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?

[quote KisstheTeapot14]@HopingForOurRainbowBaby, so sorry to hear about your losses.

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Thank you

@Megan2018

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

Snap. My kneecap dislocates quite regularly sadly (including today actually)...

For me- when DD head was crowning, I remember thinking this is the “ring of fire” that people talk about. Turns out I was actually tearing inside and out suffering from a 4th degree tear and what I could feel was in fact me ripping my butt clean in half- this was all without any pain relief as I had only been in the hospital 15 mins and pushing less than 60 seconds. DD literally fell out whilst taking the whole lot with her🤦🏼‍♀️

Oh and the after part didn’t feel much better as I was held together with a kind of bulldog clip to stop my bowel dropping out and had to sit upright on said clip whilst they put the epidural in so I could be sewn back up for 4 hours.

Trigeminal neuralgia and childbirth.

Sacroiliitis. Worst pain ever and it's constant. 100 times worse than sciatica. Can't sit, stand, walk or lie down without 100mg of tramadol every 4-5 hours and 2 types of anti-inflammatories. Sickness and dizziness are the nicest part of it. 2 ruptured and degenerative discs too, plus arthritis. Delightful!

Tooth ache hands down.
Followed closely by DD1's back to back birth.

I had 2 strips of skin the length of my thigh used for a huge skin graft after an accident. The dressing had to be changed at the Outpatients of the Royal Free near me. I’m a very quick healer, so the skin grew into the dressing. Getting it off involved screaming, almost breaking my DH’s hand. I decided I would change my own dressing after that (and syringe the tunnel under the skin, in one hole, out the other). Paraffin dressings are a boon!

Gall stone attack
Brace tightening
Childbirth

I've had to put up with a lot of pain in my life: appendicitis, sepsis, 2 induced births with the drip, gallstones
But nothing even remotely comes close to when I had a ovarian torsion. Left ovary and fallopian tube along with the watermelon sized cyst had to be removed. I was given so so much pain relief by Dr's and I just remember thinking I want to die because I didn't want the pain anymore. Truly horrific.

A dental abscess. It blew a difficult 36 hour labour out of the water. I gave birth 4 times with zero pain relief, but that damn abscess still makes me shudder. I remember pressing my cheek against bathroom tiles to cool it down.

Toothache for me too, impacted and infected wisdom tooth uo to the nerve. The pain came on so terribly in the night that I seriously considered pulling the tooth out myself with pliers. Been through natural childbirth, broken bones etc....nothing touches the toothache.

Miscarriage.
It’s pretty much childbirth but with nothing at the end of it.

Gallstones. Just one teeny little calcium deposit and you're on another planet till the morphine kicks in.

An ovarian torsion not a. Ahh hate typing on phones 😂

@emeraldcity2000 it’s hellish isn’t it. My left one has fully gone 8 times now, I’ve got an almost fully torn meniscus. Mine is genetic as my Dad has the same thing, apparently the kneecap is too shallow.
Twice I’ve had to have it put back in hospital, the rest mercifully have gone back themselves.
I feel for you today!

Hip surgery! I can't take anti inflammatory meds and the other meds I was prescribed needed two nurses so they gave me nothing for hours after surgery even though I was screaming in agony!

I would say… dry socket, gallstones, post epidural spinal headache

I woke up from an emergency (and very messy) full hysterectomy without any pain relief. They'd asked me before I went under if I wanted an epidural and I said no (had several for childbirth/surgery the previous two months and had been awful+not very effective). For some reason they'd got their wires crossed and thought I'd had the epidural. It wasn't nice.

Weirdly, I remember the screaming and writhing (and their horrified and hasty response), but not the pain. I think my brain has blocked it out because it was too great/incomprehensible.

Root canal on a tooth with an abscess. By far worse than labour.
The dentist was sweating and the nurse had to hold my flailing legs down.
Labour was a doddle compared to that.

Another vote for trigeminal neuralgia.
Only time I ever passed out with pain. Repeatedly. Instantly.
The constant background pain was severe enough but because the even worse acute pain striking was sudden onset there was no control or way of knowing when it would strike, it was terrifying. All day, every day, no relief and acute attacks several times an hour. It was like torture.

Ive also had gallstones, given birth, sciatica and trapped nerve in hip. Those hurt but the pain could be managed.

I would have to say toothache. I was swallowing painkillers round the clock and they were doing nothing. I actually thought I’d rather be dead than in the pain I was in

Angle closure glaucoma

Broken wrist and broken scaphoid
Natural Childbirth

Tooth abscess. I literally banged my head off the wall all night. I remember begging for help. The relief when they took the tooth out was immense.

The last time I had seriously bad tooth pain it felt like the whole left side of my head was caving in