Most Painful Things A Human Can Experience

regalsoldier (54)in #busy • 8 years ago

have you ever wondered how much pain you could endure?
it's not such a merry subject to muse upon but you can be sure whatever kinds of physical distress you have imagined someone somewhere on the planet at one point in time had to suffer it when imagining such gruesome scenarios we often invoke methods of torture the grim fiction of Hollywood films depicting adhoc tooth extraction or the fingernails being ripped from their rightful place we might also cast our minds back to ancient and medieval history.

when humans were burnt at the stake had their limbs ripped off or their hearts ripped out today we will focus not so much on those macabre aspects of human nature but on pains any one of us could suffer.

the most painful things a human can experience, well first of all we should talk a little about pain itself we all deal with it differently while some studies show men seem to tolerate it better for a long time it was thought to be the opposite as women's bodies and minds are equipped to deal with childbirth the outcome of the studies was also said to be the result of men tolerating more pain because of prescribed social notions of masculinity and not necessarily having a natural endowment to tolerate more pain how do we even find subjects to test pain limits.

so we can quantify pain subjects at Cornell University did just that in the 1940s in what was called Studies on painting a new method for measuring pain threshold childbirth was measured against burning with a pregnant woman being burned as she was giving birth.

tech media Gizmodo writes as the heat blistered her hand the subject helped establish a value of pain intensity encumbered during childbirth the problem was in other studies on pain people just couldn't take the level of pain further and so it couldn't be measured there have been various scales to measure pain but none are conclusive for instance some people might pass out quicker than others due to excessive pain this happens.

when the stress on the body affects the blood flow to the brain you pass out and your body gives you a well-deserved break while you are out your brain starts releasing serotonin and endorphins so you'll wake up in a better state going into shock that's quite common so if you've ever been unfortunate enough to see anyone lose a limb or linz you might not see them screaming the brain has its own painkiller system when you are in dire need of it while we cannot measure the most painful experience we do tend to agree on what are the worst kind of pain perhaps being burned is one thing we all fear especially the specter of being engulfed in flames there are different types or grades of burns and perhaps some good news is that the worst to burn the lesser pain you might have due to damage to your nerve endings so fourth degree burns that have basically barbecued you and sent you into shock may not be as painful as third or even second degree burns

most pain victims will tell you the worst part is the treatment one of the worst realizations is that the pain only gets worse when the fire is out said one man on a reddit thread discussing burns another agreed the really excruciating part is the treatment some insects things in fact are supposed to hurt as much as burns of all the stings out there the bullet ant delivers the worst of the worst dr. Justin o'schmidt who created the insect sting pain index put the bullet ant at the top stating that being stung filled like fire walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch rusty nail in your heel a Brazilian tribal initiation asks tribe members to put their hands into a bullet and close see for yourself online how one gutsy Westerner deals with it which is not very well what looks even worse is a cluster headache women who have experienced childbirth have said they are the worst pain imaginable they happen on one side of the head and can last up to three hours many television shows have illustrated the absolute agony people can go through filming suffers screaming and rolling around on the floor according to the migraine trust they only affect about one or two out of every 1,000 people.

but the bad news is that they are thought to be incurable victims won't die or even suffer anything other than the pain itself writing on one treatment forum a sufferer of these headaches at heroin morphine or oxycontin didn't help him at all some progress has been made using alternative and mostly illegal treatments such as psilocybin mushrooms and LSD according to The Daily Beast LSDs Discoverer Albert Hoffman was actually looking for a way to treat headaches and migraines brains National Health Service has done us all a favor and put together a list of what it says are the world's worst conditions in terms of pain you might be surprised to hear that above cluster headache for cancer a heart attack gallop the NHS puts shingles shingles occurs when the virus that caused the itchy nightmare of chickenpox reactivates like a Hollywood horror movie sequel

when it comes back again it's worse than before a more common painful condition is kidney stones a reddit thread asked people to state what the most painful thing that has ever experienced was and quite a few people said kidney stones the stones form when calcium and other substances in your urine build up they can be as big as a ping-pong ball and if they break up it can cause intense pain as you try to pass them through the urinary tract if it's too big it can be blasted into smaller pieces using shock therapy it's probably better you don't get to that stage so drink lots of water everyday you might be too fit or young for kidney stones but that won't prevent bone breaks.

we've all seen sportsmen with flapping limbs looking more sons than in pain but what is the most painful bone to break a broken fibula might only hurt for a few days but a broken rib could cause weeks of nagging pain and sleepless night according to American football player and formed detailing the pain of broken bones the second worst break you can have is a rupture - killed former Oakland football star Ronald Curry described the pain as instantly excruciating with the months to follow significantly worse the winner on the worst race list though was the femur the biggest bone in the body stubbing your toe on a rusty nail could also be disastrous there's a good reason we keep our tetanus vaccinations up to date the CDC reports that hardly anyone dies of tetanus due to the shots we have but sporadic cases do happen from time to time it starts with lockjaw and then soon your whole body is suffering from spasms and locking up according to hundreds of cases happen each year around the world if not treated early tetanus will kill between 10 and 20% of its victims .

what doesn't kill you might not necessarily make you stronger many people on pain forum state that tooth abscesses are the worst although one condition apparently tops it this is called trigeminal neuralgia a disease that affects around one in every 15 to 20,000 people and has been dubbed the suicide disease but that's what it will make you want to do people have said it's like lightning striking you in the face describing the shock attacks when the skulls largest nerve is distressed a 63 year old woman from Wales said in an interview

it's the worst pain known to man stating that neither treatment nor pain drugs have done anything to help her with this lifelong disease my head goes back and I can hear screaming she said edding it's only later that I realized that it was me that was screaming out in pain the trigeminal neuralgia

Association in the UK called it the most painful condition in the world in 2013 the Daily Mail reported that 27 percent of sufferers killed themselves while a few of the pains above are said to be worse than childbirth becomes very high on the pain scale thankfully not as high as the suicide disease as a lot of children would be motherless in one interview a 49 year old woman said the final push is not the worst part the labor bit she said is like something squeezing the crap out of your guts on a timer for what seems like eternity until you're delirious with exhaustion others have described it as similar to pooping a watermelon or bowling ball the worst thing is it's probably the most common and natural of intense so what's the worst pain you've ever experienced let me know in the comments.

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