Pain

[Loki, The Fallen]

When I was a young lad, I enjoyed the odd bicycle ride on my dirt road. Well, I enjoyed every ride except the one when I coasted downhill at significant speed.

Now actually, that part was enjoyable, it was the part immediately following the striking of a large rock that made it less enjoyable. This rock had the magnificent effect of introducing me to flight for the first time.

Unfortunately my first landing was on the gravel. In shorts and a T-Shirt.

Sure this was quite painful, all those tiny little stones buried slightly below countless areas under my skin. It felt as though my entire body was on fire. The dirt in the eyes was the icing on the cake.

But that paled in comparison to the worst pain ever.

Cleaning all of those wounds.

I may have never broken a bone, but I've been burned, cut, fell fair distances, hit trees on skis, rolled a vehicle, struck with blunt objects in areas one cringes to think about, experienced what I can only describe as a minor embolism and more. And I'd go through all of those injuries simultaneously rather then experience the pain of cleaning out dirt and gravel from significant portions of my body.

I remember it being the middle of summer, and I was shivering!

Heck, it's what, 20 years later and I still remember that.

[Green Spanner]

I don't tend to feel massive pain, as I tend to get little bits, but stretched over a much longer time period.

As such, probably the worst pain I've felt is when I jumped off a wall once, and landed on my ankle.

Like, literally on my ankle. My foot was practically 90 degrees.

Fortunately, there was no long term damage, saving being unable to walk for a little while.

[Amake]

Watching my kid die. Yeah that's physical pain. But I get the sense from this thread you want to be like, scientific, so I'll go with root canals. With the needles deep into each root of the tooth and the pain gets as bad as it can and then it gets worse and it doesn't go away.

[Toast]

Nothing super agonizing has ever happened to me. Even some of the injuries that I've had over the years didn't really hurt much.

I do however suffer from chronic arthritis, most prominently in my knees but also in my back, for the past ~15 years or so.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

It may not sound as horrifyingly painful as some that have been mentioned, but a slipped disk on your spine is massively painful, and the most pain I've ever felt. It was at the very base of my spine, and left me unable to walk, sit down or move in any way. I couldn't even turn around, because that would involve moving my legs, and thus my hips, which would alter my spines position. Every time the pain stuck, it was like being electrified right up my entire nervous system. Made worse by the fact that at the time I was also experiancing the worst hayfever I had ever suffered. Every time I sneezed (which was happening every few minutes, and no tablets were helping) it felt like my body was going to snap in half.

The only other pain that would come close to this for me was the moment just before my apendix ruptured, which left me doubled up on the floor for half an hour, but even that was nothing by comparison.

[BitVyper]

Watching my kid die.

Geez, that's awful! I don't know when it happened, but I'm sorry.

[Amake]

Originally Posted by BitVyper

Geez, that's awful! I don't know when it happened, but I'm sorry.

It was a long time ago. But thanks.

[Nikose Tyris]

I have a 2.6 cm rock inside my left kidney. I suffer from Renal Colic.

The pain is so bad that if I don't take my morphine at the onset of a pain spike, I am limited to lying on the floor, crying and vomiting.

I was turned away from the Hospital in Quebec- the only way I could see anyone was to throw myself down a flight of stone steps outside the Hospital, at which point I was taken into Emergency and given enough Morphine to drown out the pain.

I don't like my kidney stone. He's a jerk.

Actually I recently put all this in my forum signature, so just google anything there. Except for the things that say "Do Not Google" those will return un-worksafe things.


P.S. Oh, and I have Priapism thanks to scar tissue on my penis. That's not really pain, it just means that if I have an erection that lasts more then 4 hours I can die. I've had 16 encounters with this lovely issue so far.

[Melfice]

Getting my hand slammed in a car door, far as I can remember.
Mind you, the part where it got slammed didn't hurt.
It was when my hand was freed when it started hurting like a motherfucker.

[Whomper]

Can't let you do that, CelesJessa.