Re: The worst pain ever
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I have had a lot of sports related injuries in my life (concussions, broken fingers, stitches etc..), but the worst by far was tearing my ACL. The sound of the pop was sickening, and the pain was unimaginable for the first 10 minutes. It made every other injury I ever had seem like butterfly kisses in retrospect.
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I'll second for the torn ACL. I pivoted wrong in a basketball game, and heard a loud pop come right from the knee (my roommate who has torn both his ACL's later told me he could also hear the pop and knew right then and there I was toast). The first 3.7 seconds were the most painful of my life. Interesting enough the pain subsided quickly as long as I kept it still. I do remember my knee feeling like it was burning hot since all the blood was rushing to insta-swell.
It felt ok going into the hospital, and then the nurse made me straighten my leg all the way for an X-ray. I slowly straightened it out as far as I could, until it popped again. It hurt so bad I fell off the table in the X-ray room.
I have dreams going through that all again every once in awhile. Not fun.
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