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The most intense physical pain I ever felt was waking up after impacted wisdom tooth removal. One side of my face was appr. 3x the size of the other.

The second worse was last week; waking up from anaesthesia after having all 22 remaining teeth removed. It's slightly better now and I'd put it at 8,5/10.

The worst pain I've ever felt was mental though. It started almost three decades ago when my father killed himself when I was a teen. To be honest, I never recovered. I'm a shell of a human being begging for release (death) daily while being too much of a coward to actually do it.

Oh, and after returning to work with 0 teeth, my coworkers now amuse themselves by making me say tongue breakers. I already knew they didn't like or respect me before all this, but this really drove a dagger into my heart because it was someone I never would have expected it from. I've been at this company for 10 years and in this team for 5 and I'm fighting a daily urge to follow in my father's footsteps.

He really had the right idea. I was pissed at him back then but I have more understanding and respect for his decision every single day.

I had some sort of bad migraine episode where I couldn't stop puking. Every time I threw up, the force of doing so would cause a wave of pain that was like someone hit me in the head with a baseball bat.

Kidney stones. I've had the tips of two fingers on my left hand chopped off, and even that didn't come close to the feeling of a kidney stone rattling down the pipework.

I have Medullary sponge kidney, which in short makes my kidneys a stone factory. It's a love/hate relationship at this point. On the plus side, I've found drinking at least 2 liters of lemonade every day has done wonders to stop my kidneys from feeling like they're trying to kill me all the time.

6 vertebrae, 4 ribs, base of my skull, scapula—fractured; it is a pain that has never faded and never fundamentally changed in 10.5 years. I can't escape it for even a minute. It is like a sword in my back, my spine feels like a twisted and knotted towel, and my mind like a voice shouting over the pain. Thanks for asking.

appendix

Had had a couple of bone brakes, but it felt like nothing compared to that pain, it also got away, was saved by a blood testing and going straight to operation table, after the pain ceased.

The circumcision I had in my mid teens. Well, not the circumcision itself, but the erections I would get in the morning which would rip the stitches out of my cock, bleeding until I masturbated with anesthetic gel to orgasm just to stop the pain.

I've had so many accidents with some that needed surgery and nothing beats getting my finger stuck in the car door of an Uber. I'm just glad the driver didn't move until after I freed my finger.

My father

I had (and still have) a sore spot under my right shoulder blade, I think it's called rhomboid pain, which I visited a physical therapist for. He found the exact spot and massaged it with his knuckle and that was by far the most painful experience of my life. On the scale from 1 to 10, that was 8.5. At 9 I would start screaming and 10 would make me pass out.

What ever has been the second most painful experience doesn't even register compared to that.

For me personally it was getting some of my arms skin getting shoved between two desks that I had my arm resting on after someone slammed them together tightly during high school

Left a red line that took a while to go away

Edit I just remembered something wven more painful then this

I'm going to copy paste my comment reply to someone else below

"You reminded me of the one time I was visiting my uncle as a child and I ended up puking in the car because the sun was hitting the back of my head in summer, and this was Australian summer where It can get hot and humid

I don't know if it was a migraine but it was painful as fuck"

There was also the time i got rope burn from tug o war in primary school but the car headache that was potentially a migraine was more painful

Top 3:

• Shingles in my eye / face / scalp.
• Appendix ruptured while I was on the toilet.
• Kidney stones (multiple times)

Spinal Stenosis. Woke up one day feeling like my back was not only broken, but that I could feel the broken ends grinding against each other.

Getting my nail pulled off.

Also, not exactly painful, but tonic clonic seizure.

Chronic cluster headache sufferer here. To sum up, I’ve been: Shot, stabbed, shot a second time, broke 7 bones in various appendages, hit with a baseball bat, hit by a car, multiple teeth issues, and migraine headaches, sprinkled for fun.

Basically, I took steve-o’s motto and ran with it (your body is a ride, ride it until the wheels fall off).

None of this comes close to the lightest cluster headache I’ve had. The sheer panic, the knowledge of what’s about to happen, the inescapable amount of pain I know is coming… Fuck CH.

A spinal tap. It felt like a toothache in my entire body while a demon choir sang in a high pitched whine.

When I was 11 there was a chance that I had contracted meningitis.