What’s the most painful common minor injury?

[GesterHawk]

Joe Biden is that you?

Just give it a rest for one thread man. No one else is doing it.

 

[Jfcarter3]

For me it's been a ruptured eardrum.

Unfortunately I have sudden sensorineural hearing loss. To try and "fix" that, an ENT ruptured my eardrum, on purpose, and then proceeded poke a needle through the hole to the brain-side of my eardrum to drip liquid steroids directly on my auditory nerve. On top of the pain being wildly intense, you can't swallow for 10 minutes or you'll swallow the meds, so you get this weird Chinese torture of having to wipe spit out of your mouth while laying perfectly still. You get 4 of these sessions over a 2 week period. And I paid money for this (AND it didn't work). Good times.

 

[Jfcarter3]

Achilles tendinitis if you consider it minor. The actual worst RICE injury imaginable

So miserable. So long to heal.

 

[Scrubby]

Unfortunately I have sudden sensorineural hearing loss. To try and "fix" that, an ENT ruptured my eardrum, on purpose, and then proceeded poke a needle through the hole to the brain-side of my eardrum to drip liquid steroids directly on my auditory nerve. On top of the pain being wildly intense, you can't swallow for 10 minutes or you'll swallow the meds, so you get this weird Chinese torture of having to wipe spit out of your mouth while laying perfectly still. You get 4 of these sessions over a 2 week period. And I paid money for this (AND it didn't work). Good times.

Damn, sorry man. That sounds awful.

 

[GesterHawk]

Unfortunately I have sudden sensorineural hearing loss. To try and "fix" that, an ENT ruptured my eardrum, on purpose, and then proceeded poke a needle through the hole to the brain-side of my eardrum to drip liquid steroids directly on my auditory nerve. On top of the pain being wildly intense, you can't swallow for 10 minutes or you'll swallow the meds, so you get this weird Chinese torture of having to wipe spit out of your mouth while laying perfectly still. You get 4 of these sessions over a 2 week period. And I paid money for this (AND it didn't work). Good times.

Fūck

 

[SeventhSon]

Unfortunately I have sudden sensorineural hearing loss. To try and "fix" that, an ENT ruptured my eardrum, on purpose, and then proceeded poke a needle through the hole to the brain-side of my eardrum to drip liquid steroids directly on my auditory nerve. On top of the pain being wildly intense, you can't swallow for 10 minutes or you'll swallow the meds, so you get this weird Chinese torture of having to wipe spit out of your mouth while laying perfectly still. You get 4 of these sessions over a 2 week period. And I paid money for this (AND it didn't work). Good times.

 

[jimneffer]

i don't know if i'd consider it "minor", but has anyone ever scratched a cornea?

brutal

 

[THE_DEVIL]

marriage?

 

[GesterHawk]

marriage?

That's not minor. Or it shouldn't be.

 

[BroncHawk]

i don't know if i'd consider it "minor", but has anyone ever scratched a cornea?

brutal

YUP. Couple times, both as a young padawan.

 

[SeventhSon]

That's not minor. Or it shouldn't be.

Agree. My wife was an adult when I married her.

 

[GesterHawk]

Agree. My wife was an adult when I married her.

Exactly.

 

[GesterHawk]

i don't know if i'd consider it "minor", but has anyone ever scratched a cornea?

brutal

Both of my kids as wee toddlers sent me to the ER with scratched corneas - one got my right eye the other my left.
I thought I had learned my lesson the first time by wearing my glasses when playing with my daughter on the floor, but she got her tiny little hand behind the lens when I was distracted.

I would call it minor because it heals on its own unless the scratch takes a chunk out.
But good gods it was really unbearable pain for about 3 days without the numbing medicine.

 

[Jfcarter3]

Damn, sorry man. That sounds awful.

I appreciate that. Been years - you just get used to being half deaf. Biggest kick in the nuts is the hole in the eardrum didn't heal. Sucks the one time you figure out that water is next to your brain because you went too deep.

Yep. Modern science does not really know what causes it so they ply you with steroids. Crazy high dosage of oral first then the needle-in-the-ear-thing.

 

[hawkbirch]

I’m going with separating that connection between your fingernail and fingernail bed.

Like a paper cut x 10!

What else?

this was my first answer. Close second is an ingrown toenail or hangnail. Ouch.

 

[Jerome Silberman]

Unfortunately I have sudden sensorineural hearing loss. To try and "fix" that, an ENT ruptured my eardrum, on purpose, and then proceeded poke a needle through the hole to the brain-side of my eardrum to drip liquid steroids directly on my auditory nerve. On top of the pain being wildly intense, you can't swallow for 10 minutes or you'll swallow the meds, so you get this weird Chinese torture of having to wipe spit out of your mouth while laying perfectly still. You get 4 of these sessions over a 2 week period. And I paid money for this (AND it didn't work). Good times.

I bet that 10 minutes seems like an hour. My injuries were always partnered by an infection a day or two later.

Each also came with losing at least 2 nights sleep.

 

[Yellowsnow51]

This.

Or gout. F that Shiite.

Gout is not minor and is in a category with only kidney stones.

 

[Yellowsnow51]

The answer to the question for me is between banging my knee on the desk, biting my cheek and hitting head on corner of trunk of car or cabinet..

 

[BelemNole]

this was my first answer. Close second is an ingrown toenail or hangnail. Ouch.

Stub a toe with an ingrown toenail will bring tears to your eyes.

 

[Rahskie]

I’m going with separating that connection between your fingernail and fingernail bed.

Like a paper cut x 10!

What else?

I think butthurt is the most common.

 

[prlyles]

Last january I broke my back in 2 places. I spent 2 1/2 months in the hospitial and still having a lot of problems.

 

[GesterHawk]

Last january I broke my back in 2 places. I spent 2 1/2 months in the hospitial and still having a lot of problems.

Not minor.

 

[GesterHawk]

Sciatica, or more so the physical therapy to treat it.

I was 26 when I started treatment - years of manual labor, lifting weights, and genetics - and had this former college linebacker type was my therapist. Dude would put the point of his elbow directly on the nerve and dig into the muscle with all his 240 pounds and strength to try to get it to release.

It hurt so bad that I would instantly start sweating, and not just a little bit, but full on sauna for an hour sweat.

 

[Jfcarter3]

I bet that 10 minutes seems like an hour. My injuries were always partnered by an infection a day or two later.

Each also came with losing at least 2 nights sleep.

You're not wrong. I can distinctly remember the first session of the 4 happened to be on June 6 and honoring of the D-Day anniversary was on the radio in the Dr.'s office. I just kept thinking about that and telling myself to quit being such a ***** and to cowboy up.

 

[SeaPA]

Injury - locating a trailer hitch with your shin.
Condition - gout. By miles and miles.
Illness/infection, accessed tooth that needs a root canal. Those make you so miserable that the damn root canal feels downright pleasant.

 

[WDSMHawk]

Bruised ribs. Hurt to laugh and had to sleep in a recliner for a week

 

[lucas80]

This.

Or gout. F that Shiite.

Gout is common? Isn't that what sailors used to get?

 

[lucas80]

This place is slipping. Getting a bender while pounding on the OP's mom. Boy, that stings.

 

[GesterHawk]

Gout is common? Isn't that what sailors used to get?

Are you thinking scurvy?

 

[lucas80]

Are you thinking scurvy?

Well, that too, but gout is from eating too much meat and not a lot of clean water, right? Who gets that? British sailors in the 1700s. Dirty little devils.

 

[Wobmam Rulez!]

For me it's been a ruptured eardrum.

What?

 

[Wobmam Rulez!]

This place is slipping. Getting a bender while pounding on the OP's mom. Boy, that stings.

I was just gonna post "muscle spasm during an orgasmic moment of the sexy time" but you beat me to it.

 

[DailyBuck7]

High ankle sprain was going to be another of mine. They just linger, especially as you age.

I've had these, but luckily for me they haven't been that painful. They do last a long time. I apparently have very flexible ankles..

 

[DailyBuck7]

I’m going with separating that connection between your fingernail and fingernail bed.

Like a paper cut x 10!

What else?

This may not be considered minor but I had a problem in my thoracic back that came out of nowhere and was so bad I could not turn over in bed and the pain was so severe that it was like I was living in a different reality. Eventually my doctor gave me painkillers that temporarily got rid of it. I started exercising and lifting weights and haven't had that problem again. My theory is that with respect to your back if you can build up your muscles your muscles will support your back vertebrae and lessen the pressure on the vertebrae. Not really scientific, but I do know that the lifting definitely corrected the back problem.

 

[tarheelbybirth1]

Yep. This or a rolled ankle.

Somehow, I have never done that. I've stepped off curbs, stepped into holes, played football, played basketball... I've had my foot roll under many times but for some reason, my ankle just shrugs it off.