To think this is one of the worst pains ever?

[xSharonNeedlesx]

Salt on a bad mouth ulcer.

I’ve had to gear myself up for this all day. I’m 33 and have given birth twice for fucks sake. The salt has brought tears to my eyes.

Gall stones. Gaspingly painful. Beats mouth ulcers for me.

I’ve told the story on here before....but I cracked ribs once in an accident. All was going well with recovery, expected pain-levels. Then one day I did an almighty, dramatic, bend-at-the-waist sneeze. The force of it snapped and splintered 2 of my cracked ribs, puncturing one of my kidneys in the process.
That hurt. A lot. But after a healthy dose of internal bleeding, a minor surgery and lots of pethidine in A&E, I was right as rain

Salt straight onto an ulcer is brilliantly effective the absolute best thing for healing it - we’re the same here - tried and trusted technique in our family - works way quicker than all these things you buy from the pharmacy!

It does hurt though, but you just have to hold your nerve and tolerate it for as long as you can. I find that if you make your mouth really dry first (sort of suck the saliva out of it) then hold the bit with the ulcer out so that the salt goes onto it without too much moisture, then hold that position for as long as you can then the stinging is a lot less. You do look a bit daft when you do it though, sat there like that.

We do use salt, rather than dettol type products, on pretty much all injuries here - both human and pet. Salt is a fantastic antiseptic and kills all the bad stuff off and helps the healing. Does sting a bit though!

I once had tonsillitis and was advised to gargle with Cayenne Pepper. I nearly hit the roof! Oh, the pain, the pain.

Btw, Cath, I like the sound of 'mouse ulcers'.

Having a groin abscess drained. Doctor said “no point in anaesthetising given where it is, it won’t work,but you can scream and swear all you like”. Which I did. Swore like a trooper and screamed the place down.I previously thought I had a high pain threshold. Having it packed and then repacked every day for a week wasn’t a barrel of laughs either and when they took the adhesive dressing pad off it was like a particularly bad bikini wax.

I dunno, eating salt and vinegar crisps with a cut on your finger is up there 😩 especially when you wernt aware it was there 😖

Ooh mine that made me wince and cross my legs!

I’ve never found any over the counter stuff that works as well as salt tbh. Gels just seem to slide off without doing much in the few seconds it stays on there.

Valhalla that does sound a tad painful but I think you’re underestimating the soreness of my ulcer over here.

I raise you all of the above with a twisted ruptured bowel. Horrendous pain, dizzy, faint, nauseous, fast breathing, sweating buckets. Felt nothing like it ever!!!

Kidney stones, which made labour feel like a minor twinge.

Pancreatitis - unbelievable pain. Hospitalised and in agony for 9 days. Morphine only worked for 2 hours at a time so was tanked up with other things that barely touched it. I was sobbing and yelling for an hour until the time the next morphine dose was allowed.

Labour was a doddle after pancreatitis.

OP, thank you for crossing your legs on my behalf - I obviously couldn't! I did want to swear a lot
Sadly, my voice doesn't go high enough to scream, or I would have had a good go at it. I just made some strangled gargling noises instead.

Snapped my tibia and fibula in two but stepping on Lego is right up there

Soluble aspirin held on ulcer while it dissolves. Burns and numbs at the same time and the next day it's gone.

TMJ disorder. A flare-up can last weeks. No cure. Similar pain level to trigeminal neuralgia, AKA the suicide disease.

Sharon to be fair, during the “rib incident”, the pethidine sent me to an extremely happy place so I wasn’t aware of the worst of the pain I guess.
How’s your ulcer this morning? Did the salt do it’s job?

@flep that’s the worst, I have ms & when I have had neuralgia it is such a terrible pain

Breaking 5 bones in my back was a tad nippy

The worst I think was forgetting to put the stopper on my hot water bottle which I'd stupidly filled with freshly boiled waters sitting down with it against my chest which folded it over and and the water poured out burning my leg hideously.

I have never screamed so loud it hurt so much.

Had to get the dressing changed everyday at the hospital for days. Have a scar like a garter now.