is this the medical term for "twisted testicle"?

WTF? Why on earth would anyone do this? (The answer, I'm sure, is childish stupidity and/or being dared.)

I've been pretty lucky. Worst pain is probably popping my knee out of joint (dislocating it?) from sitting on it weird--I'm double jointed. Hurt so bad that I popped it back in myself, pain only lasted ~10 seconds.

Also, this thread has made my deeply terrified of someday getting a kidney stone.

Yes, the testicles twists inside the sac and the twisting cuts off the blood supply. Without blood, the testicles starts to die, which causes intense pain, supposedly like getting kicked in the nuts but the pain remains at that high level the whole time. If you make it to the OR in time, they can cut open your scrotum, untwist your testicles, and sew it in place so it doesn't twist again. If you don't make it to the OR in time, the testicle dies and gets taken out.

Breaking both the bones in my arm playing football in the 7th grade. It ended up being at about a 90 degree angle just hanging there. It wasnt as much the initial break that was bad but going to the hospital and having it snapped back into place, even with painkillers it felt like someone was trying to rip my arm off and was succeeding.

1. Dropped an exercise bike on my neck which didnt hurt that bad at the time but a few days later I was throwing the baseball turned my neck a certain way felt like 10000 red hot needles were jamming me in the left side of my face/neck/upper body. I went blind from the pain and collapsed. I guess there was some nerve damage caused by the previous accident.

2. Had an inguinal hernia that felt like I had been kicked in the nuts constantly which sucked but the worse was yet to come. I had surgery and the sensation was ten fold for a month after. I didnt leave the recliner all month eventually went back to the hospital and they did a scan and my nuts were completely dark due to the bruising from the surgery.

3. I went to the doctor to have my ears cleaned. When the doctor sprayed the water into my right ear it started shooting out of my nose which was due to a hole that exists there was uncomfortable and weird but not painful. After this she was trying to dry it out or something patting my ear with cloth but she formed a seal doing this and pushed in which caused super high pressure in all those areas behind your eyes in your sinuses etc felt like my right eyeball was going to pop out and an extreme pain in that area that I cant even describe.

I had a liver infection last year and that was crazy. It was like a tiny throb for a while, then about 6am it got bad, and I figured it was my gallbladder. Tried to ignore it, thinking it was just my mind, until I was like something it clearly wrong.

Drove myself to the hospital, walked in an told the nurse. I would get the pain was about a 5 at this point, and its about 630am, the ****ing place is empty and i was still waiting. As I sat there the pain got worse and worse, I broke out into a cold sweat and was having trouble breathing. There were points in time that I could find a comfortable way to lay/sit, but those went away.

Finally got in, and man was in I pain. I have a pretty high tolerance but it just felt like someone was twisting a knife in my side. About 20 minutes later I got some Dilaudid and got near instant relief.

I've broken multiple bones and had a few er trips, but the worst pain ive ever experienced by far came as the result of giving a friend a drunken sprinting piggy-back ride on a gravel sidewalk. Had 4-5 large stones stuck in my hip and a gash about the size of my middle finger that was almost an inch deep. When i lifted my shirt up and saw the severity of it I was pretty sure I was gonna pass out. I didn't have heath insurance at the time so I had to have my friend's brother's fiance who's a RN remove all the stones with tweezers and disinfect/stitch it up with whatever we could find in the house.

I've had gout and its bad. Kidney stones 3 times worse. Had colon cancer a few years ago. Radiation treatments 5 days a week for 5 weeks almost directly in my ******* ha. The Dr told me it would feel like a severe sunburn up inside there and that was putting it lightly. After that I said well the worst is probably over now huh, he said probably not. They split me open like gutting a hog and took out 2 feet of my large intestine. When I woke up from that I realized that would be the worst pain I'd probably ever have. Since then I've had a knee replacment, probably second worst. Had a 3 disk fusion in my neck where they replace the bones with some from a dead person, that one doesn't even make the top 5 anymore

ER's suck, man. I got taken to one in Belgium after I blacked out and had a seizure right at the beginning of my shift, and even though my presenting complaint was abdominal pain (not quite as bad as what a lot of people have described, but a really deep ache - probably about a consistent 6 on the pain scale), then spent the first several hours examining my head and asking about epilepsy.

It took them over 8 hours to find all the blood sloshing around in my gut from a ruptured ovarian cyst.

Morons.

Was going to post this. I've broken my arm, been kicked in the balls over 20 times in the space of a minute or so while being held down by another guy, experienced severe sciatica and when I was 5 years old I wondered what it would feel like to grab a light bulb. Turns out it feels like burning.

Anyway, none of those come close to comparing with the sheer intensity of pain that I had with gout in my foot. I've never had a kidney stone and I'm sure that's as painful as it gets, but this has to be pretty close. The next few days were still really painful but tolerable - that first sleepless night however was, hands down, the most unbearable, relentless and intense pain I've ever experienced.

And you will be happy to know kidney stones come with Gout.

sweet sh***ing christ

I did not have any pain medication, no. The provider and facility we chose did not have them as an option. It was made more painful, yes, but I would still do it again that way, because pain medications have other side effects and require you to be in a hospital lying in bed strapped to monitors, etc. having a. Epidural also increases the likelihood that you will need a cesarean, and I really wanted to avoid that.

P.S. A c-section dies not guarantee you a pristine post-childbirth vagina. Most of the trauma to the pelvic floor occurs during pregnancy, and all the lubrication issues that make post-partum sex difficult are hormonal in nature.

I went through a period of 6 months where I had passed kidney stones 4 times, pretty brutal. The last go round the stone wouldn't pass after almost 5 days so they went in and pulled it out through the urethra, that hurt pretty bad. I'm hoping they stay away for a while...

haha i bet you used to be quite the adventurer before that happened

HEY HEY HEY.....

Let's be clear. The ER you went to sucked. Maybe.

Agreed that 8 hours is too long to sort out you had a belly full of blood, but the differential diagnosis for seizure in a young healthy person with a new onset seizure is broad, with a number of evil things that need to be sorted out.

Of course, the right way to get after it is a quick CT of the head, followed by a focused exam, followed by blood work/US of the abdomen, which shouldn't take more than 2-3 hours.

MM MD

The more I think back to moments of physical pain the more I remember enjoying them. For example I popped my knee cap out of its socket years ago and had to walk ~30 minutes to the emergency room after popping it back in. It really started to hurt after about 10 minutes but I had a smile on my face for most of the walk like I was achieving some kind of accomplishment.

Same with my car accident, I can't remember much directly after the crash but there were about 5 passengers who said I ripped myself out of the seat, sucked my teeth back out of my face and made a joke about us missing the movie we were on our way to see.

lovely

I had shingles on my upper right thigh that creeped along my taint and my "nether" regions. The pain was incredibly severe and lasted for 2.5 weeks before I finally gave into vicodin.

While playing lacrosse in the summer I never wore cups because of the extreme heat on the turf field of my old high school. I got pegged straight in the crotch by the lacrosse ball intended for the goal. It must have been traveling a good 80-90mph.

Oh, did I mention this happened twice in one week?

Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.



BTW, I would choose getting hit in the crotch with a lacrosse ball over shingles any day of the week.

I've never broken a bone/fractured anything/had surgery, etc. I run pretty good.

However when I was 10, one day I felt like I had the worst urge to pee ever, but when I went nothing came out. The feeling lasted for a week, and I tried going constantly, and all that ever came out was a dribble. Basically think about the worst time you had to pee, how that felt, and the relief you got from going, except for me there was no relief when I tried to go, the pain just stayed constant. To this day I don't know what I had.

I blamed it on drinking too much caffeine (I had had 2 20 liters of pepsi in an hour or so right before it came on), and I didn't drink caffeine again until I was 17.

That would be the weirdest feeling I could imagine. Perhaps a very small kidney stone?

Some of these sound bad but obviously the correct answer is treading on an upturned plug. No shoes.

Yeah, I didn't object to them trying to figure out about the seizure (low blood pressure was the cause; apparently I'm in a small but not unheard of minority of people who will experience a small seizure if they pass out due to a sudden drop in blood pressure. At least that's what I was told.), I just objected to them basically ignoring what I was telling them - that my abdomen had been been growing steadily more painful throughout the evening (I barely slept the night before due to the discomfort) - and taking forever to come to the conclusion that my head was as fine as it ever is.

4 hours or so I wouldn't have thought much of it. My favorite part was when they left me in the gurney in the hallway outside some room for a test (my CT scan, I think) and I ended up out there for an hour and a half at lunch time - apparently everyone went to lunch and just left me there. Every time someone walked past and bumped the gurney it would jostle all the blood and send pain shooting through me. Good times.

But you're right, I shouldn't say all ERs suck, I was in and out of a couple in the past year (once for a headache that had lasted seven days at that point in time, and my boyfriend's mom, who is a nurse, got all freaked out and made me go by telling me horror stories about slow brain bleeds; the other time was the back spasm) and both those trips went pretty quickly compared to what I was expecting. Both VA hospitals too. Maybe that has something to do with it?

Surprisingly good thread, btw.

My answer would be migraines. It feels like someone has a huge sharp knife and is stabbing me behind the eyes, twisting the knife non-stop. Sometimes, over the counter meds just aren't enough. Sleeping it off works, but the challenge is to get to sleep when you can't get into a comfortable position and you can't relax enough because you're too focused on the pain.

The thing that really makes it bad, imo is that I physically can't get to the pain. Like when I broke my wrist or got nailed hard in the nuts, at least I could see where the pain was and hold it to make it feel a little better. I can't do the same with the back of my eyes. There's nothing to temporarily relieve the pain.

Still, I'm glad this is the worst I've had, as some of these others sound so much worse. And I only get a handful of migraines a year, so it's not even so bad as far as migraines go.

There's so much gout (mis)information out there. It may just be a coincidence but both of my attacks came during highly stressful times. also, I wasn't getting near my normal amout of excerise for several weeks leading up to both attacks. Beer and burgers don't seem to trigger them either, but maybe deli meat.