re: Worst physical pain you’ve ever felt?

I’ve had 19 surgeries so you think about it.

Nerve Shingles on my right foot. Went from just fine and dandy, to sobbing in pain in the ER within 30 minutes.

Back in 2009 I had my 5th Heart Ablation procedure done since I was a kid. Due to past issues triggering an arrhythmia to find the accessory pathway when I was sedated, I was awake for this procedure.

After finding 6 new pathways, they hit me with something to relax me. Felt a little drunk but they only gave me enough to take the edge off. When the nurse gave me the rubber bit to put in my mouth to bite down on, I was like WTF?

My Doc explained what was about to happen and if it was too much they would stop. I allowed them to proceed..

When you have an ablation performed while awake it feels like this:

1. It feels like someone is pushing the weight of the world down upon your chest.
2. At the same time it feels like all the wind has been pulled from your lungs but simultaneously it feels like your chest is heaving upwards pushing against the force trying to push it down.
3. An intense burning pain races from the left side of your sternum, up over to your right clavicle. The intensity of this makes you feel like at any moment that your collar bone will explode and you will witness fire shoot from your shoulder. At the same time it feels like your right shoulder blade is about to shatter in a million pieces.
4. At this point you can't breath, you actually panic a little bit and then feel like you on fire. Then the ablation stops and you can breath again.


That's for each pathway they had to ablate. After we got down to the 5th one the Doc ended the procedure because in his words: "Dude we have traumatized enough and your BP and BPM is going through the roof doing this."

The sadist in my now traumatized brain asked him to finish the last one off but he refused.

The next day I went home but my Doc who I've been seeing since I was 11, told me that because of my particular case, he did not feel confident in doing another procedure on me, due to the lack of new equipment and a dedicated cath lab staff at the hospital. (The Dr's all shared staff from a pool that hospital provided)

He referred me to a specialist in Baton Rouge that a year later performed a pulmonary vein isolation on me and so far I've been Atrial Fib and Atrial Tach free since then.

The new doc, when I asked him would I be awake or asleep during the procedure when he had to do his ablation, he was curious to why I asked. When I told him what happened during the previous procedure, he was like: "Holy shite, NO, you will be asleep".

Apparently I didn't realize that what I went through was that significant of a thing. I knew it hurt like hell but I didn't realize it was a big deal to someone like him. He assured me that would not happen when he did my procedure.

Still to this day it is the single most painful experience of my life. I've broken bones, cut parts of digits off, been burned severely, etc.. But nothing, and I mean NOTHING hurt as bad as that 2009 ablation procedure.

Multiple bouts of pancreatitis. Took quite a few docs to figure out what was causing it, wasn't the typical Alcohol or diet reasons.

Natural childbirth.

3rd degree on my foot and ankle

The dr having to scrape the dead skin between my toes

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gallbladder attack a couple years ago, curled up on the floor crying in pain

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What does this feel like?

pulmonary embolism

Injections in the penis is excruciating

Tore every ligament in my knee playing football. Spinal tap. That sucked. Bad aches and pain for 30 yrs. Legs are like jello. Arms and hands shake. Bad headache every day. Found out in February that I have 3 disc in my neck pressing against so spinal cord. Disk and veretbre are deteriorated. Because of corvid, can't get to a neurologist till end of June. shite sucks.