The urologist feeding this 8mm camera tube through my penis for a bladder endoscopy and taking his time to explore all the nooks and crannies was slightly uncomfortable.
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I can't remember if it was the exact same procedure, but I've had something very similar when I had a bladder biopsy done, but I'm going to beat you on making someone else uncomfortable :D
For anyone who doesn't know, these procedures start with an anaesthetic gel being squirted into your penis through a syringe to numb everything, then the camera and tools get inserted. It's been a while, but from what I remember, some air gets pushed in along with everything else. The nurse warned me that the air coming out can be uncomfortable. I also had to have a pretty full bladder for the procedure.
Afterwards, I needed to pee straight away, so used the toilet next to the waiting room. When I went, it burned a bit from the gel wearing off and everything just generally being tender. Suddenly though, I had this feeling of intense pressure, and a fireball forced its way out followed by some boiling pee. I used my free hand to steady myself, and my knees almost buckled. I let out an involuntary 'Jesus Christ!'. I finished and cleaned up, and the nurse met me outside the door.
She had a huge grin on her face, and said 'I told you it would sting', then nodded towards the waiting room, where about half a dozen terrified looking men had apparently heard me :D
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Ok youβve got the price
r/sounding is disappointed in you. Embrace the feeling! :D
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Skull decompression. I had to have a cage or something like that screwed to my skull for a gamma knife operation to kill a brain tumour. I had to keep my head completely still for over an hour, so they screwed the cage to my skull, and then to the table itself. The skull gets a bit compressed and I really felt the pressure, but it didn't hurt that much and I got used to it pretty fast. The worst part is when they take it off and your skull decompresses. Worse than a migraine.
You win. π±
Let's just pack our stuff up. I, too, know when I've seen a winner.
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Amputation pain is right up there, followed closely in the long term by phantom pain.
Then nausea.
Then tinnitus.
A large part of why they're the worst for me is that you can't do anything about them.
My dad lost his arm in the late 90s in a work related accident. He described it as painful but was surprised at how it didn't feel worse right there and then. Probably due to shock.
He was working alone in the middle of the night with his tractor when it happened, so he picked up what remains of his left arm he could find into a bucket and drove to the local nursery home because he knew there were people awake there 24/7. I guess that's one definition of grace under pressure.
Upon arrival he got the emergency help he needed there and then and a while later he told us that while waiting for the medevac helicopter to be summoned, he was annoyed again about the pain, thinking "Isn't this where I'm supposed to faint?".
Later he had the occasional phantom pain. He didn't struggle with it that much, and it usually passed after a few moments, but he told me that the worst parts was when he had an itch, or a finger was Ina weird position, he could do nothing about it since the limb simply wasn't there anymore.
His arm was severed by a tractor-operated snowblower right below the elbow.
Fun fact: When the thaw of spring arrived he was happy to learn that someone had found his wristwatch in the retreating ice. Still working just fine. A little later someone found a wedding ring and correctly guessed that it belonged to the guy who got maimed there a few months earlier.
the worst parts was when he had an itch,
Yeah. I don't struggle with the pain so much: I have it, but it's mostly like electric shocks, and somehow it feels like a TENS machine. So as long as it's not too intense or too long, I'm okay.
But I really struggle with itching.
I just lumped itching with phantom pain because it's easier to explain to people who don't know.
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Kidney stone by far.
In the ER, 2 doses of Morphine had exactly 0% relief. I got Ketamine next and finally got relief.
I did get gout once. I can only describe it as walking on shards of glass while on fire. It was a tolerable pain while not walking, but it was excruciating while on my feet.
Gout is bad. Every step you take, when you put your foot down and put pressure on it, it feels like you just broke a bone. Then, when you lift your foot again, it feels like it breaks again. Repeat for every step. You have to sleep with your foot sticking out because the weight of a thin sheet is too painful.
A few years ago I slipped on the ice and hit my elbow. I got up and drove to work. After I got there, it was still a little sore. I work in a hospital, so I went and got an X-ray. Turns out I fractured my arm. My wife and my doctor both wanted to know how I managed to drive to work with a broken arm. It just didn't seem all that bad. It hurt at the moment, but then it was just a bit sore.
Chronically, kidney stones followed by gall bladder stones. Acutely, cramp anywhere in the leg.
For me the pain was similar at the peak, but gallstone pain would fade in and out, while kidney stone pain was unrelenting.
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Nausea, at least, personally. It's worse than pain.
I second that.
Back in May I had a stress overload and for a solid month or so I was CONSTANTLY nauseous (among other things). And it was that type of nausea that didn't make you vomit, it just made you feel that you were about to. Absolutely horrid times.
hate nausea so much. i'm scared of being sick soo bad
That constant nausea that you're trying so hard to fight back, but your mouth keeps filling with saliva because it's ready for you to vomit?
Yep.
Fuck everything about all of that.
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I once broke and dislocated my shoulder, and having a broken arm jammed back into a dislocated shoulder was bad enough to induce a blackout.
But other than that, getting kicked in the nuts.
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2 AM, you desperately run to the bathroom just in time for a heinous crap.
You finish up, go back to bed, roll over on your side and hear/feel your gut go:
"Whuuuurrroooggglllleeee."
GOD-DAMN IT!
Butt wait, there's more!
I don't have it but I'm going to say Parkinson's.
I got put on some medication a number of years ago and one of the common side effects was tremors that "can affect the hands and arms and may also involve the lower limbs, tongue, or voice".
I'm not much of a crier but it got to a point where I was shaking so bad I had a hard time feeding myself and I broke down over it. I cannot even begin to imagine having to live with that forever. I barely managed a month.
I can attest from experience with a parent who eventually died of Parkinsonβs disease. (The usual cause is finally choking on food.)
It steadily erases oneβs ability to project their humanity. Even more cruelly, it gives occasional respite so you canβt forget there is a complete person suffering in that quivering shell.
In summary, fuck Parkinsonβs and all other neurodegenerative diseases.
Mains power went through my face. It felt like every tooth had a serious toothache for a while.
A kidney biopsy tool, except the person who's supposed to get the sample keeps missing and the local anesthetic (lidocaine) is wearing off
The scars still emit pain, and the biopsy sites (I got stabbed with that thing 5 times) hurt more than the actual transplant surgery site itself.
Other than that, cancer if the tumors grow in the right spot.
As someone else said, gout. Definitely gout. In particular, severe gout caused by dehydration from food poisoning.
A 14 gauge needle being stuck all the way through and past your fistula for dialysis. Here's size comparisons:
Note: 14 is 2 sizes bigger than 16.
For non painful things, I'd say a bone biopsy ( this is assuming they gave you the good stuff for pain ). There's something that feels very wrong of feeling your bones being punctured, scraped from the inside, and popped like a champagne bottle.
Squishing a big roach with your barefoot when you didn't know one was hiding in your shoe.
Getting food poisoning from shellfish specifically.
Walking through flood waters, seeing a water moccasin, but not knowing where it is or went.
Thalassophobia.
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A broken wisdom tooth rubbing against a nerve - would not recommend.
When your left ovary grows a cyst and in 24 hours it is pushed all the way to your right side and dies in the process.
Child birth without pain killers is a warm summer breeze compared to that.
Fucking wait and seeβ¦
A spinal tap was quite unpleasant. I could feel the needle grinding around in my spinal cord. 0/10
Bullet Ant bite. People have killed themself to make it stop. It locks your pain receptors to the on position and doesn't allow them to turn off.
Back spasms and kidney stones.
I once got to Sweet Frog 5 minutes after they closed. That was pretty bad.
Pain wise, dislocating my shoulder, elbow/top of foot/chest tattoos were about tied for about 9 on the scale.
Being sea sick is a misery I only wish on a select few.
Arch cramp or Charlie horse in the middle of the night is a personal hell.
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Gout.
Imagine glass powder in-between your joints. π¬π¬π¬
Post surgery abdominal air bubble.
You just have to wait until it absorbs.
Idk what that actually feels like, but reading this made me think of that pain in your chest when you drink cold water too fast after being out in the heat all day. But in the abdomen π©
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Probably pancreatic cancer.
Oh well, a lumbar puncture was quite horrible. Especially since it took a lot of tries to get through correctly.
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Giving birth.
Toothache. Most general pain I can just tolerate until it goes away. But I become completely useless with a toothache. Iβm not productive and Iβm irritable. I grab a painkiller as soon as I can.
This one just recently as Iβm getting older: lower back pain. Getting up after sitting down for a while in an awkward position and the pain is so bad that I literally collapse into a squatting position with my hands on the ground until I can slowly get up again.
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Being awake for WAAAAY too long and you still have a few more hours until you can go to sleep.
Once watched a dad drop his newborn by accident and he did the thing where he fumbled for it and yanked the leg out of the socket
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If we're talking about unpleasant sensations, there's one I get that makes me feel nauseous that I can only describe as being like a smooth grooved surface with unwanted lumps in it and I'm travelling and lurching over it in some unseen dimension. (I've actually met at least one other person who described this without me mentioning it first, so it might be somewhat common. I have no idea.)
I was watching a Let's Play video of a video game the other day and the texture for the water's surface in-game somehow reminded me of it, and it made the video hard to watch.
If we're talking about actual pain, I've had food-related (possibly also medication-related) stomach pain that had me curled in a ball thinking I was going to die and then thinking that might not actually be such a bad idea because then the pain would stop.
I now assume that that must be similar to what some people go through with period cramps. No way I'd want to do that once a month. The handful of times it happened to me was more than enough.
Honourable mention: The weird sting and sensation that isn't actually a smell but is somehow in my nose if I accidentally touch a hidden juvenile thistle in a lawn. Those things are prickly monsters that are just a shade bluer than grass and you often don't see them until you've put your hand on one. Other sharp pains sometimes trigger that "smell" as well. I always associate it with the colour of those thistle leaves though.
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The worst painless feeling I've had was after a nose surgery. Pulling the massive tampons out felt my head being ripped off but that wasnt too bad. It was getting some soaked cloth shoved back up towards my brain that made me see the light for a few moments.
I'm struggling to top a burst appendix.
Most discomfort I ever felt was when I had to have an endoscope put down my nose. They didn't tell me I had to inhale the local anaesthetic so I felt the endoscope scraping against the back of my mouth and throat. I've sniffed the spray every time since!
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Oh you sweet summer child
My worst is kidney hydronephrosis. Felt like dying from a knife in my side and then every minute or so someone twisted the knife.
I've got a weird issue with the soles of my feet. I'm not ticklish at all, but the soles of my feet react as if the nerves are turned up to 11. It's only for light touches though, I can walk around barefooted with no problems, even on rough surfaces.
If someone touches my feet it's a sensory overload that lasts for a while afterwards. It's a weird combination of light tickling and burning, and feels like there's something stuck to the bottom of my foot for a minute or two after the touch stops. The really weird part is, I can tickle my own feet, but apparently you're not supposed to be able to tickle yourself π€·π»ββοΈ
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