs 'mechanical' damage. Pants touching the knee cap caused excruciating pain. Always wear knee pads when kneeling now.

Nerve pain ...

Not sure there is really such a thing. I know what you mean but ...

I have a doctor friend who's eyes go all angry at the very mention of the term. A painkiller company sold it to the public here years ago ... Advil? Anyway, what ever the cause, nerves are involved.

The only exception I can think of is 'Phantom Pain', the type some people experience after amputation where they get signals of pain from the new gone limb. But even then, confused nerves are doing it.

 

[veni vidi vici]

Nerve pain ...

Not sure there is really such a thing. I know what you mean but ...

I have a doctor friend who's eyes go all angry at the very mention of the term. A painkiller company sold it to the public here years ago ... Advil? Anyway, what ever the cause, nerves are involved.

The only exception I can think of is 'Phantom Pain', the type some people experience after amputation where they get signals of pain from the new gone limb. But even then, confused nerves are doing it.

Lol … not such a thing as nerve pain
Simple test next the you have a root canal 🦷
You’d break bones trying to get out of the chair without nerve block

 

[oldsurfer]

The only exception I can think of is 'Phantom Pain', the type some people experience after amputation where they get signals of pain from the new gone limb.

No pain but the itch drives me nuts!