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!

Yes. Burst appendix. Re-locating of a dislocated rib.

And I had a back-to-back labour with no pain relief, ending with every intervention known to mankind. DC1 and I nearly died.

The first two were still more painful.

The difference is that you know that labour pain will end.

Kidney infection, my current knee injury, ibs flare ups that are so extreme I pass out. Give me child birth over any of them!

Yes! A degenerating fibroid whilst pregnant. A million times more painful. I’d spent so many years being scared of childbirth too so was kind of ironic that it hadn’t been the thing to worry about! You’ll be fine!

How'd it go?

@raspberryk
I was going to say that too , about the injections into the cervix. Traumatised me more than childbirth and the letz was 10 years previous

Post operative pain following bladder distension. Horrific.

Gout - I get it in my wrist and two bones grinding together is agony. The worst thing is knowing that all you have to do to avoid the pain is not move - at all.

When I had horrendous tooth pain due to an abscess and when I was being given oramorph in hospital for terrible kidney pain when pregnant I would have said I’d rather be giving birth. However I think the pain was on a par, it’s just when you’re giving birth you know it’ll end! And with something lovely! It will hurt but you will be fine!! If it was so horrific nobody would do it more than once

Toothache and a couple of migraines where I wanted to die. With DS I had an epidural before I was induced, I had pre eclampsia, didn’t feel a thing but also had no control and didn’t know when to push. Midwife shouted at me. Horrible labour and delivery.

With DD I was drug free, didn’t even take paracetamol, it was painful without a doubt but it was bearable pain because obviously contractions come in waves, you could get your breath back in between, it’s not constant pain.

Out of the two the drug free painful delivery was best, I was in control, my body knew what to do and I went with it.

I would give birth twice in a row without pain relief rather than have an abscess under a molar again.

Gallstones and toothache (severe), you get hard core drugs for childbirth don't forget..

My worst pains have been when I tore my knee ligaments and when I had a twisted ovarian tumour.
Childbirth is painful but it's a different kind of pain and something worth remembering is that the minute your baby is born it pretty much goes away, for me it was like a switch being turned off.

I find it very difficult to quantify and remember pain. I didn’t love childbirth but I did it 3 times and remember those 3 days like no others - in a really good way. I also remember the fear you are experiencing and I’d never want to do that again!

Dry socket. Relentless

Also after I had DD I must have had some sort of endorphin rush, I felt like I could have run a marathon, I was high as a kite and running on adrenaline. Anybody else experience that?

I think I must be very weird or very lucky. I actually enjoyed giving birth and the pain was nowhere near as bad as I had imagined or been told.
Dental pain, shingles and trapped wind much worse for me.

I had terrible constipation and took Senokot on the advice of my GP. Bad move. The resulting pain when I began 'evacuating' a couple of hours later is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Childbirth was painful but a walk in the park compared to that experience.

I have a headache most days that is worse than childbirth.

I absolutely LOVED giving birth both times. Yes, it was intense, but it was incredible! My first birth in the warm water with the gas and air was downright pleasurable. My second was super quick so a bit mad and “oh fuck why is my bum inside out” but honestly I still loved it.

I was induced, my midwives were all vile (actually laughing out loud at my birth plan and making me kneel down (whilst 40+2)and retrieve my pessary from the toilet.

And I ended up with an EMCS where the anaesthetic didn't work (anaesthetist kept shouting that I wouldn't stay still - I was having contractions - and that he'd just done another "sectioner"...he never actually spoke to me at all). So I felt all the slicing and rummaging.

Jesus fucking wept it hurt.

But, I got euphorbia milk in my eyes once and that was SOO much worse. Absolute agony, temporary blindness and no baby at the end!

If I ever have too much sugar, I get the squits and that is worse than contractions. And again...no baby. But I do always have to see what I produced

Haven't actually given birth to a full term Baby but I've had 4 miscarriages. My last one was horrendously painful because I was having contractions with it. The other one would be lumbar puncture. The actual procedure apart from having electric shocks going down my left leg was fine. It was afterwards it affected me. I don't think I have ever had a headache like it and I've had 2 brain injuries. I was floored for 6 weeks after having that done. Spent the first week constantly throwing up from the pain. Couldn't sit up for a week and when I did manage it it was for a couple of minutes before I had to lay flat again. That was the quickest 2 stone I've ever lost

Menopausal migraines
Implantation pain with my 3rd pregnancy (thought it was gallstones).

Labour did hurt but mine were very quick so it was just about bearable.

Gallbladder - thought I was gonna die.

Gallstone attack so painful I passed out face first onto concrete!

@Lozz22

Fucking hell. I'm so sorry

Christ yes.
I now have fibromyalgia, and wow.
Mahout is a breeze. Yes it does hurt. But it goes in waves. And it's functional pain.
Hypnobirthing and being calm meant I could ride the waves as a means to an end.