What physically feels the worst?
What physically feels the worst?
IMO the worst feeling is when your finger goes through the toilet paper and you end up going up your own poopy ass. ๐
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This thread is terrifying, I am leaving now.
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You haven't even gotten to the guy who drank a gallon of bone-hurting juice!
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doot doot sadge
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Back spasms and kidney stones.
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I'm struggling to top a burst appendix.
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Migraine. I've broken bones, had unmedicated childbirth, nothing has ever hurt as much or as disgustingly as a migraine.
Other than that, any pain to do with fingernails or toenails sqiucks me out, I would cave under torture.
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I had an air bubble in my brain and an orbital floor fracture (and I shattered my sphenoid) after a bike accident. when I moved, I could both hear and feel the trickle of air moving around in my own brain. it didn't really hurt (or if it did I was in enough other pain not to notice) but it was one of the oddest sensations ever.
wear helmets y'all.
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anything hitting your shin
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Why does pain hurt so much there, but it doesn't also come with extra good sense of touch, like being tickled or rubbed? ๐ฉ
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Oh you sweet summer child
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A kidney biopsy tool, except the person who's supposed to get the sample keeps missing and the local anesthetic (lidocaine) is wearing off
The scars still emit pain, and the biopsy sites (I got stabbed with that thing 5 times) hurt more than the actual transplant surgery site itself.
Other than that, cancer if the tumors grow in the right spot.
As someone else said, gout. Definitely gout. In particular, severe gout caused by dehydration from food poisoning.
A 14 gauge needle being stuck all the way through and past your fistula for dialysis. Here's size comparisons:
Note: 14 is 2 sizes bigger than 16.
For non painful things, I'd say a bone biopsy ( this is assuming they gave you the good stuff for pain ). There's something that feels very wrong of feeling your bones being punctured, scraped from the inside, and popped like a champagne bottle.
Squishing a big roach with your barefoot when you didn't know one was hiding in your shoe.
Getting food poisoning from shellfish specifically.
Walking through flood waters, seeing a water moccasin, but not knowing where it is or went.
Thalassophobia.
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Walking through flood waters, seeing a water moccasin, but not knowing where it is or went.
Oh man, I know this feeling kinda? Not a water moccasin, but a rattlesnake. When I was like 19 or 20, sometimes after high school but before most of my school friends moved away, we were having a big bon fire out in the country, but it was up in the foothills on private land (we were trespassing). The site the fire was at was on the other side of 3 big ass hills and my fat ass had to stop and take a breather at the top of the first one, but nobody else stopped with me and I got left alone for bit. When I finally was ready to move on after about 5-10 minutes, I took 2 steps forward and heard the rattle of a rattlesnake somewhere ahead of me. It was already after sundown at this point, middle of a hilly field about 2 miles from the nearest road, so it was dark as fuck and the hot new phone on the market was the original Motorola RAZR (for those too young to remember: these phones didn't have flashlights and the screen light was dim as fuck).
I just slowly backed away and then tried to call for help but nobody could hear me yelling and I didn't have service to call anyone on the phone. So I basically sat there, all fucking night, too afraid to move and constabtly scanning the ground around me as best I could to make sure no snakes were gonna bite me until the party was over and everyone came back my way.
And then my car wouldn't fucking start when we finally got back to the road. One of the worst nights of my life. ๐ฎโ๐จ
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Man, you must really hate deep water for it to make this list.
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It's weird people don't.
You literally can't breathe in there, go to deep and you meet a terrible fate just going back up. And as if that wasn't deadly enough, it's filled with creatures that can kill you or look horrific but are harmless, or look derpy but are one of the smartest predators on the planet other than humans.
That said I've been diving and kayaking.
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As a teen my appendix ruptured and it took my mother another 4 days to realize I should see a doctor. Sometime around day 2 I was barely able to stand it was agonizing but I still remember it as not as bad as the pain of my eardrums popping from an ear infection a few years later. Ears are the worst IMHO
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A broken wisdom tooth rubbing against a nerve - would not recommend.
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2 AM, you desperately run to the bathroom just in time for a heinous crap.
You finish up, go back to bed, roll over on your side and hear/feel your gut go:
"Whuuuurrroooggglllleeee."
GOD-DAMN IT!
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Butt wait, there's more!
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Skull decompression. I had to have a cage or something like that screwed to my skull for a gamma knife operation to kill a brain tumour. I had to keep my head completely still for over an hour, so they screwed the cage to my skull, and then to the table itself. The skull gets a bit compressed and I really felt the pressure, but it didn't hurt that much and I got used to it pretty fast. The worst part is when they take it off and your skull decompresses. Worse than a migraine.
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You win. ๐ฑ
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I'd take this over most of the stuff the guy with kidney problems mentioned, absolutely no question.
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Let's just pack our stuff up. I, too, know when I've seen a winner.
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The urologist feeding this 8mm camera tube through my penis for a bladder endoscopy and taking his time to explore all the nooks and crannies was slightly uncomfortable.
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"Jesus Christ doc, stop fucking sightseeing and wrap it up!"
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r/sounding is disappointed in you. Embrace the feeling! :D
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I can't remember if it was the exact same procedure, but I've had something very similar when I had a bladder biopsy done, but I'm going to beat you on making someone else uncomfortable :D
For anyone who doesn't know, these procedures start with an anaesthetic gel being squirted into your penis through a syringe to numb everything, then the camera and tools get inserted. It's been a while, but from what I remember, some air gets pushed in along with everything else. The nurse warned me that the air coming out can be uncomfortable. I also had to have a pretty full bladder for the procedure.
Afterwards, I needed to pee straight away, so used the toilet next to the waiting room. When I went, it burned a bit from the gel wearing off and everything just generally being tender. Suddenly though, I had this feeling of intense pressure, and a fireball forced its way out followed by some boiling pee. I used my free hand to steady myself, and my knees almost buckled. I let out an involuntary 'Jesus Christ!'. I finished and cleaned up, and the nurse met me outside the door.
She had a huge grin on her face, and said 'I told you it would sting', then nodded towards the waiting room, where about half a dozen terrified looking men had apparently heard me :D
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No thanks, I'm not reading this
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Mate that camera is at least anatomically compatible and smooth on the sides.
Try getting a scrub down your peehole in search of any type of pus and pray they find something quickly lest they search deeper.
And don't ask me how I know.
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Do they fill it full of water like they do for the kidney scan? That was super uncomfortable, but kind of cool to see on the monitor...
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Ok youโve got the price
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Giving birth.
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Kidney stone by far.
In the ER, 2 doses of Morphine had exactly 0% relief. I got Ketamine next and finally got relief.
I did get gout once. I can only describe it as walking on shards of glass while on fire. It was a tolerable pain while not walking, but it was excruciating while on my feet.
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Gout is bad. Every step you take, when you put your foot down and put pressure on it, it feels like you just broke a bone. Then, when you lift your foot again, it feels like it breaks again. Repeat for every step. You have to sleep with your foot sticking out because the weight of a thin sheet is too painful.
A few years ago I slipped on the ice and hit my elbow. I got up and drove to work. After I got there, it was still a little sore. I work in a hospital, so I went and got an X-ray. Turns out I fractured my arm. My wife and my doctor both wanted to know how I managed to drive to work with a broken arm. It just didn't seem all that bad. It hurt at the moment, but then it was just a bit sore.
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Amputation pain is right up there, followed closely in the long term by phantom pain.
Then nausea.
Then tinnitus.A large part of why they're the worst for me is that you can't do anything about them.
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My dad lost his arm in the late 90s in a work related accident. He described it as painful but was surprised at how it didn't feel worse right there and then. Probably due to shock.
He was working alone in the middle of the night with his tractor when it happened, so he picked up what remains of his left arm he could find into a bucket and drove to the local nursery home because he knew there were people awake there 24/7. I guess that's one definition of grace under pressure.
Upon arrival he got the emergency help he needed there and then and a while later he told us that while waiting for the medevac helicopter to be summoned, he was annoyed again about the pain, thinking "Isn't this where I'm supposed to faint?".
Later he had the occasional phantom pain. He didn't struggle with it that much, and it usually passed after a few moments, but he told me that the worst parts was when he had an itch, or a finger was Ina weird position, he could do nothing about it since the limb simply wasn't there anymore.
His arm was severed by a tractor-operated snowblower right below the elbow.
Fun fact: When the thaw of spring arrived he was happy to learn that someone had found his wristwatch in the retreating ice. Still working just fine. A little later someone found a wedding ring and correctly guessed that it belonged to the guy who got maimed there a few months earlier.
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the worst parts was when he had an itch,
Yeah. I don't struggle with the pain so much: I have it, but it's mostly like electric shocks, and somehow it feels like a TENS machine. So as long as it's not too intense or too long, I'm okay.
But I really struggle with itching.
I just lumped itching with phantom pain because it's easier to explain to people who don't know.
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I don't have it but I'm going to say Parkinson's.
I got put on some medication a number of years ago and one of the common side effects was tremors that "can affect the hands and arms and may also involve the lower limbs, tongue, or voice".
I'm not much of a crier but it got to a point where I was shaking so bad I had a hard time feeding myself and I broke down over it. I cannot even begin to imagine having to live with that forever. I barely managed a month.
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I can attest from experience with a parent who eventually died of Parkinsonโs disease. (The usual cause is finally choking on food.)
It steadily erases oneโs ability to project their humanity. Even more cruelly, it gives occasional respite so you canโt forget there is a complete person suffering in that quivering shell.
In summary, fuck Parkinsonโs and all other neurodegenerative diseases.
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Chronically, kidney stones followed by gall bladder stones. Acutely, cramp anywhere in the leg.
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For me the pain was similar at the peak, but gallstone pain would fade in and out, while kidney stone pain was unrelenting.
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Gallstones made me not being able to sleep at all, paracetamol had no effect. Donโt know about other types of pain, but gallstones was the worst for me.
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That just reenforce my decision to keep my unopened box of the good pain medication...
Got it on prescription after getting a wisdom tooth removed, but never needed them....
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You now know how to instantly relieve a leg cramp, right?
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Nausea, at least, personally. It's worse than pain.
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I second that.
Back in May I had a stress overload and for a solid month or so I was CONSTANTLY nauseous (among other things). And it was that type of nausea that didn't make you vomit, it just made you feel that you were about to. Absolutely horrid times.
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There is no better feeling than the serenity of having just vomited away the ache after your guts have been waging civil (and uncivil) war on yourself for hours.
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and then it slowly starts to build again because you didn't throw up the root cause. Uuuugghhh just kill me already.
(stay away from heavy drinking, kids!)
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hate nausea so much. i'm scared of being sick soo bad
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That constant nausea that you're trying so hard to fight back, but your mouth keeps filling with saliva because it's ready for you to vomit?
Yep.
Fuck everything about all of that.
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Once watched a dad drop his newborn by accident and he did the thing where he fumbled for it and yanked the leg out of the socket
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The kid won't remember. That poor dad will never forget. Damn.
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God damn...
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I once broke and dislocated my shoulder, and having a broken arm jammed back into a dislocated shoulder was bad enough to induce a blackout.
But other than that, getting kicked in the nuts.
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I had an unstable rotator cuff for years. Dislocated shoulder is an awful feeling.
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Mains power went through my face. It felt like every tooth had a serious toothache for a while.
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Probably pancreatic cancer.
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Bullet Ant bite. People have killed themself to make it stop. It locks your pain receptors to the on position and doesn't allow them to turn off.
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A spinal tap was quite unpleasant. I could feel the needle grinding around in my spinal cord. 0/10
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Chewing on styrofoam
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Gout.
Imagine glass powder in-between your joints. ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ฌ
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Worst pain in my life physically was appendicitis. It set a new high bar.
Mentally? Hurts too much to talk about.
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I had appendicitis and it feels like what i imagine getting stabbed feels like
Then I had a kidney stone and I can't even remember what appendicitis feels like anymore
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Oh no.
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pancreatitis. It felt like someone stabbing me in the side with a dull knife made of burning glass.
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When your left ovary grows a cyst and in 24 hours it is pushed all the way to your right side and dies in the process.
Child birth without pain killers is a warm summer breeze compared to that.
Fucking wait and seeโฆ
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Being forced to walk on a leg that has fallen asleep.
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Come on, is impossible
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Maybe I'm weird, but I don't get pins and needles. When my limbs fall asleep, it's never painful. But as the blood is rushing back on, it's like the most intense ticklish feeling in the world. Gosh I hate it.
If I move at all as my limb is regaining feeling, all of those muscles will seize up and my brain just keeps firing and firing and firing this tickles! until I can actually feel that limb again. Whew. Torture.
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Yra, the 'ticklish' feeling is what they're talking about. It's never during the 'sleep' state of the body part but while waking up.
It doesn't really feel like pins and needles, it's just a convenient way to describe nerves waking up and being very grumpy.
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I once got to Sweet Frog 5 minutes after they closed. That was pretty bad.
Pain wise, dislocating my shoulder, elbow/top of foot/chest tattoos were about tied for about 9 on the scale.
Being sea sick is a misery I only wish on a select few.
Arch cramp or Charlie horse in the middle of the night is a personal hell.
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Iโve had people give me so much shit for how bad I said my dislocated shoulder was pain wise so hearing a couple other people echo that experience is vindicating.
I first dislocated it at an ice hockey tournament, got it put back in and played the rest of the tournament.
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Yeah, fuck those people. Pain hits everyone differently. I had my ribs tattooed and yeah, it hurt but not like bad-bad. I saw a guy that was getting his done and you'd have though they were gutting him alive. Full on screaming. I have zero doubt it was real for him. That's when it dawned on me fully that while there are some common things that hurt, we all have a totally different relationship with pain.
I did my shoulder skating a bowl. I went to the er then home. I can't imagine getting back into a game afterward. You're a seriously tough dude.
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The worst painless feeling I've had was after a nose surgery. Pulling the massive tampons out felt my head being ripped off but that wasnt too bad. It was getting some soaked cloth shoved back up towards my brain that made me see the light for a few moments.
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I've got a weird issue with the soles of my feet. I'm not ticklish at all, but the soles of my feet react as if the nerves are turned up to 11. It's only for light touches though, I can walk around barefooted with no problems, even on rough surfaces.
If someone touches my feet it's a sensory overload that lasts for a while afterwards. It's a weird combination of light tickling and burning, and feels like there's something stuck to the bottom of my foot for a minute or two after the touch stops. The really weird part is, I can tickle my own feet, but apparently you're not supposed to be able to tickle yourself ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
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Post surgery abdominal air bubble.
You just have to wait until it absorbs.
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Idk what that actually feels like, but reading this made me think of that pain in your chest when you drink cold water too fast after being out in the heat all day. But in the abdomen ๐ฉ
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Yes! Nailed it! But bigger
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Oh well, a lumbar puncture was quite horrible. Especially since it took a lot of tries to get through correctly.
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Ugh, docs/nurses with poor needle work are the worst. (as far as something people are actually very likely to encounter)
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Ah yes, getting in touch with your inner self.
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That's not physical, though. They specifically asked for physical pain. No, psychosomatic things don't count, IMO. (although the post on phantom pain is interesting none the less)
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Shame is pain.
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I got my tongue split in 2017 so uhh healing that is definitely up there. You basically have the worst sore throat of your life, can't talk, can't stop drooling, and can only "eat" smoothies by pouring them directly into your mouth.
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Gallstones. When it's a really bad attack it's probably the closest thing to an alien hatching from your stomach.
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Being awake for WAAAAY too long and you still have a few more hours until you can go to sleep.
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My worst is kidney hydronephrosis. Felt like dying from a knife in my side and then every minute or so someone twisted the knife.
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Toothache. Most general pain I can just tolerate until it goes away. But I become completely useless with a toothache. Iโm not productive and Iโm irritable. I grab a painkiller as soon as I can.
This one just recently as Iโm getting older: lower back pain. Getting up after sitting down for a while in an awkward position and the pain is so bad that I literally collapse into a squatting position with my hands on the ground until I can slowly get up again.
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Do stretches, my friend. World of difference so long as you don't have some underlying musculoskeletal or pain issue. You don't have to exercise to feel decent, but stretching is absolutely necessary. If you don't know where to begin, try some yoga sets, and don't worry about hitting the perfect pose.
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Tacking onto this person's post:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sun+Salutation&ia=images&iax=imagesSun salutations are an easy, flowing set of poses that stretch a lot of your body. I didn't really take classes but had an opportunity for a couple months to do yoga with an instructor in a group setting and our group had every body type. If someone struggled with a particular pose, there's either a way to modify it or try something similar
The sessions were great. Sometimes I was able to push myself physically, but they weren't geared for that; just chill beginner yoga. I certainly did see progress in myself though, and was bummed when they ended
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If we're talking about unpleasant sensations, there's one I get that makes me feel nauseous that I can only describe as being like a smooth grooved surface with unwanted lumps in it and I'm travelling and lurching over it in some unseen dimension. (I've actually met at least one other person who described this without me mentioning it first, so it might be somewhat common. I have no idea.)
I was watching a Let's Play video of a video game the other day and the texture for the water's surface in-game somehow reminded me of it, and it made the video hard to watch.
If we're talking about actual pain, I've had food-related (possibly also medication-related) stomach pain that had me curled in a ball thinking I was going to die and then thinking that might not actually be such a bad idea because then the pain would stop.
I now assume that that must be similar to what some people go through with period cramps. No way I'd want to do that once a month. The handful of times it happened to me was more than enough.
Honourable mention: The weird sting and sensation that isn't actually a smell but is somehow in my nose if I accidentally touch a hidden juvenile thistle in a lawn. Those things are prickly monsters that are just a shade bluer than grass and you often don't see them until you've put your hand on one. Other sharp pains sometimes trigger that "smell" as well. I always associate it with the colour of those thistle leaves though.
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They asked for physical pain, so psychosomatic likely doesn't count. Not that they're uninteresting topics or anything....
I used to have similar "pain" from trying to imagine the scale of things. Like when I was a young teen, I'd try to literally visualize what a mile of terrain looked like, or the insanely small scale of molecules, and suddenly I'd lose reference to what 'normal' scale was, and it'd freak me out completely when it felt like the room I was in was both miniscule and insanely vast.
Not really pain, but extreme discomfort that you cannot make go away. There's a term for losing ones' frame of reference for scale, but it escapes me at the moment. Luckily, I got better and better at visualizing things and vast scales stopped triggering what ever that was. Some people have it as a general disability and ohhh boy do I not envy them!
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Eating without YouTube ๐๐ฌ
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Pooping without your phone
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Most discomfort I ever felt was when I had to have an endoscope put down my nose. They didn't tell me I had to inhale the local anaesthetic so I felt the endoscope scraping against the back of my mouth and throat. I've sniffed the spray every time since!
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How was it after the anaesthetic?
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Some mild discomfort but I managed to grin and bear it. There was a nasty aftertaste and numbness for half an hour afterwards too.
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You're scraping too hard.
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Getting an apadravya piercing. Pain level was 11/10 for about 3 seconds. I learned a new level of pain that day.
For those who don't want to do any searching for what an "adadravya" is: ::: spoiler spoiler it's a body piercing that goes vertically through the head of a penis. :::