Quick....tell me 'bout the worst pain you've ever had

Daniel Koster

Daniel Koster

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I'm feeling very picked on right now...and could use a reality check. :D


I have an intense pain in the right side of my jaw right now....dentist says it's a sinus infection affecting 2 teeth...one possibly cracked, the other needing a root canal.


Holy CRAP this hurts. :(


You know how in the ER they ask you to rate your pain on a scale of 1-10? I'd rank this as a "9" when in peaks.

Comes and goes...starts as a dull ache then gradually increases for about 10 minutes...peaks for 1-2 minutes...then starts to die down. About 3-5 min after the "peak"....relief comes. It hits me so hard that I can hardly think or do anything...have to stop what I'm doing until it passes.


Like I said...I'm havin' a pity party here, guys. Gotta stop feelin' sorry for myself. Help me out here.

:foot:

Dan
 
mine is a toss up

1) I spent 2 years on chemotherapy

2) I cut my thumb off on a table saw while I was on chemotherapy. It actually hurt more while they were sewing it back on than when I cut it off.
 
I've passed ten kidney stones in the last 2 1/2 years...two of them were too big to pass on my own...one I ended up getting septic with and went into the ER with 106.5 fever. In general the ranking of the pain in a doctor's office can't be compared with others as some people's pain threshold is better than others.

I definitely feel for you though; infections with the teeth involved can be excrutiating!
 
In 1999 when I was 34, I was in a severe single vehicle (SUV) rollover accident in which something from the back of my vehicle came forward and smashed my left scapula (shoulder blade) into about 5 pieces. My vehicle had no airbags, and when I was found, I was still seat-belted in, but my legs were hanging out the driver's side door. :eek:

Fast forward to about 10-12 days later in the hospital. My left shoulder complex was basically destroyed due to the direction of the roll and impacts. I was warned that a change in bed sheets was in order and that I had 30 minutes to get some morphine into my system in preparation for the move. I think that the timing of the doses was controlled so that I could only get one every 10 minutes, but I could be wrong. Even so, sitting in a chair for a few minutes while they changed my bed linens and had two nurses try to give me a sponge bath was the most excruciating thing I had ever been through. Three minutes of incredible hell. And on the way into the hospital (actually in the ER), getting a chest tube while I was concious with many broken ribs, broken clavicle, and other fun broken things would probably come in as a close second.
 
a shmuck doctor was butchering me up trying to remove a cyst from my side over the ribs- ended up digging fiercely and snipping away well past the tissue numbed by the Novocaine, and it felt like you would expect being ripped at by those chain hooks in hellraiser would feel.
 
broke my arm in 3 places all of them around the elbow, broke my big toe when a 900W truck battery fell on it.

Broke my head (ass in bone) when I fell from some 12 feet into a coral reef and concrete wall

I have a couple of more stories for later.
 
Partially torn Achilles and ACL, torn MCL, broken femur and fractured tibia (all at one time) hurt a lot, but getting shot in the shoulder by a .30-06 was the biggest initial shock.

I don't think it can compare to the thumb/table saw thing tho...just watching it happen would hurt more than anything! Ouch!

I hope ya feel better soon Dan!
 
Got hit by a car a couple of years ago, had to have three vertebrae fused. Born with spinal bifida, open spine version, in pain therapy since I was 25. Fell in mud hit concrete block broke both bones in left arm, set them myself (good job if I say so - the ER doctor agreed). Four kidney stones. 11 various surgeries, one pending; but these don't stand against the lipotrypsy that I had to have done without sedation or the microwave prostate treatment I had last year, benign swelling, again without sedation. My health carrier is not amused.
 
trying to sit up in my car after being nailed from behind by a U-Haul. I was stopped at a red light in a mitsubishi galant. 14 months later i had back surgery because my arse and leg keep going numb...... severe pins and needle type like something "fell asleep"
 
I definitely can't compete here. But, I do have a good table saw story. When I was in highschool we lived next to this weirdo that had 5 fingers between this 2 hands (thumb and pointer on one hand, thumb pointer and pinkey on the other. He told me he lost them over the course of 3 years. The first one was lost while makeing a handle for a knife, on a table saw, when he was a boy.... he lost the second one 2 days later.... making a handle for a knife on a table saw..... he didn't say anything about the others, but, I suspect it had something to do with a table saw and a handle for a knife. :eek:

The real kicker is that he had 3 fingers on the left, and a habbit of waveing at everyone. He picked up the nickname "3 Fingers," and he liked it. He had personalized plates on his truck.... 3FINGRS............ I kid you not. You can't make this crap up.:D
 
Kidney stones are pretty bad, had 10-12. Women with them say childbirth is less pain.
I must admit tooth pain is like no other-aching, nagging, hard to eat,drink or jump off a loading dock-all the while getting worse and never cure themselves without intervention. I've had two root canals both by a root canal "specialist" both for cracked teeth-cakewalk except when I paid the bill-that part hurt around $900 each-crown not included!
 
hmm... tough to call, breaking my ankle and having to walk on it to get help or cracking spine in hockey, both hurt a lot... I guess the ankle for the prolonged pain (plus I still have problems with it on occasion)
 
You guys are in a league all your own when it comes to pain. And no, I don't want to join your club!

I've done the kidney stone thing, and man was it was bad. I would have paid some street hack to go up there with a bend coat hanger and get that little f*cker out.

- Mark (confirmed water drinker ever since!)
 
Kidney stones... I tell everyone that hasn't had the pleasure that if they want to know what it feels like to do the following:

1.Put left or right testicle in a vice.
2.Start closing vice slowly.
3.When you pop a sweat from the pain, stop.
4.Then just hold that position for a few days.

Hope you get to feeling better soon!
 
Man I got nothing. :o



Broke my hand punching a wall once. Didn't hurt that bad even though my fourth and fifth metacarpals were in ruins. Surgery wasn't so bad. Hated the cast.



My appendix went bad....Made for a miserable night but by the time I went in to surgery it didn't even hurt anymore. Worst part is the test they do...with the dye...you guys who have been there know what I'm talking about. It involves a CT machine and about 15 gallons of fluid they expect you can hold in while taking a deep breath.:thumbdn:

Recovery was ok. Told the nurse to quit with the pain meds...was tired of being doped up and would rather just feel it. Took 2 painkillers that night per their instructions had terrible nightmares and never took them again.




Gallbladder attacks were bad. Worse than the pain was that it went undiagnosed for so long and it mimics a heart attack....The recovery room was tuff but it got better quick.

Like I said...cake walk....

After reading the gallbladder stories I just drank my weight in water....got to pee now...

:thumbup:
 
Every day seems to be more pain. Diagnosed Hyper Mobility Syndrome to start. Basically "double jointed" to a point that joints really don't stay together very well. Think ribs slipping out and dislocating every now and then is probably the most intense. Although walking on a bad day can be a challenge. I've discovered it's the pain that doesn't recede that is the most difficult to deal with.
 
Kidney Stones. Definitely the worst. I've had dental pain and I can see how that could get real fun. But those stones man...

Get well soon :)
 
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