to think that stubbing your toe is the most painful thing EVER?

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I stubbed my foot on a really heavy wooden bench. I'm pretty sturdy, I was moving at speed and gave it a good hard smack. The pain felled me.
And do you know what can be done for broken and stubbed toes?
Fuck all.

It is easily the most painful and shocking thing ever. Fact.
Agree?

I trapped an acrylic nail in a heavy drawer once and the pain made me actually bawk!

Saying that going for a number 2 after childbirth is pretty bleeding horrendous.

YABU. Everyone knows the worst injury in the world is a papercut.

Given birth twice and have long term kidney problems including random stones. However my toe is killing me after stubbing it 2 weeks ago, yanbu.

Got to pencil up nose and can't read any more.. Thought of that is scary.. Don't want to hear anymore!

I've stapled my own thumb when trying to re-fill it. That was a bit sore.

I'll trade your stubbed toe for my spinal cord injury and subsequent 6 attempts at surgical repair.

Because SCI is just a waltz through the daisies - so much easier on a person than a stubbed toe.

I dropped a scalpel pointy end down into my foot. That was surprisingly painful for a few days considering how little it bled. I reckon it cut a nerve or something surprisingly DH didn't agree with my diagnosis

But not as bad as whizzing my fingers in the stick whizzer. The pain took a good few minutes to come on, but when it did, I could not believe how bad it was.

Toe stubbing has got to be one of the worst though. It's so eye waveringly instant then throbs for days.

Having a blood blister on your heel lanced by a crazy Italian doctor who spoke no English and so I had no warning what he was about to do.

Took 3 people to hold me down, no pain relief and I had a fairly major panic attack.

And yes, I have given birth but I had 9 months to prepare for that, rather than 9 seconds.

But he did give me some spectacular painkillers after, which I have saved up should I ever stub toe/do shocking injury to foot again.

CallMe I think you need to enter into the spirit of the OP. I doubt it was meant in earnest.

But was he a handsome Italian doctor Shannith? Surely that would have helped with the pain.

He looked weirdly like the guy from Mash. Which I initially found reassuring until he attacked me with a scapel.

A corneal debridement is the most painful thing ever. You actually pray for death

Nah, it hurts but it's fairly short lived. You've not had acute appendicitis then?

I vote for dry socket infection after having a tooth out.

I'm sorry. It's clear that none of have stepped on a sticklebrick.

Ouch! It's certainly in the top 10!

And...... after a life time spent sleepily kicked the bed leg as I staggered my way to the loo in the wee small hours and cursing and hoppng in agony, I finally did it good and proper when I kicked a rock on a beach in Wales (not temper just walking up the beach whilst carrying piles of beach junk and small child). Didn't stop hurting for days and when I failed to do more than 100yrds of my next run I went to the hospital to have it x-rayed. I had a broken metatarsal! 6 weeks of plaster followed by 3 weeks of wincing and walking carefully.

I think what makes it worse is that it happens out of the blue and the pain is such a shock for such a 'small' thing,

I broke my little toe by stubbing it on a coffee table a few years ago. I couldn't work for 5 weeks, I was in that much pain! (I couldn't put my shoes on, only flip flops and it was Dec/Jan so not flip flop weather. On top of that I'm a mental health nurse and at the time was working on an acute forensic ward-lots of restraining very disturbed patients.)

A couple of weeks ago, I dropped a can of baked beans on my big toe, it wasn't broken just badly bruised so healed up within a couple of days, but my god it was painful.

I admit I don't have kids so I can't compare it to giving birth!

Dont be daft. Stubbing a toe is unpleasent, but its not the worst pain in the world.

My mother in law broke her hip in three places. Apparently that pain was worst than childbirth.

Hmmm. We were having a party and I went to the garage (garahge) freezer to get something out. I stubbed two neighbouring, beautifully straight toes on a paving stone that was not level with its partner. My toes were immediately black and I could not walk. My lovely late DH took me to A&E because I couldn't walk. A technician took an X-ray and pooh poohed the idea of anything wrong with them.

A week later, still limping, and I was aware that one toe was trying to climb over another. GP would do nothing because the X-ray had said that there was nothing wrong with it. Here we are 5 years later and I know that there's something wrong because the climbing is still there. Hey ho. There are people worse off that I am.

I remember stubbing my toe when sharing a flat with my best friend. She sipped her tea and said 'oh I bet that really hurts'. I nearly threw her out the window.

It's become one of our catchphrases. When she told me she was having twins I said 'Oh I bet that will really hurt'.*

*not as bitchy as I sound honest!

It's all relative though isn't it. I've given birth 4 times and breaking my toe was worse by far. The muscle spasm that had me unable to move without screaming and confined me to the bathroom floor is up there too. Pain is very interesting and what one person finds unbearable another finds manageable.

I just found my discharge papers from my bollicle removal... it was 6x8 cms. I couldn't sit for two days...

After giving birth and getting up to see if I could walk I stubbed my toe on the sodding bed! Served me right for not doing as told lol

What the heck is a bollicle? Is it a bollock follicle?

There. That's it. Glitz wins with a double whammy.