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JazzCatDRP · Jul 23, 2005, 11:49 PM

That's some crazy stuff (about the eye). Did you have any vision loss?

budster101 · Jul 23, 2005, 11:52 PM

Wow.
Has anyone coughed so hard they lost their lunch?

OogaBooga · Jul 24, 2005, 12:18 AM

Dislocating a shoulder/hip for the first time is painful. Especially if you've been working out and there's a lot of tissue that had to tear to become dislocated.

budster101 · Jul 24, 2005, 12:19 AM

Scratched my own eye with a hanger once... thought I was going to go blind.

Mr. Blur · Jul 24, 2005, 12:26 AM

gout in my right ankle. an inherited condition for me (thanks dad...at least you gave me something...). unreal pain.....the weight of a bedsheet is intolerable - and i have a *very* high pain threshold. luckily the anti-inflammatories work pretty quickly...but now that i have had this incident i have to be careful and avoid some of the triggers....

driven · Jul 24, 2005, 12:55 AM

The worst pain I ever had: meningitis !!!!!

Hospitalized for 10 days. Yuk.

Bandit240 · Jul 24, 2005, 12:57 AM

Eating the handle bars on a dirt bike. Tryed to run over a junk car and the front tire went in the windscreen, causing me to eat metel. Had to have surgury(sorry i cant spell), ended up losing the 4 front bottom teeth. Try eating corn on the cob without them.

Mr. Blur · Jul 24, 2005, 12:59 AM

Originally Posted by driven

The worst pain I ever had: meningitis !!!!!

Hospitalized for 10 days. Yuk.

wow...that is *very* serious...good thing it was diagnosed promptly or you would not be here telling us about it.

storer · Jul 24, 2005, 01:02 AM

True That ^!

The scariest pain I ever had was waking up when I was about 6 years old with no sight. I had conjunctivitis and my eyes wouldn't open. It was so scary. I was in a new house, I couldn't see, couldn't hear anyone. I was terrified, I'll never forget that.

galarneau · Jul 24, 2005, 01:10 AM

Originally Posted by zizban

...the Norfolk virus...

I think you mean "Norwalk Virus"

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/revb/.../norovirus.htm

budster101 · Jul 24, 2005, 01:14 AM

<pulling up my shirt..>

This scar was froma Thrasher Shark...

<pulling up pants leg..>

This one is from...

-Jaws

driven · Jul 24, 2005, 01:22 AM

Originally Posted by Mr. Blur

wow...that is *very* serious...good thing it was diagnosed promptly or you would not be here telling us about it.

I almost wasn't. I also lost a brother from this illness.

I've still got some minor complications from it ... but fortunately I'm recovering nicely. Hopefully that's the worst thing that ever happens to me in my life. :-)

budster101 · Jul 24, 2005, 01:28 AM

This isn't really a story of pain, more like a near death story.

Had pneumonia twice, almost died the second time... if you have ever had pneumonia, you'll know what I mean when I say, I didn't want to even get up, I couldn't. You just have no energy to breath let alone do anything else.

SSharon · Jul 24, 2005, 01:49 AM

Originally Posted by driven

I almost wasn't. I also lost a brother from this illness.

I've still got some minor complications from it ... but fortunately I'm recovering nicely. Hopefully that's the worst thing that ever happens to me in my life. :-)

Sorry to hear about the loss, my sister just lost a classmate to this a few weeks ago.

The eye story reminds me of a time when I was younger and in camp. I was walking behind some other kids and one of them pushed a branch forward to go by and let it swing back and a long thorn hit my eye. That hurt, but I can see fine so I guess I am lucky.

I have definately seen worse pain than I have experienced. Last summer in Israel I had a patient that stepped on the head of a harpoon and got it stuck in his foot.

driven · Jul 24, 2005, 10:02 AM

Originally Posted by SSharon

Sorry to hear about the loss, my sister just lost a classmate to this a few weeks ago.

The eye story reminds me of a time when I was younger and in camp. I was walking behind some other kids and one of them pushed a branch forward to go by and let it swing back and a long thorn hit my eye. That hurt, but I can see fine so I guess I am lucky.

I have definately seen worse pain than I have experienced. Last summer in Israel I had a patient that stepped on the head of a harpoon and got it stuck in his foot.

He died before I was born. :-( No personal loss to me other than curiousity. (My more immediate loss was my mother and in hindsight that hurt worse than the brain illness.)

Eyes are fragile ... must be careful. All sorts of things can damage those round little buggers.

Harpoon? Wow .....

RobOnTheCape · Jul 24, 2005, 10:30 AM

In the service back in 82 I was asleep in the barracks when I heard some guys coming in after the bars had closed. Laughing, yelling and being obnoxious for the longest time. Finally I heard a blood curdling scream that went on and on. I followed the racket to the head(bathroom) and found one guy holding up his arm with blood dripping everywhere and a tendon or something which looked like it unravelled out of his arm. It seems he and his buddy thought it would be hilarious to punch through the bathroom windows. Halfway through the row he tore open his arm. Needless to say, little simpathy was shown, though he was obviously in some intense pain.

dampeoples · Jul 24, 2005, 03:38 PM

I've had 13 kidney stones that i caught. One was removed by inserting something in the head of my penis, all the way to the bladder and fishing it out, as it was obstructing the tube. I dunno why they didn't use the shock pool, but I was told I'd probably get sick and die if my bladder had ruptured.
Of all the pain I've experienced in my life, from broken bones to motorcycle accidents to bone graphs(sp) to a broken heart, that's the worst pain. Ever.

Railroader · Jul 24, 2005, 04:17 PM

I once read an article that quoted a woman saying "I'd rather give birth every year for the rest of my life than ever have to pass another kidney stone".

I've never had one, but I certainly don't ever want to experience one either.

SVass · Jul 24, 2005, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Blur

gout in my right ankle. an inherited condition for me (thanks dad...at least you gave me something...). unreal pain.....the weight of a bedsheet is intolerable - and i have a *very* high pain threshold. luckily the anti-inflammatories work pretty quickly...but now that i have had this incident i have to be careful and avoid some of the triggers....

I empathize with you as I also have had gout attacks and yes, Cataflam does work quickly. I do have an 1880 medical book, Flint's Practice of Medicine, that says it is caused by too much beer and it can be relieved by a South Seas voyage.

Would the IRS buy this argument and let me deduct the trip? sam

cmeisenzahl · Jul 24, 2005, 05:32 PM

Kidney stones for me, worst pain ever experienced.

Chris

budster101 · Jul 24, 2005, 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by dampeoples

I've had 13 kidney stones that i caught. One was removed by inserting something in the head of my penis, all the way to the bladder and fishing it out, as it was obstructing the tube. I dunno why they didn't use the shock pool, but I was told I'd probably get sick and die if my bladder had ruptured.
Of all the pain I've experienced in my life, from broken bones to motorcycle accidents to bone graphs(sp) to a broken heart, that's the worst pain. Ever.

you win.

dampeoples · Jul 24, 2005, 09:30 PM

Too bad I don't feel that way

wolfen · Jul 24, 2005, 10:04 PM

Appendicitis.

But I agree...dampeoples wins. Do we have a penis trophy in the MacNN storage closet? Or did we run out? (They're so versatile)

We gotta give the guy something.

budster101 · Jul 24, 2005, 10:15 PM

Bring out the 'bronzed penis'....
http://www.verystrangesims.com/openi...ssculpture.jpg

Warning Dirty picture linked...sort of. It's in a game I think...

dampeoples · Jul 27, 2005, 08:54 PM

hehe, thanks