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?

I say this as someone with Brittle Bones Disease who has broken almost everything....

...Weever fish.

Gallstones! And I've done childbirth but gallstones wins hands down, thought I was dying

Gall stones and pancreatitis ugh

Without a shadow of a doubt bladder retention. I’ve had it after all 4 of my sections, and any other time I’ve needed a general.
Crawling on the floor in the shower at the hospital begging for someone to help me.
I honestly wanted to die.

Section scar rupturing from inside.
Severe constipation after a section because of all the medication. Trying to squeeze but petrified you’ll burst.
Being induced via drip.
Fucking Piles!! Internal and external. And trying to poop with them.

All in that order.

That I remember- labour (back labour) until the lovely lovely pethidine kicked in!

That I don't remember but know was the worst ever: after my appendix operation I developed a huge abcess at the site and ended up with sepsis. Instead of waiting for theatre they cut my wound back open on the ward (quite deep - about an inch down). Unfortunately the cutting started as the local anaesthetic needle came out so I felt the initial cut(s). I don't remember the pain, all I remember is staring at the curtain rail, shaking in fear but staying as still as I could because if I moved the scalpel would cut me more. Poor ds and dm had ringside seats each holding a hand.

@hopingforourrainbowbaby so sorry for your losses

The pain of piles after giving birth to twins naturally. How the he’ll I was expected to sit up and breastfeed two babies with those things on my bum, I do not know.

The pain was so bad I asked for morphine. It was all consuming.

I gave birth to two 6lb babies in 5 minutes but the piles were the worst bit. By far.

Gall stones. I had a back to back labour that was 60 hours from waters breaking to birth by emergency caesarean, but that was nothing compared to when I collapsed from gall stones. I was delirious with the pain.

Broken toe. It wouldn't heal (there were some undiagnosed medical issues at the time) and it was painful for weeks. Had to sleep with my foot in a cardboard box because I couldn't take the pain of having bedcovers resting on it.
Labour, and an emergency C-Section were nowhere near as bad.

Another for back to back childbirth with no pain relief. I thought I was dying. Dd2 was “normal” and was almost enjoyable compared!!!

@sugarapplelane

Trigeminal neuralgia pain - awful

I was about to say that. I've got TN and I've never known pain like it.

@Sparechange I told them to cut my leg off. Had dihydrocodiene, paracetomol, naproxen, diazepam, was drinking oramorph out the bottle. It's such a relentless pain, I couldn't do anything but pace limp
I herniated the disc in the January, went off work sick in March as I was off my face on so many painkillers and 5hr op in the May

Without a doubt the worst pain I’ve ever had was childbirth

Drip induction. My other birth was a piece of piss compared to that.

Gall stones

Childbirth! Just horrendous. Could never have imagined it could be so awful. I felt like I was being turned inside out!

When I was 13, on holiday in UK, I fell and split my 2 front teeth horizontally across, so that the dentine ('soft stuff' inside was hanging out. I was taken to the local hospital, but it was a Sunday, so was told there was nothing they could do, come back the next day.
The pain was horrific, as basically each time I breathed in, the cold air whistled over the exposed nerves (I can't breathe through my nose due to another injury!).
I wasn't given any pain relief, and spent the whole night awake, in agony, as no-one gave me any pain killers. That, for me, was worse than any of my 3 labours.

Post-dural-puncture headache

I sprained my ankle many years ago, found out a year later when I was finally referred for physiotherapy that I'd completely torn the peroneal tendon in my ankle. It's still fatter than the other ankle & doesn't bend as much, 15 years later.

Had a dry socket after a wisdom tooth extraction. 2 days later & 4 hours in emergency dentist waiting room I finally got seen. No painkillers because I get migraines.

But the worst pain was hemiplegic migraines, before I got on preventative medication. Like having someone drill into my head, genuinely thought I was dying. I still get them, but now it's more of a vice feeling.

Tooth ache. I've never felt pain like it. I've actually screamed with it before now. I wouldn't wish it on the Devil himself.

Interesting to see costochondritis mentioned. I've been getting random pains that I thought sounded like it, but from what I'm reading here it sounds way more painful than what I've been experiencing.

Not surprised to see root canals on here, for my last one I had gas/air on top of the injection (as well as having a low pain threshold I also don't seem to go properly numb with anaesthetics, such fun!) and it was fine, but prior to that I had a couple of root canals where I thought they'd have to peel me off the ceiling. winces at the memory

Kidney stones. Worse than childbirth for me.

A random earache and a migraine; I remember both as being (in the moment) worse than contractions. And I used to suffer joint pains in my knees; sometimes they would 'lock' at night and the pain would actually make me scream.
I also accidentally (drunkenly) inhaled some foam at a foam party once (a bloody 6ft wall of the stuff in Spain!!) - very hard to describe, but the sensation of being unable to breathe was excruciating, and took a very scary 60 seconds or so to pass :(

Dislocated kneecap and childbirth. I think the kneecap edges it as the worst but it’s close.

I would have said my 1st birth which was induced with syntocinon due to pre eclampsia (absolutely torturous contractions) and being stitched up afterwards or the first bowel movement after a csection for twins (the wind ), or when the golf ball sized cyst I got under my breast was cleaned out and packed (doctor apologising throughout) UNTIL I got degenerative disc disease like @LabStan. I couldn’t stand from the pain or sleep due to waking up from it each time I moved. Standing at the school gate or in a queue was a special kind of hell! Even cooking or having a shower was a nightmare. It was like a burning hot poker running down my lower back, buttock and leg to my calf. I used to cry as soon as got up in the morning and I’m not a crier! No prescription pain relief would touch it, even diazepam did nothing.

Silver lining though was it forces me to go to the gym which was the only way I got rid of the pain (completely pain free now). If I cbarsed to go I only have to remember it and I’m running out the door .