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[furtech]

While I wait for some goop to dry, I'll toss this question to the crowd:

What is the worst pain you ever experienced?

Mine was a scratched cornea: don't let anyone tell you there are no nerves in the eye! Writhing pain, with the added nastiness that you can't really don anything but wait until it heals (4-8 hours, typically). And there is no "comfortable" position! Closing your eyes has 'em rubbing on the lid; keep them open and the pain makes tears (salty water open wound=*aieee!*).

A close second would be when I had (unknown to me at the time) a compression fracture of my foot and a helpful salesman jammed my foot into a formal shoe. A magnificent pain that had me hallucinating, blacking out and hearing opera all in the space of a split-second.

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[iisaw.livejournal.com]

Burned trachea and esophagus in combination with a hieatal(sp) hernia. Basically, I would get stomach acid refluxing up onto the burned tissue in my throat. doG! I'm writhing in my chair just remembering it.

[dustmeat.livejournal.com]

Ooo I have had that! I had to go to the ER. People thought I was bulimiac because I could not swallow w/o crying.