Worst Pain Ever

[EMDDIESEL]

Wow, pretty bad horror stories. The worst pain i can think of would have to be burns, i have heard it is ungodly painful to suffer large scale burns. Fire is some nasty stuff. Worst pain i have ever gone through myself was breaking fingers, but thats about all.

 

[Jeff H]

Well I dropped a 10 pound weight on my tow once. It so much I couldn't even shout.

I cut my finger down to my bone once. Yes bone are really white. That didn't really hurt much. It was the needle that kept jabbing the bone during stiches.

I branded myself once. Me and a buddy heated up a steel rod so we could bend it. We just left it on the vise to cool off. My buddy started to doing something else on the same bench. I looked over to see what he was doing. My right arm went into the steel rod. My skin fried instantly. It was a J shaped burn. Most people thought it was kind of funny since it was in the shape of a J. They thought it had to do something with my name.

I've been zapped several times. Just a little thrill.

I was looking at some plug wires near the distributer. Of coarse I moved one of the wires a little. The charge went through my left finger out through the right finger to the battery. Yes the vehicle was running. Kinda felt a hammer smucked my left finger.

Saw a dog get hit by a car. He got hit in the rear. The dog spun accross the road about 3 time. The pooch got up and walked away.

 

[Evan A. Beck]

Well, here's my top 3...



1. Burns. Back on August 21, 1999, my friend and I were installing the carpet in his '68 Karmann Ghia we were restoring. The glue we were using was an acetone-based adhesive, and the fumes were pretty bad. We had a fan going, and thought it would be ok, but we were wrong. I was in the back of the car, and about half of the floorpans had been covered in the glue... Then the fumes and glue spontaneously combusted, leaving me inside this inferno. Let me tell you one thing... Acetone burns HOT. I was in there for about 2 seconds, long enough to do some serious damage. I had second degree (worst for pain) burns over my entire face and arms, with my right hand getting the full force of the fire. I got cold water immediately, but as soon as I get into the ambulance, the pain was killer. When the air touches the open nerve endings, the pain is just excruciating. The worst part though, was my right hand. In the few days after the accident, the blisters on my fingers and hand swelled up 1/2"-3/4". You have no idea how bad it hurts when fluid under your skin slowly separates the layers of skin. I got fed up with it one night, and lanced them all myself. That took guts. The next week I saw a reconstructive surgeon about the burns on my face. He said I would need pretty radical surgery to deal with the scars and such, but he wanted me to heal completely before that could happen. Over the next 2 and a half weeks, my face healed PERFECTLY, rendering me no need for surgery. Was I lucky? YES. I missed 3 weeks of work, and couldn't go outside at all. That sucked.



2. Appendix. Imagine someone throwing an ax in your gut, and them moving it around for about 20 hours. That my friend, s what appendicitis feels like.



3. Stepping on a 20-penny nail when I was a framer, and having it go all the way through your foot. Bled like an SOB, but wasn't a sharp pain (no pun intended). It was more of a dull aching pain that wouldn't go away. I wrapped it with gauze and electrical tape, and called it good. Gotta love on-the-job medicine.



Getting zapped with electricity is small potaotes, as it has happened to me so many times. 120V and 240V is not much, but when you get bitten by some three-phase, the feeling tends to linger for a while. *LOL*

 

[weber1048]

I have had two incidents with great pain. I hit a dog doing 25 mph on my bicycle, blew my shoulder apart . Had two 4 inch screws in my shoulder for 10 weeks to hold everything together. The other was when a 3/8" cable parted and shot a 12"x2" SS piece which crushed 3 toes which had to be amputated. Thats pain.



Doug

 

[Doc Tinker]

Steve St. Laurent! Tell us about pain!



Doc

 

[JConley]

I was pulling the front coil springs out of my Mustang. When I swung the spring free of the car, the spring compressor slipped, and used my hand as a stop. Luckily I was wearing leather gloves. Even with the gloves on, the spring compressor ripped the skin off my hand from the tip of my little finger down the side of my hand for about 6 inches. All my knuckles got banged up also. I am lucky I didnt loose a finger. I was jumping up and down in pain thinking " this is going to leave a mark" Took about 2 months for this to heal.



Also when I was about 5, I drove a sled into a tree, and knocked myself out.

 

[Doc Tinker]

I so glad that I'm not the only accident prone one here



Doc

 

[Todd G]

About 16 months ago, I was out riding my dirt bike. I got about 5 miles from the truck and looped out going up a nasty hill. I landed on a rock. I wear a chest protector but that rock was harder than any plastic. I knew my back was messed up from the start. I decided that I would try and start the bike rather than die in the desert.



Starting a Husaberg is difficult even on my best days. The kick-starter is on the left side and high up. It takes a good kick to fire up this high-strung four-stroke. Well it took about 15 minutes of agony before it fired.



I rode it back to the truck in first gear. Tried to use the cell phone but it was out of range. I decided to load the bike up rather than leave it in the desert. I knew it would be a while before I could get back to it.



I drove to the emergency room. X-Rays showed I shattered a vertebrae. The doctors were amazed I wasn't paralyzed. It has taken me a year to recover from the surgery and rehab.

 

[chuck3]

My worst pain.

Well I havent had stones, but I can tell you about back pains, I couldnt do anything for a month after hurting mine one time, Nothing would take the pain away, It hurt so bad I could barely make it to the bathroom. But I think youre right, burns would be the worst.

 

[Doc Tinker]

What about having your fingernails pulled out? It sure hurts to smash your finger, or to rip a nail into the flesh!



Doc

 

[Bad340fish]

Burns

A few years ago I was using a diesel heated power washer Set for STEAM at work. THe hose got stuck on a pallet and I gave just a little tug on the wand. The hose broke right by the wand and shot 250* water right on my side. WOW that hurt. Put about a 6" diameter 2nd degree burn right on he love handle area. That was bad. . the worst part was going to the doctor the next day. I had no idea they SCRUB burns!! They cleared me to work in a cool enviroment. My boss's idea of a cool Enviroment was our 110* warehouse. I have a new respect for that power washer now.



This ranks in my Dumb Category. A friend of mine and I built a home made version of the Go-Ped. It was a scooter with a rather large chainsaw motor on it. It had no brakes and no throttle... just an on/off switch and an old set of shoes to stop with. We had two of them and this one would run about 30mph(healthy chainsaw motor) I was flying down the road trying to catch up to the other scooter when the front tire blew out. I heard it deflate and thought "What the Hell was that" about the time it shot me over the handle bars and landed me chin first on the pavement at 25 or so MPH. Got up and tried to close my mouth. . teeth didn't line up. After walking back I found out I was bleeding BAD reached for my chin and the skin just kinda folded up! I felt the bone. . the wound looked like another mouth lol. Broke my jaw right on the growth plate(I was 16 at the time) had it wired shut for 6 weeks... lost about 20 pounds. Had 17 stitches inside my chin and 17 on the outside. Everything Healed up great. Most of that wasn't near as painful as you would think. It was watching my friends eat Hamburgers while I could just suck down some chicken soup or a milkshake!! Even that McRib crap looked good when you haven't eaten solid food for a couple of weeks LOL.

Clark

 

[Doc Tinker]

Bad340fish - I wondered why you looked so funny, with that flat chin. Now, if the rest of you will please tell us why you look so strange I'll quit wondering.



Doc

 

[lgibson]

Well I had all kinds of pain from head to toe. Broken toe, cracked ulna, (arm bone) dislocated knee all from beatings as a child, knee dislocation about seven times. Had my fingernail ripped out twice. Chemical burn on right foot from Carberator cleaner, and not the spray can stuff. Bucked off a horse and landed on my head and another time landed on a fence. Had a Kenworth pulling twin 40' belly dumps full of gravel run a stop light and hit the drivers side of my Jeep CJ-5. Broken Hip, back, closed head injury. Doc messed up on surgery and put a screw through the bone and into the nerves. Nerve pain is bad, real bad and it took over two years to find the problem, and now it is damaged for good. Now I have arthritis in my spine, hips, feet, and hands. I have AS where my spine is fusing together. Whip lash in another accident while a passinger in a taxi. I am only 33 years old so I am sure I find more pains. I don't know what it is like not to have pain, or how it is to get more than 3 hours of sleep per night. I don't take pain meds. because too many people get hooked on them and the human body is pretty amazing in that it can adjust to the pain. My pain meds. are my best friend, Norva, and my CTD.

 

[QRTRHRS]

How about emotional pain? August of 95', been with the same women for 20 years, married for the last ten, buying a new house, closing date set. She meets someone else. Divorced December 18, 95'. Took me awhile to figure out she did me a favor.

 

[tgbol]

While taking a 427 chevy head out of a hot tank it fell and landed on my foot. Cut right through the boot and smashed my big toe. 25 years later I still have no toe nail. Hurt so bad that I couldn't yell, or the yell was so I pitched only the dogs could hear it.

 

[Bad340fish]

There is not enough room to post about all my smashed fingers. Not to many of them bad enough to lose nails or anything but IMO those are the worst. I sell Car Batteries For Interstate. I handle a good 1000 or so new/Junk Batteries a week this time of year so I get to smash my fingers more than I would like, I probably cuss a battery for smashing my finger once a day lol. I also have gotten my moneys worth out of my steel toe Boots lol. I was checking out a hot parts girl a few weeks ago and knocked a stack of 9 junk batteries off of my dolley onto my leg. I felt real cool. Had to play the pain off like it was normal until she got inside

Clark

 

[joel]

Ruptured Appendix, stubborn mule...

One year ago, I was out back on a rented back hoe digging a footing ditch for a stone wall I was planning on building. Had felt... uncomfortable since I got up, like I had bad gas or something. Mid-afternoon, it goes away. All right, back outside, finish digging. By dinner time, it's back. I eat dinner and relax for the evening. By 9, the wife starts in with maybe we should call the doctor. Being the stupid male that I am (and a typical military aviator: docs are bad - they give out DOWN chits!) I said I was OK. She goes to be at around 11 and said I could wake her if I needed to go to the doc. By 1, I'm curled up on the bathroom floor in the fetal position. Worst pain I've ever felt. I feel I can honestly look a woman in the eye and say I understand labor pain!



Anyway, off we go to the hospital. Base hospital said I could to to the one here in town if the 20 miles there would be too hard. At the end of the driveway, we go over the little curb bump and I pretty much yelled to not hit the bumps. We went local. After much poking and prodding, they finally give me drugs. Ask me the intensity of my pain and I said 10. 30 mins after the drugs, they ask again and it's still 10. They give me more. Another 30 mins and they ask again. My reply: Still a 5, but I don't care now!



More poking, prodding, x-rays and MRIs. Can't figure it out. 7 AM rolls around and I'm off to emergency exploratory surgery. Every thing went fine, but the doc said just a few more hours and it would have been close. Very bad rupture. Happened when I felt better the previous afternoon. Oh yeah, this was 4 days before my birthday, too.

 

[Steve St.Laurent]

Was out of town for this one, just saw it Doc! My appendix ruptured when I was sixteen - hurt like mad but definately not the worst pain I've felt. Worst was the accident that ended my road racing career. July 14th, 1989 - Sears Point Raceway - Turn 6 (the carousel). First weekend out with my brand new racebike (FZR400), cutting off my fastest lap times ever (a full 10 seconds faster than on my FZ750). I come over the top of the hill and drop into turn 6, sliding both tires controllably for the first time . There's a guy with his hand up on the outside of the corner, I think hmmm, maybe there's something on the track, slow down a bit and lift up. WHAAAAACK, I'm down - slide off the pavement and look over at my bike thinking "I hope I can still race today". Sit up . . . . . . . . . . . next thing I remember is being strapped down to a board with a bunch of people standing around me and going "one, two, three, lift" as I'm being loaded into the ambulance. Now keep in mind it was three years after the accident before I remembered this. What happened was that guy with his hand up blew up his GSX-R750 and coated the racing line with 7 quarts of synthetic oil. I was the first one into the turn (oil flag wasn't out yet) and three guys bailed behind me. When I sat up one of the bikes behind me (another GSXR-750) was cartwheeling sideways and nailed me.



The footpeg went into my back (luckily it hit one of the plates on my back protector - that saved my life) and broke my back in 3 places (L4,5, & 6). The tire must have ridden over my helmet because there's tire marks on it. Cracked my skull from my right ear to the base of my skull and damaged the 5th, 6th, and 8th nerves. They control hearing in your right ear (I was deaf in my right ear for 2 years, have 70% hearing in it now), feeling on the right side of the head (if someone touches my right temple now it feels like they're poking the INSIDE of my eyeball - VERY wierd feeling), and outward movement of the right eye (saw double vision for months). Had some brain damage (loss of short term memory for years, not to mention forgetting the day of the accident through a couple of days afterward - those memories came back slowly over the next three years) as well as a hemorage that they monitored every day I was in the hospital with CAT scans, they were considering surgery on the 9th day but it stopped growing that day. Also, my foot must have come to rest on one of the exhaust pipes or engine because I had a 2x4 inch blister on my left foot that came and went for the next couple of years.



The real pain was that because I was a trauma case and they need you to feel the pain so they know what's wrong with you they wouldn't give me ANY pain killers for about 10 HOURS after the accident!! On top of that because I was taking up the closest trauma unit to the track they had to MOVE me to another hospital that had two trauma units once they had me stable. So I got loaded into another ambulance and drove down the road with no pain killers! The pain was so excruciating that for days after the accident I would all of a sudden just black out (circuit breaker?) - especially when they had to move me for some reason (like to change the sheets, they'd roll me on my side and it was nighty night time). 10 days in the hospital and a few years of rehab and I decided I wasn't going back to road racing! Never EVER want to feel pain like that again. Here's a few pics of the helmet I was wearing:



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Note the missing vents (popped out from the impact), the faceshield attachment missing on the left side, and the tire marks running over it. I kept it around as a reminder of how lucky I am to be alive!

 

[Doc Tinker]

Amen to the brain damage - LMAO



Doc

 

[Murle]

I think losing a love one or a dear friend is about the worst pain that a person can bear. I would endure any kind of physical pain to bring that person back. Sorry but I lost a son 22 years ago. He was 7 years old. And the pain is still there.