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

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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 followed by toe turning a lovely shade of bluey/purple. Nice 9 hour shift later and it is bloody agony.

Dry socket, dear god I never want to go through that again. Nothing else I’ve ever had or done comes close to that for sheer utter all consuming miserable pain.

I kneeled on a piece of Lego. Ten times worse than stepping on it. The pain ripped through my knee and leg and I felt sick for hours afterwards. Horrendous.

The first few weeks of breastfeeding were pretty painful too!

Fingers in a car door.

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I'll take gallstone attack in active labour for 500 Dave!

A friend's appendix burst when she was in labour, and she lay in a room alone all night waiting for a CS.

Before that happened to her I had felt very hard-done-by because I'd been left alone in a room from 1pm to 8pm, waiting for CS, with my womb rupturing along previous CS line. Neither of us got any painkillers - in my case all I got was a nurse coming in every so often and telling me not to keep my eyes closed, it would make the pain worse. Unfortunately, every time I opened my eyes there was a big clock on the wall that showed me only a few minutes had crawled by since I last looked. 😂

Friend with burst appendix still wins, though.

Seconding Morton's Neuroma here, every step agony.

Also badly broken leg, first time they got me to sit up with my legs off the bed. The leg had still been pretty swollen when they put the cast on then the swelling reduced after a couple of days in bed with it up, so when I went to lift my leg up the cast sort of hung off it rather than holding everything snugly in place. Then when I sat on the edge of the bed and lowered my leg to the floor, not only did the cast pull down on the leg but blood rushed to the area. I swore just a LITTLE bit! The cast being a bit loose resulted in fracture blisters which then decided to ulcerate, those were "interesting" as well as I was in a cast for 5 months in total.

But the very worst for me was one particular Hidradenitis Suppurativa , large duck egg sized pus filled swelling on my outer labia right next to the groin. Every single movement had me sobbing in pain. The whole area was hot and red part way down my leg and half way up to my stomach. Very awkward place to put a dressing on, and the swelling in my groin was so bad I couldn't wear normal knickers as the leg elastic cut into it. Mostly I'd have to just wait until it burst, and pray it did that somewhere I could get cleaned up, but antibiotics would help. Went to the GP once to get some, not my usual GP so he asked to look & he went green & looked sick when he saw it.

Another one - having your 500kg horse standing on your baby toe and instead of lifting up his hoof, decides to push it down instead. Crushed my baby toe, still sore if I press it.

I have a huge burn from catching myself on fire as I re arranged the logs, very painful.

Sometimes I get an inflamed fascist (or whatever) muscle in my instep, feels like I am permanently walking on Lego and it lasts for weeks.

Another vote for corneal abrasion. Just. The. Worst.

Dry socket after having tooth extracted.

Horse fly bite on ankle last summer. Massive blister and blew up like a balloon. Not too bad with my feet up but every time I stood up and blood rushed to it.... never felt pain like it!

Just a tip re corneal abrasion, beg for a "bandage" contact lens. It's just a clear lens that covers your eyeball and enables you to function normally pain free whilst it heals as your eyelid isn't constantly dragging the abrasion open. Mine was only meant to be in for a couple of weeks but I had it in for three months and I'm sure that's what helped it to heal so well.

One of my 18 month twins fell over on my bed and the back of his head landed on my nose.

For me, kidney stones.

Closely followed by managing, as a child, to scrape all the top layer of skin off the front of my legs from the knees down. I was on a treadmill at a friend’a house and friend put it up to max speed. I couldn’t keep up and rather than jumping off, I kept hold of the handles, my legs got pulled backwards and then the conveyor belt bit went round and round on them till someone switched it off! I still remember seeing all the shredded skin left on it! And the air from the open car window blowing onto my raw legs on the way home. Agony!

Slipping on an action figure and landing with all your weight on your knee on the sharp edge of a metal toy car. My daughter said I sounded satanic!

Your toddler ( co sleeping) headbutting you in their sleep - being woke up by the pain of a fucking broken nose!

Dropping a metal item onto foot - splitting big toe nail - saw stars and wanted to puke.

Kidney stones, I actually thought I was dying with the pain, pain like I had never felt before - ambulance, morphine, gas and air and more morphine and tramadol.

Paper cut style injury but with tin foil. oh the pain and the blood! Hundred times worse than a papercut.

Oh and getting elbowed in the boob.

I once lifted a petrol lawnmower into the shed by lifting it from the bottom bit (after it had been used), I burnt myself badly, 4 fingers and couldn’t take my hand out of water for 2 days, the pain was possibly the worst I have expereanced, I can’t imagine how people cope with larger burns.

Broken fingers are pretty painful too.

I thought you would have to be really going some to stub your toe hard enough to break it.

Um, no, not really as I found out last year when I stubbed my little toe on the corner of the bed. Small bruise, big pain.

I hobbled into our local walk in triage centre where I was advised that the treatment is the same whether it is fractured or bruised so there's no point x-raying it. The person I saw just put some medical gauze between my little toe and my next toe and wrapped some medical tape around it so my little toe was supported.

A fracture would take four weeks to heal, a bruise 2 weeks. It took four weeks so I suspect fracture.

Note to self - a full bladder can result in a broken toe i.e. I was rushing to the toilet and didn't properly leave enough room at the corner of the bed thus resulting in my little toe colliding with the corner of it.

The two most painful I've had are UTI, age 24 and middle ear infection at 16. I'm now 52. Never forgotten either.

Closely followed by tonsillitis and food poisoning in my early 20s. My teens and early 20s was clearly a painful time for me.

My bladder doesn't like to work after anaesthetic - every operation I have had, I can't pee - the pain of that is quite something before you get a bag fitted.

Oh and I broke my toe when I stubbed it, that was painful but nothing on the scale of the others!

Flippin' 'eck catneuterer, who's your dance partner? Mike Tyson?!

Am I the first to say Bartholins abscess ?

Not my injury but....

I work as a mental health nurse. I used to work on a medium secure ward. We had a patient who was quite clumsy for want of a better word-not very spatially aware, in a bit of a world of his own so would often bump into people.

I came in for a morning shift once to find the night staff in a state of shock. A colleague had knocked on said patients door to ask him to turn his music down. He said OK then slammed the door on the nurse's hand so hard his hand was caught in the door. It all happened really quickly and he was screaming in agony. Turned out it had gone through the bones on his thumb, and it was only a flap of skin that had stopped the bone falling onto the floor.

Might know someone would brexit it