What physically feels the worst?

I had to get up and walk down the hallway within an hour of waking up from a major spine surgery. I swear I could feel the muscles that they'd stitched back together trying to tear themselves apart through the stitches

That was 20-odd years ago; I look forward to never repeating that.

This thread is terrifying, I am leaving now.

Back spasms and kidney stones.

The urologist feeding this 8mm camera tube through my penis for a bladder endoscopy and taking his time to explore all the nooks and crannies was slightly uncomfortable.

Skull decompression. I had to have a cage or something like that screwed to my skull for a gamma knife operation to kill a brain tumour. I had to keep my head completely still for over an hour, so they screwed the cage to my skull, and then to the table itself. The skull gets a bit compressed and I really felt the pressure, but it didn't hurt that much and I got used to it pretty fast. The worst part is when they take it off and your skull decompresses. Worse than a migraine.

I'm struggling to top a burst appendix.

Migraine. I've broken bones, had unmedicated childbirth, nothing has ever hurt as much or as disgustingly as a migraine.

Other than that, any pain to do with fingernails or toenails sqiucks me out, I would cave under torture.

I had an air bubble in my brain and an orbital floor fracture (and I shattered my sphenoid) after a bike accident. when I moved, I could both hear and feel the trickle of air moving around in my own brain. it didn't really hurt (or if it did I was in enough other pain not to notice) but it was one of the oddest sensations ever.

wear helmets y'all.

Amputation pain is right up there, followed closely in the long term by phantom pain.
Then nausea.
Then tinnitus.

A large part of why they're the worst for me is that you can't do anything about them.

A kidney biopsy tool, except the person who's supposed to get the sample keeps missing and the local anesthetic (lidocaine) is wearing off

The scars still emit pain, and the biopsy sites (I got stabbed with that thing 5 times) hurt more than the actual transplant surgery site itself.

Other than that, cancer if the tumors grow in the right spot.

As someone else said, gout. Definitely gout. In particular, severe gout caused by dehydration from food poisoning.

A 14 gauge needle being stuck all the way through and past your fistula for dialysis. Here's size comparisons:

Note: 14 is 2 sizes bigger than 16.

For non painful things, I'd say a bone biopsy ( this is assuming they gave you the good stuff for pain ). There's something that feels very wrong of feeling your bones being punctured, scraped from the inside, and popped like a champagne bottle.

Squishing a big roach with your barefoot when you didn't know one was hiding in your shoe.

Getting food poisoning from shellfish specifically.

Walking through flood waters, seeing a water moccasin, but not knowing where it is or went.

Thalassophobia.

Kidney stone by far.

In the ER, 2 doses of Morphine had exactly 0% relief. I got Ketamine next and finally got relief.

I did get gout once. I can only describe it as walking on shards of glass while on fire. It was a tolerable pain while not walking, but it was excruciating while on my feet.

2 AM, you desperately run to the bathroom just in time for a heinous crap.

You finish up, go back to bed, roll over on your side and hear/feel your gut go:

"Whuuuurrroooggglllleeee."

GOD-DAMN IT!

anything hitting your shin

A broken wisdom tooth rubbing against a nerve - would not recommend.

Chronically, kidney stones followed by gall bladder stones. Acutely, cramp anywhere in the leg.

Oh you sweet summer child

Nausea, at least, personally. It's worse than pain.

I once broke and dislocated my shoulder, and having a broken arm jammed back into a dislocated shoulder was bad enough to induce a blackout.

But other than that, getting kicked in the nuts.

I don't have it but I'm going to say Parkinson's.

I got put on some medication a number of years ago and one of the common side effects was tremors that "can affect the hands and arms and may also involve the lower limbs, tongue, or voice".

I'm not much of a crier but it got to a point where I was shaking so bad I had a hard time feeding myself and I broke down over it. I cannot even begin to imagine having to live with that forever. I barely managed a month.

Getting an apadravya piercing. Pain level was 11/10 for about 3 seconds. I learned a new level of pain that day.

For those who don't want to do any searching for what an "adadravya" is: ::: spoiler spoiler it's a body piercing that goes vertically through the head of a penis. :::

Giving birth.

Mains power went through my face. It felt like every tooth had a serious toothache for a while.

As a teen my appendix ruptured and it took my mother another 4 days to realize I should see a doctor. Sometime around day 2 I was barely able to stand it was agonizing but I still remember it as not as bad as the pain of my eardrums popping from an ear infection a few years later. Ears are the worst IMHO

A spinal tap was quite unpleasant. I could feel the needle grinding around in my spinal cord. 0/10

Bullet Ant bite. People have killed themself to make it stop. It locks your pain receptors to the on position and doesn't allow them to turn off.

Probably pancreatic cancer.

When your left ovary grows a cyst and in 24 hours it is pushed all the way to your right side and dies in the process.

Child birth without pain killers is a warm summer breeze compared to that.

Fucking wait and see…

Once watched a dad drop his newborn by accident and he did the thing where he fumbled for it and yanked the leg out of the socket

Being forced to walk on a leg that has fallen asleep.

Gout.

Imagine glass powder in-between your joints. 😬😬😬

Ah yes, getting in touch with your inner self.

I once got to Sweet Frog 5 minutes after they closed. That was pretty bad.

Pain wise, dislocating my shoulder, elbow/top of foot/chest tattoos were about tied for about 9 on the scale.

Being sea sick is a misery I only wish on a select few.

Arch cramp or Charlie horse in the middle of the night is a personal hell.

Post surgery abdominal air bubble.

You just have to wait until it absorbs.

Oh well, a lumbar puncture was quite horrible. Especially since it took a lot of tries to get through correctly.

The worst painless feeling I've had was after a nose surgery. Pulling the massive tampons out felt my head being ripped off but that wasnt too bad. It was getting some soaked cloth shoved back up towards my brain that made me see the light for a few moments.

Being awake for WAAAAY too long and you still have a few more hours until you can go to sleep.

Toothache. Most general pain I can just tolerate until it goes away. But I become completely useless with a toothache. I’m not productive and I’m irritable. I grab a painkiller as soon as I can.

This one just recently as I’m getting older: lower back pain. Getting up after sitting down for a while in an awkward position and the pain is so bad that I literally collapse into a squatting position with my hands on the ground until I can slowly get up again.

If we're talking about unpleasant sensations, there's one I get that makes me feel nauseous that I can only describe as being like a smooth grooved surface with unwanted lumps in it and I'm travelling and lurching over it in some unseen dimension. (I've actually met at least one other person who described this without me mentioning it first, so it might be somewhat common. I have no idea.)

I was watching a Let's Play video of a video game the other day and the texture for the water's surface in-game somehow reminded me of it, and it made the video hard to watch.

If we're talking about actual pain, I've had food-related (possibly also medication-related) stomach pain that had me curled in a ball thinking I was going to die and then thinking that might not actually be such a bad idea because then the pain would stop.

I now assume that that must be similar to what some people go through with period cramps. No way I'd want to do that once a month. The handful of times it happened to me was more than enough.

Honourable mention: The weird sting and sensation that isn't actually a smell but is somehow in my nose if I accidentally touch a hidden juvenile thistle in a lawn. Those things are prickly monsters that are just a shade bluer than grass and you often don't see them until you've put your hand on one. Other sharp pains sometimes trigger that "smell" as well. I always associate it with the colour of those thistle leaves though.

I've got a weird issue with the soles of my feet. I'm not ticklish at all, but the soles of my feet react as if the nerves are turned up to 11. It's only for light touches though, I can walk around barefooted with no problems, even on rough surfaces.

If someone touches my feet it's a sensory overload that lasts for a while afterwards. It's a weird combination of light tickling and burning, and feels like there's something stuck to the bottom of my foot for a minute or two after the touch stops. The really weird part is, I can tickle my own feet, but apparently you're not supposed to be able to tickle yourself 🤷🏻‍♂️

Chewing on styrofoam

My worst is kidney hydronephrosis. Felt like dying from a knife in my side and then every minute or so someone twisted the knife.

Worst pain in my life physically was appendicitis. It set a new high bar.

Mentally? Hurts too much to talk about.

pancreatitis. It felt like someone stabbing me in the side with a dull knife made of burning glass.

Most discomfort I ever felt was when I had to have an endoscope put down my nose. They didn't tell me I had to inhale the local anaesthetic so I felt the endoscope scraping against the back of my mouth and throat. I've sniffed the spray every time since!

I got my tongue split in 2017 so uhh healing that is definitely up there. You basically have the worst sore throat of your life, can't talk, can't stop drooling, and can only "eat" smoothies by pouring them directly into your mouth.

Gallstones. When it's a really bad attack it's probably the closest thing to an alien hatching from your stomach.

You're scraping too hard.

Eating without YouTube 😒🚬