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I'm not talking about worst injury where you can't feel pain. I'm talking about the worst injury you can feel? Yes, hits to the nads count.

So...what is it. And I'm already guessing that a lot of 'em are in the nether-regions...

Mutilation of the liver.

You mean that I've felt? There was this time, when I was about four. I got play-dough stuck in the carpet. There was a little cutty thing next to the play-dough thing. My dad, in a rage, while he was trying to get the play-dough out of the carpet, slammed the cutty thing on the floor, launching it into the air, causing it to land on my forehead, cutting it open. That hurt.

Mutilation of the liver.

I'm pretty sure that would kill you...

I'm pretty sure that would kill you...

Eventually...

Detached a tendon in my shoulder. Then my shoulder wouldnt stay in socket, so finally after a year or so and when i couldnt put it back in place myself i got surgery. about 95% good today......

Intrascrotal hematoma.

Basically, you bleed into your scrotum and the pressure builds up and crushes your testicles.

Intrascrotal hematoma.

Basically, you bleed into your scrotum and the pressure builds up and crushes your testicles.

:eek:

That happened to you? Ouch.

Snapped my arm... been hit in the nuts and tailbone (multiple times)... had a cyst on my right one... broke my nose twice... had a hernia...


It's a tossup between the arm and the hernia, I think...

Intrascrotal hematoma.

Basically, you bleed into your scrotum and the pressure builds up and crushes your testicles.

Wow I just crossed my legs and got that weird feeling you get when your balls hear things they don’t like

I my experience either people putting you down saying you can’t do something and actually failing at it or losing someone *sits in dark corner*

i pulled my rectus abdominus, that's the muscle that goes from around your hips somewhere, right up to attach behind the breastbone. yeah, the abs. but i pulled it up where it attaches. that was the most painful thing. whenever i breathed, my ribcage moved out, and the muscle stretched more. agony. my whole chest was on fire.

actually, wait. after my sister threw an unripe passionfruit at my earring at the top of my ear, and it had gone all swelled and disgusting for a couple of days and eventually started to get better, i tried to put my earring back in. unfortunately i poked the tip of the earring straight onto a nerve inside my ear, while i was trying to make it go through.
that, my people, is pain.

i pulled my rectus abdominus, that's the muscle that goes from around your hips somewhere, right up to attach behind the breastbone. yeah, the abs. but i pulled it up where it attaches. that was the most painful thing. whenever i breathed, my ribcage moved out, and the muscle stretched more. agony. my whole chest was on fire.

actually, wait. after my sister threw an unripe passionfruit at my earring at the top of my ear, and it had gone all swelled and disgusting for a couple of days and eventually started to get better, i tried to put my earring back in. unfortunately i poked the tip of the earring straight onto a nerve inside my ear, while i was trying to make it go through.
that, my people, is pain.

Where'd you come from?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trigeminal_neuralgia

Not sure that it qualifies at an injury, at least as intended for the purposes of this thread, but it is a condition caused by nerve damage known to produce headaches so painful as to drive people to suicide.

Hit in the nads

I walked into a tree once. Got a little cut, which made a cool scar. Um, I don't get hurt much.

After having watched both a shipmate and my wife both suffer through kidney stones, I'm going to vote for that.

I broke my arm when I was thirteen. I was sent to the hospital and got there around 2pm. The two bones in the forearm, the radius and the ulna, had snapped. It wasn't bent 90 degrees, but almost. Before receiving ANY painkilling medicine, I was sent in for an x-ray. My arm was forced straight by one of the x-ray technicians. It was the most pain I have ever felt in my life. I didn't go into surgery until after midnight, over 10 hours later. October 18, 2002 was not a very fun day for me. And yes, if you have an experience as traumatic as mine was, you'll remember the date.

that i've felt? only been kicked in the nads once, but that fucking hurt :(

was in a car crash when i was 12 - my dad had to be cut out and they thought my neck was broken. thankfully that was ok but my wrist was fucked and the bones were shattered. i don't really remember in that much detail but i do remember a whole shitload of pain (priority treatment at the hospital though cos of it being a bad car crash and my dad and i got treated together... and also got the morphine pretty quick :D)

that ties with pain i do remember quite well when an abscess i had burst last summer... just... horrible :-S had to go into hospital for 3 days then and have surgery on it (and more morphine - woo! :p)

Nothing mentioned so far comes anywhere close to childbirth...
Hell, just the regular period pains have made me almost pass out in the past.

:eek:

That happened to you? Ouch.
Luckily no. I just read about it yesterday - it sounds awful.

It's in this article - first bullet point:

http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=5482

my worst actual injury? I smashed my knee pretty good once, also ripped the tendon from the bone.........that hurt like a son of a bitch for a while, in fact it still hurts...........yesterday it slid out of place again, I reduced it myself without pain medication and that hurt pretty bad too.......I went today to get it X-rayed to make sure I didn't miss-pop it back into place......I didn't. ;)

my worst pain? labor for 64 hours, it sucked, no pain meds, no food, nothing to drink, they had to stick me 11 times before they got the IV in, and when they finally did decide to do a C-section (read I fired my doctor and made my husband go get me one who would cut) they missed the right space to do my spinal block and hit a nerve and sent my whole body into a painful seizure....that wasn't fun.

I broke my shoulder during sex once, that hurt a lot too, I bruised 4 ribs that same fall and couldn't breathe without terrible pain.......


I don't really know though, I get hurt a LOT but none of it's like the worst I could ever think of.

My friend got her leg amputated in a car wreck, she says that she could feel the pain the entire time that she was waiting for help to arrive, and then when they got there they had to pull her out with her partially amputated leg attached but it got stuck so they cut it the rest of the way off in the field with no pain meds because her heart rate was too low.......I bet that hurt worse than anything I have been through. ;)

Skiing accident, busted knee, broken ribs. Much pain.

Okay, my turn...

I hit a pothole one day on my old bike and rolled down a 300 foot hill. Ripped the skin off my upper right arm and both lower legs, also cracked a tooth.

Or...

Busted myself yesterday trying to do an endo on my bike, suffice to say, the bicycle fell on a very sensitive part of my body.

Okay, my turn...

I hit a pothole one day on my old bike and rolled down a 300 foot hill. Ripped the skin off my upper right arm and both lower legs, also cracked a tooth.

Or...

Busted myself yesterday trying to do an endo on my bike, suffice to say, the bicycle fell on a very sensitive part of my body.

Honestly, neither of those sound very bad...

Honestly, neither of those sound very bad...

The second one, no, not really, it's just I have to be careful on the position of my legs.

The first one, however, really, really hurt, seeing as it happened when I was 7 years old.

I'm not talking about worst injury where you can't feel pain. I'm talking about the worst injury you can feel? Yes, hits to the nads count.

So...what is it. And I'm already guessing that a lot of 'em are in the nether-regions...
Crushed nuts. Kinda takes your breath away?

I tore [as in RIPPED] my hip flexor. Couldn't walk for a month.
I hadn't been streching it, and doing lots of hill repeats. I was running a big hill on one our courses, and surged to pass some people. Then I fell down screaming.
I strechth a lot now.

After having watched both a shipmate and my wife both suffer through kidney stones, I'm going to vote for that.

damn you for reminding me of that...lol...yea they truly suck!

i would rather be shot(non fatal) then go thru that again...must be as close as a man can come to giving birth,at least to me it was.

i have quite the list of injuries
broke 3 vert's in my back(motorcycle wreck)
ruptured my liver and kidney(m/c crash again)
broken collarbone,foot..x2,wrist(still broken)(m/c again)
broken ribs,cheekbone(beating from cops)
fractured skull from a cinderblock(mugging)
chopped off thumb in car door(drunk)
shot a nail thru same thumb with nail gun(big ouch...slightly buzzed)
dislocated and fractured same thumb in fight(drunk..duh)
stabbed in middle back,missed spine by centimeters(breaking up fight)
flipped car with no seat belt..fractured skull,dislocated jaw,shattered teeth,knee smashed under dash board..always wear a seatbelt(coming home from work and was broadsided by a drunk)
redundant..lol..fractured skull yet again when a cement truck's boom(the thing the cement flows down)swung around and wailed me in the head...kinda funny really,knocked me out on the spot and i fell face first into a giant pile of cement..unconscious.
fell off a monkey swing cutting school,and landed on a broken bottle..stabbing thru my wrist and severing an artery in my wrist,along with cutting a tendon.(stoned...enjoyed seeing the blood shoot like 2 feet out of my wrist..was young and high)
fell of a roof working,2 stories..was amazed i was unscathed until i realized i had fell on either a wasp or hornets nest.and was stung so many times i went into shock.
shooting with a friend up the mountains,a piece of 7.62 a friend was shooting about 20 feet away richocheted and struck me in the head,lodging itself under the skin and my skull..fun visit to the hospital what with the cops having to respond to all gunshot victims,i didnt want to go,so my friends wife tried to dig it out with forceps to no avail..but i also did not want lead poison.so i went to the er.
as a kid,my kid brother shot me with a bow and arrow(field tip luckily) in the shoulder by accident.

i am sure there are more,but the kidney stone thing was probably the most pain i have ever endured....and as you can see..been injured alot.

the teeth thing was pretty unpleasant,but kidney stones were flat horrible,probably why i forgot about that till it was mentioned here...kinda want to blank that crap out.

damn you for reminding me of that...lol...yea they truly suck!

i would rather be shot(non fatal) then go thru that again...must be as close as a man can come to giving birth,at least to me it was.

i have quite the list of injuries
broke 3 vert's in my back(motorcycle wreck)
ruptured my liver and kidney(m/c crash again)
broken collarbone,foot..x2,wrist(still broken)(m/c again)
broken ribs,cheekbone(beating from cops)
fractured skull from a cinderblock(mugging)
chopped off thumb in car door(drunk)
shot a nail thru same thumb with nail gun(big ouch...slightly buzzed)
dislocated and fractured same thumb in fight(drunk..duh)
stabbed in middle back,missed spine by centimeters(breaking up fight)
flipped car with no seat belt..fractured skull,dislocated jaw,shattered teeth,knee smashed under dash board..always wear a seatbelt(coming home from work and was broadsided by a drunk)
redundant..lol..fractured skull yet again when a cement truck's boom(the thing the cement flows down)swung around and wailed me in the head...kinda funny really,knocked me out on the spot and i fell face first into a giant pile of cement..unconscious.
fell off a monkey swing cutting school,and landed on a broken bottle..stabbing thru my wrist and severing an artery in my wrist,along with cutting a tendon.(stoned...enjoyed seeing the blood shoot like 2 feet out of my wrist..was young and high)
fell of a roof working,2 stories..was amazed i was unscathed until i realized i had fell on either a wasp or hornets nest.and was stung so many times i went into shock.
shooting with a friend up the mountains,a piece of 7.62 a friend was shooting about 20 feet away richocheted and struck me in the head,lodging itself under the skin and my skull..fun visit to the hospital what with the cops having to respond to all gunshot victims,i didnt want to go,so my friends wife tried to dig it out with forceps to no avail..but i also did not want lead poison.so i went to the er.
as a kid,my kid brother shot me with a bow and arrow(field tip luckily) in the shoulder by accident.

i am sure there are more,but the kidney stone thing was probably the most pain i have ever endured....and as you can see..been injured alot.

the teeth thing was pretty unpleasant,but kidney stones were flat horrible,probably why i forgot about that till it was mentioned here...kinda want to blank that crap out.

You just won this thread. And why would you keep getting on a motorcycle?

Broke a nail.

I haven't had that many injuries. The most painful was probably from the time when I was at swim practice and we were doing sprint intervals. I told my friend I'd do a set in breaststroke with her if she'd do a set in butterfly with me. So we decided to do breaststroke first, and on the recovery from the dive I rotated my knee in some way it's really not supposed to move, and all I could feel was this shooting pain in my leg. Being me, I finished the sprint anyway, but that was the end of practice for me. It was right before championships, too, and I was still hurting during my races. Boy was my coach pissed.

...Of course, the most pain I've ever felt probably comes from my migraines. That, or cramps.

My most painful injury? Hmm, for me it might be when I ripped one of my fingers open with a piece of wood. See, my parents heat their house with 2 wood stoves, it was winter (ice on the porch), and I was carrying in some wood to refill the stoves. I slipped and my fingers ended up between the falling pieces of wood and the concrete porch. I went in the house, shook my hand (at this point, I didn't know how bad it was), and my glove came off (spraying the kitchen with blood from the motion of shaking my hand). It ended up taking 7 stitches to close the wound.

Or it could have been any one of the 3 knee injuries I've had (due to slip and fall). I hyper-flexed (and strained my MCL) in my right knee twice, and in my left knee once. The first time (with the right knee) I did it was at work, and drove home. It took over 5 minutes to get from my truck to my apartment, though (and that was only about 25 yards).

The second time (with my right knee) was when my roommate and I were helping a friend move into his new house. I slipped in the parking lot across from the house. The injury was so painful that my roommate heard me cussing from 75-100 yards away (he was in a shed in the back, out of line-of-sight). My friend's grandmother (who was in the house, watching TV) also heard what I said, and she probably would have washed my mouth out with soap if I had've gone inside instead of going to the urgent care facility.

The third time (my left knee) cost me my job at a tribal Casino. Also, it was about 40 yards to my apartment (second floor) from where I slipped, and it took me over 10 minutes to get back there. I couldn't go to the urgent care facility until the morning either, as I had nobody to drive me there.

Toss up:

Jumping off of something pretty high, and then standing without giving my back muscles a chance to do whatever it is they needed to do and yanked them. I fell down and crawled to a bench...I couldn't breathe much, I thought I was dying.

Or...

Some sort of cyst, right at the base of my spine. They come from ingrown hair (this means I'm a hairy guy, yes). Had surgery on it twice...first time it was quite the cyst, and the pain wasn't so much as intense as just...there. I almost started crying sometimes just because the pain wouldn't STOP, as opposed to being bad.

I just remembered:

Two infected in grown toe-nails. The pain killer worked on one toe, not the other, so when they ripped it out, I felt it for reals.

I think when I was riding my bike and accidentally hit my head on a sharp metal rail corner, I felt some pain. Then again, maybe I didn't. I still have the scar. When I got the injury, you could actually see the bone.

Pain I never got:
labor('cuz I'm a dude)
snapped leg tendon thing connecting that leg muscle to your heel
testicles+blender+fire=ouch
skinning alive might also hurt

You just won this thread. And why would you keep getting on a motorcycle?

lol,
i am sure more have endured more pain then me...i was just agreeing with emphasis that kidney stones really suck!
all the injuries i quoted(incomplete) was just to ephasise how horrid kidney stones can be.
i hear they can break em up with sonic stuff now...as usual,i was not so fortunate.

as for your question..hmmm...why do you bother waking up?
i do cause i love riding,everyone has to have something to get them going.
some live to collect stamps,heal people,create art,parent,see their loved ones...etc...
my reason is i love riding bikes...and if i were to calculate all the times i was getting goosebumps riding...verse the times i was injured,the odds would heavily be in favor of goosebumps!

i am glad you asked me,as i can think aloud,and if people want they can ignore or read.

my daughter always asks me this,and i never have a good answer.
i have a harley i putt around on with my g/f or just with my friends.
but i got a gixxer also,and sometimes i go out into the pine barrens and just rip it for all it/me is worth.
i never feel as alive or as one with the world around me when i do that.

read my comment to the wicca thread...everyone needs something to feel in control of their lives.
with me..apparently it is going really fast by myself.
i also like hiking by myself in the mountains and being part of my world.

others have other things that i would not enjoy,but then,i am not them.

i have been hurt alot,but i also have lived alot..and i have zero regrets.

i am always fighting myself...grow up and be responsible...(kids do that..lol)and the part of me that deep inside says this makes you happy!
and hurts no one.

my good friend and neighbor lost his wife last month(she fell off his bike and was run over on the parkway by a car)
he knocked at my door and asked me to go riding tonight...he is going thru a tough time,and i went with him right after,but all he wants to do is ride crazy drunk...i got kids so i told him...come in and have a beer but i aint riding with you all drunk.

it is his only escape from his reality now...and i feel really bad for him,but i wont die riding for his solace..only mine...selfish,probably.

i ride to escape.like people collect stamps or whatever....but i like everyone should..do it when it suits my self.

i digress...sorry...i am thinking of him...but i use to race motorcycles(not that well either)but it is the 1 thing i do for me...so i will ride until i die.

allthough..lol..i know how i will die...a spider will kill me,or i will be accidentally shot by a cop..or killed by a mountain lion...as i have dreamed these things on a recurring basis.

i only get hurt on bikes...and as you have read,most pain dont bother me cept kidney stones.

thanks for asking me that question..now i know what to tell my girl!:fluffle:

I was going to say when I broke my toe.
Then I remembered how much fun an impacted, abscessed wisdom tooth is.

When you're willing to rip the tooth out yourself to relieve your pain, you know it's bad.

I've been stabbed, I've had a knife hit me in the eye and I've given birth. Right now I would have to say the most painful injuries are these dadgnabit blisters I have on my heels. Don't ever spray peroxide on blisters. *cries*

There was that one time I took five .306 rounds to the chest and stomach, that hurt like a son of a bitch.

I've been stabbed, I've had a knife hit me in the eye and I've given birth. Right now I would have to say the most painful injuries are these dadgnabit blisters I have on my heels. Don't ever spray peroxide on blisters. *cries*

well you have given birth..that has to take on all comers..i cant even imagine that..ever!
you cant possibly compare blisters to childbirth..as my wife damn near dislocated my arm during childbirth.

well you have given birth..that has to take on all comers..i cant even imagine that..ever!
you cant possibly compare blisters to childbirth..as my wife damn near dislocated my arm during childbirth.

My son is 11 now and the childbirth was fairly easy, even though the nurses told me to stop screaming because I was scaring all the other mothers. What can I say? The screaming helped. I barely remember it now... but these blisters! Oh man.

Thought of another one. Back when I was showjumping, they used to give me the difficult horses fairly often for my lessons. There was one that was particularly stubborn, and on one course he spooked right before a gate and stopped dead in his tracks. I was thrown over his head and crashed down on the posts, bruising my ribs pretty badly. It hurt to breathe for a week or so afterwards.

There was that one time I took five .306 rounds to the chest and stomach, that hurt like a son of a bitch.

i think that would be 308...lol

i took one,but they call it 7.62-39 ...same thing...308 is the old nato/us caliber..not to be a nit picker as i know your just gooffing..
i had godzilla breath his radiation breath on me...but i had a nasty cuervo hangover so it deflected it back at him..also killing mothra.

then i found ultra mans capsule..said the magic word(help me here) and flew to the sun and regenerated!

My son is 11 now and the childbirth was fairly easy, even though the nurses told me to stop screaming because I was scaring all the other mothers. What can I say? The screaming helped. I barely remember it now... but these blisters! Oh man.

look at the blisters and say to your self...these aint shit..i gave birth!

or soak your feet in epson salt...works wonders.

Worst I've had was probably when I snapped my anterior cruciate ligament in my knee. I couldn't do anything other than writhe around on the floor in agony. The subsequent operation to reconstruct my knee was extremely painful too.

Either that or a cricket ball, at pace, in the nuts, with no box. Had me doubled over spewing for a few minutes. And walking very tentatively for quite some time after. :p

Thought of another one. Back when I was showjumping, they used to give me the difficult horses fairly often for my lessons. There was one that was particularly stubborn, and on one course he spooked right before a gate and stopped dead in his tracks. I was thrown over his head and crashed down on the posts, bruising my ribs pretty badly. It hurt to breathe for a week or so afterwards.

i love horses..but i am deathly afraid of them..so get back on the horse...lol so to speak.

While the skiing accident was the most painful, because the pain has been continuous since then, the most shocking accident was decidedly when I nearly hacked my finger off with an axe. Didn't hurt all that much, but it bled like hell, and was a rather shocking experience.

While walking behind my friend as he was about to swing I took a golf club to the forehead. Broke my nose.

A collie went berserk and attacked my right leg. I was 7 and playing alone with one of my friends, I had to walk a mile home with 4 cubic inches missing from my leg.....

A collie went berserk and attacked my right leg. I was 7 and playing alone with one of my friends, I had to walk a mile home with 4 cubic inches missing from my leg.....


what's a few cubic inches amongst friends?

When I was four, I jumped headfirst off a bunk bed and landed on a radiater. I don't remember it, but I think it was really painfull, judging from the scar on my head. I ran headfirst into a the top edge of a brick wall playing street (American) football last year(I scored a touchdown on the play :cool:), but I didn't feel anything cause of the shock of blood coming out of my face. I have broken my arm and seriously messed up my neck playing (the rest of the world) football, but neither of them hurt much at the time due to the adrenaline rush (I finished the game both times). I guess the time I remember that I was in the most physical pain was when my mom closed a car door on my finger by mistake. That was pretty bad.

Menstrual cramps far surpass any injury I've had. I hear tell, though, that getting kicked in the testicles is as bad, and maybe worse.

Fecking OW!

See: Greenstick fracture.

When I was in the hospital with my spinal cord tumor, I was paralyzed from the neck down and, obviously, couldn't eliminate. So for the first month and a half or so, they installed an indwelling catheter. The first time they put it it, I had no idea what they were doing to me (I was 13). They didn't say a word to me. They just lubed up a long rubber hose and jammed it up my ... well you know. Oooh did I scream. *lol* After that it was tolerable as they only replaced it every week to 10 days.

But when I was going through rehab, I had to go through bladder and bowel training. So four times a day, FOUR F*CKING TIMES A DAY, they jammed the catheter in me to get me used to going rgeularly. They did it at 9am, 3pm, 9pm and 3am. The 3am one was the worst. It was always quite painful, but the night nurses seemed to think I was faking the pain. After all most spinal cord patients have little or no feeling down there. But I did. That's why I was learning to walk again and had to do the damn bladder training in the first place. So anyway, the night nurses decided they were going to pull a fast one on me. They were going to cath me with out waking me up to prove I couldn't feel it. Hateful cows! :mad: That was a horrible way to get woken up. My only consolation was knocking the tray full of urine on them.

As for the bowel training, lets just say it is no fun having some rough nurses aid wrist deep in your backside every other night. Not even for us gay folk. I was going through radiation (to my neck) at this point and ate very very little because it left my throat and tounge very raw and sore. So I simply didn't need to go that often. But it was doctors orders that they do it every other night and not to stop untill they got something. Some "sesions" lasted well over an hour. At first I'd scream and struggle. But after a while, you kind of just silently accept it and just hope it ends soon. I learned how to be very stoic that year. On the plus side, it's given me a killer poker face. :p

Mind you, those aren't the worst pains I've had. Just the ones most likely cause a viseral reaction in others. The worst pain was the tumor itself. Totally indescibable. My spinal cord was being ripped apart from the inside. I was curled up in a ball screaming and unable to sleep for a week because the doctors refused to believe there was anything wrong with me. Even after I became paralyzed and had a 104 fever the doctors tried to send me home telling my mom I was faking it. :mad:

Then there is the constant (and often overwhelming) chronic pain I have been living with for the last 23+ years. Both at the site of the spine injury and throughout my body due to neuropathy (tumor, surgery, and radiation totally screwed up my spinal cord/nervous system).

As far as the worst anyone can feel, I've always heard that severe burns are as bad as it gets.

When I was in the hospital with my spinal cord tumor, I was paralyzed from the neck down and, obviously, couldn't eliminate. So for the first month and a half or so, they installed an indwelling catheter. The first time they put it it, I had no idea what they were doing to me (I was 13). They didn't say a word to me. They just lubed up a long rubber hose and jammed it up my ... well you know. Oooh did I scream. *lol* After that it was tolerable as they only replaced it every week to 10 days.

But when I was going through rehab, I had to go through bladder and bowel training. So four times a day, FOUR F*CKING TIMES A DAY, they jammed the catheter in me to get me used to going rgeularly. They did it at 9am, 3pm, 9pm and 3am. The 3am one was the worst. It was always quite painful, but the night nurses seemed to think I was faking the pain. After all most spinal cord patients have little or no feeling down there. But I did. That's why I was learning to walk again and had to do the damn bladder training in the first place. So anyway, the night nurses decided they were going to pull a fast one on me. They were going to cath me with out waking me up to prove I couldn't feel it. Hateful cows! :mad: That was a horrible way to get woken up. My only consolation was knocking the tray full of urine on them.

As for the bowel training, lets just say it is no fun having some rough nurses aid wrist deep in your backside every other night. Not even for us gay folk. I was going through radiation (to my neck) at this point and ate very very little because it left my throat and tounge very raw and sore. So I simply didn't need to go that often. But it was doctors orders that they do it every other night and not to stop untill they got something. Some "sesions" lasted well over an hour. At first I'd scream and struggle. But after a while, you kind of just silently accept it and just hope it ends soon. I learned how to be very stoic that year. On the plus side, it's given me a killer poker face. :p

Mind you, those aren't the worst pains I've had. Just the ones most likely cause a viseral reaction in others. The worst pain was the tumor itself. Totally indescibable. My spinal cord was being ripped apart from the inside. I was curled up in a ball screaming and unable to sleep for a week because the doctors refused to believe there was anything wrong with me. Even after I became paralyzed and had a 104 fever the doctors tried to send me home telling my mom I was faking it. :mad:

Then there is the constant (and often overwhelming) chronic pain I have been living with for the last 23+ years. Both at the site of the spine injury and throughout my body due to neuropathy (tumor, surgery, and radiation totally screwed up my spinal cord/nervous system).

As far as the worst anyone can feel, I've always heard that severe burns are as bad as it gets.

burns are bad..but goddamn son/girl...you have my utmost respect.

i'll take everyone of my piddly injuries and toss them into the trash can of history.
as i have said before...pain is for the weak...you my friend have endured.


godspeed and god bless.

burns are bad..but goddamn son/girl...you have my utmost respect.

i'll take everyone of my piddly injuries and toss them into the trash can of history.
as i have said before...pain is for the weak...you my friend have endured.


godspeed and god bless.

Thanks. :fluffle: And it's "son."

It's better to have gone through it as a kid than as an adult. Kids adapt easily to new circumstances and are quick to recover both physicaly and emotionally. It's far far harder as an adult. I have a lot more crap coming at me down the line, and it's a good deal more terrifying to me now than it was back then. And as young as I was at the time, I don't really remember how it was before all of this started. It's just the way life is.

Also remember that pain is relative. If a hang nail is the worst pain someone has ever experienced, to them it IS the worst pain ever. And they will experience it in much the same way as you or I experience our worst pain ever. At least until something comes along that pushes their pain threshold upward. Pain isn't something that can be measured or quantified. It's kind of like taste that way.

You just won this thread. And why would you keep getting on a motorcycle?

seconded :eek: (though smunkee's sounds pretty bad too)

I was going to say when I broke my toe.
Then I remembered how much fun an impacted, abscessed wisdom tooth is.

When you're willing to rip the tooth out yourself to relieve your pain, you know it's bad.

abscesses suck :mad:

abscesses suck :mad:

You aint kidding.

Worst pain Ive ever felt.

Was having breakfast with the GF at the time, and ran out of smokes, so I ducked out of the restaraunt, and over to the gas station across the street.
Biught my smokes, and on the way back, BAM! It felt like I had gotten shot in the face.

It took me right to my knees.

Then..it was gone!

So, I went back into the restaraunt to tell my GF what had happened.
I was like "Wow, baby, you wont believe this, I was coming back with my smokes, and all of a sudden...(Ironically the pain hits me again at this very moment)..AAAGGHRRHH!.."

Next thing I know were in a car, and on the way to the dentist.

Apparently, theres only so much pain the brain will let you experience, then it will mercifully black you out.

Sadly, it did not oblige this for the dental procedure, wich even at its worst, was nothing but a minor irritation compared to what I had previously felt.

You aint kidding.

Worst pain Ive ever felt.

Was having breakfast with the GF at the time, and ran out of smokes, so I ducked out of the restaraunt, and over to the gas station across the street.
Biught my smokes, and on the way back, BAM! It felt like I had gotten shot in the face.

It took me right to my knees.

Then..it was gone!

So, I went back into the restaraunt to tell my GF what had happened.
I was like "Wow, baby, you wont believe this, I was coming back with my smokes, and all of a sudden...(Ironically the pain hits me again at this very moment)..AAAGGHRRHH!.."

Next thing I know were in a car, and on the way to the dentist.

Apparently, theres only so much pain the brain will let you experience, then it will mercifully black you out.

Sadly, it did not oblige this for the dental procedure, wich even at its worst, was nothing but a minor irritation compared to what I had previously felt.

ouch :-S i've never blacked out myself, but when i had my abscess i wish i could have, heh :P
i had mine in a particularly unsavoury place where, lets just say, it hurt to sit down because i sat on it. if i walked it hurt. if i stood up it hurt. well, it hurt all the time, but being where it was it was under constant pressure from other bits of my body... i remember the day before it burst i lay in a cold bath for about 4 hours because that was the only thing that mildly relieved the pain, and then cried the entire night cos it just wouldn't go away :( it then burst, went to the doctor about it and she said "go to the hospital", to which we said "what, today?"... "no, right now. straight to surgery." she replied :P
the worst part about it was that i had it for about... 2 weeks before it burst because nobody knew what it was - i thought i'd impaled myself on a knife or something, seriously :P. i had to sit exams with it pulsating pain throughout me constantly too (though after a while got used to it... and still passed them woo! :p).

i guess even worse than that is that its caused by a virus and i fear i may have another one on the way :(

i guess even worse than that is that its caused by a virus and i fear i may have another one on the way :(

This time I recommend not waiting till it nearly kills you.

Glitz may finish the job if you do....

Fell off the back of a motorbike. Twice.

I wasn't the driver either time, but I still have a fear of motorbikes.

I dunno, the most painful thing I've ever experienced is a slipped disc. Holy crap did it hurt.

Erm, tennis serve to the happysacks. I don't get injured much. Compared to some of the experiences here, it's kinda trivial.

Winner: Getting hit with a taser. Not a stun gun, mind you, but an air taser.

Wow, I never want to try that again!

Runner-up: I was seventeen and showing off for some friends on an old playground filled with those lovely old-style unsafe monkey bars and swingsets, etc. While doing a backflip atop the monkeybars, I slipped, Landed on my crotch, fell and landed on a lower bar stomach-first knocking the wind out of me and then I landed on the gound face-first on a rock, spilitting my chin open. I just lay there and croaked as I could not convince my lungs to take in air and my groin shrieked like a banshee.

Second runner-up: I was twenty and home one summer from college. My father had a riding-lawn mower and after using it to mow the lawn, I was parking it under the deck on the back of the house. I drove in too fr and bumped my head. I immediately sat abruptly upright, trapping my head between two joists under the deck. The lawn mower kept rolling forward, and as i felt muscles in my neck strain and pull apart, I managed to focus enough to hit the brake, probably a scant second before my neck broke. I pulled or strained nearly a dozen muscles in my chest and neck and I was sore for a week.

Honorable mention: I have been grabbed by several high school football players and rammed crotch-first into a goalpost repeatedly until I convulsed out of their grip, puked all over myself and passed out. That was the first of two times I had to go to the emergency room due to groinal trauma. Swollen testicles suck. :(

Tried to ice-skate once when I was younger. I got it in the end and felt pretty pleased with myself, my dad however didn't seem to be picking it up very fast, he came swiftly into the back of me and sent me flying. Pretty much came around in hospital with a broken arm and a concussion. Wasn't too nice, but I'm sure people have had worse.

- snip -

How much pain have you accumulated over your lifetime, I've always been wondering this...

And if you don't mind me asking, what was the second ER groin trip?

How much pain have you accumulated over your lifetime, I've always been wondering this...

And if you don't mind me asking, what was the second ER groin trip?

The second trip was in college. I got put in the hospital by the brother of a girlfriend after losing a fight. His intention at the time was to remove me from the genepool. Fortunately, as I passed out, my friends came to my rescue. I came to in the car on the way to the hospital. I had a broken nose, several broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder and badly bruised testicles. For a time, I thought he had ruptured them. :(

ANd I would have mentioned that one, but I told that story here just a month or two ago, so I decided to skip it.

Let me see...

When I was 7, I decided to tie a jump rope around my legs and go hopping around the livingroom with bound legs. I managed to trip and fall head first into a sharp, pointed, brass handle on an entertainment center. I managed to crack my skull wide open, and in two peices. To this day I have a nice V shaped scar on my forehead just above the hairline (I keep telling people I was attacked my Zorro's couisn, Victor).

When I was three I managed to get some third degree burns by reaching up and pouring hot melted butter down my arm. That hurt, a lot. It hurt for quite a bit. Left some interesting scars too. It goes well with the scar across my face from slicing my face open with chickenwire, and on my foot from when I burnt a hole into the top of it.

Oh, and I join LG on managing to split land on monkey bars. :D

To this day I have a nice V shaped scar on my forehead just above the hairline

Be wary of the Harry Potter fans.

Luckily, the closest I ever got to a knife was slicing my toe in half (horizontally) when I was 6, I taped it back together and got to the hospital 3 hours later.

Be wary of the Harry Potter fans.

Luckily, the closest I ever got to a knife was slicing my toe in half (horizontally) when I was 6, I taped it back together and got to the hospital 3 hours later.

I was juggling knives and one embedded itself in the top of my head. Stuck there, point down into the top of my skull. Bled like a son of a bitch, but only took two stitches. *nod*

Juggling knives? Others would avoid that.

My finger got caught between a pulley and a cable holding up a camper for a full size pickup. And when I told my dad (in a suprisingly calm voice) "My finger's stuck" he cranked it the wrong way (which I also told him in a suprisingly calm voice.

After getting it out I wanted to writh on the floor, twitching and screaming for morphine.

But I thought I was over reacting so I took a lot of deep breaths and went, "I think I'll get a bandage."

"Uh...son...I think that we should-"

"Nah...I'm...I can still bend it." (HOLY MOTHER OF FUCKING HELL SWEET MONKEYFUCKING CHRISTAPPLES crappity crap crap crap whimper) "See? I'll just, where are the bandages?"

"I...I don't think we have any."

"Sure we do, I saw them the other day. I just don't remember exactly where."

"Well, if you don't find matches we're going to the clinic."

And then he hid all the bandages. Turns out I had cut my tendon almost entirely and had to be stitched on the inside and outside.

I totally should have writhed on the ground twitching and screaming for morphine.

Pretty minor comparitively, but it still hurt like a son of a bitch.

Juggling knives? Others would avoid that.

It's pretty easy, actually once you get used to it and as long as a smartass friend doesn't throw an apple into the mix when you least expect it. :p

It's pretty easy, actually once you get used to it and as long as a smartass friend doesn't throw an apple into the mix when you least expect it. :p

That's one nice friend you got there, chief ;)

Just because it's different in nature even if it doesn't measure up in quality and magnitude.

I was pooring molten aluminum when a bubble formed, menicingly. It popped and a piece of it flew up over my protection and landed on the back of my head. I lost about 10 minutes after that, but otherwise it wasn't too bad.

Sounds pretty painful... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carukia_barnesi)

That's one nice friend you got there, chief ;)

I suspect the reason why my friends and I are so mean to eachother is because our enemies never last long. :)

I've had the fairly common injury of a sprained ankle a few times, but the last time it happened, it went 90 degs. the wrong way with my full weight on it. How? - indoor 5-aside footie. The pain was the one where spots form in your vision and you feel like throwing up.
It took a month before I could put any weight on it and 2 months before I could even begin to walk without crutches. Only classed as a grade 2 sprain though, but I can't say that I'd like a grade 3 sprain (fully torn/ripped tendon).
Not a unique injury, but it was bloody painful for the 1st month - every time you stand upright, you can feel all the blood rushing back in to your foot, which feels like its going to explode...

I imagine a slow microwaving on the "low" setting would probably be up there as the worst pain you can experience.

Well one time i puled my calve muscle playing Cricket, it gets really ight if i try and run for long periods in winter.:(

I also 'cracked' my left shoulder throwing the ball, later that night i tried lifting it above my head and bringing it down ent and it really did make a loud crack, hurt too.

My baddest injury would have to be a football to the plexus solaris...
When I was seven, that ball was kicked by an adult.
I was out of breath for at least a full minute.
The ball itself didn't hurt much, but gods, the need for air. sweet precious air!

Thumb slammed in the hinges of one of those doors with springs, hard punch(es) in the BCG jab, acute wry of the neck, sprained both ankles. Though after reading some of the stuff on this thread I consider myself quite lucky so far.

One of the worst I can think of: Deep paper-cut to the bell-end, with lemon juice. :eek:

I didn't go through this, but my brother did.

He was running through the house in socks (we have hard-wood floors) and he slipped and slid through the hall. His knee got jammed under the corner of a door.

It looked like someone scooped out a piece of his knee with a spoon. He was screaming, my mother was crying, I left to get my aunt from next door (she's a nurse). It was gruesome.

This thread has me constantly wincing.... :( :fluffle: to all you people...

This thread has me constantly wincing.... :( :fluffle: to all you people...

My missions is accomplished then.


I imagine a slow microwaving on the "low" setting would probably be up there as the worst pain you can experience.

How the hell did you manage that?
:confused:

Most painful was the second time I blew out my left knee. Hurt like hell at the time, and it hasn't been the same since.

This thread has me constantly wincing.... :( :fluffle: to all you people...

awwwww :fluffle: (so sweet :))

I've had a few whoppers-

I was attacked by an extra large Alaskan Malamute, that bit through my hands and forearms. They have exceptionally powerfull jaws and with each bite, he shook his head from side to side. The comined tearing and crushing pain was almost too much.

Another one was a car wreck where my head went through the windshield. My one lower eye-lid was ripped down to my cheekbone by the rearview mirror and my mouth broke the steering wheel.

awwwww :fluffle: (so sweet :))
hehehehe :P :fluffle:

I've had a few whoppers-

I was attacked by an extra large Alaskan Malamute, that bit through my hands and forearms. They have exceptionally powerfull jaws and with each bite, he shook his head from side to side. The comined tearing and crushing pain was almost too much.

Another one was a car wreck where my head went through the windshield. My one lower eye-lid was ripped down to my cheekbone by the rearview mirror and my mouth broke the steering wheel.

....and there I go wincing again....

hehehehe :P :fluffle:


....and there I go wincing again....


dealing with the mess after each was wince-worthy too. I was drenched
in blood after both-so much it looked fake.

I'd do the car accident again before the dog attack-which was a 20 minute hand to mouth combat nightmare.

dealing with the mess after each was wince-worthy too. I was drenched
in blood after both-so much it looked fake.

I'd do the car accident again before the dog attack-which was a 20 minute hand to mouth combat nightmare.
I used to think I wasn't that squeamish.... and compared to some people I'm not - I'm okay with random violence, and okay(ish) with gore. It's mainly the idea of someone going through prolonged suffering or pain that I find unbearable to watch or hear about (damn over-empathy :p).... so yeah, that dog attack sounds awful :fluffle:

luckily i've never been through any serious injury... so far - touch wood

I used to think I wasn't that squeamish.... and compared to some people I'm not - I'm okay with random violence, and okay(ish) with gore. It's mainly the idea of someone going through prolonged suffering or pain that I find unbearable to watch or hear about (damn over-empathy :p).... so yeah, that dog attack sounds awful :fluffle:

luckily i've never been through any serious injury... so far - touch wood

I like to think I've taken the blows instead of my family.

The pain of having someone I love injured badly is something I have trouble facing.
My daughter dislocated her elbow not too long ago-I knew how to fix it,but couldnt be certain it was a dislocation and not a break. She was in agony and I had to bring her to a doctor,who did exactly what I would have done, if I could have been certain.
It killed me and I was a total failure as a father that day.

I truly hope you never experience any pain worthy of noting in here.

I like to think I've taken the blows instead of my family.

The pain of having someone I love injured badly is something I have trouble facing.
My daughter dislocated her elbow not too long ago-I knew how to fix it,but couldnt be certain it was a dislocation and not a break. She was in agony and I had to bring her to a doctor,who did exactly what I would have done, if I could have been certain.
It killed me and I was a total failure as a father that day.
You weren't a failure in the slightest. In the end, you took her to a professional who dealt with the problem properly, and things worked out fine. If it had been a break instead of a dislocation, and you had assumed you knew what you were doing and tried to fix it and that had resulted in putting her in much more pain, and making things worse, can you imagine how bad you would feel then? You would have let over-confidence and pride override trying to make sure you do the right thing for your daughter.

You made the right choice. If you couldn't be 100% sure of the injury, it was right not to try and fix it yourself, but to help her by taking her to the doctor. In the end, your actions meant she got the right treatment, whether you directly fixed the problem or not.

I truly hope you never experience any pain worthy of noting in here.
So do I...
I could mention things, but they pale in comparison, to a ridiculous degree.

many many annoying injuries

cut off thumb-ouch-hurt worse when they sewed back on

drilled a hole with a power screwdriver through my little finger

nailed my hand to a wall

broke nose-punched

tore ACL right knee, dislocated it 3-4 times after that-bloody hell that hurt

tore ACL and Lateral and Medial in Left knee-OUCHIE!-total dislocation 5-6 times since then-passed out from the pain last time it happened

abcessed tooth-nearly killed me(really)

worst by far -Back spasms caused by disc degeneration-paralized from the extreme pain for hrs on end, I would've commited suicide to end the pain but I couldn't crawl over to my shotgun-having spoken to a women had the same problem as well as given birth, she said birthing was easier

here's one one but it didn't happen to me , this had to hurt I can't imagine agreeing to it

my father lived at a time when no nothing was given to dull the pain of tooth extraction, his front teeth were broken and there was nothing for the dentist to grab onto. They were taken out with a hammer and chisel. I asked a dentist friend if this was true and he confirmed that is how it was done. I can't imagine the pain.

broke my arm jumping of a slide, twisted my knee, crashed my bike and and slid on rough country lane tarmac today, still played footie though (RoW) thought that isnt real pain, just a constant throb... the nad bash i think has to be the worst to date though

Personally; cycling along, falling off bike into barbed wire fence on hillside, and slipping along fence with a lovely inch deep rip in my right thigh:p

Worst pain imaginable; having your testicles slowly crushed by a hot sledge hammer.

Worst pain imaginable; having your testicles repeatedly crushed by a hot sledge hammer.

fixed... :eek:

fixed... :eek:

no no no. Imagine an excruciatingly slow process. :)

Worst pain imaginable; repeatedly having your testicles slowly crushed by a hot sledge hammer. And then being forced to eat them.

Double fix'd.

Breaking my leg a few years back, which wasn't too bad in itself.

Coming round from the subsequent operation feeling like someone had just driven several large bolts into my femur, taken a lump out of my hip and fixed it to my knee joint with a large metal frame; that was bad, especially since I couldn't work out for a few seconds why the fuck someone should have done that to me.

Worse than that though was living through the subsequent hot summer with a daily practical demonstration of the fact that metal expands in the heat, unlike any bone it might happen to be bolted to at the time ......:(

I'm not talking about worst injury where you can't feel pain. I'm talking about the worst injury you can feel? Yes, hits to the nads count.

So...what is it. And I'm already guessing that a lot of 'em are in the nether-regions...

My most painful and indeed bloodiest injury, (and it still makes me cringe to this day) was when I was 12. I was a couple of months into secondary school and in a design technology graphics lesson where we were all cutting shapes from card using scalpels/craft knives. Unfortunately my middle finger was a little TOO far over the metal ruler and with one slice, managed to almost sever the tip!!!!

Suffice to say that it was the only time that I uttered extreme profanities in the presence of a teacher. With the white table now a brilliant red, the tip of my finger hanging by a thread and tidal waves of pain charging through my hand, my teacher managed to get me to the first aid room before I almost passed out from the shock. My face was apparently a ghostly white! :D

Nothing hurt more than that and ironically my second 'argument' with a scalpel didn't hurt at all. That was about a year later when a chum was mucking about and accidentally thrust it into my wrist. I was able to appreciate the artwork of blood on the floor then as there was no pain. Great! :cool:

Coming round from the subsequent operation feeling like someone had just driven several large bolts into my femur, taken a lump out of my hip and fixed it to my knee joint with a large metal frame; that was bad, especially since I couldn't work out for a few seconds why the fuck someone should have done that to me.

...Well, that is basically what they do...

My most painful and indeed bloodiest injury, (and it still makes me cringe to this day) was when I was 12. I was a couple of months into secondary school and in a design technology graphics lesson where we were all cutting shapes from card using scalpels/craft knives. Unfortunately my middle finger was a little TOO far over the metal ruler and with one slice, managed to almost sever the tip!!!!snip

Wait, you sliced yourself with a scalpel, and it hurt?

Must not've been very sharp...

Wait, you sliced yourself with a scalpel, and it hurt?

Must not've been very sharp...

Sharp enough. On the upside it was my first art piece made entirely from my own haemoglobin. Do I win an elephant?

Sharp enough. On the upside it was my first art piece made entirely from my own haemoglobin. Do I win an elephant?

Well, maybe a cookie. *arms the cookiepult, fires*

Well, maybe a cookie. *arms the cookiepult, fires*


HOORAY!!! My very own cookie!!! I'd like to thank all those who supported me and kept me going to win this cookie...

Worst pain imaginable; having your testicles slowly crushed by a hot sledge hammer.

Oh good Christ, why! I just had dinner! *pukes* :(

Oh good Christ, why! I just had dinner! *pukes* :(

:D
I was eating dinner while I fix'd that quote...

:D
I was eating dinner while I fix'd that quote...

j00 h@v3 no $0UL!

:D

I can imagine that having a large hypodermic inserted into one's testicles at the back of the scrotum, and then pumping in the trapped air would be ever so slightly uncomfortable. Even more so if a hamster started gnawing at them... oooooooooooohh

j00 h@v3 no $0UL!

:D

*shrug* Meh.

OR FRECKLES!!!
Oh, God, WHY?! *sobbing*

...Thank you, Bender...

That was a bit random...

And I am suddenly reminded of a time I got a blood test and the lady who was asking all the questions only spoke in Spanish. I don't know why, but after that shot that makes you pee, you can't feel your arm for the rest of the day.

I see none of you have injured yourselves since posting, so I will have to do it myself...

Nothing mentioned so far comes anywhere close to childbirth...
Hell, just the regular period pains have made me almost pass out in the past.


I agree on that...

Worst pain for me was the time I had a cramp so bad i could not move... at which point my cat climbed on my back and started kneading my butt.... and i couldn't get her off...

My missions is accomplished then.




How the hell did you manage that?
:confused:
It was a walk in Microwave.;)

It was a walk in Microwave.;)

I don't suppose you could tell me where the drive-thru version is :)

I really badly hurt my back in grade eight. I'm not quite over it (I'm 17 now) but I remember having the most excruciating pain for quite some time. I'd hurt my back a couple of times before, but this was by far the worst. Not only was it taking so long to get better because of my incredibly bad muscle tone, I kept re-injuring it every time it looked like it was going to get better. The only pain that's put me in tears.