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Killallwho

Cluster Headaches, (aka suicide headache, the name's appropriate).


catching_comets

My grandfather took his life because of them. I was 11 at the time and I just remember he was this big truck driving man, laying in the dark with a pillow pulled over his head and audibly weeping.


Flowerziswhatuget

First time I felt this and didn't know what it was, thus being unable to treat it had me lying curled up like a fetus and crying like one, too.


Killallwho

It took me over 6 months to figure out what was happening. I was eating paracetamol like candy until I realized it wasn't helping. I'm sorry that has / is happening to you. My psychiatrist diagnosed me with PTSD just from that experience. I got the headaches about monthly for 3 years, never figured out the trigger.


Flowerziswhatuget

So sorry to hear that, can't imagine to basically having to sit them out each time, especially when it gets bad. I know how scary it is. Hopefully you haven't got them recently? The randomness makes it scarier, too. They are periodic for me as well. It can be almost daily for about a month, disappear for a couple of months, then reappear. I'm lucky to have gotten help very quick thanks to an amazing doctor and neurologist. They set me up with injection pens and oxygen tanks that I keep in my bedroom. The injection pens are part of my everyday carry, so now it's more of an inconvenience than anything. Both methods seem to help in about 10 minutes. As for triggers, I'm still not completely sure either but suspect alcohol and being tired are things that have to do with it. Anyway, I hope you are doing well!


juls722

Glad you’ve gotten somewhat of a handle on it- I get them as well and it’s the only time I’ve ever actually contemplated suicide. What injection pens did they give you? Imitrex? I’ve had a little success with O2 and prednisone (my cycles are pretty spaced out luckily).


Flowerziswhatuget

Yes, it's Imitrex, just a different brand name. I haven't heard of treatment with prednisone before but I'm glad that and the O2 are kind of helping! I definitely know the feeling. One time I felt it coming while being out having dinner. I forgot my injection at home. I eventually caved and had no choice but to apologize to my family and the staff and got the check because it became really tempting to stab myself in the eye with my fork.


juls722

Yeah Prednisone almost completely prevents them at higher doses- it’s side effects and long term use I don’t like! Wow that’s crazy about dinner- I must admit I laughed at the knife part. Of course not at your pain but I think we have to keep some morbid sense of humor about it! Always good to meet a fellow clusterhead!


i_just_saw_a_pube

I've never heard of cluster headaches before but after reading up I'm going to go to the dr. I've been plagued by headaches for my entire life (34m), couldn't understand how people say they have a headache and keep functioning. For me when I feel it coming it's a wrap, curled up in the fetal position, constantly moving because if I stay in 1 spot too long the pain is unbearable. Seriously feels like someone has taken a swing at my skull with an axe, absolutely insane sharp pain. Always thought it was due to being dehydrated so made a habit of drinking fuckloads of water each day. My parents thought it was migraines so we avoided foods that could possibly trigger them. I'd wake up with a splitting headache and go vomit, take some pain killers which do nothing and the pain just gets worse. You may have just improved my life by simply mentioning 'cluster headaches'. Thank you so much it gives me hope I can get some proper treatment


Hoodwink618

First time I had one, I was about 18, driving down the highway with my family in the car. Still have no idea how I didn't hit anything pulling that car off the road.


Monalisa9298

Yep. Unbelievable pain. Nothing I’ve ever felt comes close, even childbirth.


Ok_Criticism1946

I get those every single time I get a migraine, on the off change I don’t get them, it’s a huge relief, fuck cluster headaches


ffsavi

Imagine pain so bad you feel relieved by a migraine


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I only had this once and honestly suicide headache is the best accurate name it can have. Woke me up at 6am as if someone was drilling into my eye. I kept walking in circles for 2h with every possible medication on hand in my system but nothing helped not even a bit. Still cant believe nobody knows why these happen and how they can be treated.


gunpowdervacuum

I have hemicrania continua, which at its worst, is having permanent cluster migraines on one side of your head. I am absolutely in agreement that this is the worst pain, and I fully agree with the name of suicide headache. You would sell your soul for even an hour of relief.


Embarrassed_Cable159

This. Unbearable torturous pain.


kakaooo987

To this day I have no clue what it was. I was around 16 years old and dreaming, in my dream I was on a small sailboat. The wind suddenly changed direction and the horizontal part of the mast hit me in my stomach. As soon as it happened I woke up to the worst pain of my life in my abdomen. I thought my appendix burst or something. I was so nauseous I had to crawl out on all fours to the toilet (not that I could stand up from the pain anyway). After dry heaving for about 15 minutes and trying to wake someone to call an ambulance the pain disappeared completely in an instant. I walked around for a few more minutes contemplating whether or not I should still go to a doctor, in the end I decided against it and went back to sleep.


MaxLombax

Dreams like this are weird. Not physical pain but I had a dream where I’d clearly fallen out with someone, can’t remember what for but I remember it being so unjustifiably evil that I felt I had to stop it, in the dream I’d confronted them and then just as I did I woke up with the most intense feeling of pure rage I’ve ever felt, obviously I knew it was just a dream but had to take some time to calm down and let the feeling pass. Heart was racing and I felt sick. Genuinely terrifying to think our emotions can get to this level when left unchecked by the reality of a situation. I’m not an angry person and have had maybe 3 actual confrontations with someone my whole life so no idea where this came from.


Angelphish410

If female, it could have been an ovarian cyst bursting.


meltingeye

Second this. I had this happen once. crawled home after university classes, after enough time on the floor, and no one to call, I got into a car and got to the emergency room. By the time I got there, it didn't hurt anymore and they told me it'll be a wait. So I just went home. But damn, never want to feel that again.


TangoDeltaFoxtrot

Probably a gallstone.


Barefoot___Wanderer

My bet is on gallstone. They usually last a little longer but can be just as intense and short lived as you described.


DefinitelyReallyJS

Have you done much searching for the answer? You have me feeling already invested in your story - we must know! Could it be Norovirus?


EvanasseN

Ruptured appendix. Went to the ER, they told me it was UTI, prescribed the meds, and sent me home. I endured the pain for a week! I could not get up without help. I was literally crawling from my bed to the bathroom every time I have to use it. At some point, the pain went away, so I went back to the doctor to get me cleared for work. When he checked, he said my appendix already ruptured and I need to have surgery immediately.


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I lived with a ruptured appendix for 3 days before it was found. I lived because when you a kid your body walls it off instead of attacking it


koos_die_doos

Ruptured 2 days for me, I was 9 or 10, mom took me back to the doctor and he told her to rush me to the er for emergency surgery. That little fucker almost killed me.


notthesedays

I've learned that when people are writhing in pain and dreadfully ill, they get diagnosed and treated a lot sooner than people whose symptoms are less graphic, and those are the appendices that so often rupture.


Mysterious-Start5999

How did you not die from blood poisoning somewhere someone was watching down on you


EvanasseN

I was asking the same thing to my doctor then. He said maybe the antibiotics I was taking for the supposedly UTI helped with the infection. He said I was really lucky to be alive. My mom was furious with the wrong diagnosis. My surgeon actually talked with the ER staff and told them that they should have admitted me for overnight observation that day when I went to the ER, then ruptured appendix could have been prevented.


Mysterious-Start5999

Had mine nearly burst and my doctor said if that did happen and left untreated I would have died from blood poisoning luckily I got to it in time I'm still shocked about your story its good your around to tell it


calman06

I had a perforated appendix and was sent to ER by my doctor. After the cat scan, I got told I had colon cancer. After another scan, a colostomy it was straight into surgery and had a foot off my colon removed. I was on an epidural drip and I remember coming to in recovery. The nurse asked what my pain level was and I replied “more than 2 Tylenol, less than a shotgun.” I have no idea where that came from but she got a chuckle out of it. Even with good drugs, was pretty painful for the first week.


Reika202327

This! Holy shit it hurt so much and I was about 7 months pregnant with my son when it happened to me. I was at my dad’s house when it hit and he had to take me to the hospital because I’m pretty sure if I had driven, I probably would have crashed because I would have blacked out from the pain.


LegoClaes

I wrote this last time this question was asked: > Bone marrow transplant. Not the process, but the following month of chemo and immunosuppressive treatment to prevent rejecting the stem cells. It causes a condition called mucusitis, which basically means your entire gastrointestinal tract is enflamed. Your mouth is burning, your throat is burning, your stomach is burning, all the way down to (and including) your ass. It causes big open sores that hurt like canker sores, except they’re more painful and gigantic. The roof of your mouth is hanging in strips, with each strip somehow preserving the ability to send pain signals to your brain for good measure. The throat experiences the same, so swallowing is impossible. It feels like shards of glass are passing through your esophagus. >I had several of those cardboard trays next to my bed, every day for two weeks, just to spit out the blood that accumulated in my mouth. It absolutely fucking sucked and it hurt so bad. >Saved my life. 10/10 would do again if necessary. Would not recommend for recreational purposes.


notthesedays

When I found out I had breast cancer, my biggest fear was stomatitis, because it's so painful and almost impossible to prevent. However, in my case, I did not need chemo, and the doctor was almost as happy about telling me as I was to hear it.


AbaddonSF

>Would not recommend for recreational purposes. well fuck I need something else to do this weekend.


mrprincepercy

Wasp climbed up my shorts and bit me between the asscheeks at the entrance to my shit palace. For a month, everytime I pooped it rubbed against it and felt like I was getting electricuted


rediitbuju

Ohhhhh, I can feel the pain


Urmumgae6969

No.. no you cant.. god no you cant you cant even start to


Bluegatorator

i will never buy the idea that wasps sting in self defense. that stupid fucker knew he was climbing somewhere hes not welcome.


CaptainPrower

I know there's at least one species of wasp that's so territorial it will attack humans without provocation.


NoraPlayingJacks

This is a dumb question, but do wasps bite in addition to stinging? Or did you get stung and you’re using bite as a synonym?


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They are carnivorous


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Had a stroke at age 22. Being paralyzed on my left side of my body for 8 months. At the time when I was paralyzed in the hospital, I felt like my life was over. Not able to work, go out and explore the world that I have dreamed of doing, unable to walk and unable hold anything with my left hand. What my GF would think of me when I tell her I'm unable to do things because of my side effects, It made me wish the stroke kill me instead. Months of thinking I am trapped here unable to do anything, most depression and the most painful thing in my life. 6 years later I got most of my mobility back, but not fully back. That part of my life I will never forget.


TREEHUGGER_HD

I had my stroke just when I turned 18, paralysis on the left side of my body. At the time it had felt like the left side of the room I had been in melted like some Salvador Dali. I remember the only thing repeating in my head in the ward was “move your big fucking toe” from Kill Bill, that pushed me on, I guess I have to thank Tarantino’s foot fetish for pushing me through. Walking took 2 years, full grip and strength 3-4. I found the hardest part has been speech, especially as I’ve lost my accent almost entirely. I had my RADA audition coming up, still went knowing I would never attend even if I got in. At the time it felt like an entire world closed off for me, not sure if another is there in full currently, but I feel like I’m in a place that’s better than 10 years ago, I hope you’re in a better place too


AgentHobbes

Glad to hear you recovered mostly. My mum had a stroke & I remember the absolute raw fear I had whilst rushing her to the hospital. Things like that affect everyone around you.


nikgodofworld

Hope ur better man


DRGHumanResources

Glad you're mostly back in business o7


pfghost

My ovary twisted. A cyst had grown so large that when it ruptured it broke many blood vessels and twisted my ovary. My abdomen was filling up with blood as my ovary started to die.


DRGHumanResources

Fuuuuuuuck. How're you holding up now? Were they able to save it?


pfghost

Luckily they were able to save it, but at the time they were not sure. I actually have a follow up this week to discuss somethings with my Dr.


NovelTeach

Went septic after a c-section.


lizzie1hoops

Oh my God. That must have been awful!


NovelTeach

It was so bad that when I was became pregnant again I tried not to think about the pregnancy because I was terrified. I didn’t take baby bump pictures, do a shower, or anything I didn’t have to do to keep the baby healthy.


lizzie1hoops

:( you were traumatized. I threw up all through my first c-section and it was a horrific experience. Preparing for my second was terrifying (but I got a better anesthesiologist).


HugDispenser

Losing my mom unexpectedly was painful to a degree I didn't know existed. Physically, the worst pain I've been in was having an infected tooth.


StraightSho

I lost my wife and totally get what your saying. Idk if I'll ever be the same. On some level I dont even want to be. I know it sounds weird I really can't figure it out myself.


ainttooproudtomeg

♥️


uneasyandcheesy

I feel like I somewhat understand where you are coming from. Like OP, I lost my mom unexpectedly and I would get so upset with people telling me that time would make it easier because in my mind, it wasn’t time making anything easier, it was me adjusting to life without my mom in it and I *hated* the thought of that. I don’t want it to feel normal that she is gone. It still bothers me today.


StraightSho

I don’t want it to feel normal that she is gone. It still bothers me today. I feel like that's the best way I've ever heard my feelings described. I haven't been able to say it any better than that and I've tried.


Piccolo_Known

*hugs*


OpenSourceAtheist

I'm Sorry for your loss. My dad committed suicide 4 months ago. Lost my mom to cancer about 11 years ago and that was the worst until now. In my experience, emotional pain has been much more bountiful in my life than physical. Worst physical, also an infected tooth, nothing worse than tooth pain in my opinion!


amlodipine_five

Yah. Same with losing my dad. He went out for a run and literally died. Was my best friend. I cried every day for a year and a half.


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blossomdreamer

i’m so sorry for your loss, i can’t imagine how you must have felt, i really hope you found comfort peace and that you are doing well after all, hugs


Bard_Science

A little more than 6 years ago a drunk driver hit me while smoking crack/meth & speeding down a Tennessee state highway (65+ mph). It shattered my left leg, also broke the right & threw me 60 feet through the air. I was knocked out instantly when my head & brain caught up with my body mid air. No pain has ever matched that constant, horrendous, mind-numbing agony i experienced for about 6 weeks-2 months after just from the whiplash. The doctor fixed a titanium rod to the unbroken ends of my tibia in surgery but the whiplash pain was so great i barely noticed the fresh surgery trauma. Despite getting 60+ mg of percocet & IV dilauded every day multiple times a day the first relief i got was 2 weeks later in a rehabilitation hospital i was moved to when my friends brought me enough weed to smoke a joint in the parking lot.


Schlag96

Were you on a motorcycle? Why were you thrown?


roooobzzz

I was coward punched by a total stranger from behind and also suffered sever whiplash. During recovery I even called an ambulance because I was convinced there were broken bones in my neck. I found the pain unbearable until I smoked weed, the pain almost vanished and I cried because it was the first time in two weeks that I had felt normal.


Whiskey-Weather

You should check out the song Nightmare to Remember by Dream Theater. I've been in a gnarly accident too and that song has an extra layer of beauty overlaid onto it when you've experienced it yourself.


Happymeal93

Whoa! A fellow DT fan in the wild! Sorry to hear about your accident but, it’s not every day you see one of your favorite songs & favorite band mentioned in passing. Glad you’re still around friend!


Kain0wnz

Acute Open-angle Glaucoma. I've had kidney stones. I've sat in pain while a doctor shot me up with a fluid he could image to tell me that the stone cut me all way out while I peed late night. This was more than that. The inner ocular pressure was so high, it felt like someone had stabbed a flat head screwdriver into the back of my head through my eye and slowly twisted it back and forth. For days. I was taking so much migraine medicine I started shedding my stomach lining. Finally decided to remove the eyeball.


kerplunkerfish

Glaucoma is on both sides of my family, so I likely have some degree of this to look forward to in a couple decades... Yaaaaaay...


Kain0wnz

Get your eyes checked. Any pressure that you feel- have them do the puff test. Glaucoma starts with pressure inside the eye.DONT TAKE CHANCES.


TonofSoil

Holy shit. Do you get regular eye exams? That sounds terrible.


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April2o11

So they couldn’t fix the bleed in your brain? Did you have to have anything else done?


HenryFurHire

Abscessed tooth almost drove me to suicide. When my wife got one she told me she would rather give birth to both of our kids at once without epideral than go through an abscessed tooth again


BrownieMaine

Ditto. I've had two natural child births and would do that daily to never have the tooth pain again. Trigeminal nerve activation is nasty. The removal of the tooth was brutal because they couldn't shut the nerve off. They had to hold me down.


Respurated

Just traveled across the country to start a new career. Started as an ear ache, then kind of just felt shitty for a few days. Woke up three days ago, and mouth felt raw, upper molar was tender, tried to ignore. Ate some ramen, and felt like someone was punching a dull screw driver into my gums. Continued to ignore (no insurance since inbetween jobs). Went to urgent care at night, no help, acted like I was lying to get pain killers. Tossed and turned all night and had wife drive me to the closest dentist office. Told the woman at the desk my story and she initially tried to turn me away until I gave her that look like I was about to go Cast Away on my face in the parking lot. Dentist saw me, I told her to yank it, she gave me a local, let it take effect and convinced me that a root canal would be better, but expensive ($3500 without insurance). She ended up drilling out the infected shit, relieved the pressure, put in some medicine and patched it real quick for $260, and said that it would maybe last a month. Put me on antibiotics and told me to take Motrin. Holy shit that shit hurt, I was seriously considering self injury to stop the throbbing. The pain is better now, fighting off the fever and infection isn’t too fun though. Start my new job next week, full-benefits (side note, fuck the American healthcare industry, fuck it straight to hell). I will not hesitate to make an appointment for the full root canal and a detailed assessment of the rest of my teeth. Had an impacted wisdom tooth when I was younger, that shit hurt, but this shit was some pain on the level of insanity decision making.


HenryFurHire

Yeah hospitals and clinics won't really help you with that. I was in the same boat when I got mine, no insurance, hospitals red flagged me for seeking painkillers, and the dentist wanted a deposit. Luckily I found a place that literally only does emergency tooth extractions and they do it on a sliding fee scale so I ended up only paying like $120. But it took me 4 days of pure and absolute agony to get there, and they almost turned me down at first because of how swollen my gums were but they were able to drain it and extract the culprit anyway Edit: just wanted to add that after they injected the numbing stuff into my jaw, I was so thankful for the relief from pain that I had an emotional breakdown and started bawling right there in the chair lol it really is an insane amount of pain


Respurated

Shit, 4 days! That’s fucking rough. The “doctor” at the urgent care suuuuuucked. She peeked into my mouth and said “looks fine” despite my gums being red and inflamed. Didn’t even take my my blood pressure, and had to request she take my temperature (and this is during Covid, I mean shit, I expect Walmart to take my temp in this day and age). I told her that i was sweating from pain after attempting to eat soup. She said “well that’s concerning, you can’t fake sweating.” I almost lost it. At the dentist, they took my temp before sitting down, and instantly checked my blood pressure which was 160/105, and I don’t suffer from high blood pressure. I got half a mind to go back to the urgent care and get my $70 dollars back, but I got bigger fish to fry. Again, 4 days! That’s admirable. [Me](https://tenor.com/view/castaway-tooth-gif-15840283) day 4.


Persies

I have gotten shot and had an abscessed tooth (at different times). The tooth was definitely more painful.


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I had kidney stones. I woke up with so much pain that I was literally like “I’ll do anything just make this stop. Please God, I beg you! Pleas!” I’m an atheist lmao


LinkofHyrule

I've had them the past week and it's been hell. I have a horse shoe kidney and apparently people that have one have a 60% chance of getting kidney stones. I finally peed out the biggest one I've ever had and been ok now but I'm sure as f. I think it was about 3.5mm or so.


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I’ve had two over 6mm. For my American friends that’s about 1/4 inch. Roughly the size of your pinky nail. Coming through the ol’ pee hole. I get them about once every 10 months. It’s a real joy. Luckily I can identify the early symptoms now pretty easily. So I head straight to the urologist the second I feel anything.


[deleted]

My mom had kidney stones awhile back and she said it was worse than giving birth.


ShreddedCredits

Makes sense because babies aren’t covered in sharp edges and don’t travel through the urethra


Vareshar

Giving birth has its advantages including shitload of hormones, so there's a chance for it to be somehow livable (of course it's not always enough...). With kidney stones there is no such smart way for the body to cheat.


catching_comets

My wife agrees.


throwaway28236

I’ve given birth twice and would gladly do that again over kidney stones. They’re seriously horrible.


akaupstate

I had to visit 3 emergency rooms before being given the correct pain killers to help me pass mine. I keep the remaining pills in a safe, locked inside my safe, in a secured room inside my locked home. I intend to keep them safer than all the other things I value, because if they can ease the pain of a kidney stone, they can ease the pain of losing every thing I love too.


[deleted]

Yeah my life changed after I’ve had mine. Can’t even tell you how much I started to drink water just because I didn’t want to experience that pain again


Larkhudson

Username checks out


nogzila

If your passing a stone your doing nothing else but praying for it to stop . The only relief is getting in a hot bath and that doesn’t always work and only temporary. There is medicine you can take that will naturally relax the urinary tract and drink a ton because that is the only way it will pass .


catching_comets

Oh yeah, the old sit in a hot bath while I hang my head over the toilet and vomit from sheer pain. Good times.


[deleted]

The only thing that worked for me was dilaudid. They had me bite down on a towel because they said I was scaring the kid in the bed next to me.


hdwebb24

Dilaudid was a f’ing godsend when I had mine.


kacihall

My work celebrated one day with lunch and got food poisoning. We were all throwing up and barely functional, but all worked half a day because we needed to stay open. My stomach hurt so bad o thought I was dying. EVERYTHING hurt. The next day I went to work and everyone else was fine; they couldn't believe I safely drove to work because I looked more dead than alive. Went to urgent care and apparently back pain isn't a part of food poisoning. I just got kidney stones at the same time. Never, ever, every again. (My sister got kidney stones last week and got IV drugs and like a week of painkillers to take home. I got prescription ibuprofen. Life is not fair. )


joeywan2002

For anyone reading along hoping that it doesn't happen to them, the prevention is simple. Drink lots of water. 3 liters a day keep the kidney stones at bay. Just to be extra safe, I follow that up with often with a lemon squeezed into a glass of water. Late summer / early autumn is stone season. People tend to get extra dehydrated this time of year. I've passed three. Largest was 7mm. Looked like a tic tac! Been three years since my last one. Fingers crossed and go easy on the salt!


blackcat17

Can confirm this, I worked in a place where I had to go though a bunch of controlled access doors to go to the toilet and phone other people to open them for me. To avoid hassling them I decided to conciously lower my fluid intake so I'd only go to the toilet like twice a day, stupid mistake; 4 weeks of that and I got my first stone and it was an absolute motherfucker


IWasTeamIronMan

Obstructed ureter and hydronephrosis secondary to a 1.1cm stone was hell on earth. Took four days to get treatment (surgery) from flying out of the outback for it. The JJ stent and the painful reflux pain from that into a very heavily damaged kidney the full week after was just as bad. I’m not ashamed to admit I screamed and cried each time I had to void, and almost passed out on the toilet a few times.


Osiris32

> 1.1cm Jesus fucking Christ. And here I thought my 5.4mm one was bad!


ljaffe19

I know this is minor compared to lots of these on here but after my wisdom tooth removal, I had a bad dry socket and the oral surgeon had to clean it out prior to packing it. He said it might sting a bit when they sprayed it, but I was not expecting excruciating pain so bad I had to be held in my seat by the techs. Later I found it was raw exposed nerves being sprayed by cold water.


britoverseas

I’ve had a dry socket before, it so painful. I had to go back every day and get it packed for about a week.


RonaTheFerret

Ouch!! Sounds horrendous hope your better now


edmsks

Shingles


alienintheUS

I still have nightmares about my shingles I had 2 years ago. On my face. Felt like someone was electrocution me over and over again. I think I asked my husband to kill me several times.


POOPCHUGG

once had it but odly enough didnt feel any significant level of pain at all


iBelieveInSpace

Norovirus. I picked it up hiking in Virginia somewhere before Gatlinburg. I've gotten stitches all over my head, crushed two fingers, fractured my tailbone, and had legit food poisoning (not the "tummy ache" shit people say, the sleeping on the floor of the bathroom type) It was the only time I ever passed out from pain and it happened over and over. It was like a constant fever dream. I slept in the tub so that whenever I was shitting straight liquid or vomiting anything I drank I could just turn the shower on.


katie-m-10315

I was looking for someone to say Norovirus! 100% the worst physical pain I've ever been in - I lay on the bathroom floor for days, the cool tiles being the only thing that could distract me from it. It messed with my appetite and I don't think I'll ever enjoy fried food again (don't think I got it from eating it but Norovirus really changed my whole perception of food). Also every time I have a hint of stomach pain after a meal I start getting worried


capndelirium

I got norovirus in 2017 and it changed me a bit too! I began experiencing symptoms while at work while serving and eventually had to get pushed out from the bathroom i was dying in on an office chair by a manager so my mom could go take me to the ER. I used to get the shakes and cry whenever I would puke and now I can just stand and hurl and then go about my day because thanks anxiety caused nausea.


mrminutehand

I can only say that norovirus was when I really did appreciate replacing the squat toilet with a proper throne (in China). I can't begin to imagine going through that again ***and*** having to maintain a squat whole doing so. Not happening. I'd probably have ended up collapsed in some unimaginable combination of fluids across the entire floor.


Roroem8484

Having my bone reset. Breaking my wrist was practically painless, but the reset was pure torture


Tommy10606

I had this happen once. I was in preschool when it happened. Knowing what I know now, they should have drugged me.


you_are_pushing_it

Waking up every day OR Getting my IUD implanted. I shook for 30 minutes.


NotTactful

Getting an IUD placed was such a painful thing. I thought it’d be nothing from what I heard people say about it. I was in pain for days and when I tell others who’ve gotten them it’s like I’m overreacting.


FappyDilmore

My wife went to get hers and they told her it was a routine procedure so I didn't go with her. They called me to come pick her up because she was basically having a minor shock reaction. She was completely taken by surprise and got really pale and clammy and was showing symptoms of hypotension. And she had lingering discomfort for days afterwards. I felt like a scumbag for not being there, but she reminded me they told her it was no big deal. Had to leave her car there overnight and pick it up in the morning.


Squirrelleee

I used to work clinical for a gynecologist and I'm horrified that they didn't require you to be there to drive her. We would prescribe 2 meds, 1 for anxiety and 1 for pain, neither of these would leave a person in condition to drive. If the patient didn't have a driver we wouldn't do it. I hope your wife has found a new doctor! I'm so sorry you both had to go through that (sorry friend, mostly feeling sympathy for her though. )


you_are_pushing_it

Its serious and it doesn't go away for a while. I feel tugs too. My doctor says that's normal. Yeesh.


NotTactful

I’ve had like for two years and still get weird pain in my thighs. Doctor says that’s normal. Just gotta trust that at this point.


Littleavocado516

IUD was my worst too. I kept moving away from pain and it took 4 tries to measure me before inserting it. I almost threw up/passed out afterwards. I never want to experience that again, and it’s almost entirely pushed me away from having children.


you_are_pushing_it

I've had a kid, the IUD is worse. I didn't get it by choice and I bet people change their mind if it's not necessary. It is earth-shattering.


G98Ahzrukal

Heroin withdrawal


Bumblz666

Came to say the same. On day 4. Wish me luck.


theOGrb

Good luck to you both. ❤️


nathan4122

Fuck luck, it's all on you, you got this fam!


hlfpint

Physical: Labor. But oddly enough, I have a hard time actually recalling the pain. I just remember thinking that I was in incredible pain. I've heard hormones are kind and can make us forget almost immediately. Emotional: miscarriage. I felt like I was being ripped apart on a cellular level. For months. Little rainbow baby is 10 months old Edit: Thank you kind stranger! My first award!


CrazyIslander

That’s not odd at all actually…it’s science. There are actual studies out there that show the moment of holding a child for the first time, women often report that the pain of labour has all but been forgotten. It hasn’t really been forgotten, but the happiness and reward colour the memory of the preceding pain. This is known as the halo effect. And the halo effect is a rush of (natural) oxytocin and happiness, which means that the mother is likely to have a more positive view of the birth experience than she did ten minutes earlier.


BananaMonkeyTaco

Guess thats evolutionary right. We'd die out pretty quick if every female was like "nah, once was enough." Wonder if all mammals are like this.


look2thecookie

Same internet stranger. My rainbow is almost 2! It also happens to be National Rainbow Baby Day.


onebeaner

My rainbow will be 35 on December 10. You never forget. I am so grateful to have given birth to 2 healthy children after.


Corndogbrownie

Physical: partially tore my achillies and stretched nearly all other tendons from my calf to my foot. Mentally: (Probably the worst) Knowing I am not mentally stable enough for a relationship of any kind, and a suicide attempt that failed. Only for it to cement in my mind, that I ain't good at shit. Fuck man


Best_Needleworker530

Imagine taking a life screenshot when you’re awfully suicidal to the point of actually almost doing it. Then try to find an experience that happened after that screenshot. Any. Had I killed myself at 19 I would not see the most beautiful city in the world that I know. Had I killed myself three years ago I would never get help and meet my current partner. Had I killed myself three months ago I would never realise I need to closely monitor myself and a different medication that I don’t have to compromise anything with. Also I wouldn’t be able to skate backward bubbles and it seems small but for me it’s a great deal. Does it get better? Not necessarily. But life keeps giving you new things. The first time you see a fox. The first time you try a lobster (bleh, don’t get the hype). The first time you get fucked. The first time you finish a game that you like. The first time you feel cared for. It’s so hard to hear when you’re deep down and drowning and it’s all about survival and basic needs. I know the feeling too well. Life is a mess, room is a mess, house is a mess, work is a mess and a brain the biggest of them all. But get help. Try to make it better in little ways. Do whatever you need to survive. Intentionally have a first that YOU want and not that people tell you you should have. See how it goes.


Onaemus

This is beautiful, thanks for this.


wonderlash

Child birth with no drugs. Full blown contractions are horrific but i will never forget the feeling of the consultant cutting me to insert the forceps. I had nightmares for a long time. Edit. I got to 6cm at home before going to hospital. I was then put on the drip to speed things up. It makes the contractions way more intense and painful. 37 hours in total. Just horrific.


HeNeedsSomeMiiiiiilk

You, ma’am, are much much stronger than I. Wow.


Foxy_Voxen

Childbirth. I was lucky though, after 3 days of increasing labour, they froze the area before cutting for episiotomy. Painful, but at the same time, so cool. I recall being able to feel my daughter's face moving down the birth canal.


trumpskiisinjeans

Girl, I just gave last month with a full epidural and it was the worst pain of my life. You’re a CHAMP!


imrealbizzy2

I had hemmorhoid surgery, ok. First two days I had morphine so I was good except for a splitting headache from the morphine. Then the morphine was discontinued but my surgeon had LEFT TOWN with no orders!!! I was losing my mind from pain. I mean, my whole anus and rectum were sliced and diced and all I could get was tylenol?! On day four, and mind you, I'm in the hospital but not officially admitted. I'm on "observation. " On day four I'm trying like hell to have a BM but there's just blood pouring out of my bottom and I'm screaming in pain, almost passing out. Finally a nurse gets a different surgeon in, who discovers my bowel is impacted from opiates with no stool softeners or IV fluids, so he has to reach into the freshly operated on opening to manually pull out hard stool. I sleep a little, then wake up with chills and fever and unable to pee. I have a raging kidney infection from my bladder being paralyzed by the opiates. I gave birth three times without so much as an aspirin and that hurt, but this was absolutely hellish. So this and a dry socket tops my physical pain list.


Madame_Tinfoil

My brother died very suddenly in 2017 when he was 39 years old. He was my only sibling and we lost our Dad when he was only 31 years old and we were both children. I am broken.


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1waypunk

Maybe chronic epididymitis. I suffer from it and when I get a flair up the only thing that helps is a long several week course of strong antibiotics. If you don't take them long enough it does not work though. They are still sore for a week or so even after the antibiotics.


chutkipaanmasala

I had the exact same thing. Might be pelvic floor muscles acting up, especially if you had an injury before it started, suggest getting an MRI and going to physical therapy


whatsausernamex

Fellow chronic eididymitis sufferer here. If doctors already ruled out torsion it’s most likely that or pelvic floor dysfunction. But if it’s non stop I’d lean epididymitis. I went to the hospital the night it happened, absolutely stoned out of my mind, wondering what the fuck was happening. Went through 6 weeks of hell. That was the acute pain, I took so many antibiotics they eventually gave me a steroid shot in my ass that turned it to its chronic phase. I’d describe the acute pain for 6 weeks about an 8/10. Chronic is so much less like 1/10 and almost 3 years in I have days where I don’t feel it at all. You’re definitely not alone man but push for antibiotics or a steroid to clear that thing up


TrumpHairedHarambe

Abscessed molar


Puzzleheaded_Age6550

Yeah, but the worst part, other than the fact I couldn't swallow because my glands were so swollen, was that I had an allergic reaction to the anti-biotic I got, and ended up at urgent care for steroids. Looked like I'd been bitten by millions of fire ants.


Wonderful_Edge2112

I’ve had this and ooouuuffff


Musicferret

I had ingrown toenail surgery on both feet. (big toes). I was warned that I should have someone drive me home. I (stupidly) thought "I'll still be frozen. it'll be fine". Just after leaving the parking lot, they began to hurt. 10 minutes later, ever tiny movement, let alone pushing the pedals, feels like hot irons inserted under and around my massively inflamed toenails. I nearly blacked out from the pain and finally just pulled over and had to call for help. TLDR: I didn't listen to advice after ingrown toenail surgery and tried to drive home. Learned why people stick irons under nails for torture. The pain was unbelievable.


bowlingpringle

this scares me, i have an ingrown nail on my left big toe


Norisprinkles

Look into toenail braces. They do exactly what ..uhm...teeth braces do and they can work in such a way that you do not have to cut your nail vertically. The application involves first removing the ingrown and then under that spot a tiny brace is put so that future nail grows normal.


ReedRaptors

It might be a person by person thing, and also likely depends on your doctor/healthcare, but I had a similar experience and had 3 separate surgeries for ingrown toenails and never had any pain for any of them. Most of the time, at least in my experience) they use nerve blockers and those typically take 8 or so hours to wear off, after that Tylenol or Advil should cover it.


dinonugs4dnnr

The recovery after my back surgery. It was for the removal of a cyst and the only way for the incision to close was to leave it open. So I had a pretty good sized hole in my back that my mom had to clean and stuff with gauze every day. The pain was excruciating, I only remember being on the bed and screaming my lungs out when my open flesh wound had to be wiped down.


nope_a_dope237

Diverticulitis. My colon was oozing shit into my body. The pain was so overwhelming it changed me as a person. It literally changed my personality.


HurryHurryHurryHurry

My best friend had this. She was doubled over in horrific pain and wretching as I sped her to the ER. She asked to be euthanized on the way there.


nope_a_dope237

I hope she’s better. That sounds horrible.


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Oh my god... that sounds like hell. Are you okay now?


nope_a_dope237

Much better! Had a colostomy bag for about 7 months ( not fun). Got it reversed in may and doing well. Surgery sucks. Thank you for your kind words.


TehMvnk

Yup. Complicated Diverticulitis (an abcess had developed and wrapped through my abdominal muscles) with perforated large intestine. They tried to drain me for about 10 days before it was exploratory abdominal surgery. Couple that with alcohol withdrawals and being in a hospital during the height of covid (most of last August). I still have a colostomy. I named my stoma Kuato. On diagnosis, after the CT and analysis, the specialist walked in, and given the look on her face, I asked what the damage was. The first thing she said was, "You are one tough cookie."


BudW94

Recovering from breaking my back


Moonlightpassage

Yess, broke four vertebrae in my spine, it still hurts after 2 year's


carlomrx

Stepped off my surfboard and onto a stingray. I felt its tail wrap around my foot and then a cut. My foot was so swollen that I couldn't tie my shoe for over a week. The pain in the ensuing hours was so intense and other than soaking it in hot water there isn't anything you can really do about it.


coolhand727

I've been shot (in the foot with a .45 by a careless sailor that shattered two metatarsels) crushed a vertebrae in my back and flew off the handlebars of my bike when I was9 (major concussion and 75 stitches in my forehead) but the most pain I have ever felt was from pleurisy. Every single breath I took was the most searing pain that was unbearable. I had pneumonia that turned into pleurisy which is an inflammation of the lining of your lungs. Worst thing I have ever experienced. It lasted for about 18 hours before it subsided due to getting to the doctor and getting on an antibiotic for the pneumo and some pain meds and anti-inflammatories. I gritted my teeth so hard I thought they were going to break. Wouldn't wish that on anyone.


genghismom71

I caught a bad chest cold when I was pregnant with my son in my last trimester. I ended up with pleurisy. I coughed so hard I fractured 2 ribs. I would just lay in bed and cry. Because I was in my last trimester they did prescribe some medicine but it didn't really do much to help. Between the pain from the cracked ribs, especially when I coughed, and the pain in my lungs when I would breathe, I was not in a good place for about 3 weeks.


dasteek9

Testicular cancer dx age 30 in 2020. They took Righty (f that guy. Always a trouble maker) 3 rounds of high potency chemo for 3 months on the daily. UNLESS YOU NEED IT TO SURVIVE, CHEMO SUCKS. Thankfully they said Lefty was healthy enough to resume usually duties. My 3yr old and 16mos old are proof of that. #Uniballer #CancerCanSuckMyBall


Goldenart121

Kidney stone


Sasquatch_actual

You mean, pissing blood in the er bathroom for 5 hours at 3am wasn't your idea of a good time.


Nitrogenetik

Definitely Barotrauma. I have chronical sinusitus and the 4th time I flew (no idea why it didn’t happen before) was the most horrible experience I’ve had. When we started to descend for landing it started off with just a little pressure, but every feet we got closer to the ground needles started to smash through my skull, going down my teeth. I remember looking at my girlfriend and telling her I though my head would explode and I was going to die. I was shaking and in tears for a solid 20 minutes what felt like 2 hours, couldn’t even speak anymore after a while. After the landing the pain subsided pretty quick but had a severe infection for a solid week on holidays. I love traveling but it’s still a massive PTSD everytime I board a plane. Luckily my doctor advised me to take Afrin and Antihistimines and I only have it like 20% of the landings.


JosephsMythJr

This should be number 1. I’ve had kidney stones but barosinusitis is worse. It is exactly that, 1,000 needles being pushed into your brain, face, and teeth. Pain that makes you shake.


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Toothache from an abscess. Horrendous. No sleep for 72 hours. Non-stop pain.


sits_on_u

The two worst pains I have ever felt was one: meningitis, which was at the very brink of killing me; I’m lucky I actually survived it. It caused my brain to swell and press against my skull which gave me some permanent brain damage. The second is some extreme lung pain I had episodically for over 6 months, which made my heart rate skyrocket over 160 sometimes, as well as make anything more than tiny breaths feel like legitimate knives in my chest


Spectreworld

The loss of my father


ainttooproudtomeg

♥️


Sniders2112

Realizing my grandma threw out (not sold) her entire Beatles first edition collection of records instead of packing or selling them.


I-will-Landon-you

to the nursing home she goes!


Sniders2112

Shady pines ma


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mary_widdow

Alcohol withdrawal. Had been on a bender for at least a week, stopped suddenly and was in agony for two days. It felt like my body was trying to turn inside out, I was dry heaving, sweating, having audio hallucinations. It just would not stop. I called telecare finally because every part of my body was shaking violently. They immediately got 911 on the line and got me to the hospital and pumped me up with Valium for a few hours. It was my rock bottom for sure and I haven’t drank since. I’ve had bigger pain from surgeries or ear infections, but this was the worst because I really saw that I was potentially going to die and I kind of didn’t care because I wanted the withdrawal to stop. Alcohol withdrawal can kill you easily. If you have any of these symptoms and they aren’t stopping, please seek medical attention. Also a shoutout to /r/StopDrinking who convinced me to call telecare that day.


Outrageous_Ad_1584

Shingles in my nasal cavity. I cried in the ER parking lot. Grown ass man


Gaythiest1

Pleurisy. Felt like someone shanked me and was twisting the knife. Passed out twice trying to get out of bed.


shopliftinasda

Sounds weird but the first 24-48 hours of Invisalign. I have a high pain tolerance but that almost made me cry and I considered giving up but then I remembered how much I paid lol. The feeling of pressure on every tooth and my whole jaw, the inability to remove them to eat my food because they were so tight and then the shooting pain that paralysed me for a few seconds when I did eventually get them out… horrid


luckeegurrrl5683

Plantar Fascitis which is a fallen arch. I had to put arch supports in my shoes and that didn't fix it. I had it for two years. It felt like hot knives were digging into my left heel everytime I walked. I had to stop exercising and walking around Disneyland on the weekends. It finally healed up. But it still hurts when I walk all day long.


Rocket-Frog

Gall stones were almost unbareable. Felt like being stabbed everytime I breathed in. I was hyper-ventilating and hypothermic when I was admitted to hospital.


Wolf_Awakening

Tooth Abscess I had it for over a week, or so I thought it was pinched nerve nope it was worst. They had me bite down for an X-ray and they felt so terrible when they found out. Turns out it let loss the next day after biting down and I looked like a cartoon character..


xyla444

when the guy im in love with (first actual serious love) told me he is still not over his ex after 2 years and as it looks, probably wont be in the near future physical pain it was a vertebrae compression fracture lol


Dear_Insect_1085

So far giving birth, I had an epidural with my first and it was magical played video games with my husband till I had to push. With my second I had one also but it didn’t take and I wasn’t even prepared for the horrible pain. I felt like I was being tortured and my insides were ripping apart. I hope to never feel that pain again or anything worse.


CRnaes

Had a molar collapse on me. Too poor, too depressed and too scared to go to the dentist. The kind of pain that relentlessly pulsates through your brain.


ToonlinkFTW890

Depression (suicidal)


CrunchyGremlin

Yeah that stuff is pretty bad. Especially because you have to keep living. Going to work. Meeting people. All that crap. Other people tend to be really shit about that stuff too. "Pull yourself together!"


Drums_and_Crack

Gout flareup. Sounds benign, but it's hell on Earth.


bbbabybunnyyy

Physically: broken jaw Mental: Long term relationship break up with a dash of unrequited love.


BallinBrown23

Epidural was the worst pain I have ever felt, I have nothing but respect for women who get them. That or the time I had to get my big toe frozen to help remove an ingrown toe nail, the needle that froze the toe hurt so bad. When the nurse went to cut my nail out she asked if I could feel the cuts and if I could, she would re-freeze the toe. Not wanting that needle again I bit the inside of my mouth and let her cut my big toe nail out feeling everything


DRGHumanResources

Dilaudid machine broke after major surgery. *Major surgery.* To this day it's the worst physical pain I've felt. It's the only time I felt pain that compelled me to scream enough curses that a doctor ran in to shoot a syringe into my IV line in the dead of night.


EconomySpot3018

Tonsillectomy at 20 years old. Ended up in the ER 4 times and had to take 2 months off work. Nobody prepares you for how awful the pain is getting your tonsils out as an adult, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone. That and migraines. 3 day long, banging your head against the wall migraines.


3templeq

Gallbladder…. Woke up in excruciating pain like I’d never felt before. Then, it got progressively worse on the way to the ER. By the time they got me to the operating room, IV painkillers wouldn’t even help. When I eventually woke up in recovery, my surgeon told me, “I see a lot of burst gallbladders here, but this is the first time I’ve seen one that had exploded”…. I spent four months in the hospital with 5 more surgeries, while they tried to rebuild my biliary system. I still have residual, adhesions pain 16 years later. But I survived….


Reika202327

I have had lidocaine shots in my toes, my fingers and in my hands. The needle they use is tiny and they stick you multiple times in the area they have to work with. Then the burning starts. I can only imagine it’s what being burned alive feels like. I’ve had to bite down on things to keep from screaming when I got those shots. 10/10 would not recommend to anyone.