What’s the Most Painful thing You’ve ever Experienced?
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I can’t stand pain. I have a very low threshold for pain, and cannot tolerate it whatsoever. I used to be called the “Tazmanian Terror” when I had to get a shot as a kid. Matt sent in the following tips to help us all deal with pain a little better.
- Eat lots of veggies and fruits, and drink lots of water and 100% juice. All this does is makes you healthier and stronger, and being healthy could help in suppressing pain.
- Make yourself very observant. If you fall while jogging and skin your knee, concentrate on something else besides anything directly or indirectly associated with the pain. Maybe a nice Chysler drove by. Focus on that and take in its beauty. Before you know it, you won’t feel the pain as much, and you can walk home and treat your injury.
- Give yourself an oblivious “on and off switch”. Even though this sounds stupid, try to be able to make yoursself oblivious to absolutely everything at any time. If you have pain, making yourself oblivious to it will help you to pretty much forget about the pain, even though it is still there.
- Push through the pain. If you hurt yourself, pay no attention to it (unless it is a serious injury). Sometimes when I am playing soccer or football, and I get laid out, I skin my hips and bump my head, etc., and it hurts. But just stand up, brush yourself off, and keep playing. Pay no attention to the pain.
- DO NOT BE A DRAMA QUEEN. If you sit there saying, “OMG, I think I broke my leg! I need an ambulance! Help!”, when you simply got a kick to the shin.. you are a Drama Queen. I think being a drama queen can actually intensify (for lack of better words) the phsycology of pain, tricking yourself into giving your body more pain, in turn, making it hurt more. And, when nobody pays attention to you, it could be quite embarrassing.
- Do not take any commercially available pain killers, as they interfere with your body’s nervous system. I do take Advil when I get a headache, and I take medicine when I get a cold. However, I don’t take Advil when I have minor injuries.
What’s the most painful thing that has ever happened to you? Or, better yet, what’s the most painful thing you can imagine? Email me at chris.pirillo.com, or leave a follow-up comment to this video and let me hear your experiences.
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106 Comments
Technobabble
April 10th, 2008
at 2:59am
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Kyle_vdk
April 4th, 2008
at 5:06pm
I just try to ignore it when i am in pain, like playing soccer, and stuff like that. It works out pretty well, like once i had completely killed my leg, like it was slimy and greesy, and you could se like chunks of fat and i just ignored it, it was pretty sweet lol, and I am not saying i am fat, everybody has fat there.. well most normal people..
scott b
April 4th, 2008
at 5:20pm
By far the most painful experience of my life was having a bone in my hand “set” into place my an E.R. doctor. TRUE pain is so intense and overwhelming that you cannot utter a sound or exclamation of profanity. It is like a quantum singularity, an entity unto itself that selfishly draws ALL of your attention and energy by sending the equivalent of high voltage through your nervous system.
Broken ribs suck too (as I discovered by way of a motorcycle accident wherein i tangled with a guard rail.. the guardrail was not impressed..), because they constantly move and jostle around until they knit together again, and each motion is essentially another re-”set” of the broken ends.
Bottom line, bone pain sucks. Avoid it if you can.
sjc1963
April 4th, 2008
at 5:24pm
The worse pain I ever felt was back in grade 4 when I was running home and I slipped on some black ice and twisted my left knee to the side and I had to put it back in place and limp home after. I should let you know that all of my joints are “doubled” in that they come out of places easily, and my left hip socket is also malformed, because my mother had been given thalidomide while she was carrying me. I was “lucky” enough to be born with my limbs fully formed, though. I had learned to develop a VERY high tolerance for pain.
WereBo
April 4th, 2008
at 5:32pm
Nasty , but true….
The anaesthetic wearing off, half-way through a vasectomy!!! That taught me a lot about handling pain, so much so, I’ve had teeth out, been knocked off cycles countless times and stitched up without even flinching now.
I can’t really think of anything more painful than that.
nicholas
April 4th, 2008
at 5:35pm
Wow. Great Tips!. One of the most painful things that happened to me would either be when I burned my hand on an engine or when a screw fell into my head.
~Nicholas
Jim
April 4th, 2008
at 5:36pm
Pain? Dislocated knee cap during a karate kick —— about 90 degrees to the left. I found my kneecap on the side of my leg – never felt pain like that before. Received max allowable dose of morphine; Then the Dr’s physically pulled on my leg and moved the kneecap back into place (about 3 hours after it happened so my tendons were nice and tight). Yea, they heard me in the emergency waiting room area.
hanshaw
April 4th, 2008
at 5:54pm
I was 33 and had never had need to visit a doctor. I work in home remodeling. I have no health insurance. Last summer while driving I began to feel dizzy and lightheaded. I pulled over and noticed a “tingly” feeling in my arms and torso. I thought “tingly left arm means heart attack and death.” I freaked the hell out and called 911. I got checked out and other than some high blood pressure, was pronounced to be fine.
Oh yeah, the pain part came when I got several different bills from the hospital et al… for a total of about $2200.00
luke403
April 4th, 2008
at 6:20pm
The worst pain I’ve ever had was when I broke my arm and I had to get it set. They put me to sleep but then I woke up and it hurt. Also my friend cut his finger and he pulled it apart and it was weird.
Internet Business Blogger
April 4th, 2008
at 6:23pm
Most painful thing? My wife having our first baby. She was in pain and there was nothing I could do about it as I am standing right next to her
Burnt_Rice
April 4th, 2008
at 7:12pm
Yeah the worst pain I have ever had to deal with was when I was 10. I was riding my bike with a couple of my friends at my elementary school and I was riding down a hill really fast. I was trying to pay attention to my friends behind me and when I looked ahead there was a chain that kept the cars out from coming onto the campus about 5 feet in front of me. It was to late for me to stop so I thought to myself I could probably break through the chains , which were pretty flimsy. So I couldn’t stop… and there was a good chance I could break through the chains if rode faster so I decided to go for it! I sped up a bit. Then Whack! The chains closed lined me in the air and my bike kept going from under me and I flipped once mid air and then hit my head on the concrete. Yep it hurt for weeks!
riley
April 4th, 2008
at 7:29pm
i think the painful thing i have had was when i bernt my self
Cliffystones
April 4th, 2008
at 7:33pm
Just had to chime in on this one. The most painful thing by far is having a urethral catheter inserted WITHOUT anesthesia!
Adjectives I could to use to describe this pain include terrible, primordial, hellish, etc.
If they really want our guests at Guantonomo to spill the beans, this’ll do the trick!
Cliffystones
April 4th, 2008
at 7:33pm
Just had to chime in on this one. The most painful thing by far is having a urethral catheter inserted WITHOUT anesthesia!
Adjectives I could to use to describe this pain include terrible, primordial, hellish, etc.
If they really want our guests at Guantonamo to spill the beans, this’ll do the trick!
Kat
April 4th, 2008
at 8:05pm
I’ve had to experience more pain than many people. I honestly can’t name a “worst” pain. I’ve had several kidney stones, which are excruciating. I’ve had a kidney removed, with a HUGE incision across my stomach and side that was horrible. I’ve had my gallbladder burst… a fate almost worse than death pain-wise.
Tooth extractions, having babies, breaking bones… those were nothing compared to the above. ;-)
steven
April 4th, 2008
at 8:13pm
Hey Chris love youre vids the most painfull thing that i have done is get a tooth pulled while they put ne to sleep with a needle up my elbow and cut my jaw ooowwww!
Keja
April 4th, 2008
at 8:13pm
Great tips.
Have never broken a bone but i’ve had many sports injuries and they were pretty painful but it’s all good. I drive for the pain.
See ya around,
Keja
hunterw787O
April 4th, 2008
at 8:15pm
I am not a big pain fan.Most of my pain was when I was little. I had a ear infection. I was out of school for a week. Chris you said that you can’t hear well. That makes to of us.I have to wear hearing aids.
steven
April 4th, 2008
at 8:18pm
Hey chris love youre vids and the most painful thing i have ever had done is when i got a tooth removed and and they put me to seep with a needle and then cut my jaw open then i woke up and my tooth came out cuase when i woke up i flew up and the plyers yanked it out ooooowwwwww! it still does hurt scereusly
Griff
April 4th, 2008
at 8:23pm
You will never know pain until you suffer a broken heart. I would much rather saw my own arm off and dip it into alcohol, if it meant i could still be with the girl i love. Physical pain can be dealt with. It subsides over time. A heart left in a thousand pieces never beats the same.
desertwarrior
April 4th, 2008
at 8:23pm
the most painful thing I have experienced is having a gutter spike go through my foot when I was 4. Let me tell you it wasn’t that painful going in but when they took it out OMg you would think the heavens was coming down lol. But the only thing that compares to that is being hit with 100 paint ball’s, and having 100 bruises or a sun burn that made you look like a lobster.
Iluv2eat5
April 4th, 2008
at 8:32pm
well i have a bad knee and i got tackled and landed right on the swollen part and that killed like you have no idea =]
Russ
April 4th, 2008
at 9:01pm
My worst pain was when I woke up from a gallbladder operation when the anesthetic had worn off. Before giving me painkilling drugs (after which I would say was my BEST feeling) the nurse in recovery kept telling me to keep still and not make the pain worse!
Michael
April 4th, 2008
at 9:07pm
Drilling teeth for filling without anesthetic is bad. Kidney stones are bad. The death of a close friend from suicide is bad. The death of a sister from anorexia is bad.
Michael
April 4th, 2008
at 9:10pm
Forgot this one – frozen shoulder. A constant ache that escalates to instant blinding white hot agony with the smallest movement to fast or too far. The treatment of the condition is also pretty horrible, but it works.
gamerx287
April 4th, 2008
at 9:11pm
I felt pain to day when my periodontist cut a piece of gums out of the roof of my mouth and sewed it ti the bottom. It hurt real bad. Thank goodness they numbed my mouth a little.
Techmaster
April 4th, 2008
at 9:18pm
Kidney stones are by far the most painful thing. “Cliffystones” above said that a catheter is the most painful…and to be honest, if you think a catheter is painful, then you don’t know the meaning of true pain, and you should consider yourself lucky. I had a kidney stone a few years ago. The pain was so intense, and I was peeing blood, but no stone would pass. I was rushed to the ER, and they immediately started pumping me with morphine. After a few hours, the morphine stoped working. They had to upgrade me to the strongest pain killer in existance: dilaudid. That stuff is pure synthetic heroin. Just 1cc of that stuff into an IV, and your whole body goes numb and you’re seeing stars, within about 5 seconds. I had to wait out an entire weekend with that stone stuck in me, and finally on monday the urologist came in and fished out the stone. He left a stint in place, which is basically a tiny catheter that goes inside the tube connecting the bladder to the kidney. That was left inside me, and I was discharged, with instructions to go back to the urologist’s office in a week. I go back to his office a week later, and what he did to me makes a catheter look like a walk in the park. He pulls out this long hose-shaped instrument, almost as big around as your pinky. It’s hollow, and has a cable inside it with a pincher on the end, along with a fiber optic camera. He fishes that thing all the way up into your bladder, and you get to see the inside of your bladder on a TV screen. Meanwhile, he pushes that pincher thing out the end, and grabs the stint, and pulls the whole contraption out of you. Uncomfortable? Very. But not painful in the least bit, to be honest. After going through the pain of a lodged kidney stone, I look at pain in a whole new way. It’s all relative.
Siamese27
April 4th, 2008
at 9:44pm
The worst pain I’ve ever experienced is when my knee comes out of place when I slip on water or ice. This has happened to me 6 times. I don’t know the technical term for the injury, but it’s very painful and it takes weeks to heal. A close second would be when I hurt my ribs. That is also a very painful injury. That’s my two cents.
Siamese27
email2vl
April 4th, 2008
at 10:00pm
One of the most painful things I have experienced is my feet falling asleep.
Rat_Dot_Exe
April 4th, 2008
at 10:50pm
The most painful thing i went through was yesterday when my girlfriend broke up with me :(
anyways its not physical pain its mential pain but why am i boring you with all this…
Andrew12
April 4th, 2008
at 10:55pm
Wow, when I saw this title i just HAD to comment…
A couple weeks ago I had to go get my blood drawn and I was freaking out at the doctors for what seemed like no reason afterward. So, when I got in the chair to get my blood drawn, I didn’t pass out… I just started feeling really sick, and… well… I threw up, on the nurse and on my mom! Afterward we went to get some food and… well.. ate the food… :D but they said I was better than most people. :P
a_cohn@hotmail.comn
April 4th, 2008
at 10:57pm
Plane and simple. Getting loaded is the best way to deal with pain. Or be so rich that pain is irrelevant.
Lesser
April 4th, 2008
at 11:08pm
My most painful experience was about 5 or so years ago when I was playing LIttle League Baseball. I played catcher and the guy pitching misread a sign a gave him and threw the wrong pitch. The ball skipped once and nailed my knuckle on my thumb of my right hand. Shattered the bone and instantly swelled up like a balloon. Hospital couldn’t do anything, they just taped it up and gave me a splint. Funny thing is, I pitched a complete game a week after it happened. Healed up nicely, just my right thumb knuckle is a bit bigger than my left thumb knuckle, lol.
Abbas Dharamsey
April 4th, 2008
at 11:18pm
The most painful thing I have ever experienced is going through puberty. As many teenagers may know it is a horrible experience and I am still going through it. OMG i hope I get through it soon. Maybe these tips will actually help with my pain that I have daily. The worst emotional pain was probably getting suspended for a stupid reason, however since I am not in high school yet it will not affect my permanent record. After reading some of these other comments, my life isn’t nearly as bad as these guys. Thanks for the Tips Chris.
:)
Tim
April 4th, 2008
at 11:25pm
Skiing in Utah in 1997 skies came up and broke my ribs. That was fun!
Jack Webster
April 4th, 2008
at 11:29pm
Yeah, I had some serious pain during my childhood, mainly involving glass and fire.
But yeah, Griff is defenitely right. No pain like a broken heart.
Empyrean
April 4th, 2008
at 11:31pm
Worst pain I have felt was riding my bike down a very steep grade, yeah not smart. To add insult to injury the road was rough, there were rotting mangoes (which are more slippery than a banana peel). Two gaping open wounds on both my hands. ruined my vacation.
Im4everskilz
April 4th, 2008
at 11:32pm
Hi Chris.
My most painful moment was when you tricked me with your april fools jokes.:( Actually they were a good laugh.
To deal with pain I try to focus on the task at hand. I also try to think about the things I like. My most painful moment was when I broke my nose I’d have to say. My arm didn’t hurt though. It sure sounds like you’ve been through a lot though.
Rammit03
April 4th, 2008
at 11:32pm
I like pain it keeps up a feeling human
MHB
April 4th, 2008
at 11:33pm
so true…so true
Gregory Muchin
April 4th, 2008
at 11:34pm
Chopping my finger in half with a mechete.
beast
April 4th, 2008
at 11:38pm
Once when I was a kid one of those Power Wheels flipped over and hit me on the head. That sucked. 16 stitches later I was ok.
Alan
April 4th, 2008
at 11:46pm
For me It more depends of the pain type,I can handle quick pain better than lasting pain.ie; id rather get a piercing rather than a tattoo.
stainlesscajones
April 5th, 2008
at 12:30am
Being trapped in a burning vehicle and seeing the flesh being consumed from my feet and legs, along with that most distasteful of burning smells, sure did nothing to reduce the exquisite pain produced from being burned alive.
Recovery entailed 6 weeks in a burn unit, 1 year convalescence and therapy at home, and another 6 months’ treatment to straighten out the medications for clinical depression (I’m bipolar).
Pain is a wonderful teacher, friend, and guardian–but a lousy lifelong companion.
Bob
April 5th, 2008
at 12:34am
Onetime I was out in the woods, and all of a sudden, I had to go to the bathroom… Really bad! So I found a spot, dropped my pants, and started doing my business, only I didn’t realize that I had squatted down over a set bear trap! The trap sprung, and clamped onto my testicles! It was horrible pain, but nothing compared to what I felt when I hit the end of that chain!
Brad
April 5th, 2008
at 1:25am
Pain does not exist its a figure of your imagination.
Jeff Schaffer
April 5th, 2008
at 3:03am
Just four words “Calcium oxalate kidney stones”
paul
April 5th, 2008
at 3:51am
I need to give you some background before I explain ONE of my worse pain ever felt. When I was a teenager I grew up in West Virginia, my Dad decided that he wasn’t going to use the furnice anymore since it kept breaking down several times a year. The last time we woke up in the middle of the night to the smell of fuel oil and went into the den and found that the floor was flooded with fuel oil. It seems that for the about the 10th time, the new Sears Furnice had broken down again. But this time instead of not working it was also leaking fuel oil all over the den floor. So my Dad decided to remove it and put in a fireplace, not just any fireplace but one of those Franklin Free Standing Wood Stoves. So as one of my many chores I had to do each day, was to bring in the wood and coal every night. My Dad would go out on our 10 acres of woods and cut firewood. My little brother and I would have to bring it down and stack it and my dad would split the logs. Now back then we didn’t have anything like these mechanical log splitters that you can buy at every Lowes or Home Depot or Sears, You had to split the wood by hand using a maul or sledge hammer and wedges. Well we ran out of split firewood and so I went to split some wood to bring up to the porch. What we used was 2 iron wedges that were probly 5lbs each and either a long handle 10lb. sledge hammer or a smaller 10lb. sledge hammer. I would always us the smaller hammer as I had to hold the wedge while hammering it into the wood untill it was in far enough to stand by it’s self. Now Mind you pounding onto iron wedges tend to round off the top of the wedge and mushroom it somewhat after so many years of use, and I was starting to split the nice 2 foot diamater red oak log into smaller pieces. I would hold the wedge in my left hand and hit it a few times with the sledge in my right hand and as the log got smaller it would wobble so I had to hold that up as well with my left hand, I was 16 at the time and I was lifting weights in high school since I was on the wreastling team so I would swing the hammer with full force to drive the wedge in deep and far as I could, now I’m holding this wedge it’s night time and I swing and I miss the center of the wedge striking the edge of it glancing down and hitting my left thumb with all my might full force of the swing, Now I have hit my thumb many times with a reg hammer so this basically felt the same AT THE TIME, and I didn’t pay any attention to it till I felt something wet in the palm of my left hand and I looked down and saw that my hand was full of blood, so I wrapped my hand up in my shirt and carried the wood up to the hosue and put the tools away and went in telling my stepmom I had smashed my thumb. She told me to go and hold it under running cold water to stop the bleeding, while I was doing that I had already emptied the sink 3 times since the water was so bloody, her sister my Stepaunt came in and asked what I was doing, I told her I was soaking my thumb cause I smashed it, and when I pulled it out of the water she about fainted and yelled for her sister “Dot! come and look at this! Paul Really DID smash his thumb!” Because the tip of my thumb wasn’t reconizable the nail was hanging off and the tip was pulverized, I was like oh well just put a bandage on it and I’ll be fine, but nope my Stepmom had my hand wrapped in a white dish towel rushed me to the ER. By the time we got to the ER the towel was soaked and it was starting to hurt. It wasn’t till the X-Ray Tech. slammed my hand down on the table that I almost went through the roof. But the worse pain was yet to come. A week later in school I was opening my locker and I hit the tip of my pulverized left thumb on the locker door edge, OMG I think I said a few words that the principal and teachers didn’t even know exisited. LOL and no I didn’t get into any trouble they felt soo sorry for me. I don’t think I have ever split firewood again after that.
RichardG
April 5th, 2008
at 5:09am
A little perspective here, please. We all suffer pain in our lives, and how we deal with it is indeed critical to moving past it. As an RSI chronic pain sufferer I can say that this has been one of the most challenging, if not the most challenging, parts of my life.
But I must take issue with your advice to “push past the pain”. Pain sucks, but in many cases it also serve an important purpose: to tell us something is wrong and we’d damn well better pay attention to it and listen to our bodies.
Pushing past the pain made my injuries worse and I have observed the exact same phenomenon in others, to their MAJOR detriment.
So, before pushing past the pain, please do yourselves and your bodies a favor and use some common sense to evaluate whether doing so is the right thing to do, especially if it is persistent or recurring pain.
Jerry
April 5th, 2008
at 5:56am
The two worst things are, A, passing a kidney stone, and, B, a really convulsive heart attack. I’ve had both, and it’s a tossup which is worse, though for sheer merciless torture I’d have to say the heart attack. On the other hand, the kidney stone won’t kill you, and will keep you alive so you can feel it more and more. The heart attack has a good potential for killing you, maybe real soon, and at some point you begin to fade out of consciousness, leaving the pain behind. The pain is so bad that you are actually grateful when that moment arrives, even when you understand that you are about to take a very big step indeed. The moral is, don’t be eating and drinking things that precipitate stones in your kidneys and deposit plaque in your arteries.
Nbowes
April 5th, 2008
at 6:23am
Cardiac Arrest hurts a bit
Luke Faulkner
April 5th, 2008
at 6:51am
I have had alot of pain, the single most pain in my life was probally when i broke my toe. Breaking your toe may sound not so bad, but believe me it was. Also, i was fighting and cracked my head open and it really hurt of course.
Pain is everywhere.
Bill
April 5th, 2008
at 7:59am
Broken nose, seriously bruised kneecap (both in karate matches years ago), dental abscess for 72 hours before able to get tooth root-canalled. Spent last 24 of those loaded with ibuprofen and bathing tooth in ice water every 30-45 seconds.
Got “tased” once in training when I was a cop. That wasn’t pleasant, either. Nor was my black belt exam.
Clearly Matt’s never been really, really in pain.
Mark Molter
April 5th, 2008
at 8:41am
The most painful thing in the world is trigeminal neuralgia, and I am aghast that you would post such awful mercenary spam about such an awful afliction. I used to think Chris was ok, no more. I am disgusted by this! Mark
Fred M Pfeiffer
April 5th, 2008
at 8:51am
The passing of large acidic kidney stones (star shaped).
Solution: drink 8 glasses of water and take two Tylenol Plus capsules and pray you’ll make it thru the night. Pain is a 10 plus on the hospitals 0-10 scale.
Be prepared for at least two nights of high discomfort and a little blood in the urine.
After having had 4 such attacks in the past 8 years, I only pray that I get calcium stones.They are nice and round about the size of a pea and pass much easier. Strain the urine, save the stones in an airline jam jar and show your friends. They will have much more respect for you in the future!
eldon
April 5th, 2008
at 8:52am
While walking to the bathroom one night I rammed my foot beneath the bottom of a door that had been inadvertently closed and ripped the nail of my big toe off. The pain was so severe I could hardly breathe for several minutes and I subsequently passed out.
Bubba Bob
April 5th, 2008
at 9:19am
It happened on Thanksgiving in 1997? I was in pain and not enjoying the turkey — an infected finger was my problem. I could not wait even one day to ease the pain so my wife drove me to the emergency room at the local hospital. The emergency room doc says “the infection in your finger must be let out so I will open with a small lance and it will drain”. A small lance — it felt more like a chain saw. And when he squeezed it to help the draining along, I screamed. The pain was so bad that I knew right then he had slipped and cut my finger off.
Try to avoid infection anywhere, especially in a finger.
Jay
April 5th, 2008
at 11:29am
What’s the most painful thing that has ever happened to you?
Broken neck in car accident way back in 1972. I was 19 then and 55 now. Confined to wheelchair and hospital bed.
kateri
April 5th, 2008
at 11:39am
I have had chronic back pain for the last 37 years of my life.
Episodic pain in childhood became chronic at age 19 and there have been too may incidents when the pain went off the scale.
Just this morning at 3AM awoke with back pain so severe it’s like I can’t move, but I have to move to feel better… to get to better means making this severe pain even worse (thoughts going through my head),
Having a myleogram and the doctor ‘catching’ a nerve root when taking out the dye. The doc would pull on the needle in my spine while another felt my pulse when I began to pass out they would stop for a while. (This was in the days when they had to take the dye out).
The times when I know pain will pass I can handle. Walked around a few years ago with a jaw broken in two places for over two weeks until I decided it wasn’t getting better and perhaps I should see a doc.
(I have a very high pain tolerance which numerous docs, pain clinics etc have noticed. It is not always a good thing).
So when I was 19 I felt I could not continue to live in the amount of pain I was in.
I am still living with it. Some relief from various modalities but I still go off the pain scale on a regular basis.
I cannot just ignore the pain as it is telling me to slow down when it gets real bad.
My usual pain is agony for most people. You just keep going. I don’t talk about it unless specificaly asked. I don’t show pain behavior. So most people who meet me say “you look fine, how can you be disabled”. Invisible disabilities suck. I do things slower and with assistive devices. I stopped caring about how I looked to others with my diabled car sticker and the above devices. Ask if you wonder. What I do hate is the looks people give me … like I have some nerve using a diabled parking space. Or needing to squat when in a line as I cannot stand long without my pain going off the scale.
Well got that out of my system for today. Journaling helps. Web sites for chronic pain help, meditation, exercise, body mechanics, medications all help but nothing to date ends the pain. It does help it be managable.
Perhaps the side of my life I never got to live hurts even more. No husband, no kids, lost my career as a RN, live on Social Security Disability …just wondering how many of you could manage everything on $900.00 a month?
But you mourn your looses and move on. I won’t say it doesn’t hurt that my girlfriends are now becoming grandmothers. I wanted so much to be a mother, a wife, a nurse. Now my world is much different than I ever could have imagined at 19.
I lost the use of both arms following a car accident 10 years ago. I had to wear braces that held my wrists and fingers in position. I got more offers for help and sympathy that year meanwhile the hands, arms didn’t hurt. I lost my mother is that accident that hurt as did my neck and back.
So acute and chronic pain are two different ball games to me.
AmazeNYou
April 5th, 2008
at 1:25pm
Most painful thing for me would probably be my tons of knee problems.
Most painful thing I can imagine would be burning alive, or crucifixion.
Kevin Buckstiegel
April 5th, 2008
at 3:18pm
Pain is mental. Therefore, when I think of real worst pain, I think of losing a friend of loved one. Sometimes that pain doesn’t go away… most other pains go away. Or if you have a pain in the neck, you can tell them to go fly a kite :)
TeddGCM
April 5th, 2008
at 4:26pm
I’ve never had too many injuries, and I have always had a rather high threshold for pain. However, as a kid I was scared to death of shots. I would kick and scream and run and try to get away any way I could. This came to an end one day when I was maybe 9 or 10 years old. A Dr. I went to for some reason (I can’t remember what for now) was going to give me a shot. He promised me that he would not give me the shot until I counted to three. As soon as I said “Two” however, he gave me the shot. When I said three he was throwing away the needle, having completed the procedure. At first I was mad at him and gave him a really hard corps stink eye. Then I saw his smile and realized that the shot did not hurt one bit. I didn’t even know he had given it to me. From that moment on I realized that if you completley relax your arm the shots don’t hurt. I took this knowladge with me during my Army Medic days when I was assigned to pediatrics. The result was parents asking for me to give thier children shots or other procedures.
The worst pain I felt however, was probably the dislocation of my knee which required surgery to repair. It still aches from time to time, usually when bad weather is approaching.
GoDM1N
April 5th, 2008
at 7:00pm
A lot of Monks know how to control their pain, i try to do the same if you “TAKE THE PAIN” it is not as bad. Ive done a lot of things that a lot of people may think to be really painful when i was 7-9 “cant remember when” i fliped a go kart and broke my arm and walked away. It didnt really hurt that much. I also think we dont know as much about the body as we think we do, the brain is what makes you feel pain and if it lets you feel pain, it may also tone down pain or turn off pain as well when we get hurt.
Backlin
April 5th, 2008
at 7:03pm
A lot of people claim I am blessed with an unusually high pain tolerance. I tripped over a soccer ball and put nearly 200Lbs of weight on my left knee, and the cap rotated 90 degrees to the left. Didn’t wail, just kicked my head back and thought about my new Lexus. It helped a lot, not to mention the whole being in shock thing. You can’t feel anything when you are in shock. It’s amazing!
wavesofblankets
April 5th, 2008
at 8:37pm
most painful experience: when I was in 5th grade, I decided that it was a good idea to run as fast as I possibly could down the steepest hill on the playground…which led to my falling and rolling down said hill, injuring my right wrist on the way down.
part one of the pain was sitting in the nurses office for 2 hours waiting for my mother to come pick me up.
part two was waiting another hour at the family friend’s house for my mother, who was called as my emergency contact for when my mother was unavailable.
part three was trying to sleep/deal/live with the throbbing pain of my injured wrist for a day and a half while my mother decided if it was sprained or broken.
once she finally decided I was broken, we went to the doctors office to get x-rays, cast, the whole shebang. x-rays pointed out that not only had I broken my wrist, but I had completely knocked it out of whack, and it had to be reset before it could be casted. so part four of the pain was getting a shot (with the hugest needle in the world) of local anesthetic to numb my wrist when they reset it.
once the anesthetic had numbed my entire body except for the affected wrist, part five was when the doctor reset my wrist, and I leaped up from the table and screamed so loud that the people in the waiting room heard me (one person even asked the receptionist if everything was OK).
needless to say, after this horrifying experience, I’ve been basically the most careful person on the face of the earth. never again do I want to have to go through the hell that was a broken, disjointed bone.
Tom Marthenal
April 5th, 2008
at 9:37pm
Most pain I’ve had —
Probably somewhere between tooth extractions (dentist thought the tooth was very loose, so did not put me on Novocain … BIG mistake, it was actually a permanent tooth. I was literally bawling like a baby) and getting a wart removed with liquid nitrogen.
Swimmers ear I’ve had multiple times, and it is horrible because it’s a really throbbing pain, and NOTHING helps it. It’s not a ton of pain at once, but after 3 weeks, it’s dreadful. I’ve had it like 6 times now.
tigrous4ever
April 5th, 2008
at 11:20pm
pain sucks
Eden
April 5th, 2008
at 11:24pm
my most painful experience was when I was 10 years old, I was sleep walking and fell down the tiled stairs it hurt a lot, I fractured my skull, broke my left arm, I snapped my Akelies’ tendon and had bruises and cuts all over me.
and from that night on I never sleeped walked again and my door is always shut.
mike
April 6th, 2008
at 8:54am
The worst pain i have ever had was march 17 when I had a heart attack.
The pain was so intense I wanted some one to knock me out with a baseball bat. Then I saw the bill. 75g
George Ealen\m
April 6th, 2008
at 11:33am
The worst pain I ever had was when I was 16 yrs old, I broke my right leg while racing a kid on our bicyles. I broke both bones in my lower leg, my ankle joint and part of my foot. I had to have surgery to put the ankle back together using two stainless steel screws. The surgeon said it looked like a jigsaw puzzle. I was on crutches for 6 months. The really bad thing is it was at the beginning of summer vacation from school until the end of November.
Jzilla
April 6th, 2008
at 2:44pm
Some of these above entries sound very painful. The worst pain I ever felt was an inflamed gallbladder – 10 days in Hospital the first three on intravenous morphine.
The most painful bit was the first 8 hours while they diagnosed my condition – no pain killers at all till they were sure what is was.
Of course no medical insurance so I spent 12 months on a waiting list on a virtually no-fat diet (to avoid another flare up) till finally had it removed. The stone itself was the size of a chocholate covered almond.
dx11101
April 6th, 2008
at 5:03pm
Most painful thing i have ever experienced was when i crashed my bike and bruised my whole right abdomen. I could not walk for 24 hours.
Tony Trenton
April 6th, 2008
at 8:43pm
The pain from aruptured dics in the lumber region that touches the sciatic nerve is the most painful & debilitating pain I have. It never lets up & is always there.
robotx
April 7th, 2008
at 1:15pm
I think the worst pain someone could ever go through is having your balls squeezed and mutilated until the testicles explode out of the scrotum as a bloody mass on the floor. After this is done a rabid dog would finish off the job and bite your dong off.
Ben Willis
April 7th, 2008
at 8:50pm
Hey, wow, I don’t think I have ever had pain as bad as some of you guys. I have never broken a bone, or anything that required visiting the emergency room. I did once stick my hands in a bush to pick flowers for my mom when I was really young. It turned out to be a wasp nest. There were a few hundred wasp in there. They turned my hands into basketballs. And I got bit by an ant last summer, which I turned out to be allergic to. It wasn’t painful, but my throat started to swell along with ankles wrist and my face got all tight. But no. I have never suffered through bone pain.
Kamp3r
April 7th, 2008
at 8:56pm
I work as a medevil sword fighter I do Live shows all summer long. Although as you can imagine I have had many experiences with hard blows from heavy weapons being pelted against my Armour. I learned to shrug it off and continue the fight regardless of the pain I may be experiencing. Except for one time when I took a rather hard blow 7 inch’s below the waist and had forgoten my cup at home. As you can imagin I dropped like a stone..
camui87
April 9th, 2008
at 5:37am
The most painful thing? going a day without intercourse.
hohahohi
April 9th, 2008
at 8:56am
being in a beating contest in Sparta.
bw92
April 9th, 2008
at 11:19am
lol ‘ive seen that
scared me shitless
akamctubby3
April 10th, 2008
at 5:35pm
why are u a ho
camui87
April 10th, 2008
at 10:16pm
lol
drummwill
April 10th, 2008
at 11:04pm
HOLY FUCK, haha i’ve seen it b4, and its gross and discusting
malaysniac
April 11th, 2008
at 9:25am
Stepped on a nail when I was 6. Went straight through my foot. Had to get it pulled out with pliers.
pommpell
April 11th, 2008
at 11:50am
a haard, icy snowball…right in the nuts…damn, that sucked
dominicandx
April 12th, 2008
at 12:36am
how bout having ur cock on fire that is true pain
Drac
April 12th, 2008
at 3:50pm
Pain is natural, suffering is a choice.
ComicReligion
April 13th, 2008
at 8:45am
uh, if i cracked my femur bone in half…that probably be the worst
djvinc3
April 14th, 2008
at 5:36am
Yeah,it hurts…happen to me..thank god im walking…
sirjoker292
April 15th, 2008
at 10:05am
most painfull thing ever would be the balls to a cheese grader, yeh it would suck
Predator911
April 15th, 2008
at 9:32am
Love.
most joyful and painful thing one can experience, provides pleasure and happiness but nurtures vunerability and guilt.
daugbug
April 16th, 2008
at 12:41am
i think the most painfull thing ive ever been through is either a lumber puncher or a septum piercing, i think pain just likes to find me lol
xx
bsbllkid1123
April 16th, 2008
at 11:15am
to suppress pain, you take in marajuana…
RaggaRasta
April 17th, 2008
at 1:01am
i put alot of girls in pain when i fucked there tight assholes
sikhninja
April 17th, 2008
at 3:07am
this guy is gay… so are all americans…
ZeroG181
April 17th, 2008
at 4:03am
Eeew, Scifagad.
wiigamer2112
April 17th, 2008
at 8:28am
when I got my finger cut
chazerc
April 18th, 2008
at 6:10am
most painful thing ever is:
sliding down a rail on your stomach. but the rail is made of a mixture of sharp and dull razor blades.
xAnnaXP
April 18th, 2008
at 7:18am
…no he isn’t
FatRakoon
April 18th, 2008
at 7:42am
I had a motorbike accident. My second one.
My forearm was shattered ( now have steelpins but no bones, my right knee also smashed up and thats now a prosthetic knee ( But my leg is still whole ) all teh ribs on my right side were broken – 26 pieces of bone there, and my back was broken in 4 places.
I died twice ( about 15 seconds the first time and then just under 2 minutes the second ) and lost 16 pints of blood in total
aliens300c
April 18th, 2008
at 8:30am
I have two, When I was a child my father was mowing our neighbors lawn with the riding lawn mower because they didnt have a sufficient mower, They had a “dog run” line that they forgot to pick up.. The steel line ended up wrapping around my leg, Fell over and was pulled twards the lawn mower, The gash in my leg went all the way to the bone, But the most painful has to be the root canal I had when I didnt take the antibiotics they offered me. it was still infected! Ouch ouch ouch!
aliens300c
April 18th, 2008
at 8:32am
I also have like 9 tattoo’s and it was NOTHING compaired to the pain of the root canal. I was literally squirming and moaning in the chair. it was not a pretty sight. Tattoo’s are nothing. I almost enjoy the ‘tingle’ that they give me :D
Lazera
April 19th, 2008
at 10:58pm
Wow, your ignorance really shines…
southmasonic
May 11th, 2008
at 8:22am
when I broke my arm as a kid DX
punxz18
May 20th, 2008
at 11:02pm
Paper cut!!!
KrazyKancerKid
May 21st, 2008
at 3:50pm
ya butterfly needle on the inside of the elbow is that best spot. I use to have cancer, so i got blood taken 1 – 2 times a week for over 2years. Its the least painful, but only if you get someone who practices alot like he said.
Busted
May 24th, 2008
at 5:11pm
Dislocated hip out of joint for 2 hrs. Drs asked “how painful is it, 1-10?’
I said 9 – only cause I figured that being burned alive or drawn and quartered would be worse.
Pain meds did NOT reduce the pain in ER.