I still maintain that food poisoning/stomach flu are worse than L&D, because it's all bad, and the recovery feels longer. I think only about a half-hour to an hour of L&D was unbearable agony, whereas I had almost a full day of it with the stomach thing last time. Also, while I was tired after L&D, it was more in the way of acute workout exhaustion, and stomach thing was more in the way of death warmed over exhaustion.

This sounds like appendicitis if you add in sharp, abdominal pain. And reminds me that the intestinal flu (including internal bleeding) I once had should also go on the list.

I think my worst pain was the morning after my ankle surgery, when the guy came in at 5AM to put me in a cast, and he had to try and straighten my ankle out. And I was still on morphine.

I swear to god, people, not only am I never doing anything more physically active than riding an escalator again, I may never eat anything other than popcorn, either.

Oh my god, juliana, I'm having sympathy agony just reading that.

When I got hit in the diaphragm and passed out, it wasn't exactly painful. I just couldn't breath. And then I was waking up on the ground. Not a lot of pain.

I think the worst pain I've ever been in was reproductive organ malfunctioning.

just about every injury I've had has seen me thinking to myself "If it was really broken (or whatever) it would hurt more". At least I have learned not to trust my self assessment on that basis.

not only am I never doing anything more physically active than riding an escalator again, I may never eat anything other than popcorn, either.

I've scraped my shin on the nasty escalator treads.

Popcorn hulls jamming into your gums.

IJS.

Okay, this is *seriously* funny stuff. (And much more enjoyable than swapping "worst pain EVAR" stories.) I actually had to look up the Kellogg's website for something work-related (loooong story), and they have a section that's all about the mascot characters, including Snap, Crackle, Pop, and the Keebler Elves, with character profiles for each. And the profiles (especially of the elves) are *really* funny. Go here: [link] and click on either "Kellogg's characters" or "Keebler Elves."

Popcorn hulls jamming into your gums.

Yeah, that hurts.

And you gotta worry about trailing hems getting caught in the escalator and pulling you into the grainding sharp teeth of the escalator.

Or maybe that's just in my head.

I've scraped my shin on the nasty escalator treads.

Popcorn hulls jamming into your gums.

But neither of those things hurts like what you people are talking about!!

And you gotta worry about trailing hems getting caught in the escalator and pulling you into the grainding sharp teeth of the escalator.

Crap. Escalator out. OK.

just about every injury I've had has seen me thinking to myself "If it was really broken (or whatever) it would hurt more".

In first aid, they teach you that a symptom of a broken bone is "obvious injury without significant pain." I know it didn't seem to hurt all that much when I broke my hand.