re: What is the worst physical pain you’ve ever felt?

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Exposed nerve in a tooth. Toothache is an understatement.

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I don't know if the nerve was actually exposed for me, but I know what you went through. I chipped a tooth as a kid, no pain at the time and hardly noticeable. Years later in high school the tooth started to "die". I thought it would stop hurting eventually so I didn't want to bother anyone about it, but after a few days of feeling like a needle was stabbing my gums I had a root canal.

A muscle cramp in my left calf. After hiking 8 hrs down Tanner Trail to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Tanner Trail is known for being a grueling downhill hike that's hard on the legs. I was sleeping in my tent and my foot went from the 12 o'clock position to 3 o'clock. I screamed out loud. It felt like my muscle was being ripped from my leg. Thank God my brother was there to help straighten my foot out.

A very distant #2 was a kidney stone. It made me puke.

Pancreatitis

Scraped the label sticker of a knee board off with my big toenail. It packed all the way to the bed with the sticky side up against the nail. I had to pull it out. The nail still show where the bed was injured.

Also dislocated the head of my fibula one time. After a week of being out before the doctors could figure out what was wrong it was pretty angry and sore.

I tore an abdomen muscle from vomiting so hard from food poisoning and there was a point I sincerely wished for death. Exploding from both holes for hours then that muscle tear mid-dry heave felt like I got stabbed with a dull knife in my stomach.

Kidney stone is definitely up there. I’ve passed three that I know of at this point at varying levels of pain.

My worst though still has to be my endometriosis pre-laparoscopy. Every cycle I had intense pain in my lower abdomen that eventually would have me on pain meds to flat knock me out to deal with it. Literally felt someone had punched through my abdomen and was twisting my entire lower abdomen. I was convinced I had cancer or something like that. When they went in, they found it had webbed between my bowel and abdominal wall, causing IBS like symptoms as well as nerve pain.

Catheter

Kidney stone

Appendix ruptured

The worst pain imaginable and its not even close. Fentanyl is the only thing that relieved some of the pain and even that didn't truly get rid of the pain. When Morphine and Toradol are useless you know the pain is real.