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.

Honestly, the first wee after birth into a very slight labial tear was horrific.

Childbirth without a doubt.

Try not to be terrified, all births are different and a bad first experience doesn't mean it will be the same again. My first was horrendous, also a forceps delivery (no epidural) and by far the worst pain I have ever experienced. My second was a bigger baby, I was scared of the same happening again but it was the easiest of my three births and yes still painful but in a very very different way that I felt in control of and far more manageable. Good luck when the time comes. X

when it gets to that bit before I start pushing I tell myself to remember how bad this is and never do it again

Yes, I remember this too. Amazing how your body makes you forget just how bad it was so that we go on to do it again!

With my first birth, about 14 hours in I got to a point where I didn't care what happened anymore. I didn't care about me or about the baby, I didn't care if I died, I just wanted whatever outcome would be the quickest to end it - whether that was baby being born or death.

Seems very bizarre and OTT looking back now but it was a very real feeling at the time... it's this memory that makes me recall 15 years later just how bad the pain was.

Last bit of childbirth - last two pg I think tearing though previous episiotomy scar and into flesh with no pain relief though healed quicker and with less pain than original episiotomy.

Though period pain period prior to first birth was something else- prolonged and unexplained and over counter medicine barely helped with it - come home collapse and tried to sleep through it. No GP had any interest at all. I got to 10 cm before MW examined me with pfb as everyone said Braxton hicks were like period pain and only then as DH insisted I got checked.

Broke my toe.

And I've had two kids. One forceps and one C Section.

Allergic reaction to pineapple. The initial side effects of tingly lips and tongue faded quickly but my god the headache. I didn’t link the two things initially, thought I was having a brain haemorrhage. Admitted to hospital, scan arranged, given morphine. Next morning headache had gone, nothing showed up, sent home. Only afterwards did I link the two.

It sounds really trivial, but I once had a verruca treated by a professional podiatrist. The treatment was some sort of acid that kept burning through layer after layer of skin, and wouldn’t stop. After a few days of incredibly painful periods of about 30 minutes or so every couple of hours, I went back and asked if it was normal. Her response was that it didn’t hurt at all, and I was just being a wimp.
I left there, never to go back again, and after two weeks it finally stopped hurting. The veruccas remained, so I self-treated with Bazuka and duct tape and they were gone in a little over a month!

hugs to you all! Mine would be mastitis with my first child. grim!

Gallbladder attack or dry socket following wisdom tooth removal. The dry socket thankfully did respond to painkillers but nothing touched the gallbladder pain.

Fractured collarbone

Manual removal of placenta.
Utterly barbaric practice, and even more painful than contractions/childbirth.

My worst was my 54 day migraine. It was the absolute relentlessness of it. Whilst sat sobbing at the gp's, he looked at me tilted his head and suggested some antidepressants as I seemed a bit depressed, because I was crying!! No you idiot I couldn't cope with the pain anymore.

Next was dropping a piece of wood on my big toe - completely burst open the toe at the bottom of the nail, suspect I broke the toe. But I dressed it and then called my Dad to take me to the vets as I had an appointment, think I was in shock to be honest! Also I already use crutches, so they helped me to keep upright. I then couldn't drive for about 3 weeks due to the pain.

-neurological pain (including trigeminal and nerve pain all down lefthand side)
-migraines for years
-Psoriatic arthritis
-Gallstones!
-Child birth - induced, contractions from 0-100 in an instant, with no break in between, then an epidural which then wore off, then contractions stopped, they turned the drip up higher, then me and child in distress, then forceps delivery.
-Many, many shoulder dislocations (I put it back myself these days)
-Dry socket
-A dental problem, where a tooth had an issue, but basically it was sitting higher than the rest of my teeth, which set my jaw into spasms - again it was the relentlessness of it for 2 weeks - could have kissed the dentist when he pulled the tooth
-A steroid injection that the needle hit the bone - nearly threw up on the physio!
-Kidney infections throughout my pregnancy.
-I use crutches and cope with a few different issues of chronic pain on a daily basis

Post surgery on a fractured shoulder, followed closely by gallstones.

Breaking my ankle but I strongly suspect giving birth in a few months is going to trump that.

I'd rather have childbirth again over breaking my ankle again

Gallstones!

Frozen shoulder.

Acute pancreatitis (had it a few times due to gallstone damage), and recovery from pancreas surgery (whipple) with major complications. Two weeks in ICU, horrendous

Toothache. I spent 4 days in labour with my first child and have recovered from 4 c sections, each one more painful than the last. I recently had an ear infection that was incredibly painful but nothing comes close to toothache.

My 16 year old had acute pancreatitis in February it was necrotic,no idea why ,he was in hospital.for four weeks and in icu for three he now has type 3c diabetes ( treated as type1 ) and has to take creon with every meal it wss awful
He's doing well.now and I hope your are too.

Breaking my ankle but I strongly suspect giving birth in a few months is going to trump that.

No, imo it’s worse than giving birth to twins in a natural labour!

I had gout in my hip joint that was left untreated for 3 days and then it went septic and I got rushed into surgery. The pain was breathtaking. I actually understood what exquisite meant in reference to pain and I never ever ever want to feel that again. I felt AMAZING when I woke up from the surgery and the nurses where faced I was up and walking around so quickly on the zimmer frame to go the loo etc but compared to the pain I was in when they put me to sleep it was a doddle. And I had 4 vaginal births, one with a failed spinal block and I still say I would rather give birth one a week for the rest of my life than have even an hour of septic hip gout.

Bless him, get them to do further investigations into why, genetic tests etc. I will always have pain and problems but I’m doing a lot better since the major surgery thank you. Horrific pain - you think gallstones are the worse thing that will happen then you get pancreatitis

He's just had his bloods taken a few weeks ago actually for genetic testing ,not heard back yet and he had a MRI recently to check for any gall.stones recently ,finger crossed it doesn't happen again
He's insulin dependent now ,but he's coping very well with that.