What is the most physically painful experience you've had?

A circumcision, and all the things that came after it.

Before the procedure, they put local anaesthetic and waited about 10 minutes before starting the procedure. They said it would kick in, but it didn’t. I constantly kept feeling sharp pains throughout the procedure as they cut the skin away. It got so bad that the nurse had to pin my down because I was shaking. To add to that, I fainted from sensory overload and hit my head on the wood floor, giving me a massive headache. Luckily, I only fainted for a few seconds. But the pain was so bad even after 15 minutes I was crying for an hour after we left the clinic from my spontaneous black out. I felt I wanted to die. Peeing was also the worst thing in the world, as the acidity of the pee and the pushing force of peeing caused MASSIVE pain every time I wanted to go to the toilet and don’t get me started when it dripped down from the head into the dried blood where the wound was.

To top it all off, I had to remove gauze around my dick a day after the procedure.

That may not sound that bad, but the nurse did it so incredibly tightly (to stop bleeding) that multiple strands went INTO THE SKIN in the area between the swelling and head and I was the only person that could remove them. I had to pull for such a long time that it started bleeding. And this was all the while my arms and legs were frequently getting hit by spasms because of the pain.

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