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How is it possible that an injection is the most painful thing you have ever felt? You’ve never fallen off a bicycle, or accidentally cut yourself while cooking

How is it possible that an injection is the most painful thing you have ever felt? You’ve never fallen off a bicycle, or accidentally cut yourself while cooking, or any number of other minor injuries? That must have either been one seriously painful injection or you are incredibly careful about not getting hurt.

thrdbndndn 4y ago
Anesthetic injection in sensitive areas is pretty bad though. Typical injection like IV doesn't feel painful at all, but the anesthetic ones I've done for dental or external trauma are very painful. I won't say it's the worst in my life, but it's close. It is, for me, at least 5x worse than cutting myself, probably 3x worse than falling a bicycle too. (For what it's worth, my worst pain is wisdom teeth removal after anesthesia wore off, and it lasted for days!).
- _glass 4y ago
  (It was my worst pain, knocks on wood, so far, too. And I was not prepared for that. But I got my second tooth removed later, and it was not as painful, I think it's all about the positioning of the tooth. While in pain, I was thinking how can I ever forget, but, to my astonishment, I almost forgot.)
- MandieD 4y ago
  Just now heading home from getting the pins out of the finger I broke last month, and can confirm! Local in armpit to numb while arm (hee hee, floppy arm) < Injury that broke finger joint < Spinal for c-section (aside from taking several times to hit the right spot) < Local for single finger (multiple shots, and the last did not hurt any less than the first!)
nsxwolf 4y ago
Lidocaine into my big toe was the single most painful event of my life. Thankfully it was brief.
ehnto 4y ago
The experience of local anesthesia needles can be very painful, especially if they get up near bones. I had to have 8 x needles down the sides of my left fingers for a procedure, and it was more painful than when I later did the same procedure by myself at home on my right hand with no anesthetic.
ramraj07 4y ago
Others have mentioned the local anesthesia to be more painful than expected (which is news to be honest, I just thought I was a bigger wuss than I realized), but also I actually haven’t been seriously hurt in my life - I have fell off a bicycle and had a scratch that took a month to heal and a hairline fracture but none of those were too painful. I think there’s some benefit to being a sedentary nerd lol. But also, a knife cut isn’t painful? It bleeds and stings but not exactly pain right? Unless you got to the muscle which I never have. Having said all of that, I have definitely been told that I have really good self preservation instincts. One will never know what combination of all of this makes me.

thrdbndndn 4y ago

Anesthetic injection in sensitive areas is pretty bad though. Typical injection like IV doesn't feel painful at all, but the anesthetic ones I've done for dental or external trauma are very painful. I won't say it's the worst in my life, but it's close. It is, for me, at least 5x worse than cutting myself, probably 3x worse than falling a bicycle too. (For what it's worth, my worst pain is wisdom teeth removal after anesthesia wore off, and it lasted for days!).

_glass 4y ago
(It was my worst pain, knocks on wood, so far, too. And I was not prepared for that. But I got my second tooth removed later, and it was not as painful, I think it's all about the positioning of the tooth. While in pain, I was thinking how can I ever forget, but, to my astonishment, I almost forgot.)
MandieD 4y ago
Just now heading home from getting the pins out of the finger I broke last month, and can confirm! Local in armpit to numb while arm (hee hee, floppy arm) < Injury that broke finger joint < Spinal for c-section (aside from taking several times to hit the right spot) < Local for single finger (multiple shots, and the last did not hurt any less than the first!)

nsxwolf 4y ago

Lidocaine into my big toe was the single most painful event of my life. Thankfully it was brief.

ehnto 4y ago

The experience of local anesthesia needles can be very painful, especially if they get up near bones. I had to have 8 x needles down the sides of my left fingers for a procedure, and it was more painful than when I later did the same procedure by myself at home on my right hand with no anesthetic.

ramraj07 4y ago

Others have mentioned the local anesthesia to be more painful than expected (which is news to be honest, I just thought I was a bigger wuss than I realized), but also I actually haven’t been seriously hurt in my life - I have fell off a bicycle and had a scratch that took a month to heal and a hairline fracture but none of those were too painful. I think there’s some benefit to being a sedentary nerd lol. But also, a knife cut isn’t painful? It bleeds and stings but not exactly pain right? Unless you got to the muscle which I never have. Having said all of that, I have definitely been told that I have really good self preservation instincts. One will never know what combination of all of this makes me.