having a endoscope-thing shoved up my nose into my sinuses.. and the doctor kept crashing it into bone. Which resulted in unfathomable pain, and not insignificant bleeding because at least one of the crashes tore/cut delicate tissues in my head.
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It's unpleasant even if it goes smoothly. But he couldn't get through the lower opening of the stomach so he rammed at it for 20 min. The chest pain, stomach and retching/vomiting was pretty horrible. Someone shoving and twisting a scope inside your guts is pretty unpleasant.
Oh and I've also had a wisdom tooth removed by a dentist who used a hand saw (rather than electric instruments) to cut the tooth into 3 pieces and cut into the gum to extract the fragments. My face was swollen for a week after and I was eating liquid food for ages.
Dialysis.
I've done 2 kinds, the one you hear about (hemo) and the slightly better peritoneal kind. DeWalt with it for a year and a half (which is nothing compared to what a lot of people have to do).
It wasn't the most painful thing in these comments, but it is one of the most soul-draining things I can imagine. In the same kind of way that chemo probably is. But that's even more miserable.
And a lot of the treatments surrounding it are where the real pain was (I could go on a whole big comment/post about the pain, discomfort, suffering, other things that just sucked that I've had to deal with since 2020, both directly and indirectly related to this-it's a pretty wild trip) but that's not the question here.
The single worst part overall was the dialysis, because it hit the sweet (/s) spot between how uncomfortable it was, how much constant attention to it I was required to deal with, and how long it lasted.
I mean the longest thing I've dealt with is diabetes, but the dialysis beats that by far.
The shady doctor did my lab, put the needle on the arm of the chair. I had to ask him to get me a new one.
Or the other doctor prescribed me meds that interfere my HRT, twice. I had to look it up.
As an american, it's about every time I've sought medical help in the last two decades, only a handful of times.
E-rooms will misdiagnose you with something that isn't even close to fitting your symptoms just to get you out of there, then send you a 2000 dollar bill for it.
I remember getting wisdom teeth yanked out, this might not have been the dentists fault, I was doing some prescription opiates, and they gave me fentanyl and whatever, I of course didn't tell them of the big 200 mg morphine tabs we were getting. So I wasn't fully anesthasized as I should have been. I was half awake with mouth full of gauze as the dentist is yanking them out, why, won't, this, tooth, come, out, type of memory.
Torn Achilles recovery
How long did that take? Did you need surgery?
orthodontics, never again
Broken radius from a motorcycle crash. Doc set it by hand with only local anesthetic. Holy fuck that hurt.
There’s a pile of them.
An ear infection that either was staph or turned into it, requiring an ear to be reconstructed, a new ear drum, ear canal reconstruction, and the mastoid bone removed. There was a very real concern from the doctors that it was going to get into my brain. They cut my ear off of the side of my head, did the work, then sewed it back on. 10/10 for the doctors that did the treatment and fixed it all. -1000/10 for the different unrelated doctor that let the infection get that bad.
A 4mm kidney stone making its way out.
An ear infection (same ear as above) where the ear canal swelled shut, and the ENT and his staff held me down in his office on a table to force a wick into it to make the meds able to get into it.
Even though it was 30 years ago, the ear infection (prior to the reconstruction) is what I remember most vividly.
You guys have wild stories. I've had good medical care for the most part. Damn, so boring