Originally Posted By goodgirl Category: Ego Question: What is the greatest amount of physical pain you have ever endured?
Originally Posted By tapdancemom CHILDBIRTH!!!!!!!!!!!! Sixteen hours of labor, alot of it back labor. My doctor finally said, this could go on and on and it's not looking good and I'd like to do a C-section. Thank God I said. Serioulsly the most overwhelming, not escapable pain I've ever had. Knee replacements no fun, but didn't compare to labor.
Originally Posted By Disneymom443 Yes childbirth!!!!!!!! I would also say it is the most rewording. I was in labor for 8 hrs with my second and wished I was having a c-section. But when I saw her it was well worth all the pain.
Originally Posted By officerminnie Yep, that would have to be childbirth for me as well. I had back labor too, with both kids. It was even more painful than the actual birth process. I had loooong labors followed by just a few minutes of pushing, but oh, those hours leading up to the pushing really sucked!!!!
Originally Posted By DlandJB Childbirth wasn't a problem for me -- I had an epideral. In fact, I walked into the hospital asking for one and the nurse told me I had to be in labor before they could give me one! Spoil sport. Back in 1995, three weeks after my son was born, I suffered a stroke. In trying to determine what was wrong with me, before they decided it was a stroke, they did a spinal tap on me. That was the most painful thing I've ever been through...and since then I've had a rather unfortunate series of nasty medical events, but I still remember the spinal tap as the worse -- plus you get to have an incredible headache afterwards, like "free gift with purchase."
Originally Posted By mele I have a tendency to not seek medical help until I'm really sick or the pain is way out of control. Last summer I was sick with meningitis and had a sinus infection at the same time. The back of my head hurt so badly that I spent most of the day alternating between throwing up and crying. I finally said "I have medical insurance! Why am I suffering?" I had my husband take me to the the ER...where they have the good drugs. They were able to stop the pain but I ended up taking 3 rounds of antibiotics before I got better.
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter Can I have a three-way tie? ;-) Labor was tough (40 hours with the first child and 20 with the second). Falling down the stairs on my butt with a one-week old baby in my arms, which resulted in a smashed tailbone was worse than labor. Roughly equivalent, but probably worse, was a kidney stone, which went undiagnosed for over a month. It was the size of a dime, so the attacks when it was trying to move were beyond excruciating--the only time I've ever vomited from pain.
Originally Posted By Pixie Glitter OMG, you are right! I'd totally repressed the agony of that experience. ;-)
Originally Posted By mele My cat bit me on my nose once and that was pretty danged painful, more painful than you'd think. It still makes me want to cry when I think about it. LOL
Originally Posted By Lisann22 This is easy. Sliding into second base and having my body go in one direction with my knee/lower leg go the opposite way. It was so painful I almost passed out and was sick to my stomach. Rehab wasn't any easier. I thought that was the worse, only about a month ago when I suffered a pinched nerve in my back. Aye yi yi, this has been the worst.
Originally Posted By Autopia Deb With child birth I got the drugs, so it would have to be when my back went out in my 20s (it dind't even bring me a beer when it got back, lol). Either that or when I had one of my apendix scares (I think it might have been my gallbladder).
Originally Posted By bloona Having granulated tissue burnt off with silver nitrate from when my stitches over healed after having Kieran (so you now know where the said stitches were.....lol) My mum said when I came walking back into the waiting room that it looked as if I had just stepped off a horse!...lol...I had burnt skin in my knickers!! (Ok, too much info there...sorry guys)
Originally Posted By bloona mele...maybe the sound my son made at the local swimming baths? (see "oh the shame" thread)
