Personal injuries.

[RetroJay]

Hi all.

OK. Lets start this by saying that I have endured many injuries in the past.

I have broken my, arm, ribbs, knuckles (more than once) and a hip bone (that I didn't break but appeared through my skin, that was torn open revealing the offending bone).

Strangely enough none of these caused me much pain.

However. Two months ago. A filling came out of my tooth. I left it for a while cos I have a fear of dentists and it didn't seem to be bothering me much....

But then.

It became infected. I have never felt pain like it!!

I am happy to say that my tooth was saved. I am no longer in pain. And I no longer have a fear of dentists.

Please share your injuries HERE.

Love and best wishes to you all.
Jay.

Oh. Also forgot to mention the removal of in-growing toenails. That hurts. Well it doesn't hurt. Just don't watch. If you watch then it hurts!!

[Darth Mandarb]

Oh man I feel your pain!!

A few years back I had a toothache ... the dentist did a root-canal and missed a nerve in the tooth.  I spent a night in the most agonizing pain I've ever felt.  Like you I've suffered many injuries that most would consider painful and I just shrugged them off.  This 'exposed nerve' was so mind-bogglingly painful that parts of the night are actually blacked out.  I know I was on the floor with only my head and my heels touching the ground with my back arched so strongly and my fists clenched so tightly that I drew blood on my my palms.

I have a theory that an exposed nerve in your tooth is more painful than child birth because if child birth were that painful no woman would have more than one kid!!  Granted I have no basis for comparison ... it's just a theory.

[Andromeda]

This wasn't the most painful experience on earth, but damn did it suck. I got a very bad kidney infection over the summer where my kidney swelled up and started to form an abscess. So I ended up spending just about two weeks rolling around in a hospital bed clutching my abdomen, with a fever of 105, vomiting everything I ate and getting repeatedly poked with needles until none of the nurses seemed to be able to find my veins after the first, no, make that the 8th, time, while the doctors kept switching my antibiotics because nothing was working.
Not the worst thing that can happen, but it still sucked hardcore. Thankfully, I now have two healthy kidneys. 

[Domino]

Those damn kidney stones...Had me crying in pain until i finally passed it. Spent 3 hours in the ER.  They hurt like a ***********

[Nikolas]

Broke my knee! My fucking knee!

While playing... table tennis (ping pong)!

It's amazing, but as I was trying to get to position and hit the tiny, very light ball, I twisted my leg SO BADLY, that I heard a crack and my knee had broken parts.

(Not the knee exactly, but the upper and the lower bones, both had small broken parts which are still inside there, but at least the 'connections' were left intact).

Whenever I play computer games I worry that I might break a finger or something... When I eat I worry that I'll break my jaw or something... In general with my luck even the most harmless of sports can be dangerous!

[Jared]

Some years ago, walking around on the joits of our new house-to-be I slipped and managed to fork myself - that is, the joist slamming into my balls (or vice versa) at high velocity. I remember being winded for about a minute. No broken bones, though, so I feel kind of wimpy by comparison in this thread.

I think that incident, however, is directly responsible for me being reeeally unimpressed by the torture scene in Casino Royale. All these people go on about how brutal it was, but I was thinking "That doesn't look like it'd hurt that bad..."

[Dualnames]

Nikolas, your life sounds like an adventure!!.. anyway, I've never broken anything or bruised. No, I'm nopt untouchable. Anyway, concerning pains well, I've abused the word "I've hit my head", I only manage to be a pro at causing injuries to my head. I almost lost my once(for 1.5 cm I would), I've had concussion(I think that's the word) many times, and well..it's not much of a pain. Worst pain ever is one I'm having if I tie my shoes REALLY tight. My toes get squeezed and they trie to comfort themselves, thus trying to separate each other(going to different directions), if I don't set a little loose of my shoes, damn the pain goes immense. It;s even worse than a tooothache.

[Akatosh]

Worst thing I ever had was breaking two of my teeth in a sports accident - as in, snapping both of them in half and spitting out the other halves, together with some blood. From that day on, I haven't been able to bite into anything with my "front teeth", for fear the "replacement" halves might break off. Nothing compared to your stories, of course, but it was quite unpleasant still.

[kaputtnik]

My two worst accidents happened when I was still a kid, and looking back at them I feel like a complete redneck...Firstly, I broke a rib when running into a wheelbarrow handle. Secondly, I catapulted myself in the head with a pretty heavy stone because my knowledge of catapults and physics in general was not very, uhm saddle-fast, let's say, yeeha!

[DanielH]

Eh. I've been lucky. My accidents have been few and far between, and even them not very serious. I remember some serious pain when a dare led me to stick my little finger into a fan, shearing a load of skin off, almost to the bone. Then lately, one of the worst pains I've experienced in a long while,  a few days ago some utter twat at my school hit me with a coca-cola bottle right on the knuckle of my hand, then on the bony bit of my wrist. Doesn't sound like it would hurt much, does it? Get a friend to do it. With both hands, have him hold the bottom of the bottle and hit your wrist with the lid. Christ, it hurt.

[Oliwerko]

Last year I broke my leg skiing. Actually, we have been skiing on a slope (which was not in use) with my schoolmates a day before I broke it (it was a school trip). We were not braking at all, just drove it all the way down on max possible speed. The next day a slalom competition took place on the top of the not-in-use slope.
After the contest we had to ski down to the bottom of the hill. I was skiing down and I was gaining speed. Then, I thought "Man, be careful, not to break your leg the last day of the trip!". So I decided to take a turn. The snow was a bit too deep and the skis were a bit longer than they should. So during the right turn, my left ski wasn't able to overcome the heavy snow and cut the curve short, resulting in my right ski on top of it. My legs kind of "jammed" and I found myself sitting on my right leg. Directly. It was not extremely painful during the accident, but I had to push myself up to sit on the ground, not on my painfully twisted leg. Stuff happened next was boring (hospital,...) The most painful part was the next day, then it hurt quite badly.

And two months after the leg was fixed, I had to undercome a surgical operation.
Google "pectus excavatum" if interested. The thing was that they had to put all the gristles that join the ribs with breastbone out and put a pair of steel rods into my chest (they were removed 6 months after). The second day after the operation was pretty painful.

I still have the gristles in formaldehyde sitting on my table and the rods next to them. I am still happy that I am so lucky that I have not yet undercome some serious pain some people have.

[Sylvr]

As far as I can remember, the worst things that happened to me are a jammed toe (rock in a lake) and a bug bite. Yes, a bug bite.

I didn't think it was going to turn into what it did! I was at camp, minding my own business, when I saw this Thing land on my foot. I figured it was a deerfly or something, but I wasn't fast enough to shoo it away. I actually saw it bite me. It started to swell a bit, which I expected cause it wasn't a normal mosquito bite, but it did not stop swelling! It got to the point where I was having trouble fitting it into my croc, and I knew it was trouble. I started to not be able to walk. Eventually I was sent home from camp. I had also ended up in the ER (where the nurse informed me that there are no deerflies in the area, but that it was a kind of bee. I was looking, it wasn't a bee!) because my foot was so big I couldn't move it at all, but after 4 hours of waiting I gave up and left. I guess the skin had been stretched so tightly or something. I spent 2 days sitting down waiting until I could walk again. I think I had a picture of it somewhere on here. 

I know, not the most serious things in the world. As for what I've accidentally caused pilferinloot to go through............ well I'll let her answer this for herself.

[Babar]

I'm a pretty bad judge of my own pain, so people tend not to take my complaints seriously. When I was 15 I got appendicitis (which nobody realised), and when my appendix burst, I went to my mother and told her that my stomach ache had gotten worse. She told me to go back to sleep. I kept nagging her, until she woke up, and I then went to the hospital.

I used to get into a LOT of accidents as a kid, mostly relating to school. I busted my head once when I tripped over something while running, flipped over downhill, and landed on my head. I had to get stitches for that. Another time someone whacked me with a stone which barely missed my eye, but I still have a kind of cut/dent above it. Another time I fell off  bus, and got my elbows and knees all bloody.

When people told me as a kid that eating vegetables was good for my blood, I didn't understand why they would want me to eat something good for my blood: this mythical red substance that appeared whenever I got hurt. Better that it didn't appear at all!

[Ghost]

I impaled myself on a fence once. I should say this involved quite a drop, so there was enough force to drive it a decorative (yet spiky) bit of metal into the armpit and deep enough to tear flesh at the shoulder from the frikkin INSIDE.
My girlfriend was there and called an ambulance while I was well, hanging there and making really stupid jokes. No pain at all, not even when they did their needlework and all. Five hours later though, there was hell on earth.

[Stupot]

I'm reserving this space for tomorrow morning... for tonight I am going to attempt The Curry Hell Challenge... Tomorrow's first excretion of the day will surely be worth reporting here.
 

[TerranRich]

Kidney stones!

I had female nurses tell me that it was as bad as (if not WORSE than) childbirth pain. I believed it! I had my first when I was 17. The most painful experience of my life, I'll tell you.

[Domino]

Those damn kidney stones...Had me crying in pain until i finally passed it. Spent 3 hours in the ER.  They hurt like a ***********

TerranRich, I feel your pain.  :'(

edit: I had an IV painkiller put into my body, and the pain was still there.

[Moresco]

Those damn kidney stones...Had me crying in pain until i finally passed it. Spent 3 hours in the ER.  They hurt like a ***********

Here here....I know your pain. :/  I spent two days in the ER for one.  Cost me a fortune too, not sure which hurt more.

Other than that I've broken my arm --- no wait, that wasn't me, my brother broke my arm.  He twisted it around and around until it snapped.  We were having fun!

I've had a hairline fracture on my foot from 8th grade, jumping off of some high structure and landing with one foot sideways.  That one wasn't so bad.

Once upon a time my fist collided with something rather hard, or well my pinky took most of the impact, thus smashing a little bone into even smaller pieces.  Had to have a large pin in my hand from my wrist to the end of my pinky.  When they removed it, they grabbed the end of this metal bit with a wrench and without any anesthesia or pain killers or anything, literally ripped it right out.  But it was neat, didn't even feel it.

Another time, working in a factory, I was using an autogun to screw in these pieces on a door assembly, and one slipped and for some reason it screwed halfway into my finger.  I had to put the autogun on reverse and unscrew it.

That's all I can think of.

[R4L]

My worst injury happened on a trampoline. I was running along the edge and as I was swinging my right leg around, I caught my big toe and the toe next to it on a spring, right in between the joints on my toes, and just like that, a dislocation and a fracture to my big toe. To make things worse, me and a bunch of friends played man hunt all around town that same night, and I took a big step on it chasing someone... Hurts like hell. The dislocation hurt a lot too when the doctor put it back.

Also, I've smacked my head on the pavement skateboarding a lot. None too bad yet though. Also, my wrists are extremely weak and ache a lot from falling on my wrists. I can't play guitar too well sometimes, because I get the most intense pain in my left wrist. I can't even play some chords, which is disappointing for me.

This doesn't compare to Darth's pain, or Domino's pain though. Kidney stones and root canals... *shudder*

[voh]

Wow, I seem to be an amazingly lucky idiot. I've fallen so many times it's not funny, hard and harder, but I've never broken anything. The closest I got to breaking anything was when I was playing volleyball and my middle finger got bent all the way backwards. I remember it touching the back of my hand. And all I did was sprain it.

The most awful and painful experience I've had, health-wise, has been a gum infection. That was all thanks to Mr. Wisdom Tooth #3, which had decided to not go the route it was supposed to go but ended up at a 90 degree angle, its crown firmly seated against the molar next to it. Also the first cavity I've ever had, as it was still covered. It never broke through. The infection got so bad that I couldn't close my mouth - I was unable to put my jaws together, and that made it impossible to chew. Not happy.

I went to the doctor a week after it had started hurting, spending that time not eating anything but custard and popsicles (to quell the swell). After that, it took 2 weeks before the surgical removal would take place (my dentist didn't dare attempt it, straight to the surgeon I went). In the meantime I had to take a cotton wad, 5 times a day, and pour hydrogen-peroxide over it, then put that on the infected gums and CHEW it. THAT WAS HELL.

The removal went fine, except for the fact that they had to cut into my gums and still thought it prudent to only put in one stitch. I argued with the surgeon about that, but he said it'd be fine.

I was back in the hospital a few hours later, still spitting out blood every few seconds, because it just wouldn't stop. 7 stitches later by a different surgeon and a new dose of local anesthesia, and I was sent home. It took another 2 weeks before I could eat normally again.

5 weeks of not being able to eat resulted in losing 18 kilos of weight (that's about 40 pounds). It took a week of eating normally before I felt close to a human being again, because I'd gotten fairly weak because of it.

Not happy times.

But hey, I've never broken anything, so I'm not complaining (that much)