ouch... that hurt!!

Blaze said:
Torn tendons in right ankle in high school.
Smashed left hand about 10 years ago, still bothers me.
Had my left eardrum rebuilt twice
Huge polynoidal cyst removed from my back (that was the worst surgery, couldn't take shower for like 3 months and had to wash every morning with washcloth and wash my hair bending over the tub side).
And then the standard tonsils/adenoids/ear tubes things

And of course I am constantly cutting, bruising, or spraining something. :lol:
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it's called polinidal cyst or " Jeep disease " no shit google it. I had one for about 6 years before it was removed, it was lanced twice before that and yes it was a bitch. The cyst was now almost golfball sized when they removed it. After carefully climbing the stairs at the apartment after the surgery I layed on my stomach on the couch and soon felt heat all under the bandage. My mom, an RN saw alot of blood in the bandage and pealed it back to take a peek, an artery was nicked apparently tore climbing the stairs and blood shot 5' in the air and my girlfriend fainted w. Back to the doctor and into the waiting room clutching a blood soaked towel to my ass so I did'nt bleed to death and scaring the crap out of the peeps waiting there, they cauterized it and stopped the bleeding. Then the fun part, the thing must heal from the inside out so they do not close the wound. It was mid summer and I worked Land Surveying, back to work a week or so later walking all over w a huge wound, right at the top of my asscrack w sweat running into it and pouring peroxide on it and rebandaging every few hours FOR several MONTHS. Taking whore baths for a month before a real shower, it took 4 or 5 months to finally close, longer to heal completely.I'm pretty sure this is where the "pain in the ass" phrase came from.

Herniated disc at my pelvis and sciatica plagued me for 5 yrs daily, chiro and physical therapy helped but it was always on the verge of unbearable. I about got hooked on painkillers but realized they only made me feel worse when they wore off because I would hurt back while I felt little pain, I drank alot too. The doc said i needed the vert fused to my pelvis w a cage, I was 30 sumpthin and said hell no. 5 years and finally 3 steroid epidurals brought lasting relief.

Worst pain ever was 2 years ago tore something in my shoulder under the shoulderblade lifting a large deep cycle battery out of the back of my boat w my weak left arm straight out, lifted it about waist to shoulder high standing in the driveway. Just a twinge for a few hours, next morning I could hardly get out of bed, the pain was from my neck to my elbow and the whole side of my back, muscles cramping badly and spasms. I could barely breathe or turn my head, could not raise my arms to my head to wash my hair before going to the doctor or for week afterward. They just would'nt go higher like they were paralyzed and numb when I raised them and weak and limp. Doc said I tore some muscle and possibly tendons and the swelling was trapped under my shoulderblade and squeezing the arm nerve. he also said I apparently stretched the nerve were it left my spine at the base of the neck. For 4 or five days I had severe pain and crazy muscle spasms in my arm, shoulder, neck and lat constantly. I did not sleep but a few hours in 3 days as the muscles would constrict in mminutes when I tried to relax and the pain would become unbarable until i moved again, pain medicine and muscle relaxers did little to nothing. I got some relief sitting on the couch pressing my left shoulder into the back of the couch w a hard pillow behind it, but could not sleep that way. After 2 weeks still my arm was week and the pain was about half as bad, 3 weeks of PT and a little better still lots of sharp pains when moving and lots of annoying muscle spasms in my arm, back and neck. 2 months later my ortho doc sent me to another who shot me w suger water IV solution about 10 places on my neck and shoulder at nerve endings and it fixed it GOOD. He said it was a new therapy injecting the solution at acupuncture points. I was blown away that it worked as well as it did the spasms only occured 2 more times in a few days and the muscle tension and pain were much much less.
 
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it's called polinidal cyst or " Jeep disease " no shit google it. I had one for about 6 years before it was removed, it was lanced twice before that and yes it was a bitch. The cyst was now almost golfball sized when they removed it. After carefully climbing the stairs at the apartment after the surgery I layed on my stomach on the couch and soon felt heat all under the bandage. My mom, an RN saw alot of blood in the bandage and pealed it back to take a peek, an artery was nicked apparently tore climbing the stairs and blood shot 5' in the air and my girlfriend fainted w. Back to the doctor and into the waiting room clutching a blood soaked towel to my ass so I did'nt bleed to death and scaring the crap out of the peeps waiting there, they cauterized it and stopped the bleeding. Then the fun part, the thing must heal from the inside out so they do not close the wound. It was mid summer and I worked Land Surveying, back to work a week or so later walking all over w a huge wound, right at the top of my asscrack w sweat running into it and pouring peroxide on it and rebandaging every few hours FOR several MONTHS. Taking whore baths for a month before a real shower, it took 4 or 5 months to finally close, longer to heal completely.I'm pretty sure this is where the "pain in the ass" phrase came from.
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Right with ya dude, the guy who did my surgery was a medical surgeon in Vietnam, he said he almost did more pilonidal cysts than he did other injuries when he was in the service.

Mine was about the size of a sleeve of golfballs. It has been about 14 years and my skin STILL hurts there when I bump against things, they had to remove so much flesh that the skin must still be really thin there. It was like 1/4" from my spine. The repacking of the bandage was the WORST, I didn't have to do it nearly as often as you since I was working a desk job and could make it with a change in the morning and when I got home from work. I put on about 40 lbs during the recovery because all I wanted to do is lie around on my stomach for months.

You are damn right about the "pain in the ass" phrase.
 
My advice to anyone who gets one is to not confuse it w a sebaceous cyst, have it checked and removed immediatly while it's small, they grow and shrink but eventually they get larger and more trouble to remove.
 
My brother was chasing me around the house when I was about six. I fell on the coffee table and it went completely through my cheek. I could stick my tongue out of it. Plastic surgeon stitched me up and while you can feel the scar you can't see it.
 
I've had hundreds of pulled muscles/sprains/scraps/bruises, but never had stitches, and only broken 1 bone. I was walking across a parking lot when a friend accidentally hit me in his Toyota Sequoia. Knocked me about 20-25ft! I got up, assessed myself, and started laughing because other than the general soreness you would expect, I seemed to be fine. Fast forward a couple days, and my left wrist was still sore and sprained feeling, which made sense considering I used it to try to stop a 6000lb SUV. Fast forward 11 months, and it still generally hurt a bit, but sharp pain was mostly just when I bent it under pressure or did push ups. Good news: I didn't do a lot of pushups! But I decided I should probably go get it checked... Turns out my scaphoid bone was still completely broken in half, kinda like this:
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Turns out there are only blood vessels on one side, so they other side of bone had completely died. So surgery, taking some bone from somewhere else in my body, and a little bit of titanium later, I was all fixed up. 13 months after it originally happened.
 
my ass is cracked, does that count?
 
Nose twice before I was 21, tooth chipped from anothers class ring at 15.

shoulder fixed once, right knee three times.
 
reading some of these makes me think of a bunch i forgot about. @BigClay , i think thats who had the torn bicept, im glad thats one i never had. torn muscles are nasty inuries!
 
Reid said:
reading some of these makes me think of a bunch i forgot about. @BigClay , i think thats who had the torn bicept, im glad thats one i never had. torn muscles are nasty inuries!
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Yeah that was me, it has been a slow recovery, and not one I care to ever do again.
 
Blown out right knee 22 years ago. Still have trouble.
Innumerable twisted and sprained ankles.
Damaged Achilles tendon in the 3rd grade on the playground. Yep, still hurts.

Stuck hi-lift under a freakin' Samurai (not mine-but my jack). Came un-stuck, dropped one notch, pulled the handle out of my hand and hit me in the mouth.
Teeth put 2 complete holes in my lower lip. 9 Stitches and I bleed through a whole roll of paper towels while driving back to Forsyth Hospital .... no freakin' way I was gonna get stuck in the hospital in Troy.

Oh yeah, my grandpa taught me how to properly sharpe knives when I was 10. More cuts than a cheap barber shop.

Matt
 
As much as all of em sucked, the one that was the easiest to get and is the WORST to get fixed was the FBR. I had a chunk of molten steel fly into my eye because I was a windowlicker and didn't wear my safety goggles while shaving my 14 bolt. Very painful and expensive trip to an eye doctor! They take a large needle ice pick thingy and dig it out your eyeball and then dremel out all the rust. And the whole time you're eyes are wide open watching the contour of your eyeball caving in with the pressure. (Its not like you can't watch). Of all the pain I've experienced in my life that was the only time I've ever passed out and it didn't even hurt that bad... Just horrible.

Graphic, I know. But what I'm trying to get across is: WEAR YOUR FAWKING SAFETY GLASSES!!!
 
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