Mine was when I had testicular torsion. It pretty much felt like I was being continuously hit in the crotch for two hours.
sharejust over 6 months ago i had an accident and got 3rd and 4th degree acid burns all over my neck, chest and stomach..... that's probably the worst pain i've been in. i've had 3 skin grafts and the pain from those comes close.
shareWhen I had a pain in my abdomen it turned out to be a kidney stone. Only after flying to New York for a trip across the world to Israel.... which I skipped because of the incident. I flew into NY and the pain was so intense and then I urinated blood and I was going nuts because now it isn't just a random pain, it is something internally wrong.
I thought my appendix was burst or something but I didn't care what it was, I just wanted to be given something for the pain and given relief. I went to the airport TSA and got an ambulance, 2 cops sat me down as I began to feel worse and worse. I was rolled out on a stretcher to a Queens hospital. They gave me something and it worked for the night. The pain was never as bad as it was in NY.
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Once I trimmed my little finger nail till it stung like beep.
shareGetting a tattoo. Man, that sh!t hurt. I realise it was a self-inflicted procedure that I CHOSE to go through (much like childbirth, really!) but I have no accidents/injuries to compare it to. Unless you count having whiplash for a solid week and being barely able to WALK (and yet work STILL expected me to show up, grrr....)
It wasn't even on a typically "painful" place - just to the left of my spine on a love handle, lol. I remember trying to mentally prepare myself, telling myself to be an adult about it and knowing it would be bad, but my god - first there was the initial shock, then the realisation of "I've still got to sit through the rest of this sh!t WITHOUT MOVING!" I had to ask him to stop a few times (due to having NO pain threshold!)and after a bit the adrenaline kicked in - where my skin became, not numb but more accostomed to the pain..... which then caused my arms to start shaking uncontrollably.
I deliberately chose a small, non-elaborate design, so it could be over more quickly, but man alive - during that whole 25 minutes it felt like nothing on EARTH would make the time go faster. How people get sleeves and entire body suits is BEYOND me. I'd spent a lot of time looking into it, and having people tell me "oh, it's just like a cat-scratch" or "oh don't worry, it's just like scratching your skin whilst sunburnt."
BULLSH!T. It was akin to having your skin sliced open and having someone put their cigarette out in the wound.
I've never given birth or had any major surgeries/operations, so this was by FAR the worst I've ever experienced.
"A day without laughter is a day wasted" - Charlie Chaplin
When I was younger, my shoe lace got caught in my bikes chain and gear. While I was coasting, I tried to reach down and get it loose, but my finger ended up rolling up in between the chain and the gear about a quarter of the way in. That was the 2nd worst pain I've ever felt. The worst pain was when I finally stopped my bike, put my feet down, then proceeded to crank the gear and chain in reverse to get my finger free. Yeah, I almost passed out during it all. But nothing compared to what Aaron went thru at all.
shareI had a spinal headache after the birth of my son. The epidural nicked my spinal cord and I leaked spinal fluid for three days straight before anyone realized it. Hurt 100 times more than laboring and the csection. Felt like my head was literally about to explode.
shareIt's a triple-tie for me:
1. Femoral osteotomy when I was 28 - they sawed (I was awake for this - spinal only) through my femur with a circular saw & moved it over an inch & then reattached it with a 7 inch titanium plate with three screws through my thigh. 9 months later they had to go back in (due to the plate shifting & ripping my quadricep muscles to hell) and take the metal OUT (after the bone had started to reattach around the metal plate) - I was laid up for 2 years total & to this day I still remember the agony of waking from that initial surgery - I thought for sure I would look down & there would be an axe sticking out of my leg - it hurt that badly. I asked the nurse for morphine and she said 'you've already had it' - couldn't have proved it by me - I was in blinding agony - for months....
2. Knee replacement - same knee - years later - when the pain pump wore off on day 3 - ya.....agony again.
3. Mastectomy - this year- due to cancer...both of them removed....not a pleasant time....again - was ok. til the pain pump they'd sewn into my chest cavity wore off & then - bit of pain there. Also had four drains coming out of my chest wall for five days post op and they hurt so badly that by day 3 I did not want to even lift my arms to move out of bed.
But of all those - the Femoral Osteotomy still takes the cake and makes me cringe - circular saws send me into fits now...ugh.
I have scoliosis since I was born, it hurt like hell everyday.
shareWhen I was 6, I was in a car/train wreck, that killed my little brother and a family friend. I had to be revived on scene, spent over 2 weeks comatose, 91 days in the hospital total, and had to learn to do everything all over again. I'm just now starting to overcome the emotional trauma, 25 years later. I now have a frontal lobe injury, seizures, depression, ptsd, survivors guilt, so I would have to agree that emotional pain is worse.
shareA lady ran a stop sign and knocked me off my motorcycle at around midnight. I was dumb enough to tell the doc that I thought I sprained my leg. They misread the x=ray, and I laid on a gurney for 6 hours. After a few hours, the body shock wore off. They would give me no pain killers. The pain got much worse. I started to hallucinate, and my speech was garbled. At 6a, the day shift docs came in, and told me my hip was broken. I was in traction for 5 weeks, and a body cast for 6. It was a year before I could really walk again.
10 years ago, I got the hip replaced. They have you 'walking' the next day, and out the door 2 days later. Times have changed!
My worse pain? A badly sprained ankle. And I had two kidney stones. Never felt a thing.
A toss-up between a split molar and cervical disc slip...the pain was so bad in my arm that I would have let them amputate it to make it stop. Even after surgery it still gives me trouble at times, but did help thankfully.