The most painful thing you have ever endured.

[ParadoxOwl]

So...what is the most painful thing you have ever endured in waking life or in a dream? I once got the flappy bit between the thumb and the hand stuck in a badly designed plastic toy...it hurt so bad. Pretty boring story I know lol, your turn.

[Baron Samedi]

Weeell since you asked. I was pepper sprayed in the face for training in the Coast Guard. That felt like someone flung a frying pan full of sand heated over an open fire into my pried open eyeballs. It actually felt gritty. But, that was the second or more like third worst pain I have ever felt. Second most would be getting stung by a Portuguese man-o-war in the Bermuda Triangle on my first patrol on a swim call. The toxin traveled through my lymph system, I went into anaphylaxis shock. I felt like I was being stung all over my entire body over and over again for about 3 or 4 hours. The worst pain is pain flare-ups from fibromyalgia, which I think is caused by a spinal injury combined with chronic fluoride poisoning. Over the past three years, I have felt every type of pain in random places in my body. My muscles always ache, my joints become inflamed, I get cramps, shooting pain like a needle being jabbed into me, and stinging pain like being stung by wasps. The worst thing about it is, people think I am making this shit up, because I look fine. I have felt pain in dreams, but I usually turn it off.

[DreamscapeGoat]

Two things, both in waking life: Dropped a 10-pound bowling ball on my foot. Nearly broke my nose on a skateboard (I don't go near them anymore). EDIT: Second most would be getting stung by a Portuguese man-o-war in the Bermuda Triangle on my first patrol on a swim call. Oh god, those things are everywhere here. I'm terrified to go in the water because of them.

[Original Poster]

I can't pick just one. I got road rash on my palms three times. Each successive time, the scabs tore off making the wound even larger. The final time, a friend wrapped it in gauze. I then neglected to remove the gauze and it sealed with the scab. Nerves regrew into the gauze and I was forced to rip them apart in order to remove the gauze. I felt each nerve splinter as I exposed veiny, bright pink tissue. I still have the scars. On an emotional level I was also forced to endure the girl I was really into fucking this other dude while I was in the same room just a week after she took my virginity. And most recently I was attacked by two guys and beaten within an inch of my life. They broke my nose and fluid built up under the lining of my cartilage. The doctor had to make an incision and drain out the fluid then stuck packing material up my nose to keep the incision open so it would continue to drain for five days. The worst part of that experience, though, was the betrayal that went along with it. It's too recent in my memory to talk about yet though, I haven't processed it all. But it's the reason I'm off the road and living back at home atm.

[gab]

Biting down on exposed nerve in a tooth that later required root canal. Monthly abdomen pain that made me wanna climb the walls. And if someone tells me that emotional pain doesn't hurt as bad as physical, I'll punch his clock in.

[Narwhal]

I can't decide which was worse, when I was 13 and my leg just popped out of socket and pinched a nerve or some shit and my bitch ass mom wouldn't come get me she yelled from down street to get up, so my sister had to walk me back home and pop it in socket. My conch to conch industrial, the piercer said "crunch crunch" right before he did the two punctures, and it did exactly that, crunch crunch. 0614121437_01.jpg When I caught the swine flew and after all the pneumonia, aching weak body, vomiting from the motion of just trying to relieve my aching bones, my fever baked my brain so bad I was hallucinating that my shoulders and elbows were glowing soft yellow and I was going to tell my sister that I know how to be cured, I have to get four men to stand on my powers glowing spots. I was just fucking loopy. Almost died, but my sister helped me because mommy don't care. and the most recent was my ripping my toe nail off because I can't walk over a dog fence properly 0116141952_01.jpg But they only mildly hurt as I have a high tolerance for pain, and my body goes into to shock fast when confronted with injury, so I guess my dead corpse vomiting was the worst. Biting down on exposed nerve in a tooth that later required root canal. Monthly abdomen pain that made me wanna climb the walls. And if someone tells me that emotional pain doesn't hurt as bad as physical, I'll punch his clock in. Ah yes I agree, emotional and mental pain has hindered me in life far worse than physical. I only know how to nurture physical pain.

[Original Poster]

There's a reason people undergoing emotional pain cause for themselves physical pain. It's alleviating.

[Whatsnext]

Ulcerative Colitis pain, feels like someone stabbing me in the gut over and over, the ladies say it can be more painful than giving birth

[JadeGreen]

Middle School

[crypticcello]

The most painful things I have experienced in my dreams have to be when a crazy man stuck a potted cactus into my leg and having my hands viciously attacked by dogs. However in such situations I can easily make the threats disappear as feeling pain in a dream makes me lucid.

[Eddydpyl]

In a non-lucid dream I got my right arm cut off with a sword and it hurt as hell, then I woke up to see that I had fallen asleep on top of it :S I'm pretty young so I haven't really had time to experience anything too painful. I once stabbed myself on the thumb when peeling an apple, it didn't hurt though.

[ParadoxOwl]

Talking of non-physical pain, the VERY stupid kid I was in primary school told my girlfriend to fuck off (basically ended that)...when school ended that day I went home, sat at the table in silence and thought for a few solid hours, probably cried as well. Also not sure if ADHD is a good enough excuse but I have it and it was so very bad in primary school. I still remember her smell to this day...so warming.

[DreamyBear]

I guess that my most annoying pain for me, got to be when I woke up one morning with a sharp pain in my right shoulder.And this happened after I've sleept one extra hour in the morning, but maybe that's just the karma for that extra hour of sleep Anyway, It felt like I got a knife in my shoulder if I've moved it to much or fast, and this was going on for a month. I've got another quite wierd pain that strikes at me randomly a couple of times a year. And it's not staying long at all, maybe some seconds (thank god for that). And this pain is occuring in the side of my body. I dont remeber if I felt it at both sides but this pain is also like being stabbed with something. And I almost have to freeze myself to not make the slightest movement, because then the pain just gets intense. Well, I've learned at my own that breathing so the belly expands, works pretty good to make it disappear faster.

[puddlekins]

Wow, you guys and girls have had some pretty painful experiences. For me, was probably when I got sick with some type of viral rash - it covered most of my torso. People don't know how you get it, and there's no known cure. So I just had to ride it out. It was extremely uncomfortable and itchy. Soap and warm water (including sweat) would irritate my body even more. So taking daily showers was a dreaded thing. Whole ordeal lasted for around 1 month. Then finally when the itchiness subsided, I got hit with the remaining symptoms of that illness - extreme nausea and massive headaches. Seriously, every waking second was occupied with headaches so just falling asleep was difficult. I felt like vomiting all the time even though I have very little to no food in my system. I could barely sit up, so even going to the bathroom (which was just next to my bedroom) was a difficult task. I had to lean against the wall and crawl just to make it. Aside from that experience, I haven't had much physical painful experiences in my life. Emotional trauma, that's a different story, but I won't go into details. I'm happy with my life right now. So no point in bringing up that kind of past.

[ParadoxOwl]

I was being carried onto a coach and got my foot stuck on the handrail, I yelled pretty god damn loudly as my ankle got sprained by it...so I had that to deal with for a few weeks. I also fell of my bed in a sitting position head first hitting my fore-head straight onto wooden flooring, my god I cried so much. (I had no way of stopping it, I just watched as the floor got closer and closer)

[Crow13]

Hearing my recent ex-girlfriend whom I live with have sex in the room next to mine. (Emotional) In a dream I was tortured, with red hot wires sawing off my ears. It felt as real as anything, and when I woke up needless to say I was grasping my ears.

[Aristaeus]

When I was about eight or nine years old, I accidentally got mine right pinkie finger slammed in a van door. Hard. Fortunately, the bone did not break, but the skin was torn so deeply you could see the bone. I was rushed to the hospital, where I got all the dead skin cut off and the finger cleaned and patched up. It took weeks for it to stop bleeding. When I finally removed the bandages, the entire nail came off--along with some more dead, dried flesh--exposing all the nerves underneath. For a while, mine finger just looked like this dented pink mass. The nail eventually grew back, but it came out a little weird. Mine finger has been noticeably deformed ever since. Another time when I was under ten years old, I was wearing sandals and I accidentally shattered the nail on mine right big toe. There was a staircase outside this building. At the base of each step was an inch-deep gap. Mine foot accidentally slid across the marble and slammed into the gap, crushing mine toe nail. One day, whilst the wound was healing, a kid accidentally stepped on mine big toe whilst goofing off with some other kids, completely reopening the wound. I have not worn sandals ever since. Since I was roughly sixteen, I have had this infection in mine breast bone. Every now and then, I get a sharp pain in mine chest, usually on the left side. It feels like someone just reached inside and squeezed. Sometimes the pain is so bad, I have a hard time even walking. The pain can last from a few seconds to over a minute. These episodes, for the most part, are unpredictable. At first, it freaked me out, but after going to the doctor and finding out what it was, I just deal with it. I was also attacked in the street once, whilst I was out watching an astronomical event. Just a bunch of young punks looking for trouble. I have been bullied like that before, but what shook me up about the whole matter is that I kept thinking to mineself, "What if that had been a bunch of murderous lunatics?" And if someone tells me that emotional pain doesn't hurt as bad as physical, I'll punch his clock in. Heh, cannot argue with that. And this is why I never get emotionally involved with other humans. What good does it do you in the long run?

[Universal Mind]

Hearing my recent ex-girlfriend whom I live with have sex in the room next to mine. (Emotional) That is one of my worst nightmares. The next time you break up with a girl, make sure one of you moves out right away.

[snoop]

Weeell since you asked. I was pepper sprayed in the face for training in the Coast Guard. I've had to do the gas chamber for the Army a few times before I got out, where they use CS gas (similar but supposedly stronger than pepper spray because it has another agent with it), but I never thought it was that bad. I think some people are naturally immune to its effects or less sensitive, because I heard stories of people literally having no problem in the gas chamber, and conversely I personally saw a lot of people freak out. I'm somewhere in the middle, if I took a big breath of it, it was terrible, but little breaths I was fine. They made us take our masks off and open our eyes so I know what it feels like on your face and in your eyes--it was a mild to moderate burning sensation for me similar to menthol but instead of icy, hot. My eyes just felt like I got some sweat in them, in a few minutes they stopped burning and I could see fine again. As far as the most painful experience I've endured... I've got a high pain tolerance, so the only example I can think of was when my sister slammed a door as hard as she could on me when I was following her around when I was like 5 and I was running right for it. The faux-crystal knob cut me pretty good on the forehead and I bled a lot. I've also been hit in the head with a discus, but surprisingly enough I felt no pain from that. The only pain that really bothers me is the kind that is either chronic or lasts a few days. Anything else and I have too much adrenaline going or its gone too quick for it really to have hurt that bad, if at all. edit: I didn't think at all of emotional pain. Probably the depression that getting hit in the head with a discus caused about a year later down the road... that was by far the most intense period of my life and I have never since felt such hatred, disgust, sadness, melancholy, hopelessness, or such deep, deep emotional pain. It was like my soul or my psyche had been set on fire and for the first half of the year of that depression I was still burning, and the second half I had 3rd degree burns with no pain medication.

[Iokheira]

Let's see here. Probably jalapeno juice in my eyes or skidding about 15 feet on asphalt... picking out the little rocks in my ground-meat arm wasn't fun either. Not great stuff but not nearly as bad as some of you guys. Dream pain would be hands-down this: My teeth shifting into wolf teeth. My god, that hurt so bad every single time, so bad I couldn't even stay on my feet. Glad nothing that bad has ever happened IWL.

[GenFalcon]

I would have to go with celluitis the seond time i got it wasnt so bad but that first time was the most pain I have ever been in. Its a skin infection by a bactriera but it affects your lymph nodes and inflames them. Mine happend to be on my leg (on my shin) Now this rash isnt like a normal rash that just kind of looks red and is irritated. It spreads and it spreads fast, it turns your leg or what ever spot into a big bubbling mess littereally it like acts like its burning your skin it leaves blisters behind nad is super hot. I had a massive migran because of it causing me not to be abel to think. When we went to the hospital i coudl feel every bump every eceleration every stopping motion the car made and it shot thousands of needles/ knifes stabbing into my leg. We got there and I tried to walk in it was very difficult. I put my leg out and put weight on it and those thousand knifes i Felt before was nothing...They basicly felt like they doubled if not trippled in size and was more of them. I fell back down onto my seat and took a huge breath and stood up again I fought through the pain and wobbled into the ER and signed in my fiance following right behind me. 48 hours later of feeling the pain I was finnaly let go after i was on a antiboitoc drip that whole time. 4 weeks went by and I could still partly feel the pain and the blisters were there but slowly vanished as well.

[Zhaylin]

Interesting experiences!! I couldn't imagine going through what some of y'all have!!! First most painful was wrecking my bike when I was about 7 years old. I had gravel under my skin too and the doctors scrubbed it out from my knees and stomach. The next most painful was having my appendix nearly rupture. That would probably be #1 out of all the pain I've ever endured. Then there were my gallbladder attacks. #2 was having my teeth pulled. The majority of them were still healthy. I went to see the butcher 4 different times and each time the numbing meds worked less and less. He had to stand on the edge of the chair (the foot rest) when he pulled out one and I felt it completely. Child birth doesn't even make my list of most painful experiences lol I definitely agree that chronic pain is by far the worse. Even if the pain itself is, say, only a 6 in the 0-10 scale, when it's chronic you don't get a break from it and that 6 feels like a 10. One of the most emotionally painful was being disfellowshipped. My husband was as well and he didn't understand the reasons why and was irritated, so I had to explain what the Elders were saying in hubby-speak. I couldn't stop crying. I don't think I've ever cried that hard or long in my entire life. I understood and accepted the reasons why. I was upset that it had come to that. THE most emotionally painful time was having my kids taken away while I was in another state and learning about it from a babysitter over the phone. I walked off into Atlanta City at something like 2AM and tried to slit my wrists. My blade was too dull so I just made a mess of my arms and hubby has never gotten over it (that was over 6 years ago or so). The worst pain I've felt in a dream was this one time I dreamed I was tossed from a suddenly braking car right underneath a train that was derailing. I felt my head being crushed when the train fell on me.

[Astaroth]

Most painful thing happened three years ago when I broke my elbow. Or maybe when a rock hit my head and I had to get stitches without anesthesia.

[AnotherDreamer]

I was up in the mountains clearing up dead trees that the beetles had killed. I was also pretty cocky with a chainsaw since I had been using one since I was 12 and I was cutting up the trees quite fast. I ended up letting the chainsaw fall to my side while the chain was still moving and it sliced right into my knee. I could feel as each tooth in the chain passed through my flesh and made my kneecap vibrate. I remember thinking that my knee was a lot easier to cut into than trees. I had to get my first rib in my shoulder removed because it was pinching a vein and making blood clots form. I stopped taking the pain medication for a day while I went to hang out with some friends I hadn't seen in a long time. The pain was terrible, so I tried smoking weed to lessen it but that only intensified the sensation. #1 The worst was a painful shit. It felt like someone was stabbing me in the stomach repeatedly, was bad enough that I passed out.

[Athylus]

Anotherdreamer, I had one of those recently. I can't remember what I ate, but wow... I just sat there staring at a blank wall for 10 minutes. Most painful thing? Idk tbh. My dad had a heartattack, I nearly got electrocuted, and I broke my wrist. Girlfriend broke up, ehm... well tbh I've had it easy. I've punched someone in the face and got punched in the face, but punching someone hurt me more, lol. That was it really. Life is easy, isn't it?