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.

When I was pregnant with baby number 3 I got horrific abdo pain. They thought it was kidney stones however there was no evidence of stones. They decided the baby was pressing on tube between my kidney and bladder, making the urine back up into my kidney. I was admitted to hospital twice, couldn’t keep anything down, the pain was horrific.

Torn knee ligament and twisted ovary

Me too- exactly the same. Childbirth with all three of mine, but the foot injection was easily as bad although for a much shorter time obviously. I had a verruca cut out when I was about 10 in the early 1980s. The creams hadn't worked because it was deep rooted apparently, so the doctor anaesthetised the area by injecting directly into the ball of my foot. Before he did it, I remember him asking my mum if I was brave...

That sounds a bit like pregnancy and birth.

First child birth..I thought I would die from the pain

Air bubble in my chest following a C-section. Blinding agony, far worse than childbirth!

Slipped disc. I wanted to die. Closely followed by induction that dragged on for hours and hours and ended in an emergency c-section.

Bleeding into a cyst on my thyroid gland. Worse than both times I've given birth.

Miscarriage.

Having the roots of a tooth taken out, the tooth had been broken for years and there was remnants of the tooth there and the roots, so the dentist said removing them was a good idea. I was very blasé. It was the worst pain afterward I have ever felt,
and I’ve birthed two big babies without any pain relief, had vaginal reconstruction surgery, been hit by a car and had a quite severe car crash. The tooth being removed is the only time I have taken prescribed pain killers (which were actually prescribed for my vaginal reconstruction and which I didn’t need or take so still had them when I had the tooth out thank god!!)

Giving birth is of course no 1

Then a horrible ear infection I had which ended in my eardrum bursting with pus and blood

I’ve got CRPS so I’m in stupid amounts of pain all the time. Even so, cholecystitis (infected gallbladder) had me begging for death. Far worse than unmedicated childbirth twice.

Mastoiditis, dental abscesses and a miscarriage were also excruciating, but the gallbladder was worse than all three put together.

C-section recovery- natural labor - endometriosis flare up- ovarian cyst bursting - raging ear infection- gallstones.
Had them all and they all suck!!!!

Dental abscess i had a filling and the bloody dentist didn't see i had a abscess under the filling i can't tell you how much pain I was in all night, until I could get to a emergency dentist in the morning.
Forseps delivery,
Colonscopy
Laser eye surgery i didn't feel a thing when I had it done, but when the pain relief wore off in the night, it was excruciating.

When I smashed my elbow into 5 pieces.

My husband was the same after laser eye surgery. Skipped out of the clinic saying how easy and pain-free it was. An hour later, and still on our way home, he was crying with the pain.

An infection in my thumb that got so bad I had to have an op to remove some of the nailbed. The pain prior to the operation was so bad even a tiny amount of pressure on the tip of my thumb made me almost faint at times. Nothing before, or since, has ever felt so bad...it was a 10 on the pain score.

Trigeminal myalgia - worse than childbirth without pain relief!

Genuinely thought I’d be fine with childbirth after having an infected wisdom tooth and abscess and not taking any pain killers but labour and childbirth are by far the most traumatising and most painful experience of my life.

Breaking my ankle ( literally broke my foot off from my leg , it was facing backwards, only held on by skin , tendons ) That was excruciating.
Then had a knee replacement, years later and that was awful too.
Plus , having first child , I left teethmarks on the wooden bedside cupboard 😂.

Ectopic, my c-section recovery was a peace of piss compared to that. I genuinely couldn’t understand how I could be in that much pain and not die. I was pouring with sweat despite not moving.

Toss up:

1. Dysmenorrhoea in my 20s and early 30s pre childbirth

1. Recovery from c section

1. Migraines for most of my adult life

1. Diverticulitis (was intitially keyhole surgery for what they thought was appendicitis)

Gallstones. Horrendous. Would rather give birth everyday than go through that again.

Contractions/birth, without a doubt. Although both were inductions, one by drip, which apparently makes it a lot more intense. I also (not through choice) had no pain relief!

Fell about 4 meters and landed in my back (on sand) and came as close as I could to breaking my back without breaking it. I still have panicked dreams about it, 20 years on.