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.

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.

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.

Oh, it’s my time to shine! 😁

Some of this is quite gruesome, so don’t read it if you’re squeamish.

I’ve got a serious health issue that’s lead to lots of other health problems. As you can probably imagine, I’ve been in pain quite a few times.

Years ago, before I found out about my health issues, I’d been out drinking with friends, and one had taken his shiny new bmx with him. I thought it was a good idea to have a go, but promptly fell off and landed on my elbow. I took a deep gouge out of the side of the joint, and it wouldn’t heal properly. About a month later, at an outdoor music festival, some dipshit had rollerblades attached to his rucksack and managed to swing the whole thing into my elbow, bursting the wound open. That one hurt quite a bit.

I went to the dentist once with a cracked tooth. The dentist didn’t realise that it was infected, and tried to pull it out. They assumed that the anaesthetic wasn’t working, so gave me more and tried again. Four times. On the bright side, I went back to work afterwards, not realising that I was high as a kite 😆

Since I’ve been ill, I’ve had some interesting ones too.

I had a kidney biopsy that went wrong. A biopsy is taken by cutting a small hole above the kidney as you’re lying down, inserting a ‘gun’ that grabs a small piece of the kidney, then closing the hole. Because of the risk of bleeding, you have to lie still for eight hours. I’ve had a few biopsies, so after a few hours I knew something was wrong. My back and my lower abdomen were burning and in lots of pain, so I called the nurse. There was a feeling like I needed to pee really badly, like past the point of bursting, but I couldn’t, and it kept coming and going. Eventually I managed to go, but it was agonising, and I passed something solid. The doctor came and gave me a mild sedative and I was catheterised. It turned out that they nicked the kidney during the biopsy, and it bled into my bladder. My bladder was then blocked by blood clots that only had one way out.

My favourite one though was the ‘helpful’ doctor.

When I found out about my illness, it’s because I was in a seriously bad way. I had multiple organ failure, and was put into a coma. When I came out of the coma, I had several different lines going into my body where they had been giving me things like meds and fluids. One of the lines went into the right side of my neck but was due to be changed. This is where the helpful doctor came in.

He brought a colleague with him to show him how the procedure worked, so explained everything as he was doing it. He told the other doctor that changing the line is quite straightforward, and explained that you have the option to give the patient some anaesthetic injections to make it less painful. He then explained that as it’s mainly removing and replacing some stitches, giving the anaesthetic would actually mean giving more injections and needles than just doing the stitches directly, and would be more painful. Then proceeded to cut into my neck with a scalpel.

Apparently he’d forgotten that cutting would be more painful than a needle…

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.

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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.

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