I know I can't deal with it, and I have tremendous respect for anyone who can. A few years ago, I had a kidney stone and a renal colic [0]. The pain was indesc

I know I can't deal with it, and I have tremendous respect for anyone who can. A few years ago, I had a kidney stone and a renal colic [0]. The pain was indescribable. It was surreal. A shrill, hyperbright, screeching, completely hysteric pain. I was in constant agitation and jumped around our apartment looking for some way out. I took the only pain killers we had (some aspirin and paracetamol), with no effect. I started to bang my head against the wall to counter the pain with a more managable pain. When the medics came, I was rolling on the floor, in tears, grapped one of them by the foot and begged for pain killers. They said they had to clear that up with the emergency room first, because they weren't sure what it was. I screamed at them that it was most likely a kidney stone (I had read about kidney stones a few years before on Wikipedia because my father had one when he was my age, and the symptoms matched 100%). They said no, they weren't sure. While they were talking with the emergency room on the phone, another wave struck me down. I almost fainted. Then I threw up on the floor and lay there, wailing, screaming, in my own vomit. The emergency room then gave them clearance to give me something strong. The second they told me that they have pain killers in the ambulance car I was up and ran down the stairs. My wife tried to hold me back because I was only wearing underwear at that point. I didn't care and basically threw her aside. The focal point of my life at that moment was to stop. That. Pain. I remember the ambulance gleaming in the night like the holy grail. I entered, lay down on the stretcher, and then they injected me something I later learned was morphine based. I remember I couldn't feel them touching me, or the needle entering, because the pain blocked out any other physical sensation. And then, almost immediately, the pain became managable, like a strong toothache. The rest of the night is a fog. The next morning, the stone had passed and I returned home. I lay in bed for 2 days completely traumatized, just staring at the wall. I never knew such physical pain was possible without losing consciousness. I now know that I cannot stand extreme pain. If I would have to endure the pain of that night for longer than 12 hours, I would kill myself. Wikipedia has a depiction of a renal colic that is pretty accurate: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nierenkolik#/media/Datei:Devils_saw_away_at_a_colic_sufferer's_abdomen._Lithograph_by_Wellcome_V0011745.jpg https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nierenkolik#/media/Datei:Devil... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal_colic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renal_colic