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Question inspired by a Charley horse that hit in the middle of the night.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Holy shit, came here to say that. Nothing compares to the pain of having a tube inserted in your urethra all the way down to the bladder, and as the tube is turned (it's a camera) it hits the sides of the bladder and it starts to bleed, and it burns like nothing I've felt before.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

When they pulled out the camera I asked "Oh, does the camera come out of that big housing?". "No, that is the camera." 😮

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Brain freeze. Does the ability to get it go away as you get older or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Press your tongue to the roof of your mouth to warn it more quickly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Drinking water helps it go away faster.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No, I get them worse than ever now.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thankfully breaking a bone. The only time I broke one was back in the summer of 1999 on the way out to the car with my family, I think we were headed into town for something when I slipped on our porch and fell weird. As my parents supported me down to the car, out of instinct I put weight on my broken leg.

I can still remember the loss of absolutely everything else, my mind was just flooded with that agony.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry to hear that. Though a broken pain must not necessarily mean severe pain. It depends on which bone you break, where and how. You got unlucky there. I had a couple of broken bones, my big toe, my hand and part of my hip (not the joint, but the Illium, which has a purely protective function), and in all those cases the pain was managable without painkillers, as long as I didn't move the injured body part at least. It was always a closed wound and there was a crack in the xray but the bone had not moved much out of place and never needed an operation. Also adrenaline played a role, I broke my hand at a Judo competition and at first just thought I just bruised, but the paramedid noticed that it moved where it shouldn't.

With all my traumatic injuries I was consoled by the fact that soon I will arrive in the hospital, will be cared for and the pain will stop.

The worst pains I had were a severe tooth ache and strong migrain attacks. It was worsened by the fact that I didn't know when the pain will end.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

First day of school.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I once had an open fracture. What was strange was that I was so hopped up on adrenaline, I didn't even notice at first. The pain I've had from things like a calf cramp was way, way worse. In this case I called my own ambulance and they loaded me in and were like "uh. Does that hurt?" And I was like "Oh, does it hurt? Yeah, I guess it should, shouldn't it?"

[–] imaqtpie 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Stubbing my big toe. Ouch!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Getting hit in the balls.

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