What is more painful then it has a right to be?

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I have cerebral palsy with weakness on the right and have plenty of injuries on that side including broken bones. The pain is bad but definitely manageable. I must have banged my left leg, nothing serious some time yesterday and oh god the pain... felt like my right pain broken hip.

When I broke my right hip the doctor couldn’t believe it was broken or I’d be crying with pain - now I understand what she meant if a slight bang hurts this bad.

My less serious answer is paper cuts - how can such a tiny cut hurt like that?

I had a paronychia on my thumb nail and actually passed out from the pain when my mum gently touched my thumb. The whole digit was so swollen, I've never felt pain like it.

I personally would have changed the positions of unprepared childbirth and a fracture. I fainted with the pain when I had a fracture and it was definitely worse for me than childbirth.

I fractured my coccyx while going through childbirth - that smarted a bit!

The wind was in my shoulder and I was sick it was so bad.
Yes! I was totally unprepared for this, so bad.

After pains. There is no preparation for them; the pain caused by the lack of empathy from midwifery staff challenges the pain itself at a vulnerable time.
Agreed. I was told to suck it up as they were just natural. A kindly nurse told me to tell the dr I had a migraine instead - and lo and behold I was given pain killers.

Stubbing little toe on the corner of a door

Spots in ear or eyebrow. Ouch!

More serious one - cauda equina from a herniated disc. I was on diazepam, max dose dihydrocodiene, naproxen, paracetamol and morphine and I was grey with pain. Told a&e to cut my leg off. Was a relief when I lost all feeling in my leg

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When the skin cracks on the edge of your mouth and resolute every time you open it too wide.
I hate this. I get dry cracked lips when I have a cold and every time I eat they get worse

You want this, I know it's for nipples but
incredible for lips!

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When you manage to trap your toes under a door as you open it. Ow!

Stubbing your toe or getting knots in your hair.

@Imnotbent

Oh *@CutieBear* I feel your pain my period pains used to have me on my knees I felt like I was in labour. I used to bleed big clots and my gynaecologist said my cervix was dilating to pass them. The Mirena coil stopped all of that thankfully.

Hope you feel better soon.

Thank you ❤️

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

I once came out of a door, I didn't see there was ice and my legs went from under me, I landed on my fore arm on the threshold, one of those raised ones. I have no idea how my wrist didn't break and I watched the bruise develop in seconds to my entire forearm.

It was nothing compared to arthritis.

The zingers from frozen shoulder

Yes - hideous.

Not sure where the person researched to establish their 'pain scale' but they didn't do a particularly good job... 'fracture' and 'sprain' cover a range of conditions. Pain is very subjective anyway. A condition that is agony to one person can be very different for another - just because of their sensory situation, not because they are braver.

Kneeling on Lego.
Standing on an upturned plug.
Knocking your ankle burn.
A paper cut on your tongue or lip from licking an envelope.
Squeezing a spot on the edge of your lip.
Plucking a stubborn nostril hair.
Upper-lip threading.

Knocking your ankle bone not burn

Anyone who thinks that pain from arthritis is minimal should experience it - waking up because you are in so much pain isn't fun.
For me, having local anaesthetic injected into the palm of my hand is up there. Luckily, I had already given birth (very long, painful labour). The breathing techniques came in handy. If I ever did it again I'd ask for gas and air.

Calcium deposits in your shoulder tendons. Even though they are tiny, the pain is excruciating. I had this for over 6 months before I got it treated privately (insurance). The relief!! My sister has had it for nearly a year and can't get it treated through the NHS as 'it will go away in another year or so'. She takes a mega painkiller daily.

Here are some of mine:
A large mouth ulcer in the crease at the front of the lower lip
Treading on a plug bear foot
Falling hard on your coccyx
Steroid injections when pregnant in the thigh
A pulled muscle around the ribcage because every breath is agony
Migraine - you can almost see and taste pure pain

Plantar Fasciitis is pretty bad too. Like walking on red hot sharp needles. It does go away after a week or so though.

The English house buying process

Anal fissures. Can't even comfort to reduce the pain as it makes it worse.

A decade of them dominated my life and I still have to be so careful with food.

@Violetroselily

I had a paronychia on my thumb nail and actually passed out from the pain when my mum gently touched my thumb. The whole digit was so swollen, I've never felt pain like it.

Oooh paronychia is awful. I most recently had it just after Christmas and my nail has only just grown back fully. I still can't get my ring back on because the skin around my nail is too swollen. Also, any pain from a foot blister can be unbearable.

A thread like this makes me thankful for all the illnesses I haven’t had. I’ve been very lucky not to endure severe pain except for a few days.

Hangnails
Nipple vasospasm

Fucking haemorrhoids.

Kidney stones! Evil little fuckers

@JesusWearsPrada - sorry, can't help - I only ever get it from the position I'm sitting in and it goes away in the normal timescale.

(I didn't even realise you could get pins-and-needles there...)

Dropping a fork on your toes...