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.

Period pain.

Pleurisy.
Worse than unmedicated birth and gallstones and migraine and bursitis.

Labour pain, period pain that's like labour pain, pleurisy, ear infections as a child (glue ear) where I remember screaming in agony until my eardrums would burst and stuff would come out and I'd feel some sort of relief. Labour and period pain the worst though, good god. Nothing touches it. Period pain feels like someone has taken a baseball bat to my legs, is scouring out my womb with a brillo pad made of thorns and slowly ripping my spine out centimetre by centimetre, while often vomiting from the pain. Joy!

Calcaneal osteotomy 🦴

Gallstones

Childbirth (induced by drip and no pain relief). Awful.

Reading this thread whilst being pregnant with your first baby is truly terrifying at the amount of childbirth responses 😳

For me, breaking my kneecap and tib/fib all in the same leg on a skiing trip. Had to be airlifted but was in agony until they got to be and gave me gas n air to get on the sled down to get airlifted.

Never had the notion to ski again after that funnily enough!

burst ovarian cysts- experienced for 10 grim years at around two month intervals before diagnosis and blissful oophectomy-
waves of pain that made me vomit for 24 hours and cry ( I am not a cryer!)
morphine didn't touch it! just made me wierd out

Constipation and trying to open bowels after c-section
corneal abrasion
labour contractions (back to back labour)
IBS stomach cramps and trapped wind in shoulder
pelvic girdle pain
anal fissure
broken ribs
tumors in liver
kidney infection
ear ache
tooth ache/abscess

Labour, my DC was back to back so it was extremely painful. At one point I went to the toilet and didn’t think I’d be able to stand back up. Breaking my collarbone was bad too. Also C section recovery in the first week or so

in order

IBS - excruciating labour like pains and my whole body feels like it’s in fire, I often end up passing out due to the pain.

Wisdom tooth extraction - anaesthetic barely touched the sides, I was in agony with tears streaming down my face as they had to cut it into 4 pieces to remove it.

Costocondritis

back to back labour with my daughter

Also food poisoning stomach cramps recently. I was keeled over

Impacted earwax against my eardrum that was thankfully made tolerable by ibuprofen. I was up all night crying and shaking with the pain. Don't stick your finger in your ear - it's not worth it.

Campylobacter food poisoning. Was hospitalised for 5 days for treatment including morphine that didn’t touch the pain. Horrific

I think I'd agree with this. I've had 3 children but would rather give birth again than have this, awful.

Although reading other pps I think I'd rather give birth than a lot of these lol. Makes me shudder to think of them - and child birth hurt a lot!

A dying nerve in a tooth.

Esophageal spasms (chest pains)

I can so relate to the feeling of wanting to lop your own head off to end tooth pain; just hideous, it just drives you utterly demented.

Gallstones & induced labour, I thought I was going to die with both, I spent hours on my knees with my bum in the air mooing when I had gallstones attacks & was climbing the walls like a wounded wild animal when in labour. My broken ankle I never had any pain relief, didn't even need gas & air when they pulled it straight.

GaII stones for me, as weII. And that's AFTER I had my two chiIdren, one of whom was, not hours but, two days of hard Iabor. GaII stones beat it. And this was back when gaII bIadder removaI was considered "eIective" surgery. Insurance (I Iive in the USA) refused to pay untiI my doctor caIIed them, toId them the gaII bIadder was in danger of rupturing, and if I died he wouId personaIIy heIp my husband sue them out of existence. I got the surgery. Was wheeIed into the OR crying from the pain, and the gaII bIadder shredded when pIaced in the basin.

Crikey, some of the descriptions here.. makes me wish I was one of the folks who can't feel pain at all (although I know that comes with its own issues).

Tearing when the baby's head crowned during a drug-free first birth.
Labour pains were pretty awful too, and I've also had dental abscesses and various illnesses and injuries which aren't a picnic. But nothing is quite as horrendous as actually feeling your perineum tear. Makes my eyes water remembering!

Ruptured ectopic pregnancy.

Back labour when having my daughter. I had awful back pain right from the start. Pethidine hardly touched it I never knew about epidurals until after birth. Tried a tens machine but no effect. When I delivered her they said she was back to back which explained why I was in so much pain.

Mmm

Sudden onset Arthritis in my knees caused by colitis. So hot and red that ice melted in about a minute.

Back spasms that were so bad I was groaning like when in labour. It was at night and had to call 111 and they sent an ambulance 🙄😮. After several hours waiting for it not to show I cancelled it and went to the GP for different pain relief the following morning. Ambulance seemed overkill but they were insistent.

Pain after major shoulder surgery. That really hurt. A lot.

All of these made birthing a 9 pound baby with no pain relief an absolute doddle.