| User | Comment |
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bill   |
It's really hard to remember in such a way that I could compare. Also, duration of pain factors in some how. I've stubbed my toe and experienced intense pain, but it was over quickly. |
| quark |
The scratched cornea was the most painful injury. The time I had 2 toothaches and a migraine was probably the most pain I've been in though... |
| mandy |
The most pain I have ever felt was due to a surgical procedure. I do not think of that as an injury. When I think of injury ...I think of harm... |
| drdt |
I actually don't remember the eye injury being painful... although I guess for weeks afterwards it hurt to turn on the light so that must count for something. |
| quark |
bill & drdt: Yeah, pain is definitely tricky on the memory. I can remember the scratch because I can remember that it hurt a lot to even listen to music. (My eyes track sound.) When people ask if my tongue piercing hurt I tell them that I imagine it did, because I don't remember anything between the needle being shown to me and my looking at the stud in my tongue. |
| romkey |
the pain from the surgery on my boken ankle was actually worse than the pain when I broke it. |
| gilly |
When I locked my thumb in the car door, and they had to drill through the nail to release the pressure. (This was at age 10.) |
| Mariah |
I put tooth. I didn't really feel like taking the time to determine THE most painful, so I put one that was extremely painful and that I could think of right off. I was getting a tooth removed. But the tooth was fused to my jawbone so I had to get it sawed out after the divided it into sections. And I was awake the whole time. And there was a lot of blood. And the anesthesia started to wear off after about an hour (the procedure lasted three hours). It hurt pretty badly afterwards, too. |
| Fluffball | | posted 8-Dec-1999 11:06pm |
A broken finger. It brought me to the ground screaming. |
| Avocado | | posted 8-Dec-1999 11:32pm |
The things that pained me the most were not injuries per se. Menstrual cramps are right up there... so was a high fever.
And the most serious thing that happened to me medically wasn't all that painful, it was just very dangerous. I woke up to an asthma attack that was severe enough for me to know that I wasn't going to be conscious much longer. Don't know how I knew that; nothing like that had ever happened before. I cried out for help; my father was blessedly insomniac and heard me; and then all was darkness and I woke up in the hospital with O2 being forced down my lungs. I don't know what would have happened had my father not been awake. My mother said that I was turning blue; however, I was also crying while unconscious on the way to the hospital, which means that some air was getting through. |
SueBee  | | posted 9-Dec-1999 12:49am |
The worst was a muscle spasm in my back. I could hardly make my way to the bathroom, and that's the ONLY reason I moved for several days after I got home from the doctor with my muscle relaxants.
A couple close runners-up were a toothache I once had when I needed a root canal, and when I burned my whole hand with boiling water as a kid. |
| cpierson |
Fell on some sheet metal as a kid. Got my hand out, so I didn't hit it face-first. But I have a nice scar on the heel of my hand.
Also sprained my ankle really badly, chasing after a drunk friend (to make sure they didn't get hurt -- irony alert!) on my very last day of college. That hurt like a bastard, too, especially when I had to move furniture the next day. |
| grmbrand |
I took one day of snowboarding lessons, during which I delivered more damage to my right knee than a lifetime of outdoor adventures. I have a healthy respect for snowboarders, and I will -never- try it again. |
| gilly |
Yeah, I got some pretty big bruises the one time I tried it myself. |
| Lauren |
Tie between a broken nose and burn.
(I got both from being such a klutz.) |
| jjg |
Sprained ankle combined with a broken toe on the other foot. I couldn't walk for three days and then hobbled for two weeks. |
| Wwolfgang24 |
fractured knee cap |
| Mariah |
I saw a girl's kneecap disconnect and slide all the way down her leg to her ankle. That is the most painful injury I can imagine. |
| drdt |
Mariah, Gilly: Thank you SOOO much, I am getting major sympathy pains right now. |
| phi |
I have had all of these save ligament, back/neck, eye, and internal injuries. None of them came close to my dislocated shoulder. |
| Gamera |
For instantaneous pain, I would say it came from having a "dry-socket" from a root canal. I'm not totally clear on this, but it has something to do with having the blood clot come out and expose bare bone to the air. For most pain over time, I would say the two injuries I've sustained to the same knee. The knee has never once hurt as much as the ex-tooth did that night, but the ex-tooth only hurt one night, and the knee has been at it for 16 years now, in fits and starts. |
| Gamera |
oh, gilly, owwww! owww! |
| robin | | posted 9-Dec-1999 11:43pm |
I felt pretty wimpy checking "scrape" because it seems to suggest "just a little scrape" which is wimpy to whine about. But this injury was a really really big scrape (several big scrapes actually). |
| kristalynn | | posted 9-Dec-1999 11:53pm |
i'm a wuss...i would have to say it's a tie between the time i got a huge stick stuck in my foot and had to have 2 stitches (oooo) and the time i cracked my baby pinky toe on a chair and couldn't walk. It kept twitching and that hurt :( |
| jonathan | | posted 10-Dec-1999 12:26am |
There are two that come to mind - spraining my ankle while taking the stairs in Morgan Hall 2-at-a-time and getting a muscle spasm in my back this past year (no clue about the cause). However, the most pain I've ever experienced was not due to an injury - every f******g time I had my braces tightened over the 2+ years I had them, I'd be in severe pain for two to three days afterwards before it subsided to a dull ache for the next week. |
| supplicant | | posted 10-Dec-1999 2:43am |
It's really hard to tell... the few broken bones I've had hurt like hell when I got them and were sensitive afterwards but no big deal. Burns can be extremely painful but after a while the nerves burn out and it's not such a problem. I've had some extremely painful bruising (in fact I have some right now). The most painful thing though is actually a boring ol' cramp - they seem to run in our family unfortunately. But that is hardly a lasting pain. |
| gilly | | posted 10-Dec-1999 1:20pm |
Having seen Robin's "scrape", I can assure you that she's no wimp. At least I could still lie down with my injury. (Did I mention the part about the thumbnail falling off some time later? That was pretty squickful, if not actually painful.) |
| Oscar | | posted 10-Dec-1999 1:48pm |
I fell on the bar on a men's bike. |
| Renee | | posted 12-Dec-1999 3:51pm |
back injury due to a car accident (not my fault) I was in therapy for a year and my back cave out on my twice. I had to lay on the floor and couldn't move for 2 and 3 days. Such fun!
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| magbast | | posted 13-Dec-1999 9:22am |
kidney stone by far, brought me to my knees! |
| magbast | | posted 13-Dec-1999 9:25am |
jen, post-op...what did you have operated on? |
| doom | | posted 13-Dec-1999 3:55pm |
My most painful was getting thrown from a horse and being kicked by the same horse on the way down. My tailbone was nothing but bone fragments. A close second was having the packing material removed from my ear after ear surgery, it felt like sandpaper was being pulled out of my ear. |
| pandora | | posted 13-Dec-1999 8:49pm |
Probably when I got shot in the eye w/ the paintball. I seriously thought I would be 'blind' forever because it hurt so much to open either eye. For days after, any kind of light was torture. |
| lion | | posted 13-Dec-1999 10:32pm |
When I was six, a neighborhood kid and I were in a jumping contest to see who could jump off the highest limb of a tree. After the fourth jump, I landed with my full weight on my right arm. The bone did not break skin, but it was very obvious there was a breakage from the outline of the bone underneath. Somehow I managed to walk 100 yards to my family's apartment before passing out in my mother's arm. I remember coming to in the doctor's office.
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they  | | posted 14-Dec-1999 9:58pm |
Emergency C-sections suck after they are over with. OUCH. Thank god for Pain killers. |
| mandy | | posted 14-Dec-1999 10:06pm |
They, that's the procedure I was referring too. Afterwards in the recovery room a nurse nearly lost her hand when she tried to massage my uterus when I'd just been cut open and sewn back together. I came up off the bed, grabbed her arm and screamed, "Get your fudging hands off of me!" Luckily all the other patients in the room were all still "out".  |
| anonymous | | posted 15-Dec-1999 9:47am |
Brain sprain |
| gilly | | posted 15-Dec-1999 10:27am |
They: If you don't mind telling us, why did you need the C-section? |
| magbast | | posted 15-Dec-1999 6:03pm |
the placenta tried to separate from the uterus too soon...scared the crap outta me...it was like a scene from E.R., and i was crying my eyes out...they told me i couldn't go back with her, cuz she hadda be put to sleep...and she was calm as could be...she said she was more worried about me than herself...how could i not love her madly?:) |
| Mariah | | posted 15-Dec-1999 8:02pm |
Oh, I'm so glad everything worked out OK. I am really loving this kinder, gentler magbast!!! |
| SueBee | | posted 19-Dec-1999 6:07pm |
magbast - You're such a ... DAD! |
| magbast | | posted 20-Dec-1999 2:35am |
owww geee...thanks suebee:) |
| Zolars | | posted 20-Dec-1999 2:21pm |
The most painful moment of my life was when an x-ray technician hit the stump of my severed thumb. As a person that has spent too much time in emergency rooms, I think x-ray technichians are a sadistic lot. |
| pandora | | posted 21-Dec-1999 11:09am |
I'm with you on that one Zolars. |
| mandy | | posted 21-Dec-1999 10:58pm |
a hot wax burn to the tongue  |
| SueBee | | posted 21-Dec-1999 11:59pm |
You wish!  |
| magbast | | posted 22-Dec-1999 1:02am |
i like this lil guy..he looks like he's got the attitude, "EAT CRAP!" |
| Maggie | | posted 23-Dec-1999 11:52am |
I broke my thumb. |
| limers | | posted 26-Dec-1999 6:24pm |
Shattered my ankle when I was 15--hurt like hell!!!! |
| mikecap | | posted 2-Jan-2000 10:51am |
Completely broken bones really do grind. It sucks.
I broke my left tibia and fibula in a car crash; the tibia broke in a "butterfly" fracture, where a triangular chunk of the bone broke away, and the other two pieces separated. The fibula broke at the ankle, probably the worst place to break it. It's been five years now, and it still gives me pains on rainy and crapty days.
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| eris | | posted 6-Jan-2000 12:18am |
Burn from superheated steam. It cooked all the layers of skin on three fingers of one hand. It hurt so much I barely slept at all that night. |
| lonxedosol | | posted 12-Jan-2000 4:08pm |
Was in a car accident, sitting in the back seat & I broke the entire back window out with my FOREHEAD!!! I don't quite remember what happened, other than I was shocked it was the front of my head that did it. Had a minor concussion. |
| lara | | posted 12-Jan-2000 4:18pm |
it's a toss-up between second degree burns all over the backs of my hands and a sprained shoulder. |
| Sinatra |
I sprained my neck and a week later while wearing a stupid neck brace I fractured my collarbone in 2 places. It was the week that school let out for summer vacation and my summer was ruined. |
| mary | | posted 21-Feb-2000 6:05pm |
I know I have had painful things happen to me, but I can't remember any of them. Maybe it was a hangover. My mind seems to block out any negativity. |
| bluebird1974 |
it is a tossup between dislocated thumb and broken collar bone they were both very very painfull |
| kneesocks | | posted 11-Apr-2000 12:32am |
Cut my right knee falling in the schoolyard. Stitches. |
| DKN | | posted 19-Apr-2000 12:24am |
Had a piece of rebar from concrete rip part of my knee open. |
| LouLou | | posted 27-Apr-2000 2:07pm |
I broke my finger two weeks ago. This is the only body part I have broken. I'm sure I would not like anything else broke. |
| BlueberryMuffin | | posted 5-May-2000 11:09am |
This is a very difficult question because the most misery I've experienced in my life was never physical pain. It might have been when I totalled my car on the front of an 18 wheeler. Maybe it was when I had my stomach pumped. My cracked tooth hurt pretty bad. A migraine headache perhaps? The pain I'm in now from too much sex isn't fun. Oddly though I think the worst may well be the day or two I spend every month sobbing, screaming, and writhing in agony with menstrual cramps. |
| mandy | | posted 5-May-2000 10:11pm |
((((hugs Blueberry)))) |
| SueBee |
Blueberry - I have that trouble, too. I finally figured out that large doses of ibuprofen help a lot. I take 800 mg at a time, and it makes me feel so much better. |
| mandy |
It was a nasty chemical burn..... wait that wasn't me nevermind  |
| BlueberryMuffin |
thanks for the hug twist
SueBee- Unfortunately I am the result of what happens when parents give their kids medicine at the drop of the hat. I have immunities to most every pain killer out there (among other things). I have tried taking up to 1600mg of ibuprophen at a time and all it did was give me a headache... but thanks for trying to help. |
| anonymous | | posted 26-May-2000 10:35pm |
I was playing football, and I got kneed in the crotch. It left a bruise on my nuts. |
| nihon | | posted 31-May-2000 9:21am |
I broke a toe by stubbing it on a table. Not much to do but be in pain for a month or so. |
| Andyroo |
Bone Fracture, shin splint |
| anonymous | | posted 4-Jun-2000 12:08am |
childbirth...I know that's not really an injury...but it was a
physical happening...and it was the most painful happening in my
life...:0( |
| anonymous | | (reply to anonymous) posted 4-Jun-2000 12:16am |
lmao |
| Analog | | posted 12-Jun-2000 3:26pm |
I'd have to say it was the time that the dentist started drilling before the anaesthetic took effect. Ouch! |
| htm85 | | posted 9-Aug-2006 10:02pm |
my collar bone. broken and fractured in two places. it happened just yesterday. now i'm out for half the football season at my school. |
| krazygirl | | posted 15-Jul-2007 5:02pm |
Not a specific injury but several at once. I fell 20ft down a cliff and landed on volcanic rocks (these are really sharp). I landed on my left side taking most of the impact on my left arm. I had several deep gouges in my arm with the skin hanging off. I had tried to stop myself on the way down which meant i'd cut chunks out of my wrists and hands too. I also had deep "grazes" in my left side and down my leg. I was on a sea cliff and the only way off was to swim to a boat (imagine salt in a graze...cut etc...it was worse when the water dried and I had sakt everywhere) and get taken 20 minutes to the beach (I was in Turkey). I didn't break anything which must have been sheer luck. I was given really naff painkillers (like 200mg ibuprofen style stuff). That was immense pain to move and my wounds kept on re opening. It was a year ago, I usually heal well and quickly but the grazes and cuts are still very obvious.
That injury definatly rates over badly sprained ankles, bad sunburn, torn knee ligaments, damaged knee cartilage, ear infections and being hit on the shoulder with a golf ball and on the chin with a cricket ball. |
| krazygirl | | (reply to krazygirl) posted 15-Jul-2007 5:13pm |
To make it worse I had an allergic reaction to the dressings and my skin blistered and fell off....not a fun way to find out that your allergic to plasters! |
| willowrox | | posted 11-Aug-2008 6:38am |
i broke my humerus and it really hurt!! The doctor actually said it may never heal or mend straight! OUCH!!!!!!!!!! |
