What is the WORST pain you've ever had?

[AbsentmindedWoman]

Personally, toothache (constant background throb with searing white hot stabs that made me feel like I was being electrocuted in my skull every few seconds) gets the award for absolute worst ever. Two frozen shoulders, and adenomyosis that used to regularly have me puking and fainting and almost hallucinating on the bathroom floor are strong contenders - but miles behind. There is just something about vicious toothache that makes it the worst.

Contemplating this as just back from the dentist, where at least for now, things were ok this time

What about you?

Gall stones.

Child birth

Sciatica

Birth

DD1's head crowning - oh my....

Gallstones, much worse than childbirth

Gallstones, childbirth

Period pain, I used to get severe cramps when I was younger.

Spinal headache after an epidural

Burst Kidney cyst

Kidney stones and child birth jointly

3 natural births, they weren't great pain-wise, maybe 7/10 at points.
Ovarian torsion however, fuck me, that was something else. I wouldn't like to feel anything worse than that

Never broken a bone so I've not got that to compare either pain to. Labour is a sort of ache pain, sharp near the end, torsion was searing/sharp.

Migraines, and burst ovarian cysts.

Not very serious but honestly stubbing my toe. Can you imagine that level of pain but sustained over hours, horrific! The saving grace is that it only ever hurts for a short while.

I do get some funny looks when I describe labour as 'not as bad as stubbing your toe' .

Trigeminal neuralgia pain - awful

Crushed sciatic nerve
Persistent Nerve pain is intolerable

Removal of infected ingrown toenail, the anaesthetic being injected.

Trigeminal neuralgia

Appendicitis. Followed by a tooth abcess.

Both loads worse than childbirth!

It’s a toss up between severe tooth ache and sinusitis- that was horrific - have had 4 children and would rather go through childbirth any day!

Closely followed by ovarian cyst.

Endometriosis and adenomyosis. Would regularly think I might die from the pain until the wonderful Doctor removed my uterus. It's like a whole new world!

Child birth and broken ankle

@KurtWilde

Trigeminal neuralgia

Actually that wins the thread (at least my doctor friend reckons so)

A twisted fibroid - much much worse than childbirth!