When my pets were surrendered by my parents as a child, and when as an adult I had to choose to euthanize them. If you care about animals, there’s nothing more painful
Getting a straight catheter while on the verge of having my bladder rupture, post aortic surgery, while freshly in the hospital following a nasty motorcycle crash
Losing someone close to me. Like, them passing away but also just people I wanted in my life in any capacity at all and them not being in it anymore. Physical and mental pain.
Besides getting literally stomped full force on the balls whilst I was laying down, I’d say havibg my knee cut open. Was on a beach once and the ground was stone, walked into the water and slipped, fell on my knee and guess there was a sharp rock there. Cut my knee open and bled like crazy.
I once got some kind of general anesthetic that made me go legitimately insane for several hours. I felt nothing but dread, paranoia, depression, anxiety, inability to sleep but deep craving to do so, and rage. I honestly have to congratulate myself for not beating the shit it of people around me at the hospital and also I was new to the area do I had to drive myself home and didn’t crash by some miracle😭
Physically, post op wisdom tooth removal, all 4 at once.
Emotionally, watching someone put a knife to their throat in front of me while saying they were going to end it. Wasn’t sure if I was going to be first. No one ended up dying but there was about 30 seconds where I wasn’t sure what was going to happen.
The ezcema on my legs so bad i couldn’t bend them because they were so stiff i had to walk round like a penguin with two friends on both my arms i took a bath and my skin turned blue i had to get pulled out it was horrible so glad im better
Physical or emotional? Emotionally, it would be losing my twin grandbabies (they were born at 23 weeks and didn’t survive). Physically, it would be an infected wisdom tooth. I’d rather go through childbirth again than that pain.
I should’ve just been a $tripper, never committed. Committed or not they’ll still wanna hang out with a dancer (no hate to dancers you are all beautiful and I wish I could be as beautiful and confident as you all).
Someone I was heavily committed to would leave me alone while he was out with dancers and told me I was forbidden to talk to the opposite sex even at work
Cracked tooth. F me that one hurt. Happened on a Friday night and couldn’t get to the dentist until monday. Eating hurt, drinking hurt, even breathing hurt when air hit the tooth. Nearly passed out from pain about 5 times.
Losing my dream of the intact family, where my kids could always say “My mom and Dad always found a way, they been married 40+ years” … she left abruptly, she quit on me, she quit on us. The best examination I ever got was “You’re an amazing man, the best father to our kids i could ask for. I love you, but I’m not in love with you” after 8 years.
Crushed my humerus and radius, had to get surgery and now I have rods and screws holding my left arm together. Looks kinda cool on a metal detector, but that was a bad ouchie!
The initial break was bad, but the pain after surgery, the pain of physical therapy, and the removal of the stitches, and just how long it took to heal made everything so much worse.
This happened in November of 2024, I still have some scabbing at the surgical site and my scar is NASTY 🙁
Beginning to date my closest friend after my dad’s suicide, finding out he’d had a perverted obsession with me for months whilst I trusted him as a confidant, him then assaulting me (“I won’t stop even if you want me to”) and giving me pelvic inflammatory disease. Physically and mentally most painful experience. Spent Christmas in hospital on 5 different antibiotics and there’s a chance I won’t be able to have kids because of how fierce the infection was. Fuck you Joe, I hope you rot in hell.
Swapping between antidepressants. You rapidly drop the dose on and have to go a few days without any before you start the new one slowly.
It broke me mentally, I was a shell of a person so a while and took many months to recover from.
My mother coming to my hospital room ( after I had given birth) exclusively to tell me that my baby( who was in the nicu) was going to die and that it would be my punishment from God for marrying a ( insert racial slurs here)
Watching my family slowly wither into hollow shells of themselves due to addiction. Then having to bury my little sister while my mom was in jail watching her funeral via Skype.
Having a speculum opening my south hole as a virgin, being packed with an entire roll of gauze after a hysterectomy, clean break of my right tibia, and definitely an undetermined intestinal thing that causes me to sweat dramatically and extreme cramping all in an effort to remove whatever my intestinal system decides to forcefully evacuate… I don’t know if it is in conjunction with IBS or if it’s something different entirely, but I DO know that I absolutely dread it and hate when it happens. I have no idea what causes it because it’s inconsistent to determine, food products don’t hold any value in determining either. It absolutely SUCKS!
Knowing the miserable life my father had that included multiple bearings, his teeth being knocked out, eye socket smashed causing his eye to cave in, beaten in road rage cause epilepsy and pistol whipped by the police for stopping to make sure a shot man didn’t go into shock from blood loss, extreme alcoholism and a lobotomy. Towards his end he was homeless and was ultimately hit by a car. His body was, briefly, lost in transit and when he did, finally arrive at the morticians, I got a call telling me, as his son, I should ask someone else to identify his body. He said that in his career he had never seen a body in such a condition.
The fall was a long one in some ways. My dad was a Doctor of Pharmacology, remember of Mensa and had been an instrumental part of forming a pharmacists union. He also had childhood seizures that he outgrew only to have them forced back onto him. And teen alcoholism.
That my dad, who was a voracious reader and loved learning, accomplished as much as he did in spite of obstacles astounds me.
Being born. Finding out mother had option to abort me. And she didn’t because she was pro-life. And it breaks me even more now that she is an adult and has a whole new family that she’s pro-choice and is hypocritical and will use me as an example of why private catholic schools shouldn’t teach abstinence because she could’ve had a whole different life if she knew about safe sex. And my dad choosing drugs and other women and their kids over me because I’m a reminder of when he was using now that he’s sober and I’m an adult and he has a new family as well in his 30s.
Chronic neuro pain that started after a covid infection for which I had to be hospitalized (I was 30 and healthy). Sometimes it feels like someone is trying to drill a whole through my brain while stabbing me with a bunch of knifes and needles.
i had a raging abscess in my armpit that i tried to ignore for way too long. became so painful one night i had to drive myself to the ER and they lanced it. the most painful part was getting that lidocaine shot right into the abscess.. in my armpit.. worst pain i’ve ever experienced thus far.
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When my pets were surrendered by my parents as a child, and when as an adult I had to choose to euthanize them. If you care about animals, there’s nothing more painful
Multiple kidney stones.
Finding out the love of my life was fucking the bitch I called my sister who was living in my house.
Physically – Trigeminal Neuralgia
Emotionally – The sudden death of my best friend
Childbirth
betrayal
My name on Serasa
Sternotomy
For getting karmas in reddit is not painful lol it’s very tough to get …
Chipped tooth with nerve exposed.
Death of my wife
Severe Acute Necrotizing Pancreatitis
Almost cut the top of my finger off at work with a circular saw. Didn’t feel great
First poop after a hemorrhoidectomy. I’ve never felt anything like that level of pain before.
Tooth abscess.
Physically? Back spasms
Emotionally? My mother dying from cancer when I was young
Tooth pain. I legitimately didn’t sleep for 2 days before I had a root canal.
Hemorrhoid Surgery; worse than root canal literally had me sobbing from pain.
back and neck pain when i’m literally 17💔
I had a corneal ulcer when I was 16. There are A LOT of nerve endings in your eye. Oxys were barely numbing the pain. Take care of your eyes!!!
Getting a straight catheter while on the verge of having my bladder rupture, post aortic surgery, while freshly in the hospital following a nasty motorcycle crash
reading r/askreddit
Breaking my ankle
Losing someone close to me. Like, them passing away but also just people I wanted in my life in any capacity at all and them not being in it anymore. Physical and mental pain.
Seeing my grandfather who was a World War 2 vet weep because his daughter died before him.
Physically: broken ankle in 7th grade
Mentally: losing my ex
I think emotional hurt trumps any physical pain I’ve ever felt.
The worst psychical pain is probably childbirth.
Finding out I was Sa when I was a kid just blurted out to my husband one night when I had been drinking I’m a 54F
Losing my mom
Physically- Dropped a 45lb plate on my toes
Emotionally- Finding out my cousin commit suicide at 22 years old.
Gout. Makes breaking bones feel like a good tickle.
Gallstones. I literally crawled into a ball on my shower floor thinking I was dying when I had the attacks.
Besides getting literally stomped full force on the balls whilst I was laying down, I’d say havibg my knee cut open. Was on a beach once and the ground was stone, walked into the water and slipped, fell on my knee and guess there was a sharp rock there. Cut my knee open and bled like crazy.
Appendicitis. If you feel that hot stabbing pain on the bottom right of your stomach, go to the doctor or ER right away!
Recovering from a tonsillectomy at 17
Sciatica pain was like white hot lightning streaking down my leg
Catching my wife walking into another guy’s house with an overnight bag who was “just a friend”.
I sprained my spine once, that wasn’t fun
Testicular Torsion
I once got some kind of general anesthetic that made me go legitimately insane for several hours. I felt nothing but dread, paranoia, depression, anxiety, inability to sleep but deep craving to do so, and rage. I honestly have to congratulate myself for not beating the shit it of people around me at the hospital and also I was new to the area do I had to drive myself home and didn’t crash by some miracle😭
Pilonidal cyst. I know it doesn’t seem like much but the placement makes it impossible to walk, sleep, etc.
A bone injection.
Losing my father 12 days after the birth of my daughter
Physically, post op wisdom tooth removal, all 4 at once.
Emotionally, watching someone put a knife to their throat in front of me while saying they were going to end it. Wasn’t sure if I was going to be first. No one ended up dying but there was about 30 seconds where I wasn’t sure what was going to happen.
The ezcema on my legs so bad i couldn’t bend them because they were so stiff i had to walk round like a penguin with two friends on both my arms i took a bath and my skin turned blue i had to get pulled out it was horrible so glad im better
Having cancer twice
I’ve won, but wouldn’t wish it upon my worst enemy
Bladder Botox. Injections through my urethra. I almost blacked out.
Corneal ulcer.
Physical or emotional? Emotionally, it would be losing my twin grandbabies (they were born at 23 weeks and didn’t survive). Physically, it would be an infected wisdom tooth. I’d rather go through childbirth again than that pain.
Popping my miniscus capsule. Sore.
Physically – the ligaments behind my knee were torn
Emotionally – death of my mum from cancer and having to put my kitty to sleep
I should’ve just been a $tripper, never committed. Committed or not they’ll still wanna hang out with a dancer (no hate to dancers you are all beautiful and I wish I could be as beautiful and confident as you all).
Someone I was heavily committed to would leave me alone while he was out with dancers and told me I was forbidden to talk to the opposite sex even at work
Testicle torsion is 1000% the worst pain I ever experienced and I still have nightmares about it
Cracked tooth. F me that one hurt. Happened on a Friday night and couldn’t get to the dentist until monday. Eating hurt, drinking hurt, even breathing hurt when air hit the tooth. Nearly passed out from pain about 5 times.
Losing my dream of the intact family, where my kids could always say “My mom and Dad always found a way, they been married 40+ years” … she left abruptly, she quit on me, she quit on us. The best examination I ever got was “You’re an amazing man, the best father to our kids i could ask for. I love you, but I’m not in love with you” after 8 years.
It broke me. Im still trying to heal.
Physically, blowing my hand apart. Mentally and emotionally, losing my baby sister probably. Or catching that bitch cheating
My parents passing and my wife’s affair…
I was quite lucky with injuries, so just a broken rib
Crushed my humerus and radius, had to get surgery and now I have rods and screws holding my left arm together. Looks kinda cool on a metal detector, but that was a bad ouchie!
The initial break was bad, but the pain after surgery, the pain of physical therapy, and the removal of the stitches, and just how long it took to heal made everything so much worse.
This happened in November of 2024, I still have some scabbing at the surgical site and my scar is NASTY 🙁
Beginning to date my closest friend after my dad’s suicide, finding out he’d had a perverted obsession with me for months whilst I trusted him as a confidant, him then assaulting me (“I won’t stop even if you want me to”) and giving me pelvic inflammatory disease. Physically and mentally most painful experience. Spent Christmas in hospital on 5 different antibiotics and there’s a chance I won’t be able to have kids because of how fierce the infection was. Fuck you Joe, I hope you rot in hell.
Not having many things I want in life because it’s not meant for me otherwise i would’ve had it by now but i still crave it and can’t forget about it
Kidney stone
Loss of my son (13) to leukemia in 2022. He was my soul, my mate, my gaming buddy, my movie partner.
Swapping between antidepressants. You rapidly drop the dose on and have to go a few days without any before you start the new one slowly.
It broke me mentally, I was a shell of a person so a while and took many months to recover from.
Childbirth
Physically broken hip and pelvis, emotionally my parent’s death.
Hemorrhoids.
My mother coming to my hospital room ( after I had given birth) exclusively to tell me that my baby( who was in the nicu) was going to die and that it would be my punishment from God for marrying a ( insert racial slurs here)
Watching my family slowly wither into hollow shells of themselves due to addiction. Then having to bury my little sister while my mom was in jail watching her funeral via Skype.
The loss of a parent and four true friends in five years. Half the people I loved were gone in what seemed like the blink of an eye.
Losing my brother!! 🙁
Losing my mom at 13
Having a speculum opening my south hole as a virgin, being packed with an entire roll of gauze after a hysterectomy, clean break of my right tibia, and definitely an undetermined intestinal thing that causes me to sweat dramatically and extreme cramping all in an effort to remove whatever my intestinal system decides to forcefully evacuate… I don’t know if it is in conjunction with IBS or if it’s something different entirely, but I DO know that I absolutely dread it and hate when it happens. I have no idea what causes it because it’s inconsistent to determine, food products don’t hold any value in determining either. It absolutely SUCKS!
Bone marrow tests during chemotherapy
I got into a bad wreck on the highway in the rain, totaled my car. My ear got cut in half and it took 27 stitches to put it back together.
Knowing the miserable life my father had that included multiple bearings, his teeth being knocked out, eye socket smashed causing his eye to cave in, beaten in road rage cause epilepsy and pistol whipped by the police for stopping to make sure a shot man didn’t go into shock from blood loss, extreme alcoholism and a lobotomy. Towards his end he was homeless and was ultimately hit by a car. His body was, briefly, lost in transit and when he did, finally arrive at the morticians, I got a call telling me, as his son, I should ask someone else to identify his body. He said that in his career he had never seen a body in such a condition.
The fall was a long one in some ways. My dad was a Doctor of Pharmacology, remember of Mensa and had been an instrumental part of forming a pharmacists union. He also had childhood seizures that he outgrew only to have them forced back onto him. And teen alcoholism.
That my dad, who was a voracious reader and loved learning, accomplished as much as he did in spite of obstacles astounds me.
Losing my grandfather. The first experience of death of a “close” loved one is a real doozy.
Emotionally, being bullied and shunned throughout high school after being wrongfully labeled a snitch in 9th grade.
Physically, being in so much pain after ACL reconstruction surgery i started twitching and shaking which of course made the pain even worse.
Prolapsed discs that randomly triggered horrible spasms across lower back.
Being born. Finding out mother had option to abort me. And she didn’t because she was pro-life. And it breaks me even more now that she is an adult and has a whole new family that she’s pro-choice and is hypocritical and will use me as an example of why private catholic schools shouldn’t teach abstinence because she could’ve had a whole different life if she knew about safe sex. And my dad choosing drugs and other women and their kids over me because I’m a reminder of when he was using now that he’s sober and I’m an adult and he has a new family as well in his 30s.
Chronic neuro pain that started after a covid infection for which I had to be hospitalized (I was 30 and healthy). Sometimes it feels like someone is trying to drill a whole through my brain while stabbing me with a bunch of knifes and needles.
Contractions
Disc rupturing. Shit is painful. Couldnt walk stand or sit for about 2 months
Cluster headaches
i had a raging abscess in my armpit that i tried to ignore for way too long. became so painful one night i had to drive myself to the ER and they lanced it. the most painful part was getting that lidocaine shot right into the abscess.. in my armpit.. worst pain i’ve ever experienced thus far.
Physically? Has to be between a torn cornea and being attacked by a dog 30lb heavier than me.
trusting people and having my heart shattered into a million pieces…. I’m still picking up the pieces
Accidentally grabbing hot metal with bare hands
Spinal fusion
Shattering my fractured ankle by stepping down on it after a car accident
The period between the Novocain wearing off and the pain killers kicking in after having my (impacted) wisdom teeth removed w/o general anesthesia
Throwing out my lower back from sleeping in a fucked up position on a stiff mattress
Physically, two IUD insertions. 10/10 pain.
Since poisoning. Literally gave myself an acute liver injury🤣🤣🤣
Death of my father, I was only 8 years old.