What is the worst injury/illness you have ever had?

Sam_Fallow

ripplyuk wrote: »

In order of most agony:

Broken clavicle (sounds like nothing, but it was a complicated break and was never set properly). Pain was absolutely unbearable. I was wishing someone would 'put me out of my misery', and I meant it. Memories still haunt me.

Trigeminal Neuralgia
Food poisoning
Pain after breast surgery, when surgeon forgot to prescribe painkillers.
Stomach Ulcers (5 of them at the same time)
Tooth abscess
Fractured wrist

My wife has/had this and it is terrifying...

Trigeminal neuralgia (TN) is considered to be one of the most painful afflictions known to medical practice.

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It's been away for a couple of years but has made a couple of appearances lately. Hopefully the upcoming dental work will rid us of it completely.

ripplyuk if your broken clavicle was worse than this them you have my sympathies.

Me? I've parted company with a motorbike on a few occasions but nothing too serious.

DomRavioli

Broken a fair few bones. Neck was the least painful at the time due to some wonderful painkillers.

Worst pain had to be either my ACL ripping off, or ripping my achilles tendon clean off.

I think the worst looking one was breaking my jaw, cheekbone and eye socket on the way home from the pub where I worked after skidding on ice (shame nobody got £250 quid for it!)

touch*my*food*feel*myfork

WeAreGhosts wrote: »

If we're referring to pain
1. Colic - yep, as an adult ... not fun. Now I know why babies scream.
2. Sinusitis - Absolutely excruciating. No amount of painkillers would ease the pain.

I second No2 weareghosts this was my worst, so overall from reading this thread i think i have been lucky
but it was the worst two months i had all through Christmas and into Feb last year

kingfisherblue

I've never broken anything, but was quite ill with meningitis when I was 21. I was in hospital for three weeks. The only lasting damage is hypersensitivity to light, but that in itself can be very painful.

My migraines are not frequent, but they are very painful when I get them. Frequency has increased and the doctor tells me that this is due to the menopause.

A dental abscess when I was in my twenties was dreadfully painful.

Sciatica and arthritis aren't pleasant, but are manageable. The same for a damaged rotator cuff muscle.

Childbirth without painkillers was bad - the midwife insisted that I wasn't in labour because the machines said so. As it was my third child, and I could definitely feel the contractions, I knew I was in labour. My son (almost 9lb) was born fifty minutes later.

AprilLady

Dislocated my knee when I was a teenager, which still freaks me out when I think about it now!

This thread is terrifying, haha!

catkins

I had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy when I was young. I stupidly thought it was food poisoning and stayed in bed for the weekend. On the Monday morning my husband was so worried about me he called an ambulance. The hospital could not believe I had been able to bear the pain for a weekend without any painkillers and said my pain threshold is obviously very high


I would say though that the migraines I get now are far more painful. I have cried with the pain. Sometimes it is so bad I think I must be dying. Plus I usually vomit every 20 minutes or so even though I don't eat or drink (no point as I can't keep anything down), I can sit up in bed without the room spinning and throwing up. If I need the toilet I have to crawl on my hands and knees to get there. They usually last 2 days and are just awful. It really annoys me when people say they are just a bad headache

faerielight

My bowel perforating, and it was missed for 5 days, because of my mental health condition and my my young age, the hospital refused me a ct scan and kept trying to send me home.misdiagnosing IBS.
... it was unbearable pain. ..

I was so ill, I thought I'd been stabbed., tortured and gutted by a madman.
Worst illness , definitely the resulting sepsis and septic shock. I have never known such delirium, which combined with the pain was terrifying. I had awful hallucinations in the ICU as I fought for my life ,

The resulting colostomy surgery was a continuum of the pain,with wounds that needed 65 staples.

Also, When I was 18 I was mugged by a gang , breaking my nose, jaw and collarbone.. That was scary pain, and the resulting injuries gave me osteo arthritis in my spine , it is worst in my neck. . I now have it in my hands and feet too, plus Plus fibromyalgia. The pain is always there, and sometimes it flares up really badly and it feels like my body's on fire.

I got the bag reversed, but I had 4 further bowel surgeries and they are really painful, but not nearly as bad as those 5 days with a giant hole in my bowel.

ellay864

Worst pain was a tooth abscess.
Worst 'injury' is actually my hip now,,,osteoarthritis has kicked in and I'm having hip replacement in 2 weeks

prosaver

toothache my side of my brain was killing.wouldnt go away..
insane in the membrane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAlNrtcPCLw

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In terms of scariness...not painful ,but for the thought of blindness.. a detached retina..twice in 4 weeks,last year. This followed two years previously two cataract operations. Well done Mr Winder of Royal Hallamshire Hospital Sheffield for giving me my sight back in one eye and Specsavers Doncaster for spotting it just before total blindness in one eye happened.