Worst pain in the world?

Worst pain in the world?

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bertieg

603 posts

140 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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i have a very high pain threshold, and have had a fair few good injuries (dislocated my shoulder 9 times, despite surgery on it. cracked my head open. broke and dislocated my little toe so it was a right angle to the rest of my foot)

nothing comes close to falling off my bike mid air, landing with my leg straight and bending my knee backwards. completely ruptured my ACL and tore most of the cartilage. i was unable to breathe for 5 seconds it hurt so much. smarted a bit when my knee swelled up to the size of a melon (not even exaggerating!)

Glassman

22,501 posts

214 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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Kozzy said:
Kidney stone
yes

...or gout.

essexplumber

7,749 posts

172 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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Dry bum sex.

hedgefinder

3,418 posts

169 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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essexplumber said:
Dry bum sex.
ahh , the pursuits of the typical essex boy..

nellyleelephant

2,705 posts

233 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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essexplumber said:
Dry bum sex.
It's even worse for the giver.

essexplumber

7,749 posts

172 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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hedgefinder said:
essexplumber said:
Dry bum sex.
ahh , the pursuits of the typical essex boy..
hehe

Dominicc01

530 posts

166 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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Septic arthritis in my hip. At 27.

It came on over the course of a day, starting from a mild twinge to being unable to move my leg. At all. I had to be taken in a wheelchair to the ambulance, and every single ripple in the carpet brought tears to my eyes. Getting into the ambulance and being moved to the stretcher was untold agony, and the Nitrous Oxide did nothing for the pain, just stopped me from feeling my face.
When I got to the hospital, I was given tons of morphine, and it had little effect (although it did move the pain level from unbelievable to very severe). I was then on the maximum possible amounts of Cocodamol and Tramadol until I had to prepare for the emergency operation.

The icing on the cake was waking up during the operation, with the surgeon cutting into my hip joint. I remember screaming in pain and then being put straight back to sleep.

Justin Cyder

12,624 posts

148 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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essexplumber said:
Dry bum sex.
That Booey is a harsh partner. yes

Nothing near as bad as some of these, but for repetition, I've dislocated my right shoulder roughly twenty five times over the years. Two operations, endless trips to A&E & another op. upcoming. Still stuffed & now probably borked for life as a useful joint. And it fking hurts every time.

Edited by Justin Cyder on Friday 14th September 21:20

motorizer

1,498 posts

170 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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Kidney stone is the worst I've had

Remember a documentary once where a bloke had been stung by a duck billed platypus, the poison works directly on your nervous system and is painful enough to incapacitate you...it lasts for weeks and painkillers don't work...at all redface

evilmunkey

1,377 posts

158 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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i go with the elbow thing, when i got ttted by a dhead who didnt know left from right while on a lambretta i knew about it, i managed to get the driver details, picked up the knackered scooter, got it home then collapsed in agony when i realised my elbow was through the skin. adrenalin and shock do great things !!! the driver got knackerd in court when he tried to blame me but everything was on cctv plus the 2 witnesses he brought who said they were at the crossing were nowhere to be seen in the video, then turned out to be his wife and son acting under assumed names for which they were charged with perverting the course of justice and contempt when the son called the judge a brainless and it wasnt his dads fault he didnt have insurance... he had just picked up his new but now lamby indented car from a dealer not 20 minutes before hand....

tommy vercetti

11,486 posts

162 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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Spraining your ankle

Opara

506 posts

169 months

Friday 14th September 2012
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hornetrider said:
There are many nerve endings in the area. Any, and I do mean any body movement, sends excruciating shooting pains up and down your body.

In comparison, a snapped femur and broken patella were like a cuddle from a cute masseuse.
I broke my Femur in the playground when I was 6, after several attempts to get me to walk on it along with an oafish teacher wrenching my wellington boot off, 4 hours later the school called my mum.

Funny thing is I don't remember any pain really, just a kind of numbness, is there any explanation for this?

The_Doc

4,856 posts

219 months

Saturday 15th September 2012
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Opara said:
I broke my Femur in the playground when I was 6, after several attempts to get me to walk on it along with an oafish teacher wrenching my wellington boot off, 4 hours later the school called my mum.

Funny thing is I don't remember any pain really, just a kind of numbness, is there any explanation for this?
1)You may have had a stable fracture which was not really bust-in-two, but cracked.

2)Adrenaline, amongst other substances in you. Also interpretation of pain is directly linked to perception and visual stimuli. If you see something terrible like your finger hanging off with blood pumping out, then your pain perception tends to be higher than if it was either covered up, or you were too young to appreciate the gravity of the situation.

You might not know you've broken something, but your body's defense system (the autonomic nervous system) does; and it makes the adrenal gland pump out adrenaline in addition to natural morphine-like substances called endorphins, ready for the Fight or Flight situation.

Clever eh?

FiF

43,960 posts

250 months

Saturday 15th September 2012
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Kozzy said:
Kidney stones - nothing has come close to the excruciating agony I have endured while suffering from kidney stones (on three separate occasions).

My doctor told me that she has had kidney stones and has given birth three times, the kidney stones were in orders of magnitude a more painful experience for her, and I believe her.
This ^^ also three times.

Jandywa

1,058 posts

150 months

Saturday 15th September 2012
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hornetrider said:
Broken coccyx, trust me on this.
oh jesus christ this. I don't even think i broke mine, merely bruised it but my god.

I did mine sledging a few winters ago, decided to go over a snow ramp at some serious speed on one of those round sledging tea tray jobs. landed fully on my coccyx. had to 'walk' home afterwards aswell. agony for days

Zoobeef

6,004 posts

157 months

Saturday 15th September 2012
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Opara said:
I broke my Femur in the playground when I was 6, after several attempts to get me to walk on it along with an oafish teacher wrenching my wellington boot off, 4 hours later the school called my mum.

Funny thing is I don't remember any pain really, just a kind of numbness, is there any explanation for this?
I had similar in school at around 6 years old. Being slight built I ran after a mate and he stopped then sort of threw me. Landed in my shoulder in stacks of pain. The teacher looked at me and said you'll be fine. Went into class and sat for the last 3 hours of the day unable to move my arm. Walked out of school and met my mum, she looked at me, told her what happened and she felt my shoulder and knew I'd broken my coller bone. Went back into the school and the teacher said as I didn't cry she didn't think anything was wrong. Quite possibly the pain and shock that held the tears in.
The Coller bone had snapped fully and each half was sitting onto of each other.
Got one day of school for that smile

Mr Gearchange

5,892 posts

205 months

Saturday 15th September 2012
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Jandywa said:
hornetrider said:
Broken coccyx, trust me on this.
oh jesus christ this. I don't even think i broke mine, merely bruised it but my god.

I did mine sledging a few winters ago, decided to go over a snow ramp at some serious speed on one of those round sledging tea tray jobs. landed fully on my coccyx. had to 'walk' home afterwards aswell. agony for days
I snapped the bottom off mine when I was 17, stood up from a tool bar stool which then fell backward against the wall without me knowing - sat back down and landed with my coccyx on the foot rail. I passed right out.
My 'mates' revived me through a combination of pouring beer on, and kicking me.
Pissed 17 year old lads provide distinctly inadequate emergency care. I cracked on with getting very drunk.
No memory of getting home but when i tried to get out of bed the next morning I found out that my legs didn't work at all - which was pretty frightening but not permanent.
It still causes me loads of grief 19 years later.

Opara

506 posts

169 months

Saturday 15th September 2012
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Cheers Doc, can't comment on the fracture type but I was in hospital for about 12 weeks in traction.Then I still couldn't put weight on it so it was crutches/wheelchair for anoth 3 months or more while undergoing physio.

CraigZR

171 posts

154 months

Saturday 15th September 2012
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I've got a high pain threshold so i've never really experienced real pain.
I was watching a 100m race a few years ago when one of the runners snapped their achilles the way he was screaming, i would say it could be one of the worst pains.
Also agree with kidney stones my dad had and i've never seen him in as much pain.

The_Doc

4,856 posts

219 months

Saturday 15th September 2012
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Opara said:
Cheers Doc, can't comment on the fracture type but I was in hospital for about 12 weeks in traction.Then I still couldn't put weight on it so it was crutches/wheelchair for anoth 3 months or more while undergoing physio.
Proper break. Nice one