Hey Pandas, What Is The Most Physically Painful Thing You Have Ever Experienced? (Closed)

my miscarriage, i am 23 and in march I found out my baby had a bunch of deformities and she never grew properly. I was 23 weeks pregnant at the time. I was in hospital for 11 days. 11 days of drinking pills to start labour so I could deliver her. i was in active labour for about 6 of those 11 days, my body just didn't want to accept the labour as it was to early. so the doctors had to physically open my cervix with a balloon just so I could start dilating and not just be in pain. finally she was born and lived for a full 20minutes. I got to hold her and tell her I am so sorry and that I love her with all my heart.
the physical pain was so so bad, as well as emotional pain.

When I was younger, my feet were covered in verrucas, and my parents took me to a podiatrist to have treatment over several months. Treatment failed which left only surgical removal, but with a total count of 37 across both feet, they were unable to offer anaesthesia whilst digging each one out - lost the majority of one of my little toes due to one verruca! My dad had a scar on his ring finger for decades from pressure on his wedding ring cutting into his hand while he listened to my screams. Apparently he burst into the room when the screaming stopped, to find out I'd blacked out from the pain.

As an adult, I ended up with ingrowing toenails, that again after repeated treatment, was decided surgical removal was the best option. 3 days post surgery the came to remove the bandages, but the protective gel layer on one of them had apparently moved, and my toe had started to heal around the gauze. Several hours of soaking still wasn't enough to soften the skin to ease removal, so in the end they just ripped the sucker off. Several specialists came racing in to find out what the screaming was about heh.

And finally, post excess bone growth on my left scapula and shoulder joint had left the muscles in my back damaged (long long story why), but the specialist felt that this could be fixed with trigger point injections, done in one sitting. Trouble was there were 32 trigger points. Even the nurse was crying with me by the end. The injections didn't work either!

Neck, Abdomen and shoulder pain caused by internal bleeding after one of my fallopian tubes ruptured from an ectopic pregnancy. Was more painful than childbirth but I think the emotional pain made the physical pain seem so much worse. Does that make sense.

I thought 3 herniated discs in my back were the worst pain ever but watching my mother suffer with cancer do badly she wouldn't just st moan, she'd literally scream with pain was beyond painful, even physically. She , and I , survived!

Kidney stones. Twice. Never wish that pain upon anyone.

It's hard for me to believe that it was only 4 years ago. I was hospitalized with a severe kidney infection, lung infection, and abdominal infection. On top of all that, I developed sepsis. I was in so much pain that they put me on morphine. I barely remember those first 3 days, but I learned that I almost died. I was there a total of nine days. After they took me off the morphine, they only gave me regular tylenol. It was a very miserable and painful experience. Thankfully, I fully recovered.

Chronic Appendicitis. Super rare but excruciating pain each time, and I suffered for about 4 or 5 years thinking it was my newly-diagnosed celiac disease, which developed at the same time. It felt like I was trying to digest a knife, and I would have to make myself vomit for even the slightest relief. It took three separate hospital ERs across two states for someone to finally give me a CT - and that was on a HUNCH (mild elevation of something in my bloodwork) and they found out not only was my appendix double the size it was supposed to be, it was IN THE WRONG PLACE. The reason no one suspected appendicitis in all this time until the amazing resident trusted her instincts is because my pain was always in the center of my abdomen. For those who don't know, appendicitis pain typical presents on the lower right of the abdomen where the appendix is SUPPOSED to be located. Mine somehow shifted to the center so that's why no one was picking up on it -including me. The surgical resident who came in to talk to me about getting surgery the next day (had to wait for antibiotics to bring the swelling down - side note: IV potassium BURNS LIKE HELL) told me that there was evidence of at least FIFTEEN different inflammation incidents - and I realized they all lined up over the years. Anyway, the sucker's been out for over a year (I didn't keep it, but we named it Chad posthumously because no one in my family knows a decent Chad) and I haven't had that horrible pain since. The irony? I work for one of the top health systems in the US and at the time I was a scheduler for the surgery division (I work on the insurance end now). Chronic appendicitis was on our diagnosis protocol and I'd only ever encountered ONE patient who had it out of the thousands of calls I took during my time in that position - and out of the seven people on my team I was the only one to get a patient like that, it really shows you how rare this is. During one of my less devastating bouts of pain I jokingly thought to myself "wouldn't it be funny if this was chronic appendicitis the entire time?". Well...

I was about seven years old, and I had just started learning karate. My sister was convinced that she could beat me in a fight (she's three years older than me), so we ended up sparring on our front yard. We walked around each other for awhile, like maybe five minutes, and then she tried to tackle me. It worked. Unfortunately, our tractor's metal wagon was right behind me, and neither of us had noticed it. As I fell, the corner of the wagon hit me about a quarter of an inch above my right eye. I ended up with a large hole right below my eyebrow, and it was bleeding a TON. It was the worst pain I have ever felt, added on to the fact that my sister beat me. :)

Getting stung few times when I was a kid. One was yellowjacket on my lips. 2nd and 3rd were red paper wasps on hand. I live in Southeast US, and paper wasps took the cake for most painful I’ve ever experienced.

Where to begin? Chronologically:years ago I was coming out of a supply closet w/ a self closing fire door (VERY heavy). Somehow had my fingers in the hinge side jamb as the door slammed on them. Paralyzed w/ pain, I froze as the door actually bounced off my fingers & then hit them again. Later in life, blew a disc in my back chopping roots. Back muscles seized, locking me on my hands & knees for what seemed forever while sweat poured off me. Now that I'm older, I've made the acquaintance of kidney stones. If you've had one I need say no more. Lucky me, evidently I'm the record holder for my urologist-having passed one a half inch long. Thank goodness it was shaped like a missle & not a bowling ball. FYI, some women I know who experienced stones & childbirth say kidney stones were worse.

Meningitis, took me about 6 years to fully recover. Perforated diverticulum, 11 out of 10 pain, even under morphine. But the worst I think is an infected/dying tooth. Compared to the other two it might seem the lesser of three evils, but the pain is unbelievable. An infection causes the pulp in the tooth to 'expand' with nowhere to go; therefore, pressure increases down/up into the jaw.

It' a toss-up between acute pancreatitis that almost put me in a coma and a internal strep infection that invaded my entire abdomen. The pancreatitis put me in ICU for about a week. I found out later that the pancreas starts to digest itself. The strep infection resisted full treatment, and I was down from March until August. Good news is the doctors discovered severe endometriosis and I had a full hysterectomy. Once I healed from that, life was a lot better. 4 years later, I still have about 7 -inch scar from the incision and a bit of a hernia. But one of the worst things? People thinking I was faking it all (including my family) to get prescription pain killers. My brother was an addict, so he and my parents thought I was. I remember telling them, "You're going to feel so stupid when you realize how wrong you are." Still can't forgive them.

Fractured skull, 2 broken ribs, 3 fractured vertebrae, broken shoulder, shattered wrist, fractured pelvis, broken hip and a ruptured spleen from a single motorcycle accident. Luckily I was only conscious for a couple of minutes after the accident before my brain started to swell and I spent the next 11 days in a coma. The recovery was also extremely painful at times, especially the Physiotherapy. It was a year before I was able to walk again and more than 2 years before I was able to get back on a motorcycle. This was 10 years ago and my injuries still cause me pain sometimes. I still ride though.

Ive had four babies without drugs, and multiple broken bones and stitches. with that said, when I had a Hysterectomy which included my cervix, and they had to sew a line across the top of my vagina (aka Vaginal cuff). The very first time we had sex post surgery we accidentally tore through the entire vaginal cuff (approx ten stitches). I passed out twice before we got to the hospital.

Period cramps. I almost passed out on the bathroom floor.

Rebreaking an already broken little toe

I was around 20 years old and playing as goalkeeper for a good standard (professional) football club. One night I was out on the town and not in a great mood. Taxis were at a premium and I managed to flag one after trying for half an hour. Just walking to get in it and these two little punks sprinted over and jumped in right in front of me. I was livid and made the highly intelligent decision to punch the taxi. Didn't connect quite right and it turned out that I had broken my hand. Next day at football training I couldn't fess up because we weren't supposed to be drinking let alone getting blathered. So I trained as a goalkeeper until it healed. Saving hard shots with a broken hand hurts. Significantly.

When I was around 11, I was playing soccer in gym class and stepped the wrong way. We went to the doctor and it turns out I had torn my ACL and my meniscus in my left knee. I needed to have surgery and when I woke up, It was the worst pain I have ever felt.

When I sliced a piece of my skin off on a mandoline. Soooooo much blood was everywhere. I eventually passed out and hit my head on a cupboard door.

Childbirth w/o anesthesia, also a bone-marrow extraction from my breast bone w/o anesthesia - I was ten.