What is the greatest physical pain known to man?

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11 Jun 2011, 2:15 am

I don't want to know. Probably something horrendous..

From what I've had it's a popped disc in your back. Moocow - That's horrible. I hope you are ok. It can't have been easy.

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10 Aug 2011, 9:45 pm

From a scif-fi perspective the Shrike and it's Tree of Pain from Hyperion definetly come to mind.

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10 Aug 2011, 9:46 pm

Appendix bursting is quite painful, supposed to be comparative to a gun shot wound.

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10 Aug 2011, 9:53 pm

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i have already stated what i think is the most pain in a physiological sense, but i think the worst sensation to be condemned to would be the destruction of the semicircular canals in your ears.

they provide the x plane and the y plane and the z plane stability that tells your mind where you are, and that you are still.

when you spin around on the spot (with your axis being upright(or vertical (rotating with respect to the x axis))) , you disrupt the fluid circulating through your x axis canal, and it eventually starts to spin with you due to surface tension. when you stop spinning, the fluid continues to spin and loses it's momentum after a time, but it makes you feel like you are spinning in the opposite direction for a while. the semi circular canal on the vertical axis is disrupted.

if you were doing cartwheels for a few hundred meters, then when you stopped, you would fell like the world is spinning like a dial in front of your face. the axis of rotation is parallel to the horizon, but the perceived effect is that the world is spinning like the face of a clock (in time lapse).

if you decided to somersault for a mile or so, then when you stopped, you would feel like you are still tumbling end over end (from behind to "in front") for a while. this is a z axial disturbance due to the same fluid dynamic that caused the other axial aberrations in my earlier examples of spinning.

when the semi circular canal is destroyed, there is a sudden loss of stability in all 3 axes of orientation, and the sufferer is condemned to a world of disorientation and almost fatal nausea for the rest of their lives..

This here.

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10 Aug 2011, 11:44 pm

After giving birth have a doctor ram 2 arms up inside you and rip out the placenta which has grown into the uterine wall. DRUG FREE!

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11 Aug 2011, 2:32 am

This thread reminds me of

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11 Aug 2011, 2:39 am

Lol. ^

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11 Aug 2011, 6:02 am

Standing on a plug and/or a lego brick.

FFFFUUUUUUU!! !

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11 Aug 2011, 6:34 pm

I have given birth first not so painful, second very quick and very painful, no drugs (I'll spare the details)
I have been burned 1st, 2nd degree worse than 3rd degree. I had to get the 3rd degree scrubbed also because of gangrene and that was painful. But 2nd degree was a constant level of pain that did not subside and I can't remember how long it lasted because it was so long ago. The scar is small so no big deal.

My fibroid tumors have been so painful as to make me nauseous. I take a little pain pill now and hopefully they will shrink when menopause hits, so they say. My grandmother who was aspie had one the size of a grapefruit and that thought is scary.

2nd degree burns were painful but I could move. Severe cramps causing your body to want to curl up and die is another level altogether.

Back pain is something I don't care to experience anytime either.

I don't think I could live with migraines either, even though I don't have headaches too much but I think that anyone having to live with constant pain would be like a form of physical depression.

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11 Aug 2011, 10:31 pm

I nominate kidney stones, and passing them,, for both sexes.
I've known women, mothers, who've had those, and claim they're far more painful than even childbirth.

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11 Aug 2011, 10:35 pm

Maybe pulling your scrotum over your head.

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11 Aug 2011, 10:58 pm

Trigas wrote:

Maybe pulling your scrotum over your head.

I'm going to have to agree with this.

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