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?

@HEforHelium

The English house buying process

This is genius!

Gall stones are horrifically painful. And as a previous poster mentioned the steroid injection in the thigh when you're pregnant. It made me properly squeak. And also, I had a tumour taken off of the skin in my philtrum. The pain of having the anaesthetic in my lips was literally eye watering - cried. Felt like an absolute idiot but my god that was painful.

@Sparechange perfectly describes it. Everyone said oh cauda equina you have no bladder or bowel control and you can't walk... nope, I could! I mean I had to drag my leg behind me but I was still walking
Herniated the disc in January, operated on in May. I think I it's because it's nerve pain and it's just relentless, nothing helped except heat packs and vast amount of drugs dulled it slightly

Stepping on a tiny Lego block

Period pain.

Interstitial cystitis. I have also had period pain so bad that I was curled up on the floor of London Bridge station. Had my gallbladder out due to infection two weeks ago. Horrid.

For sheer unpleasantness though, after my daughter was born I had an endoscopy without sedation because it was urgent and I was breastfeeding. I’d rather have my gallbladder out again or give birth again.

I’ve had shingles 24 times and as a consequence suffer from post herpetic neuralgia. That pain scale is very wrong!!!

Having mirena coil fitted by GP - never again. It got stuck half way and the pain was indescribable, i was literally clawing the walls. 45 minutes it took her to get it in and then it was in the wrong place I had previously had one inserted and hadnt even realised it was done.

Gallstones worse pain ever. Childbirth was a breeze to both of the above.

I have a genetic predisposition to form kidney stones, inherited from my mother. (Thanks mum!)

Over the past twenty years I’ve had many, many episodes of renal colic when a stone starts moving.

The first time it happened, I was at work and my PA called the first aider , I was on all fours under my desk screaming in agony.
He came in, muttered something about this being beyond his pay grade, and called an ambulance .

I could never have imagined that the human body was capable of creating such pain and was convinced that I was about to die.

I’ve had laser surgery, lithotripsy and many scans to manage the condition and I now know a lot about them. Fortunately for me, I have the best urologist in the world!

I've given birth twice with zero pain relief and I can say for sure that I've had toothache that was worse.

Not rtft apart from first few posts!

Stubbed toe

Agree paper cut

I saw the McGill thing at the top, why not other types of post surgical pain only leg amputation?

When was it designed- huge guess (not googled) war type era (could well be wrong!).

I don't know if it's been said but, that thing where you catch a finger nail and are forced to cut it below the quick and end up exposing the nail bed. > childbirth? Easy! It's over eventually, living with hyper mobility syndrome and walking with bone on bone in the knees and hips, fucking miserable.

I was induced for DD1.

had extensive surgery as a child on morphine etc (till they cut it off after 24 hours as children are also often under medicated for pain).

Hurt like so much. Done that X multiple.

Induction and something went not right. I've had s lot of physical pain but that was the only one I just couldn't. I was genuinely thinking what can I do and all I came up with was hit head on wall till unconscious. Sounds dramatic but I was going to although they prob wouldn't have let me obv. I was desperate.

Luckily while midwife was going, I don't understand what the problem is, why are you vomiting etc. After hours and meniscus coming etc etc. And not even a paracetamol or gas and air or anything.

A doc came in looked at me looked at heart rate thingy said the baby is in serious distress heart rate all over the place and looked at me with kindness and I was being wheeled through to theatre for emcs in a couple of mins.

So yes childbirth can hurt. My experience was traumatic tbh because I just kept being told why are you puking, what's the matter, stop making a fuss.

After all those years having painful surgery and recovery etc through school. I am stoic as fuck. But that was something else.

Personal experiences are what they are. Why are so many women so keen to say well it didn't hurt for me! Not too bad at all.

I never understand that.

Dental sinus. Excruciating pain.

Not sure if anyone has had hand, foot and mouth - but omfg the itching on my hands. So obviously it's not pain, but the frigging frustration of the itch was ridiculous. I didn't sleep for 3 nights. Hands were red and bleeding due to the scratching.

Also, what purpose does it actually serve??! It's not childbirth! There's no end result!

gerbil.. Because it puts the fear of God into everyone facing the experience and perhaps their experience really was not that bad?

But what you've been through sounds terrible. Please don't volunteer that story to a pregnant lady

On the unreasonable pain from something insignificant scale

Trapped wind
Mouth ulcers, especially ones on the tongue
Tiny burns

On the somewhat reasonable expectation of pain but weird scale
Pooing when you have bowl adhesions from endometriosis (I passed out from the pain while on the loo and knocked myself unconscious..and DH was away on business)

As a tween and teen I used to get period pains so bad I’d pass out.

Now I’m nearing 40 I rarely get period pains but I do get ovulation pain that is not only unbearable, but that painkillers don’t seem to touch. Thankfully not every month, but I remember pre-Covid so still in the office, I had to cancel my afternoon and come home from work as I was literally crying in pain. It was an agonising ache interspersed with stabbing pains like electric shocks - at least that is what I’d assume electric shocks feel like as I would twitch in pain! How is that fair?! And what is it for? Why do I need to know my ovary is releasing an egg? Fuck off, egg. You’re not getting fertilised as DH has had the snip.

Literally never met a woman who said childbirth didn’t hurt unless they were talking about it having had an epidural. Most women don’t talk about traumatic births to expectant mothers so as not to scare them! My first birth I had an epidural, it was so weird, I couldn’t feel the contractions but I bloody felt my vagina tearing!

Yowch!

Blood tests when they’re done by someone shit

I have a huge bruise down the side of my arm thanks to a rusty dental hospital nurse

@Wiglio

Scratched cornea the devils agony

Yes a scratched cornea, the only pain that's made me cry. It's worse than toothache & childbirth combined.

@DrMadelineMaxwell

A researched pain scale of conditions.

Something wrong there. I had to have morphine when I fractured my wrist. I’ve never had that for a bruise.

Frozen shoulder, plantiar fasciitis, mouth ulcers - I have all three!
The first two I had never even heard of before I got a diagnosis.
I think mouth ulcers are probably the most painful though, yesterday I spent an age chewing like a rabbit on a piece of food in the only unpainful part of my mouth.

Broken toes
I have severe RA affecting all joints including hip impingement which had me on crutches for 9mths so really do understand pain but bloody hell when I broke my middle toe it hurt like hell.

Toothache. And frozen shoulder. Have a steroid injection this afternoon for the latter