Hey Pandas, What Was The Worst Pain You Ever Experienced As A Child?

Hard to pinpoint. When you're physically and emotionally abused your entire childhood they all sort of blend together into one gigantic, agonizing moment.

12 years old. Appendicitis. Doubled over in pain and vomiting. Surgeon was surprised I was still alive because of how bad it had gotten.

I once crashed my bike face first into a thorn bush. 0/10 I do not recommend.

The pain of never good enough to anyone.Preferences need to be allowed.

For context, I have a really weird kind of Juvenile Arthritis that doesn’t really present normally, I don’t have swelling or redness or heat, just excruciating pain, and it sort of moves around to different joints, so it took a while for me to get diagnosed.

Probably the time I spend a month in such crippling pain in every joint of my body that I could not move, get out of bed, eat, walk, or do pretty much anything without help. Even the tiniest movement felt like somebody literally ripping my body apart. Only time in my life I’ve ever wanted to die. I literally can’t remember almost anything from that period of time, I’m pretty sure I’ve blocked it out. I know this sounds like internet buIIshit but I’m not exaggerating. I can’t even begin to describe it.

It’s amazing how much you take for granted until it’s taken away. Walking, for example. Or getting out of bed. Or turning the pages of a book. Or leaning forward a tiny bit to reach something.

And the worst part was that regular pain medicine didn’t even touch it. The doctors kept telling me to take OTC pain meds (or asked whether maybe it was just anxiety, f*cking assfaces), and they did not do SHlT.

Eventually I went on chronic steroids, which were a whole other kind of nasty (bloat, mood swings, some truly bizarre cravings, made my anxiety so much worse), and now I’m finally on immune suppressants, which work with minimal size effects, although I do have to get a shot once a week, blech.

I’m doing pretty good now and I don’t worry so much about that part of my life anymore but it f*****g sucked, y’all.

Anyways if you read this all the way through, thanks, you all are awesome, and I hope you have amazing days. Thanks for listening to my rant.

TL/DR: I was in such excruciating pain that I couldn’t move, AT ALL, without assistance for a month. It felt like I was being ripped apart. Arthritis sucks.

4 inch rusty nail through the bottom of my foot, went all the way through...... Wasn't fun!!

Probably when I rode my bike into a trashcan. Black eye, ton of bruises, and a few scrapes from falling back onto the concrete. Nothing permanent thankfully.

Was in a serious car accident with many injuries including fractures in both legs and back.

When I fractured my arm at 5.

Broke my leg when I was nine. Spiral fracture in my right tibia, two weeks before I was supposed to go to Hawaii 💀 yeah that wasn’t fun

Flew off my bike, face planted onto the gravel road, skidded to a halt on my stomach when I was 10

A birthday pony shook me off when I was 7

Flew off my horse, foot got stuck in electric fence, body slammed the arena floor when I was 12

Found out my parents never wanted me when I was 11

Shots between my fingers. I mangled two fingers in a freak accident. The pain of the injury didn't compare to the shots to numb my hand for surgery.

Weirdly, i know i was in pain when these occured but i dont remember the pain
My grandmaws dog bit a hole through my hand (kinda my fault i was messing with the dog lol), and i attempted to jumped over a plasitc chair and scrapped a LOT of skin off my knee... took a lot of bandaids to cover it (sticky part was in the wound ouch) couldnt bend my knee

I'm so so sorry all of you went through that pain!

When I was 3, I tipped a pot of boiling gravy onto myself. My mom was fixing Thanksgiving dinner and was distracted, and I was trying to reach the cranberry sauce. Spilled the gravy down one arm and my stomach. Was in the burn unit in the hospital, then had to return for debrading treatments each week for a while after. It's one of my earliest memories. I remember going into shock on the way to the hospital. Just the realization and wonder that it didn't hurt anymore.

The doctor cutting my finger with a scalpel in an attempt to get rid of the infection that was making my finger swell up. Best part? Because of the swelling the sedation did not get through to the part she was cutting. It was horrible. Still have scar of 2,5cm that runs right down the fingerprint of my middle finger.
The nurse was nice though, she started singing even though I was already 17 at the time…

My father was hypercritical, denigrating me and insulting me. At 15, I had my first crush. She was 13. We were at a friend's house sitting on a couch together. Her father kicked the door in and threatened to kill me, slamming me against a wall. I was terrified. I told my father. He turned away from me, laughed and said "he did?".

Dunno if you'd count teenage years as childhood, as I don't recall any childhood pain, but here goes.

Most of the pain I experienced when I did Jiu-Jitsu. And boy, do I have a few to tell.

1: Screwed up my ankle when I failed to land a cartwheel while warming up. I still feel it to some degree on humid days.

2: Hyperextended by right ring finger when I was jogging inside an MMA cage (finger got caught), and it made doing several grappling techniques very excruciating.

3: I was rolling with a sparring partner, and he had me in a very deep straight armbar from mount position (basically using his forearm on my elbow to apply pressure). I tried to escape it, but it was very deep. I yelled in pain before he let go, and said "Dude, your arm was starting to bend".

4: Got caught in an incredibly rare submission called a "Banana Split"... guess which area of the body that's supposed to target?

5: Not so much a worse one in terms of pain, but more because my partner didn't stop when I asked. Was sparring with a woman, and I landed a successful double leg takedown on her... only for one of her legs to go up between mine, move my cup out of the way, and accidentally kick me in my manhood.

Doubled over in pain, and she immediately took my back to start setting up a rear naked choke. Managed to hold on for the remaining 15 seconds, as I tucked my chin down in time before she wrapped her arms around my neck.

And these are just the ones I remember.

I slipped while balancing between two rocks, broke my tooth and scraped my elbow. Then the tooth got infected cause the temporary filling wasn't done properly and that meant that the anesthesia didn't work when they were going to fix it for real.

I accidentally cut the webbed portion of skin between my thumb and index finger because of measuring tape.

I fell down so hard I knocked out 2 teeth

I twisted my ankle and fell on a bike

I scratched my foot so hard the walls of the veins nearly got exposed and wearing shoes hurt

I closed my cupboard door so hard that I scraped off a lot of skin from my foot that was underneath the door