The worst pain I've ever experienced was when I had to break up with the love of my life because our relationship was bad for the both of us. We were living together at the time and we talked about how I should go stay with my brother who lived two states away. When we were talking about this, however, I led her to believe that I was coming back. So, after a saddening departure I left and barely talked to her for several months. All the while she was under the impression that I was coming back and that I was working on ways to improve our relationship. Don't get me wrong; I hadn't intended to lead her on, but anyone who has ever been in a similar situation understands how difficult it can be to face the truth when it's so painful to admit that the love of your life is also the poison in your life. After a while I finally called her and had to break it off because I felt like a horrible person for leading her on and, by doing so I wasn't showing her the love I felt for her. So after months of drinking my days away and crying to my friends about the pain I called her up, after much prodding from my very supportive friends. The call was only about 15-30 minutes long but it felt like an eternity. I kept having to force myself not to relent and keep firm in my conviction that this was the right thing to be doing and that I couldn't just "talk about it". When the conversation was over (I had to be the one to hang up, my darling was beside herself with grief) and I wailed for what seemed like days. The pain was unlike anything I have ever experienced; it was as if my heart was being wrenched from my chest while someone poured napalm into the cavity that it left. Eventually the pain subsided a fraction after a couple of months but the emptiness was ever-present. My other half was gone. She called me several times and most of them went ignored, if I spoke to her again I wouldn't be able to hold out and I would go running back. Hell, if I wasn't two states away I would have gone running back. When I finally did speak to her again she told me of how she had done everything she could to change and how she just wanted a chance. I was desperate to believe her but I voiced my concerns about how I worried that it was a facade. Eventually she convinced me. I'll spare the exact details and my emotions, but we went on a road trip for about a week along the east coast and drove to New York. During this trip I learned that she had indeed changed and that there was still a chance at our happiness. I came back, and my life has been complete ever since.
There is only one pain equal to that, and that was hearing my step-daughter tell me that she understood why I had left, and that she didn't want me to come back unless it was right for me. Even though that pain was tremendous, the pride I felt as a father knew no bounds at that moment.
Finally, the greatest physical pain I ever experienced was dislocating my knee dancing to dubstep in the bathroom.
Tl;dr Sappy breakup, pain, loss, joy, pride, dubstep.
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i had all 4 wisdom teeth removed within 2 weeks, all i could eat was soup through a straw because it hurt to make any facial movement.
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I was walking from my Writing Composition class (I forgot if it was I or II), and all of a sudden there was this intense pain in my foot. Obviously, the right thing to do was to keep walking to class for a week in that intense pain. Eventually I found out I had hurt my plantar fasciae or however it's spelled. That was painful, but at least it wasn't broken (I broke a bone in my foot twice playing football and slamming my foot into a door frame).
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I had my lymph nodes (cheek ones) cut off sugically and it just wouldn't heal for weeks. And when it did, it appeared they forgot to remove the swab, so they cut me again to remove it = another month of suffering. Eating, talking, turning head in just about any direction was a damn torture.
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I have a bad heart. Got a pacemaker/defibrillator installed, and I woke up after surgery HOURS before I was supposed to. Pain meds wore off early. Hurt so much that just from my chest flexing/stressing the stitches began to pull open.
Two days after the hospital discharged me, I needed painkiller refills. The weight of my left arm on the cut-up muscle tissue and the stitches was too much. I had to lay down on the floor in the ER to cut back on the pain.
Today I still can't run. My heart races too soon and I'm always getting dizzy and lightheaded.
I've had sunburns that required a trip to the ER myself. Getting that slapped as a joke is almost as painful as the arm thing. So imagine getting it slapped constantly for a few hours at a time between painkiller doses. I have damaged teeth from biting down so hard.
I'm only 33. This happened when I was about 24. The symptoms are from at least 11 years old.
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My family has a history of getting gallstones and I was having attacks as early as 15 years old. I wouldn't say they're all that painful but they're very frustrating and maddening. Without some serious meds there's no way to lessen the pain or shorten the duration of the attack. It's the kind of thing that makes you ask to be cut open without getting any anesthetic.
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When my gf left me...yes, the pain was physical and I don't ever want to feel anything like that again. I admit, my leg has never been chopped to pieces and I haven't had cluster headache but still this is the first physical pain I have experienced.
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Stress can cause serious pain. When i get really stressed my heart starts hurting like a maniac and i get a huge headache. I experienced this the first time me ex beated me <.< No it wasen't because of the beaten, but it was because i got so incredible sad. I thought he was the perfect guy
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When my back pain got so bad that I couldn't literally get up from my bed since it hurt some much to even slightly bend.Had to have help to get up to go to the hospital and get some pain killer shots or what ever it's called i don't remember to be able to move at all. Was some pretty strong stuff, lasted about 2 months, had to go to psychical therapy :|
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The worst physical pain I have ever experienced was a few years ago. I had an emergency operation done on me (my appendix was so infected that I just barely survived the septic shock) during which, unfortunately, owing to the nature of the anaesthetic, I was wide awake. Oh, I was still completely paralyzed, but that was all the anaesthetic did - basically I was being operated on while fully aware and totally incapable of communicating this fact.
You know, when they cut open your stomach with a scalpel you hardly feel anything - the blade is too sharp to really register as much. When the cut is opened up for access, however.... man, that REALLY sucks.
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I went to an animal auction and we bought this Donkey for 5$, and we also bought this other rather fidgety animal, and when we tried to get it into the car it freaked the Donkey out. I was holding the Donkey's tie to keep it from freaking out, we were in a mini-van and it barely fit in the back, and the animal freaked out, kicked at the Donkey and the Donkey bit at it, but instead bit my wrist.
My hand was a bloody mess and I could barely feel it for almost a week until my fingers started getting feeling back. That was the day I learned donkeys have fangs. I also got to name it, it was named Hannibal.
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I once made the mistake of sitting pantsless on a wooden chair during a particularly warm night. Stupid male anatomy.
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Lost a finger. Got reattached.
Most painful thing I can remember is dislocating my shoulder during a hockey game. Got popped back in, continued playing.
Or maybe when I overextended my ankle and my toes touched my shins for a split second. Also during hockey, but a medal ceremony.
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I had an inflammation in my back tooth. This was the most painful week ever for me. The dentist prescribed me something against the pain and an antibiotic but it still hurt like hell. I couldn't sleep for days and my body never felt so weak. The pain reliever also didn't help. It relieved the pain only for a few seconds after i took it. Extreme pain combined with a weak body and not being able eat and get some sleep was the worst.
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Not much pain in my life really. As an older person:
Bad back (Wii & Golf)
Wisdom teeth removed (under GA but still hurt like hell afterward)
Many many hangovers
As a kid:
Smashed into a wall while playing British Bulldog and broke my nose
Came off my wee 50cc motorbike when I was about 9-10. It was summer and I was wearing shorts and no shirt. Came off on a concrete path and grazed the entire left-side of my body. Stung like buggery.
Put a lit match up my nose when I was about 10 doing a magic trick. Ow.
Rolled off the top bunk onto a pile of toy cars/toy boxes. (Tidy yo toys kids!)
At a friend's house, we were having a bonfire. I picked up a piece of wood about 6ft away from the fire to put it on. The piece of wood had been in the fire. Ow. Didn't need a hospital visit but I felt very sorry for myself.
Of all those, the most painful was the bad back. Absolute agony. Had to mix Ibuprofen, Paracetamol & Codeine, Diclofenac AND diazepam.
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Let's see... any type of burn hurts like hell. Plenty of scalding burns, a few small 1st/2nd degree, a 3rd degree along the side of my pinky where the skin just ended up charred, I don't remember how exactly but it had ended up coming in contact with the fireplace grill, while a fire was burning.
All of my wisdom teeth were impacted, but two of them actually ended up breaking so instead of just having an impacted wisdom tooth I had an exposed nerve. Only felt the one that broke on the top left side for some reason though... came as a surprise to me when the dentist said the one on the right was also broken with the nerve exposed.
Sliced my index finger open on the edge of a can, from the tip of the index finger about to the first joint, almost through to the fingernail. I probably should have gone to get a couple stiches for that one...but hey, the scar now is just about a perfect fit for giving a bit of extra traction on my mouse wheel... so there's an upside to everything!
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well.. Mine was when i forgot sunscreen. it's ended up being a 1 or 2 degree burn :( but when i thought the worst was over... This began.. maybe there may be a bandaid here for the U who have experienced pain :P
aaand of course i end up hurting myself again xD
This time i was running with my dog and tried to out run him when i lost a shoe. Than there only was one way and that was down. Ended up with 9 huge bruises. 1 week after the crash they turned up yellow, and i still can't sleep on my left side XD
TL;DR
i should go sit on a chair and never move again XD
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