How painful is a gunshot?
I was a victim of an assault when I got shot. I was living in Philadelphia at the time. I will reserve that story for another day. But to answer your question... it depends on the time frame after the incident and location. My wound was to the fleshy part of my right calf. What I experienced was this...At first there was no pain at all... I was more scared of the having a gun pointed and fired at me - oh... and running for my life was foremost in my mind. I felt there was something wrong down there as I sped down the street. Five minutes later when I felt safer, I noticed a numb kind of sensation with a "tightness" that one would feel after a workout. "Hmph.... I am bleeding... I must have gotten hit. Better find a cab and get to the hospital.", was all I thought of at the time. I began limping to find a pay phone - but the cops were already nearby and took me to the hospital in the back of the squad car. Shock is a great anesthesia. When I finally got to the emergency room, that was when the worst of the pain started. I experienced a burning pain that would ebb (annoying) and flow (excruciating - almost passed out a few times). This went on until I was given a painkiller. The bullet went straight thru the calf and exited - so I did not need surgery - just a lot of fluids and antibiotics. I was in the hospital for three days. Mainly to watch for an infection. Daytime was not painful... Nights I needed one small dose of Percoset. The next two weeks at home the pain was manageable.... mostly it was just swelling and blood flow to the area that was the cause of it. Tylenol was all I needed. Keeping the leg elevated mitigated much of the pain. But when I stood up and the blood flowed to the lower leg area - WOWZA! But it was the mental trauma that lasted for months. Loud noises, crowds, etc would make my head hurt. Reliving the event in my head before going to sleep was the worst... it took a long time for that to stop. But eventually it did - especially when I uttered words I never thought come out of my mouth and followed up on them : "I am leaving here and moving to New York City where it's safe!"Hope that helps.
How badly does being shot in the knee hurt?
"Have you ever been shot in the knee? If so, how bad did it hurt?"Oddly enough, I can answer this question.It was a negligent discharge from the Marine next to me, seconds after I informed him that he should point the barrel of his M16A2 away from me and keep trigger discipline.-"Sorry, ma'am, won’t happen aga..." BLAM!The detonation made everybody jump, even me. When I went to take a steadying step, my leg failed to respond and I fell down; the bullet had passed right through my left knee, shattering my patella and pulling apart the ligaments of the knee joint.To be truthful, at the moment, I was unaware that I'd been shot; the shock was such that I was more concerned with the scrapes on my hand and elbow when I fell. After a minute or so with several US Marines (God bless 'em!) immediately tending to the injury, I started feeling what I can only describe as a "hollow burning" coming from the whole leg... except the foot, which felt cold... not numb, just cold, like when you put on leather shoes with no socks.As I was being loaded into the ambulance, the pain evolved; you know how it is when you are sitting in a very uncomfortable position for a long time — without your legs getting numb? You want to desperately straighten your leg, but you can't. Well, it was just like that; it felt like my leg was being bent backwards to the point where it would break if any more pressure is applied, but I could see clearly that my leg was straight.After that... Well, military-grade painkillers are pretty darn good.Recovery was one cast-iron bitch; I needed three surgeries and years of therapy, got a replacement knee (which is a ton of fun every time I have to go through a metal detector), and one leg nearly two inches shorter than the other. My weather-detecting knee rivals NOAA's predictions, and I get to use canes as fashion accessories for the rest of my life.Needless to say, that was the end of my military career.Update:For those wondering, the Marine in question was not discharged; he got a permanent mark on his record, underwent corrective training, then went on to serve honorably in the first Desert Storm, receiving an honorable discharge soon after, meaning that after the incident, he was an exemplary Marine.Also, for the record, I was in the US Navy at the time, not the USMC.
Does gunshot on nose piercing hurt badly?
I would definitely not recommend getting your nostril pierced with a gun. Piercing guns were intended to be used for lobe piercings, not cartilage. Guns can shatter your cartilage and cause healing problems, especially if the jewelry used is an earring with a tight-fitting back. Earrings were meant for ears and can prevent you from properly cleaning your nostril piercing. I would definitely recommend finding a professional piercer to do your nostril piercing with a piercing needle. If you get your nose professionally done, it will heal better and the piercer will be able to tell you the best aftercare procedures to follow. Most of the time, piercers don't numb the body part to be pierced because there isn't a significant amount of pain. Also, the professional piercer will be so quick with the needle, you will have little need for a numbing agent. Best of luck! Peace ☮
Is numbing pain and loss of feeling at times bad for an old gunshot wound that is more than a couple years, with .25 caliber bullet still placed in the leg?
Some people are able to live for the rest of their lives with pieces of metal inside of them. However, there is a chance that those fragments can shift, and cause further complications.I strongly advise for you to consult with a medical professional regarding this. Worse case scenario if this is left untreated would be a complete blockage of circulation in your leg, followed by an amputation. Best case scenario, you get a prescription for painkillers. I’d get it checked out, just in case.
Health: Can legs heal up after a gunshot wound?
A gun shot wound to the leg can be relatively harmless when it goes through muscle tissue, but leaves arteries, veins, nerves and bones alone. Unfortunately this is not always the case.Injury to artery: If a major artery is shot, there is profuse bleeding and if the artery is not compressed, the patient can bleed to death rapidly. This needs to be attended to in a trauma hospital right away so that the rest of the leg below the artery does not die off. If the artery is chewed up from the gunshot injury, a piece of artificial artery, called Dacron artery has to be sown in between the two ends. Jornal Vascular Brasileiro.Injury to nerve: Gunshot wound injuries can be devastating. This book chapter reviews these type of injuries. https://books.google.com/books?i.... There is the initial aspect of paralysis of any muscle further down from the nerve injury. But then there is the aspect of chronic pain. Despite surgical reattachment of a severed nerve, there is mostly no satisfactory resolution of the pain symptoms. These direct nerve injuries are often followed by a chronic pain syndrome called complex regional pain syndrome type 2 (CRPS 2). Complex regional pain syndrome. This often leads to muscle wasting and muscle stiffening (contractures). The circulation can also be affected and there is excruciating pain, often in the whole affected limb. This is one of the areas in medicine for which no good remedy has been invented yet.Injury to bones: Bone fractures in association with gun shot wounds are common. When the fractures are complicated as displayed in the image below, the varies bone pieces can be over bridged with metal rods. They will heal into one pice within 6 to 8 weeks.Infections: As gunshot wounds displace surface bacteria from the skin into the body, there can be significant infections following such injuries. Surgical drains are used following surgery so that infected secretions are drained. Secondly intravenous and oral antibiotics are used following the injury until the physician is convinced that any infection has been eradicated.ConclusionGunshot wounds can be complicated. As long as arterial injuries, bone injuries and nerve injuries are attended to and infection is prevented with antibiotics everything can heal up satisfactorily. The only problem may be a chronic pain syndrome from a nerve injury that may leave the patient in pain and with leg weakness for years to come.
What does it feel like to be shot?
It depends a) where you’re shot, b) what you’ve been shot with, and c) how you’ve been shot.I drove cab for over 25 years, and was once shot in the abdomen with a .45 snub-nose revolver. I was stabbed in various places a number of times with different implements, too, but that’s another story.It was like being punched in the gut by a huge motherfucker and having the wind knocked out of you for a solid month. There was something purplish hanging out of my belly, which turned out to be part of my liver. The bullet was a hollowpoint and had done a lot of damage- just about blew my liver out.The pain was excruciating and unbelievable. I just wanted to die and get it over with. I was told later that I was very lucky, because the bottom of my liver had been blown out but would grow back. A few inches higher, the doctors told me, and that would have been it.To make matters worse, after getting several doses of morphine, it was discovered that I was allergic. It wasn’t killing the pain, and it was giving me a red rash, making me itch all over. Whee.The doctor switched me to Demerol, and that’s about the last thing I remember from that night.The following months were a Demerol-induced haze in which people came to visit me in hospital, but I was too out of it to remember. I was hooked up to an automatic painkiller gizmo that allowed me to self-medicate up to a point.When the pain started subsiding, my belly where I’d been shot started to cramp, which led to more excruciating pain. I had a belly full of staples where I’d been opened up in order to retrieve pieces of bullet. My stomach felt really strange, and the reason turned out to be that the doctors had cut my stomach in half to get it out of the way when they were doing surgery on my liver. My gall bladder was gone, and my pancreas was a mess, resulting in diabetes.Bottom line? Don’t try this at home, kids.
Is it really a good idea to pour vodka into a gunshot wound?
Yes, alcohol has been used as medicine for centuries. Whiskey was actually first made by pharmacists and monks for medical uses, and the origin of "whiskey" means "water of life". I know you were talking about vodka, but it would have the exact same effect. Alcohol has antiseptic properties (numbing) when drank, and antibiotic properties when applied topically to an open wound. This helps keep something like a gunshot wound from becoming infected. So take a bullet, then take a shot, then pour a shot of whiskey on your wound to make you all better! Just make sure you get to your neighborhood gang doctor to have that bullet pulled out of your body, otherwise you could die from metal poisoning a few days later!
Can a gunshot to the shoulder knock you unconscious?
Gunshot wounds don’t generally “knock you unconscious”, unless you are hit on the head, or you bang your head on something on the way down. Blood loss may eventually make you pass out. For that matter, people don’t usually fall down when they are shot, unless they were hit in the central nervous system or a leg bone was broken. The most common reaction to being shot is no reaction at all - the victim goes on doing whatever he was doing before, at least in the short term.Gunshot wounds are unpredictable, because they tend to do a lot of damage in a small area. If that area doesn’t contain anything vital, you luck out, and it just bleeds and hurts. If it does contain something vital, you are out of luck.The shoulder contains a lot of muscle, so if only muscle was hit it could be a survivable, or even not too serious wound. I’ve heard of bullets going through muscle only where the victim was given a bandaid on the entry and exit holes, a bottle of antibiotics, and sent on his way. Which brings up another point, gunshot wounds are usually contaminated, so life-threatening infections are likely if untreated.The shoulder also contains bones, blood vessels, and nerves, which would be very serious if hit. The victim might bleed out and die quickly if the major artery feeding the arm was severed. The big bones could be shattered, meaning a major operation to put them back together. If the main nerve controlling the arm were severed, the arm would be numb and useless - that might be fixable with surgery, or might not. Major surgery like this takes months to recover from, and recovery may never be complete.
Do you feel pain if you get shot in the head?
I'm really sorry to hear about your dad. I think the pain he felt in his heart and soul were far worse than the pain of the bullet. Theoretically, the bullet kills you before the pain receptors register the pain. Beyond hoping that i answered your question; I hope you find a way to forgive your dad and move on with the living you have left to enjoy.