The worst painless feeling I've had was after a nose surgery. Pulling the massive tampons out felt my head being ripped off but that wasnt too bad. It was getting some soaked cloth shoved back up towards my brain that made me see the light for a few moments.
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Being awake for WAAAAY too long and you still have a few more hours until you can go to sleep.
Toothache. Most general pain I can just tolerate until it goes away. But I become completely useless with a toothache. Iโm not productive and Iโm irritable. I grab a painkiller as soon as I can.
This one just recently as Iโm getting older: lower back pain. Getting up after sitting down for a while in an awkward position and the pain is so bad that I literally collapse into a squatting position with my hands on the ground until I can slowly get up again.
Do stretches, my friend. World of difference so long as you don't have some underlying musculoskeletal or pain issue. You don't have to exercise to feel decent, but stretching is absolutely necessary. If you don't know where to begin, try some yoga sets, and don't worry about hitting the perfect pose.
Tacking onto this person's post:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Sun+Salutation&ia=images&iax=images
Sun salutations are an easy, flowing set of poses that stretch a lot of your body. I didn't really take classes but had an opportunity for a couple months to do yoga with an instructor in a group setting and our group had every body type. If someone struggled with a particular pose, there's either a way to modify it or try something similar
The sessions were great. Sometimes I was able to push myself physically, but they weren't geared for that; just chill beginner yoga. I certainly did see progress in myself though, and was bummed when they ended
If we're talking about unpleasant sensations, there's one I get that makes me feel nauseous that I can only describe as being like a smooth grooved surface with unwanted lumps in it and I'm travelling and lurching over it in some unseen dimension. (I've actually met at least one other person who described this without me mentioning it first, so it might be somewhat common. I have no idea.)
I was watching a Let's Play video of a video game the other day and the texture for the water's surface in-game somehow reminded me of it, and it made the video hard to watch.
If we're talking about actual pain, I've had food-related (possibly also medication-related) stomach pain that had me curled in a ball thinking I was going to die and then thinking that might not actually be such a bad idea because then the pain would stop.
I now assume that that must be similar to what some people go through with period cramps. No way I'd want to do that once a month. The handful of times it happened to me was more than enough.
Honourable mention: The weird sting and sensation that isn't actually a smell but is somehow in my nose if I accidentally touch a hidden juvenile thistle in a lawn. Those things are prickly monsters that are just a shade bluer than grass and you often don't see them until you've put your hand on one. Other sharp pains sometimes trigger that "smell" as well. I always associate it with the colour of those thistle leaves though.
They asked for physical pain, so psychosomatic likely doesn't count. Not that they're uninteresting topics or anything....
I used to have similar "pain" from trying to imagine the scale of things. Like when I was a young teen, I'd try to literally visualize what a mile of terrain looked like, or the insanely small scale of molecules, and suddenly I'd lose reference to what 'normal' scale was, and it'd freak me out completely when it felt like the room I was in was both miniscule and insanely vast.
Not really pain, but extreme discomfort that you cannot make go away. There's a term for losing ones' frame of reference for scale, but it escapes me at the moment. Luckily, I got better and better at visualizing things and vast scales stopped triggering what ever that was. Some people have it as a general disability and ohhh boy do I not envy them!
OP's example is having a toilet paper accident and poking their own rectum, which I doubt is the most painful thing in the world and other people are going for the "most painful" interpretation, so I thought I'd cover all bases.
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Getting an apadravya piercing. Pain level was 11/10 for about 3 seconds. I learned a new level of pain that day.
For those who don't want to do any searching for what an "adadravya" is:
spoiler
it's a body piercing that goes vertically through the head of a penis.
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I've got a weird issue with the soles of my feet. I'm not ticklish at all, but the soles of my feet react as if the nerves are turned up to 11. It's only for light touches though, I can walk around barefooted with no problems, even on rough surfaces.
If someone touches my feet it's a sensory overload that lasts for a while afterwards. It's a weird combination of light tickling and burning, and feels like there's something stuck to the bottom of my foot for a minute or two after the touch stops. The really weird part is, I can tickle my own feet, but apparently you're not supposed to be able to tickle yourself ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ
My worst is kidney hydronephrosis. Felt like dying from a knife in my side and then every minute or so someone twisted the knife.
Most discomfort I ever felt was when I had to have an endoscope put down my nose. They didn't tell me I had to inhale the local anaesthetic so I felt the endoscope scraping against the back of my mouth and throat. I've sniffed the spray every time since!
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Chewing on styrofoam
Worst pain in my life physically was appendicitis. It set a new high bar.
Mentally? Hurts too much to talk about.
pancreatitis. It felt like someone stabbing me in the side with a dull knife made of burning glass.
I got my tongue split in 2017 so uhh healing that is definitely up there. You basically have the worst sore throat of your life, can't talk, can't stop drooling, and can only "eat" smoothies by pouring them directly into your mouth.
Gallstones. When it's a really bad attack it's probably the closest thing to an alien hatching from your stomach.
You're scraping too hard.
Eating without YouTube ๐๐ฌ
Pooping without your phone