Pain - whats the worst?
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I smashed my two front teeth and then consequently had to have the nerve pulled out of them. Needless to say they didn't numb one of them properly and i could feel that one, my leg flew up in the air when he pulled it! 
Dont think ive ever felt something so painful in my life.
Dont think ive ever felt something so painful in my life.You've not felt pain till you've had severe shingles like i had a while back, i have the pic to prove how bad it is. Well actually the pics don't show you the pain but if you've had shingles you'd know. If you put clothing over the top of it it feels like your nerves have been turned inside out and your wearing sandpaper 
. I had to get the bus to the doctors and that was painful, then he prescribed me sum antiviral tablets that would have cost £120 for a pack of 7 and some pain killers and then it wasn't too bad.
Mark
. I had to get the bus to the doctors and that was painful, then he prescribed me sum antiviral tablets that would have cost £120 for a pack of 7 and some pain killers and then it wasn't too bad.Mark
I have been shot, stabbed, wiped out on a motorbike and caught the gas cap in the crotch, been knocked out cold more times than I care to think about in more ways than most people can imagine, wiped out on the velodrome and got wood splinter road rash (they stopped counting at 450 splinters bigger than a pin), fell into a 2 cubic meter hornet's nest (they stopped counting at 250 stingers in total amazement that I was still alive with all the poison in my system), been kicked in the nuts hard enough to lift me clear of the ground.
Saying all that, I would rather go through it all again than have another abcess (sp?) toothache. Nothing else completely stops all brain activity in its tracks. Nothing else makes me smash my head against the nearest solid object in the vain hope that I can possibly feel SOMETHING other than the sharp edge of a tooth cutting into the cartlidge in the gumline.
My migraine headaches come close, as they get bad enough I lose color sight, my hearing goes all tinny, and every nerve in my body feels like it's open to the air and someone's pouring iodine on them. But they STILL aren't as bad as a full-on toothache.
I'm not talking about when you have a cavity, I'm talking about when a tooth actually cracks in two and exposes and crushes the nerve between two jagged edges.......
Saying all that, I would rather go through it all again than have another abcess (sp?) toothache. Nothing else completely stops all brain activity in its tracks. Nothing else makes me smash my head against the nearest solid object in the vain hope that I can possibly feel SOMETHING other than the sharp edge of a tooth cutting into the cartlidge in the gumline.
My migraine headaches come close, as they get bad enough I lose color sight, my hearing goes all tinny, and every nerve in my body feels like it's open to the air and someone's pouring iodine on them. But they STILL aren't as bad as a full-on toothache.
I'm not talking about when you have a cavity, I'm talking about when a tooth actually cracks in two and exposes and crushes the nerve between two jagged edges.......
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I had toothache about a year / 18 months ago. My dentist had previously done a filling on a wisdom tooth, turned out they had not cleaned the area correctly before filling the tooth and infection got it. I was in severe agony. Went back to that NHS dentist and they couldnt do anything as the tooth root was bent and they were not 100% sure they could remove it. I played hell as they had done it (his actuall wife) it was there fault. They even wanted to charge me for that visit.
So said they would get in touch with the hospital. but it could be up to 3 months waiting. I went mad at this saying i was having time off of work. Couldnt sleep not eat. Nothing supressed the pain. But it wasnt classed as a emergency. This is the damn NHS for you. What the hell is a Dental emergency is you cannot sleep, severe pain, cant work etc.
I ended up going private and within 24 hours of ringing the private dentist up I had had the x2 nerves extracted from the wisdom tooth and the pain had gone.
Cost £400, worth it ? well i would have paid £1000 put it that way to get rid of the pain. Would be nice to be able to recoup that money from the useless dentist that originally did the filling in the 1st place. But how on earth do you proove it. I am so aprehensive of going back to the NHS dentist now in case they **** anything else up
As for things that get rid of the pain: Swilling Pernod, Lots of Soluble Asprin in water. Aniseed Oil dabbed on the tooth. Death.
So said they would get in touch with the hospital. but it could be up to 3 months waiting. I went mad at this saying i was having time off of work. Couldnt sleep not eat. Nothing supressed the pain. But it wasnt classed as a emergency. This is the damn NHS for you. What the hell is a Dental emergency is you cannot sleep, severe pain, cant work etc.
I ended up going private and within 24 hours of ringing the private dentist up I had had the x2 nerves extracted from the wisdom tooth and the pain had gone.
Cost £400, worth it ? well i would have paid £1000 put it that way to get rid of the pain. Would be nice to be able to recoup that money from the useless dentist that originally did the filling in the 1st place. But how on earth do you proove it. I am so aprehensive of going back to the NHS dentist now in case they **** anything else up
As for things that get rid of the pain: Swilling Pernod, Lots of Soluble Asprin in water. Aniseed Oil dabbed on the tooth. Death.
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I should imagine that having your arm or leg wrenched off slowly would probably beat a toothache, the feeling of the joint dislocating before the pressure builds on the muscles and sinuews which then start to tear and eventually give leaving a huge open wound wit socket and flesh exposed to the air. thow in a handfull of salt and I think we have a contender 
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