I had my fair share of health problems,from a major motor vehicle accident with a broken spine,burns,ruptured nerves, etc. to a stroke, a dislocated shoulder and knee, etc.
But the worst one? By far?
A fucking kidney stone. It literally redefined my 10/10 pain level.
I pulled my sciatic nerve. Was bed ridden for a month
Sciatic pain is the worst. Only had what I would consider really bad once (maybe another 2-3 with fainter intense pain lasting a few weeks), but it can bring me to tears. Lying in bed trying to find a position for a moment of respite but it never comes
Yeah. The worst was having to use the restroom. I cried every time for a week
Fucking kidney stone.
You’re not supposed to do that with them.
Cluster Headaches.
Pancreatitis. Intravenous dilaudid for that.
Same for my 4 kidney stones. That’s good shit.
Hard to rate.
When I was a kid, I once feel out of a tree and feel on my lower back strait onto a small stump (maybe 3-4 inches across). Also, as a kid, I was jumping back and forth over a hole. We were installing basement egress windows I was jumping over the hole that was dug. This particular hole had like a water connection or something, a white pipe with a white cap. Anywho fell directly on my lower back of that too.
Some years ago I was doing an obstacle course 5K and I severely rolled my ankle, but I kept going and even did the vertical wall. It didn’t hurt so much that day but it hurt like a son of a gun the next few months.
Of course one can’t forget migraines. Sound hurts, light hurts, the pain that you have also hurts and there’s not much you can do about it.
In high school, some girl that it was okay and funny to repeatedly punch me in the nuts. She only stopped because her brother came out and stopped her.
Losing people I loved.
Inflamed sacroilliac joints causing stabbing pains in my legs while on a city break where we were walking everywhere. Thought it was sciatica at the time but multiple MRIs later was confirmed to be something similar but different…
Never broken a bone so don’t have much to share in terms of the painful experiences.
I had gout.
Omg.
You can take solace in that fact you got a medieval King’s disease though!
Tooth fractured about 90% through at the gum line after I got hit by a car while biking.
It would be ‘fine’ (painful but just really sore like the rest of me) if I bit down on that tooth for a bit to fully seat it, but every time I talked, ate, or otherwise accidentally jostled it it would be like someone jabbed a red hot poker into my face - the crack went across the root and any bit of movement pulled on it.
It was a rough two weeks to get it looked at and a root canal done. I kept getting woken up by searing pain if I moved a bit during the night.
It’s a throw up between dislocating my arm while kiting and wearing both wrist straps for the brake lines. So my arm dislocated in mid air, fell to the ground, kite inflates but doesn’t take off and dragged me along the ground by my dislocated shoulder until I hit a rock.
Falling while climbing solo breaking my ankle and having to crawl out to find help.
And finally crashing while skiing and landing my hip on a rock, the ski patrol didn’t know if I had a spinal injury and couldn’t give me painkillers to get me off the hill, so they took me down a slushy bumpy spring slope on a sledge. Turns out I’d just fractured my hip so after the xray my friends dad the doctor got me loaded up with painkillers to make up for it.
Edit: that’s just some of the worst I can think of, I am very grateful that the human mind cannot remember pain.And people wonder why I don’t do dangerous shit.
Personally I prefer not having life long medical problems.
A lot of people have said that I’m really unlucky, but I’m still skiing, climbing and biking. A disturbing number of my friends have broken their spines at one point or another or have a ridiculous amount of metal holding them up, so I consider myself very lucky indeed.
Also very grateful for the NHS.I hope that realization changes your perspective enough to reconsider how you go about enjoying your hobbies.
As far as I am concerned you’re lucky and because you have yet to experience the injury that changes your life.
It’s not a matter of if, but when, and how. If you keep doing it for long enough you’ll live to experience it and the regrets that come along with it.
With that said I’ve met a lot of people that have a death wish and will continue doing reckless things until it kills them.
Heartbreak, death of friends family, migraines
I’ve been lucky, just throwing my back into spasm.
Paper cut. Mic drop.
Humerus knitting while I’m trying to sleep sitting up without moving it.