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

Mrs_Ryan

Probably the pain I was in for months before my cancer diagnosis because two separate 'doctors' (I use that term loosely as they were very negligent) insisted I was 'too young' to have anything seriously wrong with me and refused to do anything about it because I hadn't had children. I got written apologies after I finally got diagnosed.
Secondly, probably the pain from the benign tumours on my spine which is horrific;
Thirdly, the pain of gallstones which my GP tried to tell me was trapped wind and I should just relax and drink peppermint tea. Two days later I was admitted to hospital with a raging temperature and in excruciating pain where the doctor was not amused with my GP...

ERICS_MUM

Pain from an accident - sprained ankle and fractured tiny bone in my foot due to tripping and falling awkwardly on the pavement. I didn't faint but given the pain it might have been better to do so !

Pain from illness: tooth abscess 35 years ago. I thought my head would explode and in the end I went to a major teaching hospital that luckily had a dental school which saw me as an emergency. Then a few years ago an infected gall bladder. The pain came on within a matter of hours, I had no idea what it was. Went to A&E and admitted urgently. First 2 weeks I was on IV antibiotics and pain killers. End of 2nd week I had open surgery to remove the gb which the surgeon described as a bag of pus waiting to explode. 3rd week in hospital I was on more antibiotics, morphine pump , nil by mouth and catheter. Unbelievable pain.

Ben84

Worst is subjective. Having a bowel tumour and large section of my bowel removed sounds terrible, and was clearly major surgery, but actually I was up a ladder four days after leaving hospital stacking books in the shop. I was tired, but I was good enough. In contrast, having my impacted wisdom teeth out was a nightmare and I've never felt sicker. Two weeks later I actually felt worse than the day after and not only hadn't gone out the house the whole time, I didn't even care I hadn't. It's not always the scary sounding stuff that's the bad stuff.

judyjetson

Dislocating my elbow during a judo completion, and having my instructor putting it back in on the mat, in front of everyone. It popped right back out at hospital getting it x-rayed as I'd also tore some ligaments.

Running through a full length window, thinking it was the open door next to it (didn't have my specs on), cutting my face and head quite badly.

Rotator cuff injury - the pain was horrific.

My husband would say his were, in order of pain sinusitis, sciatica and worst of all, gout.

uberalles

In terms of immense pain, I've had 6 months of sciatica, lopped the top of my finger off with an electric hedgecutter and had an electric shock barefooted on grass that threw me onto my back.

But the worst pain I had was my knee pushed sideways resulting in torn knee ligaments from playing football. Only lasted about 30 minutes but was pure agony.

Bob_Dean

Dislocated elbow doing judo, I had to wait overnight before they could put it back in under a general anaesthetic, I do not know how I managed to get some sleep but managed one or two hours.

Constipation, the pain just would not go away.

In tearms of embarasing ones emergancy circumcision at 13, luckly it was in the school holidays but who wants an operation down there.

PasturesNew

My worst is probably something simple, like when I fell off my bicycle 40 years ago and landed in the gutter in a pile of glass/gravel where the remnants of a prior car accident had been swept ... and I got some grit/glass in my knee. Had to have that picked out.

Mary-

I have had a few things but the worst was a Frozen Shoulder which resulted in months of pain.
Any slight movement of the arm sent horrible pain which actually made you cry.
I had several steroid injections and physio for months as the I ended up with hardly any movement in my arm.
Strong pain meds did not help and it was only when I started taking a med named Amytripiline did I get any relief from the pain but this med also makes you very sleepy so its hard to take.

I have also had Planter Fasciltis which I also had for months and needed steroid injections.

Lastly the other bad pain was an eye ulcer which causes pain and any light causes the pain to become worse so you have to wear sunglasses. You need to take antibiotic and steroid drops to clear this.

happilymarried2013

I've broken pretty much everything in my time. Not all at once mind.

Broke 3 ribs taking toast out of the toaster, rebroke them last winter coughing.

My toes I broke when I was 3/4 get excruciatingly painful when they get too cold, to the point where I remember breaking down in the car and having to wait 45 minutes in -4 temps then going home and crying on the phone to my Mam while my toes defrosted.

Tonsillitis is the most painful thing I've had recently, hallucinating from the pain was fun.

robbyfine

Broken arm was the most serious what I had