phrantic09

There are tons of Bills fans up here. Our friends’ brewery is a “Bills Backer” bar and it’s full of obnoxious Bills fans on Sundays.

seedsbelize2

94A. A little warm for this time of year. An hour ago I got bit by a horsefly whose season is June and July

rjones28 

Who can say...

Velo Vol 

That would be a good place for a therapist to set up a booth and sign up new patients.

Velo Vol 

Uh oh.

Bah Humbug

Quality life choice there.

big john

Riding a motorcycle in the desert and carving around a bush there was a beach ball sized rock that I didn't see. My toe got smashed between the rock and the brake pedal with enough force to lift the rear of the bike into the air and dump me in a pile of rocks where I landed on my elbow. The pain in my toe was so intense I didn't feel the elbow. The nail came off a couple days later which was a relief.

I was riding the same motorcycle along a handle bar wide trail and an idiot tried to pass me. I didn't hear him or know he was there until I was knocked off the bike. Landed on my spine/pelvis area, went back up and landed on my hip point. While this was happening I tore the rotator cuff in my right shoulder. Lots of pain that day and the lower back is messed up still.

In 2017 I had shingles in my eye and on my scalp. The pain in my eye was pretty intense, as if my eye was squeezed by pliers. Doctor gave me Gabapentin and a bottle of Percocet. Tried the Gab twice and it just knocked me out. Gave the Percocet to a friend when he broke his hip and ran out. Friend gave me THC pills which made coping with the shingles pain doable.

When I was about 19 I had an infected impacted wisdom tooth. I had no money or insurance so the county clinic was the place. They said it was too infected to extract so they gave me antibiotics and said come back in 10 days. I was so sick I couldn't eat and the antibiotics made me throw up. The infection got worse and spread to the roof of my mouth, (it was a bottom tooth). Went back for the next appt. and the oral surgeon said we have to do it now. 1 shot of Novocain and he ripped that thing out of there. That was probably the most intense pain I have known. Almost blacked out. Almost pulled the arms off of the chair.

rjones28 

Worst pain ever was when I was 5 or 6. Ember from our neighbor's burning yard debris landed on the inside of my thigh and stuck. I recall screaming. I still have a scar the size of a quarter.

big john

I had a sinus infection that was painful. Like a deep,, throbbing pain behind my face.

jadmt

this reminded me of my good buddy (RIP) he was riding his motorcycle and he saw what he thought was a rubber ball as he was riding through a neighbor hood with kids and he figured was going to give it a kick to get off the road so a kid would not run out to get it..it was a bowling ball. shattered his foot and lower leg really bad. Somehow he did not crash.

jadmt

My wife said that it looked like I had a demon trying to get out of my head. may face was all distorted. it was nothing like a sinus infection. Not sure if there any dentist here but it was due to the rear most upper molar root decided to enter the sinus cavity and the dentist thought he could pull it before it actually entered but when he pulled the tooth it tore into the cavity. It all started out as a simple examine with my early xrays. As soon as he pulled the tooth he said "oh ****" and took me right to a surgeon...I never got a bill. so I guess that was a plus....

big john

I've heard of that happening and I don't want to think about it.

badger1

[QUOTE=genejockey;23127637
Having had a couple minor procedures under local anesthesia, I gotta say it is really strange to watch, and hear, and even feel slightly when someone, for example, takes a slice out of the skin on your leg, then sews it up, with the needle CLEARLY going through your skin.[/QUOTE]

Somewhat similar: watching an 'internal procedure' on a monitor. Weird. When I had an ivc filter 'installed' in 2018 (dvt in right calf, with complicating factors; long story), The Mechanic (that's what the surgeon called himself) asked if I wanted to be 'out' or rely on a local. Any pain, I asked? No, he said; local it was. Once he got the thing started, in the groin, he said ... 'here, watch!' and swivelled a monitor toward me. Got to watch the thing slowly go up the vein to its resting place. Couldn't feel a thing.

No such option when time came to have the thing removed; they went in through the neck and down to retrieve it, and didn't want any movement ... at all.

RollCNY

"That which does not kill us makes us chatty in bicycle forum."

Not pain related, but I screamed like a teenage girl when a squirrel jumped on my head. He stayed only long enough for me to know that he was faster than me, meaner than me, and could have done anything he wanted in that brief moment.

big john

In 1988 I had surgery to repair the a-c joint in my left shoulder. He transplanted tendons and used a long screw to hold the collar bone down for 8 weeks. Was supposed to be 6 weeks but I pulled it loose trying to get up to answer the phone while half asleep. Anyway when he took the screw out he let me watch on a screen.He kept slipping on the screw head (phillips) and I told him I could go home and get a Snap On screwdriver if he wanted.

BillyD

I had sutures without anesthesia (not even Lidocaine) to close up a knee busted wide open to the bone. I counted seven of them but later they removed nine. Obviously I passed out from pain for two of them.

Eric F 

I had that with a cracked and infected molar. It was pretty brutal, largely because it was relentless. OTC pain meds did nothing to relieve it.

The doctor resetting a broken bone in my hand without any pain meds hurt a lot worse that breaking it. That's probably the most intense pain I've felt, but it didn't last very long.

Trsnrtr

My mother had severe copd and couldn’t have anesthesia. She had surgery for breast cancer with a local. She also had hip replacement with a spinal block.

She said she cried the entire time through the breast surgery. The surgeon confirmed that my mom had a hard time.

When asked about the hip replacement, all she would say is that it was noisy, smelled like stuff burning and there was a lot of hammering.

genejockey 

Along about 1996, I separated the A-C joint in my right shoulder. When I went to the Orthopedist, he told me that studies had shown that the best pain-free outcome and range of motion was achieved by no intervention at all. I looked it up on PubMed, and damned if he wasn't right! Plus there were a couple articles on the wires and such they used to tie the ends together getting loose in the body.

He asked me if I was in a throwing sport. "Cycling isn't generally considered a throwing sport," I replied.

The next year, defending TdF champ Bjarne Riis famously threw his TT bike when the chain came off.

genejockey 

Whatever doesn't kill us makes us stranger.

genejockey 

And we wonder why women don't flock to this place....

big john

My Friday ride I usually take the mtb. I avoid cars and cut through a park and a little league complex. From there I go under a bridge to a large debris basin unless there is too much water flowing under the bridge. Today there were cops with the road blocked off on each side of the bridge. From where I go I could just ride up there and cross the bridge but thought I had better go to the road block and inquire. The handsome young officer explained that there was a "suspicious package" on the bridge and the bomb squad was on the way.

Lot of sirens and a bunch of vehicles showed up but nobody made a move toward the package while I was there. So I headed home and got another flat on the way.

Trsnrtr

Tom Danielson posted something on Twitter today that really struck home. Tom has had his share of bad luck and horrible injuries.

His post today starts off: “Attitude and effort are variables I can control.
The universe doesn’t care what I’ve been through nor does it care that it’s 20 degrees out.”

https://x.com/tomdanielson/status/17..._5YX2lczOfWI8Q

genejockey 

Today for the first time, HRV4Training gave me something other than "proceed as planned". I got an 8.0, "Limit intensity". Also a slightly elevated HR (52 vs the normal 46-50). Funny thing is, 5 of the 12 HRV measurements I've taken since I started this on New Years Eve were 8.0. But I figure I'll do a Z2 ride on Zwift, just in case.

I'm thinking it's lousy sleep because of the dog we're dogsitting. She wandered into our bedroom the last two nights, and wandered around a bit before finally lying down to sleep. Then I had to get up early to get TOB to work by 8.

datlas 

On a flight to LA a couple years ago, as we were descending, I had a sudden, super intense pain in my right cheek just below my eye. It lasted only about 5 minutes but it was definitely a top ten pain experience. I think this is called a “sinus separation” but whatever it was, I don’t wish it on anyone.

Another intense pain was the lidocaine shot for my vasectomy. It was mercifully only for about 3 seconds, then all went numb.