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Mouth ulcers.
Yes, seriously - mouth ulcers.
They change my mood completely. I'm generally a fairly laid back, happy-go-lucky kind of chap but a couple of mouth ulcers turn me into the most irritable, miserable b**tard ever.
I've had plenty of proper injuries and illnesses over the years and kept smiling but mouth ulcers - argh!
My August Shingles and frozen shoulder double header ...
Most get shingles on their back - I got it on my face. And in my eye .... so the three days worrying about losing some of the sight in my right eye was a joy on top of the hair that hurt, forehead that felt like someone was constantly putting a TENS machine turn up to 10 on it ( it still feels like that in the morning ... but only turned up to 3) and the 4 weeks of crashing headaches ....
Shoulder now operated on, so freed and bone ground down.
August was a miserable month
Dental abscess, tick, due to dentist removing wrong tooth on a Fri and suffering through till Mon!!
Salmonella, real pain!!!! Lost 3st and 3wks of my life tucked up in bed unconscious and not expected to live 🙄
Had to give up squash for the 3rd time due to back/knee problems.
Typing this whilst collar bone aches, broken x 2. Achilles aching. Knees aching. Finger joints aching. Back/hips etc aching.....
My body is just an auld wreck......
Ruptured Achilles Tendon smarted a touch, did it 5 months ago. The physio said today that I can run again..... for 3 minutes!
Fortunately the bike is one thing I can do without too much pain (couldn't ride for most of the summer though).
Dental abscess and an air bubble under the tooth, flying 8 hours with that expanded air bubble pinging nerves.... Grim
Then hepatitis from ingested polluted water.... No energy, will, interest as well as looking yellow whilst your career vanished...
Light compared to others on this thread but hey....
A couple of acute ones:
Hockey ball into eye from 5 yards away. Result was 3 plates in face and permanently damaged eyesight.
Large fairground slide with 3 year old on my knee. Slide was overwaxed, we became airborne. I "stubbed" my toe on the mat at the end - actually I folded my right foot in half: all my toes touched the sole of my foot. Amazingly I didn't break anything. Foot has changed shape! Way more painful than the hockey/eye socket incident - felt sick and nearly passed out.
Other ongoing niggles are as the result of putting on weight now I can't do much exercise: shins, Achilles tendons, lower back and coccyx!
I had my wisdom tooth surgically removed, due to some funky nerve routing they needed to remove part of my jaw to get it out, then I developed something called 'dry socket' I've never experienced pain like it. I had another appointment booked at the specialists, which I thought was for a check up. He was there ready to operate to take the other one out! It was definitely his fastest appointment of the day.
I'd say dry socket was about a 9 on the pain scale, level 4 ac joint separation was about a 6 bit after 3 weeks in a bloody fleece lined sling, over the summer I was ready to surrender.
Having my ingrown toenail cut off down to the root. The toe was so infected that the maximum amount of anesthetic didn't work. Felt everything. 3 nurses to hold me down.
Lyme disease is also very grim
Losing my hair is not what I signed up for either. I'm a rocker ffs. A skinny one. One that's going to look shit with no hair...
Another vote for toothache from me.
However not quite as bad as intraocular pressure that goes up off the chart forcing your eyeball against the walls of the socket all the way round. It was a byproduct of a blocked blood vessel in my eye (blind in it now) and it was frigging agony. I took all the available painkillers I could get but it wasn't until I got to the eye hospital and they gave me some special eye drops to lower it that it went away.
Bruised abdominal muscles (which happened with no apparent impact so it's a bit of a mystery how I did it). Had me in such pain that I was admitted to hospital with suspected appendicitis.
Dislocated finger and broken ankle were more bearable as at least I knew what the issue was.
It's always a bit of a reality check to realise just how damaged, broken and ill people can become and threads like this make you feel so fortunate to have never had any health/injury issues - healing vibes to you all......
bkocked sinus on a plane.
That's it.
You lot. 😯
Blocked sinus makes me feel like my head want to explode, a good reason for not fire arm control as I'd happily blow my head off when I get it.
Kidney stones was by far the most painful experience of my life but at least it worst of it only lasted a few hours.
Pilonidal sinus
Twice.
Live in fear of the all too likely recurrence.
Parenthood.
another vote for Labyrinthitis
Constant motion sickness
unable to look down or to the right
unable to walk without being sick
6 weeks before i felt a tiny bit better, months before it went away.
then it came back.
Broken back. September 1st 2013. Leith Hill. Landed on my head at the bottom of a bombhole.
Worst two months of my life then followed (apart from, y'know, childhood and all that...).
Inflammatory arthritis..
Agreed, dental abscess is miserable and distractingly painful. Just sheer hell.
I thought such an abscess was the worst pain I could imagine, then at 30yrs developed acute inflammatory arthritis following an ankle injury. This felt similar to the intense, deep, pulsing burning pain from an abscess, yet located in the joints, symmetrically, with the added effect of feeling like someone had yesterday taken a ball-hammer to said joints, and today (every day) is the day the initial shock wears off and you feel the pain. Yet it stays. For weeks on end, sometimes months.
One morning about 3am I was insensible following weeks of this 'flare-up', so major sleep-deprivation, total madness. Was emitting uncontrollable animal noises. Dragged self of sofa-bed (sleeping alone featured heavily at this time) on belly into the downstairs bathroom (farthest room) so as not to wake the household.
Grabbed (unfitted/still boxed) metal shower rail from floor and (still lying down) beat self repeatedly with rail about the ankles just to try and change the pain to a different 'frequency' or else kill it. Made sense to my diseased mind. Senseless nonsense yet if someone had offered amputation there and then I would have gladly taken it. GF found me and managed to stop the worst of it, for which am eternally grateful. Long-term pain like that messes with your mind, I eventually went to live alone in virtual isolation as relating was impossible back then.
Prolapsed disk.
Bad knee for over a year. Can't run or bend it and it aches. Not really a physical pain but a pain in the ass all the same.
I am in a similar situation (torn meniscus). What are you doing for exercise? (And this after a prolapsed disc - not really painful as such but really depressing and put me in a foul(er) temper for the best part of a year).
Contracted typhoid in China. 7 days in an isolation unit in the infectious diseases ward. That was less than pleasant.
I prolapsed a disc, which then went right ahead and got quite badly infected. This can happen apparently, but usually if you're old and infirm. I was neither, so it took nearly a year to diagnose (2 mins after the MRI scan I should have insisted on rather sooner!). I wore my teeth down grinding them that year, it wasn't ideal.
🙂
Proper 'flu as a student made me feel terrible.
Food posioning in ****stan; I couldn't believe so much hot liquid could come out of the body simultaneously at both ends all night long.
But a dislocated ankle was the most painful accident; I jumped off the climbing wall at the Sobell Centre and landed on the edge of one of those crash mats, turning my ankle right over. Lay there moaning in pain with my vision going cloudy for a while, ignored by all the useless bastards around me and eventually I reached down and tried to straighten it from its sideways 90 degree angle and it popped back. Nobody offered any help so I hopped to a phone box and called a taxi for myself to take me to A&E.
Bregante - Member
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Me too.
Go from totally fit to absolutely ****ed almost overnight and experience toothache level pain moving along nerves of shoulders and arm. And then watch all those hard won muscles all atrophy to a Belsen like figure. I was lucky - that was only on one side.
(Kidney stones were a breeze in comparison)
Managed to cut the end off my left thumb once whilst chopping a potato to make soup. 😳
That nipped a wee bit.
More so when i got to A&E and some trainee work experience YTS doctor lady who was about 12 decided to poke the middle of the bloody stump with a metal probe. No pain relief.
I passed out. She panicked and ran away to get a real doc to sort it out.
I passed out.
Well I nearly passed out reading that, so I can imagine it wasn't nice for you.
Toothache really pisses me off.
Gout, had my first and only proper attack after a couple of camping trips last year involving mucho barbeque + ale = 5 weeks of pain when even the weight of the duvet on your toe would lead to unbelievable stabs of pain.
Managed to avoid a repeat by cutting down on meat, don't really drink ale or wine anymore.
Burns on the inside of my thigh and little Willy next door after spilling black tea over myself. Thankfully it wasn't bad enough to leave scar tissue or nerve damage but it was bad enough for me to strip off in a public car park.
Plantar fasciitis for me. Had to stop all sport (even cycling caused pain after riding) but worse thing was it didn't seem as if it was ever going to get better.
Had physio for the bad foot. Advised to get back into sport - 1st game back and I got the same thing in the other foot!
It has got better now, but lasted over a year.
[quote="Globalti"]Food posioning in ****stan; I couldn't believe so much hot liquid could come out of the body simultaneously at both ends all night long.After the first 24 hours you just stay in the bog and splash cold water on your arse instead of wiping as it's so painful.........
Definitely NOT shingles..
I had it for a month in my teen's and although I felt run over by a bus it's definitely no worse than a serious drug comedown..
Anal fissure 🙁
Sustained a serious head injury in Marrakech; have felt miserable ever since!
Toothache for me which ended up with an extraction ...
The next one is lower back pain which may be the result of some trapped nerves. The pain was so bad carrying 1kg would feel like carrying one tonne of concrete on my shoulders. I could bear the pain without taking pain killer unlike toothache ...
Salmonella poisoning. Thought i was going to die!
I think the clear message from the thread is that we all love a moan about our ailments. 🙂
For me, its got to be the prolapsed disc. I haven't had pain reduce me to tears since I was a little kid but this one had me balling. Never experienced pain like it, the smashed my arm I got from arguing with an Alp a few years ago was merely a flesh wound in comparison. It's meant I've been off the mountainbike since May and I'm still only capable of short, easy sessions on the turbo. Fugging backs...
Abcess on my inner ear. Sobbed with pain whilst on a school trip* to Hampton Court Palace (*I was one of the teachers)
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For me, its got to be the prolapsed disc. I haven't had pain reduce me to tears since I was a little kid but this one had me balling. Never experienced pain like it, the smashed my arm I got from arguing with an Alp a few years ago was merely a flesh wound in comparison. It's meant I've been off the mountainbike since May and I'm still only capable of short, easy sessions on the turbo. Fugging backs...
Amen brother.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Me too.Go from totally fit to absolutely ****ed almost overnight and experience toothache level pain moving along nerves of shoulders and arm. And then watch all those hard won muscles all atrophy to a Belsen like figure. I was lucky - that was only on one side.
(Kidney stones were a breeze in comparison)
Epicyclo, that's 3 of us on here that have had it (Paulsoxo too). Mine was exactly 13 years ago this week when it struck. Hit me like a train. Went from being a 15st rugby player to being in a wheelchair in the space of 8 weeks. I went down to 12 stone and when I eventually returned to work, many colleagues who had visited me at my lowest point had actually written me off as never returning. Mine was also just down one side and it's never truly recovered. I still have this feeling of discoordination down the lower left side of my body and legs where my nerve endings have never fully returned. Scariest time of my life.
I have also had a frozen shoulder that made me pretty miserable.
Went to a physio who indicated it may take 18 months to get better - which made me feel worse. It's known as an old ladies injury - which made be feel doubly worse.
I decided that there was no way I could last that long so did a lot of research, a lot of exercises (as prescribed by the physio) and 2 sessions a week of massage and manipulation.
Took 3 months to get almost full movement and 6 months further on I'm almost back to normal.
Physio reckoned that being a cyclist and being able to stand pain helped a lot as she was able to push me further than most people which undoubtedly helped the speed of recovery.
Chemical meningitis & low pressure headaches from lumbar punctures
Absolutely excruciating, was put on a morphine (Oxycodone) pump for a week with each, with a few other drugs gabapentine (pregabaline) and quite a few steroids amongst others. I don't remember a lot of the meningitis week but I remember being a right miserable short tempered sod with my wife, which she really didn't deserve. Can't remember how many times over the second week in my hospital room I cried to myself for it to stop.
Really hoping to never have to repeat either if those. Unfortunately I have several more LPs planned post stem cell transplant
... having read a few more ailments I feel like a bit of a wuss with the old frozen shoulder
I think I've actually posted about my cock-saddle-wall interface buckaroo day more than any other topic.
Pissing razorblades is a real thing.
lumbar puncture when I was 10
initial back disc prolapse before back locks up to protect the area
passing kidney stones
pulmonary embolism