Which did you hate the worst as far as injuries?

Ankle. I have a bad left ankle I have sprained severely 3 times over the years. Extreme pain and it pisses me off to no end when I can’t walk. The last time was boarding a plane for a 13 hour flight to Asia at SFO in 2010.

It was so fucked. lol

I could barely get my boot off before the swelling got really bad, no way to elevate it and sat for 13 hours with a soggy bag of ice water on it on the plane, then limped through Taipei airpot in my sock. I was in so much pain and so damn mad. haha

Burning away a large swathe of skin on my upper leg with boiling water, and going to school the next day with that untreated burn. Hmm Hmmm, sweet pain.

I ocassionally get a pulled back muscle that is extremely painful and lasts several days to a couple of weeks.

I hate hitting my funny bone tendon. I hit it, and then it swells or something so it makes it more vulnerable and I hit it again. I swear I’ve lost some piano coordination in my hand or something because of all the times I’ve hit it.
And if I don’t hit that thing, I hit the tip of my elbow and it kills!

I’ve had all the above (some on more than one occasion) and while a toothache is the most annoying pain, a wrenched back is the most debilitating. With a bad ankle or knee, you can still hobble on crutches or with a cane (I even drove my stick-shift 40 miles each way to work in a snowstorm with a very badly sprained left ankle); but when your back is out, nearly any activity and often even inactivity is painful.

A bad tooth is the worst. There seems to be no way to alleviate it until you get to the dentist.

I sprained my ankle a lot when I was younger, not so bad. But I have had episodes of back spasms (usually from stress) that have kept me unable to move.

Torn frenulum of prepuce. The frenulum of prepuce is the bit of elastic tissue that holds the foreskin to the penis.

Hemorrhaging uterus.

It was five and a half years ago and I still have nightmares.

Stubbed toes and sprained ankles are pretty much daily issues for me and I hardly notice them, in the grand scheme of things. Toothaches tend to go away in a couple of hours or days.

Frozen neck sucks, but it’s more annoying to be restricted than it is painful.

I think pulling the back muscle to be the most debilitating. It is also the only one of the above injuries that quite literally takes my breath away when the pain comes.

Hard to pick just one—a shattered knee, a ruptured disk, broken wrist and toes, a split-open eyebrow, to name just a few… and each seemed “the worst” when it was happening. I feel very fortunate, though, to have reached this point in my life more-or-less in one piece.

I have broken ribs, torn my knee up, sprained different parts and had a neck injury that kept me in bed for a week, but nothing hurt like an ear infection.

Traumatic Brain Injury. Never goes away, affects many areas of life, costs a lot of money (forgetting to pay bills, losing track of things and time- costs more than most can imagine), causes depression, is not understood by others… just totally sucks.

Hitting your finger on pretty much anything when it is freezing out. Owch!

Epididymitis

I have had it three times. The first time it was so bad I was found curled up and screaming for help on my bed. I was unable to move. I had to be carried to the car.

Now I go the doctor right away at any hint of it.

Having a kidney stone. you think to yourself ” can anything hurt worse than this?” and then you pass it and get your answer.

Perhaps I misread the question… I thought we were supposed to say which was worst of the listed ailments, but I see people mentioning conditions not on the list.
:-/

Toothache wins hands down. Mine was from an abscess, and I have never experienced pain anywhere near the level I did with this.

I did have Achilles tendinitis in my right foot. The pain was pretty bad (and took longer to go away), but it still wasn’t as bad as my abscess…

real power for God has not anointed it.
@linguaphile Traumatic Brain Injury.
Care to share how or what caused it?

@hearkat Perhaps I misread the question… I thought we were supposed to say which was worst of the listed ailments, but I see people mentioning conditions not on the list.
You have not erred,you did read the question correctly. The question was if you had any of those injuries in that past, out of those injuries which would you say was the worse as compared to the other listed injuries. Most everyone I have met somewhere in their life has had a sprain in the elbow, ankle, knee, etc. or pulled a muscle in their back or neck, and most certainly a toothache. I have met some who have passed stones, had hernias, appendicitis, compressed disc, etc, and never met anyone who admitted to breaking their penis, so I had to limit the list to what most likely 85% of the populace would have experienced from the time they were toddlers to their adult age (or age they are not, which here has to be at least 13yr).

@yankeetooter Mine was from an abscess, and I have never experienced pain anywhere near the level I did with this.
Was it painful to even speak or eat?

@Hypocrisy_Central I read the details as an addition to the question. Sorry.

^ No sweat, happens to me all the time, I have come to expect it more than I don’t. ;-)

Sprung?

I’ve never experienced any of these. The worst pain I’ve ever felt was probably vulvar pain caused by an inflammatory condition I have. At its worst, I couldn’t move without intense hypersensitivity where my underwear rubbed against me. Wiping hurt, rolling over in bed hurt, sex wasn’t even an option. The sensation was similar to that of shingles. Gah, that sucked.

@Hypocrisy_Central…eating took a lot of concentration. Speaking wasn’t too bad. What terrified me was trying to sleep. I would get the pain down to a manageable level, drift off, and then suddenly bite down in my sleep and wake up in agonizing pain.

I think a toothache.

Well I’ve never had anything spring out of neither my foot nor my knee, so I am not aware of that pain sensation, but I have had a toothache and it was pretty bad. It goes to your head and gives you a headache. Double whammy.

I hate toothache the most. I had experienced this pain before, it’s so irritating.

I’m in league with the folks who cite tooth problems and ear problems as the worst because there just does not seem to be any way to get away from the pain.

Somehow when it’s in any other part of the body, one can mentally at least know it’s ‘over there’ and get some objective distance from it. When it’s in your head even thinking seems to be infused with pain.

@dxs Oh, I remember those days when I delivered newspapers as a boy. It was freezing cold, and when you tried to put a rubber band around the paper it would often snap. That felt like your finger being cut off.

@filmfann Brings me back to when I was in marching band practicing outside in the cold until 9:30 at night. I played the xylophone so we weren’t allowed to wear gloves. I’d dread hitting one of those wooden keys.

Well it is true it is hard to pick just one as @Pachy said. My ankle issue is the most recent so it got the spotlight. Of course there was my horrific horse wreck that resulted in a shattered shoulder, giving birth, several surgeries, and the wonderful moment a few months ago when, leaning up in my bed in the middle of the night and reaching to pull the blind down my arm gave out and I smashed my nose into the windowsill. THAT hurt SO bad, my poor nose was black and blue for a week, but luckily not broken.

Talk about a rude awakening! lol