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Worst pain you've ever experienced?

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Yesthatscorrect · 01/12/2021 23:15

Today I had a vacuum assisted breast biopsy which I didn't expect to be too bad. It wasn't until the anaesthetic wore off! The nurse told me to put a sports bra on tonight. Yeah that's not happening!

I've taken some tramadol I had left over so hopefully the pain will wear off soon but this is definitely up there with appendicitis, severe ear infection and toothache.

Giving birth and labour for 48 hours doesn't even feature in the top ten.

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sarah13xx · 03/12/2021 00:22

Also, not pain-wise necessarily (although it is painful) but rating at number 1 on the discomfort ratings… a UTI!
I haven’t had one for well over a year but used to get them all the time. The worst one was when we were away to our friend’s parents lodge and all I wanted to do was stay in a bath or shower til I got antibiotics. I stayed in one night then attempted going out for dinner the next. I was sat at the table while everyone made small talk and all I could think was how many times can I go to that toilet? I lasted about 5 minutes then had to go home because it was just too sore

AlwaysLatte · 03/12/2021 00:29

Definitely childbirth as no pain relief other than the gas and air they eventually confiscated 😂

Timeisavirtue · 03/12/2021 00:31

I had gastritis after a bout of norovirus 4 years ago, worst pain of my like, I have a pretty high pain threshold, but that was horrendous, still get after affects to this day. Was worse than childbirth. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

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Cupcakefairy12 · 03/12/2021 00:37

Wisdom teeth removal, all four in one go, drilled away at the bone in my jaw and then ended up with dry socket. Absolutely horrendous, labour doesn’t come near it pain wise.

PurpleGoat67 · 03/12/2021 00:44

Syntocin drip with nothing but gas and air. Apparently it's incredibly rare for a woman to get to fully dilated without more pain relief than I had, as the doctor and midwife were both impressed!

Twocrabs30 · 03/12/2021 00:50

Endometriosis

lazylockdowner · 03/12/2021 00:58

Infected thrombosed hemirrhoids, currently up with it now. Pain just came on suddenly around 7pm, absolute agony, can't stand, can't walk, can't sit, can lay down, can't sleep

Had a few warm baths and took painkillers, used suppository and just noticed it now had developed a pus bubble so put on some savlon and ice pack

Trying to decide what I can say to work tomorrow as need a emergency doctor appointment and frankly can't do anything but I work in a school where my child goes and explaining what's wrong is just to embarrassing Blush

immersivereader · 03/12/2021 00:58

I recently had hand foot and mouth and the pain of the rash on my hands was the worst thing ive ever experienced.

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I had that too. It was bad as you describe.

I didn't sleep for three nights. Nothing helped, at all. Awful.

2bazookas · 03/12/2021 01:12

Passing kidney stones.

MyNameIsAlexDrake · 03/12/2021 01:15

I'm another who had a doctor manual trying to remove the products of my ongoing miscarriage without pain relief. I was labouring at the time, had already lost so much blood and it was barbaric both physically and mentally. It was also all in vain anyway as I eventually had to be taken for an emergency surgery anyway and was thankfully knocked out for that. It left me feeling like they would've done anything rather than have 'wasted' the cost of proper surgery on me. So what if it takes a doctor hours peeling bits out of me, including my 12 week old foetus, better than wasting taxpayers money than a full surgery full of people. That's how it felt to me. Awful. As was my GP's comments afterwards when I was struggling mentally. After all lots of women experience a miscarriage, you just need to pull yourself together was what I was told. I'm still angry about it all now 6 years later.

alexio · 03/12/2021 01:33

Dental abscess... horrific as I could feel it swelling up as the hours passed until it burst but still painful afterward

Both my c sections, discharged 24 hours later with no pain meds both times. Could hardly walk or stand up straight with the pain at my incision and in my back

GreenEyeOfTheLittleYellowGod · 03/12/2021 05:38

A week-long miscarriage when I was really young. Thought I was having a weird period with very little bleeding but agonising cramps to the point where I couldn't stand up because my legs were collapsing under me. Eventually I passed something into the toilet and the pain stopped immediately, which is when I realised what it was.

Fractured metatarsal - the nerve pain was unreal, I couldn't even have a duvet touching my foot, even a gentle breeze was agony.

Steam burn on my nipple 😰😰😰😰 there were many tears.

Badly 'sprained' ankle - was still in agony 8 weeks later when they phoned me to tell me that they had missed a piece of bone in the wrong place on my x-ray. I could feel something stabbing inside my foot when I put weight on it. I was on codeine for weeks and weeks and was also severely constipated as a result 😱

Auldspinster · 03/12/2021 06:34

Otitis Externa, dental abcess, cellulitis in my foot.

Isitreallyme177 · 03/12/2021 07:02

Tennis elbow, crying when putting fuel in my car as I couldn't hold the pump without pain, I hate going to the doctor for anything but I went for this. I ended up having physio on it but being in pain for nearly a year was awful.

Plantar fascitis was also pain like no other, I would cry just walking upstairs.

MrsDThomas · 03/12/2021 07:05

Losing my mam. I’ve given birth 3 times but the death of my mam was worse. It never leaves you.

SpookyScarySkeletons · 03/12/2021 08:40

@christmaspavlova

For me childbirth

For my partner meningitis ( headaches , spinal tap etc) he said it was worse than the time he broke his leg ouch

Meningitis here too. Weirdly I didn't feel the spinal tap but the headache! JC never been in as much pain in all my life. They thought it was a brain haemorrhage at first.
RufustheFloralmissingreindeer · 03/12/2021 10:20

Probably between my miscarriage and what the doctors think were two ovarian cysts bursting

The second time one burst i was on a walk with dh who’d just had a knee op and toddler

I collapsed in the street and just lay on the cold damp pavement while dh hobbled back home to get the car

Two little old ladies very kindly asked me if i was ok…and british to the core i said ‘yes thank you’

By the time i got to the doctor I’d gone into shock and an ambulance was called

Animood · 03/12/2021 12:15

Slipped disc. Absolute agony.

I was taking lethal painkillers. Only blunted the agony.

hairymuffet · 03/12/2021 15:48

Torn intercostal muscles... fckn agony, for weeks, even breathing was agony Angry

GyozaGuiting · 03/12/2022 07:22

Back to back labour and then recovering from the c section that followed was agony.
Second labour it happened fast and was intensely painful and then I had forceps (I’m rubbish at giving birth).
Sinus pain was also horrific. I basically didn’t sleep for 3 days and no painkiller touched it (I was in a different country and they wouldn’t give me anything stronger). Had sinus trouble ever since! I remember just crying several times with the pain and thinking it would never go away.

Purplelion · 03/12/2022 10:19

Having HG in my first pregnancy, I was young and had no idea what was going on. The first doctor I saw said it’s normal morning sickness and advised me to eat ginger biscuits. I remember laying on the bathroom floor retching, but have nothing in me to bring up, I was in agony, it took a few more visits to the doctors and finally collapsing in the surgery and being taken to hospital by ambulance before I was taken seriously

Spidey66 · 03/12/2022 10:23

Shoulder fractured in 3 places, needing surgery to put pins and plate in, closely followed by gallstones. (I.e the level of pain was closely followed by gallstones; I didn't have gallstones straight after breaking my shoulder!)

petalpower · 03/12/2022 10:25

Root canal infection. Much worse than childbirth!

charabang · 03/12/2022 10:55

Dry socket, childbirth with no pain relief and fractured shoulder

BearSoFair · 03/12/2022 11:00

Dental abscess. I was sitting in the stock room at work crying while on hold trying to book an appointment!

Severe ankle sprain. It hurt so much it's like my body didn't initially know how to process it, DH says I just sat there on the floor and said "ouch" then burst into tears 30 seconds later when my brain caught up!