Page 28 | To ask what's the worst (physical) pain you've ever experienced?

canwetalkaboutcake · 2023-10-03T20:00:22+00:00

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.

RedPony1 · 04/10/2023 10:04

When i broke my back i also broke some ribs - breathing was horrific!

ExtraOnions · 04/10/2023 10:14

Gallstones … I often wonder if that’s I was able to get through Labour drug free, I kept expecting it to get worse that a gallstone attack, but it never did

Beeandguinea · 04/10/2023 10:17

Miscarriage - passed out at home at the start, sat in a&e for 8 hours. Admitted at midnight and screaming in pain for hours. Never felt pain like it. I remember a nurse offering me either a hot water bottle or some kind of heated pad and I flung it across the room in panic. They couldn’t offer me anything stronger than paracetamol! Had a haemorrhage at about 6am, I remember somebody coming in and shouting for help. Everything’s a blur after that.

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 04/10/2023 10:20

KenAdams · 04/10/2023 07:58

Unfortunately employers aren't that sympathetic. Mostly because you won't "get better". So in order to keep my job, I have to grin and bear it unfortunately. I am campaigning to raise awareness and make people understand the effects of the condition though.

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I won't get better from my migraines either.

My sister fainted at work with her period pains and now she's allowed to schedule her shifts around them.

When you are in that much pain, you aren't safe to be working. Talk to your manager. Your employer's OH doctor might recommend something to help that your GP hasn't thought of.

Claraclouds · 04/10/2023 10:24

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Mrburnshound · 04/10/2023 10:26

Dry sockets x 4 after i had my wisdom teth out

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 04/10/2023 10:26

VitoCorleoneOfMNMafia · 03/10/2023 22:45

An unusual migraine that wouldn't respond to my usual pain relief. My mum had to call 111 because I was sobbing uncontrollably with the pain in between bouts of vomiting. Honestly, if you'd offered to kill me at that point, I'd have said yes. A&E gave me morphine, utter bliss when it kicked in after twenty minutes.

Second to this was a Mirena insertion without cervical anaesthesia. I was screaming.

fliptopbin · 04/10/2023 10:31

Kidney stone leading to urosepsis, which sent me into premature labour.The epidural only worked on the side without the kidney stone! I just wanted to die at that point.

I then went on to have shoulder dystocia and a 4th degree tear. If it is any consolation, once you get to that situation you go into shock/survival mode so the pain doesn't y seem so bad. Although that may have been because I was going into a shock due to a major haemorrhage and damage to the nerve roots at the bottom of my spine
On the plus side, I have a wonderful perfectly healthy year old daughter, and me...well I am obviously alive, but obviously one doesn't come out of a situation like that. unscathed.

Backtoreality1 · 04/10/2023 10:36

Corneal Ulcer - horrifically painful

CanIbeRio · 04/10/2023 10:52

I have this incredibly sensitive area on the right side of my right index finger near the edge of my nail. If I knock it on anything...oh my God....indescribable intense waves of pain and shooting pains down into the palm of my hand. Lasts about 1 minute before subsiding to a throb. Makes childbirth look like a gentle kick in the shins!!! I have no idea what causes it🤷‍♀️ DH thinks I'm over dramatic when it happens but it genuinely is agony!!!

Crikeyalmighty · 04/10/2023 10:57

One thing I will say is that any chronic condition that isn't really relieved by painkillers and there is no surgical cure can be horrendous - the worst aspect is you rarely get any relief from it, you don't wake up feeling refreshed and it's kind of 'just there' . I experienced this post covid vaccine when I suddenly developed all kinds of persistent chronic neurological shit and a year later it's gradually reducing down considerably , but for a good 8 months it was just awful and no end in sight and no obvious resolution either. It's not just the physical , it's the mental aspects too .

justteanbiscuits · 04/10/2023 11:04

Vaginoplasty. The 24 hours post op, drugged to eyeballs on morphine, and unable to do anything by lie and cry in such awful pain.

Second to that, forceps delivery, and tattoo removal (though that pain stops as soon as the laser does. But oh my word!)

OhmygodDont · 04/10/2023 11:04

When I had a mass growing on my spine. Omg the first thing in the world. Couldn’t sit, stand, lay down. A bath felt slightly good but then getting out was horrible. Ended up at a&e at 3am after being fobbed off by the walk in centre as just back pain after putting up for two weeks thinking it’s strained something. Ended up in emergency surgery.

UnctuousUnicorns · 04/10/2023 11:08

Sonicboom56 · 04/10/2023 08:35

Having my spine broken by a van rear ending my stationary car at speed. I was in hospital for 10 months and the first four months were just horrific.
Healed now but wheelchair bound paraplegic.

I'm so sorry, that's just awful. I hope you received "decent" compensation? ☹️

Ispini · 04/10/2023 11:12

Internal bleeding I couldn't speak/cry out the pain was so bad. I bed for hours and morphine barely touched it. I ended up having to get to hospital via an air ambulance. I thought I was going to die and very nearly did.

Christmashope19 · 04/10/2023 11:13

Omg I totally forgot the excruciating pain I was in with dry socket after getting my wisdom tooth out!

DiscoDragon · 04/10/2023 11:17

Renal colic. I had a bad kidney infection, started getting pain around the lower back in the afternoon which then spread all around my lower abdomen. I had a painful feeling of urgently needing to pee but nothing would come out, the pain just kept getting worse and worse throughout the evening. I couldn't sit/stand/lie down or anything, I was in absolute agony. My stepdad took me to see the out of hours doctor at the local hospital and I remember begging him to kill me so it would stop. I got antibiotics instead!

I found labour and c-sections a doddle compared to that hell.

Recovering from a nephroctomy and later on a post-op hernia repair in the same place was also very painful.

VesperLynne · 04/10/2023 11:29

Thrown from a horse : dislocated my shoulder, broke my arm in three places, knocked my front teeth out, broke my nose and nearly ripped my ear off on metal fence. Ambulance couldn’t get to me so farmer put me in the front bucket of his tractor. At least they shot me through with ketamine first. Three weeks in hospital. My arm is slightly crooked and ear looks odd.

RedPony1 · 04/10/2023 11:39

VesperLynne · 04/10/2023 11:29

Thrown from a horse : dislocated my shoulder, broke my arm in three places, knocked my front teeth out, broke my nose and nearly ripped my ear off on metal fence. Ambulance couldn’t get to me so farmer put me in the front bucket of his tractor. At least they shot me through with ketamine first. Three weeks in hospital. My arm is slightly crooked and ear looks odd.

My multiple spine fractures and rib break was a horse accident too! and i walked to the ambulance and sat in a chair all the way to hospital. Mental really!

We horse people are crazy

OneTC · 04/10/2023 11:46

Kidney stones, unfortunately I am not very demonstrative even in extreme pain and they sent me home. I went back a few hours later because I thought I was dying and they were like "oh yeah of course kidney stones as any idiot could tell you, why didn't you come in earlier?"

RedbrickOrNoBrick · 04/10/2023 11:50

The night after a c section when they forgot my painkillers and I was trying to feed my baby was bad. Vbac, no epidural fine in comparison but a lot of that was mental attitude- shock and distress following the emergency section vs the joy of well managed labour. But tooth abcess worse than both, I ended up in A and E howling. And a subsequent dry socket ... OMFG

amusedbush · 04/10/2023 11:56

I don't actually know what caused the pain but my best guess is an ovarian cyst rupturing. The pain was nauseating and took my breath away; I was in bed and I couldn't move an inch until it subsided.

The worst self-inflicted pain I have felt was getting my sternum, chest and shoulders tattooed. I'm pretty heavily tattooed and can sit like a rock through six-hour sessions but the top of my shoulders... that was something else. Tears were running down my face and I could feel the vibrations in my throat, which triggered my gag reflex. The artist worked as quickly as possible and chanted "I'm sorry... I'm sorry... I'm sorry..." 😅

Pressthespacebar · 04/10/2023 12:08

MsCactus · 03/10/2023 21:47

Childbirth.

I'd be wary of people who say childbirth isn't that painful... there's chemicals your body releases to make you forget the pain, and now when I think back on mine it doesn't seem so bad.

But I knew this going into labour and I specifically remember thinking "don't forget how bad this is!!! Your body will try to make you forget how this feels"

The only other pain I've had that was really bad was severe period pain, and I've suffered from a chronic pain condition before so I have quite a high pain tolerance. Uterus pain is just on another level!

You are right actually, I’ve done it so many times now and every time when it gets to that bit before I start pushing I tell myself to remember how bad this is and never do it again. Always forget though 😆

Blixem · 04/10/2023 12:22

Severe kidney infection. Even giving birth wasn't that bad.

lobsterkiller · 04/10/2023 12:25

My first gallbladder attack. I couldn't move, assumed a position where I didn't have to and waited for it to subside 4 hours later.