What is the most pain you have ever felt

[Cal20sailor]

For me, and apologies if it's been mentioned, corneal abrasion. Pint of vodka and sleep and all good.

 

[130lights]

Pain is not just physical.

This!

 

[Point Break]

Two bone marrow extractions. Second one, the Dr. didn't take enough out, so he went back in.....THE most excruciating pain I have ever endured.

Jeepers…had more of those I care to recall…..uncomfortable but not painful. Find a new guy!

 

[130lights]

@Captain Ketamine I’ve really enjoyed expanding to my m

I've really enjoyed expanding my u/s nerve block skills set... went to Chicago for a cadaver lab course with ASRA and am now doing supra scapular and costobrachial nb's for AV grafts. PECs/serratus/ESP blocks for breast surgeries, TAP blocks and subcostal blocks for belly surgeries (with Exparel)... just did a TAH BSO with all the trimmings using only 1mg dilaudid for a 3.5hr case... She didn't need any opioid overnight, just felt "sore all over" in the morning. Just incredibly satisfying.

A colleague's umbilical hernia surgery pt woke up in extreme pain (h/o opioid abuse), and within five minutes both were smiling after a rectus sheath block. Easy peasy.

I had a u/s nerve block mid-December for an ORIF of my fibula. It was very cool. Still not weight bearing.

 

[Point Break]

The most pain for me was being burnt. I remember eventually getting to the operating theatre several hours later and them trying to get a line in. I watched as arms, no go, legs and feet, no go...listen son, I'm going to put a line in your neck...don't move. The weird thing is watching as they were cutting my skin hanging off my legs and arms before I was unconcious.
I honestly thought to myself, I going to die now and made my peace.

Several days later I woke in absolute agony to a beautiful nurse's face who was stroking my cheek (most of my body was bandaged), what is really weird was it was intensive care but I could see blue sky and sunshine streaming through the windows.
She pointed towards the bellows (life support) next to my bed and said "if you don't start breathing properly you will end up on this...". I remember the concern in her face.
I choose at that point to fight. I spent numerous weeks in intensive care and was eventually flown back to an intensive burns unit. It took several months for me to recover and the pain was so bad I would groan in agony day after day. I had a single hospital room and truly wished that if I could walk I would have thrown myself out of the window to the ground several floors below.
I would say the pain from burns, and breathing through burnt windpipe and lungs is the worst I have suffered.
At one point after several weeks I was lowered into an iodine bath, it's the only time that pain made me black out, I remember the nurses were more upset than me.
I've been shot (fucker found a 2 inch gap between front and rear body armour) and I would rate that 1 out of 10 in comparison to being burnt, which I would say is 10/10 pain wise.
To be fair though, I probably caused more pain for the nurses when my buddies turned up with a few hidden six packs and got me pissed and snuck me out of the hospital for few hours before getting caught.
So yes, burns, top pain in my book.

How did you get burned?

 

[Titilingus]

How did you get burned?

RKG-3 round ignited interior through not very good class 4 metal/armour.

 

[130lights]

Herniated the disk between L5 and S1.

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

I would rate the disc pain above childbirth.

I’ve had both. Two natural (nothing for pain) births, and discectomy of L5-6. That radicular pain is like no other.

Oh, and the chest pain during a heart attack is no picnic either.

And I have a very high pain tolerance level.

 

[130lights]

Well shit Wop, I just can’t Like that, I do hope Karma came over to play.

I’m sure it did. Might take awhile, but it happens.

 

[FD Sea Dog]

Aside from having Kidney Stones shattered and thereafter pissing shards of glass for weeks,
It is the Prostate Cancer (even after they planted the Golden-BBs and Zapped it down to the size of a golfball).

The real Pain is, Loosing Faith.

 

[P_Wop]

I’m sure it did. Might take awhile, but it happens.

We dressed and staged the house. I was consigned to the 'cottage' at the bottom of the yard until I could find a rental. Then divorce arbitration, the house sold for twice what we paid for it, and she pretty well disappeared. This was eight years ago. I've had one email about a tax loss, but otherwise complete disconnect. Who knows?

 

[Winston29]

It's a toss up between the first time I herniated my lumbar spine (L4/L5) and the first time I got kidney stones. I've had stones 5 or 6 times since then, so I'm better at dealing with the pain.
The back pain, on the other hand, never gets easier, and it's a degenerative condition, so I'm guaranteed to experience it more as I get older. Yay!

The initial disc injury put me on the floor in agonizing pain, and I spent four days in the hospital, then a decade of "recovery", mostly not working.
It happened in my early 30's, right when I was supposed to be in my prime and having fun, so it threw me for a phycological loop too.

Eventually, though it's not gone, it started to get better and I was able to function as a human being again. Now that I'm getting oder, it's starting to get worse, little by little.

In this photo you can see how the vertebra in my lower back are starting to settle on each other.
You can also see my latest stone. 15mm X 13mm. Amazingly the easiest one I've ever passed. Practically painless once they broke it up.

 

[130lights]

We dressed and staged the house. I was consigned to the 'cottage' at the bottom of the yard until I could find a rental. Then divorce arbitration, the house sold for twice what we paid for it, and she pretty well disappeared. This was eight years ago. I've had one email about a tax loss, but otherwise complete disconnect. Who knows?

Painful, and sad.

 

[130lights]

It's a toss up between the first time I herniated my lumbar spine (L4/L5) and the first time I got kidney stones. I've had stones 5 or 6 times since then, so I'm better at dealing with the pain.
The back pain, on the other hand, never gets easier, and it's a degenerative condition, so I'm guaranteed to experience it more as I get older. Yay!

The initial disc injury put me on the floor in agonizing pain, and I spent four days in the hospital, then a decade of "recovery", mostly not working.
It happened in my early 30's, right when I was supposed to be in my prime and having fun, so it threw me for a phycological loop too.

Eventually, though it's not gone, it started to get better and I was able to function as a human being again. Now that I'm getting oder, it's starting to get worse, little by little.

In this photo you can see how the vertebra in my lower back are starting to settle on each other.
You can also see my latest stone. 15mm X 13mm. Amazingly the easiest one I've ever passed. Practically painless once they broke it up.

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My back pain started when I was pregnant. Went away, but was ‘tender’ for years. Ended up with surgery when I could no longer walk. The neurosurgeon told me it wouldn’t be my first surgery…I’ve avoided it since 2008. But I’m careful…twisting motion is the way I get in trouble.

 

[Point Break]

RKG-3 round ignited interior through not very good class 4 metal/armour.

Nasty weapon. What year?

 

[Bugsy]

Psychological: Gulf War: not knowing when missile attacks were real or drills.
Emotional: Telling my wife she has cancer.
Physical: I donated a kidney. Having a major internal organ removed really hurts (for a few days; for the recipient it significantly improves their quality of life forever).

 

[WhoaTed]

It's a toss up between the first time I herniated my lumbar spine (L4/L5) and the first time I got kidney stones. I've had stones 5 or 6 times since then, so I'm better at dealing with the pain.
The back pain, on the other hand, never gets easier, and it's a degenerative condition, so I'm guaranteed to experience it more as I get older. Yay!

The initial disc injury put me on the floor in agonizing pain, and I spent four days in the hospital, then a decade of "recovery", mostly not working.
It happened in my early 30's, right when I was supposed to be in my prime and having fun, so it threw me for a phycological loop too.

Eventually, though it's not gone, it started to get better and I was able to function as a human being again. Now that I'm getting oder, it's starting to get worse, little by little.

In this photo you can see how the vertebra in my lower back are starting to settle on each other.
You can also see my latest stone. 15mm X 13mm. Amazingly the easiest one I've ever passed. Practically painless once they broke it up.

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That’s a kidney rock, not stone. I’ve had a couple of 10-12mm that were pulverized, funny to be pissing sand the next few times. Lately they’ve been 5-6mm, plenty of pain but the feeling that I have to piss constantly when they get down near the exit is annoying as hell. No pain when they pass, just a sensation like a pebble washing down a downspout and lo, there it is.

 

[ShortForBob]

My back pain started when I was pregnant. Went away, but was ‘tender’ for years. Ended up with surgery when I could no longer walk. The neurosurgeon told me it wouldn’t be my first surgery…I’ve avoided it since 2008. But I’m careful…twisting motion is the way I get in trouble.

Sacroiliac joint?

I remember that. 3 months pregnant, pick up small suitcase, drop to knees in agony, crawl to phone on knees and knuckles. 3 weeks bed rest and pelvic/lumbar strap. I've still got it and still use it sometimes, 30 years later.

 

[Peter Andersen]

Having a large piece of gel-like material inserted up my ass and injected between my colon and my prostate, prior to 5 weeks of daily radiation for prostate cancer. No anesthesia. Of course the 12 inch needles they put up your ass for the biopsy was no fun either.

none of that is necessary, you just had a kinky doctor

 

[Ed Lada]

That’s a kidney rock, not stone. I’ve had a couple of 10-12mm that were pulverized, funny to be pissing sand the next few times. Lately they’ve been 5-6mm, plenty of pain but the feeling that I have to piss constantly when they get down near the exit is annoying as hell. No pain when they pass, just a sensation like a pebble washing down a downspout and lo, there it is.
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That's impressive!

The pain is when the stone comes down the ureter, from the kidney to the bladder. The inside diameter of the urethra, from the bladder to the toilet, or fence post or wherever is a giant tunnel compare to the ureter. It doesn't help at all that the stones are full of sharp angles.

The first time I had a kidney stone I was in the Army. I was white as a sheet and sweating profusely. My boss saw me and said "Dude, do you need to go to the hospital?" He drove me down the street quickly, the hospital was only 2 blocks away. When I got to the ER, they didn't even ask any questions, they just stuck me in a wheel chair and rolled me straight into the treatment area. Everybody knew me because I worked there when I wasn't doing my regular job. They told me I couldn't have any painkillers until they could get a urine sample, although they suspected it was a stone. After pumping a few liters of normal saline into me and after a couple of hours I finally managed to fill urinal with bloody piss, and they gave me a healthy shot of morphine IV. Ohhh, that felt so good!

 

[veni vidi vici]

We dressed and staged the house. I was consigned to the 'cottage' at the bottom of the yard until I could find a rental. Then divorce arbitration, the house sold for twice what we paid for it, and she pretty well disappeared. This was eight years ago. I've had one email about a tax loss, but otherwise complete disconnect. Who knows?

Cold
Impossible to comfort you other than saying her manner of handling the matter is a reflection on her , tough to understand, probably impossible to understand.