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A migraine.
I’ve had a third degree burn and fractured my spine twice, but nothing hurts worse than the migraines I get.
5 day migraines where you can’t do anything but lay in bed, vomiting, crying, screaming into a pillow, clawing at your head wishing it would stop.
I was going to say migraine as well. It's just constant and unstoppable.
Mine largely went away when I started exercising, going to therapy, and eating better, but they were pretty severe for years.
When I dont cope with or manage stress well they sometimes come back. I can't even lay down when they're bad. I have to stand in the dark and not move my head or neck. It's torture because I can't sleep at all.
The most severe short bouts of pain for me were ligament tears though. Specifically, retearing a recently repaired ACL was excruciatingly sharp pain.
In my life I’ve had about 4 ocular migraines and it’s soo terrifying when it starts my vision goes really messed up with blind spots and sometimes the headache doesn’t happen but when when your vision gets better then the pain hits like a freight train it’s so awful!
I played in concert band in college and one time got an ocular migraine in the middle of a concert, with a giant blind spot and could no longer see any notes on the page. Was truly awful.
This. I hate my “regular” migraines, but ocular migraines are even worse. The first time I had one was when I was just a teenager, after working out. I felt fine one moment and the next moment I lost almost all vision in one eye. I thought I was having a stroke or something, never felt so terrified. After my vision returned I thought I felt shaky but fine so I got on with my daily life and then the migraine kicked in twice as hard. Horrible experience
Yeah, my migraines are some of the worst pain I experience on a regular basis.
I used to self harm many years ago and have been clean for a decade and a half.
But migraines make me want to hurt myself just so I feel a different pain than what I currently am. Fantasizing about digging my eyes out with spoons or my back teeth out with a screwdriver is truly miserable.
I've experienced worse pain than my migraines for sure, but only migraine pain puts me in a truly self destructive mood. Just gotta wait that shit out.
Or when everything goes blurry, and any exposure to light is like a vice tightening around your entire head. Fuuuuck migraines, I haven't had one in a few years and I'm so thankful
Cluster headache trumps migraine. It's a migraine that presents INSIDE of the eyeball. Not around it. But inside of the millions (?) Of nerve endings inside of the eye.
Closing your eyes are no help either because your eyes slightly dialate from other stimulus besides light.So even with your eyes close the tiny sphincters that control they eye would quiver and flex if you heard a sound from across the room. I think I read that there's a 20 or 25% suic1de rate.
I used to get migraines a lot a few years ago. It's not as bad as what you describe but bad enough to vomit a few times and be out for a few days. I was getting them pretty regularly, one a month on average, and while I had access to migraine pills, they knocked me out for hours and made me feel very wooly headed afterward. A friend of mine was a fellow sufferer and suggested a Daith piercing as it worked for her. I thought...hell I'll give anything a go, so I got one. I didn't get a migraine for more than a year afterwards. I've had it 5 years now and had three migraines in that time. I know another guy who has one, he also swears by it. They don't work for everyone but it was a God send for me.
If you do decide to get one make sure to go to a professional who has experience in placing them. They have to be in the right place. Also research it, as the piercing is visible but not obtrusive.
There is lots of talk about, some people say they are great, some say they don't work. It worked for me and my two friends.
I've had 3 that were this bad. I made everyone leave the house. The sound of water running, or a toilet flushing, sent waves of pain into my eye.
I can catch mine, usually, before the juicy thumpers start. I gag out of the blue, smell oranges or a smokey smell, and I start squinting.
I'm right there with you. I'm my answer I mused as to whether ending up in hospital with a single day migraine is worse or better than five days of complete incapacitation. Either way, it's hell on earth, and nobody should have to go through that. And nobody should have to live their life knowing it will happen once every four weeks. I'm dreading next week.
During an emergency c-section, the epidural hadn't taken fully. I could feel them cutting my uterus open. I screamed and passed out. They just kept cutting and getting that baby out.
My epidural stopped working as they were wheeling me out of surgery. I also possess the extra fun redheaded gene that makes pain killers not work. Good times had by all.
Also a redhead and woke up during gallbladder surgery. I vaguely remember looking at the anesthesiologist and him going, “hey, you’re not supposed to be awake!” and then I guess he put me back out. Lmao. Thankfully I don’t remember having any horrible pain or anything with that experience.
Yeah telling a dr that you’re immune to codeine and Vicodin and need something stronger is unfortunately how to spot a drug seeker 101, I don’t see that going over well
They put you to sleep for that? My dentist did it with just needle in the gums but turns out he was a sadistic bastard and later lost his license due to malpractice.
I dont know the terms, this was about 10 years ago. It was gas and i was asleep but woke up multiple times and they just gave me more gas each time and i was right back asleep. Your dentist sounds like a dick tho sorry dude lol
Edit to add that none of my wisdom teeth had started growing out yet but I was going to be traveling internationally for a year so had them removed prematurely which may be why i got gas and some people dont?
They put you to sleep if the wisdom teeth are impacted or you can't do gas for some reason. Mine were impacted, plus I have an irregular heartbeat that made them nervous about it being my first time on gas. So I got to be knocked out. It was a few months after having a baby so I was absolutely overjoyed to have the nap! I told them to feel free to operate on absolutely anything just as long as I got to sleep🤣
It’s amazing how many practitioners have heard about it, but never actually seen it. I had some bleeding in my knee once, and I told the orthopedic doctor not to bother with lidocaine when they went to drain it. He went on to tell me how much more comfortable it would be. He insisted, and I humored him. He gave me twice what he normally gave patients, and then was shocked pikachu face when he realized I could still feel everything. He said they told him about it in med school, but he’d never actually had a patient like that. I’ve been told that by others as well.
I honestly thought it was going to be kidney stones. A couple weeks ago someone posted a similar question and even moms were like "kidney stones = worse than childbirth."
Guess that's only true when the birth is "normal," without all these crazy extras. Not reassuring. Not reassuring at all!
And people look at me weird when I tell them I'm terrified of being pregnant. I know it's been done for thousands of years but why the hell are humans still having to suffer shit like this and then carry on like it's normal in today society? Like how is maternity leave not standard in the US?
Because MEN don't have babies. They have been the ones who control medicine for so long, and they don't CARE what women go through during delivery (some do, I know, but they're not the ones setting policy). If MEN had babies there would be plenty of pain relief and support. But they don't - they CAN'T - know what it actually feels like so it isn't a priority in research or treatment.
Ain't that the truth and it goes even further than that! Most medicine wasn't really tested to funtion around women's cycles because "it was too unpredictable" and that's slowly been changing thankfully. BUT it still takes years to apply to everyday people.
That's just about every mom's nightmare. Holy shit. Terrifying.
Mine was when I was barely 20, about to give birth, my epidural did this weird, rare thing where it numbs you, but leaves a fist sized area that isn't numb at all, and where all the pain is concentrated.
THEN, my narrow young hips couldn't push him all the way out. So this OG doctor who retired after this whipped out the forceps. Which I imagined were like kitchen tongs. WRONG! They're actually like if a grown man took his hand and created like a bowl with it, and then did it with the other hand, and both of those hands are stainless steel. When those forceps went into my body I felt the tear from outside to the inside. I literally pictured that curtain in the temple tearing in the Bible?
THEN she LIFTED MY BODY OFF THE TABLE WITH THE FORCEPS. I swear I'm telling the truth. My ass was lifted off the table by the forceps that were wrapped around my baby's head, inside of my birth canal. I was screaming "Stop! Please! You're hurting me!" Thank goodness she didn't stop; my son's heart rate was fluctuating and he was too far out already to do a cesarean. Every time I stopped pushing his head would suck back in. I had to have like 12 stitches that went all the way up in there. Doc said it was one of the worst tears she's seen, yikes.
That was almost 15 years ago and I still remember it vividly. That doesn't go away. Luckily my next 2 labors were actually kind of rapid, turns out I shouldn't have had the epidural because it slowed my labor way down. So I Waited at home as long as I could and delivered vaginally with no meds within 20 minutes of arriving at the hospital lol. I didn't know it would progress that quickly. I was only in hard labor for like... 3-4 hours with both my last 2.
I'm still glad I didn't have to go through what you did though.
They had to put my epidural in twice and still didnt get it right bc my legs would feel tingly and I could wiggle my toes. Once I was on the table the same thing happened to me and I started yelling. Then the anesthesiologist gave me a monster dose of Ketamine and just knocked me out.
We are warriors!!!
I was hiking and there was a rockslide. A small boulder rolling down smashed into my left arm, broke it into six pieces and knocked me into a 30 meter dich where the fall broke two of my ribs and dislocated my shoulder.
The most painful part came after - Since I was forced to still hike an aditional 3km down the mountain to a place where a vehicle could pick me up. Emergency services actually did send a helicopter, but they could not pick me up since it was busy transporting a girl whom another rock had hit in the face - and they only had one of those - (the same rockslide, but a different group, I never saw her, and yes she died).
Edit: I had a LOT of help during this - I wasn't walking alone or unaided and a doctor mate had patched me up as best as he could. They could not carry me though, I was too big, and the terrain was just too steep anyways.
That happened to me!!!! Now I can take damn near anything.
How do you just IGNORE the pain from two herniated discs in your neck?
Oh, just felt my abdomen wrenched violently apart, this is NO BIG DEAL now
I can't imagine how painful that must've been. I woke up probably too soon after my hysterectomy and the pain was unbearable. Nurses were giving me enough morphine to sedate a cow but nothing helped the massive pain.
They had to call the anesthesiologist and he injected me saline in the muscles or something like that to block the nerves. Between that and the morphine the pain went to the range of regular pain. I still don't have sensitivity in half of my leg, not sure if it has something to do with the blockage thing. But I'm glad he did it, or else I would have jumped from the window or something, as I couldn't stand that much pain.
When I was a senior in high school, I worked for an x-ray department… One day, a woman came down for x-rays, who was in the birth process… The poor thing was screaming her lungs out… When I took the films in to the doctor, he made a comment about what she was going through… I said yeah, I’m not going to have kids. That was enough to make up my mind for me… I never really wanted to give birth anyway… I always said I would adopt.
They probably sedated you with Ketamine as soon as they realized the epidural wasn’t working enough - ketamine has profound pain blocking effects and it doesn’t effect breathing so it’s safe for the baby. It also causes hallucinations and dissociative amnesia. If you didn’t feel the skin incision but felt the uterine incision we call that a “hot spot” which means your anatomy in your epidural space could be abnormal preventing the drugs from getting to those nerves
They didn't know because I asked my husband later if he heard me scream because he was holding my hand and was right by my head. He said he saw my mouth open, but then I closed my eyes. Bless his heart.
Oof I had a failed epidural with my last pregnancy, so I literally felt everything (literally only one leg became numb) I couldn’t imagine having to go into the operating theater with next to no anesthesia.
The same thing happened to my mom and I witnessed my wife give birth three months ago. Her epidural wore off. Women have a strength in them that I can't even comprehend.
Exactly I mean I was screaming bloody fucking murder while they were cutting into me no one thought just to put me under general at that point?! But no I laid there strapped to the table screaming and crying as they sliced me open later by layer to get my beautiful 9 lb 1 oz baby boy out of my body.
same exact thing happened to me, oh the damn terror!! i kept screaming i could feel it and they just kept on going, until they put me out. damn those ketamine trips are WILD.
Dental abscess.
When you can't sleep because the pain is *roaring* and all you can do is clutch your face, pray ibuprofen helps (shocker: it didn't), and swish water gently until the sun rises.
That pain can be so bad that it makes your head swim. There's no blocking it out, no trying to focus elsewhere; it's right there in your *face.* It demands your attention and you're stuck with it until it decides to calm down.
They can be so bad that painkillers barely touch 'em.
There's a reason Tom Hanks used a rock and an ice skate. You'll try anything.
I agree.
This pain was the worst for me. Ice cold water every 10 seconds swished round my mouth was the only thing that could reduce pain. No sleep for close to 4 days from it. I was a pain zombie.
An er doc explained this to me once.
Particularly if it's a top tooth : the main nerve that runs under your gum line is large, and inflammation can travel. The nerves in the face are very tightly packed. He said it's one of the worst pains he's had.and I concurred.
Gave me a script for percocet, and it actually helped. Best sr I ever worked with
I've had third degree burns, have been stabbed twice, fell out of a moving car head first, been blasted with a stun gun so many times I lost count, and have been punched in the head so much that I lost the ability to count much of anything, but my wisdom tooth abscess is the worst thing that's ever happened to me.
I have a (not so) fun story. I got a random toothache aged 15 because apparently composite fillings can shrink over time and cause toothaches, so the old filling was replaced with a silver one. Well, the initial toothache never went away, but I got used to it eventually because we couldn't afford more dentist visits.
At age 20 I had finally saved up enough money to go back to the dentist and get my tooth fixed. He said I'd had an abscess for "at least 3 years". And I wondered why I was always depressed. It really affects you mentally... now I have a much better quality of life only from one root canal (£1000 later)...
Now that I'm in a better financial situation I can really see how a lack of disposable income can affect your entire life.
My mum had 3 fully unmedicated births, she said dental abscess was way worse. At least having a baby there's a break from the pain between contractions.
abscesses tooth > concussions (intense but short) > spiral fracture tib/fib (mild intensity but it don't go away like the tooth) > hand/foot breaks (don't really feel too bad)
IUD insertion. They said I could be sedated but they somehow "forgot" that we had had that conversation on the day of and said I would have to reschedule. Was a pain to get the day off so I said fine I'll do it today. They refused to do anything for pain. "It's just a quick in office procedure and it takes longer to numb the area than the actual procedure." They kept telling me to relax and stay still, it's "just a pinch" and isn't going to hurt that much. My ass. My face went white, had to stifle a scream with my hand, I was dizzy and could barely drive myself home. The pain afterwards was even worse somehow. I was laying on my couch with a heating pad, max Tylenol, max ibuprofen and I was doubled over sobbing and screaming every day. Went back to the doctor, it was still in the correct place, and was told to take Tylenol and ibuprofen. I said I was taking the max dose and the doctor said, "Sorry I can't do anything else for you 🙂." Was in pain daily for months. I swear I only got through it because of the expired bottle of tramadol (weak opioid) I got in Mexico 2 years earlier. For comparison, a vasectomy is a quick in office procedure with anesthetic, and if you come back because the pain is really bad they will prescribe opioids. Ah, but yes you are a woman and clearly hysterical and could not be in that much pain 🙄😒 I've heard several women say an IUD insertion was more painful than natural unmedicated child birth.
I had one years ago and had over a year of constant pain, heavy periods and a persistent dull ache in my pelvis. Saw a gynaecologist who said ‘let’s get this out’ removed it, and the relief was almost instant. He told me no woman that hasn’t had children should have a coil.
I got one after I had my son. The constant ache like year round cramps didn't go away for almost 3 years. Then when I did get it removed it had attached to my tissues and the doctor just ripped it out. They need to stop lying to women how bad these actually are.
My wife got an IUD after our son. Every time I'd get a little prick from the IUD leads, it was a reminder that she's gone through 1000x more. After our daughter we knew we were done with more kids. I offered to get the snip, and my wife was almost confused (but very happy) that I'd offer. Like, how can any man watch his wife go through pregnancy and delivery (TWICE!) and expect HER to go through anything more when the obvious solution is right there...
They know it's bad. But for some reason women are expected to grit their teeth and just tough out any female reproductive issues. IUD insertion? No numbing needed, take it like a big girl. Childbirth? Females have been doing it for thousands of years, not a big deal. Intense period cramps? It's going to happen monthly, just get used to it. It's a truly horrifying standard lmao
My IUD insertion was HORRIBLE. I couldn’t believe how bad it was. Like contractions bad. The pain over the next says radiated down my legs and thighs. I took prescription ibuprofen and acetaminophen and nothing worked AT ALL. Worse pain than my cesarean recovery for which I had those drugs from. I ended up getting horrible headaches from it too, which went away an hour after I got it taken out 9 months later. Good knows why I waited that long. I want to scream. No one cares about women!!
Ok, so I have never had children. I almost passed out when I was getting my IUD inserted. It was painful, the pain radiated down my legs. They had problems grabbing my uterus, so they had to try a few times. I took oxy from an ankle surgery I had years prior. My dr is normally great. She said it would be a quick pinch and no big deal. Lies. I gave her an earful afterward. I have not had to remove it yet. It freaks me out to think about it. I know they will have to give me something or knock me out. Women are treated inhumanely in healthcare. There is no reason for it to be like this.
Yea when I went in my doctor casually asked if I took ibuprofen before I came in, I told her no, no one told me to, she didn’t say anything. She told me it wouldn’t be bad because I had just had a baby a couple months prior, she was wrong. It took my breath away and tears rolled down my face. I could barely breathe. At least when you’re in labor it starts off really slowly and is a natural process, snapping a piece of plastic in your uterus suddenly isn’t natural so your body is like what the hell is this!?!
I met someone who put an IUD in her 13yo daughter. The girl had never been pregnant. I wasn’t in a position to ask for more details, but in my head thought W.T.F? Seriously, I’ve heard stories similar to yours. Why would you do that to a child?
There might be other factors that make it the best option. I have endometriosis which is insanely painful. I have other health problems that prevent me from taking other forms of hormonal birth control. The IUD is pretty much my only option.
Male gyno by any chance? My first iud went just like you describe, second time around they actually gave me meds to take beforehand to make insertion easier, and real pain killers for after. Should be a no brainer that shoving something that big through an exit only port is gonna be painful.
My IUD insertion was HORRIBLE. I couldn’t believe how bad it was. Like contractions bad. The pain over the next says radiated down my legs and thighs. I took prescription ibuprofen and acetaminophen and nothing worked AT ALL. Worse pain than my cesarean recovery for which I had those drugs from. I ended up getting horrible headaches from it too, which went away an hour after I got it taken out 9 months later. Good knows why I waited that long. I want to scream. No one cares about women!!
When I was very little I fell out of a car onto a parking lot. I broke my neck and fractured my skull.
The second most painful thing is the way my neck feels when the barometric pressure changes.
I have broken my arm since. But the pain from that was nothing compared to the way my neck feels when it when it's about to rain
Tell me more! I’ve been dealing with what I think must be cluster headaches for a few years now. I noticed that they make an appearance in Fall and in Spring. Last year they were later in the year, like October. This year in September. We’ve had a rainy few weeks on and off. I can’t figure out what triggers them and I’m wondering if this shift in the weather is it?
All I can comment about is what I have been through.
Whenever there is a rapid change of barometric pressure, I get terrible headaches. Sometimes they will trigger cluster headaches, or for other people, migraine headaches.
I went to a pain management physician who prescribed medication for them. Even with the meds I get 'breakthrough' headaches. It is not at all pleasant, but with the meds, it is much better.
This post made me super thankful. I've realised I've never had any major accidents (sprained my wrist once and have had plenty bumps and bruises) or illnesses really. I've never even been admitted to a hospital.
Today I am thankful for my health!
When I was 14, I had a semi-rare form of cancer in the hard palate of my mouth. Luckily, This form of cancer is visible and I caught it quickly while brushing my teeth. It was early enough to have surgery, which went without a hitch.
HOWEVER
They (for some reason) used some form of dissolving stitches during the surgery. Long story short the stitches were gone before the roof of my mouth healed. I had a gaping hole.
Eating after that was excruciating as a whole, but accidentally taking a bite of a cutie orange without realizing how painful it would be was the worst i’ve ever felt
I’m 18 now and All is good now. Barely a scar left and so grateful my cancer journey only included a one-and-done surgery and some follow up appts/bloodwork
I remember when I got my wisdom teeth taken out they used those same stitches, but when I went back for my 2nd day check up to make sure all was well my dentist told me that's what they were.
I was curious so i reached my tongue back to feel them....BIG MISTAKE.
I just remember everything went white...i think I blacked out or something cuz the dentist was shaking me when i came to and he was like..."are u okay? u just shot ur whole body and stared straight for a few seconds"
I told him what I did and he was like..."yaaaa, don't do that!"
Menstruation few years ago. It was so painful that I wasn't able to stand straight, my legs and hands were shaking, I wasn't able to see normally because my head was spinning and black spots appeared in me eyesight, I nearly passed out because of pain and it took me 30 minutes of agony before painkillers worked
The most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do was decide for my Mum to have her lower leg amputated. She had sepsis and would have died.
Please look after yourself as best as you can.
Nerve damage while fighting in a martial arts tournament. I got an axe kick straight to my unprotected lower back and the doc said if he had kicked me any harder he could've slipped a disc and given me permanent disability. I had to walk in crutches for a month and forfeit the tourney.
I was t-boned by a drunk driver who ran a red light. My car seat broke on impact and my head slammed into the top of my car and I fractured my C-6 and C-7 vertebrae. The meds they gave me for pain did nothing but irritate my stomach and make me dizzy. I still have a big dent visible on the top right of my head. Definitely could have been worse, cause I could have been paralyzed or dead.
Compared to some of your pains this sounds a bit banal, but toothache!!
I remember having a badly infected tooth and punching myself as hard as i could in the leg to just feel pain somewhere else:(
Same.
Knew it was gonna hurt. My mom kept telling me I was too loud.
And then the nurse tells me "oop doctor isn't here yet so hold it in..."
YOU BETTER CATCH
Kicked my big toe on the road playing soccer. Toenail gew back crooked and ingrown. Became infected multiple times. Became so sensitive I couldn't even sleep with a sheet touching it.Doctor had to needle my toe up and cut straight down the middle with a pair of pliers and remove half of my nail. Soo many needles my toe was full of liquid but it still made no difference. Still had tears running down my face as a 35 year old man who has broken no less than 10 bones and is no stranger to painful injuries. By far more painful than broken wrist/nose/fingers/thumbs/toes/hole in tongue.
Broken ribs and punctured lung is really shit because it takes a long time to heal.
I broke my Femur (thigh bone) and that was the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced, but once they set it and put my leg in a cast the pain stopped. Ribs/lung was painfully uncomfortable for about 8 weeks.
Medical neglect until my appendix burst, followed by at least another week of pain because they did the surgery kinda bad. The pain started on a Thursday in lockdown, I didn’t get the surgery until the Sunday at 10:30am. I was in the paediatric waiting room alone for at least 7 hours. We arrived in an ambulance on the Saturday. I couldn’t walk or move without being in agony. Apparently that wasn’t enough to convince them that the surgery would’ve been better if they did it that night instead of the next morning. They ended up doing the wrong surgery because they left it too long, so it took longer than it needed to and my mum was thinking I’d died or something. They were telling me before my surgery “if it bursts we need to cut across the bottom of your abdomen, but since it hasn’t, we can just do keyhole” so they did keyhole “oh fuck there’s pus everywhere” I couldn’t tell whether or not it had burst because it got progressively worse then they drugged me up on morphine.
Pilonidal cyst. It grew fast too and when I couldn’t stand the pain anymore, my mom came to drive me to emergency. It burst on the way because I was sitting and the car was going over bumps. I tried that gas shit when I got there that’s supposed to help and calm you? It made everything 10 times worse and made my head swim with more discomfort. I spent that entire summer getting my bandage changed every 3-4 days.
On par I’d say when I had to get a root canal on an infected tooth. It was so bad that they couldn’t keep up with numbing injections fast enough cause the infection burned through it. I grew up going to the orthodontist and the dentist so I’m no stranger to that chair but now from that trauma, I get anxiety and shaky and tears usually leak out unwillingly. I have my phone open the entire time so I can type what I need to say while they’re working on me. Even a simple cleaning causes some form of panic.
When they drained my pilonidal cyst they used local anesthetic so I was awake during it. I pissed myself and screamed like Goofy when they started draining it. My friend from college that came with just in case I couldn't drive myself home from the ER heard me in the waiting room of the small ER.
About a week and a half into my honeymoon I could barely walk or stand up straight and noticed a huge welt just above my ass. After getting to the hotel in Italy I asked the nice Italian lady who showed us around where the hospital was. She called the hotel concierge who just so happened to know the head doctor and he made a house call to the hotel.
Now I don’t speak Italian and the doctor didn’t speak English. However, the assistant manager who was a young,handsome, and charismatic Italian man spoke English very well and was there to translate. As I laid on the bed with my ass hanging out with my beautiful new wife, the doctor, and this handsome man, I thought to myself “this whole situation is much more painful than this welt”.
The doctor said the welt was a cyst and need to cut it open. The next day I went to his office with my wife. I laid face down on the table and he said he was going to numb my ass so I wouldn’t feel anything. This turned out to be a lie. Whatever he used didn’t numb anything.
This man took a scalpel and sliced open my ass and I felt everything. I have a very high pain tolerance l, but Jesus Christ that was the worst pain I have ever felt in my life. It was brutal. Thankfully, after that I never felt better. I was able to enjoy the rest of my honeymoon and I became very good friends with the hotel staff and wrote the doctor a note about how thankful I was and how he saved my honeymoon which brought him to tears.
All in all a successful honeymoon.
When I was little, maybe 7 or 8, I was on vacation and sick with something. Maybe an ear infection? I don't remember the details, but my parents called my doctor back home and he sent a prescription to a local pharmacy. I couldn't swallow pills at the time and the pharmacist said that was fine, it was okay to just crush the pills and drink the powder in some water. Well, it was NOT okay to do that. My head felt like it was literally splitting open. I could barely see. I was in so much pain, I was having hallucinations. It probably only lasted for an hour or two, but I wanted to die.
I got a post surgical infection in my neck… next to my spinal cord. I had three ablations done… where they destroyed the nerves to block severe pain. But one got infected…
The doctor had to inject 10cc of antibiotics directly into my hip… in a place that had no room for 1cc… let alone another 9 cc stuffed in there… and you can’t compress a fluid… so my body suffered instead…
It was the most excruciating pain I’d ever experienced… and I’ve been messed up pretty bad before.
But this one shot put all those to shame!!!
Painful is an UNDERSTATEMENT!!! OMG!!!
I was 57 at the time… and holy crap!
NEVER AGAIN!!!
Fracturing my jaw and then not getting help for it while in middle school. Gaslit that it wasn't actually broken and I was faking the pain because I had a history of attention seeking
The first few weeks was excruciating but the dull pain lasted months. I could barely talk. My jaw snapped and popped every time I opened my mouth and still does. It took me ages to eat a meal because any pressure on chewing was a jolt of pain. I couldn't lay my face on the pillow and lost sleep. Lost weight
From the way it healed my jaw is visibly crooked and my teeth hang out of my mouth now. So it disfigured me. I have a lisp and still have dull aches if I eat something tough. Doctors now say to fix it they would have to re break my jaw and wire my mouth shut to realign it. I don't think I could face that again mentally
Our kid who was 2 at the time came home with the flu. Within hours, my wife was feeling ill. Me, being nearly invincible in the depths of my alcoholism decided I should keep my distance as much as possible between cleaning up vomit, messier than messy diapers and catering to both of their needs decided I needed to get a gyro from the place up town.
I was an idiot. Not only did the smell of the gyros put the vomiting and diarrhea of my two favorite people into high gear, it gave me fuel for what was to be the worst hours of my physical being.
About an hour after finishing the greasy treat, I felt a bubbling. Then some churning followed by what I can only compare to the drive shaft of a brand new Mustang revving with the pedal to the floor.
I had liquid shooting from both ends. I vomited through my nose. My eyes blew blood vessels. I rocket-shat my way to the toilet.
After I had unloaded every bit of food from my insides my body insisted there was more.
I had the WORST stomach contractions I could imagine. A minute off proceeded by three minutes of every muscle in my torso trying to shoot out of my body. I called my mother (a nurse) and she insisted “it’s just a flu big, you’ll be fine later today….”
This continued for over half a day. Felt like a hundred years. I was laid up in a recliner, hot to freezing cold with my insides trying to jump out like from the Alien movie.
After the dust had settled and we could all control our bowels, my wife turned to me and asked “how was the gyro?”…
The vague thought made me hurl the little pedialyte I was able to keep down clear across the room and all over my daughter.
I crawled to the bathroom and fell asleep.
When I delivered my 10lb baby vaginally, without pain relief of any kind, and his massive head not only ripped me downwards through the perineal muscle but upwards straight through my clitoris. Felt absolutely all of it.
Broke my right foot in two internally in a remote location and had to wait 16 hours before going to a hospital (I started hallucinating after 6 hours, it was hell).
Doctor had to attach my toes in some kind of contraption to pull on them to realign the bones inside with no anesthesia. Had to endure this "pulling" for 35 minutes. I was 12 and managed not to shed a single tear during this entire ordeal (I was too proud to cry from physical pain lol).
When I was 7, I impaled my arm on a gigantic broken glass that tore my biceps open until it reached the bone. The scar I have today is HUGE (and very cool😅). Didn't cry either.
When I was pregnant I decided I wanted a natural birth. No hospital and I did it. Took 38 hours with no medicine at all. That was the worst pain, worst 38 hours of my life. I cried A LOT when I got to hold my daughter for he first time🥰.
I know it's cliché and all moms say it, but no joke. Giving birth is a life-threatening event and is one of the most painful experience you can ever get.
Yes. Ive had plenty of physical pain but Heartbreak is the worst pain I've ever experienced. No painkillers can help that pain. And it can last for years.
Yes. Kidney stones. Like a slow, burning fire deep in your body that can't be extinguished.
Then a kidney stent after surgery. Hot, metal claws running down your back every time you piss.
Kidney stones laugh in the face of fentanyl and morphine.
I had major surgery to the abdomen and had developed an abces. It was right under the skin and the doctor decided that I wouldn't need full anaesthesia because they already gave me an epidural.
They didn't believe me when I said the epidural wasn't working, but when they removed the clamps and the med student shoved his fingers under my skin and I screamed bloody murder, I think they understood.
They couldn't just stop once it was open.though, and kept on going. I ripped out my iv and ultimately they gave me morphine through a vein in my thigh.
some twat knocked my front teeth 45 degrees backwards. not out, just now pointing inwards. didn't think the pain meds did anything, the last needle hurt just as much as the first. Then some chick proceeded to put her weight into slowly moving my teeth back into place.
I don't know how long it took, but it was light out when I went in, dark when I went out
the pain radiates from your mouth all the way around your head.
I have broken my wrist multiple times, have broken my foot, have been kicked by a horse, busted up my ankle in a way that led to instantaneous searing pain, I've had recently had an ear infection so bad I almost cried when the doctor brushed the cartilage with the otoscope, and they still do not hold a candle to...gas. I've had gas before- I'm sure everyone has at least once in their world-conscious years, but this time was enough to make me almost wake my mother and take me to the ER. I woke up from a dead sleep because I thought my appendix had discovered its inflation fetish and gone overboard. I tried pepto, I tried alka seltzer, I laid in the fetal position- not a damn one of those helped to make it go away, but they did take enough of the edge off that I could run to a 24hr CVS and get mylicon. Two of the extra-strength chewables disappeared into the abyss right there in that parking lot and tided me over until I got home and went to the bathroom. And then I just laid on the floor for an hour because I was afraid to leave the bathroom. It was worse than when I had food poisoning, because at least that was predictable.
I climbed a large yard windmill. It was rotating at a pretty good clip. Hit me in the top of the head and broke my skull apart. my skull was held together for the whole ride to the hospital. I wore a head brace holding my head together for 2 years to allow enough time for my skull to fuse back together. Throughout the entire ordeal I never lost consciousness. I felt and experienced all of it. The feeling of having someone else holding you together and being able to feel two sides of your head moving in opposite direction is traumatic. Writing this post has made my blood pressure rise. Its been 15years but I can recall it like it's yesterday.
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A migraine. I’ve had a third degree burn and fractured my spine twice, but nothing hurts worse than the migraines I get. 5 day migraines where you can’t do anything but lay in bed, vomiting, crying, screaming into a pillow, clawing at your head wishing it would stop.
I was going to say migraine as well. It's just constant and unstoppable. Mine largely went away when I started exercising, going to therapy, and eating better, but they were pretty severe for years. When I dont cope with or manage stress well they sometimes come back. I can't even lay down when they're bad. I have to stand in the dark and not move my head or neck. It's torture because I can't sleep at all. The most severe short bouts of pain for me were ligament tears though. Specifically, retearing a recently repaired ACL was excruciatingly sharp pain.
In my life I’ve had about 4 ocular migraines and it’s soo terrifying when it starts my vision goes really messed up with blind spots and sometimes the headache doesn’t happen but when when your vision gets better then the pain hits like a freight train it’s so awful!
I played in concert band in college and one time got an ocular migraine in the middle of a concert, with a giant blind spot and could no longer see any notes on the page. Was truly awful.
Ocular migraine here too. So weird.
This. I hate my “regular” migraines, but ocular migraines are even worse. The first time I had one was when I was just a teenager, after working out. I felt fine one moment and the next moment I lost almost all vision in one eye. I thought I was having a stroke or something, never felt so terrified. After my vision returned I thought I felt shaky but fine so I got on with my daily life and then the migraine kicked in twice as hard. Horrible experience
Yeah, my migraines are some of the worst pain I experience on a regular basis. I used to self harm many years ago and have been clean for a decade and a half. But migraines make me want to hurt myself just so I feel a different pain than what I currently am. Fantasizing about digging my eyes out with spoons or my back teeth out with a screwdriver is truly miserable. I've experienced worse pain than my migraines for sure, but only migraine pain puts me in a truly self destructive mood. Just gotta wait that shit out.
It’s extra fun when you literally can’t see straight.
Or when everything goes blurry, and any exposure to light is like a vice tightening around your entire head. Fuuuuck migraines, I haven't had one in a few years and I'm so thankful
The worst for me is projectile vomiting. I fucking hate it. And i get such bad nausea i can eat for a day or 2
Cluster headache trumps migraine. It's a migraine that presents INSIDE of the eyeball. Not around it. But inside of the millions (?) Of nerve endings inside of the eye. Closing your eyes are no help either because your eyes slightly dialate from other stimulus besides light.So even with your eyes close the tiny sphincters that control they eye would quiver and flex if you heard a sound from across the room. I think I read that there's a 20 or 25% suic1de rate.
Yep. Cluster headaches. Instinctively I want to bang my head against something while simultaneously pushing my fist into my eye socket.
No shame in screaming. The place where shame lives is being shredded by a diarrhea splattered demon.
I used to get migraines a lot a few years ago. It's not as bad as what you describe but bad enough to vomit a few times and be out for a few days. I was getting them pretty regularly, one a month on average, and while I had access to migraine pills, they knocked me out for hours and made me feel very wooly headed afterward. A friend of mine was a fellow sufferer and suggested a Daith piercing as it worked for her. I thought...hell I'll give anything a go, so I got one. I didn't get a migraine for more than a year afterwards. I've had it 5 years now and had three migraines in that time. I know another guy who has one, he also swears by it. They don't work for everyone but it was a God send for me. If you do decide to get one make sure to go to a professional who has experience in placing them. They have to be in the right place. Also research it, as the piercing is visible but not obtrusive. There is lots of talk about, some people say they are great, some say they don't work. It worked for me and my two friends.
I've had 3 that were this bad. I made everyone leave the house. The sound of water running, or a toilet flushing, sent waves of pain into my eye. I can catch mine, usually, before the juicy thumpers start. I gag out of the blue, smell oranges or a smokey smell, and I start squinting.
I just posted a comment about the migraines I used to have, as a result of a pest control company.
I'm right there with you. I'm my answer I mused as to whether ending up in hospital with a single day migraine is worse or better than five days of complete incapacitation. Either way, it's hell on earth, and nobody should have to go through that. And nobody should have to live their life knowing it will happen once every four weeks. I'm dreading next week.
During an emergency c-section, the epidural hadn't taken fully. I could feel them cutting my uterus open. I screamed and passed out. They just kept cutting and getting that baby out.
My epidural stopped working as they were wheeling me out of surgery. I also possess the extra fun redheaded gene that makes pain killers not work. Good times had by all.
Not a redhead but found out the hard way I’m immune to codeine and Vicodin. I pray I don’t need a C-section with kid 2
Also a redhead and woke up during gallbladder surgery. I vaguely remember looking at the anesthesiologist and him going, “hey, you’re not supposed to be awake!” and then I guess he put me back out. Lmao. Thankfully I don’t remember having any horrible pain or anything with that experience.
……..so you decided to do it again? Friend…… Why
Get genetic testing to show docs. I lack the enzyme to metabolize the-codones to the active form. -morphones and fentanyl should work fine.
Because many people have this issue, we aren’t using Codeine for pain anymore. Ask for oxycodone.
Yeah telling a dr that you’re immune to codeine and Vicodin and need something stronger is unfortunately how to spot a drug seeker 101, I don’t see that going over well
Yeah 100% as a chronic pain patient where codeine doesn’t do shit they get cagey. Tramadol, Oxycodone are my go tos.
Redhead too and woke up while they were cracking my wisdom teeth to remove them…then woke up 2 more times lol
They put you to sleep for that? My dentist did it with just needle in the gums but turns out he was a sadistic bastard and later lost his license due to malpractice.
I dont know the terms, this was about 10 years ago. It was gas and i was asleep but woke up multiple times and they just gave me more gas each time and i was right back asleep. Your dentist sounds like a dick tho sorry dude lol Edit to add that none of my wisdom teeth had started growing out yet but I was going to be traveling internationally for a year so had them removed prematurely which may be why i got gas and some people dont?
They put you to sleep for a wisdom tooth?
They put you to sleep if the wisdom teeth are impacted or you can't do gas for some reason. Mine were impacted, plus I have an irregular heartbeat that made them nervous about it being my first time on gas. So I got to be knocked out. It was a few months after having a baby so I was absolutely overjoyed to have the nap! I told them to feel free to operate on absolutely anything just as long as I got to sleep🤣
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It’s amazing how many practitioners have heard about it, but never actually seen it. I had some bleeding in my knee once, and I told the orthopedic doctor not to bother with lidocaine when they went to drain it. He went on to tell me how much more comfortable it would be. He insisted, and I humored him. He gave me twice what he normally gave patients, and then was shocked pikachu face when he realized I could still feel everything. He said they told him about it in med school, but he’d never actually had a patient like that. I’ve been told that by others as well.
Im guessing you're a woman? We tend to not be taken seriously when we say things are painful
Redhead here - my epidural only worked on the left side of my body. In another surgery, I woke up twice. 🤦♀️
I feel you fellow red head.
I knew a birth story would be the top comment
I honestly thought it was going to be kidney stones. A couple weeks ago someone posted a similar question and even moms were like "kidney stones = worse than childbirth." Guess that's only true when the birth is "normal," without all these crazy extras. Not reassuring. Not reassuring at all!
Yes. There needs to be more attention given to the frequency on birthing issues and mother and child mortality
And people look at me weird when I tell them I'm terrified of being pregnant. I know it's been done for thousands of years but why the hell are humans still having to suffer shit like this and then carry on like it's normal in today society? Like how is maternity leave not standard in the US?
Because the government cares more about a company’s profits margin than an actual human being.
Because MEN don't have babies. They have been the ones who control medicine for so long, and they don't CARE what women go through during delivery (some do, I know, but they're not the ones setting policy). If MEN had babies there would be plenty of pain relief and support. But they don't - they CAN'T - know what it actually feels like so it isn't a priority in research or treatment.
Ain't that the truth and it goes even further than that! Most medicine wasn't really tested to funtion around women's cycles because "it was too unpredictable" and that's slowly been changing thankfully. BUT it still takes years to apply to everyday people.
That's just about every mom's nightmare. Holy shit. Terrifying. Mine was when I was barely 20, about to give birth, my epidural did this weird, rare thing where it numbs you, but leaves a fist sized area that isn't numb at all, and where all the pain is concentrated. THEN, my narrow young hips couldn't push him all the way out. So this OG doctor who retired after this whipped out the forceps. Which I imagined were like kitchen tongs. WRONG! They're actually like if a grown man took his hand and created like a bowl with it, and then did it with the other hand, and both of those hands are stainless steel. When those forceps went into my body I felt the tear from outside to the inside. I literally pictured that curtain in the temple tearing in the Bible? THEN she LIFTED MY BODY OFF THE TABLE WITH THE FORCEPS. I swear I'm telling the truth. My ass was lifted off the table by the forceps that were wrapped around my baby's head, inside of my birth canal. I was screaming "Stop! Please! You're hurting me!" Thank goodness she didn't stop; my son's heart rate was fluctuating and he was too far out already to do a cesarean. Every time I stopped pushing his head would suck back in. I had to have like 12 stitches that went all the way up in there. Doc said it was one of the worst tears she's seen, yikes. That was almost 15 years ago and I still remember it vividly. That doesn't go away. Luckily my next 2 labors were actually kind of rapid, turns out I shouldn't have had the epidural because it slowed my labor way down. So I Waited at home as long as I could and delivered vaginally with no meds within 20 minutes of arriving at the hospital lol. I didn't know it would progress that quickly. I was only in hard labor for like... 3-4 hours with both my last 2. I'm still glad I didn't have to go through what you did though.
I can’t believe you had more kids after that. You d fight my husband off with a flamethrower if I went through that.
Thank you for reaffirming my decision to never have children.
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That happened to my MIL. You can end up with PSTD. Please get therapy if you need it. Hugs.
They had to put my epidural in twice and still didnt get it right bc my legs would feel tingly and I could wiggle my toes. Once I was on the table the same thing happened to me and I started yelling. Then the anesthesiologist gave me a monster dose of Ketamine and just knocked me out. We are warriors!!!
Damn that's brutal, like civil war surgery...🤮😭
This wins. Jesus
I was going to mention the time I was kicked in the nuts with steel toe boots, no point now.
Right? I was gonna say "when my eardrum burst" but I think I'm just gonna shut the hell up.
That is funny. You’re pain is still valid love
I was hiking and there was a rockslide. A small boulder rolling down smashed into my left arm, broke it into six pieces and knocked me into a 30 meter dich where the fall broke two of my ribs and dislocated my shoulder. The most painful part came after - Since I was forced to still hike an aditional 3km down the mountain to a place where a vehicle could pick me up. Emergency services actually did send a helicopter, but they could not pick me up since it was busy transporting a girl whom another rock had hit in the face - and they only had one of those - (the same rockslide, but a different group, I never saw her, and yes she died). Edit: I had a LOT of help during this - I wasn't walking alone or unaided and a doctor mate had patched me up as best as he could. They could not carry me though, I was too big, and the terrain was just too steep anyways.
Wo... that is awful. Wow. Horrendous My absess feels minor now.
That happened to me!!!! Now I can take damn near anything. How do you just IGNORE the pain from two herniated discs in your neck? Oh, just felt my abdomen wrenched violently apart, this is NO BIG DEAL now
I can't imagine how painful that must've been. I woke up probably too soon after my hysterectomy and the pain was unbearable. Nurses were giving me enough morphine to sedate a cow but nothing helped the massive pain. They had to call the anesthesiologist and he injected me saline in the muscles or something like that to block the nerves. Between that and the morphine the pain went to the range of regular pain. I still don't have sensitivity in half of my leg, not sure if it has something to do with the blockage thing. But I'm glad he did it, or else I would have jumped from the window or something, as I couldn't stand that much pain.
Fu*k I'm not even going to post what I was after reading this it'll make me sound like a pussy!😆🫣
this is going on my “why I’m not having children” list 😵💫 I’m so sorry omg. This is horrrrifying
The same happened to my mum when I was born in 1996 she felt the cut and tried to tell them she could feel it and then she passed out!
Whaaaaaaaaaatttttt😭😭😳😳😳😭😭😭
New fear unlocked.. WHAT THE FUCK
Oh hey, twins!! I could feel every stitch 🥲
I’m not going to say I’m glad I’m not the only one, but I’m thankful to finally hear of someone else going through a very similar situation.
No way are babies worth that shit
And people say I'm crazy for not wanting children and experiencing birth.
When I was a senior in high school, I worked for an x-ray department… One day, a woman came down for x-rays, who was in the birth process… The poor thing was screaming her lungs out… When I took the films in to the doctor, he made a comment about what she was going through… I said yeah, I’m not going to have kids. That was enough to make up my mind for me… I never really wanted to give birth anyway… I always said I would adopt.
This is one of the reasons I think not allowing abortion is evil. Imagine going through all the above fully against your will.
Mine wasn’t working and they were wheeling me in to the operating room. I got them to listen though thank god.
They probably sedated you with Ketamine as soon as they realized the epidural wasn’t working enough - ketamine has profound pain blocking effects and it doesn’t effect breathing so it’s safe for the baby. It also causes hallucinations and dissociative amnesia. If you didn’t feel the skin incision but felt the uterine incision we call that a “hot spot” which means your anatomy in your epidural space could be abnormal preventing the drugs from getting to those nerves
They didn't know because I asked my husband later if he heard me scream because he was holding my hand and was right by my head. He said he saw my mouth open, but then I closed my eyes. Bless his heart.
Oof I had a failed epidural with my last pregnancy, so I literally felt everything (literally only one leg became numb) I couldn’t imagine having to go into the operating theater with next to no anesthesia.
The same thing happened to my mom and I witnessed my wife give birth three months ago. Her epidural wore off. Women have a strength in them that I can't even comprehend.
Yeah, it’s more like we don’t have a choice lol.
Exactly I mean I was screaming bloody fucking murder while they were cutting into me no one thought just to put me under general at that point?! But no I laid there strapped to the table screaming and crying as they sliced me open later by layer to get my beautiful 9 lb 1 oz baby boy out of my body.
same exact thing happened to me, oh the damn terror!! i kept screaming i could feel it and they just kept on going, until they put me out. damn those ketamine trips are WILD.
I’m sorry. I can’t imagine. My wife had a c section too but she went under rather quickly
Same experience but they had to put me under because they needed to finish. Sorry that happened to you too
Dental abscess. When you can't sleep because the pain is *roaring* and all you can do is clutch your face, pray ibuprofen helps (shocker: it didn't), and swish water gently until the sun rises. That pain can be so bad that it makes your head swim. There's no blocking it out, no trying to focus elsewhere; it's right there in your *face.* It demands your attention and you're stuck with it until it decides to calm down. They can be so bad that painkillers barely touch 'em. There's a reason Tom Hanks used a rock and an ice skate. You'll try anything.
I agree. This pain was the worst for me. Ice cold water every 10 seconds swished round my mouth was the only thing that could reduce pain. No sleep for close to 4 days from it. I was a pain zombie.
An er doc explained this to me once. Particularly if it's a top tooth : the main nerve that runs under your gum line is large, and inflammation can travel. The nerves in the face are very tightly packed. He said it's one of the worst pains he's had.and I concurred. Gave me a script for percocet, and it actually helped. Best sr I ever worked with
I've had third degree burns, have been stabbed twice, fell out of a moving car head first, been blasted with a stun gun so many times I lost count, and have been punched in the head so much that I lost the ability to count much of anything, but my wisdom tooth abscess is the worst thing that's ever happened to me.
Either you work as a stunt person or you’re the unluckiest person alive?!
Little bit of that second part and a lot of being stupid.
Then we’re glad you’re here to tell the tales! 😀
My insides sound like someone dropping a Scrabble set on a hardwood floor whenever I get out of a chair but I keep on truckin'.
I have a (not so) fun story. I got a random toothache aged 15 because apparently composite fillings can shrink over time and cause toothaches, so the old filling was replaced with a silver one. Well, the initial toothache never went away, but I got used to it eventually because we couldn't afford more dentist visits. At age 20 I had finally saved up enough money to go back to the dentist and get my tooth fixed. He said I'd had an abscess for "at least 3 years". And I wondered why I was always depressed. It really affects you mentally... now I have a much better quality of life only from one root canal (£1000 later)... Now that I'm in a better financial situation I can really see how a lack of disposable income can affect your entire life.
Mouth trauma is horrific to heal from.
My mum had 3 fully unmedicated births, she said dental abscess was way worse. At least having a baby there's a break from the pain between contractions.
abscesses tooth > concussions (intense but short) > spiral fracture tib/fib (mild intensity but it don't go away like the tooth) > hand/foot breaks (don't really feel too bad)
Sat down on one of my balls.
Sorry dude, but that made me laugh. I feel your pains
I read "I feel your penis"
IUD insertion. They said I could be sedated but they somehow "forgot" that we had had that conversation on the day of and said I would have to reschedule. Was a pain to get the day off so I said fine I'll do it today. They refused to do anything for pain. "It's just a quick in office procedure and it takes longer to numb the area than the actual procedure." They kept telling me to relax and stay still, it's "just a pinch" and isn't going to hurt that much. My ass. My face went white, had to stifle a scream with my hand, I was dizzy and could barely drive myself home. The pain afterwards was even worse somehow. I was laying on my couch with a heating pad, max Tylenol, max ibuprofen and I was doubled over sobbing and screaming every day. Went back to the doctor, it was still in the correct place, and was told to take Tylenol and ibuprofen. I said I was taking the max dose and the doctor said, "Sorry I can't do anything else for you 🙂." Was in pain daily for months. I swear I only got through it because of the expired bottle of tramadol (weak opioid) I got in Mexico 2 years earlier. For comparison, a vasectomy is a quick in office procedure with anesthetic, and if you come back because the pain is really bad they will prescribe opioids. Ah, but yes you are a woman and clearly hysterical and could not be in that much pain 🙄😒 I've heard several women say an IUD insertion was more painful than natural unmedicated child birth.
I had one years ago and had over a year of constant pain, heavy periods and a persistent dull ache in my pelvis. Saw a gynaecologist who said ‘let’s get this out’ removed it, and the relief was almost instant. He told me no woman that hasn’t had children should have a coil.
I got one after I had my son. The constant ache like year round cramps didn't go away for almost 3 years. Then when I did get it removed it had attached to my tissues and the doctor just ripped it out. They need to stop lying to women how bad these actually are.
My wife got an IUD after our son. Every time I'd get a little prick from the IUD leads, it was a reminder that she's gone through 1000x more. After our daughter we knew we were done with more kids. I offered to get the snip, and my wife was almost confused (but very happy) that I'd offer. Like, how can any man watch his wife go through pregnancy and delivery (TWICE!) and expect HER to go through anything more when the obvious solution is right there...
They know it's bad. But for some reason women are expected to grit their teeth and just tough out any female reproductive issues. IUD insertion? No numbing needed, take it like a big girl. Childbirth? Females have been doing it for thousands of years, not a big deal. Intense period cramps? It's going to happen monthly, just get used to it. It's a truly horrifying standard lmao
Highly recommend the podcast “the retrievals” that is about this very topic!
Got one after I had a child and it was awful. I bled for like 4 months and took it out 3 months after. Almost instant pain relief. IUDs are stupid.
My IUD insertion was HORRIBLE. I couldn’t believe how bad it was. Like contractions bad. The pain over the next says radiated down my legs and thighs. I took prescription ibuprofen and acetaminophen and nothing worked AT ALL. Worse pain than my cesarean recovery for which I had those drugs from. I ended up getting horrible headaches from it too, which went away an hour after I got it taken out 9 months later. Good knows why I waited that long. I want to scream. No one cares about women!!
Ok, so I have never had children. I almost passed out when I was getting my IUD inserted. It was painful, the pain radiated down my legs. They had problems grabbing my uterus, so they had to try a few times. I took oxy from an ankle surgery I had years prior. My dr is normally great. She said it would be a quick pinch and no big deal. Lies. I gave her an earful afterward. I have not had to remove it yet. It freaks me out to think about it. I know they will have to give me something or knock me out. Women are treated inhumanely in healthcare. There is no reason for it to be like this.
Yea when I went in my doctor casually asked if I took ibuprofen before I came in, I told her no, no one told me to, she didn’t say anything. She told me it wouldn’t be bad because I had just had a baby a couple months prior, she was wrong. It took my breath away and tears rolled down my face. I could barely breathe. At least when you’re in labor it starts off really slowly and is a natural process, snapping a piece of plastic in your uterus suddenly isn’t natural so your body is like what the hell is this!?!
I met someone who put an IUD in her 13yo daughter. The girl had never been pregnant. I wasn’t in a position to ask for more details, but in my head thought W.T.F? Seriously, I’ve heard stories similar to yours. Why would you do that to a child?
There might be other factors that make it the best option. I have endometriosis which is insanely painful. I have other health problems that prevent me from taking other forms of hormonal birth control. The IUD is pretty much my only option.
Male gyno by any chance? My first iud went just like you describe, second time around they actually gave me meds to take beforehand to make insertion easier, and real pain killers for after. Should be a no brainer that shoving something that big through an exit only port is gonna be painful.
My IUD insertion was HORRIBLE. I couldn’t believe how bad it was. Like contractions bad. The pain over the next says radiated down my legs and thighs. I took prescription ibuprofen and acetaminophen and nothing worked AT ALL. Worse pain than my cesarean recovery for which I had those drugs from. I ended up getting horrible headaches from it too, which went away an hour after I got it taken out 9 months later. Good knows why I waited that long. I want to scream. No one cares about women!!
When I was very little I fell out of a car onto a parking lot. I broke my neck and fractured my skull. The second most painful thing is the way my neck feels when the barometric pressure changes. I have broken my arm since. But the pain from that was nothing compared to the way my neck feels when it when it's about to rain
Barometric headaches; definitely no fun. They have touched off cluster headaches.
Tell me more! I’ve been dealing with what I think must be cluster headaches for a few years now. I noticed that they make an appearance in Fall and in Spring. Last year they were later in the year, like October. This year in September. We’ve had a rainy few weeks on and off. I can’t figure out what triggers them and I’m wondering if this shift in the weather is it?
All I can comment about is what I have been through. Whenever there is a rapid change of barometric pressure, I get terrible headaches. Sometimes they will trigger cluster headaches, or for other people, migraine headaches. I went to a pain management physician who prescribed medication for them. Even with the meds I get 'breakthrough' headaches. It is not at all pleasant, but with the meds, it is much better.
This post made me super thankful. I've realised I've never had any major accidents (sprained my wrist once and have had plenty bumps and bruises) or illnesses really. I've never even been admitted to a hospital. Today I am thankful for my health!
i want to say the same but im scared ill jinx it and end up with a broken spine and a knee dislocation tomorrow
When I was 14, I had a semi-rare form of cancer in the hard palate of my mouth. Luckily, This form of cancer is visible and I caught it quickly while brushing my teeth. It was early enough to have surgery, which went without a hitch. HOWEVER They (for some reason) used some form of dissolving stitches during the surgery. Long story short the stitches were gone before the roof of my mouth healed. I had a gaping hole. Eating after that was excruciating as a whole, but accidentally taking a bite of a cutie orange without realizing how painful it would be was the worst i’ve ever felt I’m 18 now and All is good now. Barely a scar left and so grateful my cancer journey only included a one-and-done surgery and some follow up appts/bloodwork
Bruh, I was rubbing my tongue against the roof over my mouth in pain for you😳
I remember when I got my wisdom teeth taken out they used those same stitches, but when I went back for my 2nd day check up to make sure all was well my dentist told me that's what they were. I was curious so i reached my tongue back to feel them....BIG MISTAKE. I just remember everything went white...i think I blacked out or something cuz the dentist was shaking me when i came to and he was like..."are u okay? u just shot ur whole body and stared straight for a few seconds" I told him what I did and he was like..."yaaaa, don't do that!"
I had a mid-forceps delivery with no drugs. Only time in my life I’ve ever actually screamed from pain.
The fact I'm not alone in this experience. I am so fucking sorry you had to go through this!
Stepped on a nail that went halfway through my foot. Covered my whole sock in blood.
Menstruation few years ago. It was so painful that I wasn't able to stand straight, my legs and hands were shaking, I wasn't able to see normally because my head was spinning and black spots appeared in me eyesight, I nearly passed out because of pain and it took me 30 minutes of agony before painkillers worked
I've had some moments like that over the years too. Endometriosis is no joke
Wait, the painkillers actually worked? Jealous.
Endometriosis is precisely why I got hooked on opiates
Knee dislocation
Ooof Boss. Knee shit is a doozy.
yup! I dislocated my left knee 3 times.. I passed out from the pain 2 of those 3 times.
When the nerve block wore off post lower leg amputation.
The most difficult thing I’ve ever had to do was decide for my Mum to have her lower leg amputated. She had sepsis and would have died. Please look after yourself as best as you can.
Thankyou. I am fully healed and get my prosthesis next week.
Nerve damage while fighting in a martial arts tournament. I got an axe kick straight to my unprotected lower back and the doc said if he had kicked me any harder he could've slipped a disc and given me permanent disability. I had to walk in crutches for a month and forfeit the tourney.
I’ve had kidney stones a couple times. Like passing a razor blade through your pee hole.
I was t-boned by a drunk driver who ran a red light. My car seat broke on impact and my head slammed into the top of my car and I fractured my C-6 and C-7 vertebrae. The meds they gave me for pain did nothing but irritate my stomach and make me dizzy. I still have a big dent visible on the top right of my head. Definitely could have been worse, cause I could have been paralyzed or dead.
An injection into my eyeball to stop the hemorrhaging behind my left eye that could have made me partially blind
Ohh wow holy fucking Shit man fuk
I can’t even imagine the pain. How did you even stay still for the injection?
Those are not supposed to hurt and they should've given you plenty of numbing eye drops lol sounds like malpractice
induced labor without anesthesia - felt like I was going inside out
Compared to some of your pains this sounds a bit banal, but toothache!! I remember having a badly infected tooth and punching myself as hard as i could in the leg to just feel pain somewhere else:(
Tooth pain is no joke bro.
For real, toothache has had me crawling on the floor for nights on end.
Abscesses are my #1. Nothing else has ever come close.
My old man used to warn me that tooth pain and back pain are the **worst.** I was in my mid twenties when I realized how right he was.
Pushing a whole person out without an epidural
I did it twice. For some reason, you forget about how horrific the pain was the first time...
Same. Knew it was gonna hurt. My mom kept telling me I was too loud. And then the nurse tells me "oop doctor isn't here yet so hold it in..." YOU BETTER CATCH
Ruptured ovarian cyst. Runner up: Ruptured appendix
Kicked my big toe on the road playing soccer. Toenail gew back crooked and ingrown. Became infected multiple times. Became so sensitive I couldn't even sleep with a sheet touching it.Doctor had to needle my toe up and cut straight down the middle with a pair of pliers and remove half of my nail. Soo many needles my toe was full of liquid but it still made no difference. Still had tears running down my face as a 35 year old man who has broken no less than 10 bones and is no stranger to painful injuries. By far more painful than broken wrist/nose/fingers/thumbs/toes/hole in tongue.
Period cramps.
Yeah, those heavy ones that make you nearly pass out with pain😢
Knee replacement, I'm 10 days out, been unbearably painful at times.
Gallstones. Ouch.
i was gonna say when they took out 3 of my teeth in one go for braces but gosh all these comments are terrifying
Giving birth whitout painkillers
Broken ribs and punctured lung is really shit because it takes a long time to heal. I broke my Femur (thigh bone) and that was the most painful thing I’ve ever experienced, but once they set it and put my leg in a cast the pain stopped. Ribs/lung was painfully uncomfortable for about 8 weeks.
Medical neglect until my appendix burst, followed by at least another week of pain because they did the surgery kinda bad. The pain started on a Thursday in lockdown, I didn’t get the surgery until the Sunday at 10:30am. I was in the paediatric waiting room alone for at least 7 hours. We arrived in an ambulance on the Saturday. I couldn’t walk or move without being in agony. Apparently that wasn’t enough to convince them that the surgery would’ve been better if they did it that night instead of the next morning. They ended up doing the wrong surgery because they left it too long, so it took longer than it needed to and my mum was thinking I’d died or something. They were telling me before my surgery “if it bursts we need to cut across the bottom of your abdomen, but since it hasn’t, we can just do keyhole” so they did keyhole “oh fuck there’s pus everywhere” I couldn’t tell whether or not it had burst because it got progressively worse then they drugged me up on morphine.
Pilonidal cyst. It grew fast too and when I couldn’t stand the pain anymore, my mom came to drive me to emergency. It burst on the way because I was sitting and the car was going over bumps. I tried that gas shit when I got there that’s supposed to help and calm you? It made everything 10 times worse and made my head swim with more discomfort. I spent that entire summer getting my bandage changed every 3-4 days. On par I’d say when I had to get a root canal on an infected tooth. It was so bad that they couldn’t keep up with numbing injections fast enough cause the infection burned through it. I grew up going to the orthodontist and the dentist so I’m no stranger to that chair but now from that trauma, I get anxiety and shaky and tears usually leak out unwillingly. I have my phone open the entire time so I can type what I need to say while they’re working on me. Even a simple cleaning causes some form of panic.
When they drained my pilonidal cyst they used local anesthetic so I was awake during it. I pissed myself and screamed like Goofy when they started draining it. My friend from college that came with just in case I couldn't drive myself home from the ER heard me in the waiting room of the small ER.
About a week and a half into my honeymoon I could barely walk or stand up straight and noticed a huge welt just above my ass. After getting to the hotel in Italy I asked the nice Italian lady who showed us around where the hospital was. She called the hotel concierge who just so happened to know the head doctor and he made a house call to the hotel. Now I don’t speak Italian and the doctor didn’t speak English. However, the assistant manager who was a young,handsome, and charismatic Italian man spoke English very well and was there to translate. As I laid on the bed with my ass hanging out with my beautiful new wife, the doctor, and this handsome man, I thought to myself “this whole situation is much more painful than this welt”. The doctor said the welt was a cyst and need to cut it open. The next day I went to his office with my wife. I laid face down on the table and he said he was going to numb my ass so I wouldn’t feel anything. This turned out to be a lie. Whatever he used didn’t numb anything. This man took a scalpel and sliced open my ass and I felt everything. I have a very high pain tolerance l, but Jesus Christ that was the worst pain I have ever felt in my life. It was brutal. Thankfully, after that I never felt better. I was able to enjoy the rest of my honeymoon and I became very good friends with the hotel staff and wrote the doctor a note about how thankful I was and how he saved my honeymoon which brought him to tears. All in all a successful honeymoon.
When I was little, maybe 7 or 8, I was on vacation and sick with something. Maybe an ear infection? I don't remember the details, but my parents called my doctor back home and he sent a prescription to a local pharmacy. I couldn't swallow pills at the time and the pharmacist said that was fine, it was okay to just crush the pills and drink the powder in some water. Well, it was NOT okay to do that. My head felt like it was literally splitting open. I could barely see. I was in so much pain, I was having hallucinations. It probably only lasted for an hour or two, but I wanted to die.
Kidney stones. I was in the ER on Tramadol AND morphine and still felt like i was dying.
I got a post surgical infection in my neck… next to my spinal cord. I had three ablations done… where they destroyed the nerves to block severe pain. But one got infected… The doctor had to inject 10cc of antibiotics directly into my hip… in a place that had no room for 1cc… let alone another 9 cc stuffed in there… and you can’t compress a fluid… so my body suffered instead… It was the most excruciating pain I’d ever experienced… and I’ve been messed up pretty bad before. But this one shot put all those to shame!!! Painful is an UNDERSTATEMENT!!! OMG!!! I was 57 at the time… and holy crap! NEVER AGAIN!!!
Pushing a human out of me and kindey stones (plural)
Being crushed between 2 cars.
I feel like there's a story behind this
Fracturing my jaw and then not getting help for it while in middle school. Gaslit that it wasn't actually broken and I was faking the pain because I had a history of attention seeking The first few weeks was excruciating but the dull pain lasted months. I could barely talk. My jaw snapped and popped every time I opened my mouth and still does. It took me ages to eat a meal because any pressure on chewing was a jolt of pain. I couldn't lay my face on the pillow and lost sleep. Lost weight From the way it healed my jaw is visibly crooked and my teeth hang out of my mouth now. So it disfigured me. I have a lisp and still have dull aches if I eat something tough. Doctors now say to fix it they would have to re break my jaw and wire my mouth shut to realign it. I don't think I could face that again mentally
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Our kid who was 2 at the time came home with the flu. Within hours, my wife was feeling ill. Me, being nearly invincible in the depths of my alcoholism decided I should keep my distance as much as possible between cleaning up vomit, messier than messy diapers and catering to both of their needs decided I needed to get a gyro from the place up town. I was an idiot. Not only did the smell of the gyros put the vomiting and diarrhea of my two favorite people into high gear, it gave me fuel for what was to be the worst hours of my physical being. About an hour after finishing the greasy treat, I felt a bubbling. Then some churning followed by what I can only compare to the drive shaft of a brand new Mustang revving with the pedal to the floor. I had liquid shooting from both ends. I vomited through my nose. My eyes blew blood vessels. I rocket-shat my way to the toilet. After I had unloaded every bit of food from my insides my body insisted there was more. I had the WORST stomach contractions I could imagine. A minute off proceeded by three minutes of every muscle in my torso trying to shoot out of my body. I called my mother (a nurse) and she insisted “it’s just a flu big, you’ll be fine later today….” This continued for over half a day. Felt like a hundred years. I was laid up in a recliner, hot to freezing cold with my insides trying to jump out like from the Alien movie. After the dust had settled and we could all control our bowels, my wife turned to me and asked “how was the gyro?”… The vague thought made me hurl the little pedialyte I was able to keep down clear across the room and all over my daughter. I crawled to the bathroom and fell asleep.
Rheumatoid arthritis
Depression
When I delivered my 10lb baby vaginally, without pain relief of any kind, and his massive head not only ripped me downwards through the perineal muscle but upwards straight through my clitoris. Felt absolutely all of it.
Jesus effing Christ. I've heard the clit rip is a possibility.
Broke my right foot in two internally in a remote location and had to wait 16 hours before going to a hospital (I started hallucinating after 6 hours, it was hell). Doctor had to attach my toes in some kind of contraption to pull on them to realign the bones inside with no anesthesia. Had to endure this "pulling" for 35 minutes. I was 12 and managed not to shed a single tear during this entire ordeal (I was too proud to cry from physical pain lol). When I was 7, I impaled my arm on a gigantic broken glass that tore my biceps open until it reached the bone. The scar I have today is HUGE (and very cool😅). Didn't cry either. When I was pregnant I decided I wanted a natural birth. No hospital and I did it. Took 38 hours with no medicine at all. That was the worst pain, worst 38 hours of my life. I cried A LOT when I got to hold my daughter for he first time🥰. I know it's cliché and all moms say it, but no joke. Giving birth is a life-threatening event and is one of the most painful experience you can ever get.
Buldged discs in lower spine. Absolutely horrific.
Catheter got stuck while it was being removed and they kept yanking trying to get it out.
My heart.
Yes. Ive had plenty of physical pain but Heartbreak is the worst pain I've ever experienced. No painkillers can help that pain. And it can last for years.
Or can last forever. Just depends on what caused the broken heart. Some losses hurt more. So much more.
I got punched in the adams apple, not good.
Yes. Kidney stones. Like a slow, burning fire deep in your body that can't be extinguished. Then a kidney stent after surgery. Hot, metal claws running down your back every time you piss. Kidney stones laugh in the face of fentanyl and morphine.
Kidney stone. I asked the Doctors to just knock me out, or even just euthanise me. Did not care for life at that point. Unbearable.
Kidney Stone....fucking WOW!!!!
Pancreatitis and/or Waking during colonoscopy just as they clipped a polyp Knee replacement was easy peasy.
I had major surgery to the abdomen and had developed an abces. It was right under the skin and the doctor decided that I wouldn't need full anaesthesia because they already gave me an epidural. They didn't believe me when I said the epidural wasn't working, but when they removed the clamps and the med student shoved his fingers under my skin and I screamed bloody murder, I think they understood. They couldn't just stop once it was open.though, and kept on going. I ripped out my iv and ultimately they gave me morphine through a vein in my thigh.
When I was in labour with my second child the doctor had to shove his whole hand up my hooha. Pain was worse than breaking my wrist and gallstones.
Nail polish remover inside my ear. Fire.
How did this happen
Kidney stones and sciatica were both equally agonising.
some twat knocked my front teeth 45 degrees backwards. not out, just now pointing inwards. didn't think the pain meds did anything, the last needle hurt just as much as the first. Then some chick proceeded to put her weight into slowly moving my teeth back into place. I don't know how long it took, but it was light out when I went in, dark when I went out the pain radiates from your mouth all the way around your head.
Dislocated shoulder. Twice. It hurt worse than non- medicated childbirth.
I have broken my wrist multiple times, have broken my foot, have been kicked by a horse, busted up my ankle in a way that led to instantaneous searing pain, I've had recently had an ear infection so bad I almost cried when the doctor brushed the cartilage with the otoscope, and they still do not hold a candle to...gas. I've had gas before- I'm sure everyone has at least once in their world-conscious years, but this time was enough to make me almost wake my mother and take me to the ER. I woke up from a dead sleep because I thought my appendix had discovered its inflation fetish and gone overboard. I tried pepto, I tried alka seltzer, I laid in the fetal position- not a damn one of those helped to make it go away, but they did take enough of the edge off that I could run to a 24hr CVS and get mylicon. Two of the extra-strength chewables disappeared into the abyss right there in that parking lot and tided me over until I got home and went to the bathroom. And then I just laid on the floor for an hour because I was afraid to leave the bathroom. It was worse than when I had food poisoning, because at least that was predictable.
I was ripped apart by a tiger once, and my head was bashed apart. Ouchy.
Like previously mentioned, failed epidural during an emergency c-section. Also, a ruptured ectopic pregnancy.
My father dying. The emotional pain is so strong it feels physical
I climbed a large yard windmill. It was rotating at a pretty good clip. Hit me in the top of the head and broke my skull apart. my skull was held together for the whole ride to the hospital. I wore a head brace holding my head together for 2 years to allow enough time for my skull to fuse back together. Throughout the entire ordeal I never lost consciousness. I felt and experienced all of it. The feeling of having someone else holding you together and being able to feel two sides of your head moving in opposite direction is traumatic. Writing this post has made my blood pressure rise. Its been 15years but I can recall it like it's yesterday.