3. What is the most pain you've ever been in and what caused it?

What is the most pain you've ever been in and what caused it?

When I was 17 I had a spontaneous lung collapse. That alone was the worst pain of my life up to that point, but it wasn't the worst part of it all.

It wasn't healing very well on its own, so I had to have this small surgery where they put some kind of fluid between my lung and chest. The way I understood it was that the fluid would intentionally damage the wall outside of my lung so that when the lung would heal, it would attach together so it doesn't happen again.

The surgery went smoothly. The whole thing seemed like it was done within 20 minutes. I was awake through it, but they gave me enough medication that I really didn't care what was happening.

They finished up and then I was sent back to my room. Around the time I sat in my bed I started to notice the meds were starting to wear off, so I let the nurse know. She said they would get me something to help soon so I tried to just go to sleep. Soon the pain started to get worse and worse, and I realized that there was no way I was getting to sleep like that.

Fast forward ~20 minutes and the nurse came in and told me that they couldn't get a hold of my doctor, and that they couldn't give me any pain medication until they had the ok from him...

By this time the stuff from surgery had pretty much completely worn off, and the pain was horrible. It hurt so badly just to breathe, and I started to have a really bad panic attack because I felt like I wasn't getting enough air. The only way I can describe it is that it felt like I was getting stabbed in the chest every time I took even the tiniest breath in or out. If I had the option to kill myself right then I would have done it without a second thought, but I couldn't even breathe let alone move. This went on for nearly 2 hours before they finally gave me something.

Then afterwards I got addicted to Oxycodone and dropped out of high school and have never been the same since.

TL;DR- I had surgery and couldn't get any pain medication for hours afterwards. I wanted to kill myself but couldn't. Ended up getting addicted to opiates and died inside anyways.

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