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.
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.
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.
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.....
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.....
Sorry, but... ROFL. Take one for the team! Bruised testicle ftl.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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...
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
On June 12 2009 13:51 Jibba wrote: 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...
AHHHHHHHHGGGG, FUCK YOU FUCK YOU
When I was a kid I had this huge fear of getting a needle in my eye. I can remember my mother assuring me that this was not something that would ever happen. But apparently it does, holy shit. And not for something especially exotic, just some sort of eye infection? Christ, I thought this was the 21st century. I can get my dinner cooked in 5 minutes, up to date info on the population of a small province in India in seconds, my teeth all pulled and organs removed without the slightest pain, WHY ARE WE STILL PUTTING NEEDLES IN EYEBALLS THIS IS FUCKING BARBARIC
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
Mental pain can cause physical illness, including shaking and vomiting :O Most of us first get to know that when a loved one is in danger and we can't do anything about it :X
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: 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...
Umm having lots of tattoos or any at all...is a failry bad example to set for your kids. I would think that this is obvious. Kids are too stupid to realize the consequences of the things they do at a young age. Like me getting 18 tattoos when i was 17. What 17 year old really knows how this is going to hurt them later in life. I know i didnt. I never thought of things like how employeres look at this, how i would not be allowed into every branch of the military except the army. Yes ive spoken with them all in person so dont say this is bs. Only the army at the moment is leniant as far as tattoos go. Also the way the public views you...i get dirty looks for no reason just because of my tattoos..more than you would think.
Also, i was just like you. I assumed getting one on your bicep or back would be just fine. Not true. Obviously people and employers will see it on your bicep. Something like 80% of people with tattoos regret them. Obviously im one of them.
edit: All of my tattoos have meaning to me. Thats not what i ment. I ment in 20 years no matter what every tattoos is going to look smudges and faded no matter who you get it done from. In 30 years in gona be a blob of ink lol. and i dont have tattoos on my hands or face. I still regret them all. And almost all of them are holding me back in a negative way. Even the ones I think are "hidden"
Probably accidentally sewing through my finger with an industrial-grade sewing machine and then having to pull out the thread through the bleeding holes. Being a little kid at the time, it was a pretty shocking experience, good thing i decided not to pull my finger out when the needle was all the way down.
When I was young I had a weird boil on my ass cheek (no joke) and then we went to the hospital to get rid of it, and being the man I was i asked for no anesthetic, and they just cut up my ass cheek straight up and removed the boil. (This was when I was 9)
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...
Umm having lots of tattoos or any at all...is a failry bad example to set for your kids. I would think that this is obvious. Kids are too stupid to realize the consequences of the things they do at a young age. Like me getting 18 tattoos when i was 17. What 17 year old really knows how this is going to hurt them later in life. I know i didnt. I never thought of things like how employeres look at this, how i would not be allowed into every branch of the military except the army. Yes ive spoken with them all in person so dont say this is bs. Only the army at the moment is leniant as far as tattoos go. Also the way the public views you...i get dirty looks for no reason just because of my tattoos..more than you would think.
Also, i was just like you. I assumed getting one on your bicep or back would be just fine. Not true. Obviously people and employers will see it on your bicep. Something like 80% of people with tattoos regret them. Obviously im one of them.
Something about what I know you must have googled to find this site makes me not inclined to believe anything you say.
On June 12 2009 14:06 Pieguy314 wrote: When I was young I had a weird boil on my ass cheek (no joke) and then we went to the hospital to get rid of it, and being the man I was i asked for no anesthetic, and they just cut up my ass cheek straight up and removed the boil. (This was when I was 9)
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...
Umm having lots of tattoos or any at all...is a failry bad example to set for your kids. I would think that this is obvious. Kids are too stupid to realize the consequences of the things they do at a young age. Like me getting 18 tattoos when i was 17. What 17 year old really knows how this is going to hurt them later in life. I know i didnt. I never thought of things like how employeres look at this, how i would not be allowed into every branch of the military except the army. Yes ive spoken with them all in person so dont say this is bs. Only the army at the moment is leniant as far as tattoos go. Also the way the public views you...i get dirty looks for no reason just because of my tattoos..more than you would think.
Also, i was just like you. I assumed getting one on your bicep or back would be just fine. Not true. Obviously people and employers will see it on your bicep. Something like 80% of people with tattoos regret them. Obviously im one of them.
Something about what I know you must have googled to find this site makes me not inclined to believe anything you say.
huh? i didnt google anything. I know a thing or 2 about tattoos. I have 18, i did my final research paper in college on them, im in a tattoo removal program and attend their sessions, and I know dozens of people with them from several generations and backgrounds.
edit: There is a reason ALMOST everyone that gets tattoos ends up regretting them later in life. Its too hard to explain to people that dont have them or havent had them long enough. Before I got them i thought the same things as everyone else in this thread. I was only trying to help as i have had experience. Sorry. Live and learn I guess.
While there were some weird issues with family and relatives going on, I'd just gotten off the phone with my mom who'd told me some bad news concerning the situation.
I was very angry, and punched a metal railing like eight times in a row...that hurt like a bitch since I tore skin too.
I couldn't play SC well for several days after...T_T.
I don't know if that's the most painful thing...I can't really separate pain from terror in my memories, so can't make a judgment as to whether something was truly painful or not, or if I was just scared.
Now that I think of it, the really "traumatic" moments in my life where the greatest injury was dealt (falling 8 feet onto pavement chin-first, smashing my head into the corner of a wall, getting a huge gash in it) weren't really that painful. I guess you tend to go into a sort of shock and feel significantly less pain.
In ascending order:
3. Snowboard wipeout: I tried to slow down too quickly, did a flip and landed on my back on ice. Just an overwhelming full-body soreness for a minute.
2. Foot Cramps: No, seriously. Really fucking painful, like someone is tearing my muscles out.
1. Toonie Extraction: Long story short, I did some stupid things as a kid, one of which being I smashed out the centre of a toonie (canadian coin worth two dollars, made of two seperate metals, one composing the core and the other a ring around it) and put the outer ring on my finger. It won't come off, I'm sent to the hospital. Rather than cut it off and burn my finger, the doctor suggests another method which involves him somehow leveraging it off using a small string wrapped around my finger. It must have been due in part to how swollen and sensitive the finger was, but this seemingly benign process was VERY, VERY painful. The sharpest pain imaginable, sustained for several minutes while the ring was slowly dislodged.
I was young. I was on a bike. I was in a race. I tried to take a shortcut. I hit the curb. Landed on my face (stopped my face from hitting the ground with my hands). Bike landed on my head. BLOODY HEAD!!!
I had to get stichees in my head and I remember saying "I'm okay, I don't want to go to the hospital". :D
Running 9 miles in like... ~1.5 hours.... I woke up and when i tried to get out of my bed, holy fuck
when i was 5 i got pushed off a chair and on the impact my jaw closed on my tongue...and yeah tongue got ripped. i didn't even go to the doctor either -_-(azn parents don't like the docctor) and for like a month i just let it re-attach itself
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.
Same with me. I guess that was my worst emotional pain. You can still feel it, physically, in the pit of your stomach.
Physical... I'm not quite sure. Probably when we spun around one of those mini carousel things, they have them in some kid parks. We spun it so fast and I've never felt more shittier in my life.
My foot was ran over by a motorcycle at the age of 8 and I don't know what it was but I believe it was the shock that hit me right then and there that made me jump in the air a couple of feet and come straight down onto my face. I ripped my lower lip off my mouth about a half of an inch and had to have 15 stitches reattach it.
Playing soccer when I was about 11/12 and the ball went out into the street and when I kicked it back into the yard my other foot had let loose under some gravel/pebbles and I suddenly flew up into the air and came down with all my weight onto my left hand landing not palm down but on the top of my hand(as if my hand was pushed down and back with the top facing down). I sprained the shit out of my wrist which was 2 inches out of place and was just in agony for about 2 months.
For some reason both those times were more excruciating then the time I fell off my motorcycle going 40 mph. I knew I had lost control of the bike so I had jumped off and tried to tuck and roll but I had a backpack filled with beer which didn't let me tuck properly. I landed on my right shoulder and then rolled which was bruised for about a month. I couldn't even stretch my arm in the up position to throw a shirt on. Within a minute of the accident I had to get up and pick up my motorcycle(350-400 lbs) b/c it was blocking traffic and not a damn fuckin person got off to help me. Not even the fuckin bitch that completely stopped at the green light which caused me to lose control plus all the slick oil on the pavement. Good thing I had beer to drink afterwards.
When I went to the fysiotherapist to have my shin splints treated, he would massage the painful spots on my shins. Doesn't sound too bad if I put it this way, but I've never felt such pain in my life! And by the way, it didn't help :p
On June 12 2009 13:30 IvanHoe wrote: 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.
hAHha definitely. When i was a kid I fell and my chin got cut open. When they inject the medicine it feels like hot steel roots were growing inside my meat. Painful painful...
On June 12 2009 15:54 Lemonwalrus wrote: I can't think of anything that ever happened to me that was painful enough to warrant posting in this thread. I guess I am lucky.
Breaking cruciate ligament is my worst memory. The physical pain is actually mild, which leaves your head free to think of what that one second took away from you.
Worst physical pain was probably joint dislocation of the pinkie when I was about 10.
Not actually a picture of my hand but that's what it looked like.
Hm... I've luckily never broken anything but have had some wicked spills off of a bike and also fallen down a cliff. My knees have taken a beating several times... the worst was leaving work and having the chain come off the gears, wrapping around the pedal which jammed and lifted me over the handlebars. I worked at a bike parts shop and the mechanic put the thing on incorrectly -_-
Falling off the cliff was a stupid accident as a result of getting high in a quarry and trying to walk down a steep cliff that looked less steep in search of a broken bong that we kept gluing back together. My knee still has the scar from where a rock split the skin in half. Nasty stuff.
i've managed to avoid most physically painful situations, luckily. the last 10minutes or so of my tattoo was starting to get a bit painful, but not bad. mental pain from depression has been the worst though, to the point of feeling like physical pain.
I had some badass intestine bacteria while at the same time having an appendicitis. Damn did that shit hurt sometimes was close to blacking out I think. Broken bones don't hurt that bad imo. First time I broke my ulna, cracked my radius and some parts of my wrist bone splittered. Did not hurt. It happened while I was snowboarding, some random people asked if I needed help I said no and drove don't with the lift alone. Second time I had a radial head fracture, didn't even notice it and went on skating T_T
On June 12 2009 17:42 KarlSberg~ wrote: Breaking cruciate ligament is my worst memory. The physical pain is actually mild, which leaves your head free to think of what that one second took away from you.
Worst physical pain was probably joint dislocation of the pinkie when I was about 10.
Not actually a picture of my hand but that's what it looked like.
2 years ago I went to a beach with my friends. The place was very well hidden like, 10 Miles away from the nearest road, and 20-30 from the village near by... I got ear infection in the middle of the night, I saw a doctor like 20 hours later. I wished I was never born on top of that I scared the shit out of my friends
Probably a rugby tackle. i had my nose broken but what was really painful was my neck. Basicly a guy slammed me ala Shamrock vs Zinoviev if you know what i'm talking about. i broke my nose with my own knee while falling and i got somewhat semi Ko-ed. I'm happy because it could have been really dangerous for my neck/spine.
Also when i had some teeth removed as a kid.
But tbh physical pain is nothing compared to emotional pain or depression.
On June 13 2009 00:45 Boblion wrote: But tbh physical pain is nothing compared to emotional pain or depression.
Damn right it is
I disagree, in most of the cases, if its not really bad like someone close to you died for example, it depends from you to get rid from the emotional pain or the depression. If you are suffering physical pain and you cant take pills or anything you feel completely helpless, and not only the birds singing loses its sense like when you are depressed
Well i mean if you haven't got tortured or have some nasty injuries / infections.
A random broken nose, punch in the balls etc ... aren't that terrible because the pain doesn't last long usually and isn't that intense after a while. Depression is a fucking horrible thing because it can last forever and when it puts you on life tilt it isn't fake emo bs.
Hmm nothing that bad has really happened to me. Probably the worst thing was when I was about 12 and was screwing around on a rope ladder that was hanging from a tree and it broke...I landed flat on my back from about a height of 6 feet, that was crippling pain. Other things I can think of are having a fast spinning skateboard hit you right in the shin, which happened a lot and when I was really young I got stung under the ear by a wasp and it seemed really bad at the time, lol.
Anyway, if it's about physical pain, it's probably my recent intestinal viral infection. It was SO bad, I literally wanted to just tear apart my insides out and free myself of my pain. I was clawing on my stomach because it was that bad.
Not the worst pain I've ever felt, but it comes close and now that I think about it it's sort of funny. After playing nearly 5 hours of basketball (Interschool sports), I came home all exhausted, and I couldn't be bothered untying my shoe laces, so I just did that thing where you stand on the heel of your opposite shoe and try and slip your foot out, next thing I know I feel a sharp pain and my leg cramps really hard, I needed to sit down but I still had my other shoe on (and being Asian, no shoes in the house) so I tried quickly taking my other shoe off when bang! second leg cramps. My sister watches me fall to the ground as I can't move both my legs and I hit my head on the shoe rack on the way down. Both legs cramping up are really really painful (much more then the head hit)
What was probably the most painful event I ever experienced, although my body blessed me with a several hour shock state and total amnesia so I don't remember really:
As a kid I fell over, landed on my face and broke my two upper front teeth straight through. My lips and entire mouth area swell to the size of a tennis ball. It was so swollen and thick that they couldn't give me any anaesthesia, so they had to pull out the rest of the teeth and stitch me up without. I was awake the entire time, but unable to speak a word. I just sat there shaking with eyes wide open for several hours during the operation and after.
When I broke my arm skateboarding. I was trying to do a 50-50 on a rail, and the rail was one of those rounded ones. The rails length was about eight stairs, and I tried holding my balance but I slipped, and as I fell my arm hit a stair and just completely fractured. Was horrible >.< The sight and the feeling.
On June 13 2009 03:19 zatic wrote: What was probably the most painful event I ever experienced, although my body blessed me with a several hour shock state and total amnesia so I don't remember really:
As a kid I fell over, landed on my face and broke my two upper front teeth straight through. My lips and entire mouth area swell to the size of a tennis ball. It was so swollen and thick that they couldn't give me any anaesthesia, so they had to pull out the rest of the teeth and stitch me up without. I was awake the entire time, but unable to speak a word. I just sat there shaking with eyes wide open for several hours during the operation and after.
Same thing.
Except I actually fell 5-6 feet straight down into a metal pole (bottom of the rope ladder in the playground) with my tooth. Knocked it clean out except it was hanging by a thread.
Thankfully I don't remember ANY of it. But my parents took me back to the scene of the crime when I was older and was like WTF that's a far fall. And of course I have the tooth.. and I can tell I was toothless in pictures.
When my grandmother, who I lived with at the time due to school, died when I was 15, she was the first one close to me who died and I felt like shit for weeks after that
Physically pain probably when I was hit by a car at 6 but I got knocked unconscious and don`t really remember much from that time but my body felt like shit for days after it.
The worst I can remember well is being food poisoned the day I went back from the US back to Norway, spending an entire day in gruesome pain while having to stay at airports and in airplanes sucked big time. Probably the only time I wished I would just die to get over the pain, never ever have I had such pains in my stomach. This was also the cause for me not eating Chinese food again for the next 4-5 years.
At age 9 or so, I was a defender in a soccer team. I go to header a ball that's coming near the goal, and the goalie goes to kick it. He kicks me straight in the chin and I bite right through my tongue, leaving a bloody hole. I still have a bump there.
At age 15 or so I broke my toe by jumping into a swimming pool (don't ask). The multiple injections they gave me so they could break it back into place hurt SO MUCH. Holy shit I never want an injection into toe membrane again.
Never had any real physical pain, but if any kind of emotional pain it would have been having my heart broken hands down. :/ Never ever again..fuck that
Shattering my elbow when I was 11 or 12. Happened during soccer training. I got fouled and had this terrible pain in my ellbow, the guy who fouled my tried to pull me up by the arm and all I hear/feel is this gnashing noise coming from my elbow. Went to the hospital and got operated on and they fixed the shattered bone with three 7cm long nails/pins that were driven into my elbow. By the way, those were removed with pliers and no anesthetic, because you don't feel pain when something is stuck in your bone; at that age this scared the crap out of me however D: Plus, in the same instance they had to remove the rubber tube that was stuck deep into my elbow which allowed the blood and fluid to drain, which hurt like fuck.
So I get a lot of painful experiences from one incident, hooray.
I was running in the woods, and my left knee started hurting suddenly. Since I was in the middle of the woods, and it was raining, I decided to tough it out and run back home, cause I wasn't going to walk around in the woods with rain and possibility of lightning coming on soon - I made it back somehow, with the pain at a minimum, but it didn't set in until a few hours later. I couldn't walk for a few days, and for weeks every time I walked my whole leg would seize up. Going up stairs was the worst, since I had to lift my knee up to get up there. It sucked a lot, and it ruined my track season.
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