Reaction to pain

[luangtom]

From the RN standpoint, kidney stones rank right up there & may be the gold standard/measuring stick. From me personally, it's like "who's screaming?", oh it's ME.

Yup...they rank right up there....seven times so far. I would say the drain-tube left in after gall-bladder surgery that had grown over when the surgeon yanked the tube out ranks right up there. Whole floor musta heard that scream.

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[joeintexas]

Depends on how the pain occured, if it's accidental self inflicted, such as a knife cut, which I do a great amount of time, I have just under 200 words I use that I am sure I will have to explain to a higher source! Wife sees me with a knife doing whatever, she just goes for the band aids without saying a word, hate that when it happens. If it's something expected like IV inserts or minor surgery I just grin and bear it. Dental work, come with the good stuff!!

 

[alexfitch225]

I have had my share surgerys heart , hip stones ,all surgerys where managable. The most pain always are kidney stones no question

I had kidney stones once. Since then I've been really careful as far as what I eat and what not.

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[Rpg]

I avoid pain when at all possible.

When I can't, I do what's necessary to address it: drive to the ER with various broken bones, etc.

 

[hemiram]

Worst pain was probably when I tore my quadriceps tendon in my left leg 10 years ago. I was already at an inpatient place because I had (probably) partially tore my quadriceps, along with reinjuring my right knee that I had blasted in a bad fall 3 months before. The last two, I yelled, a lot, and very loudly. I said a lot of bad words so loudly I could be heard and understood on the other side of the facility. I've been burned pretty badly, had a blown appendix and almost died, and been shocked with 800 volts or so, and done a lot of other things to myself, and the worst were:

The quad blowout- worst pain that lasted more then five minutes. The surgery to fix it was no big deal.
When I kicked a bedframe and broke my big toe. Almost my entire foot was purple. If I stood on it, it was horrible. Took a LONG time to heal up.
I punched a hole through a wall while fighting with a guy who was trying to remove my gun (Dan Wesson 15-2) from the holster. I don't know exactly what I did to my hand, but the next day I picked up the phone and it was like a lightning bolt went through my hand. I tossed the phone across the room and rolled around on my bed yelling. I couldn't believe how bad it hurt. I had to wear this weird alum. brace thing on my hand for about 3 weeks. If I made a fist when I had it off, it was unbelievable.

 

[rwsmith]

Grown men cry...

Two occasions. Rotator Cuff physical therapy and paralyzing pain in my lower back so bad I couldn't move without going from a pain of 10 to 11. That kind of pain I'm familiar with. My heart surgery was a different kind of pain than I'm used to. I didn't 'hurt' but would get a feeling through my whole body. The nurses told me that was pain and said to try to keep ahead of it with the pain pills. I did and didn't get that feeling any more.

Anyway, my reaction to pain nowadays is a top rate swear. I don't like that, but it seems to be in me. I hurt and the first thing I do is cuss It seems to help.

 

[crazyphil]

A teacher was keeping his Jack and Jenny in my pasture.
He was feeding them something by hand and the Jack bit his finger.
He yelled "You blasted creature!"
I thought that was a remarkable reaction to pain.

On the other hand, I was broiling chicken thighs a while back.
It was the very early morning hours. I'm early to bed and early to rise.
I was turning the thighs. The pan flipped. The boiling broth went down
my front. I had shorts on, so my right thigh got the brunt of the burn.
What I yelled was nowhere near as close to controlled as the teacher.
I don't remember all of the words that came out, but I do recall something
about the male offspring of a female dog.

 

[e3mrk]

I herniated a disk in my lower back that pressed against the spinal cord but it was nothing like I expected,Dummy Me went to work the next day and it didn't really start hurting until that night so I slept at the dining room table until I went in for emergency surgery.No big deal. The worst paid I ever had was when I thought I turned the electricity off when installing a thermostat at My Sons house but it wasn't and I ended up about five feet away from it,The end of the screwdriver was gone and My entire Arm and Hand hurt like the blazes because I later found out His all electric house had a 220 amp service.Thank God for A/C Current. Now whenever I work on His House I pull the Main Fuse Black completely out of the Box.(old fuse box).

 

[Ron M.]

I say "Yes, dear" and I go with the wife to a baby shower.

 

[susieqz]

i just learned about sciatica.
good time to lie there n cry.

 

[crazyphil]

i just learned about sciatica.
good time to lie there n cry.

I had bad sciatica several years ago. I was referred to a
neurosurgeon. He examined me and gave me some very
honest advice. He said I could operate on you and fix it,
or you could go home and lay flat on your back for a week
or so. Either way you will be well in six months.
I took the 2nd option and he was right.

 

[loknload]

I can take pain pretty well,especially after some of the medical procedures I've endured over the last several years. But finally this nagging back pain is finally giving up! That is the one thing I can't stand ,,,,a nagging constant pain especially in my lower back! Injured my back originally in my younger years and the discs are not regenerating themselves!
Stupid me I will not be lifting anything heavy again! Since they took almost all of my back muscle to close the hole in my side I no longer have the strength in my left side!
I guess that's how it's going to be?

 

[susieqz]

phil, my doc didn't tell me that. thanks ever so much.
HUGZZZ TO YOU!!

 

[chaparrito]

Besides the gout attacks I no longer have, last year I got up fast in the middle of the night after hearing some commotion out in the pasture. Headed full blast in the dark for the back door I kicked a cast iron plant stand real hard. Pain put me straight down on the floor.
Next morning the 3rd 4th and 5th toes on my right foot were black and swollen. I iced them, took some veterinary prednisone and went to work.
After a week or so the swelling wasn't going away and neither was the pain. Went to see the doc and she sent me for x-rays. She called later in the week and said "your toes aren't sprained, all three are broken". They never did straighten out really. Still look kinda stubby and fat.

 

[Funflyer]

I make up swear words never heard before, in any language, and they usually make me laugh which help ease the pain.

 

[Mr.Harry]

Different kinds of pain, different intensities, different circumstances = different reactions. Most times, in reaction to physical (or mental) trauma, a slew of obscenities either screamed or muttered, depending. On another hand, intense lower back spasms might knock the breath right out of my mouth as I hit the deck writhing.

 

[Marshwheeling]

Most discomfort I ever xperienced was when I tripped in my living room and dislocated my right shoulder. The pain was tolerable, barely. The worst part was spending a few hours being not correctly assembled, and unable to do anything about it until I could reach a doc who could slip it into place.

Worst pain was having my knee aspirated for fluid after a meniscus tear. Painted the air blue with a prodigious spate of blasphemies, and obscenities with a primarily Oedipal theme.

 

[susieqz]

nice use of language there, marsh.

 

[radar1972]

A little over a week ago I had to pull the batteries out of my motorhome. It's a bad lift position but since they leaked I had to get them out.
As it would happen with my luck I hurt my back, lower part where I have problems!
Now I don't know if I should stand, sit or hang upside down by my feet but my back hurts! Driving me crazy!
Right now all the over the counter extra strength stuff isn't cutting it and I've had to go to some heavy duty pain meds which I really don't like taking but at least they are helping me sleep at night!
I just can't win?
Just got finished with my IV antibiotics for bone infection and now doing the oral regimen, what's next?

Go buy yourself an Inversion Table (Google it). Best thing I ever did for lower back pain.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

mainly I scream like a little girl.

As far as hurting myself goes, pretty much on par with stepping on a lego is smashing my shin into the trailer hitch on the back of the suburban. If you are around when that happens you are going to learn a lot of new curse words!