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

[Hospitalexpert]

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?

Cystitis

standing on lego/duplo 3-pin plug, AGONY

The worst mouth ulcers are the ones on the very tip of your tongue. Everything I do hurts when I have one of those, eating, talking, just keeping my mouth shut.

I also sometimes get a tiny, fluid-filled ulcer on my eyelid, on the rim of it between the eyelashes and the bit that moves over the eye (I've no idea what that bit is called. That is painless, until I blink when it's really painful. Unfortunately I have to blink.

Dealing with anyone health care / social care related when you have a relative with dementia

The mentions of trapped wind remind me of nurse training because a fellow student was very dismissive of patients that complained of this inc one chap who'd honestly thought he was having a heart attack bless him (this is quite common), I have suffered with it myself frequently since I was a young child, until...said student got trapped wind one late night themselves!

They were CERTAIN it was appendicitis or something similarly serious and kept dismissing my advice to chug a can of Coke to bring on a big burp, eventually I think a mix of desperation and also hoping to prove me wrong they did what I said, cue HUGE burp followed by several gradually smaller ones and a look of astonished relief on his face. He was much more sympathetic to other sufferers after that and even managed to calm an angry patient who was annoyed they felt their trapped wind pain (which again they though was something more serious) was being minimised and mocked, by saying to them they used to think similarly until they suffered it themselves and assuring them we weren't mocking, we understood that such severe and distressing pain can be caused by something considered "minor"

I also suffer from migraine regularly which my ex used to think I "milked"...until during a bout of flu he got one! He honestly thought he had encephalitis or something and wouldn't listen when I said it was very likely a migraine from what he was describing and said he should take one of my (otc) migraine tablets just until he could get to a dr to get prescription ones. He tipped up at the (army - not the best bedside manner) drs who literally eye rolled at him and prescribed the migraine meds. Again his experience made him more sympathetic to me regarding mine. I got them monthly at that point as part of period crap and he was like "I really couldn't cope with that shit every bloody month! I don't know how you do it!" (He was curled up in a ball wailing whereas I cracked on and went to work etc while I had mine, no choice)

Planta facilitis so painful, but gallstones was another level my heart goes out to people in constant pain.

@Wiglio

Scratched cornea the devils agony

I've had that, courtesy of my baby dd. Hideous.

Lemon juice in a cut.

A local anesthetic into the palm of your hand. It was agonising.. the doctor even warned me it would hurt. Normally its just "you'll feel a little scratch" or " this may be a bit uncomfortable" but this time he actually apologised in advance!

Second, third and fourth gall stones.
I would pass out and throw up with the pain, my dad had a heart attack and said gall stone pain was so much worse.

Post natal trapped wind. Honestly, similarly painful to contractions.

Kidney stones, I never got how they could be that painful until I got them!

Burns. I put an ovenproof frying pan in the oven and when I came to take it out I absentmindedly grabbed the handle as if it was cold instead of scalding hot. The pain was excruciating and I had to go to bed with my hand in a tub of frozen peas that night. No blisters, luckily. It was agony!

Jaxhog, I totally agree! I too have had a calcium deposit in my tendon (shoulder) and almost passed out with the pain on several occasions, it’s like nothing I have ever experienced! Even a gallstones attack doesn’t compare

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*

So true. With having endo I was dreading labour and birth as I figured with the condition it would be even worse than my period and ovulation pain, in fact I barely noticed the labour. At points the midwives were telling me when I was having a contraction based on monitor readings and I hadn't even noticed! The difficulty I had was it went on so long I was knackered! Ended up in emcs at end as baby and I were both in trouble medically for different reasons. So I don't know what birth would have been like for me. Midwives were similarly surprised how little affected I was by pain from section I didn't hardly notice that. But that may have been due to pain from the condition that put me in trouble being worse/more noticeable to me? Kinda like when you stub a toe if you slap your teeth thigh it hurts a bit less temporarily?

Gallstones. Horrendous.

On trivial scale, dropping anything onto a nail or trapping it. Trapped my thumb last week in front of a class between arm of desk chair and underside of desk and it took a lot of strength not to swear. Not mark though....but it hurt like a b'stard.

Cutting a fingernail too short. Mouth ulcers. Ingrown hairs.

A particular form of medical intervention, having an incision in your chest wall and a tube inserted into the lung cavity to aspirate the space when there is a collapsed lung, usually done under local anaesthetic, is apparently one of the more painful procedures and akin to being poked in the side by a wire coat hanger repeatedly.

I don't buy that pain scale either. Arthritis is bloody horrible, and where is the evil frozen shoulder, eh? It wasn't until I started getting zingers that I understood why people might spontaneously burst out swearing in the street with no apparent provocation.

Agreed on the ruptured ovarian cyst! I was curled up on the floor in a little ball and the paramedics had to get me into a wheelchair somehow.
Add to that egg collection for IVF (sedation wore off) and the gynae using forceps to pull clots out of your cervix because you’re haemorrhaging during a miscarriage - whoever said you don’t have many nerve endings up there must have been a man. I’ve never had much issue with smears but thoroughly sympathise with anyone who does if it feels like that 🤢

I've also had a scratched cornea. Miserable experience. A large piece of grit flew up in a strong wind and hit me in the eye. It was so painful my legs gave way, my other eye closed up in sympathy and it was about 24 hours before I could open either of them again except briefly when a doctor put some anaesthetic drops in and managed to prise it open long enough to check there was nothing left in there. ( The nurse who tried to force it open in triage was far from my favourite person!) I had to take a taxi home completely blinded and we stopped twice on the way so I could be sick. Probably the morphine.

That’s interesting OP as my DD has right sided hemiplegia and I’ve noticed she seems less sensitive to pain but hadn’t noticed it being different one side or the other.

I will add to the list: ear infections.

@minipie

That’s interesting OP as my DD has right sided hemiplegia and I’ve noticed she seems less sensitive to pain but hadn’t noticed it being different one side or the other.

I will add to the list: ear infections.

I had a physio who wanted to test the difference. I was about 9. She checked the radiator to see if it was hot - I saw her and knew it was safe. She wanted me to use my right hand to see how long it would take to feel the heat sensation but I just refused. I know my right side isn’t as sensitive and I’d never do it.

DrMadeline....my mum has this - controlled by carbemazipine - good god the pain she was in, absolutely vile - the meds have caused other health issues, gp has suggested she reduces the dose - not a bloody chance

Definitely kidney stones. I had a tiny one but the pain was unbearable and so bad that I made me physically sick. I was rolling around in absolute agony and nothing helped until I got pain killers in A&E. I'm dreading it happening again.

@QueenPaw

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

When I had a cauda equina, I remember thinking how glad I was that I didn’t live in America or anywhere with way across to guns because I was in such relentless and absolute agony, that if I had a gun in the house, I would have killed myself.

The pain of contractions, broken bones, deep cuts has all faded but I will never ever forget the cauda equina pain. Utter misery.

Getting a Covid test.
I was in hospital and had MRI,echo lumbar puncture.
The nurse came and I had my Covid test.That made me cry,it fucking hurt.

Earaches,I just want to rip my ear off the pain does be that bad.