Oww that hurts.

[notoppings]

I can't decide which hurts more stubbing my toe, or a tooth ache. On the one hand the toe's pain sharp and surprising, can be eliminated by grasping toe firmly and hopping around until said pain is under control. The tooth on the other hand can be a lingering pain that takes Ambisol or a trip to the Dentist.

All this prattle is just to find out what has been your most memorable pain. So speak up and tell all, did/do you bite your lip? break an arm? fall off a bike?

Is pain something you handle well? Can you stand to see someone else get hurt? Do you have a low threshold for pain or a high tolerance?

I can't really remember any specific pain. I don't know if that is because my brain has compartmentalized it, so I don't recall. Or if all the hurts that I've had
is of the same level. I've been shot and stabbed and have broken my arm.

If I had to choose one pain that stands out I would have to say it is bitting down on a piece of foil that happened to contact one of my fillings, the jolt was tremendous. I don;t know what causes that, has anyone ever had that happen to them?. Other then that, the winner for pain would be stubbing my unprotected toe in the middle of the night, it's just so unexpected.

[Arcani]

I guess I have a fairly high threshold for pain. I'm kind of addicted to dull, achy pains (i.e. the day after a heavy workout). I actually feel like somethings wrong when I'm not aching, athletes will probably understand this sentiment best. Sharp pains and stings I can tolerate for the most part but I hate them. Temperature based pains (burning or freezing) are the worst, I have no tolerance in this department.

Most memorable pains... one was after a minor surgery when I had to pull the gauze out of the wound. The other was when I broke my toe (I kicked a coffee table and the table won) I will say that my toe turned an awesome shade of purple though.

I have an aversion to taking medication that isn't prescribed and necessary, so I've learned to accept pain and get past it (I didn't even take a pain reliever when I broke my toe, forget about it for headaches or allergies)

[curiousjane]

Was walking my dog; she started to run, I ran too, and landed the wrong way on my right foot in my sandal, which twisted my foot sideways and forced me down. I heard a distinct POP sound and sunk to the ground. Thought it was my ankle, but no, I could move my ankle, and could walk around (painfully) on the heel of my foot.

I iced it that night and figured I'd sprained something and would be okay in the morning.

I was NOT okay in the morning. I could barely hobble from one end of the living room to the other. So I went to an urgent care facility and told the nurse practitioner that I felt like a wuss, because inevitably whenever something feels wrong, I'm just fine. I was so sure that the visit was just a precautionary measure and she'd send me home with pain killers and an Ace bandage. Of course, she asked the pain question—how bad, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst pain you can imagine?

Well, being burned alive, exploded, run over by a train, and eaten by a tiger rates pretty much a 10 in my book. So I said, like 4? I mean, it hurt ... but ...

She had them x-ray my foot. And when the film had developed she came in to the examination room and said, "Come here; you need to see this." I hopped behind her into the hall and stared at a very obviously cracked bone near the center of my foot.

"You fractured the 5th metatarsal in your right foot," she told me. "Pretty badly. See this line? See how close it is to the edge of the bone? If it had broken any more, you would have had a piece floating around inside your foot and would have required surgery to fix that." She turned to stare me down. "You aren't a wuss," she said. "You are in a lot of pain."

Oh. :stunned:

Plus side: spending 2-3 months in a walking boot, crutches, etc. is a GREAT way to break the ice at the new job.

[notoppings]

Was walking my dog; she started to run, I ran too, and landed the wrong way on my right foot in my sandal, which twisted my foot sideways and forced me down. I heard a distinct POP sound and sunk to the ground. Thought it was my ankle, but no, I could move my ankle, and could walk around (painfully) on the heel of my foot.

I iced it that night and figured I'd sprained something and would be okay in the morning.

I was NOT okay in the morning. I could barely hobble from one end of the living room to the other. So I went to an urgent care facility and told the nurse practitioner that I felt like a wuss, because inevitably whenever something feels wrong, I'm just fine. I was so sure that the visit was just a precautionary measure and she'd send me home with pain killers and an Ace bandage. Of course, she asked the pain question—how bad, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the worst pain you can imagine?

Well, being burned alive, exploded, run over by a train, and eaten by a tiger rates pretty much a 10 in my book. So I said, like 4? I mean, it hurt ... but ...

She had them x-ray my foot. And when the film had developed she came in to the examination room and said, "Come here; you need to see this." I hopped behind her into the hall and stared at a very obviously cracked bone near the center of my foot.

"You fractured the 5th metatarsal in your right foot," she told me. "Pretty badly. See this line? See how close it is to the edge of the bone? If it had broken any more, you would have had a piece floating around inside your foot and would have required surgery to fix that." She turned to stare me down. "You aren't a wuss," she said. "You are in a lot of pain."

Oh. :stunned:

Plus side: spending 2-3 months in a walking boot, crutches, etc. is a GREAT way to break the ice at the new job.

God that sounds worst then anything I've felt, or want to feel.

[Solaris]

Pinched my sciatic nerve. I have a very high tolerance for pain (anyone who has seen my tattoos, thrown me around in my martial arts class, or rock climbed with me knows this), but that was just terrible and I wish never to repeat it.

Like Arcani, I love the workout soreness of the next day or two after a tough workout. I've been sad lately because I have been unable to induce it much. So, I've started some new, more insane workouts.

I dislocated the top knuckle of my pinky once. That really sucked, but it was surprising more than unbearably painful.

[emanon]

CJ's broken foot is above my foot pains on the pain scale for sure. I've had just about every foot problem possible except for a break and plantar fasciitis. My most memorable of those is from just last fall when I had the incredibly brilliant notion to speed walk around downtown San Antonio in flip-flops. Well, actually the flip-flops were the only part that were my idea. My friend was bound and determined to see as many of her old haunts as she could in as short a time as possible, and she had gone all emotional on me when I tried to slow her down the previous night so instead of telling her I needed to slow down because I had picked crummy shoes, I just kept trying to keep up with her as the pain kept mounting. By the end of the day, I could barely walk. When I got home, I went to the doctor who put me on crutches for 10 days. We determined it was a tendon injury. It was two months before I could wear flat shoes again. I pretty much wore out my favorite boots this past winter because for several weeks 1.5-inch heels were the only thing that didn't make the tendons pull funny.

[PHS Philip]

Hm...well, there was the time I scraped most of the skin off my chin and knocked 2 front teeth out. Or the time I had to get stitches when I was 5 (I don't remember it, but apparently I didn't cry or anything). Or the time when I was 7 that I had to have the skin by my eye glued/stitched back together (if it had been an inch to the left I would have squashed my eyeball...). Oh, and the one time where the cartilage in my knee joint was messed up so I spent a month with pretty much bone on bone before I went to the doctor (also around age 7). And perhaps my arch problems (REALLY bad ones, to the point where I couldn't run a mile without my feet feeling like they were on fire) from running a year of hard track without realizing I needed inserts. I've got scars from sports and stuff, but these are the worst.

Never broken anything though ;D

[Double Victory]

CJ's broken foot is above my foot pains on the pain scale for sure. I've had just about every foot problem possible except for a break and plantar fasciitis. My most memorable of those is from just last fall when I had the incredibly brilliant notion to speed walk around downtown San Antonio in flip-flops. Well, actually the flip-flops were the only part that were my idea. My friend was bound and determined to see as many of her old haunts as she could in as short a time as possible, and she had gone all emotional on me when I tried to slow her down the previous night so instead of telling her I needed to slow down because I had picked crummy shoes, I just kept trying to keep up with her as the pain kept mounting. By the end of the day, I could barely walk. When I got home, I went to the doctor who put me on crutches for 10 days. We determined it was a tendon injury. It was two months before I could wear flat shoes again. I pretty much wore out my favorite boots this past winter because for several weeks 1.5-inch heels were the only thing that didn't make the tendons pull funny.

See, I would be exactly the opposite. I get blisters when I wear anything other than flip-flops. Most of this past quarter at school I've had duck tape on my feet to keep bandages sticking to various parts of my feet, because I had to wear gym shoes, boots, and dress shoes for AFROTC.

The worst pain I've ever been in? I went on a poker run with my dad once (where you ride around on a motorcycle all day and get a poker hand at the end of it--best hand wins something), and I wore a spaghetti strap shirt. It was cloudy out, but I should have known better. I am a redhead, so stick me out in the sun for fifteen minutes and I'm guaranteed to burn. After riding around for just a couple hours outside, I ended up with second degree burns on my shoulders, chest, and back.

It was awful trying to lay down because the burns were all the way around me, so there was no position that I could lay in to get relief. And I can tell you that watching my skin bubble is one of the least pleasant experiences of my life.

[Lagawrd]

I agree with Arcani, i enjoy soars/pains you get after working out. Applying pressure to the spots feels very good.

I am a very careful person, so i do not get into much accidents, but I have had my share of pain. Since I am a gymnast and a Muay Thai practiotioner, you can guess what might have happened, but I have never broken a single bone.

There were three main pains I had to endure. In Muay Thai I had to toughen my shins to block kicks with them. The whole process of toughening them up was dreadful since I had to whack them repeatedly. The pain was terrible, shins are very sensitive. Another one was being knocked out in a fight in my training gym. When that happened, i saw a flash of light and fell to the floor. When i become conscious again which was almost instantly, my head was pounding tremendously. Both of these pains were pretty helpful later on, because now it takes alot to knock me out, and I can block almost any kick from a bigger person.

However, the third pain was the worst, because it immobilized me from doing alot of things. When I was younger and learning a simple backflip, I did a mistake and landed on my neck. Thats the fear that everyone gets when wanting to learn a backflip... and it happened to me. My neck was in pain for a month or so, i was not able to rotate it, sleep comfortably, or do any athletic movements. However, everything is all good now. I am alot more tolerant of pain, and not many things will hurt me anymore.

[ElstonGunn]

I'd have to go with ballshots. I can't think of any other pain that can make a person vomit. I've seen it happen.

Speaking of badass foot injuries, my brother was telling me about how a guy he works with went out jogging once and when he got home, it foot hurt. When he took off his shoe, his sock had a bunch of blood on it. He figured he popped a blister or something, so he pretty much just cleaned up and went about his business. Then the next day, there was more blood. A few days later, he went to the doctor and they pulled a big shard of glass out of his foot. It didn't just cut him, it had worked its way inside of his foot. That's why he didn't notice it when he first checked his foot.

[curiousjane]

I'd have to go with ballshots. I can't think of any other pain that can make a person vomit. I've seen it happen.

Speaking of badass foot injuries, my brother was telling me about how a guy he works with went out jogging once and when he got home, it foot hurt. When he took off his shoe, his sock had a bunch of blood on it. He figured he popped a blister or something, so he pretty much just cleaned up and went about his business. Then the next day, there was more blood. A few days later, he went to the doctor and they pulled a big shard of glass out of his foot. It didn't just cut him, it had worked its way inside of his foot. That's why he didn't notice it when he first checked his foot.

*shivers*

Wow. That's ... awful.

[SeaCzar]

I have almost no threshold for pain. One hangnail, and I'm reaching for the dilaudid. Soreness after a tough workout is something I do not really feel as pain. It actually feels pretty good, as long as I haven't pulled something.

I am with ElstonGunn on the ballshots. Fortunately <knocks wood>, this has not happened in a long time.

[Arcani]

I am with ElstonGunn on the ballshots. Fortunately <knocks wood>, this has not happened in a long time.

Yeah, those are nasty, thankfully I've done a pretty good job of avoiding them.
A friend of mine actually paid off a $10 debt by letting someone kick him in the balls. He regretted that decision.