Worst pain of your life...uncensored.

[Exhibitman]

Add torn ribcage cartilage to the list. I will never, ever again make fun of a ballplayer for going on the DL with a rib issue. I was working out and felt this sort of electric shockwave of pain across my back. I thought it was a spasm since it was a yoga posture, so I went for chiropractic treatment. The chiro sucked. Didn't listen to my symptoms. He twisted me, the cartilage really tore, and it was just agony.

For weeks, it was knee-buckling pain, the sort that just drops you in your tracks, whenever I tweaked it. I had to sleep leaning on a 60-degree foam wedge, which is like sleeping on an airplane. I was gradually able to go back to a flat position. Took several months to heal.

[todeen]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Add torn ribcage cartilage to the list. I will never, ever again make fun of a ballplayer for going on the DL with a rib issue. I was working out and felt this sort of electric shockwave of pain across my back. I thought it was a spasm since it was a yoga posture, so I went for chiropractic treatment. The chiro sucked. Didn't listen to my symptoms. He twisted me, the cartilage really tore, and it was just agony.



For weeks, it was knee-buckling pain, the sort that just drops you in your tracks, whenever I tweaked it. I had to sleep leaning on a 60-degree foam wedge, which is like sleeping on an airplane. I was gradually able to go back to a flat position. Took several months to heal.

Wow! way to go reviving a dead thread!

In April 2020 (34 yo), due to Crohns Disease, my small intestine ruptured while I was out on a walk. I vomited and then my body was on fire. This was the closest I've ever been to crawling home. I would walk 100+ feet and then stop for rest. I got home and told my wife to call 911(9 PM). My wife asked me if she could drive me herself. I told her no, something was very very wrong. I lost control of my bowels and sat on the toilet. Paramedics arrive and find me on the toilet (embarassing), and they tell me I'm hyperventilating and I should breathe deep (infuriating) and I kept telling them I have Crohns, this is Crohns related. I get to the hospital and my stomach muscles are at full flex, and feel like that for a long time. I keep asking for muscle relaxers. MRI shows a vitamin is stuck in my intestine and they are gonna give me steroids to push it through (5 AM). At 9 AM the muscle relaxers are working and I feel fine! I'm up and walking around the hospital wing. new Dr's arrive and tell me they misdiagnosed me and my small intestine has ruptured and giving me steroids was a poor decision. They shoved a NG tube down my nose to pump my stomach. I was life flighted to Seattle Swedish Hospital and they cut out 5 ft of intestines.

My new Crohns specialist told me she would never believe a word I said about my stomach ills, because my pain tolerance was too high if muscle relaxers were all that I needed to feel good again after my guts exploded. So now my consequence is lots of colonoscopies.

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[bnorth]

Each of the times I had kidney stones was extremely painful. I caught a full power side kick square ribs and cracked three of them. That hurt after all the adrenaline left. What really hurt was about week later when I sneezed and re cracked them. I laid on the ground for a while after that sneeze.

[Rad_Hazard]

I'd say the worst pain I've ever had is a recurring one. I used to work at UPS back in the day as a loader and it was the end of the night and a long piece of metal that was boxed up came down the belt, it was about 12 feet long and weighed about 200 lbs. We are taught to test the weight of heavy packages so I loosely grabbed one end and it fell directly on the tip of my ring finger on my left hand. Immediate pain. Loaded the f***** thing and went home.

My finger swelled and I went to one of those urgent care places the next day. They drilled a hole in my nail to relieve the pressure and did an x-ray. My fingertip bone had cracked almost in two, split down the middle. Unfortunately there isn't anything they can do for that so I was sent home with some pain meds, which I didn't take, and it healed over time. Unfortunately the nerve healed funny and now when it gets to be about 30 degrees F or colder, if I even brush that finger against something I feel intense pain for about a minute.

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by Rad_Hazard

I'd say the worst pain I've ever had is a recurring one. I used to work at UPS back in the day as a loader and it was the end of the night and a long piece of metal that was boxed up came down the belt, it was about 12 feet long and weighed about 200 lbs. We are taught to test the weight of heavy packages so I loosely grabbed one end and it fell directly on the tip of my ring finger on my left hand. Immediate pain. Loaded the f***** thing and went home.

My finger swelled and I went to one of those urgent care places the next day. They drilled a hole in my nail to relieve the pressure and did an x-ray. My fingertip bone had cracked almost in two, split down the middle. Unfortunately there isn't anything they can do for that so I was sent home with some pain meds, which I didn't take, and it healed over time. Unfortunately the nerve healed funny and now when it gets to be about 30 degrees F or colder, if I even brush that finger against something I feel intense pain for about a minute.

OUCH, my brother done that to his middle finger. It happened on PE class in school when catching a not so soft softball. It hit the end of his finger and it broke the bone on the end of his finger.

He was a really good second baseman and had a good bat. After that he had to quit playing baseball because he had no feeling in his finger and could no longer throw a baseball. He could throw but couldn't hit the side of the barn standing next to it.

[butchie_t]

Don't ever get shingles. That is all.......

[edtiques]

I had kidney stones that were surgically removed because they were too big to pass. They then put a stent inside me that was about 16 inches long for 2 weeks. It hurt pretty good going to the bathroom for the first 4-5 days. It felt like someone was kicking me when I urinated and I had to go all the time.

I also had gout which was quite painful.

Like Mick Jagger says "What a drag it is getting old".

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by butchie_t

Don't ever get shingles. That is all.......

Yes, how did I forget about shingles, that was a horrible week of being almost completely covered with little blisters on my right side from spine to center of chest.

For me they started as a really uncomfortable lump beside my spine for a few days. Then on Friday morning I started getting little blisters. By Friday night my right side was almost covered with them. Then I figured out what was wrong and couldn't see a doctor untill Monday morning.

[frankbmd]

Traveling by auto from west to east, I developed epididymitis somewhere in Idaho or Wyoming. Mount Rushmore was on my wife's bucket list so not stopping there was not an option. While recumbent on a bench looking up at Mt. Rushmore, I realized that my testicles were larger than George Washington's. I was afraid to see a medicine man in western South Dakota, who might think when in doubt cut it out, so I didn't get treated until finishing the trip in Wisconsin. Antibiotics provided welcomed relief.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by frankbmd

Traveling by auto from west to east, I developed epididymitis somewhere in Idaho or Wyoming. Mount Rushmore was on my wife's bucket list so not stopping there was not an option. While recumbent on a bench looking up at Mt. Rushmore, I realized that my testicles were larger than George Washington's. I was afraid to see a medicine man in western South Dakota, who might think when in doubt cut it out, so I didn't get treated until finishing the trip in Wisconsin. Antibiotics provided welcomed relief.

Right, there are no licensed physicians in South Dakota, or between South Dakota and Wisconsin. Uh, ok. This doth not add up.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Rad_Hazard

I'd say the worst pain I've ever had is a recurring one. I used to work at UPS back in the day as a loader and it was the end of the night and a long piece of metal that was boxed up came down the belt, it was about 12 feet long and weighed about 200 lbs. We are taught to test the weight of heavy packages so I loosely grabbed one end and it fell directly on the tip of my ring finger on my left hand. Immediate pain. Loaded the f***** thing and went home.

My finger swelled and I went to one of those urgent care places the next day. They drilled a hole in my nail to relieve the pressure and did an x-ray. My fingertip bone had cracked almost in two, split down the middle. Unfortunately there isn't anything they can do for that so I was sent home with some pain meds, which I didn't take, and it healed over time. Unfortunately the nerve healed funny and now when it gets to be about 30 degrees F or colder, if I even brush that finger against something I feel intense pain for about a minute.

Worked that job for several years in my younger days. Surprised I never got hurt very seriously. Used to work both the weak and strong sides of the pick-off sorting packages into large trailer trucks.

Working the "weak" side meant you had to help out loading trucks, and when the strong side pick-off got busy he'd call for help and you had to jump out of your truck, run across the floor, run to a ladder and scurry about 25 feet straight up to your pick-off perch, directly across from the strong side pick.

Couldn't count the times I "almost" fell off the ladder, or was "almost" smashed by a package falling from the 25 foot high belt onto the floor below. Don't even think I even registered what I was doing was even the slightest bit dangerous at the time.

Ah, to be young a dumb again.

Ironically, my very last day there was as a delivery driver years later and much more worn down, and it was one of those heavies on the belt that you mentioned in your post. Wrenched my back getting it in my truck on Christmas Eve morning. Went out and delivered the route with a wrecked back, came back in around 9pm that night, went to the walk-in clinic the day after Christmas when it didn't get any better, and decided I needed to find something else to do with my life, otherwise this was going to be a regular occurrence for me.

[Rad_Hazard]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

Worked that job for several years in my younger days. Surprised I never got hurt very seriously. Used to work both the weak and strong sides of the pick-off sorting packages into large trailer trucks.

Working the "weak" side meant you had to help out loading trucks, and when the strong side pick-off got busy he'd call for help and you had to jump out of your truck, run across the floor, run to a ladder and scurry about 25 feet straight up to your pick-off perch, directly across from the strong side pick.

Couldn't count the times I "almost" fell off the ladder, or was "almost" smashed by a package falling from the 25 foot high belt onto the floor below. Don't even think I even registered what I was doing was even the slightest bit dangerous at the time.

Ah, to be young a dumb again.

Ironically, my very last day there was as a delivery driver years later and much more worn down, and it was one of those heavies on the belt that you mentioned in your post. Wrenched my back getting it in my truck on Christmas Eve morning. Went out and delivered the route with a wrecked back, came back in around 9pm that night, went to the walk-in clinic the day after Christmas when it didn't get any better, and decided I needed to find something else to do with my life, otherwise this was going to be a regular occurrence for me.

Oh yes! I'm sure we could exchange war stories from our UPS days. I worked as a loader and pick off for a year or so then got promoted to morning supervisor, then got my tech degree and never looked back. I did see a lot of drivers (and several other positions) go through some insane stuff over the years. It was good for me at that time since I was young and overweight, but it would destroy me now and not in a good way.