To ask what's the worst (physical) pain you've ever experienced?

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I've never broken a bone or given birth, but I have had some very painful periods that have made me feel like I'm going to pass out. Also terrible travel sickness / vomiting on a 20 hour trip that left me wishing for death due to how crap I felt.

Insertion of a coil. I passed out and vomited.

Far more painful than labour (but I didn’t give birth at the end tbf!), C-section recovery, a horrific sweep…

In order worst to bearable.

Gallstones
One particular migrane

(thought about killing myself, seriously, for both of those.

Dislocated ankle

Childbirth back to back (no pain relief)

Childbirth straight forward (minimal pain relief)

Thoracotomy and lobectomy, still in pain 12 months later.

C section recovery

Prefer childbirth!

Giving birth was painful but a 'good' pain for me, I weird enjoyed it!
Dislocated knee however...not so much!!

An abscess on my eardrum. For 48 hours.

Trapped sciatic nerve. The shooting pain in my back and legs was like an electric shock.

Thrombosed haemorrhoids have a special place in hell

Toothache is the worst pain ever imo.

I’ve given birth 9 times with no pain relief and I’d rather do that than have toothache 😆

Trigeminal neuralgia. Would have taken a hammer to my own face if I had gotten my hands on one. Childbirth was a stubbed toe in comparison.

Gallstones!
And peeing after birth

Horrific back-to-back labour pain that left me unable to sleep, eat or wee (much) for three days. Subsequent crash section and its recovery was a holiday in comparison.

Coming in quite a far second was running a marathon. Still fairly painful, but I always say to anyone that if they have given birth, they can run a marathon! 😅

Trigeminal neuralgia

Thunderclap headache. The first time I thought I was seconds away from dying 😂

Frozen shoulder and sciatica

Childbirth.

I'd be wary of people who say childbirth isn't that painful... there's chemicals your body releases to make you forget the pain, and now when I think back on mine it doesn't seem so bad.

But I knew this going into labour and I specifically remember thinking "don't forget how bad this is!!! Your body will try to make you forget how this feels"

The only other pain I've had that was really bad was severe period pain, and I've suffered from a chronic pain condition before so I have quite a high pain tolerance. Uterus pain is just on another level!

Being induced and then labour coming on really quickly.
Also stomach ache before an upset stomach..unsure why it's so bad.
OR tonsillitis.

All so awful.

Infected gallbladder

Phototherapy on a pre-cancerous lesion above my top lip. They literally burned it under a beam of light for 9 minutes, chucking a bit of cold water on me occasionally which was supposed to help, and it was excruciating. It then carried on cooking painfully on my face for days afterwards before it scabbed hideously and then fell off. Never, ever again. I've given birth twice without drugs, had impacted wisdom teeth removed, had an abscess in my gum caused by a dead tooth, broken several bones, and none were pleasant, but that was like something invented by a sadist. And the bloody thing came back anyway. Then had a cream that they said would be painful but was an utter breeze by comparison.

Just been there this weekend. Now home from hospital after having gallbladder infection that was all stuck to my liver apparently.
Definitely on a par with the burst appendix of 20 years ago.
Seriously childbirth faces in comparison. Well not really but it felt like it this weekend.
Hospital experience was lovely btw, ambulance in just over a hour, a&e empty, few hours in majors for assessment with lovely morphine then organising the emergency op on Sunday morning. The only fly in the ointment was waiting for
3 hours for the pharmacy to deliver the meds before I could go home

Me too. The most excruciating pain that nobody warns you about.

I can't decide between three things:
Having vaginal packing removed following a prolapse repair - the nurse removing it pulled it out sloooooowly as she was under the impression it would make it less painful. It was stuck to the wound in my vagina, and I don't know how I didn't end up on the ceiling.

Losing the lining of my gut due to an adverse reaction to an antibiotic. My gut was in effect a bloody, raw surface. That was the only time I genuinely thought I was dying.

This is the one that really triggers me emotionally - a flexible sigmoidoscopy with no sedation. I have adhesions from endometriosis and abdominal surgery. The surgeon was clearly only recently qualified and was doggedly following the advice to keep the scope moving, to a ridiculous degree. It was a combination of feeling anally raped with a horrible rummaging in my insides with awful pain alongside. (Sorry if that triggers anyone, but that was genuinely how it felt.) I was trapped on the bed, told not to make so much noise and the gas and air they offered me did fuck all. It was totally barbaric. I couldn't even lay on my left side for weeks after as it immediately brought it all back. I wrote to complain and got an answer saying the doctor and nurse had agreed I had tolerated the procedure and that they estimated my pain score as a 2. (I had a second one, with sedation, which wasn't enough, so I was also given fentanyl - it was a totally different experience and the people involved were so much more caring and empathetic.)

I've actually cried writing that last one - I will never forget it or forgive the so-called professionals involved.

Reading PP I think I've been very fortunate. I had a C-Section to deliver my daughter 4 months ago. All I can say is that I must have had a wonderful surgeon because aside from a little discomfort , I had zero pain afterwards. It was such a wonderful experience. I wouldn't want anyone reading this thread who is about to have a C-Section think that they will definitely have pain or be frightened, I went in with the expectation of some pain and didn't get any, didn't need any pain killers afterwards, got up walking once my spinal wore off 2 hours later and returned home the next day.

Dental abscess. I honestly thought about taking a hammer and chisel to my tooth because I thought I wasn't going to be able to wait overnight to see a dentist. I went doolally.

I have never known anything like those angry purple bastards 🍇