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.

My c section, which is also the main reason why I haven’t had any more children.

Mastoiditis.
Saw G.P twice who first time told me there was nothing there, no infection. Second time gave me ear drops, then my ear drum ruptured. Then it was the weekend, so I waited, vomited, was dizzy, the pain was awful.
In the end I went to A&E, ended up on a drip for a bloody week feeling like my head was going to explode.

When I had pneumonia. The pain in my ribs, chest and up into my neck is something I’ll never forget. Couldn’t lie down, couldn’t sit up. I also had a newborn to look after. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.
I also have frequent migraines. I’m better at coping with them now, but in my early teens the pain would reduce me to tears.

36 hours of labour with a ‘half working epidural’ with top tier back pain alongside severe induced contractions, attempted forceps delivery (again with half an epidural), and a C-section and bowel surgery (again with half an epidural). There’s having contractions while being cut open and feeling someone fiddling with your organs that is a level of delirium I’ll never forget

Some people might think this thread is depressing but I'm actually finding it really helpful as I've had a lot of health issues recently and felt alone through it all. It's a helpful reminder that other people have also been through traumatic health issues as sometimes it feels like I'm the only one these things happen to!

Corneal abrasion. Six months of a wound in my eye.

Septic finger from Christmas tree spike!
Worse than sudden labour with no pain relief

I have fibromyalgia so well used to chronic persistent pain, and felt I have dealt rather well pain wise with dislocations, appendicitis, pcos period pain, c-section, heart attack...

One pain that actually caused me to scream out loud, and pass out, was caused by a nurse in a&e. It was about the 8th attempt to get a cannula in (I have crap veins) and she flushed it with saline to check it was in the right place...it was not. It felt like I had been stabbed. This was then closely followed shortly afterwards by excruciating pain during a chest ct scan. The cannula had eventually gone in my hand, and when they injected the dye in for the scan, it was like a red hot poker shooting through my arm, for what felt like forever. You then get a wave of heat from head to toe, which makes you feel like you've peed yourself. That was not a fun night!

I've had two vaginal deliveries, one without any pain relief. A while ago I had a strangulated bowel that required emergency surgery.

While none of these were fun the pain didn't compare with the absolute agony of a dental abscess.

Dry socket after wisdom tooth extraction, unbearably painful for me, just awful.
Contractions during my first labour after getting the drip thing in my hand to speed it up and no pain relief
Recovery after episiotomy and forceps
A couple of IBS episodes I’ve experienced were also excruciating

3rd degree burns. The dressing changes were horrific and one of my grafts got infected. Spent over a month in a specialist burns unit and wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy!

Hyperemesis, I had to be hospitalised with a drip in end, I could not hold anything down and was vomitting bile every three hours. Lasted around 10 days only ending due to the pregnancy ending.

Close second for short term pain colposcopy an unsuccessful attempt to insert an IUD. I can only imagine what it would feel like giving birth :-s

OMG! I second this with bells on.

I had a severe kidney infection a week after my c section. I honestly thought I wouldn't survive.

This was almost 30 years ago but still stands out as the most painful for me.

Kidney infection. Passed out at work, then again at A&E and fell off the chair - turns out that gets you through triage pretty quick!

Post orgasm thunderclap headache. Feels like you are going to doe.

Die

Being induced. No natural build up to labour just whack straight in there full on

Trigeminal neuralgia pain. Horrific, horrific, horrific

I dislocated and broke my ankle, that was an instant of agony, then manageable with co codamol and ibuprofen (I happened to be carrying them when it happened) for the hour it took for the paramedics to reach me.

I once had a few days of unexplained pain in my wrists, which felt like I'd broken both, even though I hadn't actually injured or sprained them in anyway. Even tearing some toilet paper off was excruciating.

Toothache was absolutely awful; paracetamol and ibuprofen round the clock over the weekend barely touched it. The nerve was dying so it had to be extracted; such a relief.

Most recently I had a neck and shoulder injury that resulted in agonizing spasms that left me howling like a wounded animal. My lovely GP prescribed diazepam, naproxen (with omeprasole) and 30/500 co-codamol (with senokot), enough for six weeks. It was absolutely necessary, even if I was rather out of it a lot of the time. I've since made a full recovery, thankfully.

I've given birth three times. All of the above were more painful.

Appendicitis comes in 1st place for me, then labour. With appendicitis I could barely walk, then when lying down I could hardly sit up. At least with labour you actygey something out of it, and I could manage the pain between contractions. Appendicitis was constant and I thought I might die!

Broke my back- I couldn't speak and just breathed in tiny gasps. Every movement made my back spasm. Only relief was not to move at all. Oramorph etc. didn't touch it..
Hugely similar to labour pain but 100 % worse

I've broken a bone. I've also had a longitudinal emergency c-section that left me with an 8 inch vertical scar on my abdomen. Neither of those came even close to the overwhelming pain I experienced during childbirth with my first baby. If someone had offered to kill me to put me out of my misery, I would have gladly accepted the offer. I just wanted it to stop!

Ear infection. Worst pain ever

Fractured my hip but that was nothing compared to the pain of kidney stones

Secondary peritonitis. Almost snuffed it. IUD users, check your strings every single month. Please.