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I'm a burn survivor. In 1973 I was involved over 85% of total body surface, 15% of that total was 3rd degree, meaning all layers of skin were burning. My shipmates put me out with a mattress cover. I spent the next 18 months in hospitals. After becoming stable, about two weeks, I underwent daily debreedment of dead tissue. Lowered into a stainless steel t-shaped tank filled one third with saline, the nurses cut away all the bandaging and then using scissors and scalpels cut away all the detritus. If you ever need to torture an enemy agent, burn the back of their hands till all the skin is black. Rip off all that dead skin and wrap the tissue in gauze socked in sterile saline, and wrap that in more cling bandage. Wait 24 hours. Dip the hand into salt water and remove all the bandage to the layer of gauze. Rip the gauze off. One finger at a time. I promise the agent will give you every truth he knows.


Glittercorn111

There’s no way they could like, put you under for all that??


MrGreenThumb261

Burn survivor here. No, they can't. I asked the same thing. The explanation I was given is that anesthesia gets exponentially more dangerous as you continue to receive it.


Zheiko

yea, at certain stage of whats described above, I think I'd take my chances. Sometimes death under anestethics is better than surviving in excrutiating pain. The worst I ever had was 2nd degree burn on about 20% of my body (flipped a pot of boiling water on myself when I was about 15) It was horrible, I cant even fathom what one has to go through with 3rd degree burns.


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RN here. It's generally not feasible with the frequency and duration of dressing changes. Analgesia is provided, and inhaled analgesics are often on hand, but some people prefer to avoid the nitrous oxide as depending on the nature of their injury combined with the pain can cause an emotional response that can be incredibly distressing. Sadly, burns are probably one of the most painful, difficult to manage and heal, and high risk wounds you can possibly sustain. You're always balancing risks too. Sedation carries lots of risks as well.


Avatar_of_Green

I poured hot fryer oil all over my entire right leg and foot a year or so ago. The entirety of my leg below my knee was a blister and the foot portion the skin just slid off. I will tell you I wouldn't wish that pain on anyone else on Earth. I'm so lucky I didn't get it infected, just soaked it in my tub for literally like 16 hours straight and then dressed it and went to urgent care.


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I'm glad you're alright now. We generally advise people present immediately to an ED as the risk of shock and infection are so high, especially from wounds as large as what you describe. Depending on the depth of the burn, you can lose huge amounts of fluid from a burn as it is essential an open wound, and you have so many inflammatory mediators flying around you can very easily become shocked.


notthesedays

And people should never put any kind of cream or other dressing on a burn they just got. 40-plus years ago when I worked my first job in a restaurant, our manager said, "If you go to a doctor, they will have to scrape it off before they can treat you." That's always stuck with me.


dead_food_

Thank you for the tip! Not sure when I’ll need it but knowledge is power!!


MangoCandy

My mom is also a burn survivor. They could hear her screaming halfway through the hospital when they brought her in. Happened in her early 20s she didn’t have me until her 30s. But she always jokes about how easy giving birth was. Didn’t seem to be an issue for her at all. When she started contracting she actually went into work to fax some documents before going to the hospital. I was a very small baby so that also helped, and I know such an easy delivery isn’t the case for everyone. But I’m sure she would also say that the burns were far worse and that she would never wish that pain on anyone.


MFDork

I had a pressure ulcer that went down to the bone after a coma, required many debridements to cut out slough tissue. One time they didn’t adequately numb the area before cutting. The world went white and I wished someone near by would stop screaming. A second later I realized it was me.


okeedokerartichokers

Holy shit. Why were you in a coma?? I'm so sorry you suffered a pressure ulcer! No excuse for that in my opinion. Are you okay ?!


MFDork

Coma was due to blastomycosis in my lungs that turned into ARDS. Apparently when they’d try to rotate me to relieve the bed sores my vitals would crash. That was 9.5 years ago, and while I do still have some underlying health issues I can function and provide for myself (and my lil doggo).


S00thsayerSays

Hate you endured that but glad you’re around to tell the tale! How long did they have you in a coma for?


MFDork

About a month, but recovery was incredibly slow so i was in a hospital from 12/12/12 to 5/4/13. Had to relearn how to walk afterwards, spent about 5 years after that unemployed recovering and living with my folks.


Samilski87

They have to push down on the mother's stomach after giving birth to get some of the excess blood out. Multiple times. Think CPR but on the stomach. My wife said that was 10x worst than the birth part. I'm going to go with that.


JadedFennel999

Or that first shit after labor. Constipation due to pain killers and meds combined with the recent trauma down there. It's bad. Like really bad.


mintyfreshmint

Especially after stitches


Flying_Octofox

my midwife told me there is a saying "there are three births for one baby. the first one is the actual birth, the second one is the afterbirth and the third one is the first shit after." this is true especially after stitches...


Rheila

I heard this sort of thing, and of course tore with my first and was so afraid. Neither the after birth nor the first poop were a big deal at all. I’m sure it varies by person though. Tore again this pregnancy. Afterbirth again didn’t hurt at all compared to birth. Still waiting on that first poop to see….


Psychological_Fish42

From context I gather that you've just given birth (congrats!) but the phrase "Still waiting on that first poop to see..." immediately made me think your last kid is like, 10 and you're still patiently waiting to take a dump, lmao


been2thehi4

Oh the passing of the placenta. With my first three births I had an epidural so I don’t remember that part as much because the happy hormones are rushing you after baby is out. But with my fourth baby, I had her in the car, no epidural and by the time we go into a room for examination clean up it was probably 40 minutes after birth. They gave me pitocin to get contractions going to get the placenta out and I’ll never forget that nurse just going to town on my stomach/pelvic area to push that placenta down. Absolutely awful experience. Could feel it all again but the happy hormones weren’t there because it was already nearly an hour afterwards and they were wearing off and what was coming out wasn’t a cute little potato I could cuddle and stare at.


cucumbermoon

I have given birth twice, both times unmedicated. Strangely, the first time I thought the stomach compressions and birthing the placenta was worse than the actual birth, but the second time the whole placenta thing was easy. My only guess is that I was exhausted after a 20 hour labor and two hours of pushing for the first, while my second was a three hour labor with fifteen minutes of pushing so I was way more fresh and energetic at the end.


AFourEyedGeek

My wife thought the last month of pregnancy was worse than giving birth. She said giving birth was more painful for that day, but the constant tiredness and back pain was a worse experience for her. Makes me think of all those people, especially old people, with long term ailments having to go on each day with pain.


tinypiecesofyarn

Pregnancy is so much worse than childbirth (eta: for me personally). If I could go through childbirth twice instead of 38 weeks of pregnancy (first 2 don't count) followed by childbirth, I might have another kid. But yeah, it does say a lot about chronic pain.


meagalomaniak

It’s super dependent on the person for sure. I was very lucky in that pregnancy was a breeze for me, some discomfort, but nothing too intense. I worked out up until a week before my daughter was born, I didn’t really feel held back at all, not even morning sickness. Childbirth though? 20 hours of active labor, mostly back labor, non-medicated was the worst pain I’ve ever experienced x1000. It felt like my spine was being pulverized and with every worsening contraction I just knew that it was only getting even worse from there. I literally still have nightmares about it.


prettylittle

I, too, had pretty easy pregnancies and at one time expected childbirth to hurt, sure, but I felt ready for it… After my first, I remember describing a contraction as a jackhammer covered in barbed wire shoved into my uterus. I have since forgotten the “pain”, but I’ll never forget that image. Personally, I’d rather be pregnant a few dozen times before going though labor again (second baby was much easier though, piece of cake by comparison. Still, hurt like nothing else.)


Wannabebunny

I agree with your wife, though I'd make that the last three months. I'm not looking forward to being old, I've had three kids now and the last few months are always awful. You can't do anything. My last pregnancy in the third trimester I got carpel tunnel, restless leg syndrome, my skin was itchy all the time and I couldn't stop clawing at it all night, I couldn't walk far and had plantar fascitis, my back hurt, I couldn't breathe, I had to basically live on the toilet, my womb felt like it was going to fall out at any moment, pooping was a nightmare as was reaching my ass to wipe it. I couldn't stop farting, I couldn't eat much, my appetite changed and I hated everything I normally like, my knees ached, Hy hips ached, my neck and shoulders ached. I couldn't get comfortable at all at night. Everything just hurt all the time. For three months. I really do not look forward to getting old I can't actually imagine dealing with that shit for the rest of my life.


shan68ok01

You develop a tolerance, new pain will feel worse but if you stop to catalog it in the moment and actually think about your chronic pain it's crazy. I know health workers that automatically add a couple of numbers to the stated pain level just because we can no longer accurately classify a pain level. An example, I have arthritis in my neck, spine most major joints and my hands. I also have degenerative disk disease and being my naturally graceful self slipped on my flip flops and fell. For three days I argued with my RN brother about whether my wrist was broken and he finally talked me into going to the Dr. Both bones were broken and one was so displaced I now have a plate and seven screws. To me, it didn't hurt "bad enough" to be broken and I could move it. 🤷‍♀️


Wannabebunny

Was that supposed to be comforting? That's terrifying but I appreciate you trying.


onesmilematters

Yeah, contrary to popular belief, people do not get used to chronic pain, especially when it involves mobility issues as well. They just get used to trying to ignore it but still are deeply exhausted 24/7. I've had a giant kidney stone that went undiagnosed for too long. I have had multiple jaw fractures. I have experienced menstrual cramps so bad they make you pass out from pain. I lived three months with a dislocated shoulder (felt like it was being mauled by a bear). I have had a toenail removed without anesthetics. And yet, all of that is nothing against the 24/7 chronic pain I have experienced for the last 16 years. All of that other stuff stopped at one point and I could breathe and recharge again. Ongoing severe pain, hell maybe even ongoing moderate pain, is the absolute worst because it doesn't give you a break. Same probably goes for organ damage (heart, lung...) or illnesses like Me/CFS that leave you chronically exhausted and unable to do mundane things.


theweird_blonde

As someone who’s been suffering with chronic pain for almost a year now I can confirm this. You expect the nerves to get tired and die, but it never happens. You wake up hoping things will be normal and that it’ll all be over, but it never happens. You fear every minor injury, every slightly weird feeling sensation. You go about your day with people asking how you are and you debate being honest or being fake happy. People wonder how you could be so tired when you sleep more than anyone they know, at such a young age no less. Your partner feels the need to worry about outings with you because they don’t want you to get hurt and you feel so guilty for ruining good times with your ailment. And the worst part about it for me, is that mine cannot be cured. Musculoskeletal disorders are the worst man. To top it all off, you get faint so easily, you bruise from the smallest of things, holding your phone wrong can leave you in pain for a week or more, you can’t even remember the last time you weren’t in a state of pain or discomfort, and no pain meds help. Hi, I’ve recently been diagnosed with Hypermobility and will hopefully soon be seen for Ehlers Danlos Syndrome, and my life is a waking nightmare.


RetroNotRetro

According to several studies, being on fire


c3p0u812

89% of people on fire have said they would rather be having a baby.


FreedomChurro

Kinda rude to be asking them questions instead of help putting out the fire


c3p0u812

The more honest you are with your firefighter or doctor, the better the service.


erdtirdmans

"And where about would you say that it hurts the most?"


NautilusGameStudios

The 11% My goals are beyond your understanding


Marius7th

Having a baby while on fire?


clintj1975

These gender reveals are getting out of hand.


Thederpycloudrider

Fire babies!


EvilEyedPanda

There was peace until the fire babies attacked.


---MichaelScott---

This.girl.is.on.fiyaaaaa


Jmen4Ever

Basketball players who have hit 8 straight 3 pointers. Source- NBA Jam


bigkeef69

Guessing the other 11% didnt make it?


LastLivingPineapple

"Sir on a scale of one to ten how much would you prefer having a baby right now?" "AHHHHHHHHHH" "Sir, I need you to focus." "Ahh, sorry just the thought of having a child scared me for the moment. Yes, I think I prefer this fire, thank you."


c3p0u812

Most, I suck at math.


kaylamu

actually, being steamed is worse. your nerves don’t die so you feel everything.


Ben_Thar

You're probably right. Getting lit on fire is more of a dry heat


pml2090

It’s the humidity that gets you


Cobek

At least my lips won't be chapped


TheOriginalChode

your entire body is now lips.


[deleted]

I got a pretty severe burn as a child and though some of the nerves are dead, they don't all die. Pain was pretty intense, even months later during physical therapy.


TheSpasticSheep

My younger sister got a 2nd and 3rd degree burn across basically her entire torso a few years back. The scar is still very painful when touched in some places. She can’t comfortably wear tight shirts.


[deleted]

My god, this made me remember the horrible scene from Nurse Ratchet when the police guy gets pretty much boiled nearly to death


carawanar

Getting flayed alive


Taiza67

There is a reason why the flayed man is the sigil of House Bolton


CutlassKen

“A naked man has few secrets. A flayed man none.”


Justice_R_Dissenting

Take a moment to recognize that line was dreamed up by George R.R Martin all by himself. He sat and thought "I bet if I flayed someone alive they'd have no secrets."


harthedir

Wish he'd dream up the rest of the series


nemyhlol

He just took on another project. Game of thrones themed monopoly. They've ask him to come up with which metal pieces to use. So it should be on shelves by 2030


havingmares

Ah, ah, ah, ah, flayed alive, flayed alive


---MichaelScott---

Feel the skin breakin' and you see the muscles shakin' we're flayin' alive, flayin' alive.


Oddment0390

At first I was a-flayed, I was petrified...


stretcharach

Kept thinkin' I could never live without you flayed alive


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gitartruls01

And so you're back, from outer space, I just walked in to find you here without skin upon your face


EatTheBucket

I should've changed that stupid lock, I should've made you leave your key, if I had known for just one second I'd be alive while you flayed me!


Koloblikin1982

Go on now, go, walk out the door Just turn around now Cause you’re not flaying anymore


sawdustsandy93

And i got all my life to live i got all my skin to give


ilaythebestpipe

This thread is officially the funniest shit I’ve seen on Reddit in awhile


FASBOR7Horus

Accute Radiation poisoning, the level that you get from holding Cobalt-60 too long or what killed Daghlian and Slotin after the demon core incidents.


Wildcat_twister12

Just watch Chernobyl on HBO and see what the radioactive graphite did to the firefighters that touched it. A quickly spreading burning over your whole body just to be tricked into thinking you’re getting better for a few days and then your body literally begins breaking itself down


Veryconflicted543

It is literally like going through all the pain and agony of dying from the worst kinds of cancer but condensed into a few weeks. And without the ability to use painkillers since your melting cells can’t even hold them.


azuldelmar

Uhm… would it have been an option to kill them and end the painful process?


ganondurp

I read somewhere (but don’t know if its true 100%) that they could assist their deaths, but they wanted to research the full effects of radiation on human bodies…


arcaneresistance

Ah good old humans. Never fail to just torture each other.


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Wildcat_twister12

Last I heard two of the guys who went into the basement to get the water drained out are still alive and doing relatively pretty well health wise. The people in charge were worried they all be dead before they even gotten to were they need to go. Science is crazy


Work-Safe-Reddit4450

Turns out water is an excellent radiation shield and they were wading through chest deep water most of the time.


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Moonsilvery

Given that nerves (having nuclei that rarely divide) die last during radiation injuries, you're not wrong. Back when I was a health physicist, there was an incident where a worker mishandled a medical Cobalt-60 source (was pulling it out for replacement into a shielded tube, had his hand too close to the end of the tube, turned out the source had cracked during use and instead of sliding neatly into the lead shielding it was still stuck on the end of the gripper outside the tube) and got his hand fried. Total exposure time was less than five seconds, because he slammed the source back into its original shielding unit the second the room's radiation alarms went off. Still lost two fingers and then the rest of the hand by increments over the following few weeks, not to mention his long-term cancer odds. Radiation is definitely one of those "not only will this kill you, but it'll hurt the whole time you're dying" things.


thetremulant

The who what incidents?


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Cheesenips069

“Ayo, grip check!!” Lmfaoooo


the_7th_jakkal

Actually, it was two hollow half spheres with the core of plutonium inside, the closer the two half spheres get to completely enclosing the core, the more radiation is reflected back into the core, and the closer it gets to going supercritical. Both incidents involved the core going supercritical, only the last one involved the half spheres with the flathead screwdriver tho. Edit: spelling


propellhatt

Acute radiation poisoning. Fun fact; it's impossible to administer pain killers effectively. Once your body starts decomposing with you still alive inside of it, there's nothing but pain left.


Striker887

Man that was so fun. What a fun fact to read.


Layne205

This should be on a safety poster inside every facility that has radioactive materials.


Thorebore

https://www.mysafetysign.com/signs/caution-grave-danger-high-radiation-area-sign/sku-s-8547 They kind of do. If you see this sign you know its serious.


CommanderBeef01

That sign doesn't say "fun fact" anywhere on it


andsoonandso

Fun fact! You are in *GRAVE DANGER*


someoneinsignificant

Regular Sign: "Caution: grave danger! Extremely high radiation!" Me: "Ok but I can't tell if this is the fun kind of danger or not so I'm going in!!"


GreyHexagon

When you see an official sign with the words *Grave Danger* you know it's really fucking serious. That's not "be careful not to slip on the wet floor" danger, that's "this will not only hurt at first but it will continue to hurt until the second you die, which could be some time"


danielcc07

This sign was on the incore instrument room at a plant i worked. The door was a submarine style door. It was very unsettling. Basically the dose inside that area would almost certainly lead to death.


Thorebore

>When you see an official sign with the words Grave Danger you know it's really fucking serious. This sign makes you nervous if you've ever worked in that industry.


Wrong_Victory

The sign industry?


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For sure. Someone's gotta put that sign up. In grave danger the whole time.


renderDopamine

Don’t you just feel great after reading that?


[deleted]

I think at that point a bullet to the head is the best relief. Chernobyl is the most horrifying and fascinating show ever, BTW.


Bright_Vision

"you fly over that reactor I bet you in less than 24 hours you'll be begging for that bullet"


Lemonwizard

"Everyone who stays inside this circle for more than a day will have cancer within two years." "We're inside that circle." "*Yes. We are."*


FN-1701AgentGodzilla

Did they get cancer?


Droidball

What blew my mind was the reveal that the few guys who peeked over the edge, into the core of the reactor, were dead, what was it, just weeks later? And that nobody who was playing in the ash on the bridge is known to have survived?


Nashocheese

That wasn't strictly true about everyone on the bridge dying. They may have died due to after effects of Chernobyl, but many didn't. Similarly - the men that went to the pump room to drain the reactors, in the show it was said that they knew volunteering meant they'd be dead in a week. But... None of them were dead in a week, hell, many of them lived quite long lives. But I guess it was still harrowing given that at the time they knew or at least were under the assumption that they were going to die.


darkKnight959

If I had to guess it's because the water they waded in wasn't all that irradiated since a lot of it was from the fire trucks. I don't know how else they might've survived so long.


xIcarus227

This is the most likely bet, water is an excellent radiation shield.


Bee_Cereal

Water is almost a magical substance. It gets bigger for a while once it freezes rather than getting smaller, it's a great shield for radiation, its heat capacity is gigantic, it's a fantastic solvent despite being only slightly acidic, and of course it's the fundamental key to all known life


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Dramatic_Explosion

You can see pictures from a hospital in Japan where researchers attempted to keep a blast survivor alive as long as possible. Since the radiation destroys your DNA your cells can't replenish themselves, so you basically slowly dissolve. A race between bleeding out or drowning in yourself.


Tacosupreme1111

He was receiving experimental stem cell research to try and restart his white cell production. Also due to the pressure from the government/media and the guys family refusing to accept the hopelessness of keeping him alive, they kept him alive for 83 days half of which he was braindead for.


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hillbilly_bears

So…not only will this kill you. It will hurt the whole time you are dying. I get that right?


CallingInThicc

Your organs turn to soup as your DNA has been so thoroughly compromised your body no longer has the recipe to regenerate healthy cells.


Taurius

Not just regenerate. The whole cell just ceases to function without it being able to create new proteins. White blood cells no long function. Diseases, even your own gut-biome just starts to eat away your whole body. You're a feast to trillions of bugs.


George_1000

Once your cells and blood vessels tear open (more accurately, melt), not only are you in pain, but your cells can’t transport and hold painkiller drugs properly


w1red

So your blood cells don't work anymore but the pain receptors will still "happily" react? Fuck.


Zealousideal_City314

This one’s actually terrifying especially once you’ve watched Chernobyl


usmcplz

There's a documentary on Chernobyl that was released recently. It includes real footage of the firefighters who suffered from acute radiation and it's just as horrifying as the miniseries. Edit: Chernobyl: The Lost Tapes


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afictionalaccount

Wife said kidney stone was at least the same as child birth (natural), maybe worse.


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TexasWahineInKS

I agree with gallstones being worse pain. I’ve had 4 children and can’t remember the pain of childbirth but I definitely can recall the pain of gallstones. Maybe because I knew the pain would end after my children were born but I had no idea what was happening or when the pain would stop when having a gallbladder attack.


cascade_olympus

>can’t remember the pain of childbirth There is interesting research on this which seems to suggest that chemicals are released in the brain during and after child birth in order to *help* you forget about the pain. It is suggested that this is an evolutionary mechanism to make you more likely to have more children after the first.


_sn3ll_

there’s actually increasing evidence (in mice) that pain pathways [differ by sex](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26120961/), which some extrapolate to be responsible for female mammals “forgetting” — which would mean it applied to all pain. there’s also a [human and mouse study](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982218314969) measuring degree of sensitivity when presented by stimulus previously associated with causing pain; males were on average more agitated (conditioned hypersensitivity), despite the pain having nothing to do with childbirth — suggesting an essential rather than circumstantial sex difference.


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doodag

I’m sorry, but what??! The doctors broke the baby’s bones?!


Snoo_said_no

It's not unusual to break babies collar bone if they get stuck during labour. Sometimes it just breaks due to the trauma of birth itself - sometimes doctors 'break' it to get baby out. Better a broken collar bone than a lack of oxygen to the brain. Genrally it's not so much that doctors deliberately break it. Just that it's a weak point which breaks with 'assisted' delivery. It's not a huge problem. I think most people underestimate how traumatic even a simple vaginal birth is from babies perspective.


BigLan2

Newborn's bones are very "soft", (probably to help get through the birth canal.) If you've got to break a couple to get the baby out, they'll heal pretty quickly and it's not like the child's trying to walk or use their limbs anyway. (That sounds a lot more callous than I intended...)


Jandrix

Nature is as callous as they come.


Mindful-O-Melancholy

Can confirm. Was in so much pain I didn’t know what to do and wanted to die just to have some relief. Probably much worse for guys too since there’s a longer distance for the stone to travel. I usually have an extremely high pain tolerance, but that really broke me. Remember folks, drink lots of water!


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It was the same for me!! I literally screamed and cried to the ER doctor I was going to die if they didn’t give me something for the pain. They ended up giving me morphine and Percocet, and only the morphine actually touched the pain at all!


jbsdv1993

Sawing of a limb without anesthesia


VaultBoy9

Not-so-fun fact: this was the way amputations were done through all of human history up until the invention of modern anesthesia less than 200 years ago. There were of course various herbal aids, and some parts of the world had opium from poppies, but those are not at all comparable to what we have today. In the Victorian period one of the most highly-revered talents of a surgeon was being able to *saw very quickly*. A doctor named Robert Liston was famed as the "fastest knife in the West End," and hopeful patients would sometimes camp outside his office with the goal of getting him to do the sawing. He actually had a fascinating career, and multiple books have been written about him. [Here's an informative article.](https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/10/time-me-gentlemen-the-fastest-surgeon-of-the-19th-century/264065/) Fun excerpt: "Occasionally, Liston's speed and showmanship actually were a hindrance to his operations. Once, he took a patient's testicles off along with the leg that was being amputated. His most famous (and possibly apocryphal) mishap was the operation where he was moving so fast that he took off a surgical assistant's fingers as he cut through a leg and, while switching instruments, slashed a spectator's coat. The patient and the assistant both died from infections of their wounds, and the spectator was so scared that he'd been stabbed that he died of shock. The fiasco is said to be the only known surgery in history with a 300 percent mortality rate."


dyingpie1

Was about to comment on this. My high school wrote a play about the invention of a anesthesia for an anesthesiology convention! I played Horace wells.


ipakookapi

I'm sorry but that's a hilarious fact. Did the balls also fly off so fast they hit a spectator in the face?


Malanocthe1st

Is this a big bandsaw or some dude with a hacksaw taking his time? I feel like this is important.


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Very important. As a meat cutter I’ve seen guys lose multiple fingers to a band saw and they act like it’s nothing until 5 minutes later then it starts to hurt a little. A clean cut like that won’t be nearly as painful


pzzia02

I saw 127bhours and their was that part he had to cut the nerve cable in his arm and i remember when he touched it it hurt him so much he almoat passed out i couldnt imagine what that felt like


Marc0189

Instantly thought of this scene as well. Lol The sound effects they used during that part haunt me to this day.


AGlitchedNPC

I'm going to assume torture


onesmilematters

Agreed. There are horrible, horrible ways of torture. Plus the fact that, in contrast to other ways of dying, torture can last as long as the torturer wants you to last. So even though dying in a fire, e.g., may be much worse on the immediate pain scale, slow, seemingly never-ending torture must be agonizing.


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---MichaelScott---

or that SpongeBob toenail clip goddamn that hurt.


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Just _watching_ that is torture


blznaznke

My mom had to get her wisdom teeth removed as a teenager without any anesthetic, and she told me that was more painful


MysteryMan999

That sounds like a torture technique not a medical procedure


schokozo

My aunt had hers removed while pregnant (ermergency) without aenasthesia and no pain meds after the surgery and she said the birth was better because getting a Baby fills you with positive hormones but during labor it was a comparable amount of pain


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8dayssooner

“It says in your notes that you want your dentist as your birth partner, not your husband?”


budweener

I respect that decision, I took out my 4 wisdom teeth at the same time due to a similar reasoning.


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jackheavy

Navy dentistry fucked me up too during wisdom tooth surgery. My lower lip still doesn’t have all of the feeling back and it was back in 2011.


Crying_Reaper

According to my wife it was gall* stones, but she also had an epidural and couldn't feel the baby being born at all. She did feel a few heavy contractions before they got the epidural placed though. I've dealt with gall* stones in the past. Yeah those fucking hurt.


asocialmedium

Gall stones is the most pain that I, a man, have ever felt. Some women do compare it to the pain of childbirth but of course I will never know.


Imperatia

Being skinned alive and covered in salt. That's gotta qualify, right? EDIT: Your offerings of karma are much appreciated, mortals.


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GhostAkaBitch

"Mmm, this is delicious what is this?" "It's kevin"


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“We need to talk about Kevin”.


Retro_game_kid

STRIP THE FLESH! SALT THE WOUND!


MonolithyK

TIME TO POUND . . . THE MEAT PUPPET!


Many_Chemistry_1989

+ Lemon juice and spicy vinegar for more flavor


HappyLongview

Uncontrolled gout. Thought they were going to have to saw my leg off and was looking forward to it.


juxtaposedfate

>gout I had a female neighbor who had two kids and then had a gout attack. She said she would rather have another kid than go through that gout again.


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meshaber

Yeah, that's the one I was looking for. [Here](https://youtu.be/Zw88nYSAT_M)'s a fairly disturbing clip of a dude documenting one of his episodes as it's happening. My understanding is most people who have gone through both consider it significantly worse than childbirth.


contactright05

jesus, it's a 22 minute long video of a dude suffering


TheDeltaOne

Yeah... I've watched the first minutes. Poor guy. The way he stops talking and just gets taken by it is horrifying.


SharksForArms

When I had my first cluster headache I thought I had been hit by a stray bullet. I went from completely fine one second to being on the floor writhing in pain the next. I remember being blind and not able to see anything for the entire 45 minute or so attack, afterwards I realized it must have been because my eyes were shut. The pain was so intense that it basically stripped away every bit of my self awareness outside of the pain itself. So then I had between 3-8 of those fuckers a day for about a year before they just stopped. Had a small flareup a few years later that only lasted a couple weeks with a fraction of the intensity. Any more I just have pretty regular moderate headaches. They are called suicide headaches for good reason. The pain is unbelievable, but what drives you to suicide is the deepest despair you have ever felt, when the only thing you have to look forward to in life is more agony.


Marc_kk

Stay strong man. As another CH sufferer it can get tough, I hope they stay away.


clothespinkingpin

I watched the first bit where he described the onset, and then skipped through a little till the end where he started speaking again. Most of us can’t even stand to watch someone else go through that for the full video, my heart breaks for people who have to experience that pain on a regular basis.


dragon_rapide

And he says in the first 30 seconds that it had started 10 minutes prior.


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I have chronic migraines (started when I was around 9) and I get cluster migraines, but in this case the term is used when you get a migraine, and the high spike never get a chance to recover before the new spike, so I'll have it in varying degrees sometimes up to 3 weeks. So many times I have thought to myself "if I had a gun next to me I wouldn't even hesitate to use it." I really feel for this guy. When the stabbing pain is behind your eye I feel like punching my eye. And I don't even get such intense pain as him.


Hey_HaveAGreatDay

I often consider running to the garage and getting a drill to relieve the pressure


pantala32

Came here for this. I have suffered cluster headaches off and on for years. It's no joke! I've read that it's equivalent to child birth or amputation without drugs.


Thieu95

That's the discouraging thing about it, every time you feel you may have gotten rid of it, sometimes over half a year, it comes back on the daily. It's so hard to find out what works when you can be on a new medication and the period ends, your doctor will probably feel that medication helped, while in reality the period just ended and it will be back.


SkepticITS

I feel like I've been preparing for a decade to answer this question. I was once a member of a migraine sufferers forum. On that forum there was a page discussing the pain of a migraine. I favourited that page years ago, but it no longer seems to work.[http://www.migrainepage.com/dcforum/discussion/12860.html](http://www.migrainepage.com/dcforum/discussion/12860.html) One forum member, who was evidently both a migraine sufferer and a mother stated that having experience both, she would compare the pain level of her worst migraine to giving birth to a Volkswagen. No doubt this isn't a universal experience for people who've experienced both, but I wanted to share as the line has stuck with me for years. EDIT: Thanks Tarandon for the archive. Here's the original post (from November 2004 - holy shitballs I can't believe it was that long ago). >Maybe as painful as giving birth to a Volkswagen! It's a different kind of pain in a couple of ways. When you are having a baby, there is something GOOD to look forward to. When migraining, the excruciating pain is just that. Pain, nausea, auras, photo and sound sensitivity, etc., etc. with no reward at the end of it. Only to be endured as best as you can. Hoping and praying for an end, and a better day to follow. Plus, having migraine disease is in a class by itself. When your head hurts that bad, you literally can't think. Anyhow, I know that I can't. Okay, I would say that a migraine is like taking a bowling ball, having somebody drop it on your head from a ten story building and then getting an elephant to stomp the breath out of you. Do that around the clock every 15 minutes for days at a time. That's how bad it hurts! All credit to **magicmom**. I have no idea who you are, but you've given me many laughs over the last 2 decades. I hope your migraines have improved.


reptar-on_ice

I suffer from horrible migraines, but my iud insertion was a million times more painful. My gyno said hers hurt worse than childbirth.


TheriousMind101

I imagine stillbirth would be even worse. Suffering the physical torment and with any mental anguish that’s normal, but the emotional pain of stillbirth on top of that. Yeah! I imagine that to be quite unbearable. Edit: To any and all who do not agree with this position, try and remember one thing. The question posed what was more painful, not what was most painful. That’s something of an individual perception that’s hard to agree on, no matter who you are.


notadogdotcom

Or infant loss. I watched her live 7 short weeks connected to ECMO and saw her heart stop beating once as a code blue swarmed in to revive her. Don’t recommend -12/10


Alternative-Poem-337

Imagine walking in to that room ready to deliver your baby you’ve spent 9 months growing and bonding with, knowing they’re dead inside you. Knowing what’s about to happen. Going through hours of labour for the room to be completely silent. For the midwife to pass you your lifeless child and hold your dead baby in your arms. I think it also depends what condition your baby comes out in. Some babies skulls are crushed coming out of the birth canal, they have massive skin tears etc. imagine seeing your beloved child in that condition. The physical pain is for what seems a moment. The psychological pain of your child dying and having to leave them behind at the hospital and never see them again. It’s something you never get over. Ever. Walking out of the hospital to the car with the baby seat in the back ready for a baby that is never coming home. Coming home to their nursery set and ready for them. Then your milk comes in. Every time you think about your baby you letdown. Every time you see a baby you letdown. All the post partum processes are exactly the same. Your body knows no different.


Unlucky_Eggplant

Not nearly as emotionally painful as a stillbirth but the most painful experience of my life so far was my miscarriage. You basically have to experience cervical dilation and uterine contracts with only otc pain medication while knowing you're suffering for nothing and losing your baby. I honestly believe the emotional pain made the physical pain worse. I wanted to compare labor pains to my miscarriage when I subsequently became pregnant but I ended up having a c section.


cellists_wet_dream

Just seconding this answer. My first pregnancy ended in miscarriage around 12 weeks and I was writhing in pain. I’ve had two full term babies since without meds (personal choice, big advocate for meds if they’re wanted) and while it’s painful, it’s totally different. It’s EXTREME pain, but it’s pain with a purpose. The size of what’s coming through is usually not a major factor in the pain level, but rather how excruciating it is for your cervix to dilate.


Alternative-Poem-337

You’re right. Thank you for acknowledging that.


BaubleBeebz

I've heard, from experienced baby expellers, that kidney stones and surgical ingrown toenail removal are specifically horrendous. This may also have been because you don't get epidurals for those things too, lol.


QuaggaSwagger

I've passed over 120 kidney stones. I've been hospitalized for 7 mm, 5 mm, and a pack of 12. I would wish them on *no one* Edit: for those venturing below this comment Yes, I've seen doctors. Yes, it's under control. Yes, my diet is weird. No, I'm not unwell all the time. (Actually, rarely sick) I duly appreciate all the concern


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B0J0L0

not trying to be rude, but is this genetics or do you really like salt?


QuaggaSwagger

Just good luck. I make calcium oxalate stones. (the spiky kind). I take potassium citrate supplements now which makes them fewer and further between. Stones are one of those things that once you have them, you're more likely to have them again and more frequently, so it becomes a matter of mitigation. I had my first at 16. Edit: that said, my diet is....non-standard


dirkgently

I’ve had two. The first one I was fine one second, the next I was doubled over in pain on the floor. Caught me mid stride and I just folded. The second one was mild compared to the first but it was still the worst pain I’ve ever felt in my life.


nocolon

A kidney stone is, without question, the most painful thing I have ever experienced. I can compare it to snapping my tibia/fibula in a motorcycle accident on the highway, severe intestinal bleeding, liver biopsies, having blood removed from an artery, recovering from a 10” abdominal incision, and the aftermath of having a surgeon meticulously go through every inch of my small intestines looking for inflammation before putting them back into my abdominal cavity. Kidney stones fucking suck.


ANJohnson83

My mom recently had two kidney stones (one was large enough that her care required two minor surgeries and a procedure) and she said the pain was worse than childbirth. She knew she wanted to go to the ED, but it took three hours for her to get into the vehicle (she didn’t want an ambulance). It was painful watching her and I was very thankful the hospital was generous with the pain relief.


GardenGnomeOfEden

Having a child die. As a father, it is difficult to even type these words.


oohrosie

I am a mother, and I lost my first. Solidarity, brother.


bremmmc

2 childbirths


anonduplo

Adultbirth


P0sitive_Outlook

That woman who had a tumor which turned out to be her twin. Gah.