This topic came up while talking with my sister. It seems that all her life she has had to deal with one or another type of physical pain.
I, on the other hand, have had almost no physical pain throughout my 22 years. So I thought up this question.
What's the worst physical pain that you have ever been in that you can remember?
For me it probably was a really bad sprained ankle I had in high school. I know it's lame, but that's all I got.
?
P.S. Remember that this is physical pain only. I personally think mental, emotional and spiritual pain is much worse.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
A sprained ankle with two torn ligaments. I've had a few broken bones, and this was worse. Also, the bruising was spectacular.
Posted by Jim-Me (Member # 6426) on :
When recovering from knee surgery, physical therapy the day they took me off morphine... and then later, they mis-filled my painkiller prescritpion with antihistamines... so I went the first few days out of the hospital with no pain relief at all, till we figured out what had happened.
Honorable mentions: 1)The dry socket infection when my wisdom teeth were pulled 2)The hangover resulting from finishing off 3/5 liter of Scotch single handedly 3)Getting upwards of 20 novacaine shots into my toe joints when getting warts removed (very intense pain, but only lasted a few minutes)
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Do migraines count? Because in seventh grade I had the worst migraine ever. I couldn't see, think, or breath. I didn't even want to live. I was practically in tears. And aspirine wasn't working. Worst of all, it was at school.
Posted by Astaril (Member # 7440) on :
The answer used to be cutting off the tip of my finger in a deli slicer, or the food poisoning I got at Wonderland, but they weren't so bad compared to the stomach cramps I got from eating one day about a year and a half ago. *shudder*
Posted by Gryphonesse (Member # 6651) on :
oh, I think migraines count. I get them regularly. MISERABLE agony when they're bad. No light, no sound mo movement and there's still a little man in your head with a hammer...
Posted by dawnmaria (Member # 4142) on :
Toss up between child-birth and having my jaw rebuilt. The drugs were better for my jaw. Liquid Demerol rocked!
Posted by Shawshank (Member # 8453) on :
Migraines defnitely count- my mother gets "Cluster Headaches" the absolute worse kind of pain you can have in your head. Neurologist said they are worse than pain from brain tumors, also called suicide headaches because a higher percentage of people who have them kill themselves to try and get rid of the pain.
As for me having pain- not really anything. One time in 3rd grade I fell and hit my head on concrete. That was probably it- I've ever broken a bone.
Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :
It's a tough call. My really serious injuries have all come with a healthy dose of shock so they weren't that bad. I think fracturing my kneecap and tearing off my ACL was probably the worst, but I might just be saying that because the rehab was around 3 years. All that and only 3 scars to show for it. Totally cheated.
Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :
Gryph, have you spent most of your life glaring at the little man menacingly?
Posted by maui babe (Member # 1894) on :
I had shingles when I was 5 months pregnant. Shingles was FAR more painful than childbirth was.
Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
I'll donate to this thread:
1 appendectomy 2 extremely bad migraines
Though, extremely bad for me seems light from what I've read about other people's migraines. It still hurt.
Posted by Belle (Member # 2314) on :
I had a badly infected ingrown toenail removed, that pain was worse than childbirth.
I'll also add the recovery period right after my abdominal hysterectomy - also very, very bad. After the first few hours, when my pain came under pharmaceutical management, it wasn't that big a deal.
For long term, endometriosis. Mainly because it was a different type of pain, it was a burning sensation type of pain, and it was relentless - there was a period of three or four years in between pregnancies where I had to take prescription pain meds almost every day. Thing is, I was so scared of becoming addicted to them, I usually only took them at night, so I could sleep, and during the day just had to cope with the pain.
Oh, I forgot - gallbladder attack. That wasn't fun either.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Worst was temp-capped tooth that went bad. It's a long, long story, but suffice it to say that my husband was trying to explain to an ER doctor why I couldn't walk straight and stank of bourbon and madeira at 3am. Both of them were laughing at me. (I was a medical student, and I didn't want to "bother the intern.")
Second worst: definitely one of the migraines or cluster headaches. I've had both, though not had pain from either for a long time now. If there were a handy method of suicide that didn't require me to get up off the floor, I would've used it.
Third worst: Agonizing UTI.
And neither open-heart surgery makes it on the list, despite the fact that I was just on advil alone at 4 days post-op. Diffeerent sort of pain.
Posted by Elizabeth (Member # 5218) on :
Childbirth. And I remember.
Posted by kojabu (Member # 8042) on :
Migraines!
Posted by Humean316 (Member # 8175) on :
With my back the way it is now, ruptured disc in my lower lumbar, it hurts to sit down for more than 5 minutes. The other day we went to Cheddars and after 5 minutes I was in agony. Ive had broken bones and a skull cracked open but this was much worse. The pain was in my leg and I had to sit there for 30 mins waiting for the advil to take effect. It never did of course. So thats my worst pain.
Posted by Vána (Member # 6593) on :
My freshman year of college I had to go to the emergency room for abdominal pain. It was all I could do to crawl the the phone to have someone come get me. In the end, they never did figure out what had caused it.
I've never had any broken bones or anything like that.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
It's a toss up from the multiple ongoing throbbing for the week after I got in a car accident (broken nose - two torn rotator cuffs - no painkillers) or the severly sprained ankle I got right before senior year playing basketball.
The doctor's recommendation for the ankle was 8 weeks on crutches. I decided on playing my senior year of football on it instead.
Posted by Rico (Member # 7533) on :
Let's see, I have a few:
Getting stabbed with a rusty nail in my eyebrow when I was younger (I was lucky I didn't lose an eye)
Getting my thumb struck by a big metal fan going full speed. At first when I hit it I didn't think anything was wrong so I stuck my thumb in my mouth to help the pain only to realize my mouth was filling with warm liquid, I pull my thumb out alarmed and I notice the liquid was indeed blood and that my thumb was spraying it everywhere. Thankfully it was only a really painful wound and my thumb was fine (no fracture or long term damage). I still have a big scar in my thumb though, right down the middle.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
Not childbirth itself because I had an epidural by that point, but the part where they were pumping 6 units of Pitocin into me and refused to give me pain medication. They asked me what my pain was on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being no pain and 10 being the worst pain imaginable. I said, "Nine and a half." Then I threw up because the pain was so bad.
(I wasn't progressing because I tense up when I'm in pain. If they'd given me the epidural at the start, I would have had the baby about three hours earlier. Next time, I will know this and demand it when I need it.)
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Belle, I totally understand the slow burning long-term pain. I have a spastic colon (sounds comical, but it isn't!) and the attacks I've had with that didn't result in sharp, agonizing pain, but 5-6 days of unbearable sizzling, burning pain all around my stomach and lower back. I had two attacks a year in high school until they figured out what it was. (I know it probably doesn't compare to real long-term pain, but I remember thinking "Why can't I handle this pain? It's really not sharp!" But I was still doubled over on the floor for 5 days at a time.)
I'd have to say that a migraine has been my worst and most unbearable pain to date. It's the only time I've ever considered calling an amublance for myself just so someone could come and knock me out. The fact that it's in my head just seems to make it even more unbearable. I can't think, I can't look at or hear anything without agony...yeah. It sucks.
Posted by Speed (Member # 5162) on :
I've had worse pain than this, but this is the one that still makes me wince to think about:
When I was about 10 years old I was out hiking with a friend of mine. We climbed a chain link fence that was about 6 feet high. When I reached the top I jumped off on the other side, and my thumbnail caught on one of the wires at the top. Ripped off nearly the entire thing in less than a second.
Oh, please make me stop thinking about that now.
Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
Ugh, me too. and it didn't even happen to me! *barf*
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Ahhhhhuugghhhh, Speed!
I just about elevated off my seat.
Posted by unicornwhisperer (Member # 294) on :
I'd have to say the removal of my wisdom teeth.. Tubal pregnancy comes at a far second.
Posted by beverly (Member # 6246) on :
I think maybe having a torn cornea. But it is hard to compare pain to pain, especially when different body parts hurt in such different ways. I may just have been particularly squicked because it was my eye. I'm squicky about eyes. Posted by Uhleeuh (Member # 6803) on :
Most painful would be the year I had a headache every day for 4 months in a row. Saw a neurologist and he said, once I was diagnosed, that they were likely the pain of 10 migraines combined. I was glad to see those go.
Second most painful was the spinal tap I had to get to make the headaches start to go away. They didn't completely go away until I lost at least 10% of my total weight at that point.
Yay for Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension! Posted by Gryphonesse (Member # 6651) on :
quote:Originally posted by SteveRogers: Gryph, have you spent most of your life glaring at the little man menacingly?
oh yes indeed. I've even considered killing him with an icepick thru my ear... but of course, in the long run that probably wouldn't work out for me. Thank God for vicodin and naproxen. (Imitrex just makes my skin crawl)
Posted by Goody Scrivener (Member # 6742) on :
Shattered wisdom tooth. Not only did I have exposed nerve but I think it may have cracked down into the jaw itself because the pain radiated all the way from the back of my ear to my chin, down my neck and up to my temple. And that lasted about a week the first time. Nothing worked to dull the pain or take my mind off it, and I couldn't bear to eat anything solid for days. Frozen yogurt smoothies were my best friend!
Every once in a while it will flare up again, usually when I get food stuck in the crevice, but nowhere as bad as that first week.
Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :
Dry sockets. Most definitely dry sockets.
It's like someone is ramming a hot electrical prod into your jaw, which then shoots the pain everywhere throughout your head.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Migraines. The kind where you see explosions even when you close your eyes and there are no pressure points to relieve the pain and the slightest noise is a clash of agony but that's ok because your ears are ringing so loud you think you're going deaf.
Posted by Mrs.M (Member # 2943) on :
Broken nose - actually, it was more the waking up 3 times in the middle of the 5-hour reconstructive surgery that was worse than the break itself.
Ovarian hyperstimulation wasn't much fun, either.
Posted by SC Carver (Member # 8173) on :
Without a doubt, Gale stones, nothing else has come close. (Not kidney stones, haven't had those yet) It felt like an alien was trying to get out and got stuck on my right bottom rib. For the worst attack I was balled up on the floor until I got a couple shots of pain killer. 1st one didn't work.
One of the women at work had the same thing, said it was much worse than child birth.
Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :
This thread has left me so upset and nauseated that I can not bear it. Empathy, pooh! Who needs it?
I live with pain, but I'm not gonna talk about it.
Posted by Xavier (Member # 405) on :
Yikes, these migraines sound NASTY! I would not trade all my pain in my life for one of the ones described here, methinks.
I've been burned, and it hurt pretty bad. I was playing with a lighter, melting various plastic items when a big drip of liquid plastic landed on my thumb.
I've had a broken toe, and it wasn't very fun. It got infected really badly, and even less fun was when I stubbed it again, rebreaking it.
I've had quite a few cuts which needed stitches. None of these gave me more than minor pain.
I don't consider any of these to be true pain, as true pain only comes to me through my teeth.
Twice in my life I have had infected roots for my teeth, and its hard to compare the experiences to eachother. Once was when I was 13 or so, and the other when I was 22. I think the time when I was 22 was probably worse, but I was older, and more able to deal with it. My preferred method of dealing with it was being curled up in a ball on my bathroom floor crying.
Tylenol with Codeine did absolutely nothing for me, except make me sick. Even vicodine barely was able to give me respite enough to sleep. I was going through Ambesol at a tube every couple hours. Amazingly though, plain old Ibuprofen helped. It reduced some of the inflamation, helping the pain more than the narcotics did.
But overall, I would say most people have had to deal with more pain than me, and I wouldn't be surprised if those two times are trumped by another problem down the road, most likely tooth related. All four of my wisdom teeth are severly impacted, so I'm sure they will do their best to hurt me...
Posted by Vid (Member # 7172) on :
When I had my wisdom teeth out, the codeine they gave me didn't affect me, but it didn't hurt that bad. And the dry sockets didn't hurt too bad either (the medication for dry sockets was the worst for me).
The worst pain I've ever felt: getting hit directly in the testicle by a hockey puck while playing pond hockey in February.
Posted by Farmgirl (Member # 5567) on :
I'm not going to re-relate my story that I've already told on Hatrack before about the big toenail-getting-ripped-off-the-bigtoe
I pained enough people the first time around.
FG
Posted by J T Stryker (Member # 6300) on :
Mine would have to be my chain saw accident. I was cleaning up downed trees and my friend, whom we shall refer to as moron, pulled on a log that i was standing on and i fell... I put a chain-saw a half inch deep across my leg, just below the knee cap. you know, the skin hurt way more than the bone... and i refused to go to the ER... until I caved the next day.... But i got out of the stitches because i waited "too long"... *happy dance*
Honorable mention- This would be my number one, but i had so much adrenaline that it didn't even tingle. My Last Wrestling match, I was at Free Style Nationals, in the semi-finals. I crushed 8 bones in my foot, broke 4 ribs, gave myself a stress fracture to my spinal column, and banged my head really hard on the other guys knee (they think the swelling from that is what finally made me pass out)... But I did win the match and took second over all, even though i was unconscious and on my way to the hospital....
Posted by Puppy (Member # 6721) on :
I had REALLY REALLY BAD ... er ... intestinal problems after eating a plate of undercooked brownies while I had the flu.
I woke up in the middle of the night thinking I had been stabbed in the gut with a jagged knife. I ran into the bathroom, and didn't know whether to sit and take care of the problem, or kneel and vomit from the pain.
Posted by Architraz Warden (Member # 4285) on :
I'm going to throw my vote in for dry socket.
However, the most disconcerting injury that involves a near abscence of pain is dislocating your knee. I don't recommend that.
Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Cramps.
Posted by JaimeBenlevy (Member # 6222) on :
I don't remember exactly how much pain I felt from this since I was 7 years old, but I imagine it was worse than anything I encountered recently. I was in Israel with my family when me and my older sister were jumping rocks. There was a large one that my sister dared me I couldn't jump. So obviously I took the dare. When I couldn't reach the top, my knee didn't just scrape across the rock like you'd expect it to. It collided head on with a jagged part that was sticking out. I remember seeing my bone. I should have gotten stitches, but being in Israel it was waved off with an "Ehhh, don't worry. No bullet wound, no pain." 8 years later, I still have the scar.
Posted by JenniK (Member # 3939) on :
Let's see, I've had dry socket..and then my sister's friend hit me in the head with a tennis ball while I was suffering from the dry socket. Ouch. Then there was the guy who dropped a giant can of spaghetti sauce ( they call it a "10 can...who knows why) on my big toe and broke that (through the work boot when I worked at Sam's club in Florida). I got my arm burned with bacon grease when I blocked it from hitting my face one summer during Jr.High. Still have the scars, but they only really show up when I am very tan, so that's a plus. Camping with my family when I was 5 and my sister was 8 she got to help chop the firewood with a hatchet, but I was "too young", so I waited until they went into the tent and picked up the hatchet to cut the wood ... and almost chopped my left thumb in half...didn't even notice 'til I saw my own blood...then I started screaming "MOMMY!" I have suffered horrific migraines since 10th grade.(had one last Friday wanted to curl up and die.) I broke my nuckle on my index finger when I got my hand caught in a very low ceiling fan... not very painful. The 3 most painful things I've ever felt would have to be (3) an epidural cortisone injection (you feel the layers of the spinal cord pop and can hear them as the needle goes through...and the Dr tells you not to breathe, move,(and to stop screaming) or he'll paralyze you from the waist down! (2)That horrible stomach pain in June that was caused by colon spasms. I couldn't eat, I couldn't move, and vicodin didn't touch the pain. threw up everything I ate because of the pain...not fun...... and (#1) is definately Kidney Stones! I don't wish them on my worst enemy. The Dr said it's is so much worse thannatural child birth - because the birth canal is meant to open and allow a child to pass through - the ureter is meant to fit something the width of a single human hair to pass through and it does not stretch so, fitting something the size of a small greenpea as you can imagine, is excruciating!
Posted by Choobak (Member # 7083) on :
My worst physical pain is the tendinitis at my arm which forbidden me to play Volley ball and the other in each side of my hip which forbidden me Karaté (Japanese martial art).
Else, i never broke bone or had bad ill.
Posted by mothertree (Member # 4999) on :
When I got the local anaesthetic in my broken toe so they could re set it. Normally they wouldn't bother, but it was sticking out like an opposable thumb.
I pretty much considered shooting myself when I had an abcessed tooth. There comes a point when letting a dentist stick tiny drills into the nerves of your teeth is the lesser evil.
Posted by Glenn Arnold (Member # 3192) on :
Before my first lumbar laminectomy, when worker's comp had refused to get me an MRI, I was in considerable pain frequently. When I coughed I would just fall down rather than fight the pain to remain standing, even if I was on concrete. But the real kickers were:
1. I got up to walk to the bedroom, because I knew my posture on the couch wasn't doing me any good, and as I walked, I found I could put less and less weight on one leg. When I flopped on the bed and started crying my wife called the EMT's and I felt stupid telling them how much it hurt, but then they rolled me onto a slat thing and tried to carry me out of the house. My foot hit the door jamb and it was all over. It felt like someone plugged all the nerves below my chest into the pain receptor and turned the volume up to 11. (Yes, I've ripped a toenail off. This felt like my whole lower body was the toenail)
2. After the first surgery, when they told me to lie flat on my back, doctors orders. It took them three hours to get someone who said, "Oh, yeah, you can put a pillow under his legs." At the same time, they got an order for morphine. I don't know which one solved it, 'cause I got the morphine first.
3. Before the second surgery, I was driving toward an intersection, minor back pain, like I was used to. When I hit the brake with my right foot, pain shot down my left leg. A car was coming through the intersection, and I had to consider whether it would hurt less to crash into the other car, or hold the brake down. Fortunately the car made it through just as I passed behind him.
Posted by SpiffWilkie (Member # 8464) on :
Kidney stones. It's the only pain that has made me physically ill. I've dislocated joints, broken many a bone, had stitches several times, etc. but kidney stones tops them all.
Posted by Tatiana (Member # 6776) on :
Migraines.
Posted by Telperion the Silver (Member # 6074) on :
When I broke my right ankle. OMFG... that hurt so much. I was sliding down a banister at college back in 98 and one of my buddies thought to scare me right at that moment… fell forward with my foot in-between the bars of the handrail. OUCH.
It still hurts a little to this day.
Posted by tt&t (Member # 5600) on :
Didn't read the thread because reading about pain makes me shudder.
Worst pain: probably getting 4 (still buried) wisdom teeth and 2 other teeth out at once, and getting dry socket in one of the bottom wisdom teeth.
Unrelated to the teeth, but the topic reminded me that ambulances should not hurt so much. Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
Somehow I injured my neck while swimming. It wasn't bad at first, hardly pain at all, so I kept swimming.
A couple days later, at a meet, during warmup, I go to practice my backstroke start, and PAIN. PAIN PAIN PAIN. I got out, and found my father, who tried to get me to stretch it out. BAD IDEA. MORE! PAIN! I couldn't move my neck, back, hips, or anything that would joggle my spine, for about an hour. It was horrible, and very scary.
A very close second or tie is when I got my wisdom teeth out and the initial pain medication wore off.
And somewhere in there was the super-hot day one summer when I was working and the airconditioner was busted, and I have having some of the worst period cramps I've ever had. I threw up, but fortunately by then I'd gotten someone to come in and relieve me. I then went home and yearned to die.
[ August 11, 2005, 01:57 AM: Message edited by: Eaquae Legit ]
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
Breaking my ankle was the worst pain I'd had at that point in my life, but migranes topped that out. I think I can do better in my life, though.
Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
I would love to say having my breasts squished as flat as a pancake (mammogram - today), but really, it wasn't as bad as other things I've experienced. Like. . .
Cramps. I've had hell periods since the very beginning. They were miserable to the point of curling up in a ball and sobbing like a baby. Pain killers have NEVER touched the pain until a month or so ago and ketchupqueen told me about some drugs she takes. I'm much happier now.
Or I could mention my broken & dislocated little toes. Broke the right one three times, the left one twice, and the worst break involved several dislocations and many breaks to the point of shattered bones. Local anaesthetic made me feel like decking the guy who gave it to me. It felt like torture, and yeah, I would have whimpered if I hadn't been screaming. Crushed the bones in a friend's hand.
Then there were the migraines. Been getting them since I was four or five, and they were at their worst when I was a teenager. From when I was 16 to about 18 or 19, I had a migraine every single stinking day, and some of them lasted for up to two weeks. The worst ones involved me being blind, or deaf, or unable to understand English (verbal or written), or left me partially paralyzed, or vomiting non-stop, or . . . Drugs didn't work particularly well on them, and the neuros never did figure out why I had them, other than I didn't have a brain tumour or aneurysms. And the migraines would tie with . . .
Gallbladder attacks. Uncontrollable vomiting, painful spasms, those blasted attacks lasted for 12 or thirteen hours at a time. By the time my gallbladder was finally removed, I'd lost a lot of hair and my skin was peeling off due to the no-fat diet I'd been on. And my skin had taken on a rather deathly looking shade of grey-green.
Ugh. Yeah, I don't mind the mammogram so much anymore. Posted by Enigmatic (Member # 7785) on :
I've been avoiding posting here because this hurts just to talk about.
One night, when I was about 16 or so, I woke up around 1am with searing pain in my right testicle. This didn't feel like being kicked in the crotch, more like a vice grip was being slowly tighted on the testicle. Thinking maybe I'd slept in a bad position, pinching it with my leg or something, I shifted around in bed to try to relieve the pain. Nothing worked, it just kept hurting. I got out of bed, wincing as I did, and tried walking around a bit. That hurt too. After about a half hour, which felt like much longer, I decided that something had to be done as it didn't seem to be going away on its own.
The best way that I can describe just how much this really hurt is simply: I woke my parents up to tell them that my testicle hurt. Really, imagine yourself as a shy teenage boy. Anything to do with your parents is embarrassing enough, and the whole sex thing is sort of an awkward concept too. I'd seriously contemplated dialing 911 as a less-traumatic alternative. Anyway, after an explanation nearly as horrible as the pain itself, mom got down the big Family Medical Book and started asking about symptoms. The most likely match was that the testicle had rotated within the scrotum, twisting the tubes and veins connecting it to the rest of the body.
Okay, simple enough fix: Rotate the testicle back where it belongs, right? Only... which way is that? You can't tell which way it's twisted. 50/50 chance, and I had to try something at this point. I retreat to the bathroom and cautiously, gingerly try rotating my agonizingly painful testicle. AHH! That hurt worse! So it must be the other way, fine. Only turning it the other way hurt too!
Suffice to say, through much swearing, pain, tears, trial and error everything thing eventually got better. The whole experience lasted maybe 2 hours. The really horrifying thing about my story though, guys? This just happened one night. No apparent cause or injury, just waking up with a terrible pain in the right testicle.
--Enigmatic (Also has a story about fiberglass insulation, but will save it for now.)
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Only twice in my entire adult life have I been in so much pain that I cried.
1) I cut off a good portion of my left thumb -- just below the nail -- at a Christmas party. The after-hours emergency clinic to which I went cauterized the cut with what looked like a soldering iron. Without painkillers.
2) A few months later, I got a terrible earache as a consequence of a bad head cold. It was well after hours, and my insurance didn't cover emergency rooms, so I tried to sleep it off. I couldn't get to bed after several hours, so finally hopped into the car around 2:30AM to try to find a clinic. As I pulled onto the highway, the pressure got bad enough that it actually forced loose the clogged tube that I'd had in that ear since my childhood, ripping a large hole in my eardrum.
I nearly blacked out, I'm ashamed to say, but was able to pull over and park the car before actually biting the steering wheel to avoid screaming.
------
I've broken a few bones and had a few nasty cuts in my time, but none of my actual injuries ever came close to those two in terms of sheer "ouch-itude." And I'm actually quite sheepish about that, since both of those were really quite minor.
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Oh! I forgot to mention...
When I was 12 I broke my arm.. That wasn't the part that hurt.
You see, I was deathly afraid of shots so I wouldn't let the doctor give me a shot to knock me out before they set the bone. After I-don't-know-how-long of them twisting my arm around trying to set it and me screaming at the top of my lungs, I finally consented to the shot.
Oddly that removed a lot of my fear of needles...
Pix
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Enigmatic! O, sweet pea.
When testicles twist, they always twist inward, so you untwist them outwards. That is, if you ever have to untwist yourself again, twist the right one clockwise or the left one counterclockwise (toward the outside of the hip either way).
I remember it like this: if I'm kneeling in front of someone, I untwist like I'm opening the pages of a book.
Ouch! Ouch! That's a nightmare.
[And it is a surgical emergency -- a testicle without blood supply can be lost pretty fast.]
Posted by Olivet (Member # 1104) on :
That is, I think, what happened to Robert's testicle before he was even born. *wince*
My worst pain ever was either viral meningitis or the spinal headaches I got from the spinal tap that diagnosed the meningitis. It kind of went together.
Only time I've ever been in so much pain that I vomitted. Nothing wrong with my stomach at all, just a neurological thing.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
And I just realized how weird it is that untwisting testicles is part of my skillset.
(Gee, do think that would go over well in one of those 5-minute-date thingies? )
Tom, I forgot about one of my ear infections. That was excruciating. The pain is usually from the stretch -- once it popped through, did the pain stop? When my eardrum spontaneously ruptured, it was such a relief. When I got another ear infection some 30 yrs later, I seriously considered trying to pierce it with a spinal needle. (Uh, don't do this at home. *grin) It was that bad. I think it really was the worst.
I always remember that when I see littl'uns with ear infections. They can be really really painful.
Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
I have funny-shaped sinuses, inherited from my father, and am prone to both severe sinus infections and ear infections, even as an adult. I've had 7 since I turned 18-- 5 of which were before I turned 20. I've finally learned what works for me in terms of prevention. Luckily. It's made my life a lot better.
Posted by Eaquae Legit (Member # 3063) on :
I hear you on that one, CT. Oh man, do I ever hear you. (on the strange skillset)
Posted by Starr R (Member # 8361) on :
Well, I could write pages about this one, unfortunately. I won't bore you, though. I'll just say, recovering from 2 back surgeries...although I can't really say I've ever recovered from the second one. *sigh* Be nice to your back, friends! Once you ruin it, it's gonna be a long, hard ride.
Posted by Starr R (Member # 8361) on :
Oh, poor Enigmatic! I just cringed when I read your post. And after reading what ClaudiaTherese had to say...wow, I'm just glad that everything worked out OK.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
I'm a little hesitant to say this, because I'm not absolutely sure, but I believe that when testicular torsion is fixed surgically, the testicle is affixed to the wall of the scrotum so that it can't retwist.
Our beloved Enigmatic may be at risk for this happening again. *ouch
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Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :
CT - I've been told that as well. I had a male friend who had the whole twisted testicle experience and had surgery for it.
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The Dr said it's is so much worse thannatural child birth - because the birth canal is meant to open and allow a child to pass through - the ureter is meant to fit something the width of a single human hair to pass through and it does not stretch ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
so, fitting something the size of a small greenpea as you can imagine, is excruciating!
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