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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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[kvogel.livejournal.com]

Several times I've fallen and had a brief cresendo of pain, the worst being a fall down my front stairs.
Worst pain that lasted more than a few seconds was four hours after that fall when the various muscles had some time to stiffen up around the sprains, strains, and dislocations, and I attempted to get up, had a nasty bout of shock induced nausea, then passed out.
Other worst pain has been burns. Nothing quite like a third dregree burn to make one writhe like a half-crushed worm, a horribly bright kind of pain that overrides the higher centers of the brain and turns one into a scrabbling animal trying to escape.