STORM2K

For me, it'd have to be the 9th grade. And no it's not related to what I posted Friday. But anyways, at the time, I was 15. I weighed about 85 lbs. Well we were playing dodgeball in P.E. and I was just ducking and dodging, trying to avoid a hit. I went to grab a ball, and the next thing I knew, my lights were OUT. I took a dodgeball square to the head! Not fun as I grabbed my head in absolute pain and limped (in a way) off the court. Needless to say I never played dodgeball again!

Tied with that is one day at a basketball game which my sister was cheering at, when a ball came straight off the rim and...you guessed it...hit me in the back of my head, and I went DOWN. Hard.

So what's your most painful moment ever?

YEOWCH! That sounds rather sore Jeremy!!!

My most painful moment had to have been having a c-section surgery to deliver my son. My epidural failed to work and I ended up having my abdomen sliced open with little anesthetic. They eventually gave me enough morphine to knock a horse out (thats a quote from my doctor!) It was worth every moment of agony however

Oh yeah that was VERY painful! It happens to me a lot...in fact too much! Another example is one day in PE, we were just shooting hoops, and I took a 15 foot shot...let's just say it was like taking an uppercut to the jaw!

the WATCH OUT what you feed your dog thread.

Hernia repair surgery when i was 18..in 1979. I still wince when i think of the pain.

Definitely my appendicitis attack in 1975!!!! And my wife thought it was just gas!!!!! Imagine a strapping 6'-3" man with very little body fat bent over double in pain and not able to straighten up. That was me!!!

Childbirth doesnt count because you really forget about it afterwards, but the heart attack I had this summer was pretty close to the most physically painful moment I've had. Emotionally painful moments include the death of my mother and a miscarriage...

Physical pain? tore my ACL skiing,(not too bad pain wise), had surgery to repair. (painful, but still not worse than childbirth!) 90 days later I slipped on icy front steps getting my newspaper and busted my kneecap into 3 separate pieces. OUCH! Worse than childbirth! BUT it subsided to bearable pain much quicker, the childbirth thing lasts a little too long. Physical therapy pain to get it to bend after six weeks in a cast came close to the initial pain again.

I can't narrow mine down to one, so I'll give the two worst.

The first time, I was helping to put a fence up in the garden, and it required a nail to be hammered into a post. I held it in place, and drew the hammer back and flung it forward as hard as I could. Unfortunately I missed the nail and ended up battering the end of my thumb. It doesn't sound like much, but it really hurt!

The other time was when I jumped down from a climbing frame and broke a bone in my foot.

I have a few painful moments, I can't even think of one.

Prior to 1999, I would have said childbirth although as alicia says, you do forget that type of pain. However, the most painful, physical experience I've had to endure was my first colon resection, for cancer. Before my surgery I had been asked by several nurses/technicians during pre-op testing if I had had past surgery. Oh sure I'd say...oral surgery, a few D & C's, but each time I'd say these procedures, they'd shake their heads as if to say, no they're not considered "surgery". So I didn't know what I was in for. Soon enough, I found out! 4 straight weeks of intense, internal pain, that even Morphine, then Demerol and finally Percoset's weren't cutting. Dulling it, but not eliminating the pain. So like David, I suspect, I know what it's like to have abdominal surgery. It's a pain you don't ever forget!

Mary

I've been fortunate....about the worst pain I can recall was once having dental surgery when the novacaine gave out a few moments before the dentist finished...but have witnessed loved ones in far worse pain. I've been lucky.

Getting hit in the head with a hatchet (looong story), but at least that explains some of my posts.

Had the Novocaine wear off too early myself once Perry. That ranks up there REAL high..

Neither compare to what some of you have gone through.

I honestly don't know. I've never had a really bad experience(Thank God). I did get hit in the head by a baseball bat about 10 years ago and had a black eye for awhile and I fell off a golf cart about 5 or 6 years ago and got a black eye.

I won't say my worst one... (some of you know...)

But one of was when I was riding my bike. I was riding it down a street and I turned to talk to my sister. Little did I know that a car had just pulled out and turned onto the street. I tuned around to see the car near me and I turned the bike and went down an enbankment and into a tree. I ended up going to the hospital for x-rays on my leg... but I only had a sprained ankle...

We were at our hunting cabin and I started to step down to walk to the outhouse. On the step was a coachmans whip (snake), so I threw myself over the two steps to the ground and tore my achilles tendon.
The second and a number ten on the pain scale was passing a kidney stone. They heard me screaming on the third floor of the hospital.

you guys have far worse stories than I do. OUCH!

I have extra bones in both of my feet (hereditary) right under my ankle. Well, my left foot, the extra bone is ripping away at the tendon and if by any chance I hit that spot, I will scream due to the bone on bone crash.

Plasma donation just recently, one of the phlebamosts (sp) tried to stop the machine from beeping and he turned my right wrist and I immediately felt the needle rip my vein.... that was the first time ever I cried during plasma and I have been doing this for about 16 months now. I had a nice bruise on my arm for a couple of days.

I was swimming on swim team once and I went in for a flip turn and was too close to the wall and both of my feet smashed the wall (when my legs and feet were coming down). I had one nice deep scratch right around my achilles tendon on my right foot... thankfully no damage to the achilles. Thank goodness was only practice and swam in the meet over the weekend (with that portion of my foot bandaged... surprisingly no stitches required)

I guess I've been lucky. I wouldn't say that I've ever had anything that painful. Probably sciatica when the bulging disc in my back was acting up. I had an infected tooth that had to be pulled. Neither of them were the kind of pain that you'd rather die.

I never said anything on this board before, but I lost an eye when I was like 14 years old from flying glass. The weird thing about that is that there was no pain at all.

My worst pain I can recall is when i broke the number3 toe on my left foot. My second and third toes on both feet have a bit of webbing between then that goes about half way up the toes. I caught the webbing on the corner of a floor model television set about 20 years ago. It was the worst pain I had ever had. Even getting my foot run over by a boat & trailer(happened while in high school) didn't compare to breaking the toe.

Reading this thread just keeps giving me shivers! Yet the human compulsion to hear this kind of stuff... haha

Once again, mine is not half as bad as many of these posted, but here goes...

I was riding an ex-racehorse bareback.. (Real smart, I know.. But when I was 15 I thought I was such a GREAT rider..) We were riding with a big group of other horses. We decided to run for a stretch, and she took off a bit faster than I expected! I slid right off her butt, and put my arms out to break my fall. I landed on my right hand and sat up after the fall. The top joints of two of my fingers on my right hand were sitting perpendicular to the rest of the finger.

I really don't remember much pain, but the first thought that crossed my mind was "My parents are never going to let me ride a horse again!" With that thought of panic, I grabbed a hold of my fingers, and snapped them back so they at least looked right... hahaha

I rode for about another 30 minutes to prove that I could still ride. We knew they were broken so we went to the doctor.. I needed 6 shots of novicane in my knuckles and fingers while the doctor re-broke and set my fingers, but they're still about 30 degrees off kilter... haha Its a fun way to freak people out.

BTW, still a horse owner/rider/enthusiast today! I'm a glutton for punishment..