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.

Yeah, burns scare the fuck out of me.

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

Kinda like getting a red-hot toothpick dragged through your skin's top layers?

More like a red-hot scalpel. But, yeah.

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! 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.

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.

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.

yesterday was fetishes, today is pain - what does that make tomorrow?

Those are necessarily different topics depending on the fetish.

More like a red-hot scalpel. But, yeah.

I thought cat scratch. I like how we all compared it to something.