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Tie between kidney stones & having the needle of a cortisone injection shoved into an arthritic joint (bone on bone, no cartilege left). Surgery for fractured ankle & wrist with months of recovery with metal plates, pins, & external fixators was also painful. Torn meniscus in both knees sucked pretty bad. Same with torn Achilles tendon, my current issue
Compared to the above, labor & delivery of my 8 lb. 9 oz. & 9.5 lb. babies was a walk in the park...
Spine in 1978. Pieces from a disc had sheared off and cast fibres around some nerves so the chronic pain became increasingly like unrelenting electric shocks from the spine down to my foot. Finally one of the discs just fragmented in a big chunk which lodged right against the sciatic nerve. The pain was unrelenting and unbearable, it was a demerol shot and then four hours later a morphine shot laced with Visteril, and then four hours later demerol and four hours later morphine...up until the operation and it was resumed for a day and a half post-op.
The head nurse was really caring and honest. She said, "Nothing kills this type of pain, the point is to become unconscious...don't wait for the pain to end. It won't, just go with the shot."
Tie between kidney stones & having the needle of a cortisone injection shoved into an arthritic joint (bone on bone, no cartilege left). Surgery for fractured ankle & wrist with months of recovery with metal plates, pins, & external fixators was also painful. Torn meniscus in both knees sucked pretty bad. Same with torn Achilles tendon, my current issue
Compared to the above, labor & delivery of my 8 lb. 9 oz. & 9.5 lb. babies was a walk in the park...
I took my Mom to get a cortisone shot in her ankle once, I stayed in the waiting room, and shortly after I could hear her screaming all the way from the back of the building.
... I was made to sit in the waiting area for 45 minutes.
The time you have to worry is when the ER rushes you right back while making other patients wait. When they make you wait, you may be in pain, but at least, it's not life threatening.
The time you have to worry is when the ER rushes you right back while making other patients wait. When they make you wait, you may be in pain, but at least, it's not life threatening.
OMG, I was having an attack of Bell's palsy, with a growing numbness in my face and body, and the ER folks pushed me right through. I felt so bad - I was pretty sure what the issue was (I'd been diagnosed over the phone before leaving the house by a friend's father, who is an internationally known doctor), but they couldn't risk me actually being in the middle of a stroke or something worse. There were people moaning and bleeding in the ER who had clearly been there for some time, and I was rushed right past them. The worst part was, I was with my favorite aunt, uncle and cousin, and we'd been laughing our butts off the whole way to the hospital because I was speaking funny and they were taking turns poking my face to see how far the numbness had spread. We were seriously giggling like idiots when we entered the ER.
We were in and out in about 90 minutes. I felt really terrible about that - I've been the person waiting in the ER while in serious pain, and they could have just given me the Prednisone (to stop the numbness from spreading) that day and left me be for a while to take care of the people with more urgent cases.
I suppose it evens out though - they made my 87 year old grandmother (who was prone to strokes) wait for 8 hours one time for an initial examination after she'd hit her head once. I'd just dealt with my elderly father's brain bleed, so I wasn't taking any chances. She eventually faked feeling faint so they'd bump her up in the queue.
As for the most pain I've felt, I've never had a serious injury or anything like that, but I'm well acquainted with pain. I get sinus headaches that literally cause me to think about drilling a hole in my head. I once had nerve get "nicked" by a needle in acupuncture and it would send an excruciating, shooting pain through my entire leg if I allowed any pressure on it for a couple weeks.
But the worst pain I have ever felt is the stupidest. I tripped over something in my apartment and ended up with a sliver of plastic embedded in the pad of my toe, just under the first few layers of skin. They had to clean it and then go in with tweezers at the ER to extract it (my regular doctor's office wouldn't even touch it). When they cleaned it, I screamed bloody murder. I mean, I SHRIEKED. I'm the kind of person doctor's thank for not reacting during procedures so they can do their job more easily. But with that stupid piece of plastic in one of my middle toes, I was in a world of pain I'd never before known.
Upper tooth that desperately needed a root canal, was infected, and the area where nerve when through was in the middle of a sinus infection.
But I knew this kid who had chest surgery before 1972, after a horrible accident. Up until then, if you appeared unconscious, they didn't give you anesthesia(now they do). He was not really unconscious he was just unresponsive. He said that he woke up to find that they were doing open chest cavity surgery on him(his chest was clamped open after they broke the cartilage over his heart). The pain was so astounding that he went unconscious almost immediately---but not before he felt it. This happened several more times to him during the surgery.
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