The most uncomfortable you've ever been

Surreptitious

73Cat wrote: »

I had a catheter in after an operation, and I had an awful urge to wee. The nurse told me that couldn't be possible, and only took it out when she could see how uncomfortable I was. I p1ssed like a race horse after , the relief !!

I had to start asking to be numbed to get my teeth cleaned. I can't stand it, I would nearly be lifting out of the chair with the pain of the cold water on some teeth.

I love getting my teeth cleaned. It's invigorating!

Mr. FoggPatches

The Raptor wrote: »

I forgot to put my bra on this morning. My nipples were chafing. They were so sore. Nothing I could do all day about it.

Hope he made you breakfast.

dodderangler

I had my back waxed ( about 3 Xmas ago) and a few days later it started to grow back and I was wearing a Xmas jumper out and it was ridiculously itchy and I ended up going home early I couldn't stand the itchyness.

Rubberlegs

Surreptitious wrote: »

I love getting my teeth cleaned. It's invigorating!

I'd rather have a c section!!

learn_more

I was on the tube in London and I felt something around one of my my ankels. I looked down and I saw a piece of material sticking our from the bottom of my trousers and realised it was the pair of underwear that I had worn the day before. I decided just to leave it as if anyone see me attending to my ankel then it would alert them to what had happened.

I waited red-faced till I got to my stop and proceded to walk out of the train and then station exit feeling the underwear falling out more and more as I walking along, making it more and more visible. I dared-not look around to see if anyone noticed. On the street pavement I pulled it out as fast as lightning and though phew thank god that's over and threw the underwear into the nearest bin.

r93kaey5p2izun

Either 32 hours with no water or 10 hours absolutely dying to pee. I know people regularly fast for a full day and are grand but I found the discomfort unbearable after 20 hours or so. I don't know how they manage. The actual pain and discomfort of needing to pee was worse in real terms but the added stress of not having water made it seem much worse compared to knowing that I could/would pee if absolutely necessary.

jonon9

I put up with a very bad wisdom tooth for about a year and two months before getting out. Currently having crippling back pain from five damaged disk in my back 2 are herniated and another on its way out as well due to having no curvature in my lower spine. Also have Degenerative disc disease. On top of that its been wearing on my hip and knee and now gone down into my foot work is an absolute drain.

Surreptitious

Learning to use tampons. Being stuck on a bus to a festival for six hours after drinking a flagon and the bus driver refused to stop for a toilet break.

The flying mouse

Gout .
Suffered with it for a very long time, If you touch my toe with a feather it was like a hammer hitting a nail.

SEPT 23 1989

The flying mouse wrote: »

Gout .
Suffered with it for a very long time, If you touch my toe with a feather it was like a hammer hitting a nail.

Too much good living

Duff

A toss-up between the "dissolving" gauze and stitches that didn't dissolve at all around my twig after circumcision having to be cut off without any anaesthetic when I was 12 or getting dry socket while having a root canal done. Jesus. H. Christ I just wanted to rip my jaw off. Couldn't even inhale air without a pain resembling a bolt of electricity coursing through my head.

appledrop

Got my 4 wisdom teeth removed a few years ago in hospitial. I was fairly ok for the first day or so after having them removed. I then developed an infection + the pain was unreal even when I was dosed up on very strong painkillers. Even childbirth wasn't as bad as that pain!

TPD

Jesus Christ, does anyone get through life without some absolute agony? Unscathed at 27 and worried my luck will run out!

AndrewJRenko

73Cat wrote: »

I had to start asking to be numbed to get my teeth cleaned.  I can't stand it, I would nearly be lifting out of the chair with the pain of the cold water on some teeth.

Last time I went for cleaning, the dentist asked me midway through if I had a fear of dentists, following my grunting and gesturing. I said no, just a fear of pain.

AndrewJRenko

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

Another tooth story

I told the old Eastern Health board butcher that my mouth wasn't numb enough when she started drilling the tooth

She drilled into the nerve

The butcher of Cornmarket?

osarusan

Dry socket after a tooth extraction for me too in terms of physical discomfort.

Being present when a couple had their cheating exposed and broke up (with me the only other person in the room) was pretty uncomfortable though. It didn't even calm down long enough for me to get the hell out of there until it was all over.

Larbre34

The headaches after a spinal tap. I moved after two days and it resulted in my lying in the foetal position in the back of a car practically in tears.

Avoid contact with meningitis outbreaks is my advice.

xzanti

A "hot" tooth.

Bad abscess on a molar that was too volatile to begin treatment on.

Had to wait 48 hours for meds to work on the infection.

Also my jaw clenches in my sleep and it felt like a sledgehammer hitting the tooth every time I tried to nod off.

Really not fun.

The Specialist

Another dry socket story here, pain got so bad I spent 8 hours twisting in bed without any sleep and a pain in my face like someone was punching me every 2 minutes. Hard lesson learned that day, don't smoke cigs after an extraction.

Parchment

Ariel Some Bingo wrote: »

Either 32 hours with no water or 10 hours absolutely dying to pee. I know people regularly fast for a full day and are grand but I found the discomfort unbearable after 20 hours or so. I don't know how they manage. The actual pain and discomfort of needing to pee was worse in real terms but the added stress of not having water made it seem much worse compared to knowing that I could/would pee if absolutely necessary.

I was stuck on a bus for 3 hours as a nervous, shy teen absolutely BURSTING to pee. I was sweating so much from the stress of holding the pee in. I actually had tears in my eyes from the pain.

I was on the bus with lots of classmates and others from my school and i was far too shy to ask the driver could he stop somewhere. So i resigned myself to wetting the seat and then waiting until everyone got off and get off the bus last - thats how shy i was.

Anyway we got to the place sooner than i thought and i bolted off the bus and found a toilet and actually couldnt pee for a minute or so - when i did, the pain was excruciating. i guess my bladder was having some sort of spasm. Ugh i remember the whole thing so vividly.

CruelCoin

Monarch airlines, six hour flight to Egypt.

Cheap charter affair. The tiniest seats you can imagine. Nobody north of 5ft 8inches could fit comfortably in those seats. I'm 6-2. My god damn legs merged with the seat ahead.

**** yeah i paid extra on the way back for 6 inches more legroom!

Lady Chatterton

I used to think 28 hours of labour was tough until I got gallstones. I never experienced anything as painful as gallstones.

Itssoeasy

TPD wrote: »

Jesus Christ, does anyone get through life without some absolute agony? Unscathed at 27 and worried my luck will run out!

Buy a lotto ticket would be my advice.

Knine

Lady Chatterton wrote: »

I used to think 28 hours of labour was tough until I got gallstones. I never experienced anything as painful as gallstones.

Oh yes I had several ambulance trips with this. Morphine became my best friend. Never ever will I forget that pain. I'd sooner have 10 kids with 28 hours of labour.

Itssoeasy

I had the septum in my nose corrected when I was sixteen. The surgery was grand as I was out cold. But when I was coming around I was sick as a dog. Apparently I had swallowed a **** load of blood and I felt rotten. They had to eventually give me an injection to stop me getting sick constantly.

bear1

I've got two.

1) a few years ago I noticed a small spot growing just behind my shoulder. Thought nothing of it and left it so that my body would take care of it instead.
Fast forward a couple of years and this spot is still there, wasn't causing any pain so wasn't really bothered. Stupid move.
Then comes January 2015.
Woke up during the night with blinding pain and my entire shoulder swollen.
Couldn't get an appointment quickly so I was an extra week of this excruciating pain.
Got to the hospital for the check up and they rushed me into surgery and I mean ****ing legged it.
I then had to endure about 1 hour of awake surgery whilst they opened up the spot which had grown amazingly big and scooped entire thing out.
Turns out a hair had grown under my skin and due to me doing nothing made it become so infected and inflamed creating a massive cyst that it risked bursting internally and all the infected blood entering my blood stream.

2) kidney stones... omg. It hit me during a canoeing trip one summer. I remember crying out of the pain. I think it lasted about 3/4 hours and the constant having to pee feeling was beyond torture.
Eventually I peed it out which when I felt it leave was even worse. But the moment it ended... wow.

naughtysmurf

Hunting a cow out of a milking parlour, she raised a rear leg and gave it to me in the upper thigh area with some force narrowly missing the crown jewels, that was fecking painful

A great technique with dentists is to always make sure they are male, once in the chair, grab their testicals, don't let go, look them in the eye and say, "We're not going to hurt each other, are we?"

Leogirl

Larbre34 wrote: »

The headaches after a spinal tap. I moved after two days and it resulted in my lying in the foetal position in the back of a car practically in tears.

Avoid contact with meningitis outbreaks is my advice.

Jesus the headaches are shocking!! I've been through childbirth, a mastectomy and a boob job this year- nothing like the pain of that!! Only time I've ever cried begging for pain relief.

Itssoeasy

bear1 wrote: »

I've got two.

1) a few years ago I noticed a small spot growing just behind my shoulder. Thought nothing of it and left it so that my body would take care of it instead.
Fast forward a couple of years and this spot is still there, wasn't causing any pain so wasn't really bothered. Stupid move.
Then comes January 2015.
Woke up during the night with blinding pain and my entire shoulder swollen.
Couldn't get an appointment quickly so I was an extra week of this excruciating pain.
Got to the hospital for the check up and they rushed me into surgery and I mean ****ing legged it.
I then had to endure about 1 hour of awake surgery whilst they opened up the spot which had grown amazingly big and scooped entire thing out.
Turns out a hair had grown under my skin and due to me doing nothing made it become so infected and inflamed creating a massive cyst that it risked bursting internally and all the infected blood entering my blood stream.

2) kidney stones... omg. It hit me during a canoeing trip one summer. I remember crying out of the pain. I think it lasted about 3/4 hours and the constant having to pee feeling was beyond torture.
Eventually I peed it out which when I felt it leave was even worse. But the moment it ended... wow.

:eek: you had surgery in your senses ? When you mean awake surgery do you mean not a general aneastetic? I'm assuming the shoulder was numbed.

bear1

Itssoeasy wrote: »

:eek: you had surgery in your senses ? When you mean awake surgery do you mean not a general aneastetic? I'm assuming the shoulder was numbed.

Fully awake and aware.
They numbed it but it wouldn't take effect so they kept sticking the area with needles to put it sleep.
But it only numbed the upper layer and they needed to get to the root which was far down and that was done without any sort of pain relief.
I remember trembling and my face turned pure grey.
Wife said I couldn't talk and mumbled everything.
Remember also the blood rushing down my neck and the feeling I was going to vomit from the pain.

lassykk

This thread is up high on my list.

Don't know why I read it

Literally the most squeamish squeamish person in the world. I'll have nightmares about kidney stones and circumcisions

retalivity

The 24-36 hrs before i needed to get an orchidectomy due to testicular torsion, went from mild discomfort to highly uncomfortable ti outright agony. That pain was only bettered by the epidural required before surgery, 2 dics/nurses were required to hold me hunched over to stop me squurming as i got it....horrible

It was also uncomfortable as hell having discussions about the whole process with my granny afterwards

Cupcake_Crisis

dodderangler wrote: »

I had my back waxed ( about 3 Xmas ago) and a few days later it started to grow back and I was wearing a Xmas jumper out and it was ridiculously itchy and I ended up going home early I couldn't stand the itchyness.

It shouldn't be growing back after a few days!

It's a tie between flying back from tenerife with what could only be described as third degree burns. Only got burned the day before so it was a 4 hour Ryan air flight where every time there was turbulance it was like acid being thrown on my skin.

The other was walking home after an 8 hour tattoo session on my foot. Sheer agony.

MilesMorales1

In terms of pain, man so many. One that jumps to mind is when I was a teenager, got jumped walking home from school, got a right kicking and got my wallet nicked and stuff. My arm was twisted the wrong way, so painful I was literally crying. Lot of stuff going on at home at the time, so I thought it might just fix itself or whatever, so I waited all night, about 6pm till 7am the next morning before going to a parent with my ****ed arm and a few cuts that needed stitches. Painful as ****.

MC707

Pneumonia. Got a dose of it a few years ago. Started as a slight ache on one side of my back. Thought it was a pulled muscle. Slept on the opposite side that night only to wake up at about 3am in absolute agony. Thought my number was up. Still thought it was just a muscular problem until I noticed some blood in my phlegm. Funny enough, the recovery was pretty straight forward after the first day or so of taking medication. Glad I got it sorted before it spread to the other lung.

Snugglebunnies

Having a poo after a c section 😂

suicide_circus

Explosive diarrhoea on an 11 hour train in Thailand. Mind you it was no picnic for the other passengers either.

fixXxer

5rtytry56 wrote: »

Some time after taking a sachet of

PICOLAX

I've got a drawer full of that beside me right now

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

I once went to this salon for a few different treatments, she was a really young girl and was recommended to me for eyebrows but I booked in a wax with her too. So she's waxing away and she had me in a very intimate position, when she starts talking about women that don't bother waxing, and what her male friends say about an unwaxed bikini area. There was absolutely no filter at all. I have never in my life felt like dropping dead from embarrassment.


Physically uncomfortable would be once after I had an accident I was brought into surgery for an op, and was given a general anaesthetic, which took a while for me to come out of. They came along and gave me a local anaesthetic into my kneecap and I swear to god even though I wasn't properly awake I remember the tears rolling down my face. It was the worst pain ever, even worse than my smashed bones they had tried to fix.

fixXxer

When I was a kid I used to get nose bleeds (like 20 times a week if it was a dry summer, I'd wake up and I'd be stuck to the pillow in a massive pool of dried blood) a lot so they decided to cauterize the vein to stop it. I sat in the chair and with out saying anything the Doctor dipped a gauze in some liquid and proceeded to force it right up inside my nose. He had to hold my head in place because of my surprised struggling and it felt like he was trying to get the gauze right into the center of my skull. Horrible horrible sensation. Did the trick though, hardly ever have a nose bleed now.

Oh and there was the time I had to get wisdom teeth which had fused to the bone cut out of my jaw with an electric saw under a local anesthetic. He cut the teeth in four and then pulled each piece out with a pliars. I literally sang every song I could think of at the top of my lungs while the dentist worked away.

Oh and the kidney stone.

Exiled1

Kidney stone..... bad ache for three days and then 12 hours of unmitigated agony.
After a Vasectomy.... for five days like being kicked hard in the goolies .... the John Wayne walk was enforced!

Carlos Orange

It wasn't that physically painful but there was the time I went for a walk and about 14km into it I realised my nipples were bleeding and there were visible blood stains on my tshirt. Kinda awkward walking down the street like that.

DrumSteve

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

In terms of just extreme discomfort rather than pain, about 8 years ago I drank quite a lot of Vodka Red Bull on a night out (maybe 10 doubles or so), the next day every waking moment felt like I was on the brink of going through cardiac arrest. The day was a struggle to get through, have never felt anything like it before or since, though wisely I don't drink Vodka Red Bull anymore.

Oddly enough, I thought I was the only one that happened to.

Happened to me in Bulgaria, honestly thought I was having a heart attack on the bus the following day.

josip

Getting a testicular biopsy done by a George Clooney look alike with the medical equivalent of a Hilti gun

Greenduck

Breaking my funny bone. Not funny funnily enough :pac:

goz83

I've got a bunch of them...haven't been the luckiest, but the one that stands out is a few months after an L4/5 back injury, I was given new pain medication to try. In the morning, I went to the toilet. I was vomiting and the pain in my back was UNREAL. I stood up and had a massive pain and collapsed. When I came to, I couldn't feel my legs. Ambulance was called and eventually sensation returned...along with pain, but that was the worst I have ever been. They started me on morphine after that

fussyonion

If we're talking pain, then definitely gallstones.

I remember when I first became aware of it; lying on my front on the bed and I got this excruciating pain under my chest, and when I breathed in, the pain was sharp and sickening.

The pain radiated through to my back and I ended up sitting on the bed, rocking back and forth, going hot and cold until eventually I threw up and the pain went.

I had these attacks frequently; always made worse if I ate high fat or greasy foods, but then it happened if I drank coffee too.

The pain would be so bad I often wondered if I'd actually survive it.
The only way the pain would stop was if I threw up and I remember sipping Gaviscon to help me get sick. (The texture of the stuff always made me vomit).

I could be in the bathroom for an hour or two just leaning forward on the sink, telling my other half not to talk to me, to just leave me to it.
You can't do anything when you're like that.

Ended up in hospital three times (they gave me morphine for the pain which was beautiful), before they finally removed my gallbladder.

I remember telling a woman in hospital about gallstones and she said she'd had them too.
She also had five children previously and said she'd rather give birth to all five at once without an epidural than go through the pain of gallstones ever again.

If we're talking just being uncomfortable, then that would be the time I was a passenger in a car and was absolutely bursting for a wee.

We were driving and driving and every bump on the road made my bladder wobble with agony.
The relief when I went; it was heaven.

xzanti

Snugglebunnies wrote: »

Having a poo after a c section 😂

This, and the general recovery from a section is awful.

Also, my epidural went wrong and I was left with an air bubble in my spine, suffered crippling headaches on top of the c section wound. Getting up to feed a newborn every three hours in a roasting hot hospital ward, in that much pain is quite a challenge.

Also, getting the gels (or a sweep as it's called) to try send me into labour. Ouch!!!!!

Also, post tonsillectomy throat spasms. They were fun.

Kidney stones the same week as a root canal and leaving my tooth meds at home in the rush to the hospital with the stones. Waking up with the morphine wearing off and the tooth being more painful than the stones.

My one year old poked me in the eye and I quickly developed an infection in the eye, went to the local emergency clinic that night, as it was Christmas and my GP was closed. Waiting hours in the waiting room in agony.

Maximus Alexander

I was on a flight to London and I had the middle seat. To my right there was a guy who was all elbows taking up the armrest between us. I wasn't going to give in so I made sure I clawed back my half of the arm rest, but it meant our forearms were basically touching for most of the, what, 30 minute flight time?

wuzziwig

Appendicitis, followed by ruptured appendix. Sweet Jesus I'll never forget the pain. I'll also never forget sweet, sweet morphine and how it took the pain away. Oh and also how it turned the ugly doctor into a total hottie and I constantly whispered to my sister at the top of my voice how gorgeous he was. While he stood beside me grinning.