- Scope ran up my penis
- Waking up on operation table towards the end of shoulder surgery.
Hereās a strange one- My brother is quadriplegic from breaking his neck at the c-5 & 6 vertebrae. I became his caretaker for many years. One of the regular duties was catheterization, either on a regular basis or as prescribed to change out the balloon catheter.
Good thing he couldnāt feel it! It would always kinda give me the heebie-jeebies.
Did that for about 5 years until bladder infections necessitated a bladder sphincterotomy.
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Didnāt you drink drano?
Does mental pain count?
Getting rejected by nearly every uni I applied to after spending most of my life up to that point working towards getting into a good uni really sucked
At least I havenāt had any major physical injuries
Yeah, but that was like 32 years ago. Actually, between drano and heart attack, its a tough call on which was worse. I think the drano hurt more for longer. It was a tissue trauma mess.
The heart attack was all pretty tidy. Small holes in the wrist for the catheters & stuff. Angina was pretty painful and VERY scary. They kept me saturated with opiates after for a few days cuz I guess when they zap you up with the paddles the chest muscles & stuff contract so hard that it does damage, but I wasnāt really there for that. 
No.
Edit: it does. Im just goofing off.
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Worst pain I have had was severe acute pancreatitis. Couldnāt breath without severe pain, couldnāt consume even water without searing pain, just a lot of pain and a 104+ fever that was making me borderline delirious. Got better once I got to the hospital and got dilaudid for about 3 days straight.
Mental pain is some of worst. I am long time depression and anxiety sufferer and it can get so bad. People who just say ābuck upā or āget right with godā (I have literally heard this) to ācureā depression have never experienced it.
Also - itās known that high IQ ASD folks suffer tremendously more with depression than others.
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Heartbroken a few times
Made me cry
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Iām lucky in that Iāve never had real depression or anxiety.
I got hit by a right turn on red car and roughed up my tailbone a bit + skinned my elbows pretty bad.
That didnāt hurt as much as flunking econ midterm the week before. I cried more about the midterm for sure
Iāve been hearing from some nurses that doctors are moving away from this and saying just water and soap are better for simply cleaning wounds. 
Ouch. Reminds me of Travis Barkerās recovery after his plane crash. That sounded like hell.
For sure. peroxide and alcohol are more useful when thereās uncertainty around how clean the water around is.
Rural China, esp before the 90s, isnāt/wasnāt really a place where you want to gamble the water
Yeah, it sucks. And therapy doesnāt help since it just opens old wounds to bleed, assuming eventually it will stop and youāll be healed. Iāll keep the emotional facade instead.
That and some SSRIs help a lot. Iāve only once contemplated hurting myself and that was a point where I got some crisis therapy to at least pull me out of that state.
My problem with a lot of therapy is it just seems like a lot of placating unless you get a really good therapist (I have not had one of those and unfortunately my insurance plan doesnāt cover the good ones).
Fighting the iron definitely helps though. Itās an struggle against and unbeatable enemy, but every time the weight goes up, I know I have advanced at least a little bit. I am convinced I wouldnāt be here today if I had never started lifting.
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I used to be a cutter. My left arm is random scars, but one day I got creative and cut āfailureā into my right arm. Itās still there, but kind of unnoticeable, unless I get a dark tan.
Never was suicidal though.
1000%. I canāt give enough credit to the gym for what it helps mentally.
Oh man. There was a guy that lived at my house growing up. He was an old hippy neighborhood kid that aged into a chronic alcoholic. And my dad felt bad for him.
So there was always drinking and fighting and insanity at my house. R, the alcoholic, was trying to start a fight with my one older brother S, who was fresh out of corpsman school and home on leave.
S holds up one finger and says āIām going to fuck you up with one finger.ā
R responds with swearing and taking a swing.
S pokes his finger and digs directly into Rās inflamed pancreas. Puts him straight to the floor, then straight to the ER.
Most brutal move Iāve ever seen someone pull, and Iāve seen & done some brutal shit.
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itās definitely no joke. I was on the third day of the attack before I finally went to the hospital. And it was my first week in FL. I didnāt know anyone here and the rest of my family hadnāt moved yet. The doctorās and nurses were floored when I told them I drove myself in.
Necessity drives sheer will power sometimes.
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Good point. I wasnāt even considering the lack of clean water that much of the world would have to consider 
My townās water gets shut off a couple times a year cause of E. coli and stuff like that. Wouldnāt want that in a wound.
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Only thing i remember about peroxide is itās not recommended for deep wounds due to the debriding action as it foams up can cause impaired healing. That may have changed. Peroxide and alcohol are still my gotoās for any wound.
Laā
It has not. Peroxide isnāt great for wound healing, but a great option for preventing infection in āroughā settings when clean water and soap arenāt available