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.

Anal abscess - couldn’t sit, stand or lie down without the pressure making me want to end it there and then. The only way to get comfy was floating in a boiling hot bath.

I went to A and E and they tried to convince me it was a pile, I’ve never been so quick to take my trousers down and bend over to show someone my arsehole and prove it wasn’t.

Tooth ache that went on for months during lockdown.Childbirth was way easier.

A condition called CRPS
It tops the McGill pain scale.

It felt like someone had poured petrol over my hand and put a match to it. Large amounts of 4 different painkillers at the same time hardly touched it.

Thankfully went into remission as i think i would have killed myself if not.

Close call between my knee caps slipping out of place and failed mid cavity forceps delivery. Though at least I was half delirious with exhaustion by the time the forceps came along.

Spinal spasms. injections of steroids into my eyeball shortly after surgery on the eye. Local anaesthetic didn't work

Labouring on my back all night with severe SPD, failed epidural. Massive third degree tear, haemorrhage and retained placenta. Took me months to feel even vaguely normal again and I still get flashbacks. I can't watch childbirth scenes because I get horrible phantom pains.

I had a forceps delivery with no pain relief and I would choose that 100 times over gallstones, absolutely horrific pain

Two slipped discs in the base of my spine. 18 months of constant chronic pain. Made labour x 3 seem like a breeze. Ditto breaking my nose, toe and shutting my thumb in a car door (not at the same time!).

It frightens me that it could happen again at any time. It's the main incentive to do regular weight bearing exercise.

dental abscesses when I had several at the same time, followed by childbirth and IBS.

I've had three childbirths, and four lots of injections into my eyes.

Without doubt, the most pain I've ever had was simultaneous infected ingrown (big) toenails, bizarrely about 3 weeks postpartum, in the depths of winter. Absolute fucking agony.

Dc1 birth
DC2 labour

Endometriosis

Inflamed bowel. I don't react well to painkillers.

I did pass out from the pain having my youngest but I don't remember that.

Kidney stones x 3 😭

I would have said birth of my second born with no pain relief at all. That was until I got a dry socket following a tooth extraction. Worst pain ever!

Frozen shoulder

predictably - giving birth without medication. I momentarily contemplated suicide just to make it stop with DC1😂😩

Chronic regional pain syndrome. Just excruciating.

Acute appendicitis. Fainted with pain after the first shot of morphine and knew it was bad when they decided to operate at 3am on a Sunday. Delivering 9lb DS with nothing but gas and air was a piece of piss in comparison.

Posterior shoulder dislocation. Absolutely grim.

Gallstones

Heart attack, caused by a spontaneous coronary artery dissection. My second one was more painful than induced labour without drugs. I have never known pain like it. They had to give me fentanyl and morphine.

Acute pancreatitis due to micro gallstones passing during pregnancy

Abcessed mastitis

Back-to-back labour (the pushing bit)

Kidney stones

Gallstones

Broken ankle

I have given birth twice but sciatica was worse

Toothache - the relief when the tooth came out was incredible!
Having anaesthetic injections in my big toe actually made me cry it was so painful ( but very short-lived). Having 3 babies with no pain relief was a breeze in comparison. Although to be fair, I wasn't being brave not having pain relief, it just didn't hurt enough to warrant it. I'm very aware that this is unusual.

Gallstones. It's unrelenting and feels like you've been caught in a massive bear trap. Nothing touched the pain, not codeine or oramorph. Was admitted and had it removed pretty quickly though and the recovery was a breeze!