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The most painful physical ailment you've experienced?

2 broken ribs at the age of 35. Every cough or sneeze was a new adventure in pain for 6 weeks. Thought my eyeballs were going to launch from their sockets...

Tore up my left knee as a young adult playing football. Had it 'scoped, but the pain lasted for months as it healed...

That's all that leap to mind at the moment

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macloudt said:
People talking about recovering from surgical procedures made me think of the jaw surgery I had in 1981 when I was 12. I had an upward curvature of the upper jaw bone so during a 6-hour surgery my jawbone was cut away from my skull, cut into 4 pieces, realigned and sewn back in place with some wires holding the jawbone bits in place. I still have about 25 stitches running along my top of my upper gum and my dental x-rays show the wires. What I didn't appreciate at the time but amazes me now is that I had no pain during the 6 months it took the jawbone to knit back together (my braces were wired shut for just the first 6 weeks). Somehow the surgeons managed to freeze my jaw for the entire 6 months with no top-up of pain meds. Never mind the bone knitting back together, the nerves growing back together could have been very painful. I wonder why this could be done for my surgery but not for other surgeries, especially since almost 31 years have elapsed since my surgery.
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I had something similar done in 1978 when I was 17. I never really experienced a lot of pain from it; mostly frustration. The most painful part of it was when they cut the wires after six weeks-- and the laughing gas made that kind of amusing. :rommie:
 
I was in a pretty serious car crash a few years back. I dont know what speed i hit the wall at, but i was driving at 200+ kph. Believe it or not, i walked away from the wreckage. At least i'm pretty sure i did. I dont remember anything but i'm told i was about 20 meters from the car when i passed out. I haven owned a car without a roll cage and six point seat belts since then.

My sig is aimed at that particular event. Quote is from a swedish rapper.
 
I had a wart removed once. Podiatrist numbed the area but scooped beyond that. That hurt.

Otherwise the worst has probably just been having a mouthful of canker sores. My dentist gave me a lidocaine mouthwash because they were so bad. Thankfully that seems to have stopped in the past few years.

(Yeah, I have nothing.)
 
In January 2011, I got food poisoning. I vomitted about 40 times and lost 20 pounds in one night. It was so bad that I thought I was going to die at one point.

I spent three days in the hosptal afterward, getting rehydrated with an I.V. in my arm. At first I could only injest water, then my diet became a little more complex. Jello, popsicals. By the third day I could injest solid food and was released, but I was still weak.
 
mimic said:
I had a wart removed once. Podiatrist numbed the area but scooped beyond that. That hurt.

Otherwise the worst has probably just been having a mouthful of canker sores. My dentist gave me a lidocaine mouthwash because they were so bad. Thankfully that seems to have stopped in the past few years.

(Yeah, I have nothing.)
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Canker sores are no fun. When I was in high school, my braces were placed in such a way that one of the wires was constantly scraping along the inside of my cheek. The constant abrasion led to consistent sores through that first year -- royal pain in the mouth. Literally.

Lord Garth said:
In January 2011, I got food poisoning. I vomitted about 40 times and lost 20 pounds in one night. It was so bad that I thought I was going to die at one point.

I spent three days in the hosptal afterward, getting rehydrated with an I.V. in my arm. At first I could only injest water, then my diet became a little more complex. Jello, popsicals. By the third day I could injest solid food and was released, but I was still weak.
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Holy crap. I've had food poisoning before, but never that bad. What did you eat?
 
Bad chinese food that I warmed up in the microwave the next day. At least that's what I suspect it was. I have no proof but when I look at what else I ate, that must've been it.
 
Chemahkuu said:
JiNX-01 said:
I got an infected ingrown toenail when I was a kid. My mom took me to the doctor to have it removed. He gave me a shot of novocaine and proceeded to remove the nail. Unfortunately, it turns out, novocaine doesn't work in the presence of infection, but that didn't stop the bastard. The nurse and my mother had to hold me down while I screamed bloody murder for ten minutes it took for the procedure. My mother never took any of us kids back to that monster.
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I've had 6 such operations. The very first one was at the hospital, a student doctor who didn't have a clue what he was doing, no anesthetic, wrong (too large/serated) surgical scissors, so yeah.

The other 5 were carried out by a much better surgeon at the local health village, but the second surgery was complicated by the nail curving and impacting the bone, so it required more cutting.

Those were all pretty bad.
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YIKE!! You have my sympathy.
 
Shingles, broken arms, and dry socket from a tooth removal are both harsh pains, but they were all trumped by the pain caused when my then-4-year-old daughter came running across the living room to give me a hug as I arrived home from my vasectomy.

On the way home from the doctor's office, the pain meds had just worn out and it was the longest climb up the stairs to our second-floor apartment ever. She was always happy to see me when I returned home from work, and this was outpatient surgery done after lunch. "Daddy!" And here she comes, running towards me. And her head was just that height. I saw what was about to occur and raised my right leg, she thudded into my right leg, and we both fell on our asses and began to cry.

You see, in raising my leg to keep her from unknowingly racking my damaged sack with her head in her zeal to hug me, I had squashed my nuts together and rolled them about. The pain was TREEEEEmendous. My missus, 7 months pregnant at that point, laughed uproariously at the turn of events.
 
macloudt said:
Admiral M said:
Not to be a douche, because I do respect the sheer amount of agony that women go through during labour, but it's not that uncommon for women to have a pain free labour. Obviously a pain free labour is dependant on the circumstances, but the variety of treatment available to ease childbirth pain these days is pretty impressive.
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Do you have any idea how many women cannot be given pain killers for any variety of reasons? My fast labours excluding me from having an epidural for what is medically accepted to be an especially painful type of labour is just the tip of the iceberg. Impressive doesn't necessarily equal helpful.
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However in the interests of people not trying to out-do each other with the horrors of their childbirth (which let's face it, mostly ends very happily) it has to be said that labour isn't an ailment. AdmiralM has a point.
 
Deckerd said:
macloudt said:
Admiral M said:
Not to be a douche, because I do respect the sheer amount of agony that women go through during labour, but it's not that uncommon for women to have a pain free labour. Obviously a pain free labour is dependant on the circumstances, but the variety of treatment available to ease childbirth pain these days is pretty impressive.
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Do you have any idea how many women cannot be given pain killers for any variety of reasons? My fast labours excluding me from having an epidural for what is medically accepted to be an especially painful type of labour is just the tip of the iceberg. Impressive doesn't necessarily equal helpful.
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However in the interests of people not trying to out-do each other with the horrors of their childbirth (which let's face it, mostly ends very happily) it has to be said that labour isn't an ailment. AdmiralM has a point.
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Agreed. Mrs. SicOne could make everyone in here cringe by elaborating tales of horror regarding a C-section gone awry, requiring a follow-up surgery and a difficult recovery. It makes my little balls-owies story pale in comparison.
 
SicOne said:
Agreed. Mrs. SicOne could make everyone in here cringe by elaborating tales of horror regarding a C-section gone awry, requiring a follow-up surgery and a difficult recovery.
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Her too? So did my mom!

I've had a variety of ridiculously painful ailments and injuries during my life- an injury went treated by some specialists and I'm still waiting for a spot for corrective surgery years later.

But since my brother's accident he lives in pain all over all the time so I really can't complain.
 
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