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Baddogma
But, ironically, the one that really scared me was the pain one feels when stopping pain killers, or opiates, suddenly... no way to describe that accurately. One's body AND brain is screaming, uncomfortable and sick every unbearable moment. You're sweating, puking, gagging and having cramped spasms while being painfully awake for days and time seems to stop.
I was on them for the burns and boy, I will never look down on addicts ... I never want to experience that again. Be careful kids! Just because a doc prescribes them, doesn't mean you can't get addicted.
The pain of cluster headaches is remarkably greater than in other headache conditions, including severe migraine. The term "Headache" does not adequately convey the severity of the condition; experts have suggested that the disease may be the most painful condition known to medical science. Female patients have reported cluster headache pain as being more severe than childbirth.[8] Peter Goadsby, a neurologist and headache specialist at the University of California, San Francisco, has commented:
"Cluster headache is probably the worst pain that humans experience. I know that's quite a strong remark to make, but if you ask a cluster headache patient if they've had a worse experience, they'll universally say they haven't. ... Women with cluster headache will tell you that an attack is worse than giving birth. So you can imagine that these people give birth without anaesthetic once or twice a day, for six, eight or ten weeks at a time, and then have a break
Hellas
I'm a pretty big man and I've had some broken bones etc, too. But my Kidney stone was something I can't even put in words.. I thought I was going to die