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?

Slashed my cornea. You honestly have no idea how often you move your eye a second until this happens.

@LemonSwan

Slashed my cornea. You honestly have no idea how often you move your eye a second until this happens.

Oh Christ. Ouch!!!

Pseudomonas ear infection with parotid gland infection, ear felt like it was turned inside out, face swelled up and compressed my facial nerve and paralysed half my face for a month whilst oozing green gunk. Ended up in hospital for a week, I cried like a baby!

Spinal fluid leak. It lasted for 8 months and was hell.

Infected bartholin cyst. It was so painful I seriously considered ending my life

Skin graft donor site.

@HavelockVetinari

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

Actually what I had - anaesthesia dolorosa trumps it . It is constant TN rather than intermittent. I had it , only cured by significant brain surgery.

Severe toothache and dry socket pain, meningitis headache

OMG @AbsentmindedWoman toothache every day of the week…I’m with you.

I go obsessively to dentist now to stave off any possible repeat!!!

Back to back childbirth here too. I had to be induced, was in labour for 36 hours ending in forceps delivery. Funnily enough that pain was bearable because I knew there was a good cause for it. The exhaustion when I was pushing for 6 hours at the end was worse than the pain.

I had a really bad ear infection that went on for months, and has left me with tinnitus and some hearing loss. I remember lying in bed crying from the agony and begging my doctor for help.

Also an infected nerve in a tooth that resulted in a root canal. Again I remember lying awake all night is absolute agony.

Finally I pulled an intercostal muscle in a rib when I was 8 months pregnant after bending down in a shop. I was in so much pain I ended up in A and E and spending the night in hospital.

Despite these experiences I do actually have a very high pain threshold, honestly!

Mastitis

It was actually worse than the pain in childbirth for me.

I was in absolute agony with engorged breast, passing milk was like passing glass and all I could do was hand express in the shower crying in pain. I nearly fainted a couple of times.

Luckily I’ve not had many bad injuries or illnesses !

Closely followed by having the top layer of my cornea removed (it grows back!) and my open eye attaching itself to the protective contact lens inserted after surgery. Like a scratched cornea but the whole surface of the eye.

Managed to scratch the same cornea 6 months after surgery and my whole face swelled up like a balloon.

I would have said a hysteroscopy which was done without GA. I had an injection to numb the cervix and that was it. However after I had my first DC via emergency CS I had a catheter fitted. It was removed too soon. I was in a ward with several other women. It was very very quiet some of them had their partners with them including me. Within a relatively short space of time I was screaming in agony. The staff didn’t care and treated me like I was a drama queen. The pain was that bad I couldn’t move. It was me that said it must be to do with the catheter being removed too soon. As soon as they put it back in the pain went really quickly. I dread to think how much worse it would have been without my DH being there at the time because no one else seemed to care. I’d already nearly lost my baby because of them and their mistakes. I couldn’t get out of that place quickly enough.

Malaria - worse than all 3 of my child births.

Ex husband!

The stomach pains I had with suspected swine flu

Childbirth in hospital. I'd have happily had someone kill me it was so bad.

Broken ankle.

@Bunnyrun5

Ex husband!

Hahaha

Fractured coccyx

Being in labour with a back-to-back baby, then recovering from an episiotomy.

Gastritis ☹️

Breaking both bones in my arm causing one of the bones to pierce straight through my skin, I almost passed out.
Next would be gallstones, followed by endometriosis and childbirth

Trying to push DS 9lb 3 1/2oz posterior presentation out. I had a EMCS for DS1 as he was facial presentation and was stuck then his heart failed.

I've had a few things right up there, fractured pelvis, ovarian cyst burst and a slipped disc pressing on the nerve, they were all cry out in pain pains and not things that went immediately like a stubbed toe, but childbirth still trumps them.

All 3 of my births were back to back where contractions ended up so close that as one stopped the next started, I took a loooong time to give birth too. It was off the scale pain, just awful (so awful that I went back and did it 2 more times after the first 🤣🤣). Thinking about it the cramp in my legs I got when pregnant was right up there too, really made me cry out, yet I still had more kids 😆.