How old were you last time you cried for physical pain? And why?

Question

It happened to me at 38. I broke three toes while walking bare feet on a beach, banging heavily against a hidden stone.

The pain was indescribable and I couldn't help crying in spite of my effort to fight back the tears.
In fact there were a lot of people around and I hate the idea to be seen crying. I felt ashamed, but I couldn't hold back.

What about you?

Answer 1

I fell over my daughter and up my two concrete back door steps.On the top was an inch high metal bar to stop draughts and it dug right into my shin.I thought I had broken my leg and it swelled up beyond believe and went numb.I cried after I had shooed my kids out of the room, my language was a bit bad too.lol

Answer 2

I've broken my little toe a couple times (ironically even though I'm a fulltime barefooter, last time it happened indoors, left the vacuum out for myself to find when I went to the bathroom at night :P), I've injured my knee, tore a tendon in my shoulder, was bit to the bone in my finger by a horse, but for some reason I don't cry or even mind much about physical pain. I sometimes don't even say ow.

However I don't think it's at all shaming to cry if you have to! While I this high pain tolerance I cry very easily when reading or watching a sad story, even if it's only fiction, I just can't help it. I tried for a long time to control myself and I'll still try not to really bawl when I'm reading on the train, in Western society we're all so reserved and people think it's weird for adults to cry (I'm in Europe but lived in the US for some time too). It makes other people uncomfortable but I wonder if we're doing ourselves any good cropping it up? Maybe we should care less about what people think, and just cry when we feel the need. :)

Answer 3

I feel for you...I fell off a ladder 2 years ago while 4 ft up and fell on my left knee..broke the knee and the left leg. I have given birth 5 times and nothing has ever hurt me as bad as that break. I am still going through therapy, now for the 2nd time. Leg and knee still hurt. I cried harder the day I fell than I think I ever had. Nothing to worry about with crying...Good for the Soul sometimes. You should not feel ashamed for crying.

Answer 4

It was actually last year for me. I was 32. My kneecap slipped out of place and ended up on the side of my knee while I was kickboxing and I was out of commission for about 3 1/2 months. I tried driving a car since it was my left knee, but even keeping it bent at that very small angle while driving was excruciating. Every move sent pains shooting up and down my leg. So after months of rest and physical therapy I was finally able to walk without the assistance of crutches. I felt so helpless at times having to have everyone cart me around like an invalid.

Answer 5

I was walking up my CONCRETE stairs leading up to my condo when my flip flops caught the edge of the last step & I fell hitting my mouth on the concrete. First, I was in shock and then when I saw the look on my husband's face - - it was over! I started to cry and wail . . . and then hyperventilating! My tongue & lips were gushing blood!!! It was horrifying! My husband could care less that I was crying, he was more worried that I was hyperventilating. At least my teeth were still intack!!!

And let's not forget the time I tried to learn tennis from my husband. We were playing doubles and I was in front of him. Apparently his aim was off (or I was not paying attention) and he sent a 70 mph tennis ball at my chest! Here I am, 27 years old, the tough-big-sister, crying like a baby at the tennis courts full of men (boys)! Let's just say, my husband ended up buying me a beautiful new Coach handbag! I guess I should cry more often!

Answer 6

Sorry if this feels like i'm being choosy.yet.....i do no longer cry "for" actual soreness, as you place, yet i cry "because of the fact of" the soreness, lol. I go through badly with fibromyalgia, sciatica and torn ligament on the backside of my lower back. i'm in soreness daily, yet some days are insufferable. After 17 years of this I even have become used to it, and my tolerance to soreness is quite severe, yet there are days whilst even lifting a cuppa is only too a lot for me, or only shifting my legs or attempting to stand. in case you may think of being hit with sledgehammers, and having a crimson warm sharp poker shoved in the direction of the backside of your lower back..thats how i describe my soreness whilst it quite flares up. The final time i cried because of the fact of it grew to become into around 4 days in the past.

Answer 7

Last night I have a slow digestive track takes 2 day for food to get to stomach I cry from the pain

Answer 8

I cried at Christmas with the pain in my shoulders and arms.
I have a bulge on a disc at the top of my spine, and it is causing inflammation in the tendons and nerves in both shoulders.
It was so bad, I couldn't sleep, couldn't drive, couldn't raise my arms even slightly in the shower to wash myself. I heard my self cry out in pain with any movement; and I became so exhausted with lack of sleep that I wept with pain.

Answer 9

it was just before xmas - my little boy knocked a glass bowl onto the kitchen floor whilst we were making biscuits. it smashed into lots of pieces. i managed to get him safely into another room, and i set about picking up all the pieces. i thought i'd got them all, and i even vacuumed the floor, but as i stepped back to look at the floor, i felt a piece of glass go deep into the bottom of my right foot. it hurt like hell, and bled loads. i had to get it all cleaned up & bandaged.. it hurt for about a month after, and i'm now left with a 2 inch 'C' shaped scar in the middle part of the sole of my right foot. oww !! the only pain that was worse than that was when i gave birth to a 9lb baby boy a couple of years ago. . that was pure torture....

Answer 10

When I was about 14, I had a 10 ton truck loaded with hay that ran over my toes

My DR, Uncle said that was one of the most painful wounds you can have