The most painful...

It'd have to be a toss-up between the root canal on one of my front teeth and this one...

I was beginning to get carpal tunnel syndrome in my left arm/hand when I was working overtime on a catalog a few years ago. I was also tense all over, so I went in for a massage. The masseur asked me if I wanted him to fix the carpal tunnel thing. I said, "You can do that?" He pressed down incredibly hard on the nerve between the tendons inside my wrist, and kept up the pressure all the way up the nerve, slowly, all the way up to my shoulder. I was screaming! It felt like he was slicing my arm open. Seriously, I expected to see blood. But you know what? Two minutes after he stopped, the tingling and numbness were gone. And they never came back.

I dropped a can on my toe once, it also severed the toenail. I thought for a few years all was well then realized I was wrong...the old toenail was still half intact and continued its growth process, then a new nail formed and overlapped the old one...you got it I had a double toenail. A few years later it bust apart and bled...no pain though.

The most physically painful moment was when I broke my leg (the femur...thigh bone) it broke into 3 separate pieces and the thigh is an area densely packed with nerve tissue, muscle tissue and blood roads so the pain was intense. While in the hospital I met a woman who had also broken the femur and she said the pain to her was worse than her two times going through child-birthing.

Your horrific stories reminded me of cramp.
Plain and simple, I feel like Im gona die when I get cramp, luckily its only every few yeras(touch wood) I get it in my leg and it hurts like no other pain, even worse than my toe story.

My story is also a toe story. Wow.

I was running through the house one day when I was maybe 10 and I stubbed my toe on the metal thingy that seperates linolium from carpet. I hit it so hard that the toe split right at the edge of my toenail on the outside of my big toe and part of my toe was literally hanging by a thread of skin. It was awful. It bled like crazy and should have had stiches but I never got them. Oh, and did I mention it hurt like hell?

I got a haircut, once.

I was cleaning a grill in a restaurant where I worked and splashed hot oil all over the pad of my thumb.

Oh man it hurt. I didn't think anything could possibly be worse.

Then the doctor sliced off the blister......

Wow, amazing, Eva.

Mine is probably when I was in high school -- I'd stopped menstruating, and was put on some drug to start it again. (Nevermind what I actually needed was to eat more and exercise less...) I was at school when I got some absolutely horrible cramps. Went to the nurse's office, got permission to go home. Evidently looked awful. My dad (who I lived with at the time) was at work and unreachable, I planned to take the city bus home. Involved walking a block or two, not bad.

I set off across a field towards the bus stop. Up 'til that point, it was bad, but then it kicked into something surreally awful. I clutched my tummy and collapsed on the field. I couldn't shout, it was like it didn't even occur to me, I was so focused on the pain. I lay there in the fetal position for a long time, expecting someone would show up soon... nothing.

Anyway, went on in that vein for a while -- agony, collapse, expect help, nothing, get up, agony, collapse -- and somehow (it's a blur) I made it home. (Dunno why I kept trying to get home rather than turning around and going back to the nurse's office -- wasn't thinking very rationally.)

Lay there in the worst pain I've ever experienced -- far worse than childbirth -- on the couch, unable to move, waiting for my dad to come home, when my mom burst in the door. They had been divorced for a few years at that point, she never came over. She was a homecare nurse, would drive around visiting patients at their homes, and was driving on a major street one block away when she got an urgent page -- my dad's house was the nearest phone. (No cell phones then.) She barely registered me, rushed to the phone, called... but nobody had paged her. Then she saw me.

i was biking with the Monster. he was behind me, playing with his GPS thingy that I gave him for b-day just a day or two before and I was slowing down, looking at some house or whatnot. He plunged into me and I went flying, landing on the freshly paved road with both my forearms - they were skinned elbow to pinky - raw skinless flesh, and my left wrist was messed up, probably cracked or broken, though x-ray didn't show it yet (sometimes you gotta wait for swelling and it shows in a week or two...but i didn't go back). the wrist still hurts daily.

Have you ever had it checked out...?

one of two things, falling 12 feet off of a ladder onto concrete 5 years ago, or crushing my thumb last fall

Do you have pictures?

I think he did, and posted them!!

Or was that JP?

Or both of you?

both

i think i removed the pic from my host, but i'll put it back up tonight along with recovery picture

crap I have to many it's hard to gauge them

How about the one where I was riding my bike up a hill on a city street you know standing up peddling?
The chain came off and I flew forward over the handlebars and went face first into the pavement?
Broke out my 2 front teeth to the roots and had 11 stitches on my chin.

Re: The most painful...


It happened on Dec 25 2005. I was driving on my TVS Scooty Pep. I thought why not try and see how the front brake works, I always use the rear one. I did that two times in a row. Third time I gave an enormous acceleration. Then applied the front brake.

There, I went rolling down with a bang on the dungeon abounding road. A vehicle behind me instantly pulled brakes.........

Yep The helmet saved my life........but.......the knees and the palm.......

I'm shocked SHOCKED that no one has ackowledged Dys's traumatic experience.
I'm here for ya, big guy.

I got a papercut on my septum once. You really don't know true pain until a piece of paper slices into your nose.

here it is, my crushed thumb

nail completely gone, three stitches in the nail bed

will post a pic of the recovered thumb when i find the cable to connect my pc and camera

I think I may suffer from a variety of Reynaud's Phenomenon.
(My daughter has been diagnosed as having it by a real doctor;
I am self-diagnosed.) In cold weather my fingers get numb
quickly, then, as they warm up and the blood comes rushing
back -- wowza! -- a heap o' pain.

I used to canoe a lot with some friends, and we did it late into
the year until the river iced over. One November day when
a bunch of us were out training hard, I pushed it too far. On
the way in I told my partner he was on his own; I couldn't
handle the paddle anymore.

I stuck my hands under my shirt and the feeling started coming
back. Then the pain started. I was keeping my focus and
holding it together, but at one point just lost it. The pain just
overwhelmed me. I got tunnel vision, felt dizzy, and the next
thing I knew I was looking up into some very concerned faces.
A couple of them, who didn't know of my problem, thought I
was having a heart attack.