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I'm suffering from migraines. Sometimes it feels like the new universe is being born inside of my skull. I'm cold and hot, I can't move and I can't open my eyes. I'm in an absolute darkness and it feels too bright. It's most likely the worst.

Years ago I worked at a fabrication shop. They had a 10 foot manual bending brake, which is a big tool for bending sheet metal. The jaws on that dude were solid steel and probably a couple inches thick.

I had both my hands up to my knuckles in between the jaws and was lining the sheet metal up with the edge of the brake. I didn't realize that the person before me had loosened the jaws up to bend some real thick stuff. When the jaws were loose, they would open and close really easily. Sometimes even falling closed on their own.

It felt like it happened in slow motion. I watched the handle that opens and closes the jaws suddenly swing forward and the upper jaw clamped down on all my fingers. It didn't hurt but I was stuck. I hollered for help but no one else could hear me over some of the other machines running.

A few seconds later, one of the other guys turned around and saw me, he ran over and opened the jaws back up.That's when the pain set in. Holy hell did it hurt. I think must have jumped around, shook my hands out, cried, and yelled a few sentences filled with four letter words until the throbbing was even remotely bearable.

Somehow, miraculously, I didn't lose any fingers. I didn't even break any of them. But they were all black and blue for a good week and a half after that.

I should have been smart enough to know not to stick my fingers in that thing. I wasn't. But I sure as shit never did it again.

I'm currently laid up in bed with some kind of sciatica thing. Not too bad when I'm lying down, but burning agony when I walk.

Still don't think it's the worst I've had, that would probably be when my gall bladder flared up. Couldn't inhale without stabbing pain in my side.

For me pain is multidimensional, there’s different kinds of “worst.” The short drop onto a hospital bed after surgery was by far the strongest, sharpest, brightest pain I ever felt, but it only lasted a millisecond. Kidney stones can be sharp and radiating, but the pain tends to be localized with ebbs and flows. Pancreatitis was not as “sharp” as a kidney stone, but it was bigger, harder to tolerate, more attention consuming, and came with aweful nausea.

ITT: People who have been in tremendous pain that also do not have a great understanding of human biology or medicine in general.

Aftermath of a seizure and car accident. First caused the second within seconds. The seizure pulled every muscle I had and some I didn't even know I had. The wreck caused a nasty concussion, messed up a vertebra in my back, and the resulting brain damage is still affecting me 6 years later.

A rheumatoid arthritis flare in my shoulder bad enough to cause a dislocation. They can't just pop it back in when it's pushed out from the inside, just have to wait for the steroids to kick in and hope for the best. It took 6 months of physio to get 95% range of motion back. But I'm feeling much better now (and just finished a season of night court on dvd from my local library).

Close tie between getting shot close range on my hand and my lower-back hernia that burst while I was doing a squat with weight on my back.

Worst instant of pain: root canal of infected tooth.

Worst overall: 6.5mm kidney stone.

Runner up: gall stone blocking duct.

I think for me, the most painful experience is a tie -- one instance was Appendicitis (which was horrible) and the other instance was having one of our children without an epidural.

I broke my leg when I was a kid. When my family was helping me to the car, I put weight on that broken leg out of instinct of... y'know, how I'd been walking up 'til that afternoon.

It was like a lightning bolt shot through my leg, mind-numbing amounts of pain.

I had a pulmonary embolism about 2 years ago, absolutely awful. The fun part was after I went home from the hospital and coughed up a blood clot.

It's a tie between suicide headaches (which for me are thankfully very short duration) and breaking my funny bone as a teen.

I’ve lived a life mercifully free of pain, but one notable exception was after my weight loss surgery, when referred gas pain near my shoulder made it feel like someone was taking pruning shears to my clavicle. Once they figured out what was going on, some simethicone chased it away pretty quickly. I never would’ve guessed mere gas could hurt like that.

Same as you OP but, it was in my lady bits, not my mouth. Gotta love when glands don't function properly and decide to get blocked. I screamed so loud, the kid across the hall started crying.

I relate to that, needles in the palate/gums is no fun...
My most painful experience though was when my kneecap dislocated and stuck to the side of my leg. Happened twice in my life. The first time when I was ice skating and the second just climbing stairs. Had to take an ambulance trip to the hospital :/

i occassionally get leg cramps that make it so i can't move, so it's impossible to stretch out my leg to stop the cramp

I had a pilonidal cyst that was pretty severe. I would feeder dream from the pain meds and pain about being shot in the head to end the pain.

anesthesia for wisdom teeth was quite bad

feeling of pulling teeth out afterwards is not painful but still unsettling