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As a few are aware.....
About a month ago I went over on my ankle and damaged the ligaments. At the time it was very painfull, and to make things worse I went over on it four days later.
I thought that I had never felt pain like it. I even went to A@E for an xray as I thought I had broken it
And although I get a constant ache from the area, it got me thinking is.
Is this the most painfull thing that has happened to me?
Sure when I was 15 years old I came off a field bike and sustained a compound fracture to my left femur.
Nah that wasn't it.
It has to be when I was decorating the kids bedroom many moons ago, I had an oil filled radiator keeping things warm and trying to dry the paint ready for the next coat.
I have a decorator friend now who is into bikes. On occasions, I borrow some of his gear. He has a roller and a pole to make painting ceilings very easy.
When I was painting the kids room I didn't have that luxury.
The room became very warm so I asked the wife to unplug the heater.
I was having to use step ladders for access to paint the ceiling, coming down the ladders and moving backwards across the room.
Whilst descending the ladders unknown to me the wife had left the three pin plug facing upwards.
Yes you guessed it. I stood on the fooker. Now that's pain.
It was six months before the bruising came out


Any way that got me thinking? Whats you experiences?

Broken collar bone was pretty bad, as was the fractured tibia.

A close second was bruising right in the middle of one arse-cheek on a sticky out bit of a Challenger tank (not to mention many, many other AFV related bumps and bruises.

However, by far the worst must be getting my thumb trapped between chain and and rear sprocket whilst cleaning the chain on the Falco, turning the back wheel and simultaneously being 'briefed' by SWMBO. Sprocket tooth went through the nail cue some blood, some pain and a herculean amount of self-control to keep myu mouth shut.

Have done the ankle thing many times - once jumping over a wall and half landing on a kerb. leg went black from close to the knee down to the toes. Ankles fairly weak after the number of times I've been over on them so always prone to doing it again.

Broken ribs weren't at all nice.

By far the worst pain has been headaches - and I do get some pretty severe ones.
A few years back I had one that was of a totally different magnitude to the rest - felt as though I had an explosion ongoing in my head.

Worst I ever experienced was not when I did the spiral fracture to my tib and fib - but when I came round after the 6½ hour op to repair it and the bloody hospital had just dumped me in the ward - no recovery room - and not sorted my pain relief.

I couldn't even talk about - or think about - for years without crying so I never put in a complaint. Every time I read about hospitals treating patients badly I feel guilty that I didn't complain as I might have stopped someone else going through it.

D-Rider wrote:Have done the ankle thing many times - once jumping over a wall and half landing on a kerb. leg went black from close to the knee down to the toes. Ankles fairly weak after the number of times I've been over on them so always prone to doing it again.

Broken ribs weren't at all nice.

By far the worst pain has been headaches - and I do get some pretty severe ones.
A few years back I had one that was of a totally different magnitude to the rest - felt as though I had an explosion ongoing in my head.

Sounds like a migraine to me Andy.

I have suffered for years with migraines, they suck.

Dalemac wrote:

D-Rider wrote:Have done the ankle thing many times - once jumping over a wall and half landing on a kerb. leg went black from close to the knee down to the toes. Ankles fairly weak after the number of times I've been over on them so always prone to doing it again.

Broken ribs weren't at all nice.

By far the worst pain has been headaches - and I do get some pretty severe ones.
A few years back I had one that was of a totally different magnitude to the rest - felt as though I had an explosion ongoing in my head.

Sounds like a migraine to me Andy.

I have suffered for years with migraines, they suck.

No - completely different league to migraine Dale - I've had plenty of them and they don't come close.
I also tend to get cluster headaches (often known as "suicide headaches") but this particular one just pushed it right on to another extreme. Fortunately that was a few years ago and not had one of that magnitude again.

D-Rider wrote:

Dalemac wrote:

D-Rider wrote:Have done the ankle thing many times - once jumping over a wall and half landing on a kerb. leg went black from close to the knee down to the toes. Ankles fairly weak after the number of times I've been over on them so always prone to doing it again.

Broken ribs weren't at all nice.

By far the worst pain has been headaches - and I do get some pretty severe ones.
A few years back I had one that was of a totally different magnitude to the rest - felt as though I had an explosion ongoing in my head.

Sounds like a migraine to me Andy.

I have suffered for years with migraines, they suck.

No - completely different league to migraine Dale - I've had plenty of them and they don't come close.
I also tend to get cluster headaches (often known as "suicide headaches") but this particular one just pushed it right on to another extreme. Fortunately that was a few years ago and not had one of that magnitude again.

Ouch that sounds very nasty. When I get migraines i want to point a gun to my head and pull the trigger, so if they are worse than migraines I can sympathise with the kind of pain you must suffer through. A migraine will typically see me in bed for 24 hours, too.

I had mumps 4 years ago

Acute Orchitis

I need say no more gentlemen

You never had a cute anything

I've had many many broken fingers and broken my nose couple of times(mainly from my karate days).
But by far the worse injury and pain was when I had 2000psi of oil pressure (silicone oil) shoot into my hand. 28 days in hospital and 18 months off work. I had to have a slice of skin taken off the inside of my wrist aprox 3"square(to aid draining of the oil)The worst pain was when they left the dressing on for 4 days on the open wound,and then decided it was a good idea to come and rip it off.female nuses physically couldnt pull it off so,1 male nurse had to hold my arm down while the other had to use both hands to RIP (yes it was a RIP) the dressing off.
Blood splattered up the wall and the floor. I screamed like a little girl and a tear appeared in my eyes. Followed by a volley of swear words.

Wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

You didn't have Bupa membership did you....

I've been a bit careless over the years, broken or fractured hands, ribs, ankle, elbow, but worst by far was last summer when I shattered 4 vertebrae.

That was 4 weeks immobile, 6 weeks in a brace and a couple more months building up the strength to sit / walk for any length of time. First few weeks was the worst I've felt - even breathing hurt, and once I was back upright I couldnt sit or stand for more that about 15mins at a time for the first couple of weeks. Looking back though I probably got away lightly.

Aladinsaneuk wrote:I had mumps 4 years ago

Been there, still got the little string bag for holding the boys safely out the way. Assembled it looked like something off fingerbobs.

I managed to make myself black and purple from knees to shoulders by disassembling a bike with my lower bits before being catapulted into a drainage ditch. That hurt a bit.

Coming round after having my toes off was the most pain I've experienced. Same sensation as a paper cut but bigger. It was holding the bed, back arched and going nnnnggh sort of painful.

i am a retired firefighter unfortunately whilst out on a job 6 years ago i had a brick wall collapse on me, the after being buried for 15 minutes i was pulled out and rushed to A&E, the result of the wall falling on me was a smashed jaw, dislocated shoulder and a knackered knee now that hurt but it didnt hurt as much as when i was told i was no longer "fit for active duty" and would have to take medical retirement

Toothache? No.

Broken wrist? No.

Other broken bones? No.

Busted nose? Not even close.

Smashed ghoulies? Close but no cigar.

Prolapsed disc? Oh yes. Too bloody right. Seriously debilitating and required physio, aqua-therapy, core exercises, and 6 months of standing, no sitting, oh standing, gotta sit, need to stand, can't lie down stuff. Lack of sleep and extreme discomfort allied to the pain threshold of a girlie girl. Not me, the wife.

And I felt like I'd got off lightly after seeing some of the poor sods in the physio sessions having had their spines fused.