Cracked tooth that crushed the nerve inside. Was in tears after hours of agony snd finally getting to see a dentist.

I’ve never been so excited for a root canal. I nearly fell asleep during the procedure because I was so relieved.

Kidney stones. Made me sweat until dripping and throw up.

2 weeks of non-functional hell, and I think I got off lightly as the pain was only that level for a day, it dropped a little bid for the remaining time.

I am very glad that my mind cannot remember pain.
I once was out flying my 6m kite while my shoulder was broken (unknown to me at the time but I had fractured it several times and the cracks in the front and back of my shoulder socket had met up splitting it in two.) while flying I did a nice big jump but as I went higher the kite went above the tree line on my left and a sidewind caught my kite and took it way off to my right, dislocating my shoulder.
I fell about 5m to the ground.
Then, the kite filled with wind again and tried to take off.
But I had the brake lines strapped to both my wrists so it just dragged me along the ground by my displaced arm through a feild hitting several rocks along the way until it got tangled in some trees.

Also the time the dentists was doing root canal but the anaesthetic didn’t work so when his drill broke through the top of my tooth and touched the nerve I screamed and punched him in the face. I felt bad, he felt bad, he gave me drugs and said come back tomorrow.

Getting an intraabdominal abscess punctured. You don’t get sedation for that, since you need to follow the commands to they can check the progress on the CT, only the tip of the needle they shove into you has some painkiller on it… allegedly. Which does not really matter as since they shove that thing through your skin and through your muscles and then into the abscess… there is literally no time for any painkiller to do anything anyway. I was shaking from pain.

Half a glass of milk after a year of no dairy. The cramps were so bad I literally wanted to die so it would stop.

Had an ear infection when I was 19 and one day my eardrums just popped. I cried for hours and still have impaired hearing and a tinnitus on one side.

I “accidentally” set myself on fire once. Ended up with borderline 3rd degree burns covering both arms from the elbow down to finger tips. Even after dilaudid,and a morphine drip my entire world was pain. I’ve had pain that lasted longer, 2 month access in jaw and 40 years of pain from a car accident. But far and away the fire was the worst pain, before I got to the hospital I could feel myself slipping away.

Has any of you ever given birth?

I dislocated my knee cap skiing, it was very sore if I moved it at all. Being dragged down the mountain on a sled got quite painful at points.

But then picking the boot off before I got in the ambulance was the worst part. Even worse than them pushing the knee cap back in.

When this comes up, my answer is usually when the first disc herniated in my back and landed square on my sciatic nerve. It made an audible pop sound, and then it was like electricity pulsing up and down my leg for the next few weeks. That was in 2005, and there’s still days it feels like that. I couldn’t even breathe without the pain increasing. Couldn’t sit, couldn’t lay still. It was hell.

However, when it comes to the most concentrated pain, it’s a toss up. I once dropped a bead of solder on my finger, and it went down to bone. Until it killed off the nerves and just felt throbby, that was fucking horrifying pain.

The other that’s a close second or outright tie was having a needle scraped across a phalange that was broken. It’s kinda hard to tell which was more intense. Metal scraping bone was pretty fucking brutal, but it was almost immediately numb because that’s why the needle was going in. The burn pain lasted longer, and continued to throb after it went numb-ish.

I still point to the herniation as worst because while the initial intensity was maybe a tad lower (not by fucking much though), the fact that it not only didn’t stop, but that pain meds barely touched it, made it traumatic in a way the others didn’t.

Mind you, I’ve been stabbed, cut, shot (just a flesh would though), burned in other ways, been hit with bats and rocks, and a passle of other minor events. So my perception of pain is weird.

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I can’t compete with most of these stories, but here’s an example from my life anyway. I had minor oral surgery (gum graft) but they didn’t get the lidocaine injections quite right so I felt a lot of the cutting and stitching as they were doing it. I just white-knuckled it so it’d be over sooner. Then I had to refrain from eating solid food for 2 weeks which also sucked.

Broken bones. Though the cracked rib in my 30’s was considerably more painful than the fracture in my wrist as a teen.

Had my inflamed taint cut open. Not fun.

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