My worst pain ever was a burn from having a potholder slip when taking a big tray of tuna melts out of a 500-degree oven. It was only a second-degree burn, but it had the feeling of a sharp, finite pain with the endurance of an ache.
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Susan W. - Sep 27, 2007 9:55:41 am PDT #7379 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
hippocampus - Sep 27, 2007 9:59:02 am PDT #7380 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
connie! owowowowowowowow.
Stephanie - Sep 27, 2007 10:00:26 am PDT #7381 of 10001
Trust my rage
I think constant, low-grade pain wears you out mentally as well as actually hurting. My brother has ankle pain that's probably at least medium grade, but it is all. the. time. and he can never get away from it.
I found labor pain to be scary because it sort of takes over your whole body, but like Trudy's mom, I knew it was a) for a purpose and b) would have a definite end.
brenda m - Sep 27, 2007 10:04:01 am PDT #7382 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Yeah, burns scare the fuck out of me.
hippocampus - Sep 27, 2007 10:04:05 am PDT #7383 of 10001
not your mom's socks.
I don't get to rate the migraines either, but I've never had one that put me in the hospital. {ita} they just make me blind and pukey.
yesterday was fetishes, today is pain - what does that make tomorrow?
it was a) for a purpose and b) would have a definite end.
this. though that didn't stop me from telling the OB 'we don't have to do this right now...' t /chicken
Steph L. - Sep 27, 2007 10:05:46 am PDT #7384 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Kinda like getting a red-hot toothpick dragged through your skin's top layers?
More like a red-hot scalpel. But, yeah.
beekaytee - Sep 27, 2007 10:18:16 am PDT #7385 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
My tattoo didn't hurt at all, though I was fully prepared for the big ow.
I've had third degree burns that really hurt...
But the very tiptopworst pain ever in my entire life was being struck by a stingray. Nerve toxin. Rollercoaster of going from eleventy-thousand, down to 943, lulling you into a false sense of I-might-survive. I didn't even take aspirin at that point in my life and I was screaming for narcotics. Sort of wish I'd just passed out. Nifty scar and a story full of fun details...totally. not. worth. it.
My at-the-time boyfriend's mother still won't go into the ocean without sneakers, some 16 years later.
Connie Neil - Sep 27, 2007 10:18:26 am PDT #7386 of 10001
brillig
connie! owowowowowowowow.
Oh, yeah. the new apartment's bedroom was wallpapered in shelving paper, and there was a mold I wasn't yet aware of being allergic to growing there. That was a hell of a weekend.
erikaj - Sep 27, 2007 10:29:05 am PDT #7387 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Muscle spasms hurt a lot, mostly because when the tightened muscles move around, it kind of starts over... the other pain I have a lot of experience with is abdominal, which doesn't feel the same at all, but can hurt a lot.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 27, 2007 10:34:28 am PDT #7388 of 10001
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Appendcitis was pretty bad, but I know that was near a 10 because it didn't burst. That's MUCH worse from everything I've heard.
Some of my recurring chronic leg/foot pains are bad. Basically arthiritis in it's early stages (and a lifetime of flat feet). They mainly cause problems (aside from with walking) at night, because they keep me awake, and feel like they hurt worse.
I have had some headaches (some hangovers, some not) that made me feel that ripping my eyeballs would be prefarable to the pain I was feeling.