The 8 worst pain that humans suffer

Throughout hundreds of thousands of years of evolution and natural selection, the human organism has been polishing various ways to avoid dangerous situations.

One of them is something as basic as the development of pain receptors, or nociceptors, which are spread over many areas of our body, especially near our skin, which is the area where avoidable threats appear most frequently.

Of course, looking at everything from a certain perspective, pain, more than a useful tool, can be an ordeal... literally. There are many situations that produce so much pain that for a certain time they completely invade all emotional processes and cognitive factors that are occurring in our mind and cause all our attention to shift towards intense suffering, without us avoid.

The 8 worst and most intense pains

Then You can see the 8 great representatives of those situations in which pain is taken to the limit.

1. Trigeminal neuralgia

An alteration of the nervous system that affects the trigeminal ganglion, which communicates with one of the large brain nerves

. That is why when it appears, the pain spreads to areas of the head: the scalp, lips, eyes and nose.

2. Kidney stones (renal colic)

Pieces of petrified minerals slowly crawling through small urinary ducts and tearing parts of tissues in its wake. Not only the injured part hurts, but all the adjacent areas, which become inflamed. Anyone who has suffered it knows that it is one of the most unbearable pains.

3. Broken bones

Bones are the basic structure of our body, and therefore a relatively simple injury to them can have catastrophic consequences for our chances of survival.

Or at least this is what happened until thousands of years ago, when there were no ways to splinting a part of the body with the broken bone and such an injury easily led to death. Today you can easily survive such an injury, but our body has not yet adapted to this new reality.This is why the pain receptors in the bones and surrounding areas continue to haunt us when we have such an accident.

3. Migraines

A migraine is not just a headache, it is a layer of intense pain and "pins and needles" or "cramps" that takes over a large portion of the head. In addition, migraines do not allow you to think or see clearly, so the discomfort is multiplied when seeing how such basic aspects of our identity and our mental capacities are limited temporarily. It is this set of discomforts that makes a migraine painful.

4. Endodontics

The mouth is an area of ​​the body full of sensory cells of all kinds. And, of course, pain receptors are also very present on both the tongue and the gums.

This is why pulling or drilling molars, especially large and broad-based molars (such as a wisdom tooth) can be an ordeal. if anesthesia is not used well. Fortunately, under anesthesia it is a very uncomfortable but bearable experience. We have to thank medicine that we can undergo surgery without going through a real ordeal.

5. Gallstones

Similar to what happens with renal colic, gallstones, which are small stone-like objects crawl through the bile ducts, in cases where they are so large that they completely obstruct these ducts. A very painful and strenuous experience.

6. Herniated disc

When a part of the chains of neurons that travel along the spinal column are pinched by a vertebra slightly out of place, a herniated disc appears. What injuries directly affect neural fibers that quickly carry information to the brain, the pain is very intense and sharp. To top it all, they are injuries that can continue for weeks or even months.

7. Burn

A burn involves an injury to a region over a wide area of ​​the skin in which all pain receptors have been activated practically at the same time. In addition, as it can leave the skin damaged forever, poor healing can leave very painful sequelae.

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8. Injuries or micro-injuries to the testicles

This is one of the most intense forms of pain that can appear after minor accidents. A slight blow in this area of ​​the male anatomy is capable of knocking out to any man for more than a minute, although the pain usually appears a few seconds late.

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