Health Worst pain you have felt?

[IKnowtheDog]

This thread needs someone who served on the Indianapolis to post

 

[Drama]

Emotionally, the strain of a prolonged bout of insomnia can be absolute hell. The physical deterioration is pronounced, but the mental deterioration is so debilitating.

 

[Wosh]

Childbirth and gall stones. Chronic migraines are indescribable unless you’ve had them.

After that, my sisters facebooks after richmond won the premiership.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

This thread needs someone who served on the Indianapolis to post

Where's Quint from Jaws when you need him.

 

[monty1104]

Gout and it isn’t even close. The cliche is that it is so sore overnight that you can’t have a bedsheet touch the joint. It’s cliche because it’s true.

To put it in perspective, I’ve had 4 lots of open heart surgery. The pain getting drainage tubes pulled is horrible and then walking after you’ve had your sternum cut open is pretty bad too. I’d rather go through that again than have a full blown gout attack. Incidently, I can not have a lot of the gout relief meds because it does not mix well with my heart meds.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

I found out pretty early on in life that I seem to have a pretty high tolerance to local anaesthetic.

1) I broke my collar bone at athletics when I was 12 years old doing the hurdles. I came down on the last hurdle, snapped my collar bone and took about a quarter of the skin off my back when I slid along the track. Mum took me into hospital emergency in the old HK holden with the vinyl seats. It was a stinking hot summer Saturday morning, by the time we got to the hospital, they had to come out to the car and basically spatula me off the back seat, my back had stuck to it.
After sitting there for awhile I was x-ray, the break confirmed and the doctor too me into a room to treat me. They were going to put a figure 8 brace on me. The Doc gave me a shot of local, waiting a few minutes then came at me with a couple of nurses assisting, he told them to grab me by a shoulder each and pull back, they had me braced up against a pillar, when they had pulled my shoulders back, he was going to put the brace on me. The doctor assured me it wouldn't hurt because he had given me the local. The nurses grabbed my shoulders and pulled back quickly, I started screaming, the doctor put the brace on, I vomitted and then passed out. It would be 6 years before I experienced anything near this.

2) I broke my leg badly playing u/18 football, first game of the season, 5 minutes into the first quarter, so about 10:05am. It was probably about as bad as Nathan Brown's break. I broke it in the back pocket, heard it snap, all the other players around the contest, even team mates in the centre heard it snap, the umpire heard it. It hurt, but I'd had worse. I hopped over and was hanging off the fence when the trainer (he wasn't actually trained in anything, he was just the fat guy who ran the bar and was mates with our coach) ran over to me and asked what was wrong, I told him I'd broken my leg. He said hang on and ran back to the bench (100m away) to consult with the coach. He came back and told me that the coach said it will only be sprained, I told him I had sprained my ankle in the past and this wasn't that, it was broken. He said ok, you'd better come off then. He ran away and left me to get myself off the ground. I had to hop off around the fence using the fence rail to steady myself

I got to the rooms and lay up on one of the rub down benches. I lay there on my own until halftime, I almost vomitted at one stage, I think it was a bit of shock. The team came in, my mates told me they'd heard it snap, the coach said nothing. I told them to call me an ambulance, they wouldn't, they said they'd drop me off at the hospital after the game. I told them if they were worried about the cost, I was an ambulance member so it didn't matter, they still wouldn't call one. Luckily my gf at the time was there and she had her licence and car. I asked one of my mates to ask her to come in after halftime. She did, I got her to drive me into emergency.

Long story short, they operated on me at 1am Sunday morning. Between breaking it at 10:05am Saturday morning and surgery I had, had absolutely no pain relief, they couldn't give me any because I was going to be having a general anaesthetic. A general in those days, started with a huge horse needle being stuck into your butt cheek and what felt like half a litre of pink fluid being pumped in. When I got this injection, I almost passed out, it fair dinkum hurt at least twice as much as actually breaking my leg. I asked the nurse about this and she told me that because our butt is basically one giant muscle, there is nowhere for all of the fluid to go so it just rips the muscle out of the way.

Surgery was a success, the put a couple of plates and a heap of screws in, I was going to be in hospital for around 2 weeks. I had a metal drain tube with a fairly large diameter inserted from the top of my calf (basically just below and behind the knee) all the way down to my ankle. The surgeon told me it would need to stay in there for around 3 days. On the 6th morning, the doctor that was on duty that day was doing his regular rounds at about 10:00am with a heap of trainee doctors with him, I asked him about the draining tube, he was surprised that it was still in there. He checked it and said that yep, it would have to come out, he told me it might hurt a little because it had by now started to heal into my leg. He got 3 of the trainees to hold me down, one on each shoulder and one had hold of my head. He said he was going to have to twist it around to break the seal and quickly pull it out. They braced me, I braced me, the doc grabbed it, pulled it up and twisted it at the same time, rather vigorously. 3rd worst pain ever, it took me a little bit to stop sweating after that one.

The needle for the general was probably just below having my shoulders reefed back when I had a broken collarbone.

3) I had a polinidal sinus which is an ingrown hair on the tail bone, it was a huge lump that I'd let go for a couple of years, in the end I thought I'd better get it checked out in case it was some sort of tumor. The local GP that I saw told me that if left untreated, they have been known to grow and wrap around spinal cords and paralyse people. I agreed to let him excise it there and then using a local. I lay down on the examination couch/bed and he gave me 4 shots of local, one to each corner of the area he was going to cut out. The locals hurt like anything, they made me sweat as I lay there wriggling my toes and almost ripping the bed in half. He let it settle for a few minutes then moved in and started cutting it out. I could feel every slice he made. I was wriggling my toes, gripping the bed, sweating until I had to say something. I told him I could feel everything, he stopped, apologised, gave me another couple of shots then had another go. This time I couldn't feel the pain, I just had the sensation of him scraping crap of my tail bone. He showed me the hair, it was about 10 inches long and thick, thicker than the hair from a horse's tail or mane.

To this day, having him cut into me without the local having worked, is the worst pain I've ever had.

4) I had all four of my wisdom teeth taken out under a general in 2002. Days 2 to 5 was the worst prolonged pain I've experienced.

5) In about 2004, I had a frozen shoulder, a lot of pain for a few days, it wouldn't come good so I went to the emergency department in Shepparton. They injected it with cortisone using an ultrasound. I've had some painful needles over the journey but they've never particularly bothered me a great deal. They gave me a couple of shots of local into the should joint, hurt like all hell, but was kind of cool watching it on the ultrasound, the needle going in and the fluid being injected out. Next came the cortisone, deep into the joint, of course they hadn't given me enough local so it had done nothing. After the injection, the nurse asked if I wanted a bag to throw up in, all the colour had drained from my face. My goodness it hurt, the feeling of throwing up passed after about 20 seconds.

6) I had a rear molar extracted in about 2010. The dentist gave me some shots of local, I told him that history has shown that it might take a bit more than normal to dull it. He let the local do it's thing and then got to work with the pliers. As soon as he started to pull on it, it hurt like hell, he stopped and injected me some more, going in deeper. He gave it a couple of minutes then started again, nope, no good. He injected me again, same thing. On the fourth lot of injections the nurse piped up and said that I should expect to feel some discomfort, I said I realised that, but the locals weren't doing anything. The dentist said he could only give me one last lot of injection because then he would have given me the maximum allowable dosage. This time he got in real deep, finally he hit a nerve, I jumped but I was happy, looks like he'd finally hit the sweet spot.

He gave it a few more minutes then went to work again, as soon as he took up the slack, it bloody hurt. He asked how it was, as best I could with his hand in my mouth, I told him that it hurt but I could put up with it, keep going, get the bloody thing out. He was working at it for 20 minutes before he said he had to have a rest, his shoulder was hurting. Nooooo, as soon as he stopped pulling on it, I could feel it settle back into it's hole. I was spewing because I knew I was going to cop that initial pain again when he started trying to extract it again. Sure enough, he went back to work, damn it hurt. Another 15 minutes and he had it out. In all it took about an hour and a half for that extraction.

7) About 5 years ago at work I was placing a hardened, steel pin into a wire cage for transport. It weighed around 40kg. Just as I almost had it safely placed on the bottom of the cage, it slipped, only about 2 inches, but straight onto the tip of my pinky finger. On a mesh cage, where the wires cross over each other, that was the exact spot the pin crushed my finger against. I'm sure it must have turned it into gravel. I walked about 30 metres back to my office/store and just sat there in excruciating pain. I didn't know what to do it was hurting that much. A couple of fitters walked in looking for parts and asked me what was wrong, I asked why, they said that all of the colour had gone from my face. I told them what had happened. I just continued to sit there for about an hour before I could get up and move again. It was a real throbbing, deep seated horrible pain.

Number 2 on my list behind the scalpel.

Over the years I've had other ailments / injuries, when I'm being examined they will invariably ask me, 'out of 10, what would you say the pain level is?', when I tell them 2 or 3 or 4 they will say, 'well that's not too bad then.' I will say to them it depends on what the 10 is that I'm comparing it against. They ask me what my 10 is and I tell them the scalpel story.

Hope everyone has a good day. I love gf day, this has killed a bit of time for me waiting for it to start.

Oops, I almost forgot, I can concur with a couple of others on here that have nominated gout. I had it once in my big toe about 5 years ago. Wow.

 

[GROTTO]

I presume Pies supporters will now add the 2018 Grand Final as to the worst pain they have experienced?

 

[Perth gal]

My neck pain hurts like nothing else. I've had an X-ray , been to physics, chirps, osteos. Nobody helps. I'm going to get a CT tomorrow. Hoping I can finally find out what's wrong with me.

 

[Off The Couch]

My neck pain hurts like nothing else. I've had an X-ray , been to physics, chirps, osteos. Nobody helps. I'm going to get a CT tomorrow. Hoping I can finally find out what's wrong with me.

I had to have an MRI and a neurologist before they found the problem with my back. At one point I was told it was all in my head - went on for over 12 months.

Good luck for tomorrow with the CT

 

[RU_]

I found out pretty early on in life that I seem to have a pretty high tolerance to local anaesthetic.

1) I broke my collar bone at athletics when I was 12 years old doing the hurdles. I came down on the last hurdle, snapped my collar bone and took about a quarter of the skin off my back when I slid along the track. Mum took me into hospital emergency in the old HK holden with the vinyl seats. It was a stinking hot summer Saturday morning, by the time we got to the hospital, they had to come out to the car and basically spatula me off the back seat, my back had stuck to it.
After sitting there for awhile I was x-ray, the break confirmed and the doctor too me into a room to treat me. They were going to put a figure 8 brace on me. The Doc gave me a shot of local, waiting a few minutes then came at me with a couple of nurses assisting, he told them to grab me by a shoulder each and pull back, they had me braced up against a pillar, when they had pulled my shoulders back, he was going to put the brace on me. The doctor assured me it wouldn't hurt because he had given me the local. The nurses grabbed my shoulders and pulled back quickly, I started screaming, the doctor put the brace on, I vomitted and then passed out. It would be 6 years before I experienced anything near this.

2) I broke my leg badly playing u/18 football, first game of the season, 5 minutes into the first quarter, so about 10:05am. It was probably about as bad as Nathan Brown's break. I broke it in the back pocket, heard it snap, all the other players around the contest, even team mates in the centre heard it snap, the umpire heard it. It hurt, but I'd had worse. I hopped over and was hanging off the fence when the trainer (he wasn't actually trained in anything, he was just the fat guy who ran the bar and was mates with our coach) ran over to me and asked what was wrong, I told him I'd broken my leg. He said hang on and ran back to the bench (100m away) to consult with the coach. He came back and told me that the coach said it will only be sprained, I told him I had sprained my ankle in the past and this wasn't that, it was broken. He said ok, you'd better come off then. He ran away and left me to get myself off the ground. I had to hop off around the fence using the fence rail to steady myself

I got to the rooms and lay up on one of the rub down benches. I lay there on my own until halftime, I almost vomitted at one stage, I think it was a bit of shock. The team came in, my mates told me they'd heard it snap, the coach said nothing. I told them to call me an ambulance, they wouldn't, they said they'd drop me off at the hospital after the game. I told them if they were worried about the cost, I was an ambulance member so it didn't matter, they still wouldn't call one. Luckily my gf at the time was there and she had her licence and car. I asked one of my mates to ask her to come in after halftime. She did, I got her to drive me into emergency.

Long story short, they operated on me at 1am Sunday morning. Between breaking it at 10:05am Saturday morning and surgery I had, had absolutely no pain relief, they couldn't give me any because I was going to be having a general anaesthetic. A general in those days, started with a huge horse needle being stuck into your butt cheek and what felt like half a litre of pink fluid being pumped in. When I got this injection, I almost passed out, it fair dinkum hurt at least twice as much as actually breaking my leg. I asked the nurse about this and she told me that because our butt is basically one giant muscle, there is nowhere for all of the fluid to go so it just rips the muscle out of the way.

Surgery was a success, the put a couple of plates and a heap of screws in, I was going to be in hospital for around 2 weeks. I had a metal drain tube with a fairly large diameter inserted from the top of my calf (basically just below and behind the knee) all the way down to my ankle. The surgeon told me it would need to stay in there for around 3 days. On the 6th morning, the doctor that was on duty that day was doing his regular rounds at about 10:00am with a heap of trainee doctors with him, I asked him about the draining tube, he was surprised that it was still in there. He checked it and said that yep, it would have to come out, he told me it might hurt a little because it had by now started to heal into my leg. He got 3 of the trainees to hold me down, one on each shoulder and one had hold of my head. He said he was going to have to twist it around to break the seal and quickly pull it out. They braced me, I braced me, the doc grabbed it, pulled it up and twisted it at the same time, rather vigorously. 3rd worst pain ever, it took me a little bit to stop sweating after that one.

The needle for the general was probably just below having my shoulders reefed back when I had a broken collarbone.

3) I had a polinidal sinus which is an ingrown hair on the tail bone, it was a huge lump that I'd let go for a couple of years, in the end I thought I'd better get it checked out in case it was some sort of tumor. The local GP that I saw told me that if left untreated, they have been known to grow and wrap around spinal cords and paralyse people. I agreed to let him excise it there and then using a local. I lay down on the examination couch/bed and he gave me 4 shots of local, one to each corner of the area he was going to cut out. The locals hurt like anything, they made me sweat as I lay there wriggling my toes and almost ripping the bed in half. He let it settle for a few minutes then moved in and started cutting it out. I could feel every slice he made. I was wriggling my toes, gripping the bed, sweating until I had to say something. I told him I could feel everything, he stopped, apologised, gave me another couple of shots then had another go. This time I couldn't feel the pain, I just had the sensation of him scraping crap of my tail bone. He showed me the hair, it was about 10 inches long and thick, thicker than the hair from a horse's tail or mane.

To this day, having him cut into me without the local having worked, is the worst pain I've ever had.

4) I had all four of my wisdom teeth taken out under a general in 2002. Days 2 to 5 was the worst prolonged pain I've experienced.

5) In about 2004, I had a frozen shoulder, a lot of pain for a few days, it wouldn't come good so I went to the emergency department in Shepparton. They injected it with cortisone using an ultrasound. I've had some painful needles over the journey but they've never particularly bothered me a great deal. They gave me a couple of shots of local into the should joint, hurt like all hell, but was kind of cool watching it on the ultrasound, the needle going in and the fluid being injected out. Next came the cortisone, deep into the joint, of course they hadn't given me enough local so it had done nothing. After the injection, the nurse asked if I wanted a bag to throw up in, all the colour had drained from my face. My goodness it hurt, the feeling of throwing up passed after about 20 seconds.

6) I had a rear molar extracted in about 2010. The dentist gave me some shots of local, I told him that history has shown that it might take a bit more than normal to dull it. He let the local do it's thing and then got to work with the pliers. As soon as he started to pull on it, it hurt like hell, he stopped and injected me some more, going in deeper. He gave it a couple of minutes then started again, nope, no good. He injected me again, same thing. On the fourth lot of injections the nurse piped up and said that I should expect to feel some discomfort, I said I realised that, but the locals weren't doing anything. The dentist said he could only give me one last lot of injection because then he would have given me the maximum allowable dosage. This time he got in real deep, finally he hit a nerve, I jumped but I was happy, looks like he'd finally hit the sweet spot.

He gave it a few more minutes then went to work again, as soon as he took up the slack, it bloody hurt. He asked how it was, as best I could with his hand in my mouth, I told him that it hurt but I could put up with it, keep going, get the bloody thing out. He was working at it for 20 minutes before he said he had to have a rest, his shoulder was hurting. Nooooo, as soon as he stopped pulling on it, I could feel it settle back into it's hole. I was spewing because I knew I was going to cop that initial pain again when he started trying to extract it again. Sure enough, he went back to work, damn it hurt. Another 15 minutes and he had it out. In all it took about an hour and a half for that extraction.

7) About 5 years ago at work I was placing a hardened, steel pin into a wire cage for transport. It weighed around 40kg. Just as I almost had it safely placed on the bottom of the cage, it slipped, only about 2 inches, but straight onto the tip of my pinky finger. On a mesh cage, where the wires cross over each other, that was the exact spot the pin crushed my finger against. I'm sure it must have turned it into gravel. I walked about 30 metres back to my office/store and just sat there in excruciating pain. I didn't know what to do it was hurting that much. A couple of fitters walked in looking for parts and asked me what was wrong, I asked why, they said that all of the colour had gone from my face. I told them what had happened. I just continued to sit there for about an hour before I could get up and move again. It was a real throbbing, deep seated horrible pain.

Number 2 on my list behind the scalpel.

Over the years I've had other ailments / injuries, when I'm being examined they will invariably ask me, 'out of 10, what would you say the pain level is?', when I tell them 2 or 3 or 4 they will say, 'well that's not too bad then.' I will say to them it depends on what the 10 is that I'm comparing it against. They ask me what my 10 is and I tell them the scalpel story.

Hope everyone has a good day. I love gf day, this has killed a bit of time for me waiting for it to start.

Oops, I almost forgot, I can concur with a couple of others on here that have nominated gout. I had it once in my big toe about 5 years ago. Wow.

My last game of footy I played someone had that exact same leg break happen, one of our players tackled him like a real campaigner and was one arm over the shoulder and one under and when he came down he snapped his leg, bone out of the skin and all that jazz. Was about an hour and a half before play resumed with trying to get an ambulance to the ground and trying to get him to a position to be moved!

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

My neck pain hurts like nothing else. I've had an X-ray , been to physics, chirps, osteos. Nobody helps. I'm going to get a CT tomorrow. Hoping I can finally find out what's wrong with me.

Yep, you have my full sympathies.

'Oh that's ok, it's just muscle spasms, here's some anti-inflams (that may contribute to ulcers or having a stroke or heart attack), take some and lie down for a few days. People never really believed me until I showed up with an 8 inch scar up my back.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

My last game of footy I played someone had that exact same leg break happen, one of our players tackled him like a real campaigner and was one arm over the shoulder and one under and when he came down he snapped his leg, bone out of the skin and all that jazz. Was about an hour and a half before play resumed with trying to get an ambulance to the ground and trying to get him to a position to be moved!

My break was so innocuous. I had possession of the ball, went to go one way, had no room, turned back the other way and got bumped from the side, snap, snap.

 

[RU_]

My break was so innocuous. I had possession of the ball, went to go one way, had no room, turned back the other way and got bumped from the side, snap, snap.

The body really is a brittle thing, isn't it? Just turning the wrong way and you pop a knee cap.

 

[Herne Hill Hammer]

The body really is a brittle thing, isn't it? Just turning the wrong way and you pop a knee cap.

It is but then on the other side, I've had some big hits, falls over time and have been none the worse for wear for them. I took a full blooded kick to the head playing footy. I went the smother, knocked the ball out of the way but copped everything he was mustering for the kick, straight in the side of the head. I had a bit of a headache for half a quarter and then was good as gold.

Go figure.

 

[MinerBoy]

Snapped leg. Both bones. Playing footy. Nathan Brown style break.

Compartment syndrome is a bitch too.

 

[Bazzar]

Snapped leg. Both bones. Playing footy. Nathan Brown style break.

Compartment syndrome is a bitch too.

That woud be an absolute shocker. How long was recovery?

 

[Freofalcon]

Man Flu

Women have no idea

 

[MinerBoy]

That woud be an absolute shocker. How long was recovery?

Broke it in the last quarter of last H&A game - first (them) v second :-( So missed finals.

Had the titanium rod put in but came back way too early and played the last few games of cricket and finals where I could still barely run. Then got infected/staf right when footy season was starting again and had to have rod removed and the old wire brush clean out inside the bone. Put that footy season off too but once again came back and sat in goal square about 2 stone heavier for the final few games.

Honestly didn't really rehab it at all well and came back way too early. I was 23 then and 45 now. I played on with footy until I was 31 and still play cricket (semi retired now). I also run a ton these days (melb mara next week) so all in all it didn't stop me physically enjoying what I love but I'll admit I still have knee/calf/achilles issues relating to that injury that might have been less of an issue if I were more diligent and in less of a hurry back then.

 

[Gralin]

Man Flu

Women have no idea

I already made that joke on the first page

From what I've seen that tends to trump most things, except man flu, that's the worst.

Speaking of.....

Man flu

 

[Gralin]

and by joke I mean known medical fact

 

[Freofalcon]

I already made that joke on the first page

I tell it better

It’s all in the delivery

 

[Wosh]

Perth gal how did you go with your CT scans?

 

[Smoooothy]

I had to have an MRI and a neurologist before they found the problem with my back. At one point I was told it was all in my head - went on for over 12 months.

Good luck for tomorrow with the CT

my partner has had pain in her hip for 10 months now. initial diagnosis was rheumatoid arthritis, then to seronegative arthritis, then to torn tendons, and now the latest specialist she's been seeing thinks its PTSD and all in her head

meanwhile, she can't walk because it hurts too much

 

[Off The Couch]

my partner has had pain in her hip for 10 months now. initial diagnosis was rheumatoid arthritis, then to seronegative arthritis, then to torn tendons, and now the latest specialist she's been seeing thinks its PTSD and all in her head

meanwhile, she can't walk because it hurts too much

And that is soul destroying

 

[Smoooothy]

And that is soul destroying

and we got this after paying $600 to see a pain management specialist..