Heartbreak

College exams. Life after graduation has its own stresses but nothing was more stressful to me than having 6-7 exams coming up and having to spend so much time and effort preparing for stuff I don't care about that much.

At some point it got so bad I'd wake up a few times at night drenched in sweat a day before exams. Yeesh. I guess it was partly my fault for taking it too seriously but I couldn't switch that off.

Swallowing while having strep throat.

Having to go to school for classes I don't like

When I was little I got stung 6 times between the legs by a velvet ant that managed to get stuck in my bathing suit. It's not as bad as some exaggerated videos on the internet may have lead you to believe, but I did cry for about 30 seconds before I went back to what I was doing.

Not years ago, but a year ago I got covid and for reasons nobody can explain it made a nerve in my lower back malfunction and just start sending out the maximum pain signal it could. That's probably the most painful thing I've experienced. Tied for it at least.

Getting shocked.

I used to help my father-in-law on the farm and he had an electric fencer for the barnyard that was way too powerful for the length of fence it was hooked up to. I knew that; what i didn't know was that it was grounding out on a piece of flashing on the barn. It put me on my ass.

He also has this electric fencing that's made out of rope with small metal strands woven into it. That shit hurts too but in a different way. Maybe because there are more points of contact.

I got shocked doing some wiring last week and it was nothing compared to the electric fence.

One time I took a solo 1.5 hour flight and on the descent I suddenly felt a tingling on the top of my head and down my face, which quickly turned into a feeling like someone chopped an axe into the top of my head. I felt an excruciating pain on the top center of my head , behind my eyes and down my face and was trying not to react in front of all the other passengers. The pain was unlike anything I’ve ever experienced. By the time we landed and I got off the plane the sharpness of the pain subsided but I had a bad headache for 2 days after. I thought I might die honestly and it spun me into such a bad anxiety attack. I did some searching and only found one post ever of something similar happening to someone else and it was from sinus pressure. I wasn’t sick at all or stuffed up so it was surprising. So now when I fly I pop Sudafed and blow my nose frequently and basically have a panic attack on the descent because of my fear of it happening again.

Gall stones.. thought l had the worst wind,.paced the floor all night....turns out, gall bladder was having a bad time

Loneliness, it got replaced by headache and sleep deprivation. Fair trade tho.

edit: got also financial problems too

Enduring other peoples mental emotional bullshit especially to keep a job. Feeling like I have no choices but to kill myself with work to survive. Mental maturity, having goals to work for, and learning to stand up for myself/not tolerate retarded whacky monkey bullshit from fellow human beings has done wonders for me. My young adult years were miserable, it got much better.

Kidney Stones! Seemed every couple of years I went through it. Well, now that I'm typing this I realize it's been a couple of years so maybe I'm due soon.

Heroin withdrawals

I haven't crashed my bike for a long time now. But then I don't ride as much as I used to and know that roads are very slippery when the first rain in weeks falls.

Haven't touched a windows machine in 25 years.

That I haven't had? The two major ones are a sinus infection (1994), which in theory I could have again, and appendicitis (2007), which I will never have again.

As a life long skateboarder and snowboarder, I've had all kinds of brutal injuries, still do on occasion, but no pain has compared to those two.

Whenever I used to go out anywhere or do anything social, I'd always be constantly, quietly hoping that someone would come along and fall into my life. That I'd pass by someone that looked like they could relate to me, or that would try to talk to me, or be attracted to me. Anyone that would change my life for the better. It was lonely as fuck to constantly want something unrealistic every single day that never happened, for years and years.

Then I met my future wife, and I nearly forgot that pain ever existed.

Going to meet my father (going to hurt booth of us, i know that he "reguarly" drives the 10 hours from north to south and i exploit him for my move to south)
It will hurt me because he is difficult and him because i will give him no contact information

First day of school.

Breaking a rib. I have brittle bones that break easily, I occasionally break ribs for no apparent reason.

Major surgery. I had back surgery when I was 14 to fix my scoliosis. That was over 20 years ago and I haven't had to have any surgery since.

Active addiction and the hopelessness of hunger, legal trouble, and flexing my principles in order to function.

Dislocated shoulder was the worst for me. The pain meds didn't help at all and I cried like a baby until the anaesthesia started.

Getting kicked by the balls

I accidentally touched mains power when I was 10 while trying to plug in my gameboy charger. It's been 18 years since, but that was definitely something I never want to experience again. I remember I could feel it in my muscles for more than a week afterwards

Ingrown toenails.. had that shot all the time as a teen.. hurt like a mf, and hurt even more to let the doctors ripp my nails off....

Thankfully breaking a bone. The only time I broke one was back in the summer of 1999 on the way out to the car with my family, I think we were headed into town for something when I slipped on our porch and fell weird. As my parents supported me down to the car, out of instinct I put weight on my broken leg.

I can still remember the loss of absolutely everything else, my mind was just flooded with that agony.

A cystoscopy.

Brain freeze. Does the ability to get it go away as you get older or something?

I once had an open fracture. What was strange was that I was so hopped up on adrenaline, I didn't even notice at first. The pain I've had from things like a calf cramp was way, way worse. In this case I called my own ambulance and they loaded me in and were like "uh. Does that hurt?" And I was like "Oh, does it hurt? Yeah, I guess it should, shouldn't it?"

Watching a loved one drink themselves to death. I left my alcoholic ex over ten years ago now, best thing I could have done for myself.

Not doing that again, ever

Getting hit in the balls.

Stubbing my big toe. Ouch!