17 People Share the Worst Physical Pain They've Ever Experienced

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Eric Lund
Jan 9, 2019 1:00 PM EST

You can still get out now if you want to. A lot of these are pretty off-putting. Shattered bones, exposed intestines and general misery. Just saying. If you wanna read something lighter we've got this pretty funny thread about an incompetent intern.

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  • 01
    Text - ForgettableUsername 24.7k points 14 hours ago When I was 16, my appendix burst at summer camp and I went without medical treatment for three days. The camp nurse told me I had altitude sickness, and the adult volunteers didn't recognize that it was an emergency when I had stomach pains so bad I couldn't walk and told me to drink lemon soda. It wasn't just regular appendicitis, the appendix actually burst and my body apparently "walled off" the infection stopping me from getting septicemia
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    Text - 14 hours ago MayorOfChedda 590 points In a wrestling accident, I had a bone breach out of the tip on my finger & thereby pushing my fingernail straight off. Maybe there wasn't enough novocaine, but when that was pushed back in place....holy hot hell
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    Text - thewaybaseballgo 19.5k points 13 hours ago Was moving a couch for a then girlfriend that was weak as hell. She couldn't hold her end whole going up some metal stairs at her apartment. The couch fell on me and I tumbled down the stairs with it bouncing on top of me. L4/L5 and L5/S1 injury with tearing along the discs. 10/10 pain and I lost the ability to walk for several days Also, it turns out that she was a lesbian.
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    Text - zdk52 10.0k points 15 hours ago edited 33 minutes ago Was riding on the hood of a riding lawn mower when I was six years old. My shoelace was untied and rolled under the wheel pulling my foot under with it. It cuts off both my two first toes. And half the side of my foot. Skin grafts and 30 staples are what fixed me. The toes were turned into mush so there was no way of saving them.
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    Text - ditto5333 16.2k points 14 hours ago When I was in high school, I put my contacts in the wrong solution and essentially soaked my eyes in hydrogen peroxide. I thought that the pain would go away eventually and that I could muscle through it, so I went to go pick up a friend. By the time we got to her home, my eyes had swelled shut, so we had to go to Urgent Care for the doctors to numb my eyes enough for me to stick my fingers beneath my eyelids and take out the contacts. I couldn't open m
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    Text - aub00 13.4k points 14 hours ago Had bronchitis while I had three broken ribs. I still remember laying in bed at night trying to sleep and being just plain miserable.
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    Text - jenmar1e 30.1k points 14 hours ago broke my wrist at a 45 degree angle. Setting it was the worst pain I've ever experienced. They put my fingers in a little Chinese finger trap thing with weights on my bicep. I had to pull as hard as I could to set the bone back in place. Felt like I was going to pass out, throw up and shit myself all at once
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    Text - edited1 hour ago CrimesAgainstYoga 11.0k points13 hours ago Meningitis. Think the worst cluster headache that lasts for weeks, and every step jolts it so hard you puke so you can't walk. Any sort of light makes you puke. And the painkillers barely take the edge off. Your bones ache, your joints throb, you can't sleep, eat, but you can't watch any screens or read... basically you get to lay there trying not to move. I didn't even close my eyes to sleep a couple nights because I was convinc
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    Text - Uncletouchysfunzone 721 points 13 hours ago Getting a shot in the bottom of both feet for plantar fasciitis... the shot it self didn't hurt, the dr slides the needle up and down looking for the spot. I honest to god saw stars when he hit it, if I could have reached him while laying down I'd have beat him to death. The next two days felt like walking on legos
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    Text - GenericalToast 10.1k points 14 hours ago I got key hole surgery to have my appendix removed when I was about 12, all was going well and everything apart from pain in my stomach, which was why my appendix was removed Turns out I had an abscess bellow my belly button somewhere, and it started pushing on my intestines, it burst my scar open and pushed part of my intestines our of my stomach. When I got to hospital I was in agony, I've never felt anything like it, and one of the junior doctor
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    Text - Zandia47 315 points 12 hours ago Cold water accidentally being injected below my eye socket during a root canal. Apparently the root didn't end, but rather lead to one of the empty cavities in my face. Which I found out later is extremely rare. My face swelled up to twice it size, I looked like the elephant man. It took a month for it to return to normal. I don't remember it happening The doctor said Tm just going to clean out this last root and... The next thing I remember is holding the
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    Text - CozySlum 9.8k points 14 hours ago The nerve pain from shingles. The open sores inched, burned, and ached but it was nothing compared to the stabbing pain from the nerve bundle.
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    Text - edited 2 hours ago Witty217 9.0k points 14 hours ago Dragging my hand across a shitty wooden table fast enough to lodge a huge piece of wood under my fingernail that went all the way to the end of the nail bed. Had to take public transit to an urgent care to get it removed. Two hours of hell right there til the lidocaine hit.
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    Text - 14 hours ago MrAngryMoose 7.8k points Testicular Torsion had me on the floor crying
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    Text - iskin 4.9k points 13 hours ago Nerve pain. I pinched a nerve in my back. You may have experienced a lighter version with a tooth while at the dentist. That is about the closest I felt before but that is much more temporary. It sits in the back of your brain just eating away at your sanity. Painkillers don't kill it but can get you so high that you care less. You may have a position that doesn't trigger the pain. If you're lucky you can be comfortable in that position. If not you'll end up
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    Text - edited 6 hours ago CellardoorWatercress 4.8k points 14 hours ago Kidney stones. Feels like someone slowly inserting a red hot fire poker in your back. Worst pain I have ever felt, by far.
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    Text - pancakesandthings 719 points 13 hours ago I've broken bones and had a non functioning gall bladder. Nothing compares to the pain and cramping I experienced after drinking an herbal laxative tea. I legit thought I was dying
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