Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

To think this is one of the most painful things you can do.

518 replies

sweeneytoddsrazor · 08/01/2019 23:38

Stub your toe. Stubbed little toe earlier on the table leg. Of course no shoes or slippers on to cushion the blow. Air very quickly turned blue Blush followed by toe turning a lovely shade of bluey/purple. Nice 9 hour shift later and it is bloody agony.

OP posts:
Bertiebitch32 · 09/01/2019 18:38

Ah i have to disagree op, standing on a plug barefooted. I've knever sworn so much even the dog looked in disgusting at my fowl language Grin

JillGoodacre · 09/01/2019 18:42

Falling in the shower and dislocating my elbow and then somehow popped it back in by myself. Worse pain ever.

lou1221 · 09/01/2019 18:44

Yesterday 23:53 frankie001

Planter fasciitis!!

I'm sure I have planter fascitis, I literally am walking like an old lady, so painful. I so think it was caused from wearing my Birkenstocks last summer. Ruined my feet.

SilverySurfer · 09/01/2019 18:46

I have a hip prosthesis that has shifted out of its socket and the tail end of it now grinds against the inside of the bone every time I walk or stand up/sit down. As you can imagine, I sit a lot. The pain is awful and I swear a lot. The consultant wants to remove the prosthesis and not replace because bones are so thin. I'm arguing with myself, do I want to keep having this pain or do a want a leg not connected to the rest of my skeleton - it's 50/50 right now.

jusdepamplemousse · 09/01/2019 18:51

Netball to the nose or hockey stick across the knuckles on a cold day.

DontCallMeCharlotte · 09/01/2019 18:54

I'm sure I have planter fascitis, I literally am walking like an old lady, so painful. I so think it was caused from wearing my Birkenstocks last summer. Ruined my feet.

Birkenstocks are recommended for PF. Perversely a heeled shoe also helps.

Bonnetdedeuce · 09/01/2019 18:54

My horse bit my tit

FLOWER1982 · 09/01/2019 19:02

I had taken all my carpet up in my flat hallway years ago as I was having a new carpet fitted. The grippers were still in place. I had a shower while carpet was up, stepped out into hallway and slipped on the floor , caught my foot on the gripper and ripped the bottom of my foot open. Oh my days it pigging hurt.

FLOWER1982 · 09/01/2019 19:03

Also shutting my finger in the car door after slamming it shut.

TroysMammy · 09/01/2019 19:55

A thin, lightweight, flexible chopping board landed edge down on my big toe by the nail bed. The pain was excruciating. My toe was bruised and felt like it had been broken. The pain lasted for days. Who would have thought something so flimsy could be so dangerous.

Also standing too close to a car door and when opening it having the corner of it smashing into your eyebrow. It caused me to see stars and have blood dripping down my face and a lovely scar afterwards.

ManchesterMum63 · 09/01/2019 19:56

Theunreasonableones - sorry for scaring you... it WAS over in secondsGrinand i've had the surgery now and that was no big deal...Smile

species5618 · 09/01/2019 20:03

Fell from ladder and did a moderate amount of damage to myself including broken bones but it wasn't what I consider painful.
However.
My friend popped in to see me when I was laid up and as it was summer she was wearing open-toed sandals.
A wasp flew in and friend jumped up in a panic, did the splits and slid across the wood flooring. One foot went under the sofa and she ripped the whole nail off one big toe. Now that was painful - (although to my shame, I still laugh when I think about it)

makingmammaries · 09/01/2019 20:07

Cesarean under epidural that only worked on one side.

thatmustbenigelwiththebrie · 09/01/2019 20:11

Cleaning my bike and getting my thumb nail impaled by the tooth of a cog. I thought I was going to be sick it hurt so much.

Mind you, my friend did similar and ripped the top of his finger off. So I think he wins.

blueangel1 · 09/01/2019 20:35

Another vote for dry socket; unremitting, grinding pain that painkillers won't touch.

I broke my coccyx some years ago when I slipped on a flight of stairs. I think I said every swear word I've ever known.

I'll also nominate uveitis; if someone had told me that removing my own eye would help, I'd probably have done it.

SabineUndine · 09/01/2019 20:37

Abscess on your eardrum. 48 hours of exquisite agony.

Ladies, gentlemen, thank you.

SabineUndine · 09/01/2019 20:45

Also, I get a weird kind of cramp in my inner thighs. Forget ordinary cramp, this is like a red hot dagger in your thigh. It comes on in a split second and takes 15 minutes to wear off during which time you may nearly faint and will probably wet yourself a bit from the sheer agony.

delboysskinandblister · 09/01/2019 20:49

@flameycakes

did you get anymore frozen spinach to bring down the swelling?

BovrilOverkillOhMyInsides · 09/01/2019 21:18

Toddler left her cute little belt with metal buckle on the kitchen floor, I was barefoot, miiiiiight have been dancing as I tidied (hey it was a large space) and maaaaaay have had to have stitches put in the sole of my foot after having a large, thick flap of skin tweezered out of it...... I cried.

NoArmaniNoPunani · 09/01/2019 21:25

I caught my fanny flap in the roller of a runaway epilator. I had to turn it off and unravel 😱

Juells · 09/01/2019 21:32

I caught my fanny flap in the roller of a runaway epilator. I had to turn it off and unravel

I feel so mean for laughing :(

Polkapjs · 09/01/2019 21:36

Ouch at the fanny flap!!
For me- I frown and infected toe nail that I knocked on the tiled corner of a hotel shower cubicle. It burst with pus oozing out
Husband agrees with all of you saying dry socket

LetBartlettBeBartlett · 09/01/2019 21:43

What’s with all these boob biting horses?! Do I need a special protective bra next time I go to the stables?😂

Some of these stories, so sorry but there are some incredible ones here, I had to stop reading on the train as I couldn’t stifle the gasps & giggles any longer.

But seriously this one (sorry don’t know how to bold) “Getting the sticky strip of a sanitary towel stuck to a pubic hair! please tell me it's not just me.” Bloody hell so bad! And has anyone else ever been daft enough to pluck a nose hair? FOR GODS SAKE DONT!!

LetBartlettBeBartlett · 09/01/2019 21:48

But actually my worst one one having my wisdom tooth removed. It was pretty impacted so needed to be cut into 4 pieces before it could come out. The anaesthetic failed. Twice. I had it done at the hospital clinic and when I came out the looks on the faces of the people waiting to go in... think my screams truly terrified them. Safe to say if I ever need another one out I’m being knocked out for it.

dementedma · 09/01/2019 21:50

God some of these are awful!
My worst are dental abscess that had me actually sobbing in the dentist's chair - so embarrassing.
Also an elective CS where the spinal didn't take so i felt a lot of pain during the process but oh my god the spinal headache afterwards was indescribable. Like having my head caught in a vice.
Cleaning the shelves in the fridge and dropping one to land corner point down on the top of my bare foot. Fuck me that hurt!!!