re: What’s the most pain you ever felt?

I've had gout flare ups and they are painful. So I keep on hand Allopurinol and Indomethacin just in case. But a couple of friends who've dealt with it are taking a supplement to try and prevent it. So far they say it's working, tart cherry pills or juice. Naturally lowers uric acid in your system. Been on it for 2 weeks and so far so good.

Gallstone around thanksgiving last year. Had to go to the ER and ended up having my gallbladder removed the next day. Close second was when I broke my ankle during football practice my senior year in highschool. The initial break didnt hurt, but after the surgery when it was in a cast hurt like absolute hell. And then every time i'd have to piss, i'd stand up as best I could and it would start throbbing.

I can’t really think of anything that rises to the level of that much pain, but the most uncomfortable feeling I ever had was a spinal tap.

Tonsillectomy, uvulaplasty, rhinoplasty and turbinectomy all at once at 33 years old.

Shattering every bone in my ankle. Snapped it the same direction as Dak Prescott. All I can remember is seeing it and screaming bloody murder.

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Kidney stones

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Amazing how something so small can cause so much pain.

Severity: a sharp object imbedded in my eye.
Duration: back spasms.

Kidney stone

Due to the unique nature of my former heart arrhythmia issues, during my second to last EP study, I had to be awake so they could trigger an episode to trace the accessory pathways causing my issues. It was like the 5th EP study that had been done on me since I was a kid, as more pathways kept forming as I got older. Prior ones, when they put me under they would have a really hard time to get an episode to trigger until the anesthesia almost wore off.

So during my last procedure, they kept me awake but "relaxed". After 6 hours of building an image of my heart on a machine, they got ready to ablate some pathways they had found. My doc told me I would feel some pressure and "possible discomfort"......

I knew that was a lie when the nurse had me open my mouth and placed a rubber mouth piece for me to bite down on....

Needless to say when you are awake during a heart ablation... shite gets weird and painful. Almost immediately I could have swore the following was happening to me:

1. My chest was about to split wide open from the inside and spew forth fire.
2. It felt like my collar bones were on fire and I could feel heat racing up both sides of my neck.
3. My left clavicle felt like it was under a tremendous amount of pressure and was getting ready to explode.
4. My right clavicle already felt like it exploded and that there was fire shooting from shoulder.
5. I could not breath, it felt like my lungs just locked up.

They ablated 6 pathways that day, all about 3 minutes apart. Each pass felt like 1-5 all over again. There were more to remove but my heart doc felt like he had traumatized me enough for the day. (His words lol)

When I asked why it was so painful, he explained to me that the human heart itself feels no pain, however the pericardial sac is chock full of nerves and that was the cause of the pain when the ablations tool place.

I don't know what kidney stones or childbirth feel like, but that shite has to rank up there with them. I was feeling things I never felt before. I literally thought parts of my upper body were going to explode.

I rank that experience as negative 5 stars. Would not do again.