Seconding ingrown toenails!
I have endo, I've had an ovarian torsion, a nearly 30 hour labour, impacted wisdom teeth but THIS was the thing that had me in tears and unable to walk for weeks until I could get the powers that be to stop pissing about with partial avulsions and take the damn things right off and even then the first time against my wishes they insisted on doing the letting them grow back thing - total waste of time and money and prolonging of pain for me - I knew the same would happen again
I swear they should just go straight to taking them off, I've never met anyone who's truly been fine with a partial avulsion once the damn things develop.
Closely followed by a cricked neck when you wake up, one time it was so bad I actually took my (very strong) painkillers for my spinal condition all day AND wore heat patches all day.
had to go to bed with a chilled capri sun strapped onto my hand to relieve it, it was excruciating!!
Sorry you went through that but that's a genius solution!
I'm always recommending the use of chilled aloe Vera gel for Burns, scalds and cuts and grazes. Discovered kinda by accident over a bank holiday weekend trying to help my dd, she has a disability that means she is prone to trips, falls and similar types of "clumsy" accidents. She'd tripped in our "car park" outside our flat which was actually just gravel, another factor in her condition is her reactions aren't terribly speedy so didn't put her hands out in time and scraped her face skiting across the floor. Adolescent and very distressed about possible scarring (I'd taken her to a&e as she'd also sprained her shoulder and was pretty bashed up) they had cleaned her up but understandably weren't over concerned about cosmetic issues. I did some Googling (yea, I know, but I'm an ex nurse so fortunately able to sort the wheat from the chaff online) and I found several articles that mentioned the skin regeneration and scar prevention properties of aloe Vera. Popped to Holland and Barrett and picked up a tube of gel and once the wound had just started to scab over (so no risk of infection introducing the gel, cleaned and applied with clean hands/dressing swab of course) I applied it to dds scrapes. It was like a miracle treatment! Within 10 days of the accident there was absolutely no sign of any injury whatsoever AND her skin was the smoothest and clearest it's ever been! Soon after I burned myself while frying food and was struggling to keep the affected area cool and soothed, put the tube of gel in the fridge and applied whenever I changed the dressing and it was sooooo nice. Cooled it right down and kept it cool for several hours and this was during a heat wave too! I know folk on here not a fan of complementary treatments but this really worked well.
Smear tests
Yes! I get royally pissed off when here and elsewhere there are women who DON'T experience anything beyond mild discomfort with these patronisingly telling the rest of us to stop being "embarrassed" and that we MUST get them.
For some of us they are NOT just uncomfortable they're bloody painful!
A bruise hurts more than arthritis? Not quite sure I'm in agreement with that
Surely depends on the bruise? A bumped elbow from misjudging the height of a chair will cause a bruise that's not too painful, once from a bashed knee in a car crash I can assure is extremely painful