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!

Passing a kidney stone was my worst pain ever. Much worse than labour.

In my teens I had painful periods. During the second ( pushing) stage of labour, my contraction pains were that same kind of pain, but stronger.

Laser eye surgery. Either I'm super sensitive or not enough anesthetic drops were used. I have 2 children but would NEVER have laser eye surgery again.

Corneal ulcer and a burn on my arm

My labour was the most painful thing I had ever experienced until I had horrendous toothache a few years back.

I was a slobbery mess and bawled all weekend.

Remember - you get super painkillers when you are in labour

Labour was excrutiating, terrifying and overwhelming. But also the greatest events of my life. There was no running away from the sheer rollercoaster of emotions I felt, and the people in the room with me (staff) were 'all in', completely switched on and I felt completely held at a time when I felt my most vulnerable. It is insane, but wonderful. Just go with it and see what happens.

I have arthritis. And I honestly would go through the end part of labour once a day for an hour than live with arthritis anymore

Best days of my life. The pain was sort of addictive and almost enjoyable. I felt a massive rush of some kind of natural high after each contraction. I think I was near hallucinating as I kept imagining I was like princess on super Mario brothers getting a power up where she gets bigger and bigger and bigger. That was with gas and air. It was quite the ride!

Second birth I never got to the gas and air as I just never needed it.

A deep clean at the dentist was deffo worse

Read 'birth skills' by JoJo Mundin!

No. I'd been given too much oxytocin and dilated 5 cm in less than 20 minutes. 6 contractions in 10 minutes. It was awful.

My sisters was 40 minutes, start to end. She said it was 'unpleasant' but she knew she'd get her baby at the end.

Everyone's different!

Labour is weird because often you are excited, scared and pretty knacked with the aforementioned or cramping before it starts.And it all a bit undignified ( you lose that pretty early on to be fair).

And I was expecting vaginal pain rather than the feeling of your bottom exploding.It really is like shitting a pineapple.

I've had 2 painful experiences which were as bad as childbirth. Infected tooth pain was agony!! I couldn't function. Also I had surgery to remove an organ that was cancerous. The days following that surgery I was in excruciating pain. With child birth it's agony but it feels right - like the pain is a means to an end and it's a natural process. The pain that comes with an infected tooth or being sliced open and having organs removed feels so wrong and unnatural.

Torsion of melon sized ovarian cyst, horrendous pain.

Childbirth is painful but so rewarding and like a PP said, there is a lot of pain relief to choose from.

Shedding the lining of my gut due to a reaction to antibiotics. I thought I was dying.

Dry socket after wisdom tooth removal. The blood clot that is supposed to form got washed away and exposed my jaw bone to the elements. Was horrendous and if it had been another body part other than my head I seriously would have considered hacking it off myself.

Ulcerated corneas.

So painful. Couldn't open my eyes. Just curled up on the floor and cried because it was so painful.

Yes I shut a car door on my thumb, it was 24 hours before I went to a&e they screwed a little hole in my nail the relief.
I didn't find labor to painful I had an epidural on my first there was small complications so I'm glad I had it.
My 2nd DC no epidural and weirdly euphoric. Entonox is great.

Both labours were ok for me. Not painless, but the sort of pain you can really work through. The breathing techniques I learned helped, as did lots of yoga through pregnancy.

Breaking my femur halfway down an Italian mountain on a school ski trip, by far the worst pain I've ever felt. And one of the DC was 10lbs exactly.

Cracked my coccyx once and that was worse... lasted way longer than childbirth too!

Also a really and ibs flare up where the pain was so bad I passed out. After loads of tests in a&e I was sent home but it was the single worst pain I've ever felt.

Honestly I've never thought the pain of labour was too bad, it was the tiredness that got me both times. More so with the second one as I'd been awake close to 36 hours when I hit the wall... then 6 hours later he was born.

Gallstone pain was excruciating as was trapped

Haven’t read all the posts as I don’t have the stomach for it, but just to say that they won’t really help you as everyone is different eg there is someone saying laser eye surgery was excruciating whereas mine was 100% pain free.
What I can tell you re childbirth is that I read up on all the pain relief options at great length them wimped out and asked for an epidural fairly early on. Best decision I ever made. I have zero regrets about not experiencing “natural” childbirth and there were no complications.

Nope. 3children and every one of them hurt. Take the gas and air and more if you need it x

Trigeminal neuralgia....it actually made me scream with pain. I have had two children and the pain of childbirth was nothing in comparison.

The 2 days of my life before I got a route canal. I've given birth twice, two very different experiences, but neither felt as bad as the dental pain.

Agree with kidney stones. Childbirth pain is not that bad, it does bloody hurt but you will be fine. Also, just remember that when you get to the point where you think you can't do it, you're close.

Dry socket. Worset pain i have ever felt in my life and I had DD with no pain relief at all (not through choice)

Honestly take whatever drugs you fancy, its a few hours of your life and so worth it.