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Might not be that bad compared to others issues here but has anyone experienced a gout flare up?! Not cool, not cool at all.

I had a pulmonary embolism about 2 years ago, absolutely awful. The fun part was after I went home from the hospital and coughed up a blood clot.

I get migraines, so I’m weirdly used to high levels of pain. I had one migraine so bad I vomited, fell asleep for about 6 hours, then woke up and kept vomiting uncontrollably. Ended up in the ER because I was puking straight bile. But as far as pain goes, not the worst.

When I was pregnant, they had to induce me. They try to keep you off an epidural as long as possible, but I was having contractions every 5 minutes while 0% dilated. Hurt like a bitch, and they wouldn’t let me lay in any comfortable position because the heart rate monitor wouldn’t register. But that wasn’t the worst.

I had a kidney stone impact in the lower part of my ureter. They had gone in to remove it but couldn’t because it was impacted and infected. So they placed a stent. The doctor said I must have been in a lot of pain before surgery. Didn’t feel a THING. The next day I felt fine. Went to work (desk job). Came home and laid on the couch. Over the course of an hour I started shivering uncontrollably and spiked a massive fever. I developed sepsis. I was in the hospital for 5 days. Still wasn’t the worst.

No, the worst was my third kidney stone which was apparently caught on scar tissue in my ureter. I was in so much pain I couldn’t think. I couldn’t answer questions. I couldn’t do anything.

Flipped over the front of my bike as a kid and knocked my two front teeth out. But it wasn't that part that hurt. It was when the dentist shoved them back into the hole. I about levitated out of the chair out of sheer pain.

I had a bulging disc and one day I was laying on the couch and sneezed. I felt this pop in my back and the pain was indescribable. I started helplessly crying and yelling for help. After waiting in pain for 20 minutes, my gf brought me to the ER where I cried in the lobby for 8 hours straight waiting to be seen.

Turns out I herniated my disc. I went to PT for 6 months and have slight nerve damage to this day. Funny enough a new latex mattress saved me. I live pain free every day when before that was unthinkable.

For me pain is multidimensional, there’s different kinds of “worst.” The short drop onto a hospital bed after surgery was by far the strongest, sharpest, brightest pain I ever felt, but it only lasted a millisecond. Kidney stones can be sharp and radiating, but the pain tends to be localized with ebbs and flows. Pancreatitis was not as “sharp” as a kidney stone, but it was bigger, harder to tolerate, more attention consuming, and came with aweful nausea.

I broke my leg when I was a kid. When my family was helping me to the car, I put weight on that broken leg out of instinct of... y'know, how I'd been walking up 'til that afternoon.

It was like a lightning bolt shot through my leg, mind-numbing amounts of pain.

Close tie between getting shot close range on my hand and my lower-back hernia that burst while I was doing a squat with weight on my back.

I stabbed myself in that soft spot on the hand, between the thumb and the finger you point with. That wasn't the painful part. I had to get stitches, they said the anesthesia injection would hurt as much as just having the stitches, so I agreed to do it without any anesthesia/painkiller or whatever you call those injections to numb the area.

That is the worst pain I've ever felt and I had to feel it twice, because as soon as I left the hospital, I let the hand hang down my side and the blood rushing there caused the stitch to loosen and blood to run out, so I went back inside and they grabbed both ends of the knot on the stitch with pliers and pulled to tighten them. That hurt so much that I actually made a little girly yelp that I've never heard myself make before or after.

Maybe I'm a wuss?

I relate to that, needles in the palate/gums is no fun...
My most painful experience though was when my kneecap dislocated and stuck to the side of my leg. Happened twice in my life. The first time when I was ice skating and the second just climbing stairs. Had to take an ambulance trip to the hospital :/

Everyone's in here with this horrific shit while my worst injuries never really hurt that bad. Separated shoulder, head trauma resulting in a dozen stitches, chunks of flesh missing with rocks replacing it. Not that bad.

The absolute fucking worst was getting kicked in the knee during a pickup street hockey game while wearing sweatpants. Not the kick itself, but when I got home and went to shower. Turns out the kick had given me the sweatpants equivalent of road rash. Okay, fine. Just a few fibers sticking out that I need to clean up and...

...and I can only imagine that this is what third degree burns feel like. I have no damn idea what made it so bad, but the process of removing a small patch of fibers embedded in my skin made me question whether or not it would have been quicker, simpler, and less painless to just chainsaw the fucking leg off. Fire. Burning. Burning. Down the side of my leg. I had road rash before and since and absolutely nothing was like that.

A distant second would be the road rash that I accidentally dumped ALL OF THE ALCOHOL on while trying to wet some gauze to clean it up. That was bad. The fiber thing was worse.

I’ve lived a life mercifully free of pain, but one notable exception was after my weight loss surgery, when referred gas pain near my shoulder made it feel like someone was taking pruning shears to my clavicle. Once they figured out what was going on, some simethicone chased it away pretty quickly. I never would’ve guessed mere gas could hurt like that.

ITT: People who have been in tremendous pain that also do not have a great understanding of human biology or medicine in general.

A rheumatoid arthritis flare in my shoulder bad enough to cause a dislocation. They can't just pop it back in when it's pushed out from the inside, just have to wait for the steroids to kick in and hope for the best. It took 6 months of physio to get 95% range of motion back. But I'm feeling much better now (and just finished a season of night court on dvd from my local library).

Aftermath of a seizure and car accident. First caused the second within seconds. The seizure pulled every muscle I had and some I didn't even know I had. The wreck caused a nasty concussion, messed up a vertebra in my back, and the resulting brain damage is still affecting me 6 years later.

Worst instant of pain: root canal of infected tooth.

Worst overall: 6.5mm kidney stone.

Runner up: gall stone blocking duct.

I think for me, the most painful experience is a tie -- one instance was Appendicitis (which was horrible) and the other instance was having one of our children without an epidural.

anesthesia for wisdom teeth was quite bad

feeling of pulling teeth out afterwards is not painful but still unsettling

I'm currently laid up in bed with some kind of sciatica thing. Not too bad when I'm lying down, but burning agony when I walk.

Still don't think it's the worst I've had, that would probably be when my gall bladder flared up. Couldn't inhale without stabbing pain in my side.