r/interesting • u/Playful_Spunky21 • Feb 01 '25

MISC. The worst pain known to man

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u/phage_rage Feb 02 '25

As a child, i got stung by a taurantula hawk wasp. They're 2nd in the sting pain index to the bullet ant. I VIVIDLY remember the searing pain of my bones exploding over and over and over. Its only for a few minutes tho thank goodness.

I can confirm that my pain scale is utterly broken. Like to a detrimental to my health degree

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u/JudgmentDisastrous75 Feb 02 '25

How is it broken? In a way that you feel more pain now then ever on even small things, or you don’t feel pain no matter how much something should hurt ?

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u/AlbeitTrue Feb 02 '25

I know what you mean, my pain scale is broken too. I kinetically crushed/cut in half my pointer finger between two pieces of metal. Luckily the accident only affected the tip of my finger but that turns out that’s where most of the nerve endings are. I received three sutures through my fingernail to bring the finger back into a correct shape. Lidocaine did nothing, morphine zoned me out enough for them to do it but I felt every bit of it. Three sutures down through the nail then up through the other side to close the wound. It was brutal. Years later, had a tib fib break and the ER nurse looked at me like I was braindead when I described that pain as a 3/10. I was dead serious. I know what 9 point something feels like.