I’ll accept a brutal course of treatment or poor treatment at the hands of medical professionals for this question.
Years ago when I got a colonoscopy my doctor told me I wouldn’t feel anything but I’d be awake. I felt every. fucking. thing. And it is not pleasant.
An antipsychotic for my schizophrenia. It leaves me like a zombie. In my experience, it’s kind of a chemical lobotomy.
The treatment wasn’t even mine. When I was a kid, we had an indoor-outdoor cat that ended up with a bunch of giant, oozing, odorous, pulsating sores on its neck. Turns out there’s a fly that lays its eggs in animals’ wounds and once the maggots hatch they burrow into the skin. Really gross. It was traumatic watching the vet pry and pull the maggots out of their flesh burrows.
I hate anything that requires a local anesthetic because of how often that stuff fails to work for me. Typically after several shots of local anesthetic, the doctor will say “it’s not safe to give you anymore”, either we stop here or we keep going but it’s going to hurt and there’s nothing they can do about it.
I’ve had my whole arm numbed up except the spot that needed to be stitched, granted the needles they used to inject the anesthetic were more painful than the needle they used to do the stitching. Another time I had to endure the pain of getting a wound cut open and the doctor digging around inside it with a scalpel trying to fish out debris or something.
Wisdom teeth. Sure I was knocked out but after the sedatives and stuff wore off I had nothing for the pain. They said I could return to work the next day, is that supposed to be a joke?
I had two removed. local anesthetic only. I was not knocked out.
I drove myself to work directly from surgery and worked a 12 hour shift in a 100° factory with only regular Tylenol to soothe the pain.
why? because I’m American. and no, that was not a statement made with pride.
Not the worst medical treatment perhaps, but horrible when I found out how many women this happens to. Both the insertion and removal of my iud were done with no painkillers except the ibuprofen I decided to take an hour before my appointment. Going in, I nearly fainted from the pain. The gyno casually laid me down for a while and told me it happens every other day that someone faints. I was in bed for a day afterwards from terrible pain and cramps. Then, for the removal, the wire has disappeared so she had to go “find it”. I was crying and could barely hold my legs still. Why the hell this procedure is still done without warning and options for better pain relief I have no idea.
If you ever need to get your uterus inflated for specific ultrasounds…
Buckle up. They do that without anesthetic, too! Even when you ask for it! (Same with iud insertion. I asked for stuff for both and they said no it’s fine - not fine, trust me - you insist, or you walk, don’t fuck with this one)
It puts the iud insertion to shame, its so insanely painful. They use saline, just small amounts through a syringe (like 5cc tops) to separate the walls of the uterus for the sake of imaging, and lemme tell you, the uterus doesn’t like volume changes, no ma’am, aveacreans about being moved. So it seizes up hardcore and gives you shooting pain from deep in your abdomen that goes into your limbs, very much feels like being stabbed repeatedly. And they do this multiple times over the course of entirely too long . It took almost an hour for mine, and i did my best not to move it squirm and make it take longer.
Absolutely horrific what is done to women under the guise of healthcare. Sadistic fucks.
Ouch… I was lucky enough to get a hysteroscopie (camera in uterus) under full anesthetics. Read in an article that most women undergo that without pain relief too. Absolutely ridiculous.
Wife had a similarly terrible experience, and not that it holds a candle to yours and hers, but it was awful for me, too: Sexual intercourse was a guaranteed needle-stabbing-into-the-tip-of-my-dick situation, every time, and when it was brought up with the OBGYN, she dismissively said I was just “bragging about my size.” I was not. No action was ever taken, right up until I got a vasectomy and she had the IUD removed.
I’m sorry that you, and she, and so many others have had to endure what you have endured. I think these IUD’s need to go back to the drawing board, and on a larger scale, that there needs to be some major cultural shift to how male contraception is approached. This could be so much easier for everyone, if religion and money would get out of the way of science.
guaranteed needle-stabbing-into-the-tip-of-my-dick situation
Oh man and I had that problem too. Obgyn was also just as bararic with inserting and removing the IUD, and they didnt believe that we had this problem during sex. I can’t make sense of it.
Dude - if this happens again - I always tucked the string around my cervix. Like so the pointy end was pointing back up inside me. I never felt it once it was settled and it didn’t stab my partner. The doctors will say “I can cut it shorter” but that’s a bad answer, what happens then when they go to remove it? And it’s still stabby but then you can’t tuck it around.
IUD is great when it works - safer than tying tubes or vasectomy AND it’s reversible.
And WTF? Aren’t most women like 4-5 inches long inside? I’m tall and presumably have a little more length in there but have gotten cervix punch by average guys just a bad angle.
I appreciate the pro-tip! I’m fixed now and she’s had the IUD removed, so hopefully someone else in our position finds this info, because I think it would have really helped us.
Birth control is such a mess, and it seems like there are better ways that are kept from us, as if those in control would prefer we all be breeding for some reason…
Not me but my ex had her iud puncture her uterus and it took repeated doctor visits before her pain was taken seriously…
It blows my mind that they don’t do any kind of anesthesia for that.
Treatment for head and neck cancer. Surgery (not so bad), Chemo and Daily radiation. The chemo was rough, and the anti nausea pill did nothing. Radiation starts out fine, but half way through the sunburn inside your throat is horrible, and the combo of chemo and radiation kills your salivary glands and so instead of thin saliva you just have a thick mucous like hot mozzarella cheese strings on a pizza that you can’t seem to spit out and it chokes you to swallow. Your body is so tired that 10cc of water into the Gtube feeder makes you vomit. You lose all taste, so everything is like chewing soggy cardboard.
The only positive is I no longer have to shave my neck, the beard hair there just never grew back.
I’m sorry. My nephew and his granddad have had this. Both are currently in remission. My nephew could only eat thin yogurt.
Yeah, it’s ahitty. I hope your family members stay in remission. 🙏
Thank you. I return your good wishes, with love and gratitude. 🙏❤️
I had a couple of chest tubes removed that had been in for around ten days without any sedation or numbing. They had to give them a twist to break them free. I didn’t care, two weeks in the hospital and all I wanted was to get out of there.
Lumbar puncture, hands down. They insert a needle into your lower spine to extract fluid for analysis. It was horribly painful and took them several tries to get right.
They gave me incorrect instructions. At least for my case they were incorrect. It is done sitting up. And they told me specifically not to round my back but to slump down. And they poked and prodded and just couldn’t get the needle in. Finally I rounded my back and oh wonderous thing it was suddenly much easier to get the needle in.
That was painful enough but sucking the fluid out is downright sickening. You can really feel it along your spine and in your head. Absolutely awful. I felt like passing out.
And of course they found absolutely nothing.
Yes.
In my case, the fluid shot out because it was under insane pressure and since I lost too much, I got the most horrible headache in the entire world. I was physically unable to be upright. I had to be hospitalized for a week and I wasn’t able to go home until they gave me a blood patch.
I’d rather have 3 more appendectomies and break my arm a few more times than go through that again. If anyone ever asks for a spinal tap again, I am going to tell them to suck my D.
Was going to say this. One of the most stressful procedures.
Six fucking tries too, sitting and lying. And then it didn’t flow all that well.
I envy you though that they found nothing. No such luck for me.
Hey, we’re in the same boat. While the procedure itself went fine for me, the headache afterwards was hell and I had a leakage. Though there are options to close it, they decided to wait. After a while I had to be hospitalized but still no blood patch…
The toll this shit takes on your body was understated in the info brochures. Haven’t been the same since then.They also found absolutely nothing.
This is my answer too - worst experience of my life
A doctor once gave me a month’s supply of a drug only approved for use for 10 days due to liver toxicity. I learned about the limit from a news article and stopped taking it.
I experienced no ill effects that I know of, but his malpractice put me at risk of death or lifelong complications. I learned to double-check everything myself after that.
Damn, that’s also on the pharmacist for not noticing… multiple failures there.
Dangerous. Liver and kidneys can get severly damaged by such drugs.
My grandfather had a bad case of flu. Went to the hospital and they put him on IV fluids but found out he was allergic to something. Fucked him up good and wouldn’t accept he was having issues until it was too late.
Had to traych him up so he could breathe.
Blew out his kidneys.
Basically significant organ failure. He walked into the hospital for the flu and they mistreated him, and he never walked out. Came home in a walker and a dialysis schedule and breathing out of his neck.
Took him 8 years to die after that. He was basically a corpse. Grandmother sold her business, sold their lake house, sold their classic car, all to try and pay all of the medical bills and be his full time caretaker. Just an awful situation.
I’m so sorry for what you and your family had to go through. I can empathize with the notion of being completely let down by supposed modern medical practitioners. I’ve lost someone close to me because a doctor (and her staff and associates) did not catch an error in proscribed/administered medication. At the end of the day, these vitally important systems are susceptible to human error, and it costs some people everything. I see and hear you – perhaps only because it happened to me as well; it feels like no one else could ever really know – but I do know what it’s like to feel like the only system available has utterly failed you.
We are all we have, each of us individually. I hope the best for you and those you hold dear.
The doctor who circumcised me did a total hack job at it: cut way too much off, stitched it back together asymmetrically, and, as I’ve just learned in the last few years, probably severed the dorsal nerve, too. So that’s been a lifetime of basically no sensation in my glans, never enjoying sex that much, which has contributed to a few failed relationships.
Antidepressants. They don’t help and cause tons of additional issues like brain zaps, constipation and sedation. The real awful part is the pin prick of hope that this one will work…
Antidepressant withdrawal is serious and severe. Only recently is anyone taking that seriously
I’ve quit mine once before 2 weeks of terrible brain zaps. You feel very uncomfortable living in your own brain.
Although I should probably consider getting off of mine again. What actually worked for me was getting diagnosed with ADHD so I could get my hands on Adderall. That was the drug that finally worked for me.
This was my thing too. Turns out I wasn’t necessarily depressed. I had executive functioning issues so I couldn’t start anything. Things weren’t fun because I knew I’d have to bully myself into getting started. I laid in bed all day on my days off not because I was depressed but, because of task paralysis. And turns out when life is just too hard to do anything other than the bare minimum, it can make you depressed. Who knew?!
What was the solution for you?
Being diagnosed with ADHD and starting adderall. All of a sudden I could think things AND do them. My days no longer consist of me DREADING tasks. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I enjoy doing chores or, that they’re easy to do now. But they’re possible to do now. That made a huge difference in my life.
I’ve had more painful and seen more incompetence on the medical professionals’ side, but my methacholine challenge as part of asthma diagnosis always stands out for the blatant malpractice.
I was a kid, probably range of 9-12 years old. They exposed me to something that eventually triggers an asthma reaction in anyone, just a matter of how much it takes to be considered “asthmatic”. Then they left me in the room alone while the test ran. I posted about it once as a sanity check. It’s a legitimate test, from what I’ve been able to find, just not the part when they leave an underage patient unattended to deal with the inevitable asthma attack alone.
My insurance demanded that I switch one of my medications because they had cut a deal with the other brand or something. After the first dose, I had crazy heart palpations for the better part of a week and thought I was going to die. It still took several rounds of appeals before my insurance relented and allowed me to get back on the original medication.
Of course, they dropped my coverage for it again 2 months later, so I gave up, which I guess was what my fucking for-profit scum insurance wanted anyway.
That drug wouldn’t have been called Vioxx by any chance?
No, it was a GLP-1
Ah ok, was wondering because I know that one got yanked off the shelves for causing heart issues.
Oh, interesting. It was ozempic that gave me the palpitations, which from what I understand is a somewhat uncommon reaction
Not me, but in the span of a couple weeks I had some really awful experiences with pediatricians. My middle kid was almost three when they had a horrific fever and was complaining about a stiff neck, which is a huge red flag… But the ER sent us home with the diagnosis of “neck torsion.” A few hours later we went to a different ER because they had a lump the size of a grapefruit in their neck from an infected lymph node. Required several days in the hospital to get IV antibiotics.
A couple weeks after that I gave birth to our youngest, and at her 3 day check up her doctor claimed to see sores in her mouth and was worried about herpes (despite the fact that neither me nor my spouse have any STDs) so she sent us to the ER… No one there bothered looking in her mouth until after a lumbar puncture. Then someone realized there were no sores at all, but harmless gum cysts that are extremely common in infants. They kept her overnight for monitoring and that morning a med student presented the case to her peers as a cautionary tale to verify symptoms before jumping into an LP.
