The most painful physical ailment you've experienced?
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I fell and broke my left wrist/chipped a bone in my shoulder when I was 15. Not immediately realising my wrist was broken I used my left hand to try and push myself up off the floor, which severely dislocated the broken wrist. Never felt pain like it (still haven't), until later that day...
I eventually made my way with help to the nurses' office, and spent an hour lying there shivering in pain until I was taken to the hospital. I blacked out from the pain when they un-dislocated my wrist. The chipped shoulder bone still gives me occasional pain to this day.
Again, small potatoes compared to some in this thread. My sympathies to all!
I eventually made my way with help to the nurses' office, and spent an hour lying there shivering in pain until I was taken to the hospital. I blacked out from the pain when they un-dislocated my wrist. The chipped shoulder bone still gives me occasional pain to this day.
Again, small potatoes compared to some in this thread. My sympathies to all!
Yeah they sound intensely horrible. I have a friend who has kidney problems - he said the stones were bad enough, but the kidney infection that nearly killed him was worse. Bloody hell...
Interesting. I also have a prescription for that (I keep both medications on me at all times just in case), but I hardly ever use it because it has even less of an effect on me. Just shows that people are different, I guess.
Yay us. I'd much rather not win this one.
I have a few contenders for this. The pain from my lower back that shoots down my legs to such a point that I can't even move for a few seconds. The back pain I would get during my hep C treatment or the severe headache when I had my stroke.
ETA: The ten shocks in two hours I got from my ICD when my heart would not slow down from 250-260bpm.
ETA: The ten shocks in two hours I got from my ICD when my heart would not slow down from 250-260bpm.
I'll bet it was! A friend of mine ran into one of them when we were kids. Nasty creatures.
My heart attack.
It was a minor pain in my chest when I woke up that day. I showered and left for work with it getting worse and worse. It became blinding stabbing pain in my chest at a time where I could turn to head to work, or go straight to get to a hospital.
I made it to the hospital and managed to get to the emergency room desk where they had me in emergency before I could say 'chest pains.'
After that the worst think I had was swelling due to gout in my foot. That was painful, but a far second to the heart attack.
I also had a severe hernia that needed to be repaired surgically. I didn't find it very painful in comparison, but my doctor wondered how I could function, believing I should be in agony.
It was a minor pain in my chest when I woke up that day. I showered and left for work with it getting worse and worse. It became blinding stabbing pain in my chest at a time where I could turn to head to work, or go straight to get to a hospital.
I made it to the hospital and managed to get to the emergency room desk where they had me in emergency before I could say 'chest pains.'
After that the worst think I had was swelling due to gout in my foot. That was painful, but a far second to the heart attack.
I also had a severe hernia that needed to be repaired surgically. I didn't find it very painful in comparison, but my doctor wondered how I could function, believing I should be in agony.
I had pancreatitis when I was 11--got hit with a kicked soccer ball in gym class. It took a week to diagnose. Nothing stayed down and the pain was cyclic. They tried giving me dilaudid for the pain; it didn’t work. After 10 days or so, it began to heal. The attending doctor wrote a paper on childhood pancreatitis. That pain made my years-later dental work (15 crowns on 8 molars; 3 root canals through crowns; dental implant of one of the root-canal-ed molars) quite bearable.
Hubby recently had a hemorrhoidectomy; pretty bad case, externalized all around his anus. Prior to the operation, he had been losing enough blood that he became anemic for months. In our almost 25 years together, I had never heard him cry. He cried from this pain. It was awful to hear, knowing how much pain he was in and that there was nothing I could do to really help.
Hubby recently had a hemorrhoidectomy; pretty bad case, externalized all around his anus. Prior to the operation, he had been losing enough blood that he became anemic for months. In our almost 25 years together, I had never heard him cry. He cried from this pain. It was awful to hear, knowing how much pain he was in and that there was nothing I could do to really help.
How horrible. Hope he's feeling better.Yes, he is, thanks. The painkillers worked great for 3 days, but the next 10 ..... It hurt him to fart; to go; to sit, stand, or lie down. But all healed well. It would've been easier had he not had such an extreme case. Mind you, he had this problem for YEARS and put up with the pain. I've convinced him to not spend so much time sitting on the toilet, reading.
If anyone here has to have this operation, take very seriously the warnings of pain. Oh, and do what he doctor says and take sitz baths; gentle showers alone are insufficient.
If anyone here has to have this operation, take very seriously the warnings of pain. Oh, and do what he doctor says and take sitz baths; gentle showers alone are insufficient.
I've not had kidney stones but my brother had them some years ago, and he was in agony with them. My sympathies to those of you who've had them.
When I was in labour with my daughter she was in the posterior position, which means that her spine was lying against mine. The lower back pain was so intense that I don't remember feeling the uterine contractions. Seeing as my labour was very fast and I only had gas and air for easing the pain that's saying something. When I was in early labour with my older son I told that midwife about my daughter's labour and she said that labours with babies in posterior positions almost always require epidurals except in cases like mine where the labour progressed to quickly. Yeah, ouch.
With my younger son the labour lasted 1 hour 43 minutes, which meant that the contractions came one after the other with no breaks and therefore no relief. Once again all I had was gas and air and I fought with the midwife when she tried to take the mask away from me because I was inhaling too much of it in her opinion. It didn't really help with the pain, but at certain points I was so freaking high on the stuff I didn't really care.
When I was in labour with my daughter she was in the posterior position, which means that her spine was lying against mine. The lower back pain was so intense that I don't remember feeling the uterine contractions. Seeing as my labour was very fast and I only had gas and air for easing the pain that's saying something. When I was in early labour with my older son I told that midwife about my daughter's labour and she said that labours with babies in posterior positions almost always require epidurals except in cases like mine where the labour progressed to quickly. Yeah, ouch.
With my younger son the labour lasted 1 hour 43 minutes, which meant that the contractions came one after the other with no breaks and therefore no relief. Once again all I had was gas and air and I fought with the midwife when she tried to take the mask away from me because I was inhaling too much of it in her opinion. It didn't really help with the pain, but at certain points I was so freaking high on the stuff I didn't really care.
When I was younger I had a really bad pain in my midsection and the doctor thought it might be a kidney stone, so I was taken to A&E where it was found that I had a bad case of stomach cramps!
I don't know if I'm alone in saying that I really desire to have all of my teeth extracted and replaced with prosthetics. I'm absolutely fine with dentures and I don't get all the stigma about them when they are cosmetically appealing these days and not just for older people (I'm only in my early 20's). The way I see it, my teeth cause me trouble and they need pretty intensive dental work (fillings, cracked wisdom tooth removal, removal of teeth and brace fitted to correct overcrowding).
My teeth don't look too bad, but that's not the reason I want them removed. I want them removed so I never have to suffer with tooth pain - ever! My teeth are beyond redemption but I observe good dental hygiene and with dentures, avoiding gum disease will be considerably easy.
I doubt the NHS would pay for this unless I had a serious problem, so my best bet would be private. However, I don't have a spare £5000 lurking around so I will have to wait a while longer. It's not as if I'm wanting a limb removed and replaced with a bionic and I know it's hard for people to accept the adaption of synthethic compontents in place of natural biological ones (like the Borg!), but I'd rather have a mouth full of synthethic teeth that contain no feeling than spend any amount of time in pain with nerve-packed natural ones!
I wasn't born with the genes that provide healthy teeth. I never listened to the dental horror stories you get when you're a kid and had to experience the excruciating agony courtesy of dental abcesses, toothache, cavities and swollen gums. A few years ago I just gave up on my teeth and seldom brushed them for the period of about a year (I substituted brushing for mouthwash and dental gum 3 times a week) and I've paid the price for that. Let my experiences be a lesson to anyone who doesn't take care of their teeth.
I don't know if I'm alone in saying that I really desire to have all of my teeth extracted and replaced with prosthetics. I'm absolutely fine with dentures and I don't get all the stigma about them when they are cosmetically appealing these days and not just for older people (I'm only in my early 20's). The way I see it, my teeth cause me trouble and they need pretty intensive dental work (fillings, cracked wisdom tooth removal, removal of teeth and brace fitted to correct overcrowding).
My teeth don't look too bad, but that's not the reason I want them removed. I want them removed so I never have to suffer with tooth pain - ever! My teeth are beyond redemption but I observe good dental hygiene and with dentures, avoiding gum disease will be considerably easy.
I doubt the NHS would pay for this unless I had a serious problem, so my best bet would be private. However, I don't have a spare £5000 lurking around so I will have to wait a while longer. It's not as if I'm wanting a limb removed and replaced with a bionic and I know it's hard for people to accept the adaption of synthethic compontents in place of natural biological ones (like the Borg!), but I'd rather have a mouth full of synthethic teeth that contain no feeling than spend any amount of time in pain with nerve-packed natural ones!
I wasn't born with the genes that provide healthy teeth. I never listened to the dental horror stories you get when you're a kid and had to experience the excruciating agony courtesy of dental abcesses, toothache, cavities and swollen gums. A few years ago I just gave up on my teeth and seldom brushed them for the period of about a year (I substituted brushing for mouthwash and dental gum 3 times a week) and I've paid the price for that. Let my experiences be a lesson to anyone who doesn't take care of their teeth.
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Aside from my constantly twisting pelvis due to my club foot that I've been experiencing over the last few years? Probably the appendix surgery I had when I was in senior year. I was misdiagnosed the first time and spent three weeks in total agony, not eating anything and throwing up. Then the doc finally detected that it was appendicitis and i had the surgery done. Spent another few days in hospital. I ended up losing I think twenty pounds total over the four weeks. Those three weeks though...oh man. Right now though it is my twisting pelvis which now has a two centimetre gait.
Admiral M, dental implants are tough! I only have one (after two crowns and a root canal on it), but drilling into the jaw is so much worse than a filling, crown, or root canal. My entire head vibrated with the damn drill! It would be a last resort for me, but if your teeth are truly so bad, well, that's something else. Don't forget, you will still have nerves in your jaw, which has caused me occasional pain despite the root canals (I really clench hard in my sleep).
I fell off a chair a few years ago and hit my head on concrete. Hurt like a sonofabitch, and bled majorly (couldn't even stand up for an hour).
Fortunately, I impacted right around the bridge of my nose (which didn't even break - I just needed a few stitches), which probably is the reason I'm alive today - if I'd hit any higher on my head, I probably would have died.
Fortunately, I impacted right around the bridge of my nose (which didn't even break - I just needed a few stitches), which probably is the reason I'm alive today - if I'd hit any higher on my head, I probably would have died.