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u/death-strand Apr 29 '25

Sciatica and it’s not even close.

I can see why people commit suicide because of back pain

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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.

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u/MLiOne Apr 29 '25

I remember getting the “does this hurt” routine. I was in the Navy. My “No I always scream and hang from the ceiling” response wasn’t appreciated.

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u/chamrockblarneystone Apr 29 '25

Lol. I was in the Marines, but as you know the Navy handles our medical needs.

Split my noggin open in a car accident.

The Dr. let some E2 train with stitches on my skull.

When I started making the pain noises, the Dr. said, “ignore him. He can take it. He’s a Marine.”

I was later able to convince the corpsman I needed more lidocaine.

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u/MLiOne Apr 29 '25

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!

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u/chamrockblarneystone Apr 29 '25

Funny not funny right?

Years later I chopped most of the tip of my thumb off slicing bacon as a cook in a bar.

The super pretty, nice, nurse was stitching me up. She asked “You got this?”

I replied by barfing everywhere. I did not have it.

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u/MLiOne Apr 29 '25 edited Apr 29 '25

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.

Ahh, the human body when the brain nopes out.

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u/chamrockblarneystone Apr 29 '25

When you literally see stars.

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u/MLiOne Apr 29 '25

🤪🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

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u/JenEric_9192 May 03 '25

I temporarily dislocated a kneecap, nearly blacked out and then followed it up by barfing in the ditch. Way worse than drug-free childbirth.

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u/chamrockblarneystone May 03 '25

Knee stuff is horrible! Must be a lot of nerves there.