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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:
greeneyedlulu · 10/01/2019 19:24

Having a bit of your fanny flap caught in the twisty part of the speculum during a smear test!!

musicalprof · 10/01/2019 19:24

Ruddyfreezin
Flowers to you & your sister - I hope she doesn't remember it...
It's not surprising they call it the suicide disease. :(

Lottylizzy · 10/01/2019 19:27

Anterior shoulder dislocation after catching my arm on a bannister falling downstairs. Every time they gave me gas and air is relax and lose the position I was holding my arm in and scream blue murder again. Absolutely horrendous!

user1493997854 · 10/01/2019 19:32

😂😂 made me spit my drink out laughing 😂😂

MycatiscalkedElvis · 10/01/2019 19:33

Catching your hair in the back of an old hairdryer

When you rub your ( normally placid cat’s ) belly and he suddenly grabs your hand in a catlock ( all four spiky claws!) and bites angrily at the same time

lms2017 · 10/01/2019 19:34

Half a tonne of horse jumping on your foot !!!

RoodleNoodle · 10/01/2019 19:39

@Jitters22

I somehow stubbed my toe into the pipe along the bottom of the radiator once.

Only when I looked it wasn't just stubbed, the toe next to the little one was literally at right angles to the rest of my foot!

I did that. I stubbed my fourth toe on a chair leg and it was pointing straight up in the air. Agony especially putting it back in place. They strapped it to my next toe but not really protected and I my DD kept knocking it 😭. I think I would rather go through labour again than dislocate my toe!

lms2017 · 10/01/2019 19:40

The above but also....

Hearing your achiles pop/snap while being dragged along the floor by a horse doing a full pelt gallop for nearly a mile with your leg caught in the stirrup just thinking your dead as your galloping along the side of a busy dual carriageway!

Riding a man's bike and sliding off saddle onto the frame part !!

There's soooo many! 😂

Allgoodnamesaregone · 10/01/2019 19:51

I currently have a broken toe from stubbing it on a chair on NYE.
Painful...but mild compared to kidney stone attacks.....they were MUCH worse than having my 10lb 7oz baby!

Juells · 10/01/2019 19:58

Lozz22
The headache after a lumbar puncture.

I wanted to die :( They put the foot of my bed up on blocks and took the pillows away, I suppose to try to get some liquid back around the brain :(

TheApeOfDeath · 10/01/2019 19:59

Opening a heavy oak door onto your big toe nail which bends back and rips out at the top and starts pouring with blood. Couldn’t look for ages and then didn’t know what the fuck to do to make it stop.

Magpiefeather · 10/01/2019 20:07

Standing on a dressmaking pin. Pin snapped and both parts went deeeeep into my foot . Thankfully there was a bit sticking out to retrieve the two pieces of pin

scottishgirl242 · 10/01/2019 20:15

Having a Tonsillectomy at 41 and then the wound becoming infected...give me childbirth any day!! 😭🔫

Deadbudgie · 10/01/2019 20:16

Gallstones.
Dry socket
Starting a c section before anaesthetic kicked in
16 hours of sting contractions but no movement in cervix (think I described it as a lorry driving over my pelvis then reversing.

Gallstones though make everything else seem like a bit of an itch.

Deadbudgie · 10/01/2019 20:18

Oh and being run over by a horse- gall stones still win though

Justanotherlurker · 10/01/2019 20:20

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To think this is one of the most painful things you can do.
donajimena · 10/01/2019 20:23

I saw it mentioned earlier but a corneal abrasion is absolutely hellish.

Frazzledstar1 · 10/01/2019 20:24

Infected tooth, tonsillitis, oral thrush and mouth ulcers all at the same time! I thought I was dying

Also, reaction to wasp sting which caused my whole arm to swell - the build up of fluid caused quite a bit of pain.

Actually no scratch those, the midwife trying to remove my placenta when the injection hadn’t worked. Every gentle tug she gave on the cord had me in tears, it was worse than the labour! Ended up having to deliver it like a baby 😱

Kewcumber · 10/01/2019 20:26

Stubbed toe! I raise your stubbed toe with a toe that I snapped (yes SNAPPED) upwards which had to be pulled straight.

I have also had:

Dry socket
Kidney stone
Recent hole in foot from standing on plug which took forever to heal
gallstones
I have had a bone marrow biopsy - three attempts, as they couldn't get anything on the first two.
I've had a hysterosalpingogram where my cervix kept ejecting the catherter through the dye was inserted and so the gynae hammered the speculum onto my cervix with the heel of his hand and left it in for the duration of the procedure (still brings me out in a cold sweat remembering it)
Broke my leg against the side of my own foot
Had/still have intermittent achilles tendinopathy
and
Gallstones

And the winner is.........

Gallstones... for the sheer length of my episodes (longest was 10pm to 7am) and the total inescapability of the pain.

goodomens830 · 10/01/2019 20:26

I was once vacuuming bare footed. I lifted the vacuum which caught my toe and ripped my big toe nail off its nail bed. I nearly fainted 😂

Lozz22 · 10/01/2019 20:27

Juells I laid tilted back with the foot of the bed raised, at one point I ended up laying hanging over the bed to try and get some relief until one of the Drs came and lifted me back in. I became that dehydrated I lost consciousness whilst violently vomiting and I managed to piss myself at the same time! They gave me a commode to use twice, totally un dignifying at 31 years old and then I had to walk to the toilet after that. Well more like stagger to the toilet. I used to go in and grab a cardboard bowl and sit there throwing up whilst having a wee. I never ever wish to repeat it ever again!! I wouldn't even wish it upon my worst enemy

Sickoffamilydrama · 10/01/2019 20:39

Although it's over very quickly the first time I had the coil I thought I was going to faint, my middle daughter who was 3/4 had to come withe as no one available to babysit, she was sat at on a chair next to my head I can still recall her worried face and her saying you Okay mummy and holdingy hand.
The last time I had one inserted i made sure it was done very soon after I had baby no3 so my cervix was open. It didn't really hurt Grin

Transpeaked · 10/01/2019 21:04

Falling and landing on foot with hyperextended knee - when I finally got treatment the MRI showed bruising right through the marrow of tibia, fibia and femur. Would rather go through another 24 hour labour without pain relief.

Brummiegirl15 · 10/01/2019 21:13

I managed to trip and fall in Amsterdam, (whilst stone cold bloody sober) but because I was carrying an umbrella and clutch bag I had no spare bands to break my fall I managed to smash my face up and put my teeth through my lip. I think I was in shock from the pain, then it got infected and I got impetigo

Manual removal of placenta without a strong enough epidural. Fucking brutal isn't the word.

But the winner is...

Gallstones. There are no words.thought I was dying. My particular low point was vomiting from the pain in my downstairs loo whilst a paramedic was trying to get a cannula in to me for morphine

Horrific

BlimeyCalmDown · 10/01/2019 21:15

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