The worst pain you've ever experienced.

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For the past couple of days, I have had strep throat. I've had sore throat many times before, but the last time I had strep (extreme sore throat with fever, headache, ear ache, and other stuff.) Every time I swallow, it fell like my tonsils are going to explode and like I'm choking on glass. I think it's worse than the flu because It's persistent. When one has the flu, one throws up once or twice, but that's it. Then one undergoes a usually mild period of discomfort(sometimes one feels intense pain briefly). I'd have to say that this bout of strep throat was one of the worst experiences I've had.

Which begs the question: what is the worst pain you guys have experienced?

Worst pain, labour. Nearly killed me.

The worse pain that I felt was when I broke my leg, at the age of 9.

The wost pain I had was years ago when I was going true an extremely bad depression. I'm not really sure what the worst physical pain I had was but it may of been when I cut the bottom of my foot a couple years ago because I accidentally stepped on the axial of our old laundry cart while barefoot. Had to go to urgent care center because docs office wasn't open at the time. Had to get stitches & miss two weeks of work

In general, every single breakup I've ever had.

Physically, falling off my bike face first into a tree.

I've broken my collar bone a few times, never a pleasant feeling to experience

Not so much the actual breaking itself, but the several days immediately after.

Whilst broken bones give an intense sharp pain, Ive had a broken arm and collar bone from cycle racing, even when my leg was so badly broken it was lieterally hanging off, it was less pain than a grumbling appendix, especially when it finally ruptured.

Maybe thats why in either the Quoran or the Hadiths, those who have experienced pain of the intestines are said to be spared the tortures of the Islamic Hell for thier sins.

a thunderclap headache back when I was a teenager.

Or when my back went out...when I was a teenager.

I had a massive allergic reaction, to corn, that lasted for three days straight and made literally every joint in my body scream in agony. It started with a pain in my jaw and by the end of the first day had spread all the way to my toes. I was in pain non-stop, sometimes to the point of tears. Nothing could relieve the pain. Even lying down in bed was sheer hell.

The doctor blew it off as the flu. I later figured out it was from a corn allergy that at the time I didn't know I had.

That doctor should be fired, how the hell is that a flu.

Probably when I almost died from allergic reactions to penicillin and then ceclor, but I don't remember any of it because I was so young. The worst I can remember was after a broken car antenna tore my arm open. I didn't feel anything at first, but after a few minutes it was terrible. But the worst part was when they injected something into the exposed muscle.

*Cringes*

Technically, that would be correctly described as gastroenteritis, not the flu. It is caused by a variety of pathogens, such as norovirus. Influenza is a family of viruses that infect the respiratory system. This bothers me because when someone says they have the "flu" I want to know exactly what they are talking about. Because I am an emetaphobe. It determines exactly how angry I'm going to get with them for being out in public.

That said, respiratory illnesses can be quite painful. I once had early pneumonia, which in addition to the severe laryngitis you described, also caused severe coughing. After coughing like that for a week I experienced intense pain in my diaphragm and lower back from fatigue. And it hurt ever time I coughed, which was constantly. Still, not the worst pain I've ever felt.


No, it doesn't beg the question, it leads to the question. Question begging is a logical fallacy where someone assumes the initial point to an argument. You're young, so you get a free pass, but anyone else sounds pretentious when they use the term incorrectly.

Hooray, I win!! !! ! ^_^

Oh and by the flu, I meant to say the stomach flu.

Last edited by ShenLong on 04 Jan 2011, 2:05 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Getting a D&C after my miscarriage. Labor wasn't bad thanks to the epidural and they told me labor feels worse.

It's hard to choose, as I have a long history of physical ailments. Getting hit by a car, losing a tiny chunk of my knee and then having it swell up to the size of a softball was pretty painful, but I don't think that gets first place (though that may just be because of the great quantity of opiates I was quickly given). Maybe the time I had two slipped discs and a pinched nerve in my neck. Or heartburn that was so bad, I felt like one of the creatures from Alien was bursting out of my chest and I couldn't so much as swallow my own saliva. Or a severe sinus infection I had for a few months one time.

It's been a pleasant 25 years, let me tell you. ^_^;