I was hit below the eye with a golf ball from about 50 yards. That almost knocked me out and I have lost feeling in my upper cheek and lip. The doc says this is about the best it will be.

Tie between my 3rd and 4th wisdom tooth removal and childbirth. Both of them cannot be compared to each other but both hurt hellishly in their own ways.

Childbirth ranks real high on my pain level, but that was 18 years ago so I can't describe how bad... Next in line I would have to say DVT (blood clots's in my leg) the pain is terrible and it burns like you could not imagine.... everytime I took a step I would have to stop and cry for 5 mins then take the next step. It took me 40 mins to get from my car into the doctors office when he examined me immediately they sent me to the hospital thank God I didn't have to walk... And this was 10 years ago and I haven't forgot that pain yet... OUCH....

when I got stitched down there.. they gave me an epidural and i don't think it worked properly because right when they started I had such an intense pain..... they ended up giving me some kind of pain medication that knocked me out....

also childbirth is extremely painful specially natural childbirth, at least is was for me...

childbirth, I decided to do it all natural without any medications...ouch.

When I was injured on a basketball game, I got few scratches on my back and one of my nails was flip out! Ouch!

I had excruciating gas pain when I was in my early 20's...I ate way too much chili!!!! The doctor said it was not uncommon......

in no particular order:

rattlesnake bite on fingertip, at the hospital cut open without any painkiller so it could swell.

ingrown toenail removed, painkiller didn't work

kicked by horse

thrown by horse into a tree (different horse)

root canal - painkiller didn't work

(and no broken bones to date)

Childbirth or an absessed tooth I had ionce.........it's a toss-up!

Nothing is quite like tooth and ear pain. Rey took a massage class a long time ago, and he said they were the only places with no massage point on the body to help the pain. Bummer.

The kidney stone I had last year was definitely the worst pain I've ever had. I LOVED the doctor who gave me drugs strong enough to alleviate that pain! It was worse than childbirth and at least after childbirth, you have a baby! After all that pain all I got was a little rock!! Oh.. and its also SO nice knowing there are MORE in there, so I might have to go through that pain again at some point in the future.

Jennifer

Seeing my daughter very sick with RSV as a 3 month old in the hospital. Most painful experience ! 2nd worst: Getting our interview cancled in Rio 2 yrs ago because of our stupid lawyer. That really hurt.

the loss of a child or children is a totally different kind of pain then physical pain, that never really fully goes away

So far in my life I would have to say the worst physical pain I have endured would be Gallbladder attacks and an abscessed tooth.

I second that gallbladder attack pain. It's pretty bad when I was making myself throw up because it temporarily made me feel better. Having it taken out was a piece of cake compared to that.

Runner up for me was when I was able to pop my kneecap out and back into position. I could never predict when it would happen, and it would sound like a sweatshirt ripping every time. Was SO glad when I got that fixed.

*hugs to you Marilyn*

Had a finger smashed in the hinge side of a heavy door in first or second grade, and another one in a car door around the same time. One of those times resulted in the tip of my finger turning black for a while.

In junior high P.E. class, a sociopathic classmate intentionally hit a raquet ball at my face at close range, smashing it into my eye. There was a positive result though; I got escorted to the nurse's office by two cute co-eds

Once I was bicycling late at night, and I hit a pothole. I didn't have a good grip on the handle bars, so I lost control and went flying, but my legs were tangled in the bicycle frame. I skidded for about 15 feet, ending up in the gutter. It was several minutes before I could move and get up and back on the bike; I still had to bicycle 20 minutes to get home. My knee had several layers of skin scraped off, and took weeks to heal.

About 10 years ago, a had a sebaceaous cyst over my shoulder blade. It had been there for years with no problem, but it suddenly got infected and ballooned up. The slightest pressure created searing pain. I went to the doctor to have it dealt with, and I found out that my doctor had trained in the Marquis de Sade school of medicine....he squeezed the cyst violently and without anesthetic I made him stop, and I went to an urgent care doctor to finish the job.

While hiking along a creek trail in the Santa Ana mountains in 2005, I was crossing the creek on a fallen log. When I stepped on the far end, it shifted, and I fell into the water. My left palm hit a rock as I fell, and my fingers were bent back. I couldn't make a fist or remove my wedding ring for months after that due to the swelling.

1. Ripping all attachment points for my right shoulder (total separation) while being a dumba$ on a mountain bike. It was a "Hey y'all! Watch this!" moment.

2. Ventral hernia surgery (the aftermath)

3. Chronic ear infections for the past 3 years.

4. Pi$$ing out a kidney stone (Damn Diet Dew!)

5. Enduring snarky people.

physically, recovering from hemorrhoid and anal fissure surgery, followed by migraine headaches, next in line is any toothache, and finally, gall bladder attacks...got that sucker removed with the quickness.

I had an allergic reaction to the general anesthesia for my wisdom tooth extraction (they had to partially break my lower jaw to get at them) and was eventually hospitalised five days later for severe dehydration; in that time I had dry socket in three of the four incisions...because of the severe nausea from the allergic reaction, I was unable to take any painkillers or antibiotics, drink any fluids, eat anything, or sleep. When the oral surgeon came in to put the first medication (small pieces of cotton soaked in something...I never asked what it was), I had just fallen asleep after being given two doses of demarol (sp). When he put the packing into the incision, I sat bolt upsright and started screaming blue murder...

Thank goodness that wisdom teeth DON'T grow back!!!

anyway, he was taken to medical..and the sadistic nurse...jerked the zipper away and sewed his c##k up without any local pain or numbing medication.....since he was my orderly//i filed a complaint for him...

wish i can use my punch lines wish i can use my punch line but will get the boot lol geez holding back.

i cant decide if an absessed tooth or constipation after my gall bladder surgery was worse. i remember them both being soooo terrible. the gall bladder attacts were mild compared to the constipation. i fell asleep and woke up with pain from abdomen to neck and pouring sweat (im not a sweating type of person either) i felt like i was having a heart attack but it was only constipation. man did that hurt.

Oh my word...I was in agony just reading some of these!

Anything to do with the eye....I just cringed when I read those postings. Ouch!!!

My most painful experience was an abcessed tooth.

a few months ago i racked myself with my truck door...i almost passed out int he parking lot and had to crawl into work and finish the rest of the day/./

I was thinking that too.

You know if men had to birth babies, the world would end!

Broke my nose when I was 9, spinal tap and child birth (although recovery from a 3rd degree tear afterwards was probably worse than giving birth itself...), not necessarily in this order

i remember that story. shoulda been on youtube

sadly, i was too busy holding my nuts and laying in the seat of my truck to grab the cell phone and record it./...i did get a friendly fat chick to offer to assist me..

Gas pain is mine (haven't had children)...

Was rushed to the hospital one night because I was throwing up uncontrollably and passing out due to prep meds for a colonoscopy. They make you drink a soda like drink that helps clean you out your insides.. my bowel was SO irritated that I was in excruciating pain.. the ENTIRE process was horrible, including the colonoscopy as well which my mother could hear my screams from a waiting room down the hall.. I screamed in agony and the Dr's never ended up finishing it because I was in so much pain..

Not fun at all..

she rub it until it felt better?

well, she offered but i sized up her hands and they looked like catcher mitts to me..i thanked her and took care of it myself

I'm lucky that I can't remember what must have been the worst pain in my life because I was too young.

My grandad used to wet shave using a cup of very hot water (straight from the kettle and left to cool), lather brush etc. He put his cup on the table to let it cool down to the temperature he wanted. I was an 18 month old toddler and though the cup was a drink... I pulled it down for a drink and scalded my neck and chest and, apparently as I pushed the cup away me, the remaining water splashed over my upper right arm. Rather gruesome but my aunt was the first one to get to me and she said that the skin on my neck rolled down like a venetian blind.

I had a skin graft put on my upper right arm (taking skin from my left thigh) and I am very lucky that that is the only part that had visible scaring.

Never had a baby, so I'm gonna have to go with swimmers' ear.

Ovarian cysts are pretty darn painful...knock you to the floor type of pain.

When I was 18 I had an accident that meant a piece a of glass entered the palm of my right hand and exited the other side. Whilst I felt no pain when it happened (I guess I was in shock), hours later at the hospital the pain was unbelievable. I had severed every nerve and tendon in the palm of my hand and had 6 hours of micro surgery to repair it. After the operation my hand was claw like as they had to stretch the skin to put everything back together. The following months I had weekly appts to stretch the skin to open the hand and that was hellish too.

in no particular order:

- second car accident: the pain afterwards of my broken hips
- recently, my tattoo (the second time I went to fill in the color) hurt quite a bit
- when I had my tongue pierced, the tattoo guy told me not to move my tongue when he started it and I did
- when I had my tonsils removed I remember the pain afterwards

can;t remember any more at the moment, I'm sure there were more

3-way tie for me:

1) Sinus infection a few weeks back. Hurt from my throat/neck all the way up the side of my face and to my temple. Like the worst toothache/sinus infection/sore throat/earache/migraine combo. I was literally on my hands and knees bawling, it hurt so bad.

2) Sticking my hand in an industrial food processor (yes Im really that stupid, and procreating to boot!). In my defense I was barely out of my teens at the time and therefore a great deal stupider (although not completely illiterate)

3) Waking up during back surgery while the surgeon was placing wire leads in my spinal canal. The bill for surgery kinda hurt too.

As for childbirth, Im luckily going to have a c-section. There will be no squeezing of the watermelon through a key-hole for me.

Mine would have to be recovery from liposuction of my hips and thighs, ugh! Oh, and the infection I had after one of my wisdom teeth were pulled, really bad recovery for that one too.

Oh, and also on surgery recovery pain, one of the most agonizing pains was when I couldn't pee after surgery due to the anesthetic still in effect and my bladder got REALLY full, the pain is unbelievable. The nurse also took forever to get the catheter in in order to empty my bladder and I honestly thought I was gonna die of the pain.

Waking up and going to work is painful everyday lol taking a dump is painful.

If taking a dump is painful, you aren't eating right.

zipping my wee wee in my pants when I was a kid....OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

I had the same problem olny i broke the zipper and tore a hole in my pants.

wow, i see this thread is going down fast..only my classy sister jen..can save it...

No kids yet, so I will have to say getting thrown off a horse, landing on my as* and cracking my tailbone. Upside is that for years afterwards I always knew when it was going to rain.

I had to share a room with a scheduled c-section. As I was sitting there on my bed watching this woman struggle to do anything beyond moan and press the pain med button for the first few hours, I realized, there is no way to win the game. Then I felt somewhat better, ripped up crotch and all.

Well I've done it both ways now and I honestly think the C-section was worse. but shhh... dont tell Yassmine yet

worst pain...waking up from anesthesia in pain after each of 2 spinal surgeries was very bad. But maybe the worst was.. for one of those surgeries I had a chest tube because they had to push the lung out of the way. And having that tube removed was terrible. Even with morphine beforehand.
Second to that I guess would be an attack of what they said was acute pancreatitis that came for several hours and went away and never had again.

I heard that