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?

Gallstones. Just had gallbladder out

Gallstones.

I've just beaten that then. I have CRPS and it's rated the highest on the McGill pain scale, 2 points higher than trigeminal neuralgia and about 14 more than childbirth!
(CRPS is supposedly the most painful disease known)

I damaged my coccyx about a month ago. It was like being punched in the back and I thought I was going to throw up. It's been absolutely excruciating to sit down or lie flat or just anything really. It's slowly getting better but still very, very sore.

Also 2 c-sections, 1 vaginal birth, pinched nerve in my shoulder, chopping up my finger in a blender. I find it hard to rank all of these. All dreadful (except the vaginal birth because after I felt like a superhero. Must have been high on the endorphins!)

Giving birth and a compound ankle fracture

Childbirths weren’t great, slipped disc and gallstones were bad but for acute omg pain I raise you….

2 Weeverfish stings on the same toe

Apparently fishermen have been known to chop their hands/feet off after being stung. I felt like doing the same to my toe.

kidney stones sciatica and bizarrely diverticulitis

Frozen shoulder - my arm froze solid for 6 months and the main ligament from my shoulder to my elbow completely calcified. The pain was so bad I ended up in a and e after my physio said my pain levels on were so bad he couldn't treat me. I've had three tricky births, meningitis, broken bones, spinal injury - nothing came close to this.

I woke up one morning 3 weeks after having an lp shunt fitted for ideopathic intercranial hypertension in the most severe pain in my head considering I was most used to head pain due to this condition this was something else I was violently vomiting ambulance took one look at me and took me to resus it took 12 hours to stabilise me enough to get me out of resus and to the right hospital I was also 25 weeks pregnant they where sure it was an infection but my csf fluid was clear I’ve had numerous shunt surgeries since and never had anything similar the pain was so extreme I was delirious.

Corneal ulcer. I would rather give birth than go through that ever again.

Perforated bowel ;/

Stage 4 endometriosis which was everywhere and adenomyosis- regularly feeling like I was being stabbed somewhere, crying out, seeing stars etc. Burst ovarian cyst. Fractured coccyx. Suspended ovaries post surgery wire thread being removed- scraped me inside on its way out

In order:

Thrombosed hemorrhoid after birth of DS.
Gallstones.
Childbirth.

Gallstones

1. Back to back birth x 3
2. Shingles

Bartholin’s cysts - 2 of them.

First one abscessed, put up with the pain for well over a month and was the size of a tennis ball before it burst (sheer relief).

2nd one I knew what it was and kept an eye on it. Due to the previous one they offered me a balloon catheter to drain it. That was fun. Jagged in the vag and then slit open while sitting on a chair with stirrups. I still have a remaining lump from that one.

Due my first baby at the end of the year so we’ll see how it compares.

Impacted wisdom teeth and sciatica. I’ll never forget the agony.

Gallstones 100%. Although I'm now pregnant for the first time so will be interesting to see which is worse, childbirth or gallstones!

@AllThatGlistensIs A Lisfranc fracture of my foot.

Snap

My first thought was walking on Lisfranc fractures for 12 months before I had surgery, my second thought was actually the innocuous accident that caused the Lisfranc fractures and my third is the years of pain that I've been in because of the initial misdiagnosis of the Lisfranc fractures.

Giving birth the first time (failed ventouse, failed forceps, successful ventouse) was a walk in the park in comparison

Trigeminal neuralgia. Genuinely considered suicide.

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Dislocated knee.

However its a toss up between two different part of the incident. The actual accident where I hanging upside down by trapped leg... or when I was being transferred to a stretcher and the St John's Ambulance people strapped me to the stretcher across the knees. It was a good job I had already had gas and air by then (and as DH claims... my arms were already strapped down).

(I was very grateful to the SJA volunteers, but they did cause more damage unfortunately. 10 years, still have issues, knee will never heal properly)

Dislocated knee for me too. And I’ve given birth and had kidney stones.

Compartment syndrome after surgery. I was screaming, vomiting and blacking out - dh says I couldn't put any words together at all while he was trying to persuade the staff on the ward that maybe something was properly wrong and could someone a) get me some pain relief and b) have a look at my cast

CRPS, which I got due to the damage done. Imagine pouring boiling water over yourself over and over again. At its worst I would have absolutely cut that limb off myself (no joking at all) but sadly would have still had the pain according to my surgeon

@MissScuito

I've just beaten that then. I have CRPS and it's rated the highest on the McGill pain scale, 2 points higher than trigeminal neuralgia and about 14 more than childbirth! (CRPS is supposedly the most painful disease known)

oh ffs, that was meant to be in reply to this

@AbsentmindedWoman
Trigeminal neuralgia
Actually that wins the thread (at least my doctor friend reckons so)

But if anyone's interested this is the McGill pain scale with kidney stones a 42, trigeminal neuralgia a 44 and CRPS at 46. Different versions give different numbers but they're always with CRPS being the worst!

@HopingForOurRainbowBaby, so sorry to hear about your losses.

Dry socket omg the pain!

Having a baby standing up whilst walking downstairs to go to the hospital