Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
edited July 2011
Oh and Dan, since you're here, I thought you might get a laugh out of this.
It was the funniest thing to happen to me all week. I really could not stop laughing.
I got a copay assistance card from the people who make my medication. Neato. But on the front of the letter, right below the words that say "Hey, this is to help with your copay! Here's how..." was a paragraph about how "Serious infections affecting the entire body can occur while taking this medication. Some patients have died from this."
Nothing else. Just how to use the card and "There is a not insignificant chance you might die."
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edited July 2011
Munkus and Stale can't play this game.
It's like Superman fighting regular people. Just not fair. Unless it's Batman.
Probably nothing compared to most things posted, but I've had a few pains.
When I was about 7ish I distinctly remembering waking up with an (at that time) incredible pain all up the back of my upper leg and thigh. I can guess that the pain would be similar to a strecthed/torn muscle? Maybe? But it was a wierd muscle pain that I had in bouts of about a week every month for a year it seemed. And then? Nothing. Never had any pain in that area before or since, and no idea what caused it.
Otherwise, I get frequent stomach cramps. Usually attributed to many things, ate something I shouldn't have, ate too much of said thing, being nervous about something, or what have you. But recently it seems I get cramps soon after I finish a meal where I had a lot of milk. I dunno if it's just starting like this or I just never noticed until now. Is it possible to gradually develop lactose intolerance?
Otherwise, never had much pain. Don't want to. I am a big baby with pain and even reading about/seeing some major ones make me hurt. Like when I first saw the one scene in X-Men First Class
Where Eric tears out a dude's metal filling
I basically sank deep into my seat, grabbed my jaw and cringed like it was happening to me.
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KakodaimonosCode fondlerHelping the 1% get richerRegistered Userregular
edited July 2011
Physical pain gets easy after a while. I've been burned, choked and beaten plenty of times. You just let it happen and then it's over. It was always the evil shit that my sister would like to do to the animals that would bother me the most. You know how much a cat screams after it's back has been broken? I remember that smile my sister had after doing that. Like she had figured out that I didn't care about myself anymore and wanted to see what my reaction was.
Oh and Dan, since you're here, I thought you might get a laugh out of this.
It was the funniest thing to happen to me all week. I really could not stop laughing.
I got a copay assistance card from the people who make my medication. Neato. But on the front of the letter, right below the words that say "Hey, this is to help with your copay! Here's how..." was a paragraph about how "Serious infections affecting the entire body can occur while taking this medication. Some patients have died from this."
Nothing else. Just how to use the card and "There is a not insignificant chance you might die."
Not really painful, but just cool:
Having wisdom teeth removed
I didn't go to a surgeon so I wasn't put under. I got a bunch of shots to numb up my mouth and then they went to town. Dentist let me bring my cd player, so I got my teeth pulled to dragonforce.
I used to take adderall. One of the possible side-effects is sudden death.
Hooray for amphetamines.
One of my more painful memories involves me getting kicked in the groin by my younger brother. We were playing basketball, and me being a turd, I decided to kick between his legs while he was dribbling backwards and the ball went careening off into the orchard. I was about a foot taller so, you know, why not be a dick?
Well, its my turn to defensively drive to the hoop and he decides he's gonna pull the same trick on me. Only instead of hitting the ball, his shoe comes straight up toward the gooch and slams nothing but sack.
Not really painful, but just cool:
Having wisdom teeth removed
I didn't go to a surgeon so I wasn't put under. I got a bunch of shots to numb up my mouth and then they went to town. Dentist let me bring my cd player, so I got my teeth pulled to dragonforce.
I hate you so much.
eh?? why?
"what my wisdom teeth are out? eh, no big deal. I'll just happily about my my life now"
Was not my experience after getting em out.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Oh and Dan, since you're here, I thought you might get a laugh out of this.
It was the funniest thing to happen to me all week. I really could not stop laughing.
I got a copay assistance card from the people who make my medication. Neato. But on the front of the letter, right below the words that say "Hey, this is to help with your copay! Here's how..." was a paragraph about how "Serious infections affecting the entire body can occur while taking this medication. Some patients have died from this."
Nothing else. Just how to use the card and "There is a not insignificant chance you might die."
"You might die. Let's start with the painful ones and work our way down.
By the way, if you ever feel sick at all, there's a chance it might be one of these things. Or it might be nothing at all. Half the fun is the journey!
Nausea? Well, that could be liver failure. Or an obstruction. Or maybe just an upset stomach. Let's do a barium x-ray of your intestines to be sure."
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Not really painful, but just cool:
Having wisdom teeth removed
I didn't go to a surgeon so I wasn't put under. I got a bunch of shots to numb up my mouth and then they went to town. Dentist let me bring my cd player, so I got my teeth pulled to dragonforce.
I hate you so much.
eh?? why?
"what my wisdom teeth are out? eh, no big deal. I'll just happily about my my life now"
Was not my experience after getting em out.
aaah ya, I left out the bit where I had to demand a bit more numbing stuff cause I was feeling more than just pressure :P
I dislocated my nose playing rugby once, that was pretty painful. I fractured a rib last weekend which was pretty sore. The worst part was how limited it makes you in terms of pain free movements.
When I was, god, I have no idea. When do you lose your baby molars? Eight? Whenever that was.
I was lying in bed late at night and I noticed one of my teeth was slightly loose, so I went to check it out in the bathroom. Nobody else was awake so I grabbed a mirror and did my best to give it the 'ole eyeball. I noticed it had a dark spot in it. I guess I thought I had a really bad cavity, because I decided that the tooth had to go. I had recently read about Tutankhamen dying of a tooth ache, so I guess I was kinda paranoid that I'd die of gumrot.
With nothing but my fingers, my tongue, and several hours of determined wiggling, I slowly pulled the tooth out of my mouth until I had it up and out of the gums, then I twisted it around and snapped off the roots. That was the worst part. Them fuckin' roots stretched to breaking. The hole in my gums was super painful, more painful than any other tooth I'd lost, but at least I had saved myself the peril of septicemia, right?
When I woke up my pillow and cheeks were a spatter of blood, and I had blood on my hands from pulling a tooth out of my mouth prematurely.
The dark spot? A filling I had gotten a few years earlier.
Physical pain gets easy after a while. I've been burned, choked and beaten plenty of times. You just let it happen and then it's over. It was always the evil shit that my sister would like to do to the animals that would bother me the most. You know how much a cat screams after it's back has been broken? I remember that smile my sister had after doing that. Like she had figured out that I didn't care about myself anymore and wanted to see what my reaction was.
I wouldn't want Pringles in my spine. Because once you pop you can't stop.
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AnialosCollies are love, Collies are life!Shadowbrook ColliesRegistered Userregular
edited July 2011
Left knee hasn't been right since 17 October 2008 at about 7am. I remember this because it was my company commander's first day of PT with us. We went traipsing off through the woods known as "Area J" on Ft. Bragg. When we turned around to come back to the company area after a couple of miles of running through uneven loose sand he spotted a rather large log. "Oh! Lets carry it back!" he says. So we do. I get under it and we take off nice and slow. Things are going swell until we hit a particularly loose bit of sand. Lower leg goes left, upper leg goes right, I go down cursing. So I jog the 2 miles back to the company area, drive to sick call, and start the process of getting fixed. Right. I can tell you the long version sometime if you want, but the short version is this. Ten months until they gave me a permanent profile. Five months later they are violating the hell out of it. Cut to now, where the knee hurts worse sitting here typing than it did when the injury happened. I'd say on the average day its a pretty constant 4-5 with the occasional twinge of 6-7. If I get all gunho on my meds (mobic/melloxicam) I'll hit an 8 when they wear off. Don't take the meds much though cuz they give me heartburn.
TLDR
Army messed up my knee, didn't fix it, made it worse. Have VA disability physical in two weeks.
I used to break and pull out teeth all the time as a kid
I have no idea why this never backfired
I just wanted those baby teeth gone
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
edited July 2011
about 5 days after I got my wisdom teeth out, I could not take the stitches anymore, so I ripped them out at the dinner table and freaked my parents the fuck out
I pass about 4 to 6 kidney stones per month. Have had them since I was 15 (2 or 3 a year back then). I'm in my 30s now and nothing works for the daily pain so I honestly can't remember the last time I've had a pain free day.
The pain also comes in different flavours based on where the stones are. From the regular daily grinding pain which is anything from a 3 to a 5 as long as I sit or lay down. If I try to do anything, even simple things like walking or reaching for something this can go up to anything from a 4 to a 7 depending on the day and what I'm trying to do.
At any time the kidney can start spasming harder then an epileptic on crack which means I get a full 10 which involves rushing to bed and screaming into a pillow. This pain will slowly dissipate over the next hour with the spasms being a little less painful and a little shorter each time. There's several other types like random knifestabs as it moves down or electric shock type stuff when it's near the bladder.
On top of that I also have a narrow tube in my penis (and a ton of built up scartissue) so lots of stones get stuck about 1 to 2 cm away from freedom so I regularly get to poke inside there with a tiny plastic toothpick to pry them loose. The blockages and scartissue also means I almost never know how the pee will come out, from normal to sideways to full blown sprinkler mode so needless to say I haven't peed standing up in years. I won't even start about dealing with full blockages. Fun times.
One amusing anecdote is I remember going to the ER for chestpains. Doctor asks how bad the pain is. I answer "about a 6". My wife says "he has chronic kidney stones btw" and the doc instantly scratches out the 6 and says "so an 8 for normal people".
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
edited July 2011
Man, I learned to self-adjust the pain scale a long time ago.
I take the number I want to give and I add two.
So basically the same logic as that doctor.
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It was the funniest thing to happen to me all week. I really could not stop laughing.
I got a copay assistance card from the people who make my medication. Neato. But on the front of the letter, right below the words that say "Hey, this is to help with your copay! Here's how..." was a paragraph about how "Serious infections affecting the entire body can occur while taking this medication. Some patients have died from this."
Nothing else. Just how to use the card and "There is a not insignificant chance you might die."
It's like Superman fighting regular people. Just not fair. Unless it's Batman.
Secret Satan 2013 Wishlist
Just goddammit.
No. Wait. Now I'm kind of sad
When I was about 7ish I distinctly remembering waking up with an (at that time) incredible pain all up the back of my upper leg and thigh. I can guess that the pain would be similar to a strecthed/torn muscle? Maybe? But it was a wierd muscle pain that I had in bouts of about a week every month for a year it seemed. And then? Nothing. Never had any pain in that area before or since, and no idea what caused it.
Otherwise, I get frequent stomach cramps. Usually attributed to many things, ate something I shouldn't have, ate too much of said thing, being nervous about something, or what have you. But recently it seems I get cramps soon after I finish a meal where I had a lot of milk. I dunno if it's just starting like this or I just never noticed until now. Is it possible to gradually develop lactose intolerance?
Otherwise, never had much pain. Don't want to. I am a big baby with pain and even reading about/seeing some major ones make me hurt. Like when I first saw the one scene in X-Men First Class
Dry mouth, fatigue, headache, liver failure, death.
eh?? why?
Hooray for amphetamines.
One of my more painful memories involves me getting kicked in the groin by my younger brother. We were playing basketball, and me being a turd, I decided to kick between his legs while he was dribbling backwards and the ball went careening off into the orchard. I was about a foot taller so, you know, why not be a dick?
Well, its my turn to defensively drive to the hoop and he decides he's gonna pull the same trick on me. Only instead of hitting the ball, his shoe comes straight up toward the gooch and slams nothing but sack.
I really did have that one coming.
wait, really? dang.
I am on adderall right now.
like, I took a pill about 2 hours ago
"what my wisdom teeth are out? eh, no big deal. I'll just happily about my my life now"
Was not my experience after getting em out.
"You might die. Let's start with the painful ones and work our way down.
By the way, if you ever feel sick at all, there's a chance it might be one of these things. Or it might be nothing at all. Half the fun is the journey!
Nausea? Well, that could be liver failure. Or an obstruction. Or maybe just an upset stomach. Let's do a barium x-ray of your intestines to be sure."
aaah ya, I left out the bit where I had to demand a bit more numbing stuff cause I was feeling more than just pressure :P
I wouldn't really worry about it unless you've got, like, heart problems.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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I was lying in bed late at night and I noticed one of my teeth was slightly loose, so I went to check it out in the bathroom. Nobody else was awake so I grabbed a mirror and did my best to give it the 'ole eyeball. I noticed it had a dark spot in it. I guess I thought I had a really bad cavity, because I decided that the tooth had to go. I had recently read about Tutankhamen dying of a tooth ache, so I guess I was kinda paranoid that I'd die of gumrot.
With nothing but my fingers, my tongue, and several hours of determined wiggling, I slowly pulled the tooth out of my mouth until I had it up and out of the gums, then I twisted it around and snapped off the roots. That was the worst part. Them fuckin' roots stretched to breaking. The hole in my gums was super painful, more painful than any other tooth I'd lost, but at least I had saved myself the peril of septicemia, right?
When I woke up my pillow and cheeks were a spatter of blood, and I had blood on my hands from pulling a tooth out of my mouth prematurely.
The dark spot? A filling I had gotten a few years earlier.
Kids are dumb.
pretty sure my heart is good
only time the doc mentioned my blood pressure or heart was when I was just getting over a cold.
fuuuuuck
isn't your family crazy though?
Wasn't that shingles?
sadly
not Pringles
TLDR
I have no idea why this never backfired
I just wanted those baby teeth gone
oxy is a helluva painkiller
whyyyyy
how?
took it from a baby
The pain also comes in different flavours based on where the stones are. From the regular daily grinding pain which is anything from a 3 to a 5 as long as I sit or lay down. If I try to do anything, even simple things like walking or reaching for something this can go up to anything from a 4 to a 7 depending on the day and what I'm trying to do.
At any time the kidney can start spasming harder then an epileptic on crack which means I get a full 10 which involves rushing to bed and screaming into a pillow. This pain will slowly dissipate over the next hour with the spasms being a little less painful and a little shorter each time. There's several other types like random knifestabs as it moves down or electric shock type stuff when it's near the bladder.
On top of that I also have a narrow tube in my penis (and a ton of built up scartissue) so lots of stones get stuck about 1 to 2 cm away from freedom so I regularly get to poke inside there with a tiny plastic toothpick to pry them loose. The blockages and scartissue also means I almost never know how the pee will come out, from normal to sideways to full blown sprinkler mode so needless to say I haven't peed standing up in years. I won't even start about dealing with full blockages. Fun times.
One amusing anecdote is I remember going to the ER for chestpains. Doctor asks how bad the pain is. I answer "about a 6". My wife says "he has chronic kidney stones btw" and the doc instantly scratches out the 6 and says "so an 8 for normal people".
I take the number I want to give and I add two.
So basically the same logic as that doctor.
They found twenty one of them in him.
Satans..... hints.....
tooth never came out
I stilll have two. No tooth underneath to grow and push them out.
That is more than what the tooth fairy will offer.
Satans..... hints.....