my history of 'ouch'
Age 9 - Scrotum ripped sliding off the roof of a ford Anglia estate, moderate to severe, but happy as I could have lost my balls. Humiliating pain as my mum was a sister in A&E and oversaw the stitching.

Age 13 – 2nd degree sunburn on shoulders and arms on first holiday to Mallorca agony and huge blisters

Age 18 -2 x Pneumothorax, first partial collapse, then total. You think your going to die through not being able to breathe, Its not that painful it still hurts like fuck but you think your on your way out. Subsequent pleurectomy op to stick the lung to the chest wall – extreme pain post op then from physiotherapy over a period of several months

Age 25 -Left thumb crushed and flesh peeled like a banana in a scaffolding accident, severe for several hours. As I was fitting windows 9 floors up it took 20 minutes to get down in the scaffolding cradle all the while in complete agony. Thumb was saved as I was wearing leather gloves and it kept it together.

Age 31 - Abscess in bone above front teeth, local anaesthetic then drilled the bone to remove - absolutely off the fucking scale for several hours, severe for several weeks while industrial strength antibiotics kicked in.

Age 42 –Diverticulitis – severe to absolutely off the scale – add a migraine and a chippy Irish fucking matron ‘encouraging’ me to sit up and tell me it’s not so bad’ I subsequently projectile vomited over her, the bed and the cleaner sent in to wipe up the green stuff. Was reminiscent of the exorcist. About a month, like a bell curve of pain severe -excruciating - severe - moderate then gone.

Age 44 – MRSA infected scrotum following vasectomy, swelling and severe pain, unable to walk for 6 days, took 4 months to get back to normal working order.

Best drugs? Morphine every time apart from the diverticulitis as it effects the bowel, Ketamine and gabapentin adequate substitutes.
(nimrodihnio making gravy for one., Thu 29 Jul 2010, 20:22, 6 replies)

Jeez you're unlucky.
I'm struggling to think of any painful stuff I've gone through in the same number of years.
( girlinthehole, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 20:31, closed)

How was the Ketamine?
The ambulance service I work only give it to patients with fractures who don't respond enough to other pain relievers such as morphine. Ketamine can induce a powerful dissociative state that can really terrify some people. Did you experience anything like this?
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 22:19, closed)

I had no issue like that with it, they got the dose and regime right, though in conversation yesterday with a palliative care consultant that in the doses they give to children, which is very difficuclt to get right, at they can hallucinate and talk about seeing butterlies and try to catch them. they use it when opiates are not appropriate for the child as in gastro cases.
(nimrodihnio making gravy for one., Thu 29 Jul 2010, 23:27, closed)

Wow
You haven't had much luck.

Only one I've also experienced is ripping open my scrotum and having to have it stitched back up. Not nice at all. Oddly enough, my mum was there too. You have my sympathy.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 23:43, closed)

jesus!
if your dog had died, you'd have a country and western hit on your hands!
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 0:23, closed)

Ick, MRSA
I am surprised (and glad) you didn't lose your balls.
(TDub Nunc id vides, nunc ne vides on, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 5:49, closed)