AIBU to ask if there is any pain you have experienced..

[ChocolateQuiltedShitPig]

That is worse than childbirth?

Just trying to ease my anxieties over giving birth, due this week!

I hate the unknown and not having a client what level of pain to expect. I know every labour is different but I cant sleep and thought I'd ask!

Both of my deliveries were complicated and needed intervention. Ironically this made them less painful as I never went into full labour #2 and ended up with a spinal and EMCS.
Costochondritis was more painful. Woke up in the night and I thought I was dying of a heart attack. Couldn't move, had to focus hard to keep breathing. DH called 999! Paramedics initially were worried as my blood pressure was very low and my pulse was weak. Turned out, just a shock response to the pain. Stupid sternum, tricking me like that.

Frozen shoulder, if someone knocked into it or I slightly reached for something, the pain was horrendous. Went on for 7 months.

Endometriosis pain, a week out of every month for years. Once it starts I just grab onto something close my eyes and wait it out. Like little mini contractions.

Anal fissure (enough said).

Gallstones ouch. Much worse. You will be fine. 1
684256 women manage it every day around the world. And have been doing forever

Dunno. What's childbirth like?

Gallstones is one that I remember being quite a lot worse.
To be honest OP, everyones labours are different. Not everyone has a horrific time during labour.

I was told that childbirth was the worst pain imaginable, and funnily enough when I went onto the labour ward, I heard a woman screaming and thought, fucking hell! Is that what I'm in for? If I could've changed my mind at that point I would have.
But I ended up having a very easy labour. Like bad period pain, until the point where I needed to push (and that just felt like I needed a poo!)
My labour was 4 hours 14 minutes, 0 stitches. Gas and air, and pethidine. No screaming, no crushing hands or swearing like on the telly.

The main thing is to try not to stress yourself out too much about how bad the pain will be.

Period pain - I'd faint with it. Ear infection just before it bursts the eardrum. Allergic reaction to pethidine. Mainly, trying to walk in late pregnancy with very bad SPD.

To be honest, my births weren't bad - but as my pregnancies and after-births were so tough with SPD, I'm never doing it again. After-births was only bad because staff didn't believe my SPD was that bad despite having a wheelchair - after I screamed "why do people keep asking about my vagina? There's nothing wrong with that, it's my hips I need drugs for!" and DH pointed out I had given birth with said vagina less than 24 hours before, I got taken seriously.

Toothache
Torn calf muscles
Peritonitis

Many things tbh!

Giving birth can make your eyes water a tad but the midwife will help you through it although epidural does help. If you are worried talk to them about any concerns you have. But believe me , it is worth it coz at the end of it somebody puts a baby in your arms and life is never the same again.

Gallstones, ear ache, 17 hand horse standing on your foot..

Oh yes.

The first 36 or so hours after my milk came in. Way worse than childbirth.

Frozen shoulder.

@tootsey11 I had mine for 18 months. The worst.

Dry socket after tooth extraction
Dental abscess bursting during another extraction
trapped wind pain after laparoscopy
other than the very end of childbirth (for less than an hour) the pain was equivalent to my monthly period pains up until I had children
and migraine - far far worse
If you are used to having pain in your head at all then childbirth isn't as bad IMHO

If you're nervous try hypnobirthing. It really helped me. You can get local practitioners or online. I used Birth_ed online

Actually, also TMJ pain and a broken foot. Both no picnic.

@Whichoneofyoudidthat

18 months

Toothache. Migraine. Both pretty bad but childbirth was pretty bad. You just forget it though. The trick is not to fear it and not fight it. Try to go with it Easily said I know.

Labour hurt, but it came and went, and there was going to be a defined end point with something positive at the end. Lots of support, people with you all the time, and so absolutely manageable.

But it was absolutely nothing compared to having compartment syndrome which made me black out repeatedly, and I couldn't string words together, just scream. And after that I got CRPS (look on the McGill pain scale up thread) which I've had for 10 years.

Even dental pain was harder to manage tbh as you are alone with that

Wisdom teeth extraction 😩😫😭😢

Kidney stones for me too, I had my first (and I hope my last) experience of them in early March; I've never felt anything like it. Intense unrelenting pain for 4 days until it passed, and it had to pass naturally, it was too small for medical intervention

Kidney stones, knee op. Both worse!
With labour you know there is an end in sight. You get your gorgeous baby at the end. I found in both my labours when it came to pushing it really helped take the pain away. As did being in water. I only needed a bit of gas and air with both.

I didn't find labour itself unmanageable. I found the episiotomy and forceps excruciating - whatever local anaesthetic I'd had had done precisely fuck all (I didn't even have gas and air before that point - it just annoyed me, and I was too far gone for an epidural by the time I arrived, and wouldn't have said I needed one, to be honest). I was in a lot of pain four a couple of weeks afterwards.

But if you're just asking about labour - I'd rather go through labour than have cystitis again, for example. The contractions weren't constant so you get a break, and it's not the same sort of pain as an injury pain. It was almost more like an overload of pressure or sensation than it was pain. Hard work, but definitely not agonising!

Currently breastfeeding through cracked nipples is worse than the birth

No, but my bf says kidney stones were far, far worse and she would rather spend a week in full on, peak labour than suffer the pain of kidney stones again for even one day.

No, but it's amazing how you instantly forget the pain straight afterwards!

Kidney stones