CinnamonGirl

Holy shit, this thread makes me cringe.


When I was a kid, I wore braces. I was chicken fighting in the pool, and got clonked in the mouth. The bottom wire was knocked lose, and went through my lip in two places...that part actually wasn't too bad. My dad pulling the wire back into place (and out of my lip) was agony.

About four years ago, I got an IUD. Apparently, it hurts less if you've had children, but I haven't, and when the doc clamped my cervix, I very nearly blacked out. I almost wish I had-- pretty sure my screaming scared everyone in the waiting room.



Those are the physical ones. They pale in comparison to how I felt when my brother died.

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Tully Mars

I believe that. And that that doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Maybe not always physically but mentally. Sometimes I think of guys like Nam vets who spent years in a tiger cage getting the shit kicked out of them and eating gnats. I bet they spend days listening to people complain about their problems think "really? thats it? Oh yeah, your life sucks."

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squeeeb

i want to say the worst pain i've been is was getting the tattoo at the base of my neck, right on my spine. or maybe the anesthetic needle in my cheekbone for the stitches under my eye. right now though, the worst pain is the pain of a meaningless life lived alone.

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Tully Mars

I thinks interesting people bring up mental or emotional pain here. Don't know why I find it interesting, just do. Also think it's very appropriate because some the of the gut wrenching personal crap in life over the years has been way worse the most of my physical pain. The Boss wrote-

I know that feeling. I've lived that feeling.

squeeeb I too am on my own. I know your pain, it sucks. I don't know your situation but getting out and meeting people/making friends is a good way to fill the empty void of living alone. In the nearly two years I've lived here that hasn't lead to meeting that certain someone. My options here seem limited to crazy women several years, 15-20min, older then me or someone down here on vacation. If I'm lucky it's two weeks most of the time it's one. They can be great weeks, down right fucking fantastic. But they leave, they always leave. Then I'm left with a few e-mails and a couple calls and eventually the inevitable message or conversation of how long distant shit just never works. Can't disagree with that and I'm not leaving some place I'm very happy at to change this situation. I've done the local ladies thing a few times and the cultural divide is beyond my ability. Stuff like I end up turning them off by not getting worked up enough when someone looks at them or flirts with them, thus meaning I don't really like them. Or they want to start a family. Or in one case they end up having a husband they simply forgot to mention. Meeting him wasn't pleasant, he was more then happy to be worked up over the situation. Honestly I give up on relationships here, just likely never going to happen. maybe someday when I'm done playing in the sunshine I'll move north. Maybe in 15-20 yrs someone will show up that I won't find crazy or I'll be just as nuts and it won't matter.

Guess what my rambling thoughts this morning are trying to say is try to be happy in life. Do things that you enjoy. Get involved in shit you have fun doing, things that make you happy. If you're happy it will show. Maybe that will result in a more positive result in your search. If it doesn't then at least you're doing stuff you enjoy.

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Shaindra

I've given birth twice without so much as a tylenol. But the worst pain was when a sadistic gynecologist decided that I didn't need any numbing before doing an external labial biopsy. The fucker snipped my vaginal lip with a pair of scissors...slowly. I about blacked out.

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dippin

broken cheekbone. And not broken as is hairline fracture, but broken as is broken completely through so that the two parts are completely broken clean, the right of my face droops down a bit, and the nerve endings in that part of my face are completely ripped.

to make things worse, the nerves never fully recuperated, and the whole thing really fucked up my sinus on that side, so chronic numbness in my temples and chronic sinus infections for life, yay.

By the way, two weeks before I broke my face, I was talking with friends and we started a discussion on this very same topic. I said what was until then my worst pain, guy said it was when he broke his arm, I said I had never broken a bone, and he said "don't say that, I broke my arm two weeks after I said the same thing." Two weeks later, there I was, broken cheekbone and all.

settie

...*blood drains from my face as my jaw drops*

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...I don't think I want to have kids. Ever.

Redlemon

...and I said "Hey friend... can I have your shoes?"

No huge pains for me. The worst, I guess, is when I get something behind my RGP contact lenses, which is a "stop, do nothing else, fix this" pain.

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dlish

me either...and im a male!

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telekinetic

Acute appendicitis. Blah. It was like bad stomach cramps/gas, except going to the bathroom didn't change the sensation, and it got progressively worse over the course of the evening. The time period between being curled in the fetal position on the delightfully cold bathroom floor trying not to pass out, and when the morphine finally hit is all kind of a blur.

The one thing I remember was:
Nurse: "On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst pain you've ever felt, what's this?"
Me: *glances at wife holding 5 week old baby* "Well, my wife just gave birth last month and didn't have time for so much as a tylenol during her 40 minute involuntarily unmedicated labor--out of respect for her I can't say 10, so let's go with 7"

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Runningwater

During one of my spring breaks at college I got a kidney stone...I woke up stretched, thought I had pulled a muscle then threw up. It hurt so bad that I was throwing up every 5 minutes until my mom got home from work to take me to the Emergency Hospital in the town. I've heard that having a kidney stone is about as close as a guy can get to feeling what it feels like to have a baby...poor women

DaniGirl

Now I know this is an older thread, but since I am new to this I thought about looking back on some old threads. Now I am lucking in the fact that I have never broken a bone or been in some kind of accident. But when I was younger a simple ear infection became more. My parents took me to the doctors and got meds. That night I woke up and had blood coming out my ear. Long story short after tests they found cancer. Chemotherapy sucked really bad. It was like a stomach bug that would not get better, like morning sickness all day. I was lucky that I don't really remember much.

Now the most pain that I have ever been in was after my last c-section. The first two were painful but the last was the worst. I could barely stand two days after. My doctor said that it was so bad because it was less then a year since I had my last baby and that it was too soon. Also I wouldn't stop bleeding so my tubs were tied (which was what I was planing on doing later anyways). Also instead of having just a 3 year old besides the baby, I also had a 10 month old to look after.

levite

I had my gall bladder out a couple of years ago. I had no idea I even had a gallstone until it became-- as the doctors say-- "hot." It hurt worse than being hit in the nads every few minutes. I nearly passed out and nearly threw up at least a half a dozen times during the four plus hours they made me wait in the ER waiting room before diagnosing me, admitting me, and giving me blessed, blessed morphine. It hurt so bad, I really have no words. The doctors said the gallstone was bigger than a golf ball, and the gall bladder was in danger of rupturing.

My mom had hers out some years before, and she told me, when visiting me in the hospital while I recovered, that she thought the gall bladder was way more painful than giving birth to me.

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gabrieljosh

hmmm... when i was hit by a car... ouch!