IMO the worst feeling is when your finger goes through the toilet paper and you end up going up your own poopy ass. 😖
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Ah yes, getting in touch with your inner self.
Shame is pain.
That’s not physical, though. They specifically asked for physical pain. No, psychosomatic things don’t count, IMO. (although the post on phantom pain is interesting none the less)
Being forced to walk on a leg that has fallen asleep.
Maybe I’m weird, but I don’t get pins and needles. When my limbs fall asleep, it’s never painful. But as the blood is rushing back on, it’s like the most intense ticklish feeling in the world. Gosh I hate it.
If I move at all as my limb is regaining feeling, all of those muscles will seize up and my brain just keeps firing and firing and firing this tickles! until I can actually feel that limb again. Whew. Torture.
Come on, is impossible
The urologist feeding this 8mm camera tube through my penis for a bladder endoscopy and taking his time to explore all the nooks and crannies was slightly uncomfortable.
“Jesus Christ doc, stop fucking sightseeing and wrap it up!”
Mate that camera is at least anatomically compatible and smooth on the sides.
Try getting a scrub down your peehole in search of any type of pus and pray they find something quickly lest they search deeper.
And don’t ask me how I know.
r/sounding is disappointed in you. Embrace the feeling! :D
I can’t remember if it was the exact same procedure, but I’ve had something very similar when I had a bladder biopsy done, but I’m going to beat you on making someone else uncomfortable :D
For anyone who doesn’t know, these procedures start with an anaesthetic gel being squirted into your penis through a syringe to numb everything, then the camera and tools get inserted. It’s been a while, but from what I remember, some air gets pushed in along with everything else. The nurse warned me that the air coming out can be uncomfortable. I also had to have a pretty full bladder for the procedure.
Afterwards, I needed to pee straight away, so used the toilet next to the waiting room. When I went, it burned a bit from the gel wearing off and everything just generally being tender. Suddenly though, I had this feeling of intense pressure, and a fireball forced its way out followed by some boiling pee. I used my free hand to steady myself, and my knees almost buckled. I let out an involuntary ‘Jesus Christ!’. I finished and cleaned up, and the nurse met me outside the door.
She had a huge grin on her face, and said ‘I told you it would sting’, then nodded towards the waiting room, where about half a dozen terrified looking men had apparently heard me :D
No thanks, I’m not reading this
Ok you’ve got the price
Do they fill it full if water like they do for the kidney scan? That was super uncomfortable, but kind of cool to see on the monitor…
Amputation pain is right up there, followed closely in the long term by phantom pain.
Then nausea.
Then tinnitus.A large part of why they’re the worst for me is that you can’t do anything about them.
My dad lost his arm in the late 90s in a work related accident. He described it as painful but was surprised at how it didn’t feel worse right there and then. Probably due to shock.
He was working alone in the middle of the night with his tractor when it happened, so he picked up what remains of his left arm he could find into a bucket and drove to the local nursery home because he knew there were people awake there 24/7. I guess that’s one definition of grace under pressure.
Upon arrival he got the emergency help he needed there and then and a while later he told us that while waiting for the medevac helicopter to be summoned, he was annoyed again about the pain, thinking “Isn’t this where I’m supposed to faint?”.
Later he had the occasional phantom pain. He didn’t struggle with it that much, and it usually passed after a few moments, but he told me that the worst parts was when he had an itch, or a finger was Ina weird position, he could do nothing about it since the limb simply wasn’t there anymore.
His arm was severed by a tractor-operated snowblower right below the elbow.
Fun fact: When the thaw of spring arrived he was happy to learn that someone had found his wristwatch in the retreating ice. Still working just fine. A little later someone found a wedding ring and correctly guessed that it belonged to the guy who got maimed there a few months earlier.
the worst parts was when he had an itch,
Yeah. I don’t struggle with the pain so much: I have it, but it’s mostly like electric shocks, and somehow it feels like a TENS machine. So as long as it’s not too intense or too long, I’m okay.
But I really struggle with itching.
I just lumped itching with phantom pain because it’s easier to explain to people who don’t know.
Chronically, kidney stones followed by gall bladder stones. Acutely, cramp anywhere in the leg.
You now know how to instantly relieve a leg cramp, right?
Of course! You leap out of bed and stagger around the room whilst shouting, “Oh, god! Oh, christ! Arrgh!” The cramp eases off in as little as 5 minutes’ time.
Please, do tell. Cramp is annoying pain, because it tends to lock my leg up when it happens.
Stretch against whatever muscle is cramping. It’s counter intuitive and sounds like it would hurt like hell. Instant relief.
For me the pain was similar at the peak, but gallstone pain would fade in and out, while kidney stone pain was unrelenting.
Gallstones made me not being able to sleep at all, paracetamol had no effect. Don’t know about other types of pain, but gallstones was the worst for me.
That just reenforce my decision to keep my unopened box of the good pain medication…
Got it on prescription after getting a wisdom tooth removed, but never needed them…
Nausea, at least, personally. It’s worse than pain.
That constant nausea that you’re trying so hard to fight back, but your mouth keeps filling with saliva because it’s ready for you to vomit?
Yep.
Fuck everything about all of that.
I second that.
Back in May I had a stress overload and for a solid month or so I was CONSTANTLY nauseous (among other things). And it was that type of nausea that didn’t make you vomit, it just made you feel that you were about to. Absolutely horrid times.
hate nausea so much. i’m scared of being sick soo bad
There is no better feeling than the serenity of having just vomited away the ache after your guts have been waging civil (and uncivil) war on yourself for hours.
I once broke and dislocated my shoulder, and having a broken arm jammed back into a dislocated shoulder was bad enough to induce a blackout.
But other than that, getting kicked in the nuts.
I had an unstable rotator cuff for years. Dislocated shoulder is an awful feeling.
When your left ovary grows a cyst and in 24 hours it is pushed all the way to your right side and dies in the process.
Child birth without pain killers is a warm summer breeze compared to that.
Fucking wait and see…
If we’re talking about unpleasant sensations, there’s one I get that makes me feel nauseous that I can only describe as being like a smooth grooved surface with unwanted lumps in it and I’m travelling and lurching over it in some unseen dimension. (I’ve actually met at least one other person who described this without me mentioning it first, so it might be somewhat common. I have no idea.)
I was watching a Let’s Play video of a video game the other day and the texture for the water’s surface in-game somehow reminded me of it, and it made the video hard to watch.
If we’re talking about actual pain, I’ve had food-related (possibly also medication-related) stomach pain that had me curled in a ball thinking I was going to die and then thinking that might not actually be such a bad idea because then the pain would stop.
I now assume that that must be similar to what some people go through with period cramps. No way I’d want to do that once a month. The handful of times it happened to me was more than enough.
Honourable mention: The weird sting and sensation that isn’t actually a smell but is somehow in my nose if I accidentally touch a hidden juvenile thistle in a lawn. Those things are prickly monsters that are just a shade bluer than grass and you often don’t see them until you’ve put your hand on one. Other sharp pains sometimes trigger that “smell” as well. I always associate it with the colour of those thistle leaves though.
They asked for physical pain, so psychosomatic likely doesn’t count. Not that they’re uninteresting topics or anything…
I used to have similar “pain” from trying to imagine the scale of things. Like when I was a young teen, I’d try to literally visualize what a mile of terrain looked like, or the insanely small scale of molecules, and suddenly I’d lose reference to what ‘normal’ scale was, and it’d freak me out completely when it felt like the room I was in was both miniscule and insanely vast.
Not really pain, but extreme discomfort that you cannot make go away. There’s a term for losing ones’ frame of reference for scale, but it escapes me at the moment. Luckily, I got better and better at visualizing things and vast scales stopped triggering what ever that was. Some people have it as a general disability and ohhh boy do I not envy them!
OP’s example is having a toilet paper accident and poking their own rectum, which I doubt is the most painful thing in the world and other people are going for the “most painful” interpretation, so I thought I’d cover all bases.
Mains power went through my face. It felt like every tooth had a serious toothache for a while.
Toothache. Most general pain I can just tolerate until it goes away. But I become completely useless with a toothache. I’m not productive and I’m irritable. I grab a painkiller as soon as I can.
This one just recently as I’m getting older: lower back pain. Getting up after sitting down for a while in an awkward position and the pain is so bad that I literally collapse into a squatting position with my hands on the ground until I can slowly get up again.
Do stretches, my friend. World of difference so long as you don’t have some underlying musculoskeletal or pain issue. You don’t have to exercise to feel decent, but stretching is absolutely necessary. If you don’t know where to begin, try some yoga sets, and don’t worry about hitting the perfect pose.
Tacking onto this person’s post:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sun+Salutation&ia=images&iax=imagesSun salutations are an easy, flowing set of poses that stretch a lot of your body. I didn’t really take classes but had an opportunity for a couple months to do yoga with an instructor in a group setting and our group had every body type. If someone struggled with a particular pose, there’s either a way to modify it or try something similar
The sessions were great. Sometimes I was able to push myself physically, but they weren’t geared for that; just chill beginner yoga. I certainly did see progress in myself though, and was bummed when they ended
Oh well, a lumbar puncture was quite horrible. Especially since it took a lot of tries to get through correctly.
Ugh, docs/nurses with poor needle work are the worst. (as far as something people are actually very likely to encounter)
Most discomfort I ever felt was when I had to have an endoscope put down my nose. They didn’t tell me I had to inhale the local anaesthetic so I felt the endoscope scraping against the back of my mouth and throat. I’ve sniffed the spray every time since!
How was it after the anaesthetic?
Some mild discomfort but I managed to grin and bear it. There was a nasty aftertaste and numbness for half an hour afterwards too.
Post surgery abdominal air bubble.
You just have to wait until it absorbs.
Idk what that actually feels like, but reading this made me think of that pain in your chest when you drink cold water too fast after being out in the heat all day. But in the abdomen 😩
Yes! Nailed it! But bigger
Being awake for WAAAAY too long and you still have a few more hours until you can go to sleep.
