Soldier's*Sweeties
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 3, 2009
The 3-4 day period after my breast surgery. I felt like I was being beat in the chest with a baseball bat.
I suffered from cluster headaches for 20 years which is a trigeminal neuralgia that lasts for an hour or so several times per day for three weeks or so a couple times per year. Just suck it up and gut it out and at the end of an episode is celebration that you lived through it and wonderful appreciation of pain free life. I am male so don’t know about childbirth but kidney stones are just a mild discomfort in comparison.Childbirt for me.
The worst I've ever witnessed as a nurse: trigeminal neuralgia. It was horrible to see, I hope to never experience anything like that.
Back-labor resulting in a fractured coccyx and a vacuum extraction delivery all without anesthesia; still gives me nightmares sometimes.With my first born I had back labor. That was the absolute worst pain I ever had; made my next three labors (all without meds) feel like a cakewalk. Passed a kidney stone some years back but I’d put that at a very distant second place compared to my back labor.
I suffered from cluster headaches for 20 years which is a trigeminal neuralgia that lasts for an hour or so several times per day for three weeks or so a couple times per year. Just suck it up and gut it out and at the end of an episode is celebration that you lived through it and wonderful appreciation of pain free life. I am male so don’t know about childbirth but kidney stones are just a mild discomfort in comparison.
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Question, since I am not very knowledgeable about things like this: In this type of situation could a person not be sedated to the point of unconsciousness so they wouldn't "register" the pain, or does it not work like that? Several cancer patients I've been with have been pretty much kept "out of it" for quite a while by the end and did not seem uncomfortable.That's what made this patient's experience so horrid, how long it was lasting. The patient had been at the hospital for three days on the night I met them. We were throwing everything at them that we safely could, and the pain was still terrible. They were trying very hard to minimize their respirations, would fall asleep for seconds only to be jarred back awake by involuntarily moving their mouth or head or whatever, would not drink, or allow anyone to moisturize their mouth/lips. We ended up sending them to the icu that night. I can't even imagine suffering like that.
I had a spinal tap in 2017. The procedure itself doesn't hurt but they warned me I might get a little headache afterwards. OH MY GOD... a few hours later I was in fetal position. It felt like a hot poker stabbing me in the brain every time I stood up. I had to lay flat on my back for a couple days until it subsided.
Question, since I am not very knowledgeable about things like this: In this type of situation could a person not be sedated to the point of unconsciousness so they wouldn't "register" the pain, or does it not work like that? Several cancer patients I've been with have been pretty much kept "out of it" for quite a while by the end and did not seem uncomfortable.