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Jun. 28th, 2005 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
furtechWhile 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.
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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Date: 2005-06-28 04:25 pm (UTC)It was so bad I couldn't stop involuntarily groaning and yelling and it STILL took the hospital people an hour to get to me. It was weird having sound coming from my mouth and no way to stop it!
They usually have to give you morphine for it, but they tried a direct numbing with something by punching a needle through my stomach and into the kidney first. It did NOTHING.
Out came the morphine for about 2-3 hours before the pain subsided. And though the pain was mitigated, I found the feeling of being pumped on Morphine to be virtually as unpleasant. Like your entire body is asleep but you are conscious. You sometimes get a taste of it when you fall asleep for a few minutes in the afternoon on the couch then wake up, only 100x worse.