re: Name a pain worse pain than a good brain freeze

"Ice pick" headache. The name describes how it feels perfectly.

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Cluster headache 

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I get these about twice a year. Usually over 3 days.

I would cut my nuts off right now if it would mean not having another one.

Broken tooth with exposed nerve.

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That is the exact reaction.

The worst pain I've had was a big-time gout attack on the big toe. It felt like someone was breaking my toe every couple of seconds, for two days.

Id take that any day of the week before a real panic attack.

I’m going with having your fingernail ripped off

kidney stones. End thread.

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Keep hearing how bad kidney stones are to pass.

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I've had about 20 kidney stones over the years and am now having 3 more to deal with. Two are 8x10mm in my urinary tract from the right kidney and will not pass. This requires lithotripsy and if you don't know what that is, look it up and be prepared to cringe.

I also have just one in my left kidney, but it is 2cm, which is just over 3/4 of an inch round and that will require surgery to remove because NOBODY is passing that size stone.

I've been on my floor in the fetal position several times waiting for them to pass.

One time I was in the ER because the pain got so bad I couldn't take it any more and they hit me with morphine and it did nothing, then a little while later they hit me with dilaudid and it worked for about 15 minutes before the pain returned. That was the most miserable time I've ever spent on this orb.