Worst pain of your life...uncensored.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Rad_Hazard

I'd say the worst pain I've ever had is a recurring one. I used to work at UPS back in the day as a loader and it was the end of the night and a long piece of metal that was boxed up came down the belt, it was about 12 feet long and weighed about 200 lbs. We are taught to test the weight of heavy packages so I loosely grabbed one end and it fell directly on the tip of my ring finger on my left hand. Immediate pain. Loaded the f***** thing and went home.

My finger swelled and I went to one of those urgent care places the next day. They drilled a hole in my nail to relieve the pressure and did an x-ray. My fingertip bone had cracked almost in two, split down the middle. Unfortunately there isn't anything they can do for that so I was sent home with some pain meds, which I didn't take, and it healed over time. Unfortunately the nerve healed funny and now when it gets to be about 30 degrees F or colder, if I even brush that finger against something I feel intense pain for about a minute.

OUCH, my brother done that to his middle finger. It happened on PE class in school when catching a not so soft softball. It hit the end of his finger and it broke the bone on the end of his finger.

He was a really good second baseman and had a good bat. After that he had to quit playing baseball because he had no feeling in his finger and could no longer throw a baseball. He could throw but couldn't hit the side of the barn standing next to it.

[butchie_t]

Don't ever get shingles. That is all.......

[edtiques]

I had kidney stones that were surgically removed because they were too big to pass. They then put a stent inside me that was about 16 inches long for 2 weeks. It hurt pretty good going to the bathroom for the first 4-5 days. It felt like someone was kicking me when I urinated and I had to go all the time.

I also had gout which was quite painful.

Like Mick Jagger says "What a drag it is getting old".

[BobC]

Have had the usual falls, breaks, getting hit in the head with a baseball, getting kicked in the head by a mule as a young child, the unholy matrimony and resulting years of child support pain and suffering, removal of most all of my right lung at the age of two (thank God was too young to remember, but have an enormous scar to always remind me), and did the kidney stone thing. Kidney stones were too big to pass naturally, so underwent the procedure where they go to break them up, during which they inserted a stent similar to edtiques' in me, except I had it in for almost 4 months. Was supposed to protect the urinary duct from damage while passing the broken-up kidney stones. Nothing seemed to pass so they finally removed the stent (which that procedure alone should get a very high spot on this list). Turned out the broken-up kidney stone pieces were too big to fit through the stent, and it actually kept me from passing them. After removing the stent, the unbelievably large kidney stones finally, and naturally passed, including one maybe a little bigger than the quarter of the size of a penny. And before any one of you says, "Gee, that's not very big at all!", just remember where this kidney stone was travelling. Yet, none of this was my worst pain ever!

Senior in high school and got hit with "Hypercontractile Peristalsis", or as more commonly known, spasmodic or "jackhammer" esophagus. To explain in layman's terms, your throat has a series of muscles that contract and relax in a set and defined order so when you swallow it assists in pushing food and liquids down to your stomach. Now think of all the nerves and signals getting mixed up somehow so the esophageal muscles start randomly contracting and relaxing like a scene out of a Keystone Kops film, or one of those crazy Benny Hill chase scenes. The resulting pain can be excruciating, hence the common term "jackhammer". In my case, every time I swallowed it felt like someone had reached in and was literally pulling my heart, lungs, throat, and everything else, out through my chest. Lasted about 3 - 4 days, with the worst period being so bad that just breathing and only slightly moving/affecting the esophagus, triggered the heart ripping pain.

No known cause or cure. But, in my case they decided to try and mitigate pain from potential future attacks by performing a Cricopharyngeal Myotomy. Surgically going into my neck, and as the surgeon performing the operation explained it to me, cutting the nerves so if the spasms ever came back, I hopefully wouldn't feel them as much. The other proposed option was to prescribe nitro glycerin pills. Fortunately, almost 50 years later, I have never had such a violent and painful attack again. But compared to this, the kidney stones were a walk in the park.

I'm guessing Dr. Frank is having some interesting recollections.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

Don't ever get shingles. That is all.......

Yes, how did I forget about shingles, that was a horrible week of being almost completely covered with little blisters on my right side from spine to center of chest.

For me they started as a really uncomfortable lump beside my spine for a few days. Then on Friday morning I started getting little blisters. By Friday night my right side was almost covered with them. Then I figured out what was wrong and couldn't see a doctor untill Monday morning.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

Don't ever get shingles. That is all.......

Originally Posted by bnorth

Yes, how did I forget about shingles, that was a horrible week of being almost completely covered with little blisters on my right side from spine to center of chest.

For me they started as a really uncomfortable lump beside my spine for a few days. Then on Friday morning I started getting little blisters. By Friday night my right side was almost covered with them. Then I figured out what was wrong and couldn't see a doctor untill Monday morning.

I haven't had shingles. But my dad said they were the most painful thing that he experienced. His started on the back of his neck, came up over his crown, across his forehead and I think ended on his cheek near the bottom of his ear. He took a few days off and then went back to work with them still visible because his boss demanded it. He was selling cigarettes at the time and went with his boss to visit a reservation contract. His boss made a joke about shingles and he then was lampooned by the reservation shop owner who had experienced shingles before. After leaving, my boss let me father go home and take some more time off.

[frankbmd]

Traveling by auto from west to east, I developed epididymitis somewhere in Idaho or Wyoming. Mount Rushmore was on my wife's bucket list so not stopping there was not an option. While recumbent on a bench looking up at Mt. Rushmore, I realized that my testicles were larger than George Washington's. I was afraid to see a medicine man in western South Dakota, who might think when in doubt cut it out, so I didn't get treated until finishing the trip in Wisconsin. Antibiotics provided welcomed relief.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Traveling by auto from west to east, I developed epididymitis somewhere in Idaho or Wyoming. Mount Rushmore was on my wife's bucket list so not stopping there was not an option. While recumbent on a bench looking up at Mt. Rushmore, I realized that my testicles were larger than George Washington's. I was afraid to see a medicine man in western South Dakota, who might think when in doubt cut it out, so I didn't get treated until finishing the trip in Wisconsin. Antibiotics provided welcomed relief.

Right, there are no licensed physicians in South Dakota, or between South Dakota and Wisconsin. Uh, ok. This doth not add up.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Peter_Spaeth

Right, there are no licensed physicians in South Dakota, or between South Dakota and Wisconsin. Uh, ok. This doth not add up.

Granted we are a bunch of hillbillies that have never traveled more than a few miles from the barn we were born in.