Short-Term and Long-Term ??

For me, the worst short-term physical pain i have ever endured would have been just recently (two fridays ago)

I dunno how i lost my footing, but i kinda slipped while stepping off the seat in my boat and drove my knee straight into a section of the passageway to the bow and i swear i broke my patella. collapsed me to the deck of the boat and i grummbled out about every swear word in the boat clutching my knee in pain for about a good 5 minutes, unable to bend my leg, stand up, walk, or touch it. still, two weeks later it is kinda puffy and feels "weird".

Long-term, it has been over 13 years now since my near death car accident and as time keeps passing, my neck, my back, constantly keep hurting, sometimes i do not want to get out of bed because of the pain. On the "bad days" i have to take two dosages of 1000mg of ibuprofen just to be able to function....

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the first time i dislocated my kneecap, playing ball in the eighth grade. Done it many times since, broken other bones, hurt my back, nothing came close to that pain.

Short term, landing flat on my back from about 5 feet up. I was going to grind a quarter pipe on a skateboard, instead it decided to not grind at all and I went flying. Knocked the wind out of me for a good 5 minutes and I even got to throw up everywhere.

Long Term, Trying to ollie my board off a loading dock and ended up gashing open my man bits. It was just the worst.

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Appendix hurt pretty bad before I had it out. Felt like a knife inside of me or something.

Broke both my arms and had to had surgery on both at the same time that sucked.

Bone was sticking out of my right arm which was more scary than painful at first.

suicide boots on my Kidder blew up my ankle. Third degree sprain, didn't walk for six weeks. That was the worst in terms of long term pain. Fractured my orbital bone doing a face plant at 50 mph on the slopes. That kinda sucked too.

Long term: while playing basketball in high school, I had my ankle fractured in a couple of places by two others coming down on top of it and folding it a bit while we were competing for a rebound. To this day, if I just move it to the left there is a horrible grinding noise.

Short term: after having surgery for a pilonidal cyst when I was in college, I went to an A's game and the suture sawed through a vein. I had no insurance, so when we called the surgeon to let him know that there was a little blood, he said to meet him at his office since I couldn't afford another visit to the hospital. He had me lay down, put a bit in my mouth and squeeze first my mom's hand then a ball that he came up with after a few minutes while he cut me open and fixed the problems with nothing for the pain but a swab to numb me a little since I couldn't afford the anesthesia. Fun times.

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Reading any of your posts.

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When I fractured my clavicle mountain biking.

It wasn't the break, or the hospital visit that was bad. It was the next morning after all the adrenaline and pain meds wore off. And I was lying there on my bed unable to move from the blinding pain of the two broken bones grinding together.

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kidney stone

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Ditto. Minus the smiley face.

I've damned near tore my kneecap OFF in a dirtbiking accident. That was NOTHING compared to the kidney stone.

I dated a stripper once, and it ended badly. That has been a pain like none other. For me and those around me...

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A toothache had me in the fetal position. Nothing would ease the pain, until I gargled with warm salt water. I felt a pop and it started bleeding then I felt the pain just release.

i'm sorry, what the hell do you ever do ??

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Twice now for me. At least the second time around I knew what it was.

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Bleeding Rhoids. And having to play a double elimination Basketball tourney for the right to represent the CONUS Southeastern Air Force region MAC. I played center, so blocking out was a mind over matter thing. Couldn't walk straight for a week.

Tooth needing pulling with pain that brought tears to my eyes. Started late Friday night and couldn't get taken out until Monday. Drank profusely for two days to kill the pain.

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The two worst pains I've ever felt in my life was a horrific earache I had as a kid and the high ankle sprains I've suffered playing basketball.

Both brought me to my knees and took my breath away.

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Broke my leg once playing softball. Felt fine for a minute. Then I saw the bloody sock. I drove home using that leg to clutch my car (and it had a tight clutch). I was in shock within an hour and in the hospital. I thought that was the "10" on the pain scale. Realized later it was closer to a 7.

Then I had a neck fusion at C4-C5. Woke up from surgery, and thought that was a "10" on the pain scale. It was really an 8.

Had a lumbar fusion at L4-S1 with a cage, a cadaver bone, multiple bone grafts, and 6 LARGE titanium bolts inserted in, along with a 14 inch incision closed by 50 staples. I finally knew what a 10 was on the pain scale.

Had all hardware taken out. It was an 8.5 on the pain scale.

I talked to a lady who had 1/4 of her brain removed the day I had my lumbar fusion. I was screaming the pain was so bad. She was all mellow. She said that she had cancer and she also had been through back surgery. She said her brain surgery was a piece of cake because your brain is made up of motor nerves, not sensory nerves, so you don't feel much pain. She said that the lumbar fusion was WORSE than cancer pain.

I thought she was making it up. I talked to several surgeons and all agreed. They said that the lumbar fusion surgery is the gold standard for pain. I was in the hospital for 7 days while they attempted to get my pain under control. When they gave me the "bone cancer dose" I was able to get up and move enough to go home. I have a really high pain tolerance, and there is no way in hell I'd wish that surgery on my worst enemy. I am not exaggerating. I've had something like 15 surgeries, and I'd do 14 of them again 100 times over each before I'd have the lumbar fusion done again.

To me the pain scale is like the Richter Scale. The pain level of 10 is 10 orders of magnitude larger than a 9 on the pain scale. I never understood a 10 in pain until that lumbar fusion. And yes, it was 30 times worse than a broken leg that popped through my sock and sent me into shock with a bloody leg.

Avoid back surgery at all costs. It is the most hellacious pain I can imagine. It felt as if somebody was stabbing me with 10 daggers and twisting them, while another guy was shooting me through my entire midsection with a machine gun. I've been stabbed before, so I'm not making it up on the 10 guys stabbing part. That's literally what it felt like, but WORSE, so I had to throw in the shooting feeling. I'll die before I ever undergo a fusion of my spine again.

Now I live with arachnoiditis of the spine, which is said to be pretty comparable to leukemia type pain. I'd agree with that. It is "intractable pain" and neither sitting, standing, heat, ice, massage, or rest help. Most pain meds don't even help. It just feels like my nerves in my spine are getting twisted up and scraped by dull knives 24/7. Muscle relaxants help a little. But nobody knows what arachnoiditis is, so getting treatment is hard, and getting disability is impossible because nobody knows what it is. If I said "I have bone cancer" I'd get disability. But I have something equally painful and I'm told to quit being such a nancy. BS man. B to the S.

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Worst long time was smashed two fingers and had to have them surgically sewn into my chest for three weeks. More nerve endings in your fingertips than anywhere but your tongue. It hurt my hand to breathe.

Short term catching one of the above finger's nails on something. It actually feels like same sick pain you get when you get kicked between the legs.