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What's the most physically painful thing you've experienced in your life?

313 sats \ 30 comments \ @Aardvark 7 Mar AskSN

Hemorrhoidectomy for me, and by a large margin. Nothing worse than surgery right on the anus.

I wrote about it in #454525 👀

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 8 Mar

I'm right on that razors edge of deciding on if I should comment on the absolute horror of that story, and tell you that I'm happy you're OK now, OR if I should jokingly comment about the poor lady who got locked out of her apartment, and how I'll never know if she got back in. So I decided on a bit of both.

Seriously though, that sounds pretty traumatic. Hopefully you don't have any lingering pain or health issues.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 8 Mar

Did you ever make a part 3???

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 8 Mar

Ulcer and gastritis in 2018 and on and off for the next 6 years

I also threw my back out twice in 2023. Not painful but I couldn’t move my arms or legs or stand

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 8 Mar

Yikes.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @emmanuelrosa 8 Mar

Riding all the way around a mountain in Chiang Mai (Thailand), on a bicycle. I thought my heart was going to explode. I ran out of water, so was running on fumes until I spotted a restaurant. It took me three days to complete the challenge; I stayed overnight.

52 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby 7 Mar

Herniated disc in my back a few years ago and fractured my elbow around 15 years ago. Neither were fun. I am not sure what was worse. Herniated disc was definitely painful for longer. I had to walk with a cane for 2 weeks or I was immobile. Elbow was ok after a few days. It hurt but was just a constant dull ache.

40 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark OP 7 Mar

Back pain is hell. I've had a few minor injuries, but nothing like that.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby 7 Mar

Not fun unless you like laying on the couch for days watching Netflix. I am sure laying on the lumpy couch wasn’t great for the healing process. Haha

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 7 Mar

I actually do.

42 sats \ 3 replies \ @denlillaapan 7 Mar

Physical/emotional divide isn't -that_ clear... And I never broke a bone or hurt myself prooooperly — sooo imma say breakup anyways!

28 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark OP 7 Mar

I'm sorry man, I never meant to hurt you, it's just that it would have never worked out between us... My father would have never let us be together, I had to leave you, for your own safety. I'll always remember our summer in Rome, xoxo.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @denlillaapan 7 Mar

It's ok, love; I forgive you

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 7 Mar

Thank you. You have no idea what that means to me.

52 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 7 Mar

They don't put you under for that?

Most painful for me was gout. The pain was so bad I couldn't walk

30 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark OP 7 Mar

They put me under. The problem was that eventually you have to shit. The recovery was hell on earth.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @SimpleStacker 7 Mar

Ouch

60 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 7 Mar

Ouch indeed. Opioids make you constipated so I was terrified of taking the pain medication.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @TNStacker 8 Mar

Thoracotomy for lung surgery

Until I had the prostate procedure with steam vapor with local anesthesia only.

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter 7 Mar

I had a life threatening accident in 1997 and had my left leg's bone broken completely from 3 places. And also my left side of forehead was severely fractured. However surprisingly I didn't go unconscious and felt the severest pain of my life from my broken bones rubbing to each other while I was taken to the hospital which was 20 kms away.

20 sats \ 1 reply \ @Aardvark OP 7 Mar

Shiiiiiit. That sounds bad.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 7 Mar

I had a plaster on the leg for four months and had to go 3 surgeries within 7 days.

The side forehead right next to my left eye was completely damaged and there were stitches everywhere, above my ear, on my eyelids - up and down both.

For nearly two years I couldn't even face the sunlight for longer durations. For proper walking, it took me around a year.

Although I now feel the doctors did a wonderful job because without giving a serious look to my face you can't even know that there are stitches.

I still get horrified when I remember that evening because those drunk men ran over the scooter on me in front of my eyes and left it on my little leg.

42 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 7 Mar

Pancreatitis. There isn't even a close second.

36 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark OP 7 Mar

I hear that one is nasty! Sorry to hear it papa siggy.

42 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 7 Mar

Hemorrhoid surgery doesn't seem like a walk in the park either. I think I'll keep mine.

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Aardvark OP 7 Mar

It's the recovery that gets ya...

I was getting them really bad, to the point where I really had to do something about it. If you can live with them, don't do the surgery.

52 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bitcoiner1 7 Mar

I had shingles some years ago, I still remember the pain.

It was as someone stabbed me with a electric needle in the back every now and then.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @j7hB75 8 Mar

Though not as bad, a long time ago I fell ill with chicken pox when I was 21. Apparently I never got vaccinated as a child. That was one of the most agonizing experiences. Being covered in itchy pustules not being able to sooth the itching was torture.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @senf 7 Mar

Some tooth problems that required root canals... Orajel doesn't charge enough, I would have given them all my money.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @aljaz 7 Mar

existence as a slave of a nation state.