re: What's caused you the most amount of physical pain in your lifetime

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No. Just pop ibuprofen every once in a while. Need to find a good primary doc and check in to this. I just keep putting it off.

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I will not touch a pain med. But when mine seizes, flexeril and alieve helps the inflammation like no other. Doesn't touch pain, but you can feel it loosen.

I tolerate pain well and haven't experienced much. Achilles rupture, fully torn.

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What's caused you the most amount of physical pain in your lifetime

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Stuck a piece of rusty metal in my eye. Ophthalmologist had to remove it a couple days later when my eye became irritated. When healing the relatively small area would blister then tear loose. It drove me crazy. This happened on and off for over a year. But it finally healed properly. It was literally the sensation of fire in my eye.

Gunshot? Snake bite?

I’ll be 70 next month and am getting to be an old friend with pain. Here is a sampling, in order:

1–First kidney stone (I’ve since passed 44 stones as of last month) most required a lot of opiates
2–Gall bladder died on me requiring full open surgery (second only to kidney stones) required opiates
3–Dislocated knee in prep football (subsequent six knee dislocations) didn’t know what opiates were back then
4–Total knee replacement recovery required a lot of opiates
5–Left ring finger smashed and amputated by a heavy storeroom door
6–Heart attack in blocked LAD (hurt a lot but more frightening than painful) required morphine
7–Abscessed molar (eventually extracted) required opiates
8–Fell and broke 3 ribs last year (more painful than would have thought) required opiates
9–Severe ear infections required my first opiates
10–Grenade shrapnel wound in Vietnam (again more frightening than painful)
11-Lis Franc foot fracture while trying to do a layup at age 45 with bad knees (this one could be bumped up the list) again, opiates required

Opiates can be your friend if you can control them. I’ve been fortunate with their use. Unfortunately they don’t work like they used to.

Pain is just a reminder that you’re still alive and that your nervous system is still working.

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What's caused you the most amount of physical pain in your lifetime

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Getting a plug cut out of my leg with no pain meds. Went to the ER for a big knot in my leg, fkr was sensitive, swollen and hot to the touch. The Dr walks in, takes a look and walks out. Comes back with a needle and a scalpel. He hits the area around the knot with the needle and runs the handle of the scalpel across it asking if I feel it. I say yes and he still starts cutting, he dug about an inch down and cut a circle out about the size of a half dollar. He packs it with gauze and throws a bandage on it, tells my wife to pay attention because she'll have to repack it until it closes up and then he walks out.
I felt every bit of that shite, hurt like a mofo.

Sounding

Blood clot in the leg caused compartment syndrome. Leg swelled up like an oak trunk. They had to do an emergency fasciotomy to keep it from blowing up.

This is what the inside of that leg looks like.



There's another scar on the outside of the thigh too.