For my birthday, I got a tattoo, on my back. Three hours of discomfort that paid off well. At that time, my pain threshold was fairly low. I had to have my wisdom teeth out last year and needed to wait five days for the surgery. Those five days were pretty horrible.

But this past September, I broke my leg. The pain wasn't too bad, but merely constant. The exception was when the nerve block from the surgery (7 inch titanium plate and 11 screws ftw!) wore off, I was in tears, and am not ashamed to admit it. At the time, I was fairly miffed that they didn't give me something more fast-acting, but that could have been the pain, I don't know.