Got kicked in the balls when I was younger. It’s not pain, it’s something else. Of a different nature. You’re transported outside of everything, outside of reality. It was transcendental.
Like the Avatar Life Cycle was severed in that moment. Truly the most unique type of pain to experience.
Ok so here’s the kinda crazy part. I’m a sideshow and fire performer. I’ve suffered large burns, I drill into my sinus cavity, I had my tongue surgically split, I staple myself with an upholstery stapler all the time.
Nothing has beat dental pain.
My wife said her dry socket was up there with birth of our large son.
Sorry, what? You drill into your sinus cavity? What does that mean?
It’s called blockhead
I can push icepicks, nails, and even power drills about 5" into my sinus cavity. I can also double mental floss, which is when you put a tube in your nose and pull it out your mouth, though I’m still trying to get better at it. Power drills are very uncomfortable and have caused the most nosebleeds.
That’s super cool! I knew a guy that would eat small ropes and pull it out his nose but… Wow that is next level. Thanks for sharing.
Damn, that’s actually harder! Reverse mental floss
Wow. I’m super interested.
Losing people I loved.
Dislocated shoulder. It went over the front of the socket which is apparently quite rare, and the most painful. I was blacking out front the pain, a friend fainted, ambulance gave me laughing gas which was great. Hospital visit was not fun, they tried various kinds of morphine which didn’t seem to have much of an effect, then ended up giving me some sort of date rape ‘cooperative sedation’ meds and letting the student doctors take turns to fail at relocating my arm and fuck up the socket even more.
Mine dislocates this way as well. Bends you in half so you have to baby step walk right. It’s happened six times now.
Nobody understands how bad this hurts. ER visit every time with 2-3 hour wait in ER with no pain meds. My shoulder is destroyed but now I’ve built up enough muscle to hold it in place.
Seriously people are like yeah that happened to me once, wasn’t that bad, why didn’t you just pop it back in yourself?
No motherfucker this is a completely different story.
But yeah. I understand you! Cluster headaches got nothing on this type of dislocation.
I mean I get that med students need to learn somehow but I feel like after one failed attempt a real doctor should do the job. Or like, build devices that allow to practice without causing harm to a person. Wtf
Getting hit by a truck while walking down the road, after the initial ragdoll physics were over. EVERYTHING hurt, from my hair follicles to my toes. Wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
I had major gallstone attacks a couple times a week for like 6-8 months before I finally drove myself to the ER at 2am after being woken by one. Was in surgery 3hrs later.
Was utterly excruciating pain in your abdomen, and it just grows and grows and grows, and lasts from 20minutes to over an hour. Nothing ever touched the pain either, and my PCP misdiagnosed it as extreme acid reflux and had me on Prilosec for months.
0/10, do not recommend. Plus not having a gallbladder kinda sucks ass.
A broken wisdom tooth with one of the parts rubbing against the nerve that passes through that side of the lower jaw. Definitely would not recommend, it did cost me ~$2k to pull those wisdom teeth (or what remained of them for the lower ones) but it was well worth it.
After I dislocated my kneecap, getting the ski boot pulled off.
Tooth fractured about 90% through at the gum line after I got hit by a car while biking.
It would be ‘fine’ (painful but just really sore like the rest of me) if I bit down on that tooth for a bit to fully seat it, but every time I talked, ate, or otherwise accidentally jostled it it would be like someone jabbed a red hot poker into my face - the crack went across the root and any bit of movement pulled on it.
It was a rough two weeks to get it looked at and a root canal done. I kept getting woken up by searing pain if I moved a bit during the night.
Had a random sinus pain that was so debilitating had to call my dad to take me to the er. Was around 13 to 16
phone call could barely understand me. Bridge of my nose to back of head felt like sharp daggers in waves.
By the time made it to er was gone had 0 pain and I never experienced it again. Dr’s said it was sinus but I still don’t have a fucking clue what that was
Spinal tap. The pain went to 11. It was not fun.
Heartbreak, death of friends family, migraines
Inflamed sacroilliac joints causing stabbing pains in my legs while on a city break where we were walking everywhere. Thought it was sciatica at the time but multiple MRIs later was confirmed to be something similar but different…
Never broken a bone so don’t have much to share in terms of the painful experiences.
It’s a throw up between dislocating my arm while kiting and wearing both wrist straps for the brake lines. So my arm dislocated in mid air, fell to the ground, kite inflates but doesn’t take off and dragged me along the ground by my dislocated shoulder until I hit a rock.
Falling while climbing solo breaking my ankle and having to crawl out to find help.
And finally crashing while skiing and landing my hip on a rock, the ski patrol didn’t know if I had a spinal injury and couldn’t give me painkillers to get me off the hill, so they took me down a slushy bumpy spring slope on a sledge. Turns out I’d just fractured my hip so after the xray my friends dad the doctor got me loaded up with painkillers to make up for it.
Edit: that’s just some of the worst I can think of, I am very grateful that the human mind cannot remember pain.And people wonder why I don’t do dangerous shit.
Personally I prefer not having life long medical problems.
A lot of people have said that I’m really unlucky, but I’m still skiing, climbing and biking. A disturbing number of my friends have broken their spines at one point or another or have a ridiculous amount of metal holding them up, so I consider myself very lucky indeed.
Also very grateful for the NHS.I hope that realization changes your perspective enough to reconsider how you go about enjoying your hobbies.
As far as I am concerned you’re lucky and because you have yet to experience the injury that changes your life.
It’s not a matter of if, but when, and how. If you keep doing it for long enough you’ll live to experience it and the regrets that come along with it.
With that said I’ve met a lot of people that have a death wish and will continue doing reckless things until it kills them.
I’ve been lucky, just throwing my back into spasm.
