I was attacked by a group of pissed up chavs on my way home from work about 10 years ago...
During the melee I was stabbed in the back which punctured my lung. It must have happened pretty quickly because I didn't notice it until I had got home and tried to smoke a joint to calm myself down - the only pain I had was an achy feeling, as if I had been punched on the rib.

To cut a needlessly long story short, I was eventually taken to my local A&E where I was given a local anaesthetic (on the side of my chest, under my right arm) and a chest drain was inserted.
(A chest drain consists of a 1 inch wide rubber tube inserted into the cavity between your ribs and lung and connected to a simple water valve.)

Anyway, all was surprisingly well... until about 4 hours later at around midnight when the anaesthetic started to wear off. Cue 12 hours of the sickening sensation of a rubber tube touching your lung every time you took a breath! By morning I was literally in tears... so they gave me 2 paracetamol.
( mr.dogshit The world's premier anthropomorphic canine faeces, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 11:22, 1 reply)

yeah
that happened to me several times

b3ta.com/questions/ouch/post808688

Worst thing was, I did nothing to cause it. I wouldve loved to have said i was stabbed, broken rib etc. But no. I was sitting down at my desk at work when i felt a pop, then severe pain.

how unexciting
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Fri 30 Jul 2010, 11:35, closed)