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.

Pressure on my brain - pain within the skull due to sepsis. No pain like it - so much worse than child birth.

Sinus/ ear infections. Some have been agonising.
Ectopic pregnancy rupture.
Twin natural labour.

I should mention the pain of Fibromyalgia. It's not the strongest pain, though it is high up there on the list of awfulness, but it's all over and is unrelenting during a flare up.

I had a seizure whilst in my underwear quickly ironing my clothes for the day. I woke up pay on the floor with the iron on top of my thigh burning away.
The pain and recovery was horrendous but I've got an immense scar.

Late miscarriage. Objectively, I am sure it wasn't as painful as the births I later had. But my perception of it was much worse, because I was terrified and grieving. Terrified because I didn't know much about miscarriage and that it isn't usually dangerous. And I wasn't prepared for it to happen. I did think I might die.

On the other hand, when I gave birth I felt like I could get through it because I knew I'd be holding my baby before long, so there was a purpose to it, and somehow the pain didn't matter as much. (Fully appreciate that some women's experience of birth is so horrific that the thought of holding their baby doesn't help!)

Does anyone else feel like school has zapped the life out of anything fun? For context- I am a mum to a four year old daughter. I have spent my whole life with her since she was born. I have had on and off temp jobs but the majority of my life has been spent with her. She went to nursery 3 mornings a week for 10 months from the age of 3 and that was it.
We had the best times.
Now, school is killing us both. It's such a drag every day. For a 4 year old (May baby) and me, I just want us to go back to our fun lives. I feel like it's all we talk about and we both hate to have such a schedule.
Just wondering if anyone else feels the same and if 4 year olds should just be living their lives having fun. They'll all learn their phonics one day...

Yeah but most of us describing the pain like that have gone on to have more so…..must be the brain forgetting.

"Headache" when I had a brain haemorrhage. I'd had a headache for over a week before the haemorrhage went full on and that was pretty bad but when I was in A&E waiting to be transferred to a neurological hospital it got so bad that I not only thought I was going to die I would have been happy to die. I've had a lot of bad pain in my life, a broken shoulder, insane period pains, currently horrendous pain below the boob area because I have a tumour in my oesophagus which is mostly a dull ache but regularly grips me so hard that I have to do some breathing and say swear a lot until it passes. It's bloody awful but nothing will ever compare to the "headache".

Frozen shoulder zingers

Wrong thread I think but yeah. School is just the start of life’s treadmill. You’ve got years of it ahead of you. Then you have the worry of them going away to university. 😆

I keep telling people that ironing is dangerous and flat clothes aren't worth the risk of burns, and no one believes me.

100% yes to this! I had this with my caesarean and didn't sleep for 36hrs straight because it was too painful to lean back in a chair or lay down. I sat up straight on the edge of the chair or shuffled / sleep walked pushing the baby around in the wheely basinet thing.

I've also had an ovarian torsion (ovary flips and the tubes twist). I thought I was dying. I was hyperventilating and crying and was sick from the pain. Was about to get my husband to call an ambulance when it corrected itself and the pain stopped

Sorry, new to Mumsnst and not sure where to post!

Vaginal childbirth times two to two massive babies, one with shoulder dystocia. Both times thought I would die / split in two. No tearing for either birth though. Anaesthetic injections into my gums for teeth removal the worse prior to childbirth. I actually ended up having later teeth extracted without any pain relief as I found the injections so excruciating.

I think you meant to make a new thread, not a post to an existing one. It's a different button.

Hyperemesis. I guess more illness than pain, but still

Gallstones. Worst than labour.

My third child’s birth. She had shoulder dystocia and was a home birth so it was a very scary few minutes while they tried to free her. And the most painful experience of my life.

Prolapsed disc/incomplete cauda equina, had this twice, second time was flat on back for a week, just moving neck was excruciating painful. Closely followed by 2nd child’s birth as it was without pain relief and his head circ was in the 98th centile.

Vulva shingles. Shingles can attack any nerve in the body. I had it in the nerve which runs from the top of the buttock to the groin. The pain was horrific.

It was a riding accident. I hit the ground in a bad position and then the horse landed on me.

Smashed femur

Much worse after the break was disturbed.

Diamorphine solved it.

I fell and chipped my coccyx absolute agony can’t even describe the pain!

Heartburn after giving birth with gas and air only.
I thought I was dying .
My third child too.
Never been more embarrassed.

It's between compound fracture of my wrist ( when the surgeon pulled it back in) I was actually screaming and asking him to stop. I'm usually quite stoical about pain.
Coming second is my knee replacement, it was a complicated one and the pain was dreadful once the anaesthetic wore off ( spinal and general)