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.

I've done a few painful things, C Section, forceps delivery, broken arm and leg, injured in RTA and had horrible concussion. Nothing compares to the migraines I used to get, I started having them at 4 and they went on until I went through the menopause. Still get very occasional and not so bad migraine but nothing like I used to.

nearly forgot - topical steroid withdrawal. ended up with sepsis, worst point of my life

I've got cast iron guts and until I had food poisoning (campylobacter) in my 40s, I had no idea that it hurt when you got the shits badly, or how ill it made you feel. The cramps in my gut were worse than any period pain I've ever had, and gave me the shakes and sweats.

I got noro a year or so later, and that was a walk in the park by comparison. Thankfully, I've never had any sort of stomach upset since, and it was over 20 years ago.

Dissected artery and following arterial bleed

The pain AFTER having all 4 wisdom teeth removed, 2 of which were impacted. Literally sat rocking and had 2 hrs every few hours where I couldn't take any more painkillers. Child birth was less painful for me x

Yes, another for a forceps delivery and the recovery. My baby was back to back too and it led to a very slow, painful labour. I was exhausted by the time they whipped the forceps out. I didn't have any pain relief either, which probably wasn't a smart move but the idea of a needle in my spine was too much.

My stitches got infected afterwards. I was in so much pain. I couldn't sit up, I had to have my baby handed to me for night feeds.

I'm 40+5 with my second, and I'm just hoping that this birth is smoother.

Meningitis headache
Closely followed by doing something to a tendon/ligament when flipping a pancake. I have RA and was having a flare. I thought I was going to pass out

Chemo when the drug kicked off nerve pain like read hot pokers being stuck in every place you could think of.

A period when you have adenomyosis and scarring everywhere from endometriosis - so every bodily function is agony. Unmedicated childbirth with no gas and air was a relief tbh.

Dental pain. The worst week of my life. Had root canal treatment for it and I hugged the dentist after she did it.

Being unable to urinate after a surgery which caused a very full bladder! The relief of having a catheter put in was unbelievable.

Colonoscopy, child birth x2, IBD pain, migraines- in that exact order

Relentless peripheral neuropathy.

Is he hypermobile or ginger?

Both mean that you’re less sensitive/susceptible to anaesthetic

I’m hyper mobile and have to remember to ask the dentist for a double dose, or I can feel everything

And when I had ‘waking sedation’, they gave me the highest dose permitted without an anaesthetist present, but I was still wide awake and very un-sedated (and the fuckers carried on with the procedure anyway, and then told me off afterwards for screaming and upsetting patients in the waiting room outside the theatre)

Recovery from emergency C-section with DS1 - I was black and blue and so swollen. Thought this was how all C-section recoveries must be until I had DS2, by planned CS which was an absolute breeze by comparison.

Also had reactive arthritis from some sort of virus I had from 12 weeks pregnant with DS2 til just before I had him - I couldn't get out of bed or walk down the stairs without crying, couldn't open a bottle of milk, press the button on my electric toothbrush or I vividly remember being unable to tip DS1s pushchair onto the back wheels to get up kerbs - absolutely excruciating but thankfully five years later hasn't reoccurred.

For me, it was when the scabs fell off of the wounds about a week after I’d had my tonsils out. Absolutely breathtakingly painful, and the worst bit was after the first one, knowing I was just waiting for it to happen on the other side.

Coming down with bronchitis the same day as an unplanned c-section, straight off the back of 30 hours of active labour from a failed induction. Felt like I was holding my guts in at every cough, awful.

Rheumatoid arthritis pain.

Tooth abcess

Dental abscess. It wouldn’t clear up and it took me two months to persuade the dentist to extract the tooth.
My 92 year old father fell and broke 8 ribs some of which were broken in two places and irritating his chest wall. For a month he was told he had no broken bones and was given ibuprofen gel for the pain. After a second x ray he had morphine patches.
God knows how he survived that first month.

Out of chronic migraine, polynephritis that left my kidneys 4 times normal size, gallstones with severe pancreatis with all that entailed, dislocations and fractures, recovering from cat 1 c/sec with complications…
I still place cluster headaches as the clear above and well beyond pain bastard to cope with.

The epidural thankfully took the edge off when I had mine but dear god, the first poo after giving birth that took over 5 days to materialise. I was shaking, crying and in so much pain trying to release the compacted fucker. It was so much worse than the whole child birth experience and still makes me shudder thinking about birthing the mega shit from hell. It really was the stuff of nightmares!

Backache labour. Nothing helped until they gave ma an epidural. But when I needed a top up, it wasn't given time to work before the Dr dragged my baby out with forceps. He did terrible internal damage which has never been properly fixed.
Oh - and a colonoscopy was appalling. A different sort of pain but still agony.

Migraine pain coming in at a close second

These forcep stories are horrific, tlk about putting my coccyx into prspective! I really hope you have an easier delivery & what a warrior for all of you who have been through this & also being prepared to go through it again 💪