These are my top 3 - I can't decide which is the worst. All were bad in a different way.
Stomach flu/stomach bug - excruciating headache, nausea, and hours of relentless vomiting until nothing was coming out and I was dry reaching for the rest of the night. Felt like my lungs and ribcage were going to explode every time I dry reached. I got so dehydrated that I was admitted to hospital and put on a drip.
Getting circumcised at 17 under local anaesthetic was a whirlwind of mental and physical pain. First laying there with this weird sense of anticipation/dread combined with the embarrassment that I know I'd feel if I got hard (there was like 4 females in the operating theater including 2 medical students, and I knew that the operation was being filmed and other medical students would be watching it); trying to keep my mind occupied with something else to stave that off, which was quickly overtaken by anxiety as the clamp was being put on, then unbelievable pain once the actual cutting was underway and I could feel the scalpel slicing through flesh, followed by stitching which was a different kind of pain to the cutting and almost as bad. Then the recovery period, spending a week living in fear of getting a boner.
Car crash - a P plater broke the road rules and smashed into the side of my car while I was going through a green light. The hydraulic shock threw out something in my back - luckily it wasn't spinal and was only soft tissue damage. For a couple days I could barely move because every time I tried even a slight bend at the waist, I got intense lower back pain. I was basically a cripple for 3 weeks with intense pain from doing basic tasks, during which time I questioned whether I would ever make a full recovery. Eventually made a full recovery with the help of prescription medication and physiotherapy.
Stomach flu/stomach bug - excruciating headache, nausea, and hours of relentless vomiting until nothing was coming out and I was dry reaching for the rest of the night. Felt like my lungs and ribcage were going to explode every time I dry reached. I got so dehydrated that I was admitted to hospital and put on a drip.
Getting circumcised at 17 under local anaesthetic was a whirlwind of mental and physical pain. First laying there with this weird sense of anticipation/dread combined with the embarrassment that I know I'd feel if I got hard (there was like 4 females in the operating theater including 2 medical students, and I knew that the operation was being filmed and other medical students would be watching it); trying to keep my mind occupied with something else to stave that off, which was quickly overtaken by anxiety as the clamp was being put on, then unbelievable pain once the actual cutting was underway and I could feel the scalpel slicing through flesh, followed by stitching which was a different kind of pain to the cutting and almost as bad. Then the recovery period, spending a week living in fear of getting a boner.
Car crash - a P plater broke the road rules and smashed into the side of my car while I was going through a green light. The hydraulic shock threw out something in my back - luckily it wasn't spinal and was only soft tissue damage. For a couple days I could barely move because every time I tried even a slight bend at the waist, I got intense lower back pain. I was basically a cripple for 3 weeks with intense pain from doing basic tasks, during which time I questioned whether I would ever make a full recovery. Eventually made a full recovery with the help of prescription medication and physiotherapy.