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. No doubt about it.

Split stomach muscles and an umbilical hernia thanks to my last pregnancy it causes me pain still to this day.

I can't say child birth as both of mine I ended up on spinal to numb it all

But toothache is the worse

I had a series of headaches that felt like little bombs going off in the back of my skull. Don't think they lasted very long at all but I couldn't move to see the clock. Happened 3 nights in a week and then stopped. I have chronic pain and had to re-evaluate my whole pain scale. In hindsight I think I should probably have seen a doctor but I try and avoid them.

Run over (while on a footpath I might add). Leg peeled to the bone from knee to ankle. Skin grafts required and scarred for life of. course

Sepsis, I can only describe it as I knew I was dying, oviously I did not 😅

It was beyond awful.

Toothache, I'd rather have another csection.

Second to that, csection recovery

one of the reasons that gallstones was so bad was that it came on incredibly fast and I had no idea what was happening.

I'd rather give birth every month than have this endometriosis pain !

Kidney stones.

Yep - nerve pain from tooth.

They never found an infection so I went 3 days unable to eat or sleep and just constantly using cold water on it.

I sobbed down the phone to 111 at 3am telling them they'd put other animals down for pain like this.

Dad took me to dentist the next morning for when they opened. They removed the tooth. Pain instantly disappeared.

Odd thing is they never found an issue with tooth or socket hence why it's assumed nerve pain.

Back to back labour with a failed epidural; wanted to die.
Dry socket
Appendicitis
Faecal impaction
Acute sinusitis

Tooth abcess and childbirth.

Mine are
1)giving birth
2)toothache
3)heart attack

@tnetenba

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' .

I’m the exact same! Not given birth tho but I do hate stubbing my toe. But worse than that is braces related pain and the injections in your mouth for extractions...

Ruptured eptopic pregnancy. Hands down. And I’ve given birth 4 times. The burst tube was worse. Thought I was going to die. (Nearly did)

Gallstone travelling down pancreatic duct. Excruciating.
Mind you, the tonsillitis I've got at the min is pretty agonising.

@FizzyPink

I’ve got a root canal booked in a few weeks 12 hours before we fly abroad. I might rearrange after reading this confused

I have had a root canal done. It is a doddle. If you are needing one, then the nerve is dying/dead anyway. They just take ages to do.

Impacted wisdom teeth...they wouldn't remove them while I was pregnant, so had months of pain

Like many PPs, a gallstone. Way worse than childbirth, and I gave birth both times without so much as a paracetamol (this wasn’t intentional on my part btw, first one I was left on a side ward and ignored by midwives til it was too late for any pain relief even if I had wanted it and second time DD just came out too quick for anything else to happen!). But yeah, the pain of gallstones was sudden, breathtakingly painful and shocking. I didn’t know what it was at the time. I’d had a gallbladder infection in the weeks before and had been on strong meds but wasn’t expecting this - it was actually ‘diagnosed’ after the fact when I described it to my GP. It was so bad it fleetingly crossed my mind ‘Am I going to die here?’, probably wouldn’t have been so dramatic if I’d known what it was.

Double ear infection in both ears......omg I thought I was going to die ....and I've had two children !!

Acute pancreatitis following chronic gallstones. I can't even really describe it - gallstones was bad but pancreatitis 🤢 - not helped by the fact I was undiagnosed for 3 days so was being made to eat and drink which makes it much much worse.
It felt like pain was radiating around my gut, up my spine, the centre of my chest all while my insides felt like they were constantly clenching. Add to that nausea and heart rate through the roof and it absolutely knocked me sideways. Horrific.

Outer ear infection. Then contractions.

Bad back.
Child birth doesn't come anywhere near it.

Spinal headache after lumbar puncture. It floored me for around 8 weeks after I'd had it done

4th miscarriage. My 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th were just slightly stronger than my normal period pains. My 4th was intense and painful right up until I passed Baby 5 weeks later

Apart from childbirth -

Breast abscess (which was operated on straight away and drained). Didn’t know where ‘to put myself’.