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So I'm very interested in the phenomenon of pain, how it manifest, and how different factors can affect your recovery from it.
What was the most painful moment in your life?
How did you recover from that pain?
What seemed to make your pain worse?
My two most painful moments were:
(1) I was skateboarding as a little kid and I went to pick up my skateboard as I was riding on it but my finger went under the wheel and my fingernail got ripped off. I didn't get any pain medications or anything, the adrenaline eventually kicked in and I just toughed that one out.
(2) I was cooking something on the stove, and a little droplet of hot oil splattered into my eye. Again, there was nothing I could do except run my eyes under water and tough it out.
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when my friend through a rock at me cutting my wrist. When they injected the numbing medicine into the wound it hurt like a hot needle of death piercing your testicles and or eyeballs.
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Separating my AC joint while wrestling was by far the worst. Pulling my hip flexor is a close second though.
Recovery was pretty lame. It was just bad enough to where I could have surgery or not. I passed on the surgery so they gave me a sling which did nothing. Around a month later I was 100%
Moving my arm in any direction definitely made it worse. I couldn't do anything. I had to write with my opposite hand for a while, that was fun though.
Emotional pain, this probably wins: http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=79297
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When FakeSteve broke my heart 
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When my old girlfriend broke up with me.
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Korea (South)11584 Posts
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=49126
i was playing soccer a year or two back, and i play as the goalkeeper. So the game is tied, 0-0, and it ends, so it goes to overtime, and the score remains, 0-0. So we go to kick offs.
We score 1 goal, and all I have to do is block the shots and we win! So I stop the first 4, and if I block this shot, game is over, if it goes in, then we tie and have to do kickoffs again.
So this guy is some extremely athletic guy. Way more powerful legs than I. Well, He kicks I dive for the ball, but i can't reach it so instead of catching it, I attempt to punch it away from the net. I punch it, it bounces off of the goalpost, onto the ground then into my balls. I then land onto the ball in the groin region.
Pass out and wake up to find that since I landed on the ball, we won the game. The next week, every tiny little bump on the road, or walking, would send huge amounts of pain into my testicles. Enough pain to make me extremely nauseous. sigh.....
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On June 12 2009 13:34 SCC-Faust wrote:
When my old girlfriend broke up with me.
Did you feel physical pain? I can't imagine feeling physical pain as a result of emotional pain only. I can see how they could exacerbate each other.
On June 12 2009 13:33 Chef wrote:When FakeSteve broke my heart
Poor thing :-(
On June 12 2009 13:36 CaucasianAsian wrote:http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=49126i was playing soccer a year or two back, and i play as the goalkeeper. So the game is tied, 0-0, and it ends, so it goes to overtime, and the score remains, 0-0. So we go to kick offs. We score 1 goal, and all I have to do is block the shots and we win! So I stop the first 4, and if I block this shot, game is over, if it goes in, then we tie and have to do kickoffs again. So this guy is some extremely athletic guy. Way more powerful legs than I. Well, He kicks I dive for the ball, but i can't reach it so instead of catching it, I attempt to punch it away from the net. I punch it, it bounces off of the goalpost, onto the ground then into my balls. I then land onto the ball in the groin region. Pass out and wake up to find that since I landed on the ball, we won the game. The next week, every tiny little bump on the road, or walking, would send huge amounts of pain into my testicles. Enough pain to make me extremely nauseous. sigh.....
Sorry, but... ROFL. Take one for the team! Bruised testicle ftl.
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When I tore my meniscus in my left knee playing basketball. Most painful thing ever.
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At first it started out as some dark spots attacking my vision during class hours in high school. My eyes started feeling weird and I was having trouble seeing after a while so I sluffed the rest of the day (my parents were out of town). I was able to drive home and I flopped onto the couch. Then I had the only migraine I ever had and I wanted to die. Eventually the pain caused me to vomit. I think I managed to get into a position on the couch that killed the pain a bit but the only thing that helped was time.
A few months back I managed to get some bacteria from a biology lab into a deep cavity of mine. I was insanely busy at the time so I was paying much attention to this pain (felt like a needle jabbing into the top of my tooth). Then one morning the pain just nailed me. It felt like someone had frozen my and was smashing it with a hammer. I tried to deal with the pain for about several hours then rushed to every store to find benzocane or anything with benzene in it. I put some on my tooth and it worked for a few minutes. When the pain came back I had to put more, and more. The effect of the numbing solution was being dwarfed by the pain of my nerve endings being eaten away. By the night I was in so much pain I could barely think straight, or even breathe. My roommate drove me to the E.R. and they shot my gums up to kill the pain until I could see the dentist in the morning.
I have more of a problem dealing with pain that is consistent (5+) than something significantly more painful that only lasts a while (1-3 days).
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Getting 18 tattoos. Then the 100 or so treatments i will have to go through to get them all removed. Several tattoos can be treated in 1 session. For example ive only just been to my first sesssion...where they did 1 treatment on 3 tattoos...so 3 treatments down -_____- After each session u have to wait 6 weeks for the area to heal...hmm ill be done in 2015 maybe? lol
P.S. Getting a tattoo removed is at least 10x more painful than actaully getting one. Its basically a laser semi burning it off and u can smell the hair burning...and a white layer temporaly forms. Very very very painful.
DONT GET TATTOOS
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hahahaaha nice story CaucasianAsian. Personally, I don't think I've endured any sort of intense physical pain or have one particular painful moment.
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When I fell down the stairs when I was little outside and faceplanted on the concrete head-first, splitting my nose open. I had to go to the emercency room. I think you can imagine how that must have hurt. Thankfully I was given plenty of drugs, or I least I think so. I can't remember it too well. It's a good thing =/
Now I have a scar running down my nose, it looks badass.
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I had an iron nail and I put the pointy end under my toenail, and then I kicked a brick. Just kidding, but that would hurt like fuck.
I haven't actually had anything incredibly painful happen to me... had surgery when I was 7 but I neither remember that nor was it really painful :\
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On June 12 2009 13:43 Packpack wrote:
DONT GET STUPID TATTOOS
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Nope. dont get tattooos period...im not getting them removed cuz i dont like the way they look. I'm getting them removed because i want to get a better job some day and also to set a better example for when i have kids. also any tattoo is going to look ugly as fuck after like 20 years lol...and i dont want that either.
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I took a nap and woke up with blurry vision, probably from getting Lysol spray or some shit in my eyes cleaning my dorm room. I had an eye inflammation flare up from a pre-existing condition, but as a rule of caution eye doctors treat sudden vision changes as a possible infection, which will leave you blind if left untreated. With numbing drops (not real anesthesia, DROPS) they stuck two needles in my eye - one for the antibiotic and one to draw a culture. It's difficult to describe because the pain level wasn't super high (I've got a pretty high threshhold anyways) but it was the sharpest pain I've ever felt and I was paranoid about moving my eye while the needles were in. Then I needed to do anti-biotic eye drops over the next week which stung like a bitch every time, because of the holes...
As far as lingering pain, either a bone bruise from soccer or a groin pull last year from a combination of over stretching and biking. The groin pull caused a muscle spasm down there which requires several weeks + lots of muscle relaxers to go away. ;o Muscle spasms are god awful and it was right on my inner thigh, making any kind of leg movement intensely painful, including sleeping. I was probably waking up once or twice a night during that stretch just from moving in my sleep. That was not a great period in my life.
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On June 12 2009 13:50 Packpack wrote:
Nope. dont get tattooos period...im not getting them removed cuz i dont like the way they look. I'm getting them removed because i want to get a better job some day
So? Why can't you get one on your bicep or back or forearm or something. Clothing does cover the majority of tattoos you know. Just don't be stupid when you pick one out
On June 12 2009 13:50 Packpack wrote:
and also to set a better example for when i have kids.
How are having tattoos setting a bad example for kids?
On June 12 2009 13:50 Packpack wrote:
also any tattoo is going to look ugly as fuck after like 20 years lol...and i dont want that either.
You have a point here, but if you get it somewhere that isn't seen 24/7 no one will really notice unless you take your shirt off a lot of something. Then again, how often do old people strip down that much in public anymore? ewww...
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On June 12 2009 13:50 Packpack wrote:
Nope. dont get tattooos period...im not getting them removed cuz i dont like the way they look. I'm getting them removed because i want to get a better job some day and also to set a better example for when i have kids. also any tattoo is going to look ugly as fuck after like 20 years lol...and i dont want that either.
A) Don't get tattoos you can't hide if you need to be professional. I have no idea why people get tattoos on their hands/face. It's stupid.
B) If your tattoo doesn't have a meaning, don't get it. Of course it's going to look dumb in twenty years if you get it to be badass. If you can't explain to your kids or anyone what it means in a mature way and why it isn't retarded, then don't get it.
So yes, many tattoos are retarded and do hinder you from being professional or a good role model. However, if you are smart about your tattoos then there is no reason not to get one.
I'll try to stop derailing this thread now. Sorry 
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In terms of physical pain I can only remember two pretty painful things.
1. When I was like 6/7 years old was playing around with some friends and I happened to knee onto this cement bench that had some glass shards on it and it dug right into my knee area.
2. When I was 10/11 years old after getting a motorcycle taxi ride in China, I got off the wrong side and the inner side of my foot got burned on the exhaust pipe of the motorcycle.
PS: oh yeah almost forgot this one, this one fucking pisses me off, when I was 4/5 years old coming home at night during new years in China some kid threw a couple fire crackers at me and landed on my shoulders and inside my shirt my shoulder has a permanent scar on it because of that shit. But overall never had any painful accident since I came to Canada when I was 11 lol...
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On June 12 2009 13:42 ItsYoungLee wrote:Show nested quote +On June 12 2009 13:34 SCC-Faust wrote:
When my old girlfriend broke up with me. Did you feel physical pain? I can't imagine feeling physical pain as a result of emotional pain only. I can see how they could exacerbate each other.
If you boil it down, physical pain and 'emotional' pain are the same. Both are neurons firing in a certain way that makes you feel uncomfortable.
Usually when people describe physical vs emotional pain, the difference is the location and the cause. Location - physical pain can be pretty much anywhere, while emotional pain makes your mind hurt. The difference between physical and emotional pain is blurred - when I feel great emotional pain, my head feels like it hurts (and looking at it biologically, it does). The cause is the bigger difference - we all know how physical pain is caused; emotional pain comes from your own interpretation. But that interpretation, which stems from your mind, can indeed cause a physical pain. Well, because your interpretation, your consciousness which created that interpretation, comes from a 'physical' source - neurons firing.
tl;dr - hard to define physical vs emotional pain, but yes, your mind's interpretation of something can cause physical pain
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