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?

Child one crowning. And then the subsequent stitches with no pain relief

Back to back labour. I could feel his skull grinding on my coccyx.

It was sore/same as most painful parts of DC1 labour when I was about 6cm dilated. It got worse and worse. It felt inhumane. I can't begin to describe it. I told my parents it felt like someone had an angle grinder on my spine.

It was for a few hours before they got an anaesthetist and an epidural for me.

I had largely forgotten the actual sensation of how much pain it was until I pulled my back earlier this year and I nearly vomited- not from the pain but because I was so scared it would he as painful as labour.

Giving birth to my stillborn son. They induce you with a drug they don't give with a live birth, and I can't tolerate any kind of opiates. I felt that I was being ripped apart inside and out for those 6 hours but in the weirdest way imaginable I needed to feel that pain. The midwife told me afterwards that a lot of women say the same thing. I think I quite scared DH at a few moments, mind, he said I was a bit possessed

My 2 subsequent DC were born via section and as I couldn't have morphine, I had to have paracetamol........ that was an interesting 1st 48 hours with each!

Miscarriage for me too.

It probably did hurt less than 'real' labour.

But the addition of the panic and misery and being on my bathroom floor not knowing what would happen before it was over made it much harder to cope through than pain which has a happy ending.

BrilloPaddy

@ParishSpinster I found my back to back labour horrendous too.

I only ever got to 3cm before my epidural but just couldn’t handle it, I was going crazy (took over 24 hours to get to 3cm), the midwife thought I was about to give birth as wouldn’t examine me. She made me feel like a wimp!

Gallstones or toothache where my whole head felt like it would explode.
I've experienced contractions (not to the point of birth) and two section recoveries.

2 back to back 8 hour tattoo sessions on my spine.

After that ear infection.

Precipitate labour. Fast dilation with no time for pain relief.

@catlovingdoctor

Having chest drains removed after open heart surgery. They just really stung as they left my body...none of the painkillers could touch it. Thankfully it only lasted a split second as they were taken out but nothing I've ever felt compares.

I had drains removed after c section, I asked to do it myself so I could control the pace and press down, thankfully they let me but still... awful sensation. Literally a thick rubber tube moving along an open raw wound!

Losing my mother.

Worse than physical pain

Tooth abcess and labour.

@PhilCornwall1

Trigeminal Neuralgia is the worst pain I've had and get. I've got Rheumatoid Arthritis and have a high pain threshold, but TN is another level compared to my RA pain.

I was looking to see if anyone mentioned TN - I had it for 4 years - not sure what triggered it but think it was related to a root canal - I honestly wanted to die and the doctor had to come out and give me morphine patches to knock me out - in the end I found a fab surgeon and had a MVD operation and thankfully this sorted it. I’ll never forget that pain and my heart goes out to you xx

Gall stones 😭

Mouth abscess or childbirth. I would be lean more towsrd mouth abscess as it didn't come and go like childbirth did. Plus I had an epidural eventually.

Slamming my fingers in a sliding door. Nearly passed out. Have had three sections and the pain didn’t even come close to it.

Tooth abscess. I'd much sooner be in Labour again, it was far less painful

@MrsDThomas I'm so, so sorry

Physical, crashing my bicycle, luckily just a concussion with periods of loss of consciousness.

Cluster headache- theres a reason its called suicide headaches.
Sciatica. And it lasted 3 months.
Period pain. So bad i was on the bathroom floor and couldnt stand up.
Had breast cancer last year and due to a rare auto immune disease that effects my skin i reacted very badly to the radiotherapy. My entire underarm became a huge 3 deģree burn( bigger than my hand) and open, weeping blister. The tiniest movement was blinding pain. As it was in my armpit they had to imobilise my arm to stop it rubbing. Couldnt sleep for 6 weeks because it was impossible to get comfortable. Really really horrible :(

Oh and wasp sting under my arm.

Perforated appendix at 30 weeks pregnant. I genuinely wanted to die. Took a long time to physically and emotionally heal

A bad TN attack.

Luckily mine only last a few hours at a time generally.

@Imatwinmum I got to 9cm with DC1- normal but induced labour. They thought I wasn't too far along till I begged to be examined and everyone expected 2-3cm. That was a bit of a surprise. Managed on gas and air.

The back to back was awful as I dilated unevenly due to position of his head. Horrendous. My brain doesn't actually let me think about it, I skip over it automatically. The epidural was when I was about 8cm/swollen half apparently. It all got a bit scary and one midwife tried to manually turn him when he crowned as he was still star gazing.

Worst pain ever, that labour. Ever. Bone pain.

@YourFinestPantaloons thank you, 13 years ago but it still hurts.

Labour, toothache etc. Been there and the pain goes away and you crack on. Bereavement is there every day and there is always something there to remind you.