There is nothing more painful than..

[LuckyAmy1986]

.. 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

Hand, foot and mouth disease whilst breastfeeding. Because it turned into hand, foot, mouth and nipple disease. I got a massive blister on each nipple, which eventually turned into a scab. The worst one took a month to heal. The pain of feeding from raw nipples is really not great, and because the nipple was partially blocked due to the scab I kept getting blocked ducts as well.

It was suggested that I wean DS, but expressing was almost as painful and I feared that the blocked ducts and my reduced immunity due to the virus would be a shortcut to mastitis. I also felt too poorly to deal with an upset and demonstrative 16 month who would not have been at all happy at losing his "boo-boo".

I agree trinity. I've been left with postcholecystectomy syndrome and any form of opioid pain relief triggers a billiary spasm. There is no pain like it.

Bad wind, diahrrohea and anal fissures...

Ear infection with eardrum about to perforate. Or abscess at the root of my crown. I just sat there and cried with the pain.

Everyday - paper cuts are horrible

Actually - incredible headaches recovering from brain surgery and they would only give me paracetamol. Ive blocked out most of it.

Twisted ovarian tumour
Tearing my knee ligaments

Back to back labour with a tear of the clitoris. I could still feel the pain for years.

Pleurisy...stabbing pain breathing in, slashing pain breathing out. I was desperate to pass out to escape the pain.

Boil on the eardrum...thought that I was losing my mind and ended up in casualty in the middle of the night wanting to pass out again to escape the horrific pain.

And of course toothache

Eating a bag and a half of wasabi peas then going for a pee 4 hours later. Stingy

Anal fissure plus a kidney infection and thrush all at the same time Forever imprinted in my brain ..

@godot you have my sympathy. I have the same thing and it is excruciating. Didn't help that they missed it for three years.

Another vote for renal colic.

Nothing I have ever gone through since, and there has been a few things, compares to that pain.

In a way I look back at it fondly now as it showed how hard core I can be when I have to be.

I get woken up by crippling cramp in my calf about once a week , it takes days to wear off !

I would say that dental abscess feeling where you wake up at 2am and feel that only full extraction could relieve the pain but I have a trigger nerve in my left ring finger and simply nudging that finger while I am cleaning can make m pass out on the spot.

PGP
Back to back labour
Ruptured ovarian cyst.

Still make me wince now.

On the other hand, the relief of laying flat on my stomach and having DH sit on my back is DH only way I can get rid of trapped wind, the things we do for love!

Closely followed by menstrual javelin arse.

Abscess on your eardrum. Excruciating and goes on for days. Also I get a weird cramp in my leg, like being skewered but at least it only lasts a few minutes.

Pilonidal sinus and gastritis have got to be the most painful things I have ever experienced. Worse than labour.

Mine was a broken toe ( couldn’t believe how something so small could hurt so much) and when I somehow put my neck out. I was sobbing with the pain & could barely move. Luckily I found a miracle working physio. I got emotional thanking her for what she did. Cystitis is way up there too & sinus headaches - I thought I was dying!

Induced labour with a pessary then a drip and back to back baby. No build up or break between the contractions, gas and air did fuck all and threefsiled epidurals. The internal examinations they did were so painful that even now I wince when I think about it. First baby, no idea what to expect although I knew it would hurt —but thought I was brave— and fuck me it’s just unimaginable pain. Then I went from 4-10cm dilated in 40 minutes and no one believed me when I said I needed to push. 20 minute pushing phase, second degree tears and stitches without anaesthetic. I was traumatised for months after, I had to get the midwife to go through my notes with me because I just don’t remember huge chunks of it. I’m normally so in control and reserved and it really has scarred me.

Costachondritis three times - god awful.

In no particular order;

Kidney stones (twice - once at 8.5 months pregnant)
Ear infection requiring hospitalisation.
Cracked tooth/root canal - grim & cried with the pain
Postnatal piles - see above (was quite surprised at the sheer unadulterated pain of these)
Dropping a large jar of pickled onions on my toe (and breaking it)

Other than that I'm in rude health

I hear from friends that the following are terrible too;

Gall stones
Ovarian cysts
Endometriosis
Ectopic pregnancy

So I'm thankful and appreciative I've never experienced those.

renal colic and gall stones with infected gall bladder and bile duct. Couldn't be removed until infection had calmed down.

Root canal and absess, put up with it for 2 weeks as I was scared of dentists (always sedated or put under for treatment), went there and because I was pregnant they wouldn't even numb it, so had root canal without any painkillers or numbing agents. Got over my fear of dentists though!

@ McSmoke

How on earth did you tear your clitoris? The mind boggles.

Atypical trigeminal neuralgia, misdiagnosed/fobbed off by dentists/emergency dentists/ GP/a&e/ (they thought I was drug seeking) for 6 years until a lovely locum GP worked it out the first time she saw me. Feeling disbelieved was as bad as the physical pain and I ended up with depression too. I changed dentist and had treatment for a massive root abscess that I believe was the starting point for it all, pain reduced significantly and is only very occasional now. I recently cried in the dentist because they couldn’t find a cause for pain I was having and I was terrified the neuralgia was coming back.

Worst pain ever was suffering a facial scald.

Posted too soon!

Also, ripped my thumbnail 3/4 off about 2 weeks ago, and I'm just trying to deal with it myself as I doubt the doctor could do anything, but the pain has been awful, although on a positive note it has at times taken my mind off my severe RA in my hands, knees, ankles, hips, etc, and my crumbling spine and fibromyalgia. I've been on morphine patches for years, otherwise I'd never get out of bed. Also had SPD when pregnant, which was really painful.

Hard to put them in order though.

for those who have lost a baby. I can't imagine anything worse.