A whole new world of pain...

[Makalakumu]

This thread is dedicated to those small and freaky little things that cause intense excruciating pain. Let us know your story so we can learn and apply them to our training.

Here's my first one...

I was making coffee on saturday morning. My son, who is 1.5 years, had awoken particularly early and I was stumbling around in the pre-dawn light trying to wake up. I felt him stumbling around my feet and clinging to my leg. Suddenly, his little teeth found the inside of my thigh and I was suddenly very awake...no coffee needed. THAT was some pain!!!

upnorthkyosa

[terryl965]

This thread is dedicated to those small and freaky little things that cause intense excruciating pain. Let us know your story so we can learn and apply them to our training.

Here's my first one...

I was making coffee on saturday morning. My son, who is 1.5 years, had awoken particularly early and I was stumbling around in the pre-dawn light trying to wake up. I felt him stumbling around my feet and clinging to my leg. Suddenly, his little teeth found the inside of my thigh and I was suddenly very awake...no coffee needed. THAT was some pain!!!

upnorthkyosa

Geez that had to hurt alot.
Terry

[mrhnau]

dropped the vacuum cleaner on the top of my foot two days ago. still limping from that one...

[Gemini]

I live with my mother-in-law. 'Nuff said.

[Makalakumu]

I live with my mother-in-law. 'Nuff said.

DANG! That gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "pins and needles..."

[rutherford]

I typically enjoy cuts, bruises, and the occasional burst of pain. In recent memory, the most un-fun was walking into a tree branch in the dark. Small stick right in the corner of my eye and it took at least an hour for my vision to clear.

[Henderson]

Try preparing some quesadillas while your daughters are talking to you. When you're grating cheese and not paying attention, the moment flesh hits the grater becomes very interesting!!

Frank

[Gemini]

This was a long time ago, but it still makes me cringe.

When they had first come out with the Tri style boomerang, my cousin was in the back yard throwing it and I wanted to try it. I went around the corner of the house and WHAM! Hit me point blank in the left eye. Pain was very intense. Lotsa blood too. Never did get to try the stupid thing...

[terryl965]

I live with my mother-in-law. 'Nuff said.

WOW you are in pain. reminder to send pain medication later today.
Terry:drinkbeer

[Makalakumu]

This was a few years ago. I was playing with my daughter on the bed before story time. She was about 13 months old and was flopping around learning to walk. She took a couple of steps toward me and I was going to catch her and give her a hug and then she fell...

Her hands, armed with razor sharp baby nails are moving toward my face and she's inside my guard. I feel two fingers nail me in the left eye. Somehow they get under my eyelid and rake down across the surface of my eyeball...

"Pain" doesn't really come close to what that felt like. I was on my back for two days in a dark room with drugs and an eye patch (that I wore for two weeks).

And that is how a baby puts a BB in the ER...

[SFC JeffJ]

WOW you are in pain. reminder to send pain medication later today.
Terry:drinkbeer
Or a bottle of Wild Turkey.

Jeff

[Lisa]

Quite a few years ago I was weeding the garden and I bent down and a sharp pointy leaf caught me in the eye scratching my cornea. It hurt in the beginning but I tried to ignore it and then waves of pain came over me. Had to go to the emergency room where they froze it with eye drops. Wore a patch for two days. Very painful.

[shesulsa]

Interesting how the eyeball injuries always seem to hurt more. I wonder if it's the terror of the vision sense being disturbed and possible permanent vision damage or the fact that the eye is so close to the brain.

I have a rain jacket with adjustable elastic cords on the sleeves and bottom. I was pulling it out of the closet when one of the crimps got caught on something else in the closet. I was in a hurry, of course, so in an attempt to pull it out fast, the elastic was stretched quite a bit. Two or three yanks didn't free the coat, so I turned and was approaching the closet to see what it was hung up on when it suddenly let loose and the plastic crimp was slingshot right into my eye. I did some deep breathing on the floor there for a good 45 minutes.

[shesulsa]

Another time would be when I was wrestling around with my then-boyfriend.

I was attending manicuring school and was almost done - needless to say, I had glamour-length acrylic nails at the time. We were horsing around, wrestling and the corner of my thumbnail got caught on his clothing. The nail twisted and broke off taking a chunk of my nail bed and finger tip with it.

I never knew that such a relatively small injury would hurt SO MUCH. It was all I could do to keep from throwing up and passing out. The pain started with the finger and then my entire arm hurt. My whole hand throbbed in pain.

Upon my return to school two days later, I learned about the concentration of nerve endings in the finger tip. The old bamboo shoots under the nails torture technique holds new meaning for me now.

[stickarts]

My wife was sitting in a chair watching television and my 2 year old daughter picked up a hard plastic toy and at point blank range threw the toy hitting my wife square in the eye!
Whenever my dughter reaches for an object, it now gets our attention.
Although this did not happen to me, it hurt me just seeing it! :)

[SFC JeffJ]

Quite a few years ago I was weeding the garden and I bent down and a sharp pointy leaf caught me in the eye scratching my cornea. It hurt in the beginning but I tried to ignore it and then waves of pain came over me. Had to go to the emergency room where they froze it with eye drops. Wore a patch for two days. Very painful.

I did something similar, except it was a thorn. Had my patch for about a week. They should give you a parrot when they hand you the patch.

Jeff

[bushidomartialarts]

sparring with a ten year old girl, i was kicked in the groin.

i was wearing a cup, but...thing had shifted about and one of the boys was actually between the edge of the cup and my right thigh.

holy mother of god.

[shesulsa]

sparring with a ten year old girl, i was kicked in the groin.

i was wearing a cup, but...thing had shifted about and one of the boys was actually between the edge of the cup and my right thigh.

holy mother of god.

Yowch. That's a good way to get a crushed testicle!

[Makalakumu]

sparring with a ten year old girl, i was kicked in the groin.

i was wearing a cup, but...thing had shifted about and one of the boys was actually between the edge of the cup and my right thigh.

holy mother of god.

I actually doubled over reading this...

I was carrying a box of stuff to the apartment in which we used to live. I was barefoot and I was approaching a fire door. Little did I know, but my girlfriend was coming the other way and the door opened my way. I stopped, shifted the box and the went to open the door. My gf opened the door as I was reaching for it and it swung at just the right height to plane over my foot and tear my big toenail off. That hurt so bad, I almost puked. I couldn't even swear...

[Gemini]

it swung at just the right height to plane over my foot and tear my big toenail off.

Ohhh Mannn! You got me seriously cringing on that one! Toe/finger nail stories are almost as bad as the eye ones.

[HKphooey]

I actually doubled over reading this...

I was carrying a box of stuff to the apartment in which we used to live. I was barefoot and I was approaching a fire door. Little did I know, but my girlfriend was coming the other way and the door opened my way. I stopped, shifted the box and the went to open the door. My gf opened the door as I was reaching for it and it swung at just the right height to plane over my foot and tear my big toenail off. That hurt so bad, I almost puked. I couldn't even swear...

OUCH!!!! I just felt that!

[Marginal]

When I was 2 or 3, I was feeding the family cat nacho cheese flavored Doritos. I held one out for him to take, and he got the Dorito, and in the process managed to bite straight through my thumbnail. (Not to mention what what going through the soft part of my thumb from below.) Single pincture wound up top from one of the canines, single one on the bottom. Between that and the bobby pin in the light socket, (still remember how that felt) those are two of my earliest memories.

[HKphooey]

I used to ski moguls before I switched over to snowboarding. I had my bindings "dinned out" (basically the highest release setting on a ski binding). I was cruise'n the bumps when I lost it and had my leg, with the ski still locked on, turn almost completely around. There went the MCL and ACL. I felt like someone drove a raolroad spike through my knee. The ski patrol guy almost pucked when he saw my leg postion.

[Kacey]

I think it's a toss-up between two things from my III Dan testing...

The facility we were testing in had very rough carpeting on the floor, and I caught a callus on the bottom of my foot while performing a move with a stamping motion, and my foot turned over, so I stomped on the top of my foot... fell over.... thought briefly about the 4 VIII Dans on the testing board, got up, and kept going with pattern. My instructor's wife is a nurse practitioner (doctor of nursing) and I found out later she thought I broke my ankle.

Later in the same testing, my instructor was demonstrating his step sparring with me as his partner, and he did a twist kick that caught me right in the temple. Luckily for him, he hit the side away from the test board, and I didn't really flinch... still... it did take my mind off my ankle for a few minutes while I decided if I was going to pass out or not!

[Carol]

I have orthodontic braces. Need I say more? ;)

[Swordlady]

The most pain I've been in came from totalling my parents' car when I was seventeen years old. I ran a stop sign, made a left turn - and got broadsided by a minivan. My head hit the windshield (I had my seatbelt on) and the car spun out of the road. Somehow, I unbuckled my seatbelt and staggered out of the car. I looked at the damage and moaned, "My parents are going to KILL me!"


Luckily I didn't break any bones. Actually, I was lucky to be alive; I nearly had a head-on collision with the minivan. I had many bumps and bruises, and a really bad concussion. I was in so much pain, but I wasn't allowed to fall asleep because of the concussion. Not only was I in serious pain, but I also had to listen to my dad lecture me about my carelessness. Ouch, and double ouch.

[bluemtn]

Oh my! Where to begin... Should I start with the real small, but real painful, or the embarassing- lets go to the hospital kind? I'll just stick with the few nice and fresh in memory:

Most recently, I was trying to pick up a couple of plastic boxes that was over my head (no weight in them). As I started to lift one up, it proceeded to slip. You know that area on your palm, right where the knuckle of your index finger is? The skin got pinched, and left a nice little bruise. Boy- did I ever say a few not- so- nice words on that one! At an inconvenient time (work), I had this heavy duty brush (with metal bristles on one end of it)- one of the bristles slid under a finger nail. Talk about setting pain receptors off! Then in high school, I somehow slammed my thumb against my locker- the thumb twitched for a few days... The same year (here's the "ebarassing/ let's go to hospital now part)- I wasn't paying attention when I got off my school bus, and the ground was wet. Just as I got off the last step, my ankle twisted and gave out right at the entrance of the school. Needless to say, I broke my ankle.

[BrandiJo]

lets see there would be the time i was climbing my dresser ( i was about 10) and it fell over on me...mainly my upper body and head that landed me in hte hospital.... umm the getting bucked offa horse i seprated my shoulder bursed my ribs and couldnt lay down for about a week and now have tendonitus in that shoulder and that flares up more often then i wish. Most recently i managed to fall down a flight of stairs while helping my bf move into his apartment while carring a rather large box... didnt go in for that one but i did get lots of TLC from George no real damage but my butt hurt for the next week

[Hand Sword]

Back when I was a late teen, we wen't sledding with one of those plastic sleds. we were bored and one was laying around. I went down, and slid over rock embedded in the snow, right over my tail bone! Had to sit on padding and couldn't walk right for a week.

[bushidomartialarts]

I actually doubled over reading this...

I was carrying a box of stuff to the apartment in which we used to live. I was barefoot and I was approaching a fire door. Little did I know, but my girlfriend was coming the other way and the door opened my way. I stopped, shifted the box and the went to open the door. My gf opened the door as I was reaching for it and it swung at just the right height to plane over my foot and tear my big toenail off. That hurt so bad, I almost puked. I couldn't even swear...

oh god. you could describe that slowly as a method of interrogation. dude, i'd talk just when the door made first contact. oh god. ohgodohgodohgod.

[Hand Sword]

I actually doubled over reading this...

I was carrying a box of stuff to the apartment in which we used to live. I was barefoot and I was approaching a fire door. Little did I know, but my girlfriend was coming the other way and the door opened my way. I stopped, shifted the box and the went to open the door. My gf opened the door as I was reaching for it and it swung at just the right height to plane over my foot and tear my big toenail off. That hurt so bad, I almost puked. I couldn't even swear...

:erg: Good Lord! OOOOOOWWWWW!

[SAVAGE]

Pain......well I have gout, that is crazy pain.

[DavidCC]

I had a shingles outbreak in a very sensitive and "private" area last year. the pain wasn't exactly excruciating, I think what hurt more was my wife's giggling as I writhed on the bed moaning "my &!%$ hurts". STOP LAUGHING!

I once had a chigger on my scrotum when I was like 6 years old. My grandad put turpentine on it. He was a mean ole bastard.

But even worse than that was the time, hopping from a left flamingo to a right flamingo, and catching my toe in the cuff of my gi pants. Within 5 minutes my entire big toe was purple. Limped for 2 weeks.

[shesulsa]

Natural childbirth ... nuff said.

[theletch1]

Most pain I can ever remember being in wasn't at all sneaky and wouldn't do much good in an SD situation but here goes. Was helping a friend paint a tin roof early in the morning. My 12 year old daughter was painting the porch. I was on a ladder on the roof painting the eaves of the attic window when the dew on the roof caused the ladder to slide out from under me. Off I went, ten feet out and two stories down to land flat of my back. I was still seeing stars when Chelsea (my kid) ran over and said "Dad! are you alright?!" paused for a second and said "Uh, never mind...stupid question." I got one crushed vert and a torn rotator cuff out of that one.

Sneakiest pain was when I was playing with Tucker (my dog) and teasing him with a snack. He's rather short, jumped to snap at the snack and nipped something that rhymes with snack instead. Man, I thought I was gonna die.

[OnlyAnEgg]

...razor sharp baby nails are moving toward my face and she's inside my guard.

rofl! That is the best description ever!

I've had countless 2.5' children come running at me and cracking me nethers with their noggins. That always hurts.

Been married twice.

I think the worst pain, though, was when I accidently ran a propane blowtorch down the side of my thumb. I saw the flesh bubble. Burns are the worst.

[donna]

Natural childbirth ... nuff said.

I second that, and third, and fourth ,and fifth it!!!

[Gemini]

I second that, and third, and fourth ,and fifth it!!!
I'll be the first to admit that if it were up to men to bare children, we would have become extinct a long time ago.

*Adam talking to God: "You want me to what??? HAHAHA! umm...no".

Frankly, I think y'all are crazy, but you most definately have my undying gratitude and respect. I'll take the boomerang in the eye anyday.

[Cryozombie]

When I wrecked the bike and bounced my head off the ground a few times at 50 without my helmet... thats up there.

Yes, I have a hard head, or permanant brain damage, take your pick.

Or the time I startled my dog and he freaked and bit me on the face... Full size Shepherd Pitbull mix... on the face.

[Makalakumu]

I used to play baseball when I was in high school. I took an 80 mile an hour fast ball on the funny bone and I thought that my arm had been forcibly amputated.

I also got hit in the sweet charlie horse spot on the leg with a pitch of similar velocity. Both legs went dead. Shooting pain ran into my toes.

And then there was the time that I slammed a fast ball with everything I had and pounded a line drive into the pitchers groin. The ambulence came for him and I hurt sympathetically.

[BrandiJo]

And then there was the time that I slammed a fast ball with everything I had and pounded a line drive into the pitchers groin. The ambulence came for him and I hurt sympathetically.

im a chick and i hurt for him

[Rich Parsons]

I also got hit in the sweet charlie horse spot on the leg with a pitch of similar velocity.


A friend of mine and I call this strike the "Crippler" :D ;)


***** Post 9991 *****

[Henderson]

Natural childbirth ... nuff said.

Oh no! Georgia didn't play the childbirth card, did she? Game over. I'm taking my ball and going home. :ultracool

[Hand Sword]

Well to be immature... There's drugs for that stuff! or how about.. The topic was a whole NEW world, that's as old as it can get :p. Either way, Yeah! I guess you win. http://martialtalk.com/forum/images/icons/icon9.gif I'm going home too! http://martialtalk.com/forum/images/icons/icon8.gif

[barriecusvein]

I think the worst pain, though, was when I accidently ran a propane blowtorch down the side of my thumb. I saw the flesh bubble. Burns are the worst.

omg thats horrible!

the worst i had was when i was asleep at a mates house and they decided to put chewing gum on my arm that had been heated for 2 minutes with a lighter. i got like 6 burns cos whenever i tried to get it off it stuck to me somewhere else. i saw the flesh melting too!

[KenpoBruce2006]

Outside spinning crescent kick, executed with the right left, left leg planted. Dropped my left heel 90 degrees into the turn. Everything from the knee down stopped, everything above kept going. Left kneecap went to the outside. Finished the movement in mid air as I went to the ground. The snap was so loud I thought I had broken my leg. Second most painful was pulling the kneecap back into place. Pain starts all over. Rehab took about 3 months. Haven't dropped my heel since. I don't recommend it though. My knee looked like a volley ball. Rewrote the book of cuss words in less than 30 seconds..both times.

Ciao
KenpoBruce2006

[luigi_m_]

I currently have an ulcer on the inside of my lip, and it is chaffing against my teeth all day long. So, in a bid to get rid of it, I asked a friend who I could get rid of it. She told me putting salt on it would do the trick. So, I did............................................... .........

What she forgot to mention was that I was supposed to use warm water and a bit of salt and gurgle it, not just apply 3 grams of salt to my wound....!

[Lisa]

In the past week my 30 year old root canal cracked and became infected. I have had my gums cut open and my bone drilled into to relieve the pressure.

I can't even explain how it has felt before the freezing and once it came out...

[bluemtn]

What she forgot to mention was that I was supposed to use warm water and a bit of salt and gurgle it, not just apply 3 grams of salt to my wound....!


In the past week my 30 year old root canal cracked and became infected. I have had my gums cut open and my bone drilled into to relieve the pressure.

That definitely puts a new meaning to the word pain!

[bluemtn]

I wanted quote tags above, but they never worked!!!! Oh and one more thing- I promised my bf he'll never live this one down...

One day, I was trying to get him back for something he said to me (jokingly), and I went to tickle his knee cap. He moved his leg as I was reaching, and the movement pulled my thumbnail back and caused it to bleed under the nail. It throbbed for 2 days! All I could do was suck my thumb and fight back tears like I was an overgrown baby!

[luigi_m_]

In the past week my 30 year old root canal cracked and became infected. I have had my gums cut open and my bone drilled into to relieve the pressure.

I can't even explain how it has felt before the freezing and once it came out...

Yeah, the whole mouth region on humans is seriously crap.......

[Cryozombie]

I wanted quote tags above, but they never worked!!!!

I fixed em for you.

[bluemtn]

Thanks, Techno!

[Raewyn]

In the past week my 30 year old root canal cracked and became infected. I have had my gums cut open and my bone drilled into to relieve the pressure.

I can't even explain how it has felt before the freezing and once it came out...

I can relate to that!!!! Have spent the last week in pain from an infected root canal. Could'nt have it pulled due to the fact its one of my front teeth!!! Im not into a toothless grins! I dont know how many pills I popped, but it was one of the most miserable weeks of my life!!!!!

[Lisa]

I can relate to that!!!! Have spent the last week in pain from an infected root canal. Could'nt have it pulled due to the fact its one of my front teeth!!! Im not into a toothless grins! I dont know how many pills I popped, but it was one of the most miserable weeks of my life!!!!!

Mine is in the front too! I have a crown there now but won't as of tomorrow when the rest of the tooth gets removed. Thank goodness for the bridge he is going to put in!

[Gemini]

Have spent the last week in pain from an infected root canal.

I'm supposed to have that done. Thanks for reminding me why I've been putting it off...:rolleyes:

Ohh, the horror...:uhoh:

[bluemtn]

I have to admit, if the next time I go to the dentist and he says, "you have to have a root canal"- I will bawl like a baby. I really don't like dentists- I can barely stand to go get my teeth cleaned twice a year!

[donna]

I snapped my front tooth of at gum level last week. Root is still half in. Dentist cant fit me in till end of June, so its toothy grins all round here. To top it off my kids reckon I look like a hillbilly.Nothing like a bit of family support to bolster my self confidence!!:idunno:

[Hand Sword]

You probably got through an awkward stage in High school, and those would be the tuffest years! Don't worry, You'll survive This too! Just say that you bit off the cap of a beer bottle. http://martialtalk.com/forum/images/icons/icon10.gif

[donna]

You probably got through an awkward stage in High school, and those would be the tuffest years! Don't worry, You'll survive This too! Just say that you bit off the cap of a beer bottle. http://martialtalk.com/forum/images/icons/icon10.gif
:uhyeah: Good one !A lot of people dont know how to take me sometimes, so this will just add to the legend :ultracool

[kachi]

I had a tooth taken out without working anesthetic. The dentist didn't realise that the anesthetic hadn't worked (at all) due to a stray nerve and started twisting it out and when I flinched from the absolutely excruciating pain the rest of the tooth was ripped out. Then he did the same thing with the second tooth but I managed to get him to stop half way through, so he used some special needle to get the stray nerve.
But to this day I can still feel that torturous pain and hear the crunching of the tooth being twisted out.

[Ceicei]

I accidentally dropped a 10-pound metal can (unopened) on it's edge onto the top of my big toe. The pain was undescribable! I couldn't move it and the toe eventually went numb for three months.

[JasonASmith]

I've got one for you:
At work(in a heavy industrial environment) I jumped up to grab a high pressure air hose and discovered(too late) that the hose and it's nozzle(complete with upturned hook) was jammed into it's housing...
After coming down, seeing the fountain of blood leaving my index finger, and discovering that it hurts worse when you have your damaged appendage put into the antiseptic where it opens BACK up, and receiving 18 stitches in a 2 inch space, and finally seeing God twice in one day(He's laughing at us, by the way), I' ve discovered that it wasn't a good day...

[JasonASmith]

Oh, I got another one involving a UTI(Urinary Tract Infection) and a long plastic hose, but that's for later...

[bydand]

While pulling wire in one day off a ladder I slipped and started to fall, well 1/2 turn and drop 5' to the floor and all is good, even landed on my feet. Problem was left foot landed on a board with a giant nail in it. Trust me when I say it hurts to even look down and see the point of a nail sticking through the top of your boot, knowing your foot is occupying the same space. It hurts even worse to pull the damn thing back out. Didn't go to the hospital to get it removed because they would have cut away a brand new boot to get a good look at the problem before they did anything.

[charyuop]

I got one and it will be hard to describe without getting censured, but I will try... I got a 19 month old daughter, but when this happened she was mabe 12 or 13.

One morning my daughter wanted to come in my arms and stretched up towards me and grabbed something she was not supposed to. I was wearing my pj's and I could feel her scretch pretty wel. The pain was so sharp I had to sit on the couch. I was afraid I was bleeding because of the powerfull scretch so stupidly I pulled down the front of my pj's to check the status of my male part. My daughter, mad because I didn't pick her up, ran towards me and right then decided to slap me. There was no blood and I was relieved, but her slap ended up right there with one of her finger nails sinking deep into my "glans".
Man...I can't describe the pain...it was terrible!