Trapped nerve in my calf but it may have been sciatica as the description earlier in the thread sound exactly what I had
Lower back down to the ankle missing out my thigh but total calf meltdown
In the other thread I mentioned breaking my neck and having to wear a halo brace for 3 months.
Every 2 weeks I had to go back to the hospital and have the screws in my skull tightened (every bit as fun as it sounds).
One time, on the way there, I got on the bus and accidentally rammed the top of the halo into the roof of the bus (I've a photo somewhere of the dent it made!).
The sound of the other passengers simultaneously wincing marginally took the edge off the pain...
Kidney stones. The only pain that has made me vomit.
I’ve remembered a couple of times in my late twenties waking up after a heavy drinking session with the most intense pain in my lower chest/abdomen. It was so painful I’d have to get up and try to move into different positions to ease it. The second time I tried to go for a piss thinking it might help… I woke up with a black eye having passed out face first on the tiles- very lucky I hadn’t hit my head on the toilet bowl.
Another time I got a stomach bug (only the second time since a baby). Went for a dump in the night and the smell was so bad I had to get up and vomit… but I passed out first falling backwards onto the tiled corner of the bath putting a massive laceration in my head. I woke up in a pile of my own faeces and promptly got on all fours and threw up everywhere, then lay there and waited for the ambulance. The green whistle was agonising as it made me cough which hurt my head and made me need the green whistle!
I have a large scar on the back of my head from that.
Pain that I can remember, gout was the worse! ****ing ridiculous waves of screaming pain. Obscene.
I've done loads of other stuff but can't remember most of it. A big council concrete paving slab slipped and landed on my foot when I was about 6 or 7. I was propping it up for my dad at the time and my foot was half off the slab I was standing on so the dropped slab very nearly cut my foot in half. Doctor said the Snoopy baseball boots I was wearing saved my foot! Too young to remember any of it though.
Sneezing with broken ribs is pretty painful as well but doesn't last!
This hurt
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And it didn't get better as the skin had been ripped from the flesh during the impact and started to rot so they peeled if off but some bits were still stuck. That red batch is where the living skin was peeled from my foot so I was literally being skinned alive with no anesthetic.
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At least I had my phone so I could take pictures while it was happening.
I believe pancreatitis is widely acknowledged to be very high on the list.... And I would concur.
Broken ribs was worse than the fractured patella, but the herniated l4/l5 disc trumps the lot, one moment fine, the next I came to on the floor and couldn’t move without wanting to pass out again. Still nags to this day and always will I think.
When I smashed my wrist... I'm usually not that bothered by pain- it's not that I'm super tough or anything, it just never seems to be that bad, like I've just got weak-ass nerves or something. And it wasn't even especially sore at the time, I've had more painful grazes... But I was going mad the night I broke it, with it bandaged but before they first tried to set it. Literally mad, I couldn't lie still for long without it being unbearable but I was completely exhausted, so I was standing up to let it all settle or adjust the bleeding or whatever it was that meant I couldn't stay still, then closing my eyes, and falling asleep standing up and just barely avoiding falling over, stuff like that. Just totally subhuman. And that was with a max dose of cocodamol and ibuprofen and some cheeky tramadol I had left over from a previous injury. Never known anything like it. Weirdly by the morning it was just back to normal, fairly sore but I was even in a not bad mood making the trip to teh hospital.
I chose poorly, but my wedding ring lives on
You know gold is a really soft metal and rings can easily be fixed, right? 😉
Stood on the corner of a 2x4 lego piece whilst barefoot. Right in the arch.
Osteomyilitis in my knee when I was 11. It was the days when GPs could do house visits and my Mum called our local GP as I was in a huge amount of pain. GP came said it was a pulled muscle and would get better with a bit of rest. Later that night I went delirious with pain, nausea and vomiting, sweating buckets, screaming and fairly oblivious to anything else. Mum called the 24 hour GP service and they sent an ambulance and went straight to hospital and had an op in the morning, then spent 5 weeks in hospital and another month or so in a full length plaster cast. The day I got the plaster cast taken off the kid from next door threw a half brick which hit the scar - that really hurt!
Kidney stones. Absolutely horrendous pain, way worse than when I had a bone tumour, broken bones or anything else.
Walking out of hospital after my twin sister had just died.
Oh and when I broke 15 bones (five ribs and a sternum for starters, AC joint, face in lots of places) in a dead stop against the side of a Mercedes. But that was only physical pain.
Kidney stones here too. Three times i've ended up at A&E begging for morphine, which they gave me. It's the kind of pain that you could normally only handle for a few seconds but it goes on for hours and hours.
Fell in the house causing a herniated disc, pressing against the sciatic nerve. But instead of seeking help I pretty much laid on the hearth rug for 4 days. All the muscles in the area in spasm locked up tight.
Had basic painkillers and all I could do to alleviate the agony was turn from one side to the other till that became unbearable, then flip over again. At the start of it I managed to get the carriage clock down onto the hearth so i could judge when to take the paracetamol i did have(Which did f all) and pretty much didnt sleep beyond 20 minutes across the days.
I spent 4 days looking at that clock, listening to it tick very very slowly round, unable to move beyond rolling my whole body one side to the other for the entire time.
The morphine they gave me to get me into the ambulance felt like it was heaven sent. Just to finally get a break from the pain.
i dropped a volvo onto my finger ripped the nail off.
you’ve either got massive hands or a really small car! 😀
Kidney stones seem to be a recurring theme. Fingers crossed I never get them. Some of you have definitely been through the wringer.
Miscarriage.
Ruptured appendix and kidney stones.
The appendix was a few days of feeling particularly shit and then excruciating pain.
The kidney stones was just instant wtf is going on.
Dog bite behind my right knee ended up causing a DVT which blocked a main vein and meant my calf swelled up it felt like it was going to burst right open. I could only describe the pain as being slashed by 1000 razor blades whilst having acid pored on my calf. Horrendous. Triple fracture of wrist was pretty keen as was a splattered big toe, but the DVT was the worst.
I'd say my gall stones had a slight edge over the decayed molar. Only because I could get something for the pain from the tooth, after frantically scrabbling around in the meds section of Morrisons.
I desperately took more than sensible amounts of codeine, but my gall bladder just laughed at it.
Both the gall bladder and molar are no longer part of me.
Well, the Haematoma draining (other thread) was an intense, sharp pain, but was over quickly, same with the injecting local into an exposed tooth root (although that pain had a different shape to it, more round, hot pain than the sharp, almost lemony pain of the haematoma...), but I think the worst may have been when I broke both bones in my left forearm.
No immediate pain, but it started hurting when I tried to push myself off the ground and it went a bit U-shaped. Then I had to wait until someone turned up and splinted it with two bits of branch, then walk through a forest to a minibus, then a three hour wait in A&E until they gave me pain relief. That was a significant level of pain by the end.
Actually breaking my spine (T12+L1) wasn't actually that painful, and probably contributing to a very poorly executed early diagnosis. But post surgery the pain was off the scale. Staring at the button on the morphine delivery thing praying for the button the go green for another hit. Absolutely horrific. Always regret telling my wife if I could get to the window I'd throw myself out from my ward five floors up. Thankfully it eased off.
Then a couple of weeks later at home I wound up very constipated because of all the pain relief. Yee gods that was bad, literally in tears.
But agree with gout being nasty. So relieved to be on alupurinol now so hopefully don't have to feel that again.
@wait4me I did the L1 too. <br />Most pain was having a cut sewn up on the arch of my foot, the day after I’d sliced it open, without anaesthetic in a Greek hospital 🤬
Swiftly followed by having my lip sewn up by a plastic surgeon after a faceplant, without anaesthetic at Stoke Mandeville. 🤬🤬
I'm thankful to have avoided kidney stones to date. However, I previously endured gallbladder stones, with two sizable ones removed. The week leading up to that surgery was the most pain I'd ever experienced. Yet the procedure itself brought little discomfort in comparison.
When the nerve block finally wore off about 36 hours post op and my knee came back, that was hard.
Once w driver induced gravel rash down all of my left arm and left buttock, they had to scrub it all clean with a stiff plastic brush. so much gas and air i almost found it funny
Interested to see a few people here saying morphine doesn’t work for them. When my shoulder was dislocated last summer I nearly had an argument with my husband about it. He was saying I should have all the morphine they’d give me, and I was refusing because it just makes me look like I’m not in pain while actually I can still feel everything it’s just I can’t do anything about it. A bit seems to stop the pain getting in the way of being able to do stuff like talk, but that just makes people treat you like you can’t feel anything (and I definitely can!).
Having my arm dangling for 5 hours was certainly up there with childbirth and migraines, but I think migraine pain is the one that makes me shift from ‘how long can I take this?’ to ‘would self-trepanning bring me some relief’. There’s pain that makes you grit your teeth, and pain that drives you crazy.
IIRC there is a section of the population that has little response to morphine
For constant pain, gall stones. Got to the point where I could tell the pain was coming and it built up over 5 or 6 hours to its peak. First time was scary, a few more and it was interesting as the relief when it passed was almost worth the pain. Most odd, but quite a rush. The GP saying it was trapped wind for 2 years didn't really help.
Triggered pain, probably gout or herniated disc in my lower back and having to move.
Neck muscles going into spasm.
Went from what felt like a cricked neck to having muscle contractions every minute or so which was like an electric shock travelling up my neck. Only thing that would provide some form of relief was a warm bath.
Way, way more painful than broken bones or a snapped acl.
In the other thread I mentioned breaking my neck and having to wear a halo brace for 3 months.
Every 2 weeks I had to go back to the hospital and have the screws in my skull tightened (every bit as fun as it sounds).
One time, on the way there, I got on the bus and accidentally rammed the top of the halo into the roof of the bus (I’ve a photo somewhere of the dent it made!).The sound of the other passengers simultaneously wincing marginally took the edge off the pain…
Here's the evidence 😀
over the years i've had various pain inducing injuries (predominantly from mountain biking) - broken wrists, ribs, collar bones, dislocated shoulders, torn cartridges and even impaled myself on a branch.
Until a couple of years ago i would of always said that the pain of a French pompier popping your shoulder back in on the trailside whilst simultaneously having a broken collar bone on the same joint, sans gas & air, would of taken the eyewatering pain trophy.
however last summer the most innocuous of injuries had me on my knees, crying and begging for relief. riding along in summer i caught a little withy on the side of the trail that flicked across my eye and scratched the cornea. no issues at the time, other than a little sore and lots of eye watering, however 2-3 hour later the pain really kicked in and kept building for several hours - i've never felt anything like it, definitely the most "value" on the incident to pain ratio!
Gout, been suffering since I was 21 and sadly when it flairs I get it pretty much everywhere now and pretty violently so much so there is no let up of pain for weeks (and in one case months two summers ago)
Worse than the pain it gets me very depressed now
I forgot about having the drain tube removed, after my C5/C6 fusion.
Best described as having a red hot poker pulled out of your neck. I'd bet good money that my finger marks are still on the bedside chair I was sitting in.
Kidney stones was grim,
but I think the worst for instant drop to floor screaming pain was then I tore my frenulum during vigorous bedroom antics (which was bad) made worse in my drunken state, (oh no) when I thought I had better slap something into the gaping bloody hole in case it got infected and used the only thing to hand, witch hazel gel. There was the most epic high pitched creaming, followed by the pain of what felt like a thousand angry weasels eating my gentleman's sausage and me running around the room, helicoptering my bloody bellend, trying to get the gel back out. Room looked like a jack the ripper crime scene.
Or getting my face chain ripped out at a gig (bits of ear and nostril on floor)
or getting a nipple ring torn out at a New Model Army gig (didn't register at first until I looked down to see my torso awash with blood and everyone looking at me, then the pain hit like a mofo even through monstrous amounts of booze
but nothing epic like a lot of folks on here!
Interested to see a few people here saying morphine doesn’t work for them.
morphine is THE best and worst drug at the same time.
the ability to self administer it from the little clicker thing whilst in heart surgery recover, is awesome.
but the horrendous truly terrifying dreams caused by it take some getting over.
in the heart unit, the amount of men having vivid horrible dreams is not something i ever want to see or hear again.
vivid horrible dreams
I hear that, but think it was Tramadol that I struggled with. I pretty much begged to try something else.
I was in some sort of half sleep thinking I was in a scene from a sci-fi movie where I couldn't move and had hooks in my flesh all around my body. With the general pain I already described that was a pretty low moment. I do have to wonder why I'm still daft enough to ride bikes!
Molar abscess
Lying awake at 3am crying and seriously contemplating getting pliers from the garage and pulling it out myself
Worst thing about the infected tooth pain is not being able to do anything about it.
But easily the worst pain I've had is after keyhole surgery on my shoulder. It was only brief, as I came round from the anesthetic and the person standing over me said how you feeling and I went AAARGH, so they put me back to sleep. But I'll never forget the intensity of that pain and it means I'll only go for an op if it's COMPLETELY necessary.
First day of our holidays in 2012. My son, who was then aged 4, decided to jump through my newspaper and land in my lap. As I was reading the afore mentioned newspaper I didn’t see this coming, and he landed knees first in my nuts. Which hurt.
The day after, whilst still suffering from what was best described as a dull ache, I was filling up the car at Morrison’s in Bodmin when the pain properly hit. I bent double with such force that I hit my head on the car roof and collapsed on the forecourt. Somehow got to the Bodmin minor injuries unit and flaked out again in the car park.
Blue light job to Truro Hospital for a night on the ward and a scan of my tackle (bruised, but otherwise serviceable). Got out the day after and had to get a taxi from Truro to Bodmin to get the car, which was left abandoned across a couple of parking spots outside the medical centre. Wife and kids had already had to get a taxi from Bodmin back to the holiday house in Looe.
Painful in both the nuts and the wallet.
Dental pain has got to be up there for some of the worst you can have, but I'd also offer a back spasm that was like a wee midget stabbing me in the back for 10 hours straight before a phone call with a GP suggested that I "did sound like I needed something to grip it" and was prescribed some diazepam. At least I could get to sleep. Still walked around bent over like a 90 year old for a couple of days until I could bear to stand up straight. I think it took me a good 10 minutes to shuffle from the bedroom to the bathroom, and I was desperate. The thing that stays with me was how exhausting the whole thing was, it felt like I'd gone a couple of rounds with Bruno while running a marathon.
a back spasm that was like a wee midget stabbing me in the back for 10 hours straight
Oh yes!
I was in a pub one night sitting on a stool. Sneezed and somehow managed to put my back out. It felt like what I imagine being stabbed felt like. I was completely immobilised. To make matters worse, it was a downstairs cellar bar and the bouncers had to carefully carry me upstairs to a taxi
Another one for the burst appendix. The actual bursting was painful but ok and I felt better for a couple of days before my insides filled up with gunk and I curled into the fetal position. The worst bit was when they physically flattened me out for the scan, that made me scream. The surgeon was really impressed that he'd never had to use as much wash out liquid on anyone else before to clean up their insides.
On a lesser note I had an ear infection which had me considering if I could stab my eardrum with a pencil to burst it. Thankfully it burst on its own due to the pressure of the infection and the relief was instant and wonderful.
Broke me calcaneus (heel bone) when a kid on scooter crossed in front of me whilst I was going full pelt on my cycle home from work
catapulted me in the air, nice secutrity guard from front of Iceland picked me out of the road but I decided I could ride the 1km to charring X hospital 1 footed, which I could
It was dismounting in the ambulance bay that I got wrong, fell on my heel again and screamed like a baby
anyway got wheeled into a&e, doped up and all was good, sent home in taxi with my bike until about 3 am when I woke up after the drugs had worn off and was trying to pull my cast off I was in so much pain, settled down after I had some codeine but the thought of that pain stayed with me
honourable mention to stomach ulcer I gave myself after too much partying on my 25th birthday
