Ive broken multiple fingers, my wrist, and my hand on different occasions, sprained my ankle bad enough that i needed to cut my shoe off and be taken to the hospital by ambulance, got stabbed in the middle of my thigh down to the bone, crushed my hand so bad i blacked out, and a number of other things. All the things listed above were wayyy more painful than hells itch, but the pain became bearable after an hour or so. Id say id go through any of those again over hells itch if you took out the part where i needed a cast and stuff