To think there are worse pains than labour?

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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

YABU - everyone feels pain differently and everyone's labour is different.

Stopgap, sorry to corner you, but how did you get diagnosed with adenomyosis? That sounds like what I'm going through at the moment, and having just googled it, it actually sounds more accurate than the endo diagnosis I have a ? over. My pain is horrific, and the bowel and bladder issues seem to be getting worse, and I feel like I am actually having contractions at time, just longer than the ones in labour. Have got another lapraoscopy in three weeks time.

I fractured my hip and it wasn't diagnosed for 2 months despite constant trips to doctors and hospital, I would rather have either of my labours again (3 hours and then 20 mins) than fracture my hip again!

Slipped disc and resulting muscle spasms/sciatica = ten times worse than either of my labours.

And actually gall stones were a bit worse than labour too.

A case of severe heamorroids after giving birth - went on for two weeks and felt like someone sticking a knife up my backside. Horrendously painful - I couldn't sit or stand properly .

I found that an infected gall bladder, a tooth abscess and peritonitis following a burst ovarian cyst to be worse than labour because the pain is constant. Pain relief in labour worked well for me though

No babies yet but the pain of a dislocated shoulder made me want to be unconscious at times!
Made me vomit and pass out

Some labours are certainly worse than others. I broke my leg in my early 20s (before kids) and that was hands down the worst pain I'd ever been in up to that point. DD1s completely unmedicated birth was a breeze compared to that. DD2s labour on the other hand was much more painful than DD1s. But, on balance, I still think breaking my leg was more painful than either of my labours.

These were my least favourite pain experiences:
The headache I got with a spinal tap.
The pain I had in one side of my head at the beginning of Bell's palsy.
Labour with the second of our babies that died in utero.

Babyroobs

Oh yes. 2nd degree tear plus pulsating piles = much worse recovery than from an EMCS

ThreeBeeOneGee

I am so sorry. That just must be appalling

Yes, I think the pain of being ill or injured can be much worse.

Tooth abscess is indeed excruciating - it's so localised and concentrated too!

Also when I was 7 I got chickenpox and unfortunately a serious infection from a spot on my belly. I had terrible stabbing pains all across my abdomen, and I was really scared as well which made it worse

My labour with DS was a walk in the park compared to some of my period pains I had when younger, to the extent that I couldn't believe I was in labour as it really was nothing in comparison!

Current tooth abscess has been pretty bad but top of my chart for pain + sheer misery of existence and embarrassment factor; anal fissures. On the same level as the third degree tear I had after birth, but every single time you go to the loo. I literally howled in pain every day, for 2 months. Absolutely hideous.

Wouldn't like a kidney stone though...

I've had period pains worse than DD's birth. DS was the most pain I've ever been in, but I've never really been in bad pain.

Broken tooth.
Legs waxing (other areas are worse again)
Torn ligaments in my ankle

All DEFINITELY worse than childbirth. I did childbirth on hot water (shower), tens for a while, and a few puffs of G&A at the end (and I do mean - a few puffs).

It depends on the labour - mine was 4 days but not overly painful even though back to back and 9lb 7oz on a tens machine with paracetamol - the stitches and general pain after was the worst bit but bearable - I have a hernia though because of that so will have to add the pain of surgery to my list :)

Oh no competitive pain reminds me of my deeply annoying FIL who was quick to tell me his kidney stones were worse than either of my labours to him.

My lovely granny who had 3 DC but never been ill until she had stomach cancer in her 80s (sadly was the end for her). Coming round after her first operation she said "all that fuss and not even a baby to show for it".

Gallstones beat labour for me hands down.

I've remembered another one! Having a D&C with only gas and air. All part of the same experience as one and three above. This is what happened:

I went for my 20 week scan, feeling nervous as our last baby had died around that time. This time I had felt the baby moving the day before, but no heartbeat on the scan or the subsequent scans done by another sonographer and the consultant.

Took the pills to get labour going. Pessary to speed things up. Worst labour pain I'd had before or since. Wished they would just kill me and be done with it. Daughter born, looked tiny but beautiful. Placenta not budging.

Several hours later, still waiting for D&C as emergency theatre busy with actual emergencies rather than my non-life threatening stuck placenta. Finally, in the middle of the night, we get a slot. Anaesthetist gives me a spinal for the D&C, but it doesn't work. They give me the choice to have the D&C with gas and air, or wait to see if the anaesthetic kicked in but maybe miss our slot.

By this point I was fed up with wandering around with an umbilical cord hanging between my legs. We had said goodbye to our daughter and I wanted to go home and grieve. So I went for the D&C, took gas and air. It was awful.

Back on the ward, I tried to get up to go to the loo, and that's the time the spinal anaesthetic started to work. As soon as I got home, I realised I had a spinal tap. Imploding, excruciating headache which became unbearable every time I moved out of a horizontal position.

After a couple of days, it started to ease. Then my milk came in.

wanderingcloud

I had terrible period pains when younger, and between pregnancies. As a result, I thought I'd cope with labour, but it was much worse than I expected. I'd say 10 times worse

I opted for a Mirena because I found period pains traumatic after I'd had my DCs - nor periods !! When I had the first Mirena removed after 5 years the pain of the new one being put in was excruciating. I think I have a funny uterus or something (medical term)

I'd have rather given birth a hundred times than ever, ever, ever go anywhere near having compartment syndrome again. I was blacking out, vomiting, and unable to construct a word other than screaming. It was sheer hell.

no periods

Waking up after 10 hours of surgery to straighten and pin my entire spine was considerably more painful than either of my two labours.

The resulting constipation because of the morphine and codeine was also considerably more painful than labour

Amazons, the lot of ya'.