... Not the worst, but I had a cystoscopy Thursday and it was damn uncomfortable

Cystoscopy (sis-TOS-kuh-pee) is a procedure that allows your doctor to examine the lining of your bladder and the tube that carries urine out of your body (urethra). A hollow tube (cystoscope) equipped with a lens is inserted into your urethra and slowly advanced into your bladder

The pain from passing a kidney stone was only super-seeded by the pain from trying to pee after a procedure to remove a kidney stone..

Edited to add — sciatica is a close second...

That lightning bolt from the hip to the knee?

@NathanL

GuillainBarr syndrome or CIDP?

Yup, I've been stabbed and would rather be stabbed again than pass another stone.

Frostbites a motherfucker.  In college, I got stranded in rural Iowa.  Air temp was -17f.  Windchill - 30f.  Alternator died, so I hitchiked into town, bought a replacement, and installed it.

My earlobes and fingertips were black by the time I was done.  The pain was horrible as the car warmed up.  I saw the  college docs who did some minor surgical repairs.

I had an epidural in my lower spine. I felt the pain cross my lower back and down my left leg.

It was like a severe cramp. A few days later I had a second and the pain went down the right leg starting where the previous

epidermal left off.  My wife wanted to know why I chose to not be sedated. I told her if the Dr. screwed up I wanted to hear him say "oh shit" and not be the last to know.

1. A very large catheter being inserted into me.

2. Gout flareups

When I passed mine I was in the field and obviously had the best care available. Attached File

Badass.  

Twice.

Once after I ate at a fast food restaurant and got food poisoning.  
That was bad enough, shitting my tonsils out my asshole for a couple of days.
The real pain started up 6 days later after I had not been able to shit.
On the 6th day my stomach was seriously distended and I could not shit, as much as I tried.
I collapsed on the shitter screaming in pain and I never knew it.
I was taken to the ER, the doctor took one look at me and said if we can't get your intestines working I may have to cut you open.
He asked if I wanted some meds for the pain, by this time I was begging for some pain meds.

He gave me Valium in an IV bag and a nice shot of Demerol.
20 minutes later I was still in pain, so he gave me another shot of Demerol.
5 minutes later and I felt no pain.

A few hours later he had a nurse come in and start massaging my stomach and manipulating my legs and having me do some funky stretching.
After 10 minutes of this I felt the pain coming back in waves.

The nurse called the doc back in and I was about ready to get another shot of Demerol when I blew the biggest fart out of my ass that I had ever blown.

Then my stomach started to flip-flop and I began to sweat.
I knew what was going to happen.
I jumped out of the bed and ran for the bathroom.
I just made it before I had the biggest anal explosion of my life.

I filled the shitter up twice and I swear to God that I thought I was going to have to beat that turd with a baseball bat to get it to down the toilet.
I spent the next hour shitting and wiping my ass.

By the time I was done I had gone through three rolls of toilet paper and a stack of paper towels.
I got out of the bathroom and the doctor asked me if I was OK.
I said yep, went back to bed and passed out for half a day.

My girlfriend said she stopped by to visit, but she had to leave because I blowing some noxious gas out of my ass.

I had to go on a "baby food" diet for a few days after that to make sure my ass was working right.

The other time I was working outside in some serious cold, didn't have any back issues.
I bent over to lift an aircraft tow-bar to connect it to the pinnacle hook on the tractor when I felt a small "click" in my lower back.
When I stood up - I was unable to.
About 2 seconds later I dropped to the ground and I was unable to move my legs.
The ground guys called an ambulance, loaded me up and took me to the hospital.
I was in just as much pain as I was when I had my stomach issue, it was in a different place though.

Went to the Military ER, the doc asked if I was in pain, I said "Fuck yea I am".
I endured 20 minutes of him trying to manipulate my back and find a "comfortable position".

He finally gave me a shot of Demerol and some Valium.
I was in bed for 2 days in a Demerol induced haze, slowly felling less pain.
On the third day I asked for no more pain meds.
I was discharged from the hospital with a cane and a walker.

Two days later I was at about 98%.
I have not been able to regain that 2%.

When the back starts acting up usually a hot water shower and some Motrin do the trick.

Root canal when I was 12.

Fell off the 2nd floor balcony when I was 14.

Pulled my back when I was 26.  Couldn't move and had to get several shots in my back.

My God.   That was a perfect description of some of the bowel problems I had a few years back.

I had just had my colon surgery after Diverticulitis.  Went home after three days in the hospital.  Tried eating solid foods.  A week passed and I hadn't shit.  Pain got horrible.   The final straw was me literally puking up my own shit.  It tasted and smelled Horrible.  Went into ER.  Continued to spew shit-puke in the waiting room.   Nurses and Seurgon come running to me and take me into ICU.  Went NPO for two weeks in the hospital. (no food, water - only IV) was starving, but didn't care.  The constant supply of Dilaudid was numbing all the pain.  After 14 days, they started the laxatives.  Then it exploded....

Thank God I managed to avoid a colon bag after that disaster.

First was a ruptured appendix.  I was sick two days before and vomited my stomach out.  I was told I was too sick for an appendicitis.  Two days later it ruptured and I vomited until I got to the emergency room.  My stomach muscles locked up so bad I couldn’t lie flat for the x-rays

Second was a kidney stone that got stuck between my kidney and bladder.  I went in to the emergency room in massive pain in the afternoon and they didn’t operate until the next morning

Third was related to two.  The doctor left the stent in from the kidney to bladder.  It ended up being a month until I had surgery to remove the other three kidney stones left and the stent.  That damn thing would twist all around inside and cause all sorts of pain and discomfort.  Since I couldn’t physically touch it, there was no way to shift it.

Hypermobility syndrome caused back injury, keeps reoccurring I lost count how many times.

Second to that was fracturing 2 Thoracic vertebra, breaking 3 ribs and fracturing my sternum it all happened at once.

3rd was frozen shoulder syndrome, torn rotator cuff, torn scalene neck muscles and both first ribs rotated up. I almost had them both surgically removed.

I may try Kratom next for pain relief nothing else seems to be long term relief.  Quality of life seems to be degraded.

Gout. Broken rib was a distant second.

I was getting a epidural and the doctor hit my spine or something.  Holy god it was insanely painful.

I am glad, I was under and the doc was using X-ray to guide his steady hands. I have heard about that particular pain, when they miss.

Have completely herniated 3 discs, have 4 more bulging, that pain lingers.
Every once in a while, a rib slips and it’ll drop you to the ground.
Ran my hand through the gear assembly of an overfilled cement mixer.
Broken nose setting a few times.

By far the most painful was a dry socket after having impacted wisdom teeth removed. F’in teeth are the worst.

Not too bad compared to others, but, when I first started jiu jitsu I took some arm bars and didnt tap early and stretched my elbow tendons bad.  I kept training which always inflamed it.  It got so bad that i couldn't lower the sun visor in my truck or turn the keys off.  It went away after a while, some people told me it was tennis elbow.

Gallstone in my gallbladder 3 weeks ago. Holy fuck the pain, I always thought I was just getting food poisoning this whole time but turned out there was a golfball-sized rock in it. The 4 hours I had to wait in the ER for my turn for the doctors to give me painkillers to lessen the pain was one of the worst experiences of my life. The pain was so bad that when they drew blood to test it actually lessened it, finally understood then why bloodletting used to be such a popular remedy in the past since it reduced pain.

Back spasms to the point I thought I was going to suffocate from not being able to breath and vomitting hard as fuck in intervals until I could get 4 Advil down.

Emotional or physical? Hammer fell off of the bench and split my big toe nail in half. That felt great!

this is going to sound extremely weak.  the bone beneath your thumb on the fat part.  that hurt like a mother fucker.

ETA: apparently scaphoid.  got that one crushed between two football helmets in 7th grade.  I turned green from the pain.  I've broken just about every bone imaginable (never femur) but that one hurt the worst.

Getting a tooth removed.  Dentist didnt believe i wasnt numb.  He stuck the tool between my teeth that breaks the tooth from the jaw.  When he twisted the tool I literally almost blacked out.  Saw lightning then stars then tunnel vision.   Hes lucky that it was debilitating because I was pissed.

I dislocated my shoulder. My arm was about 6" lower at the shoulder than the other.

I broke my knee in a mosh pit years ago.  Stayed for the whole show standing on it, jumping etc...

That was nothing.

Few years ago, I managed, through some very stupid actions. Managed to get my thump caught in the rear sprocket of my track bicycle...  half way.  Had to run it through and mostly sever the first half inch.

Hurt... not real bad, like hitting your thumb with a hammer... hard...

Until that point, the knee was a 7 on the pain scale, the thumb an 8...  then we found out I am resistant to lidocaine... while probing to see if I was numbed up, the doc in the ER, touched a nerve, causing all 6' 7" and 275lbs(at the time.) To leap off of the gurney, while laying down, to upright in less than a second.

ALL previous pain in my life became a 2... this was 11.  More than a few seconds would have had me praying for death. I had never experienced anything like that. Nor have I since, even after damned near severing the tip of the same fucking thumb again a few months ago.

Had a Red-Ear Slider (turtle) bite my left index finger and held on for 7-8 minutes.

Holy shit!!

Worse than having my leg amputated...

Some painful stories in here. I've experienced three abscess teeth in my life. First one they did a root canal. Second was the same tooth and supposedly the root canal from a few years before went bad. They yanked it. Another abscess about 6 weeks ago.... plateaued on a Saturday night. I took my extra dental pick and stuck it into the interior of my gum below the tooth. The relief was incredible until I could get to the dentist on Monday.

Had a muscle spasm in my lower back at work many years ago. Once I got home I literally crawled in my garage and into the house. Finally went to the doctor the next day. Three years ago I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. Anyone who tells you that shit is in your mind doesn't know what they are talking about.

Many people live in some type of pain every single day.

Recovering from this surgery



My right knee, motorcycle accident. Shattered tibia head.
Thank god for morphine.

About two months ago, I was moving some stuff around, and the sacro-illiac joint on my left side popped, and I immediately went to the ground in excrutiating pain. The first chiropractor I went to was a goddamn moron, but the second one actually listened to me, and popped it (mostly) back into place.

It was easily far worse than either of the kidney stones I've suffered through. The kidney stones were worse than having a chest tube inserted without anesthesia.

Lower back issues. L5 was in 3 pieces and causing issue had lower lumbar fusion, L4, L5 and S1 fused. 17 years later it’s all good but for about 3-5 years life was a bitch.

Did you have to post a diagram?

Dislocated my shoulder, fell off a bike going downhill at 50mph. I flew over the handle bars superman style and landed in a 5ft deep ditch. That was pain.

In the last 5 years I've seen 100+ doctors. Not one has agreed with a previous one. I have a list of diagnoses a mile long. The only one that really fits is MS or ADEM which is monophasic (one time) only disease like MS that's intense and short duration brought on buy an infection or a virus. Normally in kids cause they get all kinds of stuff. I had shingles.

I've heard some really oddball things from doctors with a real life medical degree.

1. I have massive brain damage - from a neurologist.
2. I would never walk again - from a neurologist. I walk just fine.
3. In 2 years I would need to be strapped into a wheelchair. That was 5 years ago and I walk/run just fine.
2. Type 1 diabetes is not an auto immune diease - from an internist.

Stuff like paying out pocket for a lumbar puncture (spinal tap) to differenate between ADEM and MS. After paying being told oh yeah they both show as positive, and oh yeah having type 1 diabetes for more than 5 years will show positive as well. I've had type 1 diabetes for 40+ years. The list of stupid shit would fill up pages and pages.

Just had my first experience with a lumbar spasm, followed by sciatica, this week. The first spasm on Monday froze me in a half-standing position for an hour, until I could pull myself upstairs to bed. The next spasm on Tuesday sent me to the emergency, after I passed out from the pain. It hurt so bad I thought I wouldn't be able to breathe. It felt like someone was shocking me every 5 seconds for about 2 hours. Took me almost 20 minutes to crawl to my cell-phone and call my family.

The doc at the ER gave me a shot of Dilaudid immediately, followed by a steroid shot, and that barely took the edge off. I've pretty much been confined to a bed or chair since. Have to get up every hour and move around, and got prescribed pain meds, a muscles relaxant, and Prednisone.

I'll fucking pass on this shit ever again.

This, so far there has been no equal………………..and I'm good with that.

I've passed two kidney stones it sucks,really more discomfort than pain IMO.  but the worst pain was having a tumor the size of a chicken egg in my brain. It was a never ending hot railroad spike being pounded into the top of the head.

other than that I once broke 3 toes and they put them in traction by puting these metal spring coils around them and let my foot hang trying to pull my toes out.  That was absolutely unbearable.

Sacking my head on an A-6 bomb rack and ripping back a 1" wide by 1 3/4" long section of scalp.  17 stiches to close it.

One cool thing was that I was able to see my skull.

My appendix burst and nearly killed me.

Kidney stone occurrences.

1. Gout.....

2. Spinal block didn't work and when the surgeon made that first incision...I screamed "it burns" heard him yell something and I was out.
3. Completely ruptured ACL.

Yep, like a knife in your back.

Kidney stone is worse than a perforated appendix.  I walked around for a day with appendicitis after perforation because it wasn’t that bad.

Kidney stone dropped me to my knees.

Post-op ortho pain with cut bones is way worse than abdominal incision pain.  Any bonehead who says “bones don’t feel, you don’t need narcotics” deserves a drill in their tibial plateau.

Screaming barfies? I'm also not a fan.

I’m 56 fortunately I don’t have much to add; pinched sciatic, felt like someone was stabbing me in the left butt cheek, for six weeks.

Motorcycle wreck. Stupid bish pulled out in front of me. Open fracture of tibia and fibula, broken collar bones, broken right arm and wrist, punctured lung but, nothing topped the pain of having every rib on my right side broken. It was a long time ago and I still remember that like it was yesterday.

Sandwiched between a stopped greyhound bus and a speeding 18-wheeler. After 7-8 years of daily agony I finally got to the point of asking my best friend to get my shotgun out of my house. Thank GOD I met a miracle worker of a China-trained acupuncturist who quite literally saved my life a year or two later