Mine was when I had testicular torsion. It pretty much felt like I was being continuously hit in the crotch for two hours.
shareI had a terrible motorcycle accident, which resulted in multiple life threatening injuries, huge blood loss, 10 day coma and 3 months in hospital. I nearly lost my leg and for two of those months was in near constant pain even through the 24/7 I've morphine.
shareKnife stabbed into the inside of my right thigh, missing the femural artery by milimetres.
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I haven't read any of the responses, so this isn't meant to be flippant or anything.
My worst pain?
A 6mm kidney stone. Morphine was the only thing that deadened the pain.
Worse than natural childbirth and worse than shingles in my right eye.
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I've never had any serious, blinding pain in my life. I've had my share of falls and knocks and cuts and sprains and toothaches over the years but never broken any bones. Never been deeply cut. So I guess I don't really know what that level of pain is like.
There's a paragraph that I just recently read in 'We Need To Talk About Kevin' in which the mom says how she always felt really tough and impervious to pain...until she gave birth. Only then did she realise that she'd never actually experienced real pain in her life up to that point.
I feel a bit like that. I obviously know breaking a bone hurts, but until I experience it myself, I can't judge how high up my own personal pain scale it would go. Same for childbirth except I'll never, ever know what it's like. (I'm a guy)
Getting my teeth pulled without any novacane
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I went to an orthopedic surgeon about a buldging disc and my horrible back pain. He laid me on my stomach, and asked me where it hurt.
Now, my backbone doesn't particularly hurt, but the periphrerial pain from the pinched nerve makes the back of my right hip hurt. So I point, and bang, he sticks me with a steroid shot.
Now, for most people, that is the end of it, but my doc missed, and kind of gave me an epidural. The next day, the pain shooting to my foot was so bad, it woke me up. He hit the nerve that goes to the foot. I couldnt walk or even lay in bed without surging pain. I couldn't even get to the pharmacy for pain meds. I just laid on the couch and toughed it out or a few days till the shot wore off.
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I'm quite surprised by some of the responses on this thread, especially those who cite period pain and other things as being their worst pain. I can only imagine that they don't have much frame of reference for what real excruciating pain is.
For me, well, I've given birth twice natuarlly with no pain relief, 18 hours labour one, 4 hours 'back' labour for number two - very painful for sure.
I've fractured my arm with a very bad complex elbow break - painful.
I've went head first into the pavement over the handlebars of my bike - sore.
But the most horrendous, unimaginable pain for me was GALLSTONES. Seriously, I would rather give birth 10 times over than experience that pain again. It is so great that you cannot literally breathe when the spasm starts, it is an unforgiving, gripping pain. I remember just begging my husband to kill me as I wanted out of it and didn't care if I woke up again. I was given the maximum amount possible of morphine and it didn't touch the pain one bit.
Childbirth is very painful but it is a PRODUCTIVE kind of pain - its there for a purpose and you know that each contraction is bringing your baby closer to you. You also know it will end when the baby has been born. The pain of gallstones (or I imagine kidney stones) is undescribable. Its the kind of pain where at first you are afraid you are going to die, then you're afraid you're NOT going to die. It feels neverending while you are going through it and they are trying to find out what is wrong with you.
I have heard people with kidney stones also describe it as their worst pain and women say that childbirth is preferable by far. Having seen my mum suffer with kidney stones many times I would have to agree. I imagine the pain of gallstones is comparable. Seriously ten times worse than childbirth.
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1. Worst pain would be when i was 6 and my mother accidentally dropped a bowl of boiling hot water on me. I'm 21 and seriously I still remember the pain. My skin fell off and it was still 'burning' days and weeks later.
2. I have also stepped on a nail, it went through my foot and I got stuck on the this plank. It was surprisingly painless when I stepped on it and while I was stuck but when they had to get me loose it hurt like hell.
3. I tripped on the carpet, hit the oven with my head. The wall, the floor and me was just covered in blood. It hurt of course but it hurts more now. I have a cut on my forehead and no one is allowed to touch it. It's very sensitive and hurts like *beep*. Must be a nerve or something because my entire head goes numb if the area is touched.
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Kidney stone. A jagged one that also made me urinate blood which scared the crap out of me.
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