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I'm curious to know what the most physically painful thing in your life has been
I fell and shattered my right elbow once. I had to have surgery to put it back together and was in so much pain I had to be put on a Morphine drip. Thank God for Morphine. The little thingy with the button to press to dispense more drug into my IV was attached to the blanket, and every time I woke up I would press it. It was programmed not to administer the drug more often than every 10 minutes. Sometimes I would wake up before 10 minutes had gone by, and I would be in excruciating pain until I pressed it and got more of the Morphine. For about 24 hours I slept in 10-minute intervals, waking up to press the button and then going back to sleep. After 24 hours they took it away from me, but the pain was bearable by then.
Yes, Morphine drips rule! I had a similar experience after surgery for a shattered wrist. That was painful, but actually shattering the wrist, caused by hitting a tree at high speed on cross country skis was even more painful! The worst part is that I was in Alaska at the time and the two yahoo medical people who were in the ambulance with me were laughing and joking like nothing in the world was wrong. One kept saying that he hoped the driver would hurry and get to the hospital because he really had to pee! I realize now that they were probably trying to divert my attention, but at the time, I wanted to beat them senseless! My most recent bout with pain was caused by slipping on a piece of slick junk mail on a hard wood floor and falling flat on my back. Damn did that hurt for a couple of days!
I once had to have an ingrown toenail removed. I have a high tollerance for pain, but almost passedout from it that time. I'd heard of people pasing out from pain, but until then, I didn't think it was possible. Do I know different now!
Lou
Gall bladder attacks! You feel like you are dying and I've been through 2 brain surgeries and 3 back surgeries. But the gall bladder attacks. damn they hurt. I heard it's even worse than child labor and I believe it. I put up with those damn things for a year before I finally took myself to the doctor.
probably the couple days after my spinal tap; I don't know what the bloody heck actually happened, but whatever it was caused me to be in a lot of pain for a couple days in my lower back and upper legs, near where the spinal-tap-needle-thing was injected...Morphine kept the paine to a minimum, mostly...but it was very painful to move for a while.
I've had a gall bladder attack and yes that's a definite ouch.
However, the worst pain I've ever had was a treatment a doctor gave me to help me quit smoking. He injected fluid into my ear lobes and each side of my nose. OH MY GOD that hurt; still does just thinking of it. And to think it was voluntary. I still smoke but it doesn't hurt.
Bob
Childbirth. All 3 times were pretty painful. And with all 3 I had back labor. Yuck.
OK, I haven't even gotten to my most painful experience, and my entire body hurts from just reading the prior posts! Hot damn, the things we humans put ourselves through, deliberately or involuntarily. It's a wonder we survive as a race!
The most physically painful thing I've experienced was a 14-hour surgery in 1994. I should modify that. The surgery wasn't painful, cuz I was under anesthesia. Unfortunately, everything afterwards was. Believe me, you wake up from 14 hours of anesthesia, on a respirator, puking with that tube in your mouth, with nurses trying to put an IV in any vein they can find because none of your veins will work, that's freaking painful. I was in the hospital for a week, on a constant morphine drip. They took me off it in the last 24 hours of my stay in the hospital, and that was pure hell. Then there was the time during that week that the IV came out of my arm, and the potassium they were running through it made a silver-dollar sized burn on the back of my hand. So basically, that whole week was pain.
17 hours of labor, a c section, and back pain from the needle used for the spinal. lol. It's almost been 4 weeks sence Hannah was born and my back hurts soooo bad. My tummy still hurts but it's getting better.
Childbirthsounds very painful. It's making me not want to have kids. lol
In addition to the pain I had after shattering my elbow, I've just remembered a couple other things that were very painful, but much shorter in duration than the pain after the elbow surgery. Twice I had eye surgery under a local anesthetic. They stuck a needle into my face beside the eye, and the damn thing felt like it was being shoved clear into my eyeball. Then they put another needle below my eye, and again it felt like the needle was being shoved up into my eyeball. Once the anesthesia took hold, I was okay, but the process of having the injections was excrutiating.
Well I have 2 most painful things. 1
When I had jaw surgery and couldn't open my mouth until 3 months later when I got the wires removed my jaw was really stiff and sore I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
2 is when I had 2 bone grafts taken from my right hip for oral surgery and couldn't walk good on my leg for a few days and trust me it was painful to walk on it.
I guess I have two more that count. Well, one doesn't. I cracked open the bridge of my nose when I was three. I apparently was playing on a top bunk, tripped on a blanket, fell, and landed with the bridge of my nose squarely on the corner of a dresser. I don't remember that one.
I do, however, remember breaking my right collarbone, not once, but twice. Once in gym class, while running laps. I was with a sighted girl who'd never walked with me before, let alone run with me. She forgot she couldn't cut corners, and so I slammed into the bleachers at shoulder heighth. That was a fairly clean break. I was in a brace that fit under my clothes, which wasn't too bad. However, one week later, while reaching for the telephone with my right arm, I moved it wrong, and rebroke the same bone. Believe me, the second time around was far, far worse, because I'd broken newly healing bone, and it had fractured at an angle this time. Not fun! I still have a lump on my right collarbone from where it never quite healed properly.
Oo! I've had several quite painful experiences in my life, been umder the knife about 16 times, the lot really. On one occation, I slammed in to a pillar when I was on a space hopper. The groove right across the front of my head is still there today, an attack of Cystitis when I was 14 where I actually threw up had me in bed for more or less a whole week of school, before my Grandad was sent to fetch me home the day before everyone else broke up for Christmas. I just woke up on the Monday morning and just doubled up with one hell of a stomach cramp, so that was that. Another time, I came round from the anaesthetic after I had a bone graft on my hip when I was nine. It hurt like hell for 15 minutes till they could give me an injection to ease some of the pain. I just howled the whole time holding mum's hand as she sat by the bed. I think the worst pain I've been in though, is when a nurse in recovery gave me some painkillers through the drip in my arm when I came round from the anaesthec after the second op to rebuild my lips as I was born without a top lip. The vein "issued" when the nurse administered the painkillers, making things one hell of a lot worse for me. I was barely awake, but I can still remember me screaming as what felt like basilisk venom shot up my arm at a rate of knots. I'm hyposensative and people have always found it a challenge getting blood and stuff out of me since I was little and the pain's at least 20 times worse if you're hyposensative than it is for someone who isn't hyposensative. That's going to be a challenge if I have children later I know, but, I guess I can weather it with gas and air, either at home or at the Portland Womens and Childrens, hospital in Central London.
ouch the pain we go through! I do have this huge pain in my ass! heheheh smiles. he's called a husband. hehehe lol just kidden baby i love you!
Haha, lol Shea!
Oh Lord, just reading this topic makes me hurt. <lol>
Bob
I always warned you about the potential soreness of anal sex honey but, you insisted so I'm sorry for being a pane in your butt, but it was all your idea!
Dan.
LOL Dan.
I fractured my back once when I was 10. It hurt like a bitch.
A few things come to mind. Like Becky I've had 2 eye opps, both with local anasthetic, however they didn't inject my face, they explained to me, how they slide the needle down the side of your eye, in the corner nearest the nose, and inject behind the eye. Believe me, that hurts.
I had a burst appendix some years ago which meant morphine for 5 days, on a PCA (Patient controled analgesic) Every 5 minutes I could have a dose, it was wonderful.
However, i think the one most painful in memory anyway was being Circomsised almost 18 months ago. The injections of local anasthetic didn't hurt, but christ about an hour after the opp when the anasthetic wore off, I can't quite explain. luckliy the nurse was prompt with suitable morphine based medication as soon as I told her it hurt. lol Just wish I could have kept the swelling.
Yep, that patient controlled morphine is wonderful. I don't know what I would have done without it after my elbow surgery.
Here are mine.
When I wrestled in hs I injured my shoulder. I got slammed on it and jammed all the bones together. Luckily no surgery, but a splint fixed it. Also I also had to have my ear lanced do to colaflower ear and that hurt too. Another time I got fertalizer in my eye and that hurt like crap.
Troy
try having a ball slimp out of place and putting a metal scoue put to hole the ball in place. thiswas paneful. it coke a week and a half to find the problem.w
There are certain events in this life which can befall an individual, certain events that at first appear to be unfortunate, but once some time has passed, it becomes very clear that the event was truly a blessing in disguise. The most painful thing I've ever experienced led to the awakening of my consciousness, and though I have to resist saying what this event was, I can just say that it was painful because it made me realize how empty life really is. And yes the event was physically painful, so painful that I died because of it, but in my opinion, coming to the realization of the emptiness of this life, seeing the invisible things; such as what makes happiness temporary, such as what makes people angry when night comes and desire for the morning is overwhelming, such as when you look into the dawn and can only see a series of moments that you will go into out of habit; this type of pain can never be entirely allayed. I've lived for too long in a city ideal for the breeding of psychopaths, I've lived surrounded by neanderthals, but still I can feel good about myself for keeping a sound mind. Such an event is a blessing in disguise because, if not for it, I'd never appreciate or know the value of life. If I had never been incapacitated, then I would have most likely been out in the streets in the midst of gangsters and other such negative company. Not all gangsters are bad people though, I know that firsthand. It was a blessing in disguise, this painful event; but I'm thankful for it too.
hmm falling through not off but through a industrial trampalene this past summer and injuring my knee having my 81 surgeries, lot os crap
This happened earlier in my life when I was younger. I had to go to the hospital to get my eyes worked on, well before I went back to the examination room they had to put an Ivy in my arm. Well the jackass nurse who was doing this messed up and poked me 4 to 5 times trying put the damn blasted thing in my arm.
Oh yeah, I know all about nurses who can't get an IV in worth crap. My veins are shot because of chemo and other such things. I've gotten to know what veins they can get into and which ones they can't. When the lab techs or nurses listen to me, things go smoothly. When they don't, then I get very bitchy, because I don't want to go through the being poked 20 times routine.
Oh believe me I was bitchy after the first 2 pokings of the needle. After they finally found a spot which was my left wrist where they finally found a vein it left a scar there for months lose to a year. It's gone away though.
I remeber nurses fucking up pricking me with a needle for a blood test, they took some and then decided they needed a little more cux it wasn't enough, I mean they train to be nurses but then don't do things right. Those kinda nurse i don't confortable around because of that.
I have ran into some good nurses though, thank the lord for that.
nasty lacerations, five broken ribs, 4 broken fingers which ache in wet winter weather, so just now they are agony. Hmm agonising pain from glaucoma, resulting in the loss of my right eye.
get y our stomach pumped. trust me that hurts along with slamming your head on a concrete pattio and having your tonsels out.
I had a twelve hour back sergery when I was nine years old, and when I woke up, I was in agony. Then as an adault, I have to say child birth and back labor to boot!
Oh yeah, here you go. I remember my daughter was five months old, and she had to have emergency sergery to remove her port line, because of a continual staff infection. Witch resollted in having to have Chemo therapy in her vanes. And she was thirteen pounds, and they had this fuck nut of a nurse, who supposeably new what she was doing, said, "don't worry mom, I will put this in on the first time. Well to make a long story short I had to hold her down while this nurse put the I.V in my childs arm. Well it ended up taking her fourty five minutes, while my child screamed as lowd as she could. And then the dumb ass nurse could not get it in. so I got another nurse in there, and having to hold your child down while they poke and poke kills ya. I broke out in hives from the stress of the hole ordeal. lol there is my two sence hahaha
That sounds horrible. Sometimes watching a loved one in pain, especially a helpless baby, can be worse than if it was your own pain.
oh, one of the most painful things i have experienced was a heavy car dor slamming brutally on my fingers. my fingurs hurt so much that they were swollen. This lasted aproximately 3 weeks and when it came time for midterms when i was a freshman in college, i could barely concentrate because of bad pain.
whenever i bent my finger, it seemed like one of my bones wer moving and i thought tthey were fractured.
so, i had a hard time typing and holding things because i couldn't use my right hand. so people had to help me do things i normally don't need help which to me was frustrating.
priscilla
oh yeah, it broke my heart. I have to say, I am a tuff cookie, I can take the pain myself. But when it's your own child, or any baby for that matter It hurts! And ironicly she was part of these nurses we call the IV team.
I can tell you what, she should never be part of an IV team, if she has that much trouble with getting one in, or getting it started!
Yes, there's no pain like the pain of your kids.
I once had a pediatrician for my kids. I took my daughter to him because she had, I thought, the flu. I ask him to give her a penicilin shot. He said it wouldn't do any good, but I thought I knew better, so I insisted.
The whole time the nurse was giving her the shot, the doctor was explaining to my young daughter how mean her daddy was to insist on this shot. She has never forgiven me, and I still feel a little guilty about it.
Bob
I think the most painful thing I've ever experienced would have to be, well, a certain woman product getting suck up my vaginal area. It hurt to walk. Another is a very bad bladder infection that hurt so fuckin bad, I woke up whenever I rolled over.
Yeah, I have had cronic Kidney infections, for like the last five years, and they hurt like hell, so I can relate to the bladder infections. Two years ago, I had to have sergery on my left Kidney. They don't function fully to this day. And the funny part of that is the doctors tell me there is nothing wrong with them. So I always come back with is it normal to have your kidneys hurt on a regular bases? And they can never explaine it. hahaha! I have just excepted that they have no idea what they are talking about, they are just guessing.
Yeah, taking your children to the doctor, and them having to do something like that makes every parent feel bad.
But how old is she now? And I can say something like that she wont forget. This happend to my daughter when she was five months old. And the Chemo treatments for years after that, and my daughter is eight years old now, and still can't go to the hospital without wigging out. And I have to calm her down all the time, she even hates just going to the doctors for a check up. My only hope, is that one day it will become easier for her. And the hardist part of it all, was it breaks a parents heart just to take your children and have them get there shots as a baby, and through the years. But my daughter had to start them all over again!
My daughter is an adult now in her twenties. I think she has forgiven me, and I'm sure she will once she has kids of her own, but she hasn't forgotten and probably never will.
Bob
today I went the the OBGYN and got blood drawn and that fuckin nurse didn't know what she was doing. First she grabs my arm and wraps the rubber thing around it and then tells me I don't have good veins. "Well sorry, but I used to until nurses messed with them and made too many vein collapse with iv meds." so she starts poking a little here and there. Then she finally found one. Well she was running her mouth and not paying attention and all of a sudden I heard this airy noise like someone poked an icepick through a tire or something. Then the pain. And she was just sitting there talking. So I had to tell her, " ma'am, you just blew my vein..." Gur. She had to stick me many more times before she got all the blood she needed. Now i have a huge bruise on my arm it is about the size of a tennis ball my dad told me. I wanted to knock her out! Why don't these nurses know what they are doing? Or at least pay attention?
been there done that
Hmmm, most painful experience. Mine would have to be almost snapping my knee playing sports.
I was actually running, tripped, and my leg twisted the wrong way hurting my kne that bad.
I have two painful experience to discusshere, ut the second one I am going to discuss is not something I actually was old enough to emember but rather was told about it in later years.
The first experience has to o with a surgery on my heal chords. It occured a ew years go. It was very painful, and something I would not wish for anybody to ave to ndure.
The second experience happened when I was very young; it was a spinal tap. My Dad told me that even he doctor administering the spinal tap was crying because she knew the amount of excruitiating pain I was going through, although as I stated in the beginning of this post I do ot remember thespinal tap, I am ure it was painful!
cory, you passed basics in school. christ man
your pain can't really compare to what others have been through get a life
For me it was a toss up between breaking my tailbone.. LOL Dont ask. and giving birth. Both hurt like hell but it only takes a few days to recover from giving birth (providing it is a normal delivery. Try sitting on the edge of seats and feeling like you have a basketball put somewhere it should not be for 8 weeks. SO I think broken tailbone wins this round..
Damn! My little pains are nothing compared to all of this stuff. Anyway, two stories fit under this category. I had to diagnose myself with appendicitis two years ago before the doctors got the x-rays and bloodwork back. Then, less than a month after the appendectomy, I sprained my ankle outside my favorite singer's concert, and had to walk on it all the way up to my seat with my friend. It was black and blue the next day. Thank God for ankle braces, but the damn things itch! lol
Why in the hell don't doctors sedate patients before doing a darn spinal tap? (a rhetorical question)
Lying on the bathroom floor with really bad cramps. Ouch, I have a high tollarence for pain but that was just too much.
Were those ever part of a diagnosis?
I'll tell you about that in a private message.
Two of my friends and I were in the parking lot at the cinema. I had just gotten out of the car and one of them came around to my side to shut the door. She wasn't looking, and my fingers were slammed. She was shocked that I didn't scream or anything. They were smarting for a while, and one of the knuckles started to bleed a bit, but luckily, I didn't lose my fingers. That could have easily happened that night.