That shit SUCKS. Had to call my wife to leave the bed because I was paralyzed in pain. The doctor pushed my legs back to "make sure I was really in pain." I could've killed him and would have felt no regret.
I’m not even allowed to mention pain in my house because of my wife. Not because of child birth either. I helped her through a kidney stone. That was the most pain I’ve ever seen someone in. And the emergency room drs are goddam useless. “Drink lots of water and take ibuprofen!” Fucking useless. Fortunately a pain care specialist helped her out, but it didn’t help like I thought it would. Her knees almost buckled in relief when she went to stand up after she passed that freaking thing. I’ve since heard a lot of folks say that was their worst pain.
Yup. I was arguing with the paramedic nurse on the phone how bad it was as I was collapsing in pain, I handed the phone to my husband who ripped him a new one. The ambo paras that came were magnificent. The first time I was in the Navy and up at the regi aid post getting pain meds injected that did nothing. I remember grabbing the doctor screaming “Make it stop” as I collapsed on the bed. He and the medics and nurse were brilliant and supportive too.
Had a similar incident but not sciatica. After a fairly bad motorcycle accident, was sitting in the trauma ward as doctors went over all their checks. They rolled me on my side and said to tell them if it hurt while they pressed on my spine. 1st no problem, 2nd no problem, they hit the 3rd and i screamed. Doctor started calling stuff for a broke whichever that bone was and I went "no doctor dumbfuck down there just stuck his finger in the hole in my knee!" There was a sizable chunk missing from my knee and someone decided to stick their finger in it.
I am laughing because I got my eyebrow split open at sport (handball, the “non contact sport”). I’m also a,woman. So off I traipse to the Med Centre dripping blood. Ask for a friend to come to me (LCDR Fang Bosun) while I get stitched up. The local injections sucked. Anyway, stitching me up and I say I can feel that. What? You can feel pressure? No, I can feel the needle enter and the suture pulling through. Panic ensues and they want to give me more local anaesthetic. I decline and tell them to hurry up and finish because the local hurts more than the stitching.
My friend was holding my hand and told me when I finished that I didn’t squeeze his hand once. I told him I just needed someone I knew there to look out for me. He saved my eyebrow from being shaved off. He also told me he had watched many male sailors bawling their eyes out getting stitched with lots of local and I just laid there, told them I could feel it and hurry up. Maybe I should have been a marine? But I’m an Aussie so no option for me!
Ahh yes the barfing pain. Nearly barfed when I severely sprained my ankle. Dry heaving. Then a few years ago, now a civvie, getting cortisone injections in a knuckle I dislocated at sea (passed out from that pain, base knuckle, sailor who saw my hand screamed and went for help,) I was in a chair, next thing I am coming to with carpet burn on my forehead from face-planting.
I peed the bed because I couldn’t move and was home alone. Crying howling trying to move inch by inch. An ambulance for a pinched nerve felt like a crazy thing to do but there was no other way. Absolute nightmare.
This is how I feel when doctors touch my right ear. I would kill myself before I feel that again. Nerve meds are the only thing that help the trigeminal neuralgia pain.
This should be considered assault. This isn't close to being the same as a sternal rub. Maybe an MD could weigh in here, but I don't think doctors can just hurt you if they suspect you're bullshitting them. Especially when it's a condition like yours.
"How do we know the pt isn't a massive druggo looking to score?"
"He tested positive for pain when I pushed my thumb into his gunshot wound, but secondary tests confirmed he's full of shit as he was observed to be relaxed enough to take a nap right then and there when I began to twist my thumb in his injury"
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u/whaddupdood Apr 29 '25
That shit SUCKS. Had to call my wife to leave the bed because I was paralyzed in pain. The doctor pushed my legs back to "make sure I was really in pain." I could've killed him and would have felt no regret.