To think there are worse pains than labour?

[coraltoes]

Having recently badly broken a bone WIBU to say actually, it hurt a fuckload more than giving birth? I honestly thought nothing could hurt more than labour, but lo and behold something did! (for less hours admittedly but nothing amazing to cuddle at the end). The bone had to be pulled back into place with gas and air and a local block, which made me nearly vomit.

Come and share with me your injury horrors and tell me whether they trumped your labour pains. please do not thik i am trying to undermine ladies with horrendous labours, i am sure some of you would put me to great shame :D

[MERLYPUSS]

I've also had horrific trapped gas after EMCS for twins and consipation where I really wanted to fart but thought I would split in half. Ouch
Also had lumbar puncture headaches - nothing as bad as the abcess. Loads of tooth abcesses and ear abceses as I have an imune problem. Had pluerosy x 2 and pnuemonia as a reult of a mega epileptic seizure where I inhaled my own puke. Physio for that smarted. Inter costal muscle torn whne I fell off a horse. Jumped out of bed as the alarm was late and I momentarily forgot about the muscle and passed out.
I managed to slip my disc xmas before last and that was waerily painful. Contant pins and needles when laying down with shooting pain up the arse if I move.
Cerebal abcess wins. i asked OH to kill me and I was serious. 'Just put any old shit into my introveinous' I think I requested.

[GregBishopsBottomBitch]

I suffer from painful ovulation, and my word its more painful than labour and i go thru it every 4 weeks, cystitis feels like your peeing razor blades, when i had a severe bout of IBS, the cramps had me nearly crying.

[gordyslovesheep]

Burst appendix - 100 times worse and I was pregnant at the time!

[GregBishopsBottomBitch]

Gordy Fecking ouch!!!!!

[flubba]

I'm lucky in that I've never broken any bones nor had gall stones, but giving birth to my 12lbs+ DS naturally with a bit of G&A fucking hurt. A lot. :o

[gordyslovesheep]

The worst bit was I was abroad at the time - and they wouldn;t give me anything much for pain relief

I had a spinal for the surgery, not key hole (too risky to baby), staples in the wound that was washed out twice a day and paracetamol for pain

it was pure pure hell!

then as she grew the scar tissue stretched and moved - which was grim

[mumzy]

For me labour pain is the worst pain I have ever experienced had ds1 abroad where pain relief in labour is seldom used. At one point during transition I think if someone offered to shoot me I would have gladly taken them up on it. Had ds2 and dd here must admit it was much better with access to gas and air!

[iclaudius]

labour far far worse than anything...far far...

i do want to die each time regardless of outcome

[ilovecolinfirth]

A sudden drop in blood pressure AFTER I had given birth gave me the worst headache ever. My husband could feel and see my veins pulsating out of my forehead, and I was convinced that I was dying!

[Harrysmummysarah1]

Kidney stones defiantly tops labour for me anyway as I was lucky enough that all my births were straightforward . If their had been complications I might think differently.
Also have had appendicitis which is up their to

[matana]

Trapped nerve in my back reduced me to tears.

The only time i cried during labour was out of frustration and tiredness when i'd been in labour for 24 hours (latent phase) and wasn't yet having contractions regularly enough to go to hospital. It was the not knowing how much longer i would have to go without sleep, rather than pain - i was knackered.

But then i had no complications and really enjoyed my labour on the whole. Weird or what?

[jennymac]

I've been very lucky in life going by this thread. Have had 2 babies and thought labour pains pretty horrendous at the time (but quickly forgotten and obviously over as soon as baby is born). Never broken anything, had stitches (apart from down there!), had bad toothache, gall/kidney stones or anything that required a hospital visit!

[MadameCastafiore]

An in bed recovering from a hemiplegic migraine, would rather give birth to a herd of baby elephants than have the vice that was attached to my head squeezing it yesterday. So I completely agree that giving birth really isn't that painful. Mind you I get cross at pregnant women acting like they have some sort of debilitating illness so sympathy isn't a huge attribute of mine.

[MadameCastafiore]

Ooooh and a burst ovarian cyst hurt like buggery, makes you pass out with pain. It's like someone stabbing you with a red hot poker then twisting your insides into a bit mess that then throbs

[AmberLeaf]

VenusRising Yes Mastitis. I had forgotten about that. That was an utterly miserable pain, after suffering from that I am aghast that any woman would have optional breast surgery. I usually lay on my side to sleep and when I had mastitis I could only lie flat on my back as even the slightest touch on my breast [even a thin sheet] was agony.

I had appendicitis when I was 12, I had it removed, what I went through after the op was worse than the appendicitis pain. The first time I tried to go to the loo was hideous, the walk to the loos took forever, then trying to sit on the loo had me screaming so much it made my Mum cry. Awful. I was also constipated and had a UTI. That was in all worse than labour for sure.

Migraine is so bad sometimes that I actually want to gouge my eye out or chop off my head.

In my last pregnancy I twisted my ankle several times, I would be walking and it would pop out to the right [right foot] that was so painful I nearly passed out. Twice I had to phone my DP to come and get me in the car while I waited on the pavement down the road! my GP said that ligaments soften in pregnancy so it happens more easily.

[theressomethingaboutmarie]

I suffered from breast thrush when DS was three weeks old and ended up going to A&E at 1am in agony. They were asking me to rate the pain and I told them that a drug free labour was preferable. Excruciating. They asked me about the red marks all over my breast - they were from me clawing at myself to try to reduce the pain. Unutterably horrendous.

[SilverMoo]

Am I the only person who has had agonising labours on here?! Had various broken bones, 2 dental abscesses, mastitis with every DC (I have 3) and a slipped disc and they were nothing compared to labour, it was just unbelievable pain, I wonder why it hurt more than other peoples seem to have?

[Twattybollocks]

2 weeks ago I was induced with the drip for my 3rd dc. The epidural didn't work at all, it was 4 hours of the most horrendous pain I have ever endured. For anyone who has had worse pain than labour all I can say is you poor bastards, you have my deepest sympathy!
I've walked on a broken ankle for a week after being told it was only sprained, had torn knee ligaments, and nothing even comes close to how much those contractions hurt, the ring of fire at the end barely registered on my pain-ometer, in fact it was a bloody relief as I knew it was nearly over!

[tiredbuthappyworkingmum]

My worst migraines would be top of my pain list, definitely worse than 10lb baby 4th degree tear for dd1 (but only 5 hours and pethidine)

[Xiaoxiong]

SilverMoo don't get me wrong, I found labour awful. I was weeping and vomiting with the pain as the induction progressed (no epidural for 12 hours) and pleading with DH to make it stop and/or to kill me.

It's just that a burst appendix three weeks later was even worse.

[Latara]

Pain is all relative to the individual's perception... personally i wince at some of the operations & leg ulcers i've seen at work in a hospital; also i've seen tumours growing out of the breast or bowel & breaking through the skin - horrific stuff.

[PostBellumBugsy]

Brilliant thread - not sure why other people's pain is so fascinating, but it does make me think we are a fairly tough crowd.

Birth 1 - felt like pain that would never end. Could not stop puking after the epidural failed because it hurt so much

Birth 2 - very intense but over so quickly, it seems less bad in my memory

Tooth abscess - really awful

Crushed fingernail & end of finger - puke inducingly painful

Tonsillectomy as an adult & post-op haemorrage - really awful

Broken arms, collar bone, feet & toes - very painful but not as bad as childbirth

Outright winner - slipped disc. Could not remain conscious. Kept passing out from the pain. Had to be hospitalised & morphined until it went back in a bit. Every movement, even breathing, was agony.

[EugenesAxe]

No I agree... I very badly broke my arm at the wrist and in the words of the surgeon sustained a lot of 'invasive trauma' to my wrist tendons... it was very painful. I nearly fainted with the pain and I went white with shock. When I got to A&E they knocked me out with morphine.

Then the next day I could barely move my arm or fingers because the bones kept grinding together... that was when the surgeon phoned and said I needed to have an operation to pin them. I was very grateful! But pin-ends inside your cast aren't a barrell of laughs either.

DOn't get me wrong - labour does really hurt (made me vomit), but it's just not the same kind of pain. I think back to that break and feel woozy; I don't think that of labour.

[persimmon]

A heavy, old, solid wood door once shut completely on my hand, crushing my poor fingers to fuck. This was almost 20 years ago and i still have faint marks across my fingers.
That hurt a damn sight more than labour.