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There is nothing more painful than..

247 replies

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

OP posts:
FucksakeCuntingFuckingTwats · 02/02/2018 23:51

I would say the most painful thing I ever experienced was an anal fissure after my second daughters birth. It felt like someone was literally cutting me open with a shard of glass for 11 months every time i went to the toilet because I was too embarssed to go to the doctor.

Sciatica, toothache next then giving birth which I didnt have a bad time with really.

FucksakeCuntingFuckingTwats · 02/02/2018 23:56

Oh I just rememebered the after pain I got when breastfeeding my third and how severe they were because I had retained some placenta. They seemed even more excruciating I think because I had just woke up pushing with him and had no contraction pain fresh in my memory to compare too. Mastitis was pretty horrific too. That first minute when she latched on was like searing hot needles lancing through my boob.

PookieSnackenberger · 02/02/2018 23:59

OMG yes. Feeding a newborn with flayed nipples. That makes me sad to think about it. I actually screamed out in pain.

And ductal thrush whilst breastfeeding. Just awful knowing that it will be painful every feed.

CheshireChat · 03/02/2018 00:02

I'm surprised people are saying that sinusitis is amongst the most painful, I've had loads due to a deviated septum and never found them excruciating.

Funny how the same disease can be perceived so wildly differently and have such different symptoms.

CheshireChat · 03/02/2018 00:06

Also, does anyone else feel pain a lot more whilst they're on their period?
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I generally have a high pain threshold, but I banged my elbow whilst on and I had tears in my eyes and couldn't breathe for a bit.

I got rid of pain killers straight away after a c section and after surgery on my septum as I didn't really need them for comparison.

Redglitter · 03/02/2018 00:07

Having stitches removed from the surface of your eye

PookieSnackenberger · 03/02/2018 00:12

@ *Redglitter

"Having stitches removed from the surface of your eye"

OK you win. That just sounds nasty.

Caroelle · 03/02/2018 00:18

10 hours of an infected pancreas, liver and gallbladder full of stones. Wandering round the house trying to manage the pain and the sheer bliss when the ambulance arrived and I was given three lots of morphine before being blue lighted to hospital. Or the psychological distress of having a total breakdown after undiagnosed post natal depression and ending up howling with distress in a hotel room in the middle of nowhere when I had run away to kill myself.

nocoolnamesleft · 03/02/2018 00:20

Pleuritic chest pain. The only way to get a break from the pain is not to breathe. But you can't do that for long. Especially as you're already short of breath from the pneumonia. End up praying to stop breathing...

StillMedusa · 03/02/2018 00:33

Trigeminal Neuralgia . Known as the sucicide disease for good reason.
Now thankfully under control due to lovely drugs!

However my self induced severe poisoning (do not ever eat OLD big raw runner beans) came a close second. I thought I was going to die and the doctor cheerfully informing me that a few people HAVE died from it, didn't help...!

Redglitter · 03/02/2018 01:11

Pookie it was horrendous and done under local anaesthetic so I couldn't close my eye. The doctor got quite impatient with me but id like to see him not instinctively shut his eye when he saw a ruddy great needle heading for it

Pain was indescribable

Richdebtomdom · 03/02/2018 17:25

I’ve got AS so pain all over my body 24/7... but I am a man... :-)

bigmumsymcgraw · 03/02/2018 17:30

Getting a Merina coil fitted Worse experience ever and Ive given birth twice!

DagenhamRoundhouse · 03/02/2018 17:48

Tooth abscess. No escape from it than to have the dentist drill into tooth to release pressure. They tend not to do this now but put you on antibiotics. It's right in your head (obvs) and lying down makes it worse.

I believe a kidney stone is agonising too and hope never to experience this.

Ravenesque · 03/02/2018 17:52

So much horrible pain here!

Toothache with added infection is awful. The night before a birthday a nagging bit of pain went nuclear and I was up all night crying and longing for morning when I could give myself the birthday present of having it out. The relief was enormous.

Migraines so bad that I passed out.

Broken shoulder. I also felt sick because I heard the bone crack.

Worst though was when I had a rather massive brain haemorrhage. I'd had a blinding headache for a week, seen my doctor who thought it was a viral infection that had followed pneumonia - which I'd just had - and gave me codeine, which wasn't really touching it, but I carried on trying to deal with it. It was awful, but didn't make me want to die. Then everything went tits up, I was having seizures and a paramedic must have injected me with whatever in the chest, like Uma Thurman in Pulp Fiction. When I cam round I thought he'd punched me in the chest but didn't like to say anything. I was not right in the head at this point, gibbering nonsense and blah. Taken to A&E, don't remember much about it, had a CT scan which I don't remember and was diagnosed with a brain tumour, which I also don't remember, but what I do remember is that the pain went from awful to so bad that all I could do was curl up and say and do nothing at all. At that point I "knew" I was dying and I didn't mind at all, because it was not possible to be in that much pain and not die. Morphine didn't properly touch it, but touched it a bit. For the next five days it was assumed that I had a brain tumour that was terminal, but what I actually had was a great big black circle of dead brain tissue, which was not terminal.

The good thing to come out of it was to know that I was no longer scared of dying. I'd "faced it" and was totally sanguine about the whole thing. To be fair I was also not right in the head, but even now that I am more or less right in the head, I don't fear it anymore. Which is grand!

Allergictoironing · 03/02/2018 18:07

Hidradenitis Suppurativa abscess in the groin. A massive (think about the size of a cricket ball) abscess that doesn't drain for 3-5 days, and every time you even breathe it puts pressure on it. When it finally burst in the shower my hand was literally filled with pus, and it was draining for days after - sporners heaven! Eventually had to have surgery after the 4th or 5th time it came up.

Padstowonthames · 03/02/2018 18:11

An anal fissure. Absolutely hideous sickening pain for ages. OMFG.

luckylorca · 03/02/2018 18:27

OP: I suffered from endometriosis without knowing for about 30 years, as did my siblings and Mum, since we all had horrendous, long periods - our "8 day wonders". However, I never had a single period pain after going to a fertility acupuncturist! Plus the periods dropped from 8 days to only 2 or 3.

I advise anyone with period pains to go and get an appointment. The acupuncturist said "periods should never be painful" and I just laughed at her, after 35 years of puking and near fainting with pain - but she was right. It doesn't have to be that way (with treatment)!

woosey35 · 03/02/2018 18:28

Massive swollen ovaries following ivf (10cm diameter each!!) putting me in hosp for 2 weeks!
Vulval varicose veins when preg with dd, so big they closed the exit for a few weeks!!
Back to back labour.

Welshlovebicuit · 03/02/2018 18:41

A uterine abscess... and plantar fasciitis

libbyb · 03/02/2018 18:48

Appuskidu - she missed out Ear Ache!! that is pretty imobilising especially if it causes balance issues too :-(

Asthenia · 03/02/2018 18:51

Gallstones. Oh god I wouldn’t wish the pain on anyone. I would have gladly died then and there if it meant the pain would go away

WhooooAmI24601 · 03/02/2018 18:54

I cracked my head open last summer and a month or so later once it'd been stitched and forgotten I was diagnosed with occipital neuralgia. Never known anything like it; every time my head, neck, shoulders or even my eyes moved there was a shoot of stabbing pain through the back of my head exactly where the wound had been.

I birthed a gigantic child and labour didn't even come close to the pain of occipital neuralgia.

Toomanyspotsforagrownup · 03/02/2018 18:57

The camera up the fanjita was a bit sore and worse than childbirth (at least you got drugs for that!)

Barbara1956 · 03/02/2018 19:02

Gallstones...
Secondary pain after caesarian.
Trying to latch on with mastitis
All jolly good fun !!!!

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