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I’ve torn my arm open (almost to the bone), bussed my head open (lots of blood) and got my leg burned by an iron as a child.. fell about ten feet to the ground as a child all without painkillers
Non as excruciating as loosing my eyesight and getting half of my lip cut off then badly sown back together
My right thumbnail is 65% from falling off.
I slammed it in the car door 2 months ago.
Dried blood under the nail.
Essentially this is me
When I had to get half of my right lung removed in surgery. The post-surgery pain was ridiculous. Prior to that I'd say the worst was the days after I had a kneecap stabilization surgery but in comparison that was like hitting your toe against something.
The lung surgery took about 4 hours and I was put on tons of opioid painkillers at the same time once I woke up in the recovery room. I had an epidural morphine pump, IV bags of Tramadol (opiate), 2 injections of Dipidolor (opiate) per day and it was still beyond excruciating. The main issue was the chest tube inbetween my ribs. The slightest movement would result in immediate aggravated pain, kind of like someone is jamming an electrified red hot blowpoke between your ribs. It was already bad enough on its own but movement was a whole new world of pain.
I had to get my lungs scanned every day in the days after the surgery, which forced me to sit upright in the hospital bed. Excruciating doesn't even begin to cut it.
At one point they gave me an additional painkiller called Sufentanil, which was apparently at least 500x more potent than morphine. Even then the pain was still god awful, though the Sufentanil was quickly abandoned because it gave me uncontrollable itching.
Once the chest tube was no longer necessary and it was removed, the pain really wasn't very bad at all anymore. All those painkillers were no longer necessary after the chest tube was out.
Aside from that I dislocated my kneecap once, though it wasn't as bad in terms of pain as the kneecap stabilization surgery. Also broke my arm once but that one really wasn't that bad at all.
Fell off the 3rd floor fire escape when I was 18 and landed on my back . Felt like a bomb went off in my body