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Can't compare childbirth because I've never done it and can't as a boy. My scale:
1: ?
2-3: dental filling without anaesthetic, which is all of mine, it's short in duration, just have to be calm.
4-6: head cold headache
7-9: injection directly into my eyeball right between the coloured part and the white, sort of inflated it actually. "just stay still and don't blink..."
10: Portuguese man-of-war Jellyfish sting, which is like that initial feeling when you get a hand burnt on a stove, but that initial feeling just keeps on going for 3 or 4 days.
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I should say that my labor was very long and difficult, nearly resulting in my having a c-section. But it just wasn't all that painful. I agree with North East Quine on that, it was more just a long, tiring, uncomfortable slog.
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Interesting, the comments on duration.
I would say that a rapid spike in pain might be perceived as more intense than a build-up. And a long term duration might also affect how one rates the pain as ones stamina fades.
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Childbirth varies too. My first child, when I was in my 20s, was a 6 pounder.
Were you birthing or fishing?
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Slipped disc: 9
Having to use public transportation to go see my doctor and hitting ever single pothole on the twenty minute ride: 10++++
I had to clench my teeth to keep from screaming the entire trip.
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The5thMary
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I have a question sort of related to this topic... on a scale of 1 to 10, how painful is a spinal tap/lumbar puncture?! $500 is my reward for enduring one but I'm worried that the pain will be too much.
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Bob Two-Owls
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Depends what they do. The actual puncture is about a 2-6 depending on how sensitive you are and whether they can give an anaesthetic jab first. The headaches from drawing off a certain amount of spinal fluid can be anything from a 1 up to a 12...
I paid my way through University by doing virtually every medical study that paid more than twenty quid a day. A network soon developed among serial testees to pass along details of the well-paid and painless studies. Lumbar punctures and deep tissue samples were generally left for the newbies and the masochists.
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7-9: injection directly into my eyeball right between the coloured part and the white, sort of inflated it actually. "just stay still and don't blink..."
If you mean under the conjunctiva, I used to administer loads of these in eye casualty and I suggest you ask the doctor/nurse to use stronger anaesthetic drops as some work far better than others. If you mean deeper then ouch, I've assisted with those...
Re: the spinal, I've had one and didn't consider it too bad, certainly not in comparison with childbirth as at least it is over relatively quickly. But it does depend on your own pain threshold. I didn't get the headache afterwards but know people who have and that is pretty debilitating.
I think the worse pain I've had was a failed anaesthetic block at the dentist, when he hit a nerve I nearly leapt out of the chair. But that was instant, it's hard to compare acute and chronic.
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Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
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Originally posted by no prophet:
7-9: injection directly into my eyeball right between the coloured part and the white, sort of inflated it actually. "just stay still and don't blink..."
If you mean under the conjunctiva, I used to administer loads of these in eye casualty and I suggest you ask the doctor/nurse to use stronger anaesthetic drops as some work far better than others. If you mean deeper then ouch, I've assisted with those...
Ah, memories ...!
Not only very painful but very distressing, too. For a start, you can't even not look at what's going on. And then there are all those primal fears and squeamishness about things penetrating your eye ... *shudder*.
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10 was definitely during a colposcopy when they decided they needed to do a large loop excision (eg heated loop of wire to remove the abnormal cells). Local anaesthetic given, but didn't cover far enough.
I think I nearly flew out of the stirrups!
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Originally posted by Adeodatus:
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Originally posted by Heavenly Anarchist:
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Originally posted by no prophet:
7-9: injection directly into my eyeball right between the coloured part and the white, sort of inflated it actually. "just stay still and don't blink..."
If you mean under the conjunctiva, I used to administer loads of these in eye casualty and I suggest you ask the doctor/nurse to use stronger anaesthetic drops as some work far better than others. If you mean deeper then ouch, I've assisted with those...
Ah, memories ...!
Not only very painful but very distressing, too. For a start, you can't even not look at what's going on. And then there are all those primal fears and squeamishness about things penetrating your eye ... *shudder*.
It was deeper I think. Yes, both painful and intimidating. I sweated buckets and also was sent out of the hospital by myself, and ended up lost. I couldn't see at the time, and had ask cleaning staff to help to the front door where my ride was to be waiting. All in all, something this rather sensitive new age guy had to cry about later, rather weirdly with an inflated eyeball and all.
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This thread, BTW, rates a 1 to 2 for me. Between the pain I have experienced and a vivid imagination, this thread causes real physical discomfort. Weird.
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Me too. I had been thinking of making a dental appointment but have now decided to put it off till I'm desperate!
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On the basis that everyone has to learn somehow, I once let a very junior medical student do a lumbar puncture on me...
The third time he jarred the needle into bone I counted to 30 before finally asking that he get it right the next time.
Excruciating - 8 easily.
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Don't ever break your tail bone - that was a definate 10 and I have quite a high threshold for pain
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Originally posted by L'organist:
On the basis that everyone has to learn somehow, I once let a very junior medical student do a lumbar puncture on me...
The third time he jarred the needle into bone I counted to 30 before finally asking that he get it right the next time.
Excruciating - 8 easily.
OUCH! Well, luckily for me, the lumbar puncture is part of a medical research study and the doctors are from Emory University Hospital, which is one of the best hospitals in the United States. I trust them pretty much with everything as I have been seeing doctors there since 2002. Oh, and they DO give a numbing shot before the puncture. I may break down and have it done... that's $500 extra in my pocket, after all.
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... but this was in the UK and I did it for free!!! ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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This thread, BTW, rates a 1 to 2 for me. Between the pain I have experienced and a vivid imagination, this thread causes real physical discomfort. Weird.
I agree. I now feel very guilty (and humble) at even mentioning my very minor accident in the OP.
To make it worse, because of the accident I missed a gathering of my wife's family. Lovely folk all (well almost all) but I prefer them a couple at a time. Since they are probably aware of this she 'bigged-up' my accident so it didn't look as if I was making an excuse. And now they keep ringing to check how I am. On a scale of 1 to 10, I find that more shaming than I found the injury painful.
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This thread is making me feel a bit sick!
But before stopping reading, I just want to say that, for me, the pain of childbirth is indeed extreme, yet somehow different from other pain. This is what my mother told me before I had babies, and it turned out to be true....
I had three children without any anaesthetic whatsoever, and I would say that while it does hurt incredibly (the contractions, especially at peak, rather than the actual emerging of the baby), it doesn't feel like an assault on the body, an outraging of the flesh, in the same way as other pain does. It feels more--or did to me--like the body doing its --very hard, very difficult, very painful--work....
Though I may well have some words when I meet my Maker about just why it has to be like this!
So I would hesitate to give it a number, or would want a different sort of scale, or something.....
I have had slipped and bulging disks--worst pain related to this was an 8 (with 10 being unimaginable torture-type pain).
I have had a ruptured ectopic pregnancy which was also an 8 at maximum, except for a brief but appalling moment during the ER work-up for this when it went to at least 9...but let us draw a veil.
I have a gallstone which so far, and please God let it be ever thus, has only given me mild discomfort, but I am now even more scared than I was before of the famous biliary colic....
Enough. Feeling queasy. Punishment for noodling around on the Ship when I should be swabbing the decks in Real Life.
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Currently at about a 6-7. I damaged my cruciate ligament (I think, have to go for an MRI scan later in the week) so I am on crutches, already at about a 4. I usually cycle to work but cycling one-legged is a skill that I can't quite master (although a unipedal friend of mine does quite admirably) so I caught the bus. I took a later bus to avoid the hordes of children and unwittingly got on a bus full to the rafters with pensioners out for a free day riding around on their passes. Not one person would let me have a seat and on rounding a particularly sharp corner my crutches slipped and I fell flat on my face so now my knee hurts, my wrist seems to be sprained and my nose has only just stopped bleeding.
I'm going to get a wheelchair for tomorrow.
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Thanks Boogie, the wheelchair almost makes up for it though, these things are ace when you don't have to think about spending the rest of your life in one!
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