The Worst Pain Tolerant Patients In the World
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I was pregnant, just watching TV in the living room. Was getting ready for bed, and realized the bed was soaking wet. Took a couple minutes for it to sink in my water must have broken that morning. Go to the hospital, talking on the phone that might be in labor, idk. Laying on the hospital bed waiting for the doctor and knitting. Just laying there knitting. He comes in, checks my cervix, tells me I need to put that down it's time to push. Less than an hour later I've got a 9lb baby in my arms. Tore down there and needed stitches, scared the doctor because he just started sewing and I jumped. He thought I had an epidural. I did not have an epidural. I felt the needle, but not any of the contractions. Have four kids, still can't feel contractions. Just feels like a hard poo.
A God amongst men. That's tough shit
@@cattlecastle not for me. I have a rare genetic condition that makes my ability to feel pain minor and warped. Unfortunately this condition effects a lot of other bodily functions, is progressive, has no treatment, and I'll most likely die in the next two decades.
@@KuroiGekijo first off, that sucks and I'd like to extend my condolences. Second, which one? I'm going into a degree in genetics, I'd love to learn more
@@cattlecastle familial dysautonomia. I wasn't diagnosed until mid twenties and only because I kept passing out and falling. I don't sweat normally, my tears are extremely concentrated where it literally burns if I cry, and even then I get like a dozen tears if that. Basically my brain doesn't communicate with my body correctly, so some sensations and feelings I just don't feel at all or it feels different. Injuries I can feel, but they don't hurt. I've had bones broken, my appendix rupture, and kidney stones. I tell doctors what I assume my pain level is based on my history but even a 10 on the scale and I can sit there and talk calmly up to the point I pass out. I literally can't feel contractions at all, but I can feel the baby kick and when I'm dilating. I have not been able to have my children tested yet, but my fiance is being tested as it's a recessive trait so we will know the likelihood of passing it on. Some early symptoms in childhood can include difficulty in walking, difficulty in bladder control, unexplained bruises (from hitting/ running into things without knowing), and a lack of crying/ sweating, difficulty regulating body temperature. As it gets to final stages the body doesn't regulate blood pressure, heart rate, and breathing correctly and the years of fluctuating pressure causes weaknesses in the arteries which leads to aneurysms. My aunt died in her sleep in her 30s and my mom has a brain aneurysm currently that is inoperable and basically can go at literally any minute.
@@KuroiGekijo that is incredibly fascinating. You have sent me down a brand new research rabbit hole, thank you so much for sharing
When I was 9, I fell on top of a steel rod. Didn't see it. Didn't feel a thing. 22 stitches. 11 inside and 11 outside. If I hadn't looked down I never would have seen the gaping hole 🕳️.
I think that was shock lol
@@MaryJane-en7do I think you're right because at the hospital, the doctor stuck his fingers in the gapping hole, looking for rust. Then I really started to freak out 💝
@@michellezavala1355 69 👍
Penetrated in a bad way.
@@bensoncheung2801 😆.
My father, Vietnam vet, cut his war injured let to the femur with a chain saw. Demanded I give him my belt, used it to make a tourniquet and Finnishes the cut. Then drove both of us to the ER.
Worst/most interesting: another Vietnam vet with bad burns all over his body/face. I worked in the ER as a triage tech. This guy had chronic pain, he came in and lay down on the floor. When i asked his pain levels he whispered “two.”
He is sweating profusely laying on the cold floor he said see the scars? This is barely a two compared to what gave me the scars.
Holy carp both of those Men are Heroes.
I know that the worst pain 10+++ comes from burns and many types of end stage cancer. For a major burn patient to rate his pain at 2...can't imagine what he endured previously.
Source former EMT.
P.S. I ❤ your Father.
The older generation are metal!!!
I'm a radiographer and I can confirm with most of these stories. older people tend to have an insanely high tolerance and and bend and move much more than you think they could/should. and then you also have the people who scream bloody murder just from the slightest touch. and again like the stories say, you have some people who will drive themselves to the er and say their leg or something has been bugging them and family has been harping them to get it looked at. take a picture and it looks like a bomb went off inside their bones, and when you ask them how they feel they say they are fine
From what I can tell, it depends how much pain meds they used in their lifetime.
@@Davtwan that can also factor in
Grandpa was a dairy farmer. he fell in the barn one day. Abt 6 weeks later he had a routine doc appt. Complained about pain. Got x-ray, went home before got results
His doc got chewed out by the ER head for sending a 86 Year old home with a broken hip.
It was a hairline fracture that had already started to heal.
@@melissaharris3890 Farmers are tough birds. There's a story in the literature of a farmer who worked through a ruptured appendix and survived. OMG.
@@josepherhardt164 I believe it. Grandpa fell another time. My mom took him to the ER. The nurse asked him on a scale of 1-10 rate the pain.
He said 6. My mom took the nurse aside when he was getting an x-ray and told her to make it an 8.
He also never spent the night in the hospital in his 90 years
the teddy bear story; oh my god i just wanna cry; it's a combo of brutal and adorable, and somehow the brutality is outweighed by the wholesomeness of the ending!!! MY HEART!!!😭😭😭
My doc realized I've had pain for years in my back and turns out pinched nerves from your chest size are a thing. Normally it's just a pain that is always there, even with my prescribed pain meds. Unfortunately, when someone tries to treat me for an injury, it takes more meds than a normal person. Hubby is a cycle cell carrier and gets symptoms that full-cycle cell patients get, like severe nerve pain. He had some wisdom teeth removed a few years ago. It took 3 times the amount to knock him out. Normal meds have never gotten rid of his pain. We can't find a doc that will prescribe us something that will dull the pain by half. The last time hubby had true relief he was in the ER for kidney stones in 2008 and his nurse mom had a chat with the ER doc.
Both of you should try asking for referral to a pain clinic.
The best treatment for the type of pain you are talking about isn't something like morphine/ codine/pethidine,but one of the newer drugs originally developed for treating epilepsy/mood disorders, such as Gabapentin or Pregabalin
They are still classified as anti depressants,but have been found to be way more effective against nerve/neuralgic pain,such as long-term back pain
They make the nerves less sensitive to stimulation somehow,while being far less prone to misuse than previous painkillers
Good luck 👍
They are also not expensive
@@helentee9863 Have you ever taken Neurontin/Gabapentin? It's only mildly helpful. Don't get someone's hopes up because it's barely worth taking. I do take it now, I've been off it for a couple of years. It helps but I'm on a pretty high dose 600mg 4xday. Then if you want to stop it, you have to carefully wean. It took me 3 months to get off it last time and I was on a slightly lower dose per day 600mg 3xday. My orthopedic surgeon told me it was harder to get off of that than opioids. YMMV. It's no miracle drug and not worth the trouble.
@@Sharon-pb7so yes,l have taken Gabapentin,however l had a number of side effects, including major gut problems (not mentioned on the list in the information leaflet,but it comes up if you Google)
I was then prescribed Morphine patches,which did very little,(the Gabapentin had worked for me),and finally Pregabalin,which l continue to take long term
All pain relief is very individual,as is all pain. For some, combination therapy is the only answer. Some take a a maintenance dose of something like Gabapentin,then codine/paracetamol (Nurofen maybe) products to control 'breakthrough' pain on activity
General doctor's know little about the sicence of pain relief,that's why long-term, chronic pain is best treated at a pain clinic ,which can also suggest things like physio/exercise
For neuralgic pain/nerve pain even things like the anti epileptic Tegretal/Carbamzepene are sometimes prescribed
I hope you have got/get your pain controlled, chronic pain is one of the worst things to lhave to live with
I just sprang my ankle two weeks and a day ago and I was in massive pain then, I can not imagine it being broken or literally ripped off. These people are very crazy
13:45 if I had that nurse I would punch her. I have weird pain tolerance, for some things I feel nothing, for others I feel it but have no reaction. In 2016 I had a nurse like that and I almost died because of his "if you were really in pain" attitude. My stomach hurt. To the point I couldn't walk. My MIL had to drive from another city to pick up my wife and come to the hospital. They had not run any tests or given me anything. My MIL screed at them about leaving me in this pain for this long. Nurse had an attitude. Finally was taking me to have scans. I passed out on the way. Woke up in post op. My appendix had ruptured hours ago, I was septic, and yes that is extremely painful but because I wasn't screaming and rolling on the floor I was ignored. If a patient says it's a high inner, do not assume they don't know what they are talking about. Not everyone reacts to pain the same way. I've had a lot of medical problems ignored because I tolerate it well. I can't feel regular pain so if it hurts for me it would be a 9 or 10 for a normal person. I've had my skull completely smashed requiring surgery and the EMT assumed it was just a nose bleed because I'm saying it hurts, but not screaming uncontrollably. I've given birth multiple times with no epidural, and have argued twice with the nurse that the baby is crowning, I can feel the head, and they think I would be "in more pain" if that was true. Yes, two of my children were delivered without a doctor in the room because they didn't believe I could be telling the truth without screaming and crying. I've had a lot of broken bones, and when I was younger would dislocate limbs for fun because it doesn't hurt as bad as people say and it freaks people out. I've had second and third degree burns on my face and carried on a conversation with the nurse about her recent vacation while waiting for the doctor. I recognize I should say "oh, this is an 8. My skin is literally peeling off. Definitely an 8".
When I was 6 I cut off my finger. Now technically that's not something one usually feels but it's traumatizing and usually by the time the patient gets to the hospital they are still quite frazzled and understandably freaking out. Now I did freak out and cry a lot but I was basically over it by the time I made it into the hospital. They were most impressed. Later that day I got tackled while looking for my mother because I was wondering around in my house socks. Oh yea in case my life isn't crazy enough for you guys whilst holding my finger and checking in the nurse tells me they aren't too busy and I should expect to be called first. Ambulance doors open and they wheel in a man HOLDING HIS OWN LEG she looks back at me and asks me to have a seat cause now it's gonna be a while. He then proceeds to smack the closest nurses butt with his leg as his last action before the doors close behind the chaos
Well damn on that ending.
ive cut my thumb really badly once. I looked at the knife in it and said "oh... thats not good." didnt really hurt
"Not ER, but a cashier at a fast food place"
I mean, close enough, I guess...?
Had emergency back surgery and afterwards I was to my mom, shockingly active. I didn’t want a blood clot from lack of movement and have had worse pain.
Grandpa was a dairy farmer. he fell in the barn one day. Abt 6 weeks later he had a routine doc appt. Complained about pain. Got x-ray, went home before got results
His doc got chewed out by the ER head for sending a 86 Year old home with a broken hip.
It was a hairline fracture that had already started to heal.
I wish I had a tenth of the tolerance these people had. Tired of level 7 pain on a daily basis.
Tattoo and piercings. I can watch my tattoos get done. Can not see a needle hanging out of my skin. Like can’t watch getting my blood drawn or iv insertion. If I do see it, I get light headed. Passed out and had a 10 second seizure when I was young after watching my blood get drawn. But damn it watching the vials fill with blood is awesome. Can handle other peoples blood but my own I get woozy sometimes from a small poke.
Sprained my ankle really bad at 17, looked like I was hit by a fast pitch softball with the swelling. Had waves of super intense pain but slept on it and went to the doc the next morning.
Story I read out of a magazine.
The author was helping his dad fix a leak on dad's roof. Dad falls off. Dad is forced to go to the ER by the son. It is discovered that, not only does Dad have broken ribs, but evidence that it had happened several times in the past. Dad's response: What? You think that was the first time I've ever fell off that roof?
I have fibromyalgia and PCOS. They have put me through a lot of pain but at this point im literally so used to it I don't even take pain meds. Regular shit doesn't even hurt lmao.
I've had the opposite reaction to both of those things as I have them, too. Fibro has sensitized my pain nerve cells to the point that it doesn't take much for those bad boys to fire the afterburners and I'm cringing in pain. Sometimes all my husband has to do is put his hand on my arm or something and it hurts really, really bad. I guess we all respond in different ways.
I have two stories. I have about normal pain tolerance and I think I got a bit lucky in both
Story 1: was at friend's house for a party. I was helping make jello shots and my friend was cutting a pineapple. The pineapple dropped. I instinctively reached to catch it, which I did. My friend also went to catch it....with the knife hand. Three fingers (index, middle, and ring) got cut across the center of the metacarpals (searched to use correct anatomy term) on the backsides of each. Was bleeding quite a bit but hand was right by the sink so I just turned on cold water, put hand in and asked for disinfectant and band aids. The cuts looked a bit deep but nothing seemed off so I just put the disinfectant (hurt way more than the cuts did), band aids, and that was that. Never had any issues with those fingers since. Also I think the backsides of your arms and hands have less nerves than the front so that may have also helped avoid pain.
Story 2: was hanging with my (at the time) girlfriend and her friends at their place. Someone pulled a table out from under me and I hit the concrete ground with my arm. Stung a bit but nothing more. Few days later, I started having issues extending the arm that hit the concrete. At this point, I am feeling pain, but it's only when I tried to extend my arm out. Go to see the doctor and it turns out my elbow was fractured. The fracture was literally a lucky break because it ran along my ulna from the elbow bend and up about I think halfway. I am known to toss and turn in my sleep. And my job at the time required constant movement (merchandiser for a well-known snack company) as well as me moving cases of product by lifting and moving multiple cases at a time, sometimes holding them up to give to a coworker for storage in the stores (some places had specific shelving). As in, extending my arm all the way up sometimes. There was no pain when I did that at work, but may have contributed to the length of the fracture.
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This isn't a 100% infaliable thing. Im autistic with a medical special interest. I have rsd. I was in a flare, screaming in agony when i walked. Called ambulance. Er put me in a trauma room. They didnt ask me to try and walk, they didnt touch my foot, just assumed i was drug seeking because i wasn't making a sound and claimed 10/10. I was in awe at my first time being a patient in a trauma room and i had 0/10 when LAYING DOWN, something they STILL had me doing. Then they sent me back to the shelter with ibuprophen--only acetometophen (tylenol for the lay people, im an emt) works, ibuprophen does nothing, and i only needed something to break the cycle so i could keep doing what i had to so i could survive (i was homeless, bad family situation, not all of us are addicts) because id tried what works with no solution for a couple days at that point... I was there for true nerve pain, and i was treated like i was faking. I dont even take narcotics now, and ive had that condition, flares included, for 15 years. I think i know how it will treat me...
The underneath of my chin got torn open as a kid. I only remember crying because the sight of blood, what I remember in my kid brain, being a waterfall and going on my unicorn shirt.
Then it was cracking the base of my skull and didn’t make a fuss
Last one I can think of is getting a cut in my elbow when I was 18 and didn’t want to tell my mum so wrapped it in tape and toilet paper and carried on until it got infected.
Sliced my finger almost to the bone when I was a kid, didn't make a sound. Got hells itch once, I cried harder than I had in years. I've been stung by jellyfish, dislocated joints, had my eardrum rupture. I'd take every single one of those all at once before going through hells itch again
I was the patient once. Tripped over roots and fractured a bone in my ankle.Waited a week, including walking the dog. I limped, but could manage No screaming in pain or anything. Nephew drove me to the ER(due to it being the right ankle). I walk myself into the er, up to the check in desk, and say, kinda casually, that I thought I hurt my foot and wanted it checked out. Turned out I had a nondisplaced crack in one of my ankle bones. A nurse that saw me commented on it, and said they'd probably be screaming in pain(or maybe they were exaggerating?). Despite being able to bear wait(even standing just on it alone for x-rays at the pediatrician). I was put in a non-weight bearing cast for 6 weeks. God I hated every single minute of that cast.
I have a "disturbingly high" pain tolerance, it's a blessing and a curse. It's definitely useful in my day to day life when my joints pop in and out of socket or I get cut or something. But it is a curse when medical professionals dismiss real issues because I don't react how they think I should or patronize me because they think I'm exaggerating
I suffer from migraines and fibromyalgia. You would think this would make me a wuss about pain but I was raised to shut up and deal with it. If I am crying from the pain, it's more from despair that nothing is working than actual pain. Narcotic pain meds make me sick anyway and I apparently have an extremely high tolerance for muscle relaxers also. My husband is the opposite; I can not touch certain parts of his body without him screaming in pain and pain meds "don't work" or he's too afraid to take the stronger stuff (familial history of addiction issues and his job)
My dad's friend had a bad crash on his snow machine on a mountain side in Alaska. He rode his machine off the side of a cliff in very poor visibility (he was airborne before he realized there was something wrong.) He shattered his left arm, broke his clavicle, and 6 ribs. This was in the middle of a snow storm and it was getting dark. The Life-Med helicopter was unable to get to him due to the weather and he spent that night and part of the next day on the mountain. He was finally airlifted around 1pm the next day by a US Coastguard helicopter. Because the USCG helicopter was larger than the Life-Med chopper it had to land on a different part of the mountain. My dad's friend walked 1,700 feet down this mountain to where the helicopter could land. He was then flown the 115 miles to the hospital in Anchorage where they performed surgery to place 2 metal plates and 17 screws in his arm and a pin in his shoulder. I saw the x-ray and 1 of the bones in his forearm was in 14 pieces. He said that he finally complained to the hospital administration about the number of people who kept stopping by his room that had nothing to do with his treatment because they woke him up every time they opened the door to his room. His wife counted over 100 staff members stopping by his room that were not involved in his treatment in 4 days. I have never seen a tougher human being in my life.
I mean for me with the IVs vs tattoo needles it's that the IV stays in your arm and goes in much deeper whereas the tattoo needle doesn't go in very deep and doesn't stay in.
Okay but, how severe was the sunburn?
I know I had a sunburn when I was about 13 that didn’t go away for weeks and the pain only seemed to get worse and worse until it was gone.
Like it was so bad at some point that all I could do was lay on my belly and not move for hours just to minimize the pain, but It’d still be bad enough that I’d be crying through most of it.
Never went to the hospital for it though (maybe I should have)
I had one like that too, I ended up not wearing a shirt whenever I was at home because the burn was on my back and the shirt touching it made it so much worse.
Worst part is that I'm half black. Damn it, skin, you're supposed to keep this from happening...
@@tidepodpadthai2633 yep! Needed to keep as little of my shirt touching my back as well. Unfortunately I was born a female so I wasn’t allowed to be shirtless even though I was laying flat on my belly.
Worst thing abt that time iirc was that my nana/grandma decided the best way to treat it would be to put vinegar on it :’)
Worst thing ever… I avoid the sun whenever possible to this day.
I'm allergic to UVB rays. I was taken to the ER because I developed second and third degree burns. Eyes swollen shit, skin cracked and oozing puss. Didn't feel a thing except tired.
@@KuroiGekijo sounds like your body was overwhelmed and didn’t want you to have to feel anything. I think that’s a sign of shock but I’m not sure. :0
@@Amity-park no, I have a genetic condition that just makes me feel things differently. I've nearly died a couple times because I know something should hurt so I tell them what pain level this should be and I get ignored because I'm not screaming. My eldest is the same, he had his hand trapped in an elevator door and didn't cry. Firemen used the jaws of life to rip the door off (his hand was in the part the door goes in when the doors open. He was 3 at the time) and amazed them because he didn't seem to feel it. He also burns in the sun within minutes. My two girls are more normal. Got an appointment for testing for current baby to see if he's got it or not in a couple weeks.
I have no idea how to qualify this scenario but responding to a nursing home where a male patient had dislodged his Foley catheter. We expected some sort of device malfunction like the inflatable bulb that holds the catheter in place had deflated causing it to slip out of the urethra. Nope, tubing had gotten snagged when he tried shifting from wheelchair to toilet for a number two yanking out the thing inflated bulb and all. When we got there was a trail of blood detailing his movements after the event, and we expected him to be in the worst pain ever. His response to the "scale of 1-10" question was a flat zero, and he had no neurological deficits. Old dude remains one of the hardest badasses I have ever transported in my ambulance.
to explain the phobia of needles despite having tattoos, for me personally it's the fact there's something IN me. don't get me wrong, tattoos scare me, but the sensation of a foreign object being inside of my body absolutely freaks me out. I hate feeling the needles under my skin. tattoo needles don't go so deep, so it isn't as bad
Coming from someone with severe medical problems, it’s pretty common to be at a level 7 and not react bc we’re so used to being in pain, and sadly, so used to having doctors not doing anything. My mother actually had to coach me how to act sick when younger bc I’m used to pain. I’ve had meningitis twice, to the point of two weeks of iv antibiotics and later a seïzure plus coma, have sh’ed (if you know you know), accidentally cut my wrists down to a millimeter over the artery?, had sepsis, regular and long sinus infections to the point that it hurts my stomach and chest to cough, do painful transfusions every two weeks, and ofc, I have untreated (but diagnosed) fibromyalgia bc my doctors are too scared to put me on more meds. Oh and rheumatoid. My mother has had way worse as it’s genetic. So yea, I still laugh and watch tik tok at a level 7 bc level 7 is me everyday after work and I can’t do anything about it. Pls don’t invalidate someone who already feels terrible bc you don’t think that they can function with such a high pain level. Like I’m a level 4rn and am about to go to work for 4 hours and then workout bc that’s life you know.
I've got CRPS, central pain syndrome along with Allodynia and Hyperanalgesia. The last two are a result of the first two.
I am on a class 2 prescription in an attempt to help control the chronic pain.
I absolutely love the instructions that are one the prescription label- take one tablet by mouth every 4 to 6 hours for non-acute pain.
My neurologist and pain management provider are having me vape the highest strength of vapable nicotine in order to abuse the stimulant properties of nicotine. Oddly enough the stimulant property of nicotine seems to help the opiate work slightly better (pain management's reason for why he has me vaping) and neuro has me vaping in an attempt to lessen the chance of having to put me on a class 3 (amphetamine type) to help with the dysautonomia that I suffer with being as I am on a class 2 (pain management) and a class 4 (neuro has me on it for Adult Onset Tourettes).
When I do have to go to the hospital or have to have a procedure that requires sedation I refuse iv pain meds (will accept iv dilaudid if available for procedures that need opiates in the sedation cocktail) I refuse fentanyl as I hate the effects of it and will only request oral dilaudid (as that's what I'm already on at home) for managing my pain levels.
Do the meds help your tourettes? I ask because adult onset tourettes is extremly rare and often misdiagnosed as it can be confused with a functional tic disorder. However, meds against tourettes do nothing for a patient that actually has a functional tic disorder as it is a completely different cause that makes you have tics.
@@blackangel6589 it helps a little with the triggers of my tics (pain and anxiety) but not with the tics directly. Vaping the nicotine also helps a bit because it allows the opiate to work better (slightly more effective) and likely also allows the benzo to work more effectively. Then again, the nicotine helps a bit with the pain and anxiety directly in addition to indirectly by helping the meds to work a bit more effectively.......
@@lesliehyde oh so it is not classical tourette meds but just another pain med and not supposed to help with the tics? Or does it not work as well as supposed? In any case, if you were not diagnosed by someone who specialices in tourettes/tic disorder, you might want to check if it really is tourettes. A lot of doctors are not aware of functional tic disorder, at least thats the case in my country.
I wish you all the best. Stay strong.
@@blackangel6589 the benzo (specifically clonazepam) was scripted to help manage the tics by helping with the things that trigger the tics (pain and anxiety). My neurologist also has a background in psychiatry as some psychiatric disorders can be caused by medical (physical/electrically ie seizures) disorders. However, I do see psychiatrist as well and they agree with the findings of my neurologist.
As for the nicotine vaping- neuro is abusing the stimulant properties to hold off on needing to put me on an amphetamine type drug while pain management is abusing the same property to help with better managing my pain. He has also stated to me that a weird thing that central pain syndrome can trigger (particularly in adults) Adult Onset Tourettes as a result in faulty rewiring of neural pathways as a result of untreated/undertreated chronic pain (especially CRPS for whatever reason as the body and brain are weird af) and also the use of pain meds that eventually do end up being used. Psychiatry also agrees with this finding as well.
My team of doctors do want to try me on the old school type antipsychotics, but cardio has said no due to the dysautonomia/ autonomic nervous system dysfunction as the old school antipsychotics can mess with the communication between the brain stem and heart (more than how it currently is) along with the electrical activity of the heart.
@@blackangel6589 also, my neurologist has (through treating other patients with similar jacked up medical messes) found that tourettes (whether typical onset ie childhood/adolescent age or the rarer onset ie in adulthood) can, to the untrained eye when looking at an EEG, look quite similar in patterning to seizure/epilepsy disorders because of the faulty wiring in the brain. He has also found that those who are on the Autism spectrum developed adult onset tourettes at a higher rate because of the already existing faulty wiring of the brain.
.....guess who has a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome (now just classed as being on the Autism spectrum)?....... yup, me.
And courtesy of the faulty wiring of my brain, whenever I start tic storming I will often start to vomit which sets off another tic storm and then more vomiting (this will often continue to keep cycling until I get sick and tired of the cycle and call 911 and they then reach out to the hospital who orders them to give me versed and bring me in). So this is fun..... not.
I broke my wrist skiing. A distal radius fracture if I recall.
At the bottom of the ski hill the medic put a temporary splint on my arm so I could transport to hospital. Medic was a young guy, also in the room was my father-in-law, and a maintenance guy doing repairs on the heater in the room. I asked the medic "am I going to be able to play the piano after" (a VERY old joke that he didn't get) and my father-in-law and the maintenance tech both started chuckling.
It didn't even start to hurt until they put me in traction to realign the bones. Pain 0 or 1
not a doctor but was playing tennis with classmates one day (the one where you slap each other’s hands) and I couldn’t feel anything. I won the title Tennis God and that was that. nobody has beat me at it since
I once sat in on an injury cleaning. One of many I have been a witness too and I really didn't expect it to be any different. Then the guy says he's getting impatient and doesn't want to wait for pain killers and goes through the cleaning without anything. Now for the freaky part, the room filled with a completely different smell. It was not like any other cleaning I had sat in on or witnessed. The smell was distinctly different than what I was used to experiencing with this process. . . Why did it smell different? To this day it turns my stomach when I think about it
Maybe he just sharted
I'm a weenie; I have such a low tolerance for pain. Stuff you guys wouldn't even notice will be quite painful for me. I have fibromyalgia and degenerative arthritis so apparently my body is already highly sensitized with pain, so if you add more on, it hurts even worse. What's worse than that is that I'm allergic to ALL opioids...all of them. It makes getting surgery interesting. I don't know what they use once I'm out but recovery is an absolute horror. All I can take is acetaminophen. I can't take NSAIDs because I already take a high-powered one for fibro and arthritis. I guess it is what it is.
I've had a couple ER nurses tell me I was faking and I was a drug-seeker and such. I threw up on one of them because it hurt so bad so she changed her tune and said "oh, you really ARE at a 6". No shit Sherlock. One thing I've noticed in the ER though is that they like to push heavy pain meds on people. I've told them point-blank "I AM ALLERGIC TO ALL OPIOIDS" and they'll still try to give me morphine or such. I can't even eat poppy seed bread, for crying out loud. LOL They don't listen very well.
As someone who did their own tattoos and freaks out when I have to have needles put in for medical reasons, for me, it is the injection its self, I worry about air bubbles, mixing up syringes, possible allergic reactions because im allergic to the bulk of antibiotics.
I fell through a floor vent and tore open my leg, only cried when it went in, and when I got it out, 36 stitches.
A tattoo needle is not going fully into fleash it just goes a couple layers under the skin I have a diagnosed needle phobia (mostly subconscious) but I noticed that I can get vaccines with freaking out after getting tattoos but any other needles like blood tests and ivs my body just trys to make me faint even when the needle ain't in yet it's honestly bizzare
My pawpaw and mawmaw never ever took anything, they rarely took anything over the counter.....my pawpaw was a tough old man and never let anything keep him from getting up and getting out to go do maintenance work around town and my mawmaw was always cleaning and working in her yard......they passed away last year and the only time I ever saw my pawpaw fall apart was when my mawmaw passed and 1 month later he died.....he lost his strong will to live without her....the pain in my heart is the only pain I wish someone could take away
adrenaline is the body's version of lidocaine
and weed is nature's fix-it to everything 😎
Not sure if this is impressive, but the inside of my throat was cauterized while fully conscious. None of the anesthesia had kicked and my throat was bleeding profusely, so the doctor just had to kinda go for it. Honestly wasn't too terrible.
I have a really crap pain tolerance (we're starting to think its due to a medical issue) but meanwhile my sister has broken her wrist twice and didn't cry either time. The first time she was pretty young so was wimpering and such but no tears. The second time she simply walked up to my dad and was like "Dad my arm is broken" and they look her to get an x-ray bam another cast. When she broke it a second time she fell wrong during a soccer game. The ref didn't even believe she was really hurt and called her dramatic since she was insistant it was broken and wasn't crying or anything. Well that ref was fucking wrong. It was broken.
I fractured my radius to where a peice chipped off, didn’t shed a tear. For a few minutes it hurt but on a walk back home (I fell off my bike) I was mostly smiling
Broke my forearm age 10 doing something stupid. Hurt like heck. X-rays hurt. Finally got some pain meds and felt a little bit better. They started applying the cast. The warm plaster felt so good...
Then they set my arm...
...bastages...yeah hurt so bad.
When I was five, I was playing with a big rock and dropped it on my finger. Fast forward to the emergency room I hold up my hand, my finger hanging on by a tiny shred of skin, and I just said with a deadpan expression "can you fix it or no?"
Good afternoon. Thanks for the stories. Have a great day
i can't have a blood pressure cuff put on my left arm without hurting. I broke my elbow several years ago and it hurts like hell to have my bp taken on that arm.
I thought it was bad gas... Nope, turns out I have enough tolerance to ignore my colon dying and proceeding to rupture. Took about 4-5 hours to go "hm.. this isn't going away, maybe I should get checked"
Personally, I will scream and jump around for a paper cut but if its big, like broken bone or deep cut, I react very little and just deal with the injury.. Always tell those around me, accident prone here, if I am quiet and say I need help I am really hurt, if I scream, no rush...lol.
Lol my low pain tolerance gets me through the er fast, very sensitive
A guy at a camping site chopped wood - axe ended up into his shin. He then calmly walked over to another camp and asked them to pull it out so he could continue chopping wood. This turned into an argument as they wanted to call an ambulance, but he was having none of that. Still with the axe in his leg and blood pouring out he said "fine I will go to the hospital!" and then started another argument because he wanted to borrow a bicycle to go there! After what seemed like an eternity, an ambulance came and they took him to the hospital.
Love the teddy bear story.
Last year I was in ER. I had been in my room for hours and so I started listening to what was happening around me. I heard the Drs and nurses discussing a patient that was going to be placed right next to me. Only a curtain was pulled.
I gathered from her date of birth that she was 96. They said she was given fentanyl. They said she had broken her leg.
Of course I was expecting her to be in quit a bit of pain or possibly a bit out of it because of the strong medication they had given her. However she was just as pleasant and chatty as could be. She was more worried about her husband getting lost on his way to the hospital.
I could not see her leg however it must have been a sight because I heard the Doctor tell her that she had broken it and I almost laughed at her response. She must have looked at it and must have seen the break at that point because she said, “Oh yeah it seems I did. Just look at that.”
I feel bad for the sunburn guy, how sensitive do you have to be to find it that painful? I got a severe 2nd degree sunburn all over my face and chest to the point my forehead popped in a couple places and it hurt but I was no where near needing meds or screaming
Tis but a scratch
When I was little, I stepped on something that cut my foot open but i didn't feel a thing so I didn't notice until I looked down and saw it bleeding everywhere
It looked small, but the bleeding should've been a sign that it was deep. We couldn't find what cut me
It's been 10 years, and I still have the little object stuck in my foot, it's migrated from the ball of my foot to above my 2nd toe
Had mealted steel on my foot
I broke my foot three years ago and walked on it for a week thinking it was just a bad sprain. Once it started swelling and I couldn't bear weight on it I went to Urgent Care and voila, broken third metatarsal.
had several eye surgeries for strabismic amblyopia as a kid. for each recovery, I had to put ointment *in my eye.* it was the worst thing I ever felt. Anyway, years down the line, there's not a damn thing an optometrist could to do me to make me flinch or swear- no eyedrops, air-puffs, lights or lasers. In addition, i can kick absolute ass at staring contests, which was cool in late elementary/early middle but not so much anymore. I am kind of curious how long I can go without blinking- i've tried, but always get distracted and forget i'm trying not to blink before i feel any extreme need to blink. and i guess i can blame that on the adhd.
when i was about 13 i cut my thumb open really badly and had to go to the hospital. I rinced it with water and it hurt to do so but i was like "well it is cut wide open" so i get to the car and my mom is panicking while im sitting there, holding my thumb calmly. She tells me to text her payer group and i look her in the eyes and say "sorry mom, im a little busy right now." she remembered why we were going to the er in the first place. I was pretty calm until the mention of stitches. Even then, a little something to calm my nerves and some water and bam, im watching the stitches without flinching. They did not numb the area cause it was only four stitches, but still. Id give it a 1-2/10 tbh with pain. Wasnt very painful exept the water which was a 5/10
My dad was a boss. Broke his elbow and mom took him to er. Docs almost didn’t believe it without the X-ray!
Back in August I got into a 4 car pileup (I was the only one injured) I broke 3 ribs and my collar bone + temporarily paralyzed my right arm I wasn't crying because it hurt, I wa crying g becaus I didn't have a car and was broke
I have no soul.
All of you who are not redheads, be grateful, it can really suck at times. I take pain medication daily for RA and sometimes it barely helps, and I've shocked the crap out of doctors by starting to wake up and move during multiple surgeries. It's not super-well understood yet, but generally agreed that redheads require more anesthesia and (some of us) more pain medication to get the same effect a smaller dose would have on a non-redhead.
7:37 in their defense the tattoo gun is just tiny needles formed together barely visible, but a syringe is a BIG OL THICC BOI needle so it's easier to see.
Watched a guy walk into the e.r with dislocated shoulder, he was laughing and smiling I think he was drunk so yea
4 years ago my brother hit his hand on a rock and it was like a geyser of blood. This 12 year old boy is just staring at it in shock for like 3 minutes then walks away like nothing happened while myself and my cousins are screaming in terror.
Every single one of these stories of people who don't show pain makes me irrationally angry.
Why? Because when I went to the hospital in the worst pain of my life, I was treated as if it was all an act to get a bed overnight, and left to sit in the waiting room for 7 1/2 hours, then sent home with a lie and some placebos, then when I managed to drag myself back a second time, was made to sit in the waiting room *again* until I literally passed out on the floor.
It was only then that they started to think *maybe* I hadn't been acting and took me seriously. When the place you've been told to go when something goes seriously wrong medically with you treats you like it's some kind of joke or prank on your behalf, then what are you supposed to do?
I just wanna point out, let's not shame people for having low pain tolerance, ADHD and autism can lead to significantly lower pain tolerance, due to sensory processing issues. Depression and anxiety disorders can also cause this. Sensory issues are not fun, I have ADHD myself which also comes with sensory processing issues.
My pain tolerance is garbage. Chronic pain will do that to you
My doctor called me insane because of my pain tolerance. I broke 4 vertebrae in my lower back several years ago. I happen to be one of around 900 people in the country known to be allergic to acetaminophen (Tylenol). It is the base for most prescription pain medication. It leaves me with very few options and all of them are highly addictive. The prescription I have is for an opiate and my doctor is always amazed when I make a bottle of 60 that is meant to be for 30 days last between 45 and 60 days. The longest I have been able to stretch it has been 102 days. I come from a family of addicts on both sides and have seen what addiction can do. I am so scared of becoming addicted that I won't take the pain medication until I haven't been able to sleep for 24 to 36 hours. The next drug stronger that I am not allergic to is Demorol which is even more addictive. I once broke my left leg (tib/fib) and drove myself to the hospital. I drive a stick shift truck. The lady at the emergency room check-in asked me what was wrong and I told her I broke my leg. I felt like a side show at the circus after the x-rays were taken because I had every staff member in er and the entire radiology department wanted to see the guy who walked in with multiple fractures of both bones in my lower leg. I had surgery the next morning and ended up with 2 titanium rods a pin and 8 screws.
I'm sitting here debating if I have broken, sprained, or have a stress fracture in my foot. I got my foot run over a few weeks ago by a wheelchair (occupational hazard). And yet, I'm still walking. I'm afraid to find out what I actually did.
Well, it's a good thing you aren't a terrible medic. Wait...
My grandpa. Breaks back. Is on the floor playing with grandkids 15 minutes after getting home. “What pain? I don’t feel any pain!”
Breaks both arms. Is picking up and comforting crying grandkid. “What is this pain in which you speak of?”
My uncle, my grandpa’s oldest son. Walks around for three days on a broken femur. Gets treatment. Tosses crutches aside after one day and resumes walking on it.
A lot of these stories, shock is a powerful drug.
Wasn’t there an Aussie that cut his arm off that drove himself to the hospital?
I get the impression his car had an automatic transmission, though if it was a manual that is considerably more impressive.
@@GhostBear3067 depends if t was left or right cut off
@@therick7445 that just makes potentially even more impressive.
Love these stories, hate the f***ing computer voice. ❌❌❌
Can someone explain "badbutt"?
Badass.. very tough.
haha yall are weenies!!!! I broke my right toe, left arm, left shoulder, 4 ribs on my right side (car wreck) and still refused any pain meds whatsoever cuz if I'm numb, I can't tell the doctors what's wrong with me. I'm not stupid, I have weed! I refuse to take any pain med for any reason! if I get hurt, I shoulda been more careful and that pain will teach me to do just that. mind your business and let the problem fix itself!!! 🙈 I see nothing wrong with this cuz I don't see shii (remember)
Weed clearly effects you. Fix this^
Buddy, first no one asked, and second, go see a fucking doctor if you die you can't say that it wasn't your own fault
Imagine this: 20 year old me out one night in Sydney one fine Anzac Day (google that for those who don't know what that is) I was "memorialising",some say just an excuse to get drunk 🤷🏻 oh well, I was D.R.U.N.K! wanted a smoke, unfortunately the stair got in my way 🥸 it was described to me when I was sober that it was like I did a flying pirraioet down the stairs 🤣 it felt like just a sprained ankle, the bouncer was quite insistent I go to the hospital, which thankfully a 5 minute ambo ride 👍 7 metal pins and a plate later, 10 weeks in a cast. Ouch
My dad was a boss. Broke his elbow and mom took him to er. Docs almost didn’t believe it without the X-ray!