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, Childbirth, broken bones. In that order.

When I was pregnant I had a horrible pain in roughly the kidney area. Dr said just a urinary tract infection but I've had those before and it wouldn't normally hurt there and it was so bad I could barely get out of bed. Childbirth was no picnic but it was easier.

@MonkeyPuddle

Back to back labour. Fuck me. Agony.

Mine was back to back too. Horrific isn't it😩

Gallstones. Still waiting for them to be removed. Sigh.

Also (when I was a kid) I impaled my foot on a huge triangular shaped shard of plastic once after jumping off a bed. That was pretty fucking awful. I felt like my foot had been ripped apart with hot lava. I couldn’t walk properly for months.

Pleurisy was pretty fucking bad.

Breaking my knee. Nope. Never again, thanks.

Gallstones.

Miscarriage. I was crying, walking in circles around my living room.

Being electrocuted by a faulty cooker main.

It was very quick but the pain was like nothing I'd experienced before.

Treading on Lego.

I had a back to back labour with an episiotomy with my first and a section with my second. Neither compares to the pain of dry socket or endometriosis!

@MonkeyPuddle

Back to back labour. Fuck me. Agony.

Yes! Back to back labour for 24 hours. I honestly felt like I was going to die.

[quote XenoBitch]@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.[/quote]
I was going to say the same thing; once they've cleaned the nerve out under local anaesthetic, there's nothing left to hurt.

Three labours, tooth infection followed by dry socket, but a heart attack was the worse pain and most frightening and strongest pain ever!

I had adenomyosis, but had a hysterectomy which sorted that! My worst pain has been dislocated shoulder/displaced knee cap. That wins over tooth ache all day. 😬

My tooth cracked through to the root which then was infected. Worst pain of my life. I cried on the phone to my dentist, I have a fear of the dentist so they knew it must be bad when I begged to see him. My dentist said it was possibly one of the most painful thing could have happened. Horrific.

Back to back labour for 28 hours straight with very little in the way of pain relief. I remember feeling like I was being turned inside out and each minute feeling like an eternity. I was openly asking for death by the time they decided an emergency section was necessary.

Shingles in my face and next to optic nerve

Kidney stone and sciatica, followed by child birth.

Spinal headache. Spinal fluid was leaking 8 days after having a spinal block for my last c-section. I have never felt pain so excruciating in my entire life (and I've had many painful conditions). If they had told me the cure for the pain was to chop my head off I would have begged them to hurry up and do it. The actual cure was a "blood patch" which was not pleasant to have, but it did help thank goodness.

Yes to the above. Also badly burned my leg with boiling water and the pain was intense and just kept going. Made me realise how incredibly terrible it must be for serious burn victims.

Gallstones. I'd give birth any day, rather than ever experience those again.

Meningitis headache that went on for weeks on and off. Most crippling pain I've ever suffered and I've birthed two children with no pain relief.

Gold medal - nerve pain due to Shingles on my head
Silver medal - dislocating my shoulder (the first of many times)
Bronze medal - scalding both my hands by knocking over a cup of tea as I was making it.

Birth of my first child was awful, but still not on the podium!!

Childbirth with forceful forceps and no pain relief (dr had one foot up in the bed and was pulling her with all his strength). I hemorrhaged and felt like I was going to die.