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

I have a few.
1. I fell off bikes a bunch of times. One time, I actually might have broken my arm.

2. I walked into a pole a few weeks ago. My knee can’t fully bend without hurting a bit. Yay.

3. Ear infections. With an extremely dangerous bacteria called MRSA. My outer ear in both ears was extremely swollen and was releasing a whitish pus. Clean your ears, kids.

When I was 3 I sliced my upper arm open on an old rusty firing barrel. Much blood. Many stitches. The worst part was the tetanus shot. It took my Mom and a few nurses to hold me down when I saw that needle coming at me. 50 years later I still have the scar.

I fractured my wrist in third grade on picture day. I was in a cast for a long time, but compared to the stuff on this list I was fine. And besides the initial pain, and the embarrassing sympathy that teachers gave me, and the fact that my mom didn't come pick me up for an hour because she didn't receive the school's phone call, it was a great day. I got to pick out a cool cast, my picture turned out great, and I ate an entire Subway sandwich one-handed!

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I bit down on the pip inside a prune and broke my tooth. that's all I can think of rn lol

I feel like I got hurt a lot as a kid? Child of the 90's and all that. But as for the worst pain I think I have two. The first is when I was little and I fell while roller skating. There is nothing worse than having all the air in your lungs knocked o

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I feel like I got hurt a lot as a kid? Child of the 90's and all that. But as for the worst pain I think I have two. The first is when I was little and I fell while roller skating flat onto my back. There is nothing worse than having all the air in your lungs knocked out of you. That feeling of dragging air back into your body afterwards is horrible and ragged. Like trying to pull sand through your body and it always comes back into you in three short stages. Like you have to breathe life back into yourself. Awful.

The second worse was when I broke my arm. I was on a trampoline. I didn't fall off. Me and my cousins were trying to jump from one side to the other and stop ourselves without bouncing back the other way. Newtons laws of motion being what they are, an object in motion stays in motion unless acted on by an outside force. I was the object. The outside force was supposed to be my arms....the bone of the left arm was not as strong as I had hoped. Forearm snapped at a 45⁰ angle going back towards self. Didn't peirce the skin. The local hospital gave me morphine and then we went to a hospital in another city an hour away. My mother made that drive in 34mintues. I can't adequately describe the pain. But morphine does not work at all like I expected. I was still in pain, but I remember once it kicked in I just stopped caring. That's a well of a thing. What I remember most is the itching when it wore off. Ya never expect a bone to itch. And yet somehow it still doesn't compare to having to drag air back into your own lungs. Odd huh?

When I was 12 my mother read my diary. She read about my father being a pe*o. So I was sent to my room and my parents went into the kitchen to talk. I was so embarrassed but also relieved, expecting my mother to keep my father away from me in the future.

Then I overheard my father saying it was all a lie and that I was on drugs. I always wondered, for thirty years, how my mother could believe this and just now I realised she didn't. They were making up an excuse in case I told someone about it.

Anyways, I sneaked back into my room and that was when I experienced the greatest pain ever. I dropped to the floor, lost vision and hearing. There was nothing except pain. Crushing pain. Mind-splitting pain...

Broke leg while skiing and had to take my foot out of the boot while broken (the break was an inch above the ankle)

I was molested at 4 (pre-kindergarten) by a neighbor who lifted me and held me against the living room wall as his other hand went to work under my undies while my grandmother was cooking for him and his wife in the kitchen. He told me I would get in trouble if I told anyone. I learned not to be trapped in the same room as him by hiding under the house with the dogs when they dropped by.

I just remembered a worse pain when I was 12 and I was playing with my dog on his level (I was a really stupid in the morning) and he hit right in the center of my eye scratching off 15% of my cornea. It took 3 days to heal. It hurt so much worse than the arm fracture.

Our family dentist was a veteran of world War 2. He walked with a limp. As dental sessions went on; drilling, filling, cleaning, scraping and generally drawing blood, he would gradually put more and more of his weight on me. I was just a little kid. The practice then was to drive wooden pegs between the teeth so the dentist could insert forms to hold the mercury amalgam in place. One year he didn't remove one of the pegs, so I was in moderate agony until I could get my parents' attention and have them take me back to see what the problem might be. He finally figured it out and removed a bloody wooden peg from between two molars. He apologized to my mother. When I reached adulthood, I found a different dentist.

I'd say I have 2
1. Childhood trauma.
2. Kidney infection that spread to my blood. Doctors thought I had appendicitis at first.

I'd say I have 2
1. Childhood trauma.
2. Kidney infection that spread to my blood. Doctors thought I had appendicitis at first.

The 2nd degree chemical burns I got on my chest, abdomen and left leg. Pretty much went from neck to knees.

I think the worst pain was when I was on my mom's treadmill and I made the speed a lot higher and fell. I forgot to let go, and the treadmill scraped off the skin on my ankle to the bone. The knee scrape almost went to the bone; we patched it up but i still have a scar on my ankle.

Fell on my coccyx hard, feet in the air while messing around on my roller skates. Severe bruising, looked like a purple, blue and red, orange yellow coloured basketball had been painted on my butt. Couldn't bend much, couldn't sit, mostly lay on my stomach for almost a week.

I had osteomyelitis in my knee aged 6. I remember the doctor trying to make me bend it. Aaaaargh. Surgery and 7 weeks in hospital followed.

I was chasing my friend and to slow me down she slammed the fence gate shut. On my big toe. Which, for lack of a better expression, popped. It healed fine but it was gory and painful.

I dislocated my kneecap whilst playing netball... very long story.
So I was in my first year of secondary school (about a year and a half ago) and I joined the netball team because I love netball.
Fast forward like a month and we were playing our first game against another secondary school, I was looking forward to it so much. About half-way through the game, my teammate threw me the ball and it flew past me (I played wing defence,) I twisted around and I screamed and fell to the floor. I looked down at my knee and I SCREAMED, there was a lump out the side of my knee and for some reason I knew what had happened and I shouted I DISLOCATED MY KNEE. My coach came running over and I'm lying on the floor on my side with my teammates and opponents all staring at me. That was the worst pain I've ever felt.
About 10 minutes later we managed to relocate my kneecap, probably about as painful as the original dislocation and I was basically dragged over to the side in a school chair with an ice pack, 30 mins later my parents arrived and it took about 20 to get out of the building. 30 mins home and then to the hospital A&E.
They were very busy. 2 hour wait to triage and then about 1 to be treated and they didn't even take x rays... I was sent home in a straight leg brace and crutches, swollen, bruised and sore. About a week later I had an appointment and it turns out I had FRACTURED it as well. I got an MRI about 2 or 3 weeks later, the fracture did not qualify for surgery.
Straight brace and crutches - 1 month
40 degree bendy brace and crutches - 2 weeks
90 degree bendy brace and crutches - 2 weeks
Total spent in crutches - 3 months
Exactly what year after that another dislocation, x rays at A&E and an MRI. Straight brace and crutches - 1 month
Just crutches - 1 month
Turns out I have severely damaged ligaments, an off-centre kneecap (that's always been like that) and hyper mobility.
Currently on a surgery waitlist for kneecap realignment and ligament reconstruction.