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!

[ExShield]

Gallstones and infected molar roots. I’d give birth any day if the week than go through that again.

[Shelanagig]

I'll second gallstones and sciatica. Relentless, ongoing vomit inducing pain. Birth, and I've had three with no pain relief, hurts. No denying. But with a good support team, including someone to rub your back, who keep reminding why you are doing it, how strong you are, how each contraction brings the end closer, you'll get through it. With your baby in your arms as a reward for your hard work. Because it is hard work. Very hard work. Those muscles we've never used before just start working all by themselves. It's astonishing how our mammalian bodies do it.

Good luck Chocolate, we're rooting for you.

[frazzledfatty]

It was very painful but I had no pain relief (no time) however it's amazing how quickly the pain went, straight away for me. Found the pain after a CS much worse & much worse then appendicitis. However I was in hospital on morphine with appendicitis vs leaving the next day with paracetamol for CS.

[LellyMcKelly]

I did a masters degree in computer science. That was more painful than childbirth. I’d have 100 children before I do that again.

[JoysOfString]

The leg cramps I had during pregnancy were actually worse than labour pains. Labour did hurt a lot, but you can have pain relief!

[Justaboy]

With my first dc it was an intense feeling but I remember looking at him the next morning thinking I would do that again in a heartbeat for this little person to be in my arms.

What a lovely coment:)

Good luck op you're little one will be here very soon!!

[Bigearringsbigsmile]

An infected gallbladder. I thought I was going to die. They had to drug me to sleep the pain was so bad. I was in hospital for 10 days.
The births of my children were exciting, exhilarating and wonderful.

[DancingLady]

Pleurisy, every movement was agony. I was pregnant at the time too, so couldn't take strong painkillers.

[ConcentricCircles]

Proctalgia Fugax - for several days. Sensation of repeated disembowelment, Total insanity. It caused me to repeatedly vomit, faint, bite my thumb knuckles raw during each attack. Took me a month to recover.

[AngelicInnocent]

When ds was born, it was bad enough to be a case study in midwifery text books (know this for definite as I had to give consent for them to use some information). 3 years later I had a second child, vaginal birth again.

If I was prepared to do it a second time, it can't be that bad. Just concentrate on the reward at the end of it

[Thurmanmurman]

I'll be honest no. Take the drugs.

[GruffaIo]

One minute of much worse pain - open, infected abdominal surgical wound being probed by a nurse practitioner at the GP's to measure the depth that was open. No warning she was going to do that until she did. Even the memory of it makes me queasy.

[IWantT0BreakFree]

I think it's very different for lots of women and for me it was very different throughout the experience at different points. It was very painful, but for me it was a unique type of pain. Hard to explain really. It was more painful than almost everything I've experienced (except for a pilonidal sinus infection) but because it was a purposeful sort of pain, it was somehow easier to bear than every other severe pain I've experienced. I had a bit of a shit time in labour and delivery as it didn't go quite to plan, but even so I was walking on air the next morning with my beautiful baby in my arms. I would have done it again in a flash to have her.

Try not to worry, OP. You don't know what kind of experience you will have and you don't want to spend your pregnancy feeling anxious and miserable. Good luck with it all. It's an exciting time!

[MyBlueMoonbeam]

Bi malleolar fracture of left ankle/leg.
Infected wisdom tooth space after removal.
Horrendous flu where every part of me ached.
Deep cleaning of teeth and gums which required 10 injections into the gums.
Childbirth was a piece of cake compared to all of these and I was a geriatric first time mother of 34.

[Northernsoullover]

Worst pain ever.. corneal abrasion. I would also take childbirth over dental pain. With childbirth (in my experience) when you think you can't carry on its over. But yes, take the drugs. Especially the pethidine. Even if you are coping take the pethidine. That shit is good!

[funinthesun19]

Childbirth is the most painful thing I’ve been through, with a tooth infection not far behind!

[Widowodiw]

Grief that’s painful and relentless.

[ChicCroissant]

Trigeminal neuralgia was far more painful than labour for me.

[mollypuss1]

Ruptured ectopic resulting in loss of one tube and a very large blood transfusion. I remember begging the nurse in A&E while I was waiting to be rushed into surgery to kill me out because I couldn’t take the pain any longer. The pain was so bad I genuinely wanted to die just to make it stop. Childbirth was a walk in the park after that (and I had an undiagnosed breech birth!)

[susandelgado]

Yes, when I had my arm set after a compound fracture, I've never screamed so loud!
Also, post operative pain after a knee replacement

[harper30]

I'll be completely honest I didn't find childbirth painful, that's not what I remembered either immediately after or now a few years later. To me it just felt like huge pressure, like waves of massive pressure, even when she literally came out and I tore a bit, I still don't remember pain just the feeling of pushing her out.
Good luck with it all I'm sure you'll be fine!

[HoldMyLobster]

Having an abnormally implanted placenta removed with only gas and air for pain relief was worse.

However... that doesn't tend to happen without childbirth happening first...

[Mumtolittletorchers]

sciatica which was probably because of the epidural.