STORM2K

The question I ask is in terms of any physical pain to your body.

My experience was when I was a kid with a teeth that was hurting me after I fell in a park.Some blood came out from that and it really was a pain but then the dentist fixed it all.Apart from that any more physical pains thankfully had occured to me.

What about your worst pains in your lifetime?

3 times in my life...I was only a year old when it happened so don't remember it all that much except for what my Mom has told me about it...I sustained a skull fracture from my Dad having gotten me out of the car in a restaurant parking lot and there was a patch of "black" ice...Dad went down...and I went down. Mom and Dad say that I was wailing inside the restaurant afterwards and that they were crying out of guilt from the accident that happened. A very sad day as we had just moved to Rhode Island. We had some dear friends there who helped us get through the crisis...but my head swelled up like a *whatever*.

In my high school years when I had 4 wisdom teeth pulled all on the same day. Codeine helped me get through that.

Then at the age of 22 I had upper jaw surgery due to my upper jaw had quit growing for some weird reason but the procedure I had helped to correct the problem teethwise...so I have permanent metal pieces in me as a result...couldn't ever have any MRI done for ie. Had the worst headache spasms with the recovery/healing from that procedure so was on codeine for a while for that which gave temporary relief.

Eric

Ahhh, not a hard one....................Childbirth!! Or the last week carrying my twins, all kinds of body pains, to many to list.

Kidney stones. I would rather be in labor than go through that again.

Lindaloo wrote:Kidney stones. I would rather be in labor than go through that again.

I'd have to say it was during the time(s) I had my wisdom teeth pulled (not all at the same time obviously). Thank God for Tylenol with Codeine!! I pretty much slept through all of that.

I've had assorted pretty bad injuries, but by far the worst are the really bad migraine episodes. The worst ones would literally reduce me to laying on the floor moaning for hours.

Thank God (and Pfizer) for Relpax - I don't have to suffer that any more.

In 2002 I was sick for almost two weeks with flu like symptoms. I was throwing up almost twice an hour for about three to four days, my throat was so burnt I was in the hospital for a few days. It was the worst pain I've ever felt, I literally thought I was going to die. It was like taking your two day flu sypmtoms and multiplying them by a thousand. I was also so hungry, the moment I ate or drank anything, It'would all come right back up.

I'm with OTown!!! CHILDBIRTH!!!!!

I had/have 2!

First one was back in 1980, I tore the WHOLE top part of my left hand off in a car accident. It tore the middle and ring finger knuckles off and the tendons so I now have PLASTIC knuckles and I *believe* some kind of metal/fiber tendons. When the weather changes the hand hurts like a SOB!!!

My current condition is my lower back. I LIVE on Lortab 10mg. The police dept has ok'd this medication, of course I can't take it while on duty hence the PAIN!

Dennis

Ok, two here, one, the migrains, the only thing that would get rid of them was 3-4 hours of sleep, meds would only make it worse, it really sucked when I would be at school and one of those came about, teachers wouldnt understand that it felt like my head was really going to explode, and you know if you sleep, you get yelled at, which would inturn only make it worse...

Ok, number 2 on my pain spectrum would be, back around '97, i was only 7, I got so sick, I was throwing up once every 5 minutes or so, everything I ate didnt even make it down before coming back up...

Acute appendicitis and a couple of my migraines. I was literally bent over double from the pain of the appenicitis.

vbhoutex wrote:Acute appendicitis ....I was literally bent over double from the pain of the appenicitis.

Same here - ugh. I was 10 - my mom thought I was "belly-aching" about my...belly ache. As it turns out, my appendix burst before they went in for surgery - was in the hospital for a week. That was some nasty pain.

Otherwise, most common would be a stubbed and/or broken toe - I have huge feet (see the shoe size thread) and I'm apparently a klutz because I manage to do this every few months.

Now a broken heart? That's pretty painful too. Belongs in another thread, though.

No brainer: October, 2000, septic shock. Most of you know this story, but basically, my bladder and/or bowels burst, resulting in cardiac arrest. Never again, I say.

First one is when I broke the 3rd toe on my left foot. I nearly passed out from the pain of it. Happened in the early 80's. Second one is when my back muscles spasm. That sends a pain that feels like a burning knife thru me. I literally start falling to the floor If I am not holding onto something. It will spasm for no reason. I can take one step and it will go into a spasm. A few years ago it went out on me and I couldn't even walk, had to go to ER and they gave me a muscle relaxer and sent me home with pain prescription. They do not know what causes it.

I guess the worst physical pain has been a bad tooth.

I guess, after scratching my chin and mulling it over, my
WORST pain was ONE horrible headache that I had, back in
oh....I'm guessing 1996. I worked in a Home Health office,
and, we were having our potluck Thanksgiving meal, that
day. I remember that my head was hurting SO bad, that
there was no position that I could stand in, sit in, or lie
in to ease the pain, even for a minute. I was pacing the
office in sheer excrutiating pain. Being a nurse, I thought
I might be having an aneurysm, or something. My Director
of Nurses (who was and still is my best friend) went next-door
to the Clinic, and, brought back a Compazine injection and gave
it to me, and, drove me home to lie down. It worked. I think
that God, knowing that I would someday work for a neurologist,
who treated migraine patients, wanted me to experience
that pain, so, that I could be sympathetic to our patients.

Trust me...I am....I still remember that!

Too many to count, but I'm sure there's a "biggie" I have yet to experience.

Two words....KIDNEY STONES!

(And I've given birth)

Two about equal--

having a needle and tube inserted into an abscess on my liver with only a local at the site of entry and

having marrow extracted from my pelvic bone, again with only a local at the point of entry.

Lindaloo wrote:Kidney stones. I would rather be in labor than go through that again.

I also had kidney stones. Pure torture. I suffered from migraines for many years some lasting for three days, but the kidney stone pain was worse.