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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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since you asked..

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(wow... there's some pretty ghastly stuff here.. shudders!) 8|

The most recent one I can recall was being severely sunburned on the back, and having to stand in a cold cold shower alternating solarcaine on it, for several fruitless hours, in hopes it would subside.

Since you listed a second, perhaps food poisoning I'd list as second.. you feel like you wanna die with some of that stuff...

Even when I broke my femur it wasn't quite as extreme as those two, because the body goes into partial shock.

And since kvogel pointed it out, I'll have to give the cumulative award to headaches of different sorts. Probably had more misery from those all added up more than anything, years ago.
ADVICE: cutting back Salt and Caffeine drastically has virtually eliminated headaches.

Woulda been nice if someone said something about that years ago.... ;P

take care!