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.

While pregnant and suffering with severe hyperemesis, I had the most horrendous pain which was very similar to labour, even coming in waves, just higher up and longer lasting. Lots of tests etc and doctors could only assume it was severely strained muscles due to constant vomiting (still don't agree with that.) It was painful enough to need morphine.

Dislocated shoulder.Giving birth twice without pain relief was a walk in the park in comparison

Induced labour with no pain relief.

Sciatica. And I've had two induced labours, each of which ended in a C-section.

Slipped disc. Couldn’t move. Couldn’t walk. Couldn’t sleep.

I was taking so many painkillers- barely touched it.

Rapid onset arthritis in both hips, I was in agony and surviving on a daily cocktail of various painkillers, I had two hip replacements in three months, the discomfort of recovery was nothing in comparison.

I got a hideous migraine last year I think it was heat stroke related. I could barely open my eyes or sit up and I honestly thought something had gone terribly wrong.

Childbirth was easier than some of the migraines I've had.

Me too. And it was fractured as well. I went weirdly quiet with tears coursing down my cheek after the initial
Howling. It was like I'd accepted my fate.
The doctor who said "well put you to sleep to relocate it as we can see you're in considerable pain " is my best friend. And the guy who pushed the syringe on the fentanyl. I was bracing myself against the bed for 5 hours and morphine just made me feel drunk but still in pain. Horrible

Trigeminal neuralgia, the pain was intense. Also severe food poisoning, the pain was just horrific.

Gallstones - worse than peritonitis, childbirth and dental pain, though peritonitis was terrible too.

Acute Pancreatitis, caused by an ECRP due to my second most painful, gallstones.

Actually the AP was probably on a par with the Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) that was triggered by a foot injury. Thankfully after a year of intensive treatment and physio it eventually went into remission, but there is no pain on earth that feels quite like it and I live in fear of it coming back.

Also, severe headache caused by a spinal leak following a lumbar puncture and another severe headache triggered by unstable cervical vertebrae that no pain relief even began to touch. Headache is a very poor description for both of those events.

I have given birth three times, first back to back, failure to progress drip turned up and up, then ventouse, second and third no pain relief at all and I wouldn’t even put them on the same pain scale as any of the above.

Forceps delivery with absolutely no pain relief. I would have welcomed death at that point.

I fell downstairs and dislocated my shoulder. The ball of my upper arm was down where my elbow should be, and it took three men to lift me up off the floor. That was 1 million times worse than my third degree forceps birth with only gas and air.

Recovery from boob job, far far worse than childbirth. I’d had 5 children at the time and I remember saying I’d rather go though labour and birth for each of them one after the other than go through that pain.

I had a headache so bad that I was continually leaning against a too-hot radiator deliberately burning my back, because the half-second of pain from the radiator took my mind momentarily off the headache pain. It was worth doing. I would have been happy if somebody said they'd shoot me to put me out of my misery.

I've also had trapped wind that felt like being stabbed. I could barely breathe never mind reply to the people talking to me at the time.

I have given birth, but the only pain from that was the head crowning which really burned, so I was lucky there. In fact no broken bones or anything serious, I've been very lucky.

A really really really bad period that had me doubled over in pain and vomiting for two days. It was so bad.

Oh, I've thought of another one. Having a canula badly inserted when I was being induced. By far the most painful bit for me and continued to hurt every time I moved my arm until it was removed...

Nerve dying in tooth. It was worse than labour/c section pain.

My second childbirth. I stopped dilating at 6cm and the pain was excruciating. Although I was prepared for C-section I eventually managed to have DC vaginally. Second worst pain was being critically ill with rheumatic fever and being at deaths door, but after a month in hospital I made a full recovery thank God 😁

Feel your pain, RA flare in shoulder is awful.

When I was 12 I broke my leg and no one believed me, My mum took me to a&e and the dr told her I was making it up! I can still remember the horrible pain I experienced while I was lying in bed that night knowing kg leg was broken but not having had any treatment for it.

I Didn’t find childbirth particularly painful other than crowning but I’m not sure I have normal ‘pain receptors’ or whatever in my uterus as I’ve never felt any kind of period pain etc either.

In-grown toenail. Sound pathetic but it was unbearable. I've had an induced labour, a c-section and a mastectomy and the toenail was by far the worst.

I had surgery on my big toe where they had to cut the bone in half. It was the 2nd worst pain, the worst was when I kicked the said toe off the lip of a man home cover and rebroke it a month or so later.

Thrombosed haemorrhoid.
Tooth abscess

In order:

severe dental pain due to a fractured tooth- fractured by dentist… contemplated suicide- I have ptsd from this 😞

corneal abrasion- wanted to climb out of my own body and beggedxA&E to let me have a bottle of the numbing drops. Extreme but thank god short lived.

induced childbirth on ocytocin drip- wanted to die hoped for a heart attack. I completely shut down and eventually they gave me an epidural- most amazing intervention ever.

1. Dry socket (dental)
2. Dental abscess which burst on a 12 hour flight. Had no pain relief on me.
3. Pain before Appendix burst
4. Kidney infection

Joint 4: the bit right before urge to push/poo when baby born vaginally (full cervical dilation Also oxytocin induced contractions

1. The headache/eye ache I had when I had sepsis before emergency op.
2. Cramps when had diarrhoea when I had covid. Thought I was going to poo out my colon.

Joint 6. When none of the clinicians could get my IV line in. I was crying and a consultant had to come do it. 1 being worst pain, number 6 lesser but still very very painful.