What is the most painful thing you have experienced physically?

giving NORMAL birth...awwful!

Let's see,

1) Stuck a knife through my foot through the bone when I was about 7yrs old playing a game sticking the knife in the ground next to it...it was a bitch going to the doctor to get that fucker out.

2) Tore all the ligaments in my left ankle playing college football...had surgery and was in a cast for many months.

3) Fell on the ice about 10 yrs ago and cracked 2 ribs on my right side...felt like I was going to die everytime I coughed for over two weeks

Nothing for awhile though

I had a c-section after the right side of my epidural wore off, so there was zero anesthesia on the right side. OUCH!

hit by truck, 6inch skull fracture -- age 8.

completley snapped bones in hand & dr pushing bones back into alignment before applying the cast and the several hours in total pre morphine.

Mine was a bone marrow extraction to test for lukemia

they take a 24" needle and ram it into your back right above your asscrack, and dig around, then they suck out bone marrow. They cant really numb you, and i was awake.

but #2 would be when i had my entropian lift done on my eyelids, you have to be awake for that too because your eyes have to stay open so all i feel is heat and pain..

because he was cauterizing the bleeders.

it was great.

BMF

chest surgery...the equivalent of what you see on ER when they really open em up.

I was in ICU for 5 days after and in the hospital 13 days total.

The first 2 days after were about as bad as it can get. 90 min morphine push couldnt come fast enough.

The pain when I got curb smiled!

When I was in highschool I used to teach small kids how to ice skate, and I was holding one kids hand and he wiped out and brought me down with him. His skake sliced the top of my eye, right below my eye brow and when I went to the hospital, they had to stich it up without any freezing because it was too close to my eyeball. That hurt like a bitch!

For sure the car accidents i have been in, and the ensuing injuries.
However, by far the worst was breaking my hip in 3 places while dislocating it. The icing on the cake was the massive laceration all the way up my right shin bone and the deep cut to the bone on my left knee that came along with it.
Didn't walk for over a year. Wheelchairs and crutches were my best friends.
Although the physical pain of the entire situation sucked, what was worse was losing my athletic scholarships.

Injuring my knee being run over a car. The accident wasn't the most painfull... the pain was during the days before and after the surgery to fix my knee.

I'm ok now

bladder infection and ear infection

ouch

I ruptured my large intestine...was in hospital for 10 days with a morphine drip..then went back in and they removed 3/4 of intestine and after surgery my blood pressure dropped so low they could not give me pain medicine...I would actually hyperventilate and passout from the pain. I laid crying for 26 hrs.

your sig took like half the page

Wow

Slamming my hand in a car door

I had a really bad stomach virus once. I had to go to hospital for a week. The cramps were so painful, but the never worked out for sure what it was.

burnt repeatedly with cigarettes butts by my x-fiance

Throat surgery. Removing my tonsils and also slicing/reshaping the bit of skin in front of my throat. Didn't feel a thing while I was in hospital, I even went home a day earlier, but then it hit. The pain was unbelievable, like someone was still poking a knife against an open wound. Swallowing liquid was difficult; swallowing food was impossible. The pain killers only worked for about 4 hours but I could only have them every 6. By the time I could have another one I was in extreme pain again, so swallowing a tablet was excruciatingly painful.

Apart from the night in hospital I didn't eat any solids for about 10 days after my op. I lost a lot of weight.

I noticed that too, why would that be?

I'm happy to read, the letter X.....

Almost cut my pinkie off last year, severed the ligamit....very painful.
It is forever now stuck in one position and I get it caught on things alot.

Shot myself in the toe with a pellet gun, that was probably the most painful thing I have ever experienced.

I had to get a Spinal-Tap when I was 11. For some reason, their not permitted to use anesthesia during the procedure. Luckily, the results were negative, but I'll never forget the experience.

Dry sockets when I had my wisdom teeth out and child birth. Not too much difference.

Jesus Christ..

I think that would be either when I chopped the end of my thumb off with an axe, or when the freezing didn't work as they were sewing it back on.

Tell him what he's won, Bob!

dunno, burns aren't as bad as some things, having done both, I can compare, got my hand caught in between a hot exhaust manifold and a radiator once, it let go when the skin boiled off and it got slick with blood.

I still say the axe hurt more.

Although, if you ask Jact, it would probably be when I accidentally dropped the washing machine on both of us.

He bitched for months.

snapping my tibia (shin bone) in half playing basketball.... paramedics thought it was sprained since it was extremely swollen so they took their sweet old time to get me to the ER.... got xrayed and doctors said ti was the worst break they had ever seen... and 10 years ago, they woulnd't have had the technology to fix it and i would have a peg leg. but luckily i just have 2 giant screws holding me together.

I've got runned over by Shaq :P

blue balls.

Shattered my knee on a dirt bike when I was a kid.

Hurt like a mo fo.

Manny Z

A chunk of skin torn off when I made contact w/ artificial turf playing highschool football.

OUCH!!!!!

Climbing up a self made tree ladder and having the wood break underneath me, as I slide down with teh end of the nail sticking out and digging into my leg for about 5 inches.

When I almost took off my pinky while stocking a pop machine. Those have sharp edges.

I think emotional pain is the worst. Physically having a catheter inserted into my urinary tract because of a haematoma (blood clot) on my kidney was not painless lol. I have also been hit on the head with a blockbuster, had my 5th and 6th rib broken with a steel bar, had a bottle slice my toes until they were hanging off, and my little finger almost hacked off with a meat cleaver etc. etc.. All pale into insignificance when compared to heart ache though!

totalled my durango and broke my leg..

Had 4 pins put in and removed then a plate and screws put in. fun

check the pictures out if you want

http://budzsack.com/My%20Broken%20Leg/

cutting the top of my thumb of with a bread cutter

putting nair on my nuts

A blocked Bowel.. hell is nothign compared to the pain of a blocked bowel. Close second is an absess tooth.

when i fell off the roof of a three story house and landed on my back! wasn't much fun there

A soccer kick to the nuts

wuss, I do that all the time.

Pain oh how relative it is and thankfully we can not recall the actual feelings. I can relate to many on the experiences they went through. Honestly though I do not think many know true pain, the type of pain that greets you in the morning and tucks you in at night, the kind of pain that never stops and never goes away.
Anything less is simply an injury to me. Yes they hurt but they could and would never measure up to what pain really can be. People touched on heart ache, possibly a loss of a loved one yet even those deminish over the months and years, but they are on the right track.

Starting with a few select injuries then I will move into real pain.
Mowing the lawn as a kid and the blade shot a piece of bailing wire over straight through my leg and bone. It was just sticking out of both sides. That was fairly mild in my mind.

Shortly before I turned twelve I got my first real taste of what some may consider pain. It started with a slight pens and needles feeling in my lower back which lasted a day before I went to the doctors. They looked me over and sent me home that friday night. That lasted a week before I went in for the spinal tap which is where the stick a needle into your spinal cord without pain medication and suck out some of the fluid. Then I was sent back home for the weekend. That night the horror began. The feelings I felt I can not put to words as there is none to acuratly describe the sensation. It was constant, unrelenting and all I could do is scream until I passed out only to be awoke by my own screaming. I could feel everything and I do mean everything. If someone raised their voice the pain would increase, if something moved near me and I felt the slightest vibration it would increase. I was rushed to the hospital that night when my parents had gotten home from work as I could not call them because I could not make it to the phone. The 35+ mile trip to the ER was in an old jeep of all things down bumpy roads, with every tiny bump an explosion of nothing less than the feeling of molten lead would be felt in every vien in my body. This all turned out to be the sensation one goes through as your spinal cord is being choked off its blood supply. These feelings went on for over 5 days two of which I had blacked out into a self enduced pain coma.

How I long for those feelings now. Sure having been either sitting or laying down now for the last 20 years does cause some mild discomfort in your back, muscle spazms day in day out are a nuisence at best and sure dealing with catherterizations for years several times a day may be a tad uncomfortable. The real deffinition of pain never really visited me until awhile latter.

Real pain is in daily reminders. Real pain is trying to recall what grass felt like under your feet, real pain is watching others do the simplest things and not enjoying them while you try to prevent your insides from festering over and winning the emotional war that your body is the battlegrounds for.
I look back now on those memories of what I thought were pain. What I would not do nor give to even live another day of those 5 days in the hospital again just to savor the feelings from then because although painful feelings they were feelings I will never have again.
Enjoy those simple things people, and yes even savor those painful moments. It could be worse, trust me.

O M F G

broke my arm once after falling 20 foot from a slide when I was a kid and landing with my arm beneath me. the bones inside my arm snapped at about mid forearm and crossed one another then jaggedly pushed the skin out (didnt break though) about 2 inches. my hand was hanging uselessly, though I'd never be able to use it again, horrible fucking pain, but all is well. amazing how we heal.

I did not experience anything that hurts me so bad, physically, but my brother does.

Man same as!! 2 years ago I had to get a wisdom tooth out top left hand side!! got one injection then was told to wait!! 1hr and 40 mins later went in to get it out, felt it all the way!!

I had 3 teeth knocked out, by a tire iron someone threw at me by accident

200 who weren't hurt that bad