What is the most pain you have ever experienced?

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I’ve had some pretty nasty migraines & my c section recovery wasn’t the nicest.

What’s the worst pain you’ve ever been in and how long did it last?

Giving birth. I've been blessed to be very healthy. I wasn't even fussed about seeing DD when she was born just that it was over.

I’ve had a ruptured ectopic, given birth, dislocated my knee and had major surgery so have a scar from my breastbone to my pubis but all of them I would go through again 100 times if it meant I never had to have a gallbladder attack again.

It was the worst pain I ever experienced. I was blue lighted to hospital writhing in pain. DH thought I was dying. Thank goodness it got whipped out!

Currently in the freezing stage of frozen shoulder. Non-stop agony for months, intensifies x100 at night, tramadol and morphine aren't touching it.

I've had sciatica, appendix out and 2 vaginal births and I would have any of them again rather than the constant knawing pain, which there was no specific cause of, nor idea as to how long it will last.

Kidney stones. Worst ever I would give birth 100 times over rather than that. My kidney gave up for a while because of it. Had to have surgery

Gallstones - Worse than being in labour.
Psoriatic Arthritis pain - Constant, relentless and drains the life out of me.

Induced childbirth knowing there would be silence when he was born and we wouldn't ever get to take him home.

@HeyFloof

Induced childbirth knowing there would be silence when he was born and we wouldn't ever get to take him home.

It's horrific

@makelovenotpetrol

I have arthritis and osteoporosis, so I'm pretty good with dealing with extreme pain.

Worst pain though - my son dying.

I did mean emotionally that was the worst pain. Although I also meant physically as I almost followed him as I was critically unwell. I remember the pain and passing out thinking I would never wake up again.

Back to back labour. My other 3 labours were a breeze compared to that one

Gallstones with an infection. I passed out I was in so much pain and I consider myself to have a very high paid tolerance.

Chronic pain from a spinal injury but short term pain is when they took the drains out after one of my ops, it was quick but my goodness was it bad. Also induced childbirth before the epidural, be but that was more the exhaustion and tightening rather than pain.

Ovarian torsion - for a week I was having random serious pain, bent over couldn't move or make a sound pain. I was 19, and doctor told me to take Panadol for period pain.

Suddenly I was in horrific pain and vomiting and high fever, a type of pain I can't actually describe, and within the hour going into surgery.

Turned out the pain I was feeling was my ovary twisting back and forward. I was very lucky in emergency the doctor realised what happened straight away. I lost the ovary, but I could have lost my life.

In hospital for 10 days for blood transfusions and antibiotics.

It was my birthday and I slipped on the top step of a staircase over corrected and went over the bannister to land on my chest on the next floor. I was in so much pain and the hospital kept trying to discharge me from A&E saying I hadn't broken anything (amazingly) but clearly I had ripped my muscles. I fainted when they tried to make me walk to the toilet as was like being stabbed ( I imagine) , Took 3 months to recover and took a lot of drugs to get through. Every time I sat/ got up was like a knife in me...

Frozen shoulder pain is horrendous. I banged my elbow when it was in the worst of the freezing stage and that was agony.

Peritonsillar abscess wasn’t pleasant either, I remember the relief when it finally resolved itself.

heyfloof

That hideous drip during labour. Worst pain of my life (so far).

Tonsillectomy aged 40 the pain lasted ten days , it was awful 😞

And childbirth was pretty grim too 🙂

Tooth abscess, Burst eardrum and Child birth.

I think the tooth was the most all consuming pain though

Migraine. I've had them all my adult life, but my worst was an intractable attack which lasted 32 days. I was off work. On day 3 DH took me to A&E to beg for help. The receptionist wrote down "bad headache" when I could barely keep myself standing. I was furious but in too much pain to do anything.

Morphine didn't touch that one. Not even dulling it a bit.

Because I get chronic migraine, I have to choose which attacks to medicate as I can't treat more than 8 per month. Which is great when I had attacks routinely covering 27 days per month. After several years like this I became suicidal. Now on Ajovy, down to 3-4 attacks per month.

Perinephric abscesses, aged 17, 4 weeks hospital, surgery, 6 months recovery with reoccurring abscesses rupturing and breaking through drain tube channel/scar.

Iritis

CRPS. Look up the McGill pain scale/index and it tops everything everytime.

Gallstones here too. Childbirth with no pain relief was a walk in the park in comparison. I think I’ve been lucky overall though, usually pretty healthy.

Ovarian cyst and torsion, fuck me I couldn't stand at all. The only thing that helped weirdly was pressing on it like a hernia!

And the (male) gynae asked me how I was sure it wasn't back pain

@MissScuito

CRPS. Look up the McGill pain scale/index and it tops everything everytime.

I'm not sure it's a competition as to what tops what pain scale ... Pain is subjective and individual.

Gall stones!!! 2 week after giving birth I woke up in the early hours in absolute agony, I thought I was having a heart attack!