Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF It's a toss-up between the first (and thankfully only) gallstone attack I had when I was 20. (Yes, I know that as a guy, I was pretty young to be having gallstone problems.) It was one of the worst pains I've ever had because there was nothing I could do to alleviate it. The other was in '03 when I had a blood clot lodged in an artery behind my right knee. I couldn't walk, my right foot was gray and cold, and I darned near lost it. Very painful.
Originally Posted By Labuda Taking a .38 to the back. Not the actualy bullet going in, but sleeping with it in my shoulder for two nights while the hospital got the doctors needed ofr the surgery all back into town (New Year's is when it happened and a coupel of the docs they needed were on vacation! HARUMPH!)
Originally Posted By Labuda Oh, yeah - food poisoning was pretty painful, too. In fact, I'll say that may have been worse - I never wanted to die when I got shot, but I definitely wished I was dead during the first 10 hours or so I that had food poisoning back in June of '04.
Originally Posted By mele Yeah, that's how I remember feeling when I had food poisoning too. Once or twice a year I get migraines that make me so ill that my stomach gets really upset. The pain is bad enough to scare me. I try not to let the pain get that bad, though. Lately, I can take OTC meds and my migraine goes away. Before that, sleep was the only way to get rid of one. (Kind of a nice change, I'd say.)
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost I never had a specific event but for the past 25 years I have these unexplained abdominal muscle spasms. One side or the other of my abdomen will completely knot up and actually make me lopsided. The pain is horrendous. It usually last about 5 minutes but many times I thought I might pass out (never did). My feeling is if this pain isn't as bad as labor pain then I have no idea how anyone would ever have more than one child and my hat's off to all you ladies. No Doctor has been able to diagnose the problem and the only Doctor that has ever witnessed it has only been able to say.."Oh my, that looks like it might hurt". You think?? I personally think it is related to my time in Vietnam and exposure to either Agent Orange or the pesticide fog that they used to use every week. Man that stuff was rancid. Anyway, that's my story. I don't want to feel sorry for myself but my problem is that if anything actually did happen that needed immediate attention, I'm not sure I would know it. I sometimes have them in my chest muscles as well.
Originally Posted By threeundertwo Crushed sciatic nerve. I believe I now know what it feels like to have a flamethrower directed at my flesh. I want to thank whoever discovered morphine. And I had one baby without drugs, and twins in 2 different ways. Childbirth, labor, and recovery were bad but not as bad as the nerve pain.
Originally Posted By markedward I guess I'm thankful that I haven't experienced anything like what some of you have described. I've had progressively worse arthritis since my early twenties, but, thankfully, it's still pretty mild and controlable. For me it's a tie between spraining my knee skiing (there's no such thing as an "not that bad black diamond") and having a sofa sleeper slam shut on my finger, my only broken bone.
Originally Posted By JazzCat 2/3, thank you for reminding me of my worst pain ever. The broken ankle? Nope. The food poisoning? Nope. It was the sciatic nerve problem. I could barely walk for a week!
Originally Posted By Lisann22 That's what I've been suffering through - aye yi yi - it's incredibly painful.
Originally Posted By debtee ohh I remember such pain when I was 21 years old and had pancreatitius so bad, I was in hospital for three weeks before the swelling could go down and they could remove my Gall bladder! It was excruciating! As IF that wasn't bad enough, the surgeon made me look at it as he said it looked like the pancreas of an 80 year old man!! So he was fasinated it was in such a young woman and he wanted to keep it for his collection. Yeah thanks for that! LOL
Originally Posted By avromark <<Crushed sciatic nerve. I believe I now know what it feels like to have a flamethrower directed at my flesh. I want to thank whoever discovered morphine.>> With these clients, I can definitely say ouch. (Politically correct Canada, patient puts the power with the healthcare professional and client with the person seeing the professional).
Originally Posted By JazzCat It means you're under too much stress Lisa! I'll e-mail you with some remidies.
Originally Posted By DVC_dad When I broke my collar bone in highschool, or my Christmas Eve Migraine of 95.
