Worst pain of your life...uncensored.

[Exhibitman]

Rectal surgery. Three days out, taking the maximum dose of vikes, I couldn't sit up for more than a few minutes. And using the toilet...looked like when Captain Kirk gets hit with the brain ray on Star Trek.

Honorable Mention: when the novocaine wore off during a vasectomy.

[Beatles Guy]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Honorable Mention: when the novocaine wore off during a vasectomy.

Don't tell me that, I'm due for that surgery this year.

[DHogan]

I have a bad history of small bowel obstructions. Ten times in the past 7 years. Three surgeries. Grown men do cry. The last time I spent 6 weeks after the surgery waiting and hoping my bowels would start working. Pain meds were good !

[CardboardCollector]

This thread is like an auto accident. I could not help but slow down and look.

[nebboy]

Last year I was told I have 5 kidney stones, I've only have 4 more to go now. YA for me something to look forward to.

[Cliff Bowman]

When the Seahawks screwed up at the one yard line because I would have won the Net54 Playoff Pool if they had scored. Seriously, I would have to go with the day before I had my appendix removed.

[frankbmd]

No PAIN
No GAIN
(for me)

I feel like I'm eavesdropping on my patients reading this thread.

[Jayworld]

March 23, 1999:

Playing tennis with a friend. Started my forehand swing at the baseline and it felt like someone was standing right behind me and hit the back of my lower right leg as hard as they could with a baseball bat. I heard an audible "POP."

Fell to the ground, took a look, and back of my leg from the ankle up was turning purple. Non-contact achilles tendon rupture injury. The worst part was walking on it to make it back to the car. Was "okay" until I tried to bend the foot inward in the regular "heel-toe" motion instead of walking stiff like Frankenstein's monster.

Surgery on March 25, the second worst pain was when all the meds wore off after my epidural. Yep, they did that for me and I was virtually dead from the waist down.

Vicodin would not even touch it. Had to take something called Talwin (sp?) that I was later told was an older medication (small pill). It was great, and made me not care for a while.

[drcy]

Not a pain story, but, as some know, I was in intensive care for 9 days last year. Before I was taken to the emergency room, I was so sick that I was projectile vomiting perhaps 15 times a day and literally couldn't read the text on a computer screen or in a magazine or the time on a clock.

[HappyJack41]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Rectal surgery. Three days out, taking the maximum dose of vikes, I couldn't sit up for more than a few minutes. And using the toilet...looked like when Captain Kirk gets hit with the brain ray on Star Trek.

Honorable Mention: when the novocaine wore off during a vasectomy.

Jesus Christ, you've been violated in both front and rear

And I thought having my shoulder pop out and reset multiple times was bad...