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.

Sinusitis

Dual sided inner ear infection.

I'd rather give birth again that have either of those.

Not birth but afterwards was horrific. the stitches was agony and I felt like I was being ripped in two!

Mirena

it sounds bizarre but the pain that sticks with me most was when I had to have a local anesthetic put into the palm of my hand. it was excruciating I'd rather give birth!

the other was a scratched cornea.. still wincing now 8 years later. . even morphine had no impact they had to use anaesthetic drops directly into my eye eventually

Kidney stone.

Burst appendix and being left untreated for a week after and nearly dying from it during Covid. Spent several months in the hospital after recovering.

I could have written this! Childbirth ( also have 3) was a walk in the park compared to this.

I had an ear infection and mastitis at the same time, just kill me! And then definitely gallstones. I could labour and give birth every day, but would never want to experience either of those again.

Gas pain in my shoulder post C Section. The duty nurse didn’t know what it was … suggested it was from having been moved onto the bed. Physio explained it the next day … it was SO bad!

SUNCT headaches!

During induction with my youngest.
I've got a pretty good pain threshold, but I was in agony. I just laid on the floor and cried. Soon forgot I didn't want an epidural at that point.
The consultant told the midwife the drip setting was far too high.

Had gallstones attacks, nowhere near the pain.
First child was born with no more than gas and air.

Wisdom tooth extraction. Not the actual extraction itself but the recovery. I was in mind blowing pain after the anesthetic wore off for weeks.

severe back spasm which actually turned out to be sepsis which had spread to my spine muscle cartilage and tissue, thanks to my husband driving like a bat out of hell to a&e and the amazing doctors there I lived to tell the tale, I was rushed in and hooked up within 5 minutes, in high dependency intensive care for 2 weeks and the whole thing was the worst pain I’ve ever had, and I have had 2 babies one 9lb 15 and the other 10lb 8 with a bit of gas and air! A year on and aged 46 I’m waiting on a shoulder and knee replacement and a wrist fusion as the sepsis ate away my muscle cartilage and tissue and im going to be on antibiotics for the rest of my life x but I survived, I’ve heard of so many people who catch sepsis and don’t so I’m very lucky x

Dental abscess and period pain

Kidney stone

Agreed

It's a tie between quinsy and a brain bleed. The latter happened right after giving birth so I could handily compare it to labour (it was worse).

I once crushed two vertebrae but then spent a joyous few weeks on morphine.

An injection in my eyeball was pretty horrific.

Dental abscess
Kidney infection - horrible cyclic pain in my back

Oh - I forgot about having an episiotomy without anaesthetic. That was really bad & my brain tends to block it out.

Frozen shoulder (mostly short sharp pain, but absolute agony for about 1 minute after the lightest touch or moving my arm the wrong way, but was like this for about 3 months)

Frozen shoulder 1, frozen shoulder 2 was a piece of piss in comparison. Also hysteroscopy. Bejesus it took my breath away - glad it was only for a little while.

Cancer. My bowel perforated as a result and that was incredibly painful, i nearly died. Probably most painful was learning to live with an Illestomy for 7 months. They removed parr of my bowel and with an illestomy the bowels has to change position. The pain of that is on another level. I thank God daily that they reversed it after 7 months but recovery equally painful in reverse.

Probably giving birth closely followed by tooth ache (abscess under wisdom tooth).

I had appendicitis a few years ago and was slightly disappointed as I had heard people say ‘it’s worse than labour pains’, it really wasn’t, although there was a man next to me in A&E with the same diagnosis and he was making more fuss than any woman on a labour ward 😉.

Dry socket closely followed by an ear ache that had me openly sobbing as I walked from my car to the Drs surgery.