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Original poster

To think there are worse pains than labour?

345 replies

coraltoes · 07/02/2013 15:37

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

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JamieandtheMagicTorch · 07/02/2013 18:10

yy lljkk

Am aghast at what some of you have had to go through

ThreeBeeOneGee · 07/02/2013 18:11

I am full of admiration for people who cope with chronic pain for years.

louschmoo · 07/02/2013 18:29

Ooh it's interesting how sdifferent it is for people isn't it. I had dry socket after having my bottom wisdom teeth out, and I thought the pain was unimaginable. When I was pregnant with DS I kept reassuring myself that labour couldn't possibly be as bad. Then I was induced and after two doses of the gel + ARM I was desperate for an epidural. Labour was far worse - and I only got to 2cm before having an epidural before the drip Blush. Now getting ready for VBAC with DC2 and hoping that it'll be easier if it's spontaneous.

ThreeBeeOneGee · 07/02/2013 18:36

Sorry, I meant post-dural puncture, not spinal tap.

Quenelle · 07/02/2013 18:56

ThreeBee. I'm sorry Sad

Original poster
coraltoes · 07/02/2013 18:59

Three bee, sorry to read your story. Can't begin to imagine the true pain of that experience.

Those discussing pain elief. I got gas and air as soon as I got into a&e, waited 6 hours in labour for it. Hardly fair!

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inlawsareasses · 07/02/2013 19:03

Gallstones! The first attack was 9 days after labour so I can compare! horrendous psin give me labour any day

BelleEtLaBaby · 07/02/2013 19:12

I raise you pneumonia, AND multiple pulmonary blood clots AND a pleural effusion at the same time Shock

Even on the full dose of morphine and tramadol, I was clinging to DH literally screaming for them to just kill me.

Would give birth every day compared to that :)

hippoherostandinghere · 07/02/2013 19:12

I've had one horrendous induced forceps delivery with just gas and air. One elective section. A broken sternum, a broken foot, 2 broken noses (well the same nose just broken twice) a broken finger and been knocked out twice. I also had a tonsillectomy at 22.

The labour tops it all. 8 hours of constant contractions then a baby dragged out with forceps after an episiotomy. Couldn't walk for days Hmm

BelleEtLaBaby · 07/02/2013 19:14

ThreeBee I only read your post after I wrote mine. I'm so sorry. What a truly awful experience Thanks

mercibucket · 07/02/2013 19:16

Weird, I've had pleurisy and pneumonia and it hardly hurt really. Couldn't breathe, and yes it was painful, but not particularly so. The cracked rib was v ouchy, the strained intercostal muscles brought back memories of about 6cm in to labour, but nowhere like transition pain

I also clearly remember with the third labour a feeling of remembrance and recognition'oh yes, this is how much it. Hurt'. I think we forget almost instantly. Labour is the only literally 'toe curling pain' I've experienced

I'd still put it at 8.5 and can imagine worse pains like bad burns or a leg cut off without anaesthetic

ThreeBeeOneGee · 07/02/2013 19:25

Belle I think that having loads of horrid things one on top of the other is what makes it so awful, and your experience and mine have that in common. I didn't mean to put a downer on the thread Smile it's just that three of my most physically painful experiences happened during the same 24h, and it happened to be a 24h that we had an emotionally painful experience too.

ThreeBeeOneGee · 07/02/2013 19:27

Grin at some of these horrific injuries being described as a little sore or a bit ouchy. I'm surprised none of us have injured ourselves on our stiff upper lips! Smile

pansyflimflam · 07/02/2013 19:45

I have had 5 babies with a tiny bit of gas and air ad far far far worse is my recent brush with gallstones stuck in my bile duct!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gall bladder removed 10 years ago and they were left behind getting bigger and bigger until they decided they wanted to get out. Literally crawling up the bed baying like an animal. I have never ever in all my life felt like I was dying but that did it for me. I shudder now thinking about it.

ThreeBee, so sorry my love x

catgirl1976 · 07/02/2013 19:49

Twisted bowel

Stepping on lego

blackeyedsusan · 07/02/2013 19:59

ear ache is one thing that made me scream in pain til paaracetamol and ibupofen kicked in. i can't compare with labour as i was on gas and airr/pethidine/epidurals asap...

Highlander · 07/02/2013 20:05

Tooth abcess. Oh dear God, I was insane withh pain.

CombineBananaFister · 07/02/2013 20:05

Broke my arm and it protruded through the skin - horrble to look at BUT did not hurt as much as labour IMO (10lb melon-headed Ds arrived in under 2 hrs and no meds plus forceps, truly horrific) Appendicitus came a close second and wisdom teeth problems are no walk in a park.
My dad, bless him caught his todger in his zip when he was little and passed out from the pain -this is still a funny story in his family Hmm. It's so funny how people can cope with such different things

FamiliesShareGerms · 07/02/2013 20:08

YANBU

Shin splints made me pass out with pain. Labour was a walk in the park compared to that

AmazingBouncingFerret · 07/02/2013 20:10

Oh threebee I am sorry to read your post. TBH I would gladly go through my spinal surgery repeatedly rather than suffer what you went through. I cannot begin to imagine the physical and emotional pain.

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JamieandtheMagicTorch · 07/02/2013 20:12

blackeyes

gas and air did little for me. I'm not sure it was switched on, either time. I was biting on the mouthpiece so much it had blood on it. Pethidine made me fall asleep for 3 seconds and then jerk awake in excruciating pain.

JamieandtheMagicTorch · 07/02/2013 20:12

...REPEATEDLY

BrianCoxandTheTempleofDOOM · 07/02/2013 20:13

ooo can I join in. Have never done labour, have to have c-sections (see why below)

I have had a brain aneurysm.

Pain was so bad that it wiped my memory (according to the neuro surgeon) and I have no recollection of it, or the week before and the week after.

Wink
Molehillmountain · 07/02/2013 20:14

It's hard to generalise really. I've had painful but good labours with all three children and although it was painful I felt in control and that the outcome was going to be great and what I wanted. Breaking my ankle very badly felt scary, negative and very, very painful. I remember it as worse pain because there was nothing good about it and it marked the start of a difficult time, looking after a toddler whilst non weight bearing and pregnant.

LadyInPink · 07/02/2013 20:14

Miscarriage pain
Tonsilitus x I can't remember it was so many times
Tonsilectomy
Twisted bowel
Appendectomy
Secumectomy

All more bearable than the b2b birth of DD1.

Threebee Sad

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