If you ever need a transfusion again, make sure the phlebotomist knows you have a nerve near that vein. Threaten to take the needle and shove it into something of theirs that would be very painful if they try to push the issue.

OP - Pain sure, chronic spinal and other pain for 40 + years what would you like to know? When I was 17 I got T boned by another driver going about 70.
I was in bed in the hospital for 5 months, now I'm up to a total of 9 months hospital time. I've had a broken left femur, collar bone, scattered pelvis and 4 broken vertebrae.
Since then many other items like a hip replacement, heart bypass and pacemaker, several infections, gallons of IV antibiotics and blood, etc, etc.
I've done the crawl to get to my morphine pills many times.
Again OP what do you want to know about pain? I can tell you this, it don't matter who or what you are. Regular person or doctor, if you've never experienced it you don't know.
All that being said I'm trying to repay all the blood I've recieved by donating blood and platelets whenever I can but don't know if I van ever give enough.
BTW and FYI, don't assume that if you're on a lot of meds you can't give blood. You most likely can, the Red Cross was a simple form that explains the few drugs you can be on that exclude you from donating. Very few.<<<<<<<<<<<<
Out of everyone that's posted here it sounds to me like Seamus has had the worst but what do I know?
DONATE BLOOD!!!!

I cannot donate blood due to having my thyroid removed 35 yrs ago. Giving blood would upset my blood levels and could give me heart problems but I have spread the word to friends and family to donate blood and they do it on my behalf

Exercise and sex can help kill away pains In different part of the body,the lack of sex at times make things difficult for our body to respond to stimuli ️️

Thirty years of being totally in love with a girl who only saw me as a brother.
I still suffer and ache though I escaped years ago. Nothing helps. Self medication gives distraction temporarily. A real girlfriend could help but they are a myth.

A number of times I've had pain that was a 10 on a 1-10 scale. So much pain I couldn't do anything but be in pain. Don't recommend that for anyone.

One of the times I had to wait until the pain let me do function one time after being scalded when I just woke up and all my nerves were raw. I don't know how many times I went in an out of shock before I dealt with it. Just a freak accident that never happened from being scalded again.

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Stinging caterpillar rolling down my face

The 30 minute time period getting used to the pain after the novocaine wore off from wisdom teeth pulling.

Getting stitches on my finger without novocaine.

Trying to treat chronic sinusitis with flonase as strongly ordered by a doctor and yet turned out to be abominably harmful. I learned later was a synthetic stress hormone. It made the sinusitis worse, but that was the way the least of my worries. Corticosteroids are an abomination.

Wow I’m happy you survived those

The caterpillar one caused my goosebumps now when I saw the word once my forefinger was stung I put my finger in soda water for a night the second day I felt better (I was grateful I read that before in a book)

Cool! The best thing about the caterpillar was that it completely went away after about 10 minutes, then everything was fine I was left sitting in wonder that such intense pain could be experienced.

When I was a kid, I had hip surgery and mostly was in a body cast in bed. I know people have been through a lot worse than me. I got out of a cast after a couple of months and at 14 years old, had to relearn how to walk. I was in a hospital for physical therapy and it was not fun.