To ask What’s the worst pain you’ve ever been in and how you got through it. (Not childbirth)

[Bamechage]

I’ve turned to drink as the painkillers aren’t working but there must be something else I can do?

Coccyx! I fell on my first and last ice skating outing, over 50 years ago, I still have back problems stemming from that, at the time I'd not even heard of coccyx but it was absolute, total agony, far worse than childbirth. In later years I fell on my coccyx area again in the snow and I regularly recall crawling out of bed at about 3 am and running a bath where I stayed for hours!

I mean, childbirth was by far the worst of course but second to that was quinsy. I felt like my whole head was going to explode and couldn’t open my mouth at all. I was in hospital for a week and had to have my tonsils drained. Horrible experience.

Tooth abscess. Lying on sofa literally pulling out my hair and screaming in agony. Have absolutely no fucking idea how I got through that tbh. Only stopped when they took the tooth out. inhumane pain.

Broken ribs (from coughing - don't ask). Worse than childbirth - I literally thought I was having a heart attack

Pleurisy

Hand, foot and mouth as an adult, the open sores down my throat and in my mouth we’re excruciating.

And when the painkillers wore off after my c section.

Dislocated shoulder and broken arm when I fell over dog walking! Morphine was my friend 😊

Childbirth and gallstones doddle compared to multiple weeverfish stings on my toe. Foot in a tub of near boiling water for several hours still didn’t stop the pain. Found it difficult to speak. The young female lifeguard said there have been incidents of people cutting their own appendages off to stop the pain (whilst saying it can’t be worse than childbirth). It was.

….I got through it by rocking back and forth and fixating this was a time limiting pain. It lasted possibly 2 hours of really intense pain that was horrendous but took a week to fully go.

Internal Pilonidal cyst which they removed but didn’t sew up. Instead I had to go back to the doctors every day for weeks whilst they packed it from the inside out. It got infected part way through…it felt like it was on fire. Horrible horrible horrible.

@FiveGs

Lumbar puncture with no anaesthetic, horrendous

What?! Why?!

Occipital neuralgia, bowl spasims and my appendix rupturing 😨😨 my god the pain was horrendous

How are you feeling today? I hope you managed some sleep and are feeling better

DoItAfraid as part of my Leukaemia treatment as a teenager. Dr was keen not to put me under as I'd had so many general anaesthetics at that point, so thought to do it under local. Except the local didn't work at all (they admitted afterwards). I then contracted chemically induced meningitis following this as the spinal fluid was replaced with chemotherapy and I had a negative reaction. I felt quite sore for a week afterwards!

I can't have anyone touching my lower back to this day (not even masseuses) 27 years later, but I am happy to be cancer free

broken ribs i literaly slept and puked through it thanks to the wonderfully strong pain meds. But worse is a colitis flare up twisting stabby pain mouth ulcers from dehydration an arse hole that feels like its been rubbed with sand paper and just to add to the misery thrush from the antibiotics and a bartholin cyst a month on im still getting over that one.

Cauda equina

Co-codomol and red wine for 3 nights until I had an operation but that was only a partial success so a lot of diclofenec afterwards

I have often said that I’m really glad I don’t live in America or anywhere else with easy access to guns because by day 3 of the pain, if I had a gun in the house, I would have shot myself to put myself out of the misery

I’ve never known pain like it before or since

Coming round after a full midline abdominal incision to remove a gigantic ovarian cyst and the epidural hadn't worked. They didn't believe me and kept rubbing an ice cube over my skin to see if I felt it, why yes I can!

Pancreatitis was also rather painful.

Trigeminal neuralgia. I take shocking amounts of ibuprofen and paracetamol then top them up with tramadol, apply heat and keep repeating to myself that it would pass.

Pleurisy. I honestly wanted to die so the pain would stop. Strong painkillers helped a tiny bit but always wore off long before I was allowed to take another.

Pancreatitis and gall bladder issues. Morphine.

Trigeminal neuralgia. It doesn’t respond to normal analgesics, even morphine didn’t touch it. Its many years ago, but I can still remember how desperate I was.

Ruptured appendix. I was in agony. I begged for pain relief and it was such a relief that I could breathe without excruciating pain. Nothing has come close to that.

On the plus side I find I can deal with pain very well now! I always think 'ah well, could be worse, could be my appendix rupturing'

*when I got morphine I mean

Shingles.. absolutely excruciating for 3 weeks. I couldn't sit or lie down, sleep or eat because of the pain. It was in 2016, and yesterday I had a shingles jab... Very grateful.

My arthritis when it flares. No pain like it.

Trigeminal neuralgia here too - I knew how long my attacks usually lasted so would focus on my breathing and tell myself I was a quarter/halfway through and I'd always made it through before.