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There is nothing more painful than..

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LuckyAmy1986 · 02/02/2018 07:39

.. severe period pains coupled with chronic trapped wind. I mean I’m sure there is but this is what I have right now and OMFG

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LemonShark · 02/02/2018 11:03

I do think it changes you, experiencing severe intolerable pain. It kinda makes you a little more aware of the horrors of the world, and for me certainly makes me incredibly thankful for the days when I don't feel any pain. Just feeling nothing feels like a massive amazing treat once you're used to never ending severe pain. You don't take being not in pain for granted anymore.

Babykoala1 · 02/02/2018 11:04

Herpes Blush

iammeegan · 02/02/2018 11:26

Having a septorhinoplasty (sp?) then two weeks later having a strep infection in the bone were they broke it.
I screamed through the night it felt like someone was drilling into my bone. It was very close to infecting my brain.. scary times

Thanks for everyone suffering

snapple21 · 02/02/2018 11:34

I am day 4 post tonsillectomy and I think I might die. I'd rather give birth again.

FrancisCrawford · 02/02/2018 11:44

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Cellardoor23 · 02/02/2018 11:51

Back contractions.
An exposed nerve in your tooth.
Uti

Definitely my top three.

Cellardoor23 · 02/02/2018 11:59

Meant to say the exposed nerve as a result of a failed root canal. Four days of agony. Ended up having the tooth taken out which I should have done in the first place

Haudyerwheesht · 02/02/2018 12:29

Dental abscess
Muscle spasm in lower back
Trapped nerve in shoulder
Glandular fever

In that order. Childbirth doesn't even come close including back to back induced 9lb+ drug free labour

HesterShaw · 02/02/2018 12:33

I was waitressing when I was 20 and cleaning out those stands you put candles in (the name escapes me) with the end of a teaspoon. The spoon slipped and forced its way about 1cm down between my thumb and the thumbnail. The pain was extraordinary Shock. I woke my mum crying in the night because of the pain - not my proudest moment but I couldn't cope with it at all.

No wonder it's a torture method.

jennymount · 02/02/2018 12:34

Getting a badly ingrown toenail prised up from the nail bed in order to have it packed with cotton. So painful, I blacked out right there in the podiatrist's office.

HesterShaw · 02/02/2018 12:34

(granted that it's feeble compared to many of these. But then I have never been seriously ill - touch wood - or given birth.)

UpstartCrow · 02/02/2018 12:35

Back to back labour with an anal fissure.

jennymount · 02/02/2018 12:37

Hester that's a weird coincidence! At least you can understand the agony of nail pain! It was worse than a bone splinter coming off my wrist.

TrinitySquirrel · 02/02/2018 12:37

Two words.

Gall and Stones.

Didntcomeheretofuckspiders · 02/02/2018 12:43

Trapped wind is the worst. I had constipation and trapped wind so badly last weekend that I was crying on the bathroom floor and told my dad I needed him to knock me out or call an ambulance. My poor father had only come over to give DP a hand with some DIY! Once DP returned with suppositories and things for moving I stopped being quite such a drama queen but I stand by the fact I wouldn’t wish that pain in ANYONE.

Iwanthertoloveit34 · 02/02/2018 13:15

When I was doing my nurse training a elderly gent was admitted after attempting suicide, as he was in such desperate pain during a episode of shingles. 20 years later I got shingles and finally understood why he felt so desperate.

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LuckyAmy1986 · 02/02/2018 13:20

I was waitressing when I was 20 and cleaning out those stands you put candles in (the name escapes me) with the end of a teaspoon. The spoon slipped and forced its way about 1cm down between my thumb and the thumbnail. The pain was extraordinary shock. I woke my mum crying in the night because of the pain - not my proudest moment but I couldn't cope with it at all.

Shock That's not feeble!!!

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Stringofpearls · 02/02/2018 13:23

I still find a forgotten papercut dipped into a packet of salt and vinegar crisps pretty excrutiating. I think labour is going to be a huge shock to the system!

MoralBeryl · 02/02/2018 13:26

LemonShark- interstitial cystitis/ PBS/ Hunner’s ulcers?

It’s the worst isn’t it? My urologist is amazing/ I’m lucky to have responded to a certain combination of medication. I can live pretty normally now, but I was a shell of a person 6 years ago.

tillytoodles1 · 02/02/2018 13:31

Well at the moment I have a broken kneecap and tibia. I'm all plastered up from ankle to thigh, non-weight bearing and in bloody agony.

HesterShaw · 02/02/2018 13:52

Shock That's not feeble!!!

Thanks Lucky. I did hurt a lot, but I have been looking at all these stories of herniated this, twisted that, back to back 12lb babies etc :o . Saying "I got a spoon a bit down my nail" does sound a bit wimpish!

it might actually have been less than 1cm but it still hurt a fuck of a lot.

Natsku · 02/02/2018 13:58

I got boiling sugar down my thumb nail once, that was horrid, combination of being burnt by boiling sugar (very very hot, do not recommend!) and something being stuck between the nail and the nail bed (and of course it then solidified and was stuck there, impossible to get out)

slippermaiden · 02/02/2018 14:06

Blocked common bile duct due to gall stones. Sooo relieves when that was removed!

DeadButDelicious · 02/02/2018 14:16

Buscopan is also the treatment of choice for gallstones as an fyi to sufferers. Iv buscopan worked far better than morphine for me.

It's good for hydronephrosis too! That and IV paracetamol. 👍🏻

anna231a · 02/02/2018 14:18

Strangulated hernia. Ambulance came and I lay on the floor clutching at paramedics ankles and screaming everytime they tried to get me up. I must have looked a proper idiot.