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Currently maxed out on pain control for a dental abscess on both roots of a tooth in my bottom jaw. It feels like my bottom jaw wants to go pop! Dentist has prescribed two lots of antibiotics to try and get on top of it. I was fully prepared for its removal! The pain is very bad even on max over the counter drugs and I feel like crap. The only time I have felt worse is when I had proper flu and couldn't move for 5 days. Should I MTFU or is this the worst pain a man can feel?
Had my knee go on me 2/3 the way through doing the Borrow Dale bash I was in complete agony, the knee cap just locked up and it felt like I had a knife run through my knee cap.
Ended up managed to move it enough to ride to the bottom of the trail then spent another 20 mins resting it.
3 doctors visits and nearly 12 months of physio has got it working something like but still get the odd twinge 😕
This frozen shoulder.
6 months since I last lifted my elbow above shoulder height and not had more than 3 hours continuous sleep in all that time.
Viral labyrinthitis.
Ouch, I hate toothache!
My worst pain had to be a migraine (possibly a cluster headache) a couple of weeks ago when I had to go to A&E. Worst pain in my life, worse than giving birth to a baby the wrong way round, and worse than having surgery to my spine.
Prolapsed disc, which I've had all summer and has written off my biking for the year. The pain was *bad*.
Flu. I spent 3 weeks in bed only thing I recall was the Mrs waking up to drink, take meds and feed what little I could eat. Then spent 3 or 4 months trying to get my strength back.
Worst pain in my life, worse than giving birth to a baby the wrong way round,
Before conception? How's that work?
Should I MTFU or is this the worst pain a man can feel?
MTFU princess 😆
First day into a two week holiday with a very hot partner I managed to split open my member thanks to a bit of metal work being caught, the pain was nothing compared to the frustration I felt not being able to play for two weeks!
The hotel manage was also not impressed with me painting claret all over the bed, walls, floor, bathroom, TV and mini bar!
She (the hot partner, not the hotel manager) then went and dumped me the day we returned back!
I still cary the physical and mental scars from that trip.
Baldness.
The patella dislocation was more intense pain, but the aggregate pain of losing my hair has been far greater:-
Did she have a brace ski?
Shingles, not the physical pain itself (I'm as tough as, mind, broken collarbone smarted a bit) but it just gets you down mentally. I believe it is sometimes treated with anti-depressants.
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Guillain-Barre-syndrome/Pages/Introduction.aspx
Bad knee for over a year. Can't run or bend it and it aches. Not really a physical pain but a pain in the ass all the same.
Conciousness.
In the short term, toothache's terrible, just so invasive. I was more functional the day of surgery for my broken hip than I am with a bad toothache 😆
Longer term, diabetes and coeliac disease are both a pain in the arse but they don't usually make me miserable. I genuinely did once break down in tears while standing in a bakery and smelling all the smells I couldn't eat 😆 But my back does me in now, it's not in any way debilitating, it's just unpleasant, a lot of the time. I can deal with really bad things normally but I'm not so good with niggles. It's like I need something bigger to fight against.
ski - MemberFirst day into a two week holiday with a very hot partner I managed to split open my member thanks to a bit of metal work being caught
Yeah, you want to be careful with those cheap fleshlight ripoffs.
VD
Bad knee for over a year. Can't run or bend it and it aches. Not really a physical pain but a pain in the ass all the same.
Is this you?
I have great sympathy for anyone with a bad abcess. I have a thirty year old scar on the front of my chin from when I had a bad one under my front incisors blew up to the size of a golf ball and burst through my chin. I can vaguely remember being led out of the factory by the production manager, who had found me wandering in a stupor moaning and holding my face, and put in a taxi, but can't recall anything of the next couple of days other than pain until it drained.
Ive broken and dislocated my right patella twice, the pain was agonising to the point I feel physically sick typing this.
However, it is this ongoing & so far undiagnosed (waiting for test results) pain in my thumbs/wrists/elbows & surrounding muscle tissue that's really getting to me.
Its not agonising by any means, its just constant & sleep disturbing, haven't had a full nights sleep for months now & even riding my road bike hurts.
Oh, that's before I dislocated my right shoulder on holiday last month & for which I'm looking at corrective surgery.
Not a happy dwarf right now.
Shingles.
Dark room, skin pain when light was shone on me, in agony for a week. Knackered for a month. Not right for a season.
Ive broken and dislocated my right patella twice, the pain was agonising to the point I feel physically sick typing this.
Ditto.
What I can't understand is how people have actually straightened their own legs and put back (reduced) the dislocation!
I can only assume they are either the hardest bastards in history or there are smaller gradations of dislocation.
Sorry to hear about your other ailments MuddyDrawf. Just out of interest, what was more painful, the patella dislocation or the shoulder?
The shock of actually doing it the first time was harder to take than the pain (which was awful). The second time I did it, I knew the procedure and just counted the minutes until Mr Ambulence arrived with the oxygen.
Kidney stones were miserable
Shoulder injury thats never going to be right.
Currently a kidney problem. Had a scan Friday that showed nothing but why does it hurt 🙁
wwaswas - MemberDid she have a brace ski?
Sorry no brace, not even a stud!
To this day I am not sure what I caught it on, I was, well, drunk, not drunk enough to stop play, but enough to think it would be a good idea to wrap the spray can up with a bed sheet, then wander down to reception, unwrapping it in front of the poor receptionist to see if she thought I needed sectioning? 😉
The Spanish are very good when it comes to naked, drunk bleeding Brits.
I can top it all. I stood on some of my daughter's lego in bare feet. That's what they need at Guantanamo, they'd be singing in no time.
Thankfully it was only very transient but I swore at such volume paint in the living room actually blistered.
Broken thumb.
Not that painful but after surgery to plate and pin the bone back together they put my hand/wrist/forearm in a very heavy cast with all the weight at the top.
Not being able to do any exercise that made me hot and sweaty for 3 months made me very, very miserable.
On the pain front a dis-located elbow was pretty bad after I tried and failed to re-locate it trail side 😐
I put the ex's patella back on quite a few occasions - hypermobility is a bitch!
For me its the legacy of an RTA in 89 - living with a 6-8 pain level daily I'm ok with - its when it decides its going to mess with the rest of my nervous system thats the killer.
disc bulges that stop legs working.
Numbness in hands, constant skin nerve burning, feet without feeling so you are constantly relearning where the extremities are, bowels that shut down, etc.
Relapses that put you on the floor without warning - the most recent giving me a concussion and 2 weeks in hospital waiting to see how much sensation is going to return this time.
Then add new meds to the equation that cause as many issues as they solve.
Oh - and if anyone says they headed towards a "bright light and it was so calming and wonderful...." what a crock of shit....
Ruptured ovarian cyst
I feel bloody awful for anyone who gets cluster headaches on a regular basis.
When I had it I was bashing my head against the wall before the paramedics stopped me (Not joking)
A collarbone smashed to bits, herniated disc, dislocated shoulder, having 8 teeth pulled out (including 4 impacted wisdom teeth that had to be smashed out) all pale in comparison to the agony of this headache.
It feels as though a white hot drill bit is boring a hole into your brain.
Kidney stones. Deeply, deeply unpleasant. Straight on morphine as soon as I got to hospital and it felt like it made **** all difference.
As a blend of physical and emotional pain, the torn calf muscle 4 weeks before a VERY expensive month of snowboarding exams was pretty up there....
Thanks for all your replies, still feel like someone twisting a screw into my jaw in slow motion. However it should be relatively short lived so will try to MTFU! Assisted by meds of course.
Quinsey- the infection spread throughout my face, fever, couldnt swallow or speak. Occasionally I could squeeze my neck forcing the puss out through my gums and the cysts on my my tonsils..the relieve was bliss.
Stopped smoking after that.
Badnewz - for me the patella, wasn't just the dislocation but the muscle tearing from my ankle to groin, plus the cap itself shattering like a cup dropped onto a hard floor.
Shoulder is painful, but as its a recurrent injury it's more 'manageable' I suppose.
Talking of hard bastards, a female friend of mine broke her knee skiing in France. She had missed the last lift of the day & was in the wrong valley, she hobbled back up the mountain & made her own way down into the correct valley... 😯
Injury - broke both arms in one sitting, twisted my left wrist till the bones over-lapped and snapped, about 3 seconds later landed on my right elbow, my funny bone came out the end of my arms and shattered, blood and bone everywhere - the hour I waited for the Ambo was excruciating, but on balance the 6 months of physio and surgeries before it would heal was worse.
Illness wise a week of flu followed by 2 of pneumonia sucks arse, I'm still not right a month later, it was like being 90 years old, everything aches and just exhausted all the time, a 10 min walk needed a 30 min sit-down to recover.
dental abscess +1
shingles +1
the dislocated ankle & broken fibula wasn't actually that painful at the time, but it still twinges now & again, 9 years on
Gout. Had a few attacks in big toe. Take-your-breath-away levels of pain. Now under control with lifestyle changes and awareness. Still live in fear of the next attack.
What I can't understand is how people have actually straightened their own legs and put back (reduced) the dislocation!
I can only assume they are either the hardest bastards in history or there are smaller gradations of dislocation
When I was 17, the left winger on out footy team hurt his knee. He was petty good and it was a semi-final, so he played on 'til half time (about 20 minutes). Came off then as he'd lost quite a lot of his pace.
Turned out he'd halved his kneecap right down the middle 😯
(you'd have thought he was the least "hard bastard" you'll ever meet)
Opthalmic shingles. Yep. In the friggin' eye. It's like having pencil shavings constantly pushed into your eye... by the sharpened pencil.
Misdiagnosed to start with, bit of glaucoma added in for good measure (...could have lost my sight) and absolutely miserable few weeks after that.
Definitely the double prolapse I suffered about five years ago. Unbelievable pain. Enough that I did not sleep more than a few minutes at a time for a week. Thankfully, the conditioned worsened quickly enough (over two weeks) that it stopped me moving my legs and meant there was no wait to get treated. I was admitted to hospital, and they kept me in until they could get me MRI'd and given nerve blocks in the spine.
In any case, the front hallway to my house was too narrow for the ambulance stretcher, so the attendants had to give me laughing gas and coax me up and outside to the waiting vehicle.
I can remember screaming into my gas mask like a pathetic child as they forced my feet onto the ground and helped me stand. 😳
Bronchitis ,had it most years since I was 7 yrs old (52 now) .a few yrs ago i had a bronchitis attack mixed with asthma and 8 weeks 3 lots of antibiotics 2 courses of steroids later I'd lost 10lbs and got very down/ depressed, took me another 3 months to get back to any sort of fitness . Sat here full, of lurgy 😥
Gout.
+1, closely followed by hiccups the day after heart surgery...
A ruptured appendix is pretty damn painful.
Especially when you're rushed to A&E and the doctor sticks a couple of fingers up your holiest of holes and asks if that hurts?!!
Trapped nerve in lower right hand side of back, to the point of having no reflex in right leg, couldnt drive, couldnt sit, couldnt ride, months of rehab, thankfully now sorted
trapped nerve c7 disc..flares up out of nothing, burning sensation in my arm, totally does me in, jumps from right to left without warning..lovely pain!
Can go out on the bike, go mad do jumps, ride like a loon nothing.. bend down to tie a shoe lace and boom flares up.. old age is a BITCH!
Mouth ulcers.
Yes, seriously - mouth ulcers.
They change my mood completely. I'm generally a fairly laid back, happy-go-lucky kind of chap but a couple of mouth ulcers turn me into the most irritable, miserable b**tard ever.
I've had plenty of proper injuries and illnesses over the years and kept smiling but mouth ulcers - argh!
My August Shingles and frozen shoulder double header ...
Most get shingles on their back - I got it on my face. And in my eye .... so the three days worrying about losing some of the sight in my right eye was a joy on top of the hair that hurt, forehead that felt like someone was constantly putting a TENS machine turn up to 10 on it ( it still feels like that in the morning ... but only turned up to 3) and the 4 weeks of crashing headaches ....
Shoulder now operated on, so freed and bone ground down.
August was a miserable month
Dental abscess, tick, due to dentist removing wrong tooth on a Fri and suffering through till Mon!!
Salmonella, real pain!!!! Lost 3st and 3wks of my life tucked up in bed unconscious and not expected to live 🙄
Had to give up squash for the 3rd time due to back/knee problems.
Typing this whilst collar bone aches, broken x 2. Achilles aching. Knees aching. Finger joints aching. Back/hips etc aching.....
My body is just an auld wreck......
Ruptured Achilles Tendon smarted a touch, did it 5 months ago. The physio said today that I can run again..... for 3 minutes!
Fortunately the bike is one thing I can do without too much pain (couldn't ride for most of the summer though).
Dental abscess and an air bubble under the tooth, flying 8 hours with that expanded air bubble pinging nerves.... Grim
Then hepatitis from ingested polluted water.... No energy, will, interest as well as looking yellow whilst your career vanished...
Light compared to others on this thread but hey....
A couple of acute ones:
Hockey ball into eye from 5 yards away. Result was 3 plates in face and permanently damaged eyesight.
Large fairground slide with 3 year old on my knee. Slide was overwaxed, we became airborne. I "stubbed" my toe on the mat at the end - actually I folded my right foot in half: all my toes touched the sole of my foot. Amazingly I didn't break anything. Foot has changed shape! Way more painful than the hockey/eye socket incident - felt sick and nearly passed out.
Other ongoing niggles are as the result of putting on weight now I can't do much exercise: shins, Achilles tendons, lower back and coccyx!
I had my wisdom tooth surgically removed, due to some funky nerve routing they needed to remove part of my jaw to get it out, then I developed something called 'dry socket' I've never experienced pain like it. I had another appointment booked at the specialists, which I thought was for a check up. He was there ready to operate to take the other one out! It was definitely his fastest appointment of the day.
I'd say dry socket was about a 9 on the pain scale, level 4 ac joint separation was about a 6 bit after 3 weeks in a bloody fleece lined sling, over the summer I was ready to surrender.
Having my ingrown toenail cut off down to the root. The toe was so infected that the maximum amount of anesthetic didn't work. Felt everything. 3 nurses to hold me down.
Lyme disease is also very grim
Losing my hair is not what I signed up for either. I'm a rocker ffs. A skinny one. One that's going to look shit with no hair...
Another vote for toothache from me.
However not quite as bad as intraocular pressure that goes up off the chart forcing your eyeball against the walls of the socket all the way round. It was a byproduct of a blocked blood vessel in my eye (blind in it now) and it was frigging agony. I took all the available painkillers I could get but it wasn't until I got to the eye hospital and they gave me some special eye drops to lower it that it went away.
Bruised abdominal muscles (which happened with no apparent impact so it's a bit of a mystery how I did it). Had me in such pain that I was admitted to hospital with suspected appendicitis.
Dislocated finger and broken ankle were more bearable as at least I knew what the issue was.
It's always a bit of a reality check to realise just how damaged, broken and ill people can become and threads like this make you feel so fortunate to have never had any health/injury issues - healing vibes to you all......
bkocked sinus on a plane.
That's it.
You lot. 😯
Blocked sinus makes me feel like my head want to explode, a good reason for not fire arm control as I'd happily blow my head off when I get it.
Kidney stones was by far the most painful experience of my life but at least it worst of it only lasted a few hours.
Pilonidal sinus
Twice.
Live in fear of the all too likely recurrence.
Parenthood.
another vote for Labyrinthitis
Constant motion sickness
unable to look down or to the right
unable to walk without being sick
6 weeks before i felt a tiny bit better, months before it went away.
then it came back.
Broken back. September 1st 2013. Leith Hill. Landed on my head at the bottom of a bombhole.
Worst two months of my life then followed (apart from, y'know, childhood and all that...).
Inflammatory arthritis..
Agreed, dental abscess is miserable and distractingly painful. Just sheer hell.
I thought such an abscess was the worst pain I could imagine, then at 30yrs developed acute inflammatory arthritis following an ankle injury. This felt similar to the intense, deep, pulsing burning pain from an abscess, yet located in the joints, symmetrically, with the added effect of feeling like someone had yesterday taken a ball-hammer to said joints, and today (every day) is the day the initial shock wears off and you feel the pain. Yet it stays. For weeks on end, sometimes months.
One morning about 3am I was insensible following weeks of this 'flare-up', so major sleep-deprivation, total madness. Was emitting uncontrollable animal noises. Dragged self of sofa-bed (sleeping alone featured heavily at this time) on belly into the downstairs bathroom (farthest room) so as not to wake the household.
Grabbed (unfitted/still boxed) metal shower rail from floor and (still lying down) beat self repeatedly with rail about the ankles just to try and change the pain to a different 'frequency' or else kill it. Made sense to my diseased mind. Senseless nonsense yet if someone had offered amputation there and then I would have gladly taken it. GF found me and managed to stop the worst of it, for which am eternally grateful. Long-term pain like that messes with your mind, I eventually went to live alone in virtual isolation as relating was impossible back then.
Prolapsed disk.
Bad knee for over a year. Can't run or bend it and it aches. Not really a physical pain but a pain in the ass all the same.
I am in a similar situation (torn meniscus). What are you doing for exercise? (And this after a prolapsed disc - not really painful as such but really depressing and put me in a foul(er) temper for the best part of a year).
Contracted typhoid in China. 7 days in an isolation unit in the infectious diseases ward. That was less than pleasant.
I prolapsed a disc, which then went right ahead and got quite badly infected. This can happen apparently, but usually if you're old and infirm. I was neither, so it took nearly a year to diagnose (2 mins after the MRI scan I should have insisted on rather sooner!). I wore my teeth down grinding them that year, it wasn't ideal.
🙂
Proper 'flu as a student made me feel terrible.
Food posioning in ****stan; I couldn't believe so much hot liquid could come out of the body simultaneously at both ends all night long.
But a dislocated ankle was the most painful accident; I jumped off the climbing wall at the Sobell Centre and landed on the edge of one of those crash mats, turning my ankle right over. Lay there moaning in pain with my vision going cloudy for a while, ignored by all the useless bastards around me and eventually I reached down and tried to straighten it from its sideways 90 degree angle and it popped back. Nobody offered any help so I hopped to a phone box and called a taxi for myself to take me to A&E.
Bregante - Member
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Me too.
Go from totally fit to absolutely ****ed almost overnight and experience toothache level pain moving along nerves of shoulders and arm. And then watch all those hard won muscles all atrophy to a Belsen like figure. I was lucky - that was only on one side.
(Kidney stones were a breeze in comparison)
Managed to cut the end off my left thumb once whilst chopping a potato to make soup. 😳
That nipped a wee bit.
More so when i got to A&E and some trainee work experience YTS doctor lady who was about 12 decided to poke the middle of the bloody stump with a metal probe. No pain relief.
I passed out. She panicked and ran away to get a real doc to sort it out.
I passed out.
Well I nearly passed out reading that, so I can imagine it wasn't nice for you.
Toothache really pisses me off.
Gout, had my first and only proper attack after a couple of camping trips last year involving mucho barbeque + ale = 5 weeks of pain when even the weight of the duvet on your toe would lead to unbelievable stabs of pain.
Managed to avoid a repeat by cutting down on meat, don't really drink ale or wine anymore.
Burns on the inside of my thigh and little Willy next door after spilling black tea over myself. Thankfully it wasn't bad enough to leave scar tissue or nerve damage but it was bad enough for me to strip off in a public car park.
Plantar fasciitis for me. Had to stop all sport (even cycling caused pain after riding) but worse thing was it didn't seem as if it was ever going to get better.
Had physio for the bad foot. Advised to get back into sport - 1st game back and I got the same thing in the other foot!
It has got better now, but lasted over a year.
[quote="Globalti"]Food posioning in ****stan; I couldn't believe so much hot liquid could come out of the body simultaneously at both ends all night long.After the first 24 hours you just stay in the bog and splash cold water on your arse instead of wiping as it's so painful.........
Definitely NOT shingles..
I had it for a month in my teen's and although I felt run over by a bus it's definitely no worse than a serious drug comedown..
Anal fissure 🙁
Sustained a serious head injury in Marrakech; have felt miserable ever since!
Toothache for me which ended up with an extraction ...
The next one is lower back pain which may be the result of some trapped nerves. The pain was so bad carrying 1kg would feel like carrying one tonne of concrete on my shoulders. I could bear the pain without taking pain killer unlike toothache ...