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I passed out from pain today...

thief183

Member
Consider you lucky, At the moment I suffered some of the worst pain (doctor said...) and I didn't pass out. Was puking everything from the pain but nothing, my body didn't react.

Doctors didn't want to believe me when I said that I didn't use drugs.
 
I almost passed out from pain once. Tripped and fell down twisting my already fucked up right arm. After a couple of minutes writhing in agony i got up and went my way.
My vision started to fade to black. As if i was in a dark tunnel and the walls were closing in. I'd never felt something like that. It was scary.

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SpartanN92

Banned
I dislocated my shoulder about 4 years ago and that’s the closest I’ve come to passing out from pain. I remember my vision fading like I was looking down a tunnel and I had to actively fight it.
It was the worst pain I’ve ever had in my life (It made my kidney stone seem trivial).
 

PanzerAzel

Member
Got my big toenail ripped up off its bed by the bottom edge of a door slamming into it as a kid. Then a skimboard took care of the other one a few years later. Went to the doc with my nail hanging off and doc told me,

“I can either tear off your nail quickly with pliers or numb you up. Numbing up will be more painful.

I was young, so took doc’s advice. Fuck him. I literally saw stars. Never been in so much pain I’ve passed out though.
 

Ionian

Member
I was walking through town with my missus, hands in my pockets and my laces got lose.

I went nearly went face first into the pavement, only managed to bring my elbows up to try to cushion the fall.

Pure and utter agony, the missus busted up laughing whilst I moaned in agony. Was a seriously hard fall.

Passers by checked on me while she laughed. I just said "always remember to tie you shoe-laces" with gritted teeth and in severe pain.

Still together, I think she's waiting for my next fall.
 
When i was 6 i smashed my collar bone in 2.....but my mother didnt believe it was broken and could wait until the next day.....i got violently ill sleeping on the couch alone in the living room and the pain was so bad i spent the whole night awake having horrible hallucinations that blended with reality. I remember hearing voices and thinking i was going to die.
 
When i was 6 i smashed my collar bone in 2.....but my mother didnt believe it was broken and could wait until the next day.....i got violently ill sleeping on the couch alone in the living room and the pain was so bad i spent the whole night awake having horrible hallucinations that blended with reality. I remember hearing voices and thinking i was going to die.

How did she react when she noticed you were in such a bad state?
 

epicnemesis

Member
I’ve never lost consciousness, but I do the cold sweat eyes dimming nausea thing at the drop of a hat.

Injection/blood drawn is a good 30% chance.

Stomach funk will cause it multiple times.
The “best” is when it happens while I am on the shitter in this scenario and I literally have to get off and lay down on the floor with a dirty ass.

Intense nosebleeds can bring it on.

Hell, it happened to me in health class in high school during the STD slideshow.

I also have low blood pressure so that could be part of it.
 
...after pulling my chair into the table and whacking my knee on the metal bar underneath the table.

Blacked out many times in my life but never for this

What the fuck

Pain is weird, my wife will hold her stomach and cry during her period but she pushed both our kids out with no crying, screaming or and real display of pain.
 

Keihart

Member
i think it's a pretty known fact that you can faint for a moment from extreme pain.
I'm no doctor tho, but i like to read about stupid shit like that on the internet very often.
 
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Cutty Flam

Banned
Happened to me once but in a different type of way. My mom got us an astro jump or inflatable castle for 4th of July in like 2001, I know the year because I was playing Paper Mario that year lol. Woke up to my bro and my friend playing in it. Was a complete surprise, and I guess she just wanted to do something fun for us on that day to celebrate. Very thoughtful gesture and it was a lot of fun. That day, I woke up, and basically went in there and started playing with them the first few minutes upon waking so I was dehydrated, no food or water just yet. In there about an hour and it starts to get a bit crazy. My friend was thin as hell, wiry and hyper as fuck all the time. Just a ton of energy so we’re bouncing all over the place nonstop and he decides to start doing all these insane flips and moves. At one point he does the move where you whip up from being on your back and land on your feet. He’s doing it and telling me try it because he thinks this one I can probably do. Was a bit of a chubster at the time, but not too bad so there was no reason not to try I could probably easily do it I thought or at least it looked easy. I eventually decide to go for it, fail completely, and land on my neck on the way down. I just remember kind if being stunned and dazed, maybe it was shock but I had definitely sprained my neck. Next thing I know it’s like instinct, I just get out of there and head to my room to lay down on my bed and relax. I was out of breath from the exercise on top of being dehydrated, on top of that being hungry as fuck, and now this injury to the neck and probably a bunch of swelling taking place. My sister’s ex-bf who is a brother to us, must have gotten word from our boy or my bro who was still in the moon jump castle. He walks into my room for a sec asks if I’m alright, I say yea and within a second or two next thing I know I slip out of consciousness probably right as he walked away. Just blacked out. I think iirc it wasn’t for long? Maybe a minute or a few minutes? Hard to tell, everybody was doing their thing and I had told bro I was ok so if anything probably thought I was just sleeping. But that was the one and only time I ever blacked out in my life. For my situation, I think maybe the discomfort/stress coming from all areas was a bit too much to handle and my brain said shut it down for a few. I’m guessing I was only out for 10-15 min, maybe 20-30 max but it’s hard to tell. Maybe something jarring combined with severe acute pain can do that, even if only jabbing the knee. If your body needs rest badly after it has felt some trauma, it’ll probably be working hard to get it or simply demand it if the pain is great enough I’d imagine. It was instinct after that neck injury and the fatigue, lack of nutrients and water, my body’s intelligence basically just said “go there“, found my resting spot on the bed and blacked out. Probably same with you, except you blacked out at the table im guessing

That was a memorable 4th of July though. My mom took me to the hospital and they gave me a stupid little foam neck brace haha. In the end we all had a great time at the fireworks show. My pops bought a really cool RV earlier that year so we took it near the local park, parked it at a buddy of his’ business parking lot near said park that would usually put on a major fireworks show every 4th. I was just playing some game on my GBA with that goofy old worm light they had for it whenever my neck couldn’t look at fireworks anymore lmao. It was a good day even with the injury

tl;dr version
-sprained neck in inflatable kids castle / moon jump
-blacked out for brief bit of time
-4th of July = top 3 holiday hands down
-unrelated: Joey Chestnut is a beast
 
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Deleted member 1159

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I did that in high school once, packing gauze into the back of my mouth when I had my wisdom teeth out after the numbness wore off but before the pain killers kicked in. Then I spent the rest of the day playing Metroid Prime on drugs.
 

MaestroMike

Gold Member
For real though in like the 7th grade I tried jumping over a tennis net and landed on my head and blacked out. Had a huge fukking bump on the back of my head. My friends were around so I couldn't cry but the moment my mom picked me up and the coast was clear I cried like a b!tch momz was laughing lol
 

DogofWar

Member
Happened to me once in my life.

I was playing with my baby brother, I was ca 14/15 and we fought with wooden swords. He hit my hand and I got a ca 2 cm splinter in under my left thumb nail.

We just stared at it for a couple of seconds, then I for some reason went out of the room, down the stairs(!) abd opened the refrigerator as I wanted something to drink. Then I blacked out and came to when my father was helping me up from the floor.

To this day I shiver by the thought if I had passed out in the stairs.

0/10 experience, would not recommend. I understand why it is used as a torture method.
 

V4skunk

Banned
I snapped my fore arm in half, compound fracture......Bone ripped through my flesh.....
Fully conscious and felt all of it. My arm looked like a spaghetti L shape.
 

DESTROYA

Member
For real though in like the 7th grade I tried jumping over a tennis net and landed on my head and blacked out. Had a huge fukking bump on the back of my head. My friends were around so I couldn't cry but the moment my mom picked me up and the coast was clear I cried like a b!tch momz was laughing lol
I would of laughed too if you were waiting for your mommy to cry . What you were saving for later?

Remember once I was 15-16 and drinking in the woods and got word the cops were coming and we all scattered, reached a fence and tried hoping over quick but my jacket got caught and flipped over smashing my funny bone/elbow on a rock. Worst pain I felt in my life but never got close to blacking out , next day woke up to my elbow being the size of a grapefruit. Weirdly it looked much worse than it felt and by the end of the week was back to normal but it was really tender for 5-6 months.
 

M1chl

Currently Gif and Meme Champion
Everyone has different pain threshold, however people with lower blood pressure are more prone to passing out...
 

MaestroMike

Gold Member
I would of laughed too if you were waiting for your mommy to cry . What you were saving for later?

Remember once I was 15-16 and drinking in the woods and got word the cops were coming and we all scattered, reached a fence and tried hoping over quick but my jacket got caught and flipped over smashing my funny bone/elbow on a rock. Worst pain I felt in my life but never got close to blacking out , next day woke up to my elbow being the size of a grapefruit. Weirdly it looked much worse than it felt and by the end of the week was back to normal but it was really tender for 5-6 months.

I remember I broke a bone in my wrist in HS and I didn't get it checked out until like a month later !! I thought it was just like a sprain at first but it never healed had to get surgery like a year later to put in a screw I couldn't work out in like my last two years of hs cuz I couldnt bend my wrist it sucked !!
 
It's the worst pain ever stubbing yourself against something.
No it isn't, it hurts for a little bit then its gone in no time.

I don't even think its possible to pass out from that OP, it had to be something else or you have the lowest pain threshold I've ever seen. I was laying in ER for 5+ hrs from a kidney stone and didn't pass out.
 
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