I’ll be back to answer this one after I wake up from my open heart surgery later today, because I have a feeling that my answer might change over the next several hours.
While I've experienced worse pain, the sensation I hate the most is what I call a nerve itch that happens in my feet, likely because of my neuropathy.
What happens is that I get an intense itching sensation in my feet that nothing will resolve. Scratching does nothing. I've tried soaking my feet in epsom salts. Didn't help. I've tried all sorts of anti-itch creams. Didn't help.
Ultimately, I found that the only thing that helped at all was this lotion called Diabetaid, which contains capsaicin, the stuff that makes chili peppers hot. It helps, but only slowly. I have to slather it on my feet and then put on socks to keep the lotion from getting everywhere — you do not want this stuff on any of your more delicate parts.
This will often at least calm things down enough that I can sleep, or at least tolerate the itch without loosing my mind until it subsides.
...scraping all the way through your kidney and down the walls of your urethra for hours until it finally comes out. Agonizing pain while waiting in ER until they can get to you. I've passed three. Kidney stones are no party.
@PatKirby I have a friend in NorCal that is loaded with stones, at 3 to 4 a year, he has a permanent vicodin scrip because of them and has to piss through a kitchen strainer. He says a stone the soze of a grain of sand feels like a boulder made of razor blades.
Internal pain because you can’t explain it to people.. when you have external obvious issues people understand but to internal things they are clueless
@MaBalzEsHari I can just see the pics now, adult diaper equipped with a proctoscope holster on the side... and all set for the big showdown at the O-K Corral.
@swirlie Trust me..........I'ts not OK. When it started.............I said STOP. I made a new appointment and the next time I requested mor than a Valium.
Birth/labour. Dry p**p after days of constipation Stubbing your toe. Panic attack Hitting your funny bone. Being humiliated in front of others. Food poisoning Biting your tongue Pins and needles.
@Lilyb I feel that. 5 years ago, I walked into one. That was the start of a very long process of healing and breaking back open, due to my diabetes. It surprised the hell out of me, because I had never had a minor wound like that fail to heal properly before.
