What is the worst pain you ever experienced?

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   Affordablefunposted 15 years ago

   Got to admit had lots of tooth pain took mine out but with a dentist & many drugs. for me. worst pain I have ever had to deal with even over my labor pains of 72 hrs is the constant pain daily with fibromyalgia.  You simply never have one day without pain.  Yes there are days you are not to bad but after 22 plus years I would rather be 100% pain free if someone could really make that happen I would be there in a New York minute.
   All the best with your next tooth ache.
   
   Geri

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   Whitney05posted 15 years ago

   dislocated patella that was on the side of my leg for a few hours. received morphine after the first hour or so but it didn't help at all.

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   prettydarkhorseposted 15 years ago

   labor pains five children,,,

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      starme77posted 15 years agoin reply to this

      ouch, how about natural childbirth, thats one of my worst pains I have ever had

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   prettydarkhorseposted 15 years ago

   emotional --- my ex husband left us

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      Flightkeeperposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Hi Pretty, 5 children and your ex left all of you!  He's a dud.  You're much better off without him.
      
      I'm sorry to hear you went through this.

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         prettydarkhorseposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         oh I am ok now, thanks flightkeeper!

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   Bard of Elyposted 15 years ago

   Being circumcised and being run over - both so painful I cannot remember them at all!

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   Lady Guinevereposted 15 years ago

   When I had an attack of Pancreatitis.  There are other ones that are right up ther like after hernia surgery twice.  The pain associated with a DVT.  It felt like someone was twisting my foot around to the back of my leg and wouldn't stop.  It laos felt like my skin was going to split right open.

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   H.C Porterposted 15 years ago

   Physical-When I was 17- I had an allergic reaction to penicillin. The type of reaction I had was called Stephen Johnsons Syndrome. The characteristics of Stephen Johnsons Syndrome are a red rash that itches but also feels like bad sunburn on the palms of your hands and soles of your feet. Skin Ulcers (sores)-mucus membrane ulcers (eyes, nose, and mouth), fever, and seizures. After a week-the skin on your hands and feet peel off (not like peeling of sunburn-it’s like a dozen layers of skin peeling off all at once), eye lashes and eye brows fall out. I spent 4 weeks in the hospital-2 of those 4 in ICU... That was the worst pain I have ever been in. More so than Childbirth or Pancreatitis/caused by gall stones (which was pretty bad)
   
   Mental/Emotional-death of my first child

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   Chloe Comfortposted 15 years ago

   36 hours of labor - serious back labor pains and they couldn't give me a damn thing for it. Had to wait many hours for the epidural. I think I frightened half the hospital that night w/my screaming & begging for SOMEONE to help stop the pain. After all that, I ended up having an emergency c-section.
   
   Next child (3 yrs. later)was a scheduled c-section. Never forgot the labor pain and did not want to experience it again. Would have rather gotten my whole body covered in tattoos.

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      prettydarkhorseposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      Oh, the severity of labor pains is different in each women, must be excruciating pains for you. Mine was painful too and had five of them, but i averaged 13 hours of labor pains..

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         Chloe Comfortposted 15 years agoin reply to this

         It was horrible but well worth it. My sister was in labor for about 3 hours and had a very easy delivery. You are right - it's different for each woman I've heard the back labor pains are the worse kind.
         
         What women endure - lol. Don't know if men could handle it :-)

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            prettydarkhorseposted 15 years agoin reply to this

            yes I dont think they could endure it either. It has been said that once you gave birth and underwent throught the labor pains, then you realized and will loved your mother more....

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            Justine76posted 15 years agoin reply to this

            not to be jerk, but..they cant. Women were given a higher threshold to pain, simply because they have to give birth.
            But... What men may go thru will hurt them as much as things hurt us. I dont know if that made sense? Comparing pain is usless, I think. You go thru what you go thru and there is no way to know what something feelslike to someone else. The worst pain I myslelf endured, is a toss up between loosing the top of my left pinky toe, and once something went wrong with my back...

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   Brian Leightonposted 15 years ago

   The worst pain I have ever experienced is that of losing someone very special and dear to me. I have often since wondered where this type of pain eminated from and why I was unable to supress it. Only cure available was time itself...

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      prettydarkhorseposted 15 years agoin reply to this

      emotional pain is hard also, at least for physical pain it just goes away with little time, but for emotional pain I think it takes longer time, and moving on is quite difficult, sometimes time cant even heal it...but you are blessed because it seems time healed it already

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    Shil1978posted 15 years ago

    My one and hopefully the last experience with kidney stones. It was by far the worst pain I've ever felt!! Its a horrible, indescribable pain. I suffered through it for about 5 hours! Whew!! Just thinking of it makes me cringe now!!

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    lawrettaposted 15 years ago

    getting dumped by love!

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    dohn121posted 15 years ago

    Heartbreak

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    advisor4qbposted 15 years ago

    Oh yeah, having my heart broken was pretty painful, too.  Gee, I guess that blew the diverticulosis pain out of the arena, actually.

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    JanetLSmithposted 15 years ago

    The pain of loosing my Dad, Charlie, to cancer and to the negligence of a doctor and the lack of support from the hospital and staff who should have been there to support him and help him "thrive."  It broke my heart to see him suffer... the actual body pain was not mine, it belonged to my Dad, but I would have traded places with him to stop what he was having to endure.   but to watch the experience of my Dad's illness, inadequate care, and lingering unnecessary death all but killed me.  Having no control to help make things better was the worst pain I have ever experienced. No cancer patient should die without dignity, a caring doctor, medical care,   It broke not only my heart but my spirit  and my soul...and it has been a most painful journey getting back to believing in people, trusting doctors, believing in the medical support staff, forgiving myself, learning to trust myself, and learning that there are things that are simply just absolutely out of our control...This is the most painful...

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       The Ropeposted 15 years agoin reply to this

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       Sandra, so very sorry for you loss and your painful experience.  Experiencing a loved one suffering without appropriate communication and without appropriate skills is horrible.  I'm glad to hear you are on your way back in spirit. 
       In answer to this question - I too believe that watching a loved one suffer is the worst pain of all - and I've had some personal pain but this type of experience was far worse for me as well.

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    sandra rinckposted 15 years ago

    Giving birth!

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       advisor4qbposted 15 years agoin reply to this

       Funny how we seem to forget this the minute we hold that bundle of joy!

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    Song-Birdposted 15 years ago

    Thirty plus hours of labor for sure!  I also had a kidney stone which came close.

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    dave272727posted 15 years ago

    Physical-Broken lower right leg, ankle, and every ligament was torn in my ankle.  All on the same side.  It was all done at once.  I kept thinking that I wish the person screaming would shut up, and then realized it was me.  Then I would have to list the physical therapy.... 
    
    
    
    Mental-Heartbreak and the frustration of being chair bound for 6 months while I healed.

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    O2BTallposted 15 years ago

    Three things, of which I cannot decide which was worse.  First, having a metal rod removed from my (previously dislocated) right hip while I was still awake (this happened when i was a little bitty child, but I still remember it as the most bloody, frightening and painful thing imagineable). 
    
    Second, the pain after a spinal surgery which left an incision six inches long, had teased lose scar tissue to release trapped and tangled nerves which had been tearing (a choice here between possible paralization and inevitable paralization). 
    
    Or, most recently, awaking after the birth of my child (c-section under anesthetic) to realize the doctor had failed to order pain meds and then having to wait for over an hour for the nurses to contact him.  And, no, I did not forget that pain when I finally held him.  I had nightmares for some time afterwards (including in the hospital) about people trying to murder me with knives.

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    TimTurnerposted 15 years ago

    When Obama won the election.

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    shreyapandeyposted 7 years ago

    About 2 months ago my twin brother and I were hit by a car. I dislocated my shoulder and broke a bone in my pelvis. I had been lying down in my bed when they rolled me into a room to get an X-ray. Standing up for the first time in an hour or so on a broken pelvis hurt so bad that despite taking quite a few painkillers  I passed out while standing to get a pic of my chest.The doctor was standing near me so he managed to catch me before I slammed my head against the ground. I woke up a few seconds later and immediately tried to sit up. Holy fuck the pain that shot up through my legs and thigh was nuts. I'm almost completely healed now but that was definitely the longest night of my life.

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