What is the most pain you've experienced? (gall bladder, fractured, x-ray)

[reecedouglas1]

When I fell off a Slide , my back was unbearable

[Charlotteborn]

Gall bladder attack. It was intense and awful.

[Bungalove]

I thought the headaches I had from my brain tumor were bad, until I had a kidney stone. Oof!

[CatwomanofV]

I think it was when I had a toenail removed and they stuck a needle in my toe. When the anesthesia wore off, all of a sudden I would get a shooting pain through my toe-basically reliving that pain. It happened over and over again for about 24 hours.



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[SouthernBelleInUtah]

The pain from a bone graft off the iliac crest. Worse than having a baby. It was like fire under the skin.

[maggie2101]

The pain from neuropathy in my feet and legs almost beats labor pains.

[Travelassie]

Originally Posted by CatwomanofV

I think it was when I had a toenail removed and they stuck a needle in my toe. When the anesthesia wore off, all of a sudden I would get a shooting pain through my toe-basically reliving that pain. It happened over and over again for about 24 hours.



Cat

Just the thought of needles jammed under nails is painful. I had the same experience once when I dropped a dresser drawer onto my bare big toe. I broke that toe in this process too, but didn't discover it till that evening when I came home from work ( despite the pain, I jammed that foot into a sneaker while I still could and went on to work, could barely walk by the end of the day), took off that shoe and found the injured toe looked like a big purple sausage. My husband insisted that I go to the ER, where they x-rayed it, found the break, and decided the toenail-which had such a load of blood under it was projecting from the nail bed) needed to be pierced to remove the pressure from that blood. They told me about poking the needle or whatever they use through the nail to pierce it, and said they'd numb it up first, but they didn't mention jamming a needle under the nail would be the way they numbed it up. All I remember was a nurse who looked like he worked as a bouncer on the side grabbed that foot and ankle and held on tight as they did those dirty deeds, and it went fast. It did hurt, of course, but my toe was already so painful that jamming a needle underneath the nail, and drilling a hole in the nail actually didn't add that much to the pain.

Not something I would ever want to go through again, however.

[damac2004]

a few years ago i had an accident/fall and landed outside of my ankle and ripped everything up. post surgery in the first few weeks i would get sudden stabbing pains up the peroneal nerve and could not set my bare foot down on the ground as it would flush and pound with every heartbeat. pain pills don't help with those kind of pains.

a few months ago i was going up a steep hill and i tried to burst into run and split one of my calf muscles. couldn't make myself limp walking uphill but could hobble backwards.

luckily all these pain came in spurts with relief with absolute rest during the initial inflamation periods.


so i can't imagine what others go through with that kind of pain that is constant and probably requires major drugs. i know i have had it easy thus far in life.

[ffaemily]

I flipped a bobcat once. It flipped it over on top of me and fractured my ribs, and punctured my lungs, I also fractured my pelvic bone.

[southernnaturelover]

I had lithotripsy to break up a kidney stone, I felt fine when I went home from the hospital, but was in agony a few hours later when those fragments started passing. I ended up going to the ER in my small town, and I guess they didn't think it was a big deal since I was made to sit in the waiting area for 45 minutes. I remember being on a bench in the fetal position puking into a bag, I was in so much pain I didn't care who saw me. That was the only time I have ever vomited from pain.

After that whole thing was over with I let that hospital ER know just what I thought of them. I got a letter of apology about two weeks later.