What's the most painful thing that's ever happened to you?

[Scarecrow]

It seems I've gotten off pretty easily. I haven't had anything too severe, like lopped off fingers, or a broken femur, but I'm young, so give me time .

Probably the worst ones I can think of (in no particular order) are:

- Breaking my left radius at age 11. It wouldn't have been so bad If I hadn't heard the school nurse talking with another lady about a bone marrow transplant! I only learned later that it was for some kid with leukemia, not me, but it was scary.

- Picking up a 300F+ muffin tray and moving it about 5 feet with out a pot holder. My left hand was not very happy with me for a day or two after that...

- When I was younger I fell off my bicycle a few times, and once I scraped open a big bloody gash on my knee. It was probably about 3 square inches of pure, bleeding road rash, with other bumps and bruises on my hands, elbows, and other knee.

- I've had a few groin strikes (Karate accident, and car keys thrown in a window and landing in the wrong place), but they weren't so bad.

 

[Donamy]

When my ex-wife tried to keep my kids from seeing me, then I got coustody after a year, then it was my happiest time.

 

[Cobalt]

Mentally, I recently had to make the decision to put my pet Springer Spaniel down, after he'd been with me for 13 years. The vet had found cancer in his liver and spleen. I dropped to my knees and cried.

 

[Linguofreak]

Physically, not sure, but waiting for my mom to get my painkiller prescription filled while the anesthetic wore off on my wisdom teeth was pretty bad.

Emotionally, this summer has been pretty rough. Some personal issues, two jobs, and getting robbed on the job at one of them have gotten me to the point where I can't wait for school to start back up so I can have a vacation. :dry: I'm not sure that any one issue would have been on the top ten list on its own (though the personal stuff comes close), but the whole mess together I think comes pretty close to "most emotional pain of my life."

 

[simonpro]

Probably having a piece of hot metal knock a chunk out of me after an experiment exploded. Still got a lovely scar right across my leg.

 

[Kyle]

Mentally Painful; Having to burry your best Friend who went to Iraq. I am in the Navy, he joined the Army. Very sad when I heard about it, cried all day.

 

[silent_protagonist]

Well neither of these come close to kidney stones or dislocations, but:

1. Having a baseball hit full speed into my groin from about fifteen feet away. One of the few times that I've actually been rolling in agony, took me about ten or fifteen minutes to stand up.

2. Flying with a bad inner-ear infection is amazingly painful. At first your worried that you'll burst your eardrum, then you you start asking the flight attendant for something sharp so you can pierce it yourself.

 

[Urwumpe]

Mentally painful: Loosing a good friend out of nowhere only hours after you saw him last alive. Got killed in a traffic accident, a farmer did not raise his shovel and was over-speeding, like this farmer always did (and still does). Caught my friend who was driving with his motorbike and almost cut him into half. A few hours after the accident, he was declared dead.

 

[Pilot7893]

Now for some of the less painful things (but still quite painful)
-Getting run over by a mountain bike
-Getting stung by a yellow jacket
-Falling off a 15 foot wall and landing on my rear
-Getting a snowball thrown at my youknowwhat
-getting pranked into eating one of these
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-The worst sunburn of my life
-Falling off my bike onto a gravel driveway
-Slipping on ice in front of my school
-Stomach bug
-Going off a ramp in the snow, flying 3 feet into the air, and landing on my side
And many more I can't even think of. It seems the more careful you are to avoid pain, the more of it you get.

 

[Urwumpe]

-Falling off my bike onto a gravel driveway

Argh. Don't remind me. It took me 30 minutes to get the gravel out of my wound on the elbow. I still have a scar there.

I was too clumsy to drive over the bone, a dog had left on the road. :blush:

 

[streb2001]

Cracking my breastbone clean in two in a car accident. When you cannot use your breast muscles, getting out of bed while avoiding agony took me up to 10 minutes (I mean getting from horizontal to vertical - not counting dressing etc!)

I can't really remember how painful it was. I find that mental pain is worse than physical pain. Physical pain is over when it is over. Mental pain lingers on and on...

 

[eveningsky339]

Argh. Don't remind me. It took me 30 minutes to get the gravel out of my wound on the elbow. I still have a scar there.

I was too clumsy to drive over the bone, a dog had left on the road. :blush:

I tripped and fell on a gravel path once. I still have the scars on my knees. It's certainly not the worst pain, but it's a nagging pain...

As long as we are mentioning mental pain, I would say that the worst pain I have experienced is a situation that involved my girlfriend and I. I was almost checked into a local mental institution because I was judged to be a danger to myself. Depression runs in my family, so I still occasionally have issues, but now I'm mostly over it, and I'm still with my girl.

Speaking of which, what's the best way to propose? I may want to marry her some time...

 

[Brad]

Having a fully loaded trailer leg stand land right square on my left foot. (About 800 pounds) Broke my foot and to this day I still feel the pain in it. (Especially in winter or when the weather changes... more so now as I am getting up there in years. 50++).

 

[Donamy]

One time, I had a sheet-metal brake, squash the tips of my fingers, flat. I had to stick needles under my nails, to let the blood out and relieve the pressure.

 

[Andy44]

I was dared to put a substance called Flex-All directly onto my private parts. Supposedly, it helped relax your muscles, but if it ever touched your crotch, it burned like hell.

I put it on. First 30 seconds were fine. Then it began to burn... and burn... and burn...

I was up till 2:00 in the morning crying and moaning. Needless to say, that was the last time I ever put an unknown substance on my privates...

LOL, it may have hurt, but you were just asking to get laughed at! Almost a Darwin Award.

Let's see, my little brother and I were horsing around (playing "grabass" as they say) and he accidentally slammed a door on my fingertip.

Then one day when I was about 11 I fell out of a treehouse and broke my arm in two places. This hurt, but what hurt a whole lot more was the next day when the giant ape of an intern held me down so that the doctor could set the extremely sore bone by pushing it around with his thumb. Novacaine didn't help much. Lesson learnt: don't break bones, moron.

I also recall running through the pitch black dark and banging my kneecap right into the bumber of a tractor. I just lay on the ground and howled like a wounded animal for about 10 minutes.

These things are as funny as they were dumb, but for some reason I didn't think they were funny at the time.

Does anyone remember a Saturday Night Live skit in which two construction workers sat there eating lunch and discussing horrible things like sticking an icepick in your ear and exclaiming, "yeah, I hate it when that happens." I think one of them was Billy Crystal.

 

[jgrillo2002]

The most painful thing that I had was in 1999. the pigs that we used to have were loose. I opened the door and there was a boar which I named spike. he stood there for a second and then he took a piece of my right leg. it bled like HELL and also was very painful which felt like you got your leg cut with a saw. my dad was screaming when he saw it and hit the pig. we rushed to my doctor and had to put stitches on my legs. I recovered a month later but what was left was a scar 5 inches long on the middle of my right calf leg. my dad was so pissed about his aggressive behavior that we turned him to sausage.

 

[Andy44]

my dad was so pissed about his aggressive behavior that we turned him to sausage.

Somehow I just knew that's how the story would end.

 

[dutchpirate]

Sounds trivial especially when compared to some of the previous stories, but last year I had an unbelievably painful ear infection. I'm sure most of you are familiar with medical personell asking you to rate the pain on a scale of one to ten. I found my new ten! I had never experienced pain so intense before that I was incapable of moving, speaking, or anything else other than clutching my head until the wave passed. I was on some of the strongest pain meds I could take outside of being admitted to a hospital. At least the intense pain only came in waves.

 

[SlyCoopersButt]

Getting the Flu for the first time in April. I peaked at 104F on occasion. I usually get sick for shorter duration than most people but WAY more severely. It was hell. Nothing else can describe it.

 

[astrosammy]

I peaked at 104F on occasion.

That's still better than 104°C :lol:.