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.

I had a slipped disc that was horrendous! The pain when I moved!! Far worse than childbirtth and lasted weeks.

@MartyFunkhouser I had the op in the afternoon, it wasn't until middle of the night when the pain started, your poor husband for it to start so early.

Labour definitely. Both times ended in c-sections which were a breeze by comparison.

Having 2 wisdom teeth out. My god it was horrendous!!! They were so deep and crooked, the dentist split the corner of my lip trying to force them out! I came out the dentist and burst into tears. Then they got infected and I was in pain for 2 weeks. Then 3 weeks later, had to have the other 2 out!! 🙈

Tooth ache.

worse then both kids childbirth.

Gallstones.

Dental abscess. Even labour was more bearable.

Slipped disk. Id sooner go through childbirth again for 48 hrs than that

Endometriosis, pain was so bad I would vomit and pass out.
Ive had two C-section, recovery from them was pretty painful but Endo was way worse.

@Siameasy

I’d be interested to know if any other women had an experience like mine because I still don’t like thinking about it other than superficially and feel really scared if I do start to?

Yes, I have blocked most of the memory of my first baby’s birth from my mind because it was horrific and I thought I was dying. I do remember flashes of things - lots of faces looming over me in theatre, my husband dressed in pink scrubs (why pink??!!) and hearing the baby cry. The strip lights of the corridor as I was wheeled to recovery with baby on my chest.

Everything else I’ve lost to a blur of incredible pain and intense fear. I honestly can’t recall much else, I think it must be the way my mind has protected itself. I had PTSD for years afterwards & my marriage nearly broke down.

Luckily and thanks to the skill of that clinical team we’re both here now

Grade 3 hamstring tear. Passed out due to the pain.

Back to back Labour

Frozen shoulder 😩

Infected wisdom tooth

(Worse than gallbladder, burst ovarian cyst and giving birth to a 9lb baby with no pain relief!)

The headache that was the first symptom I had on the first occasion I caught covid. It was quite early in the pandemic so must have been one of the first variants. I wanted to tear my brain out.

It is going on right now as I am unable to tolerate opiates. They make me sleepy and I hallucinate on all forms of pain medication or get severe migraine. The pain is severely damaged left hand and arm thanks to botched surgery gone wrong, terrible peripheral neuropathy in both legs, feet and hands. I have a damaged vascular system so constant twisting pain at the neck...all the above are untreatable and left hand awaiting some amputation. Throw in giant tumour excision on right hand/ nerve pain, suspected neurofibromas stuck in various internal organs, brittle bone disease causing multiple untreatable fractures of toes along with bone necrosis so bad that surgeons want to cut off my toes. Throw in a dozen metabolic conditions, and Ehlers Danlos syndrome along with suspected gallbladder disease. Now that is pain.

Dental abscess, childbirth (long labour, failed forceps, emergency c section). The horrific toothache was worse I think

IBD with colitis. Pain often gets bad enough that I get seizures which take all day to recover from. But, it’s ‘only’ IBD and apparently it’s not that serious (quoting my GP)

Worst pain I ever experienced was when I suffered from a condition that was finally diagnosed as Reversible Cerebral Vasoconstriction Syndrome RCVS) . Presented with sudden 10/10 thunderclap headaches nausea, vomiting on and off for 3 weeks before eventually delirium from multiple strokes, swelling brain. It was horrific. Made even worse by medical staff thinking I was exaggerating as the condition does not always show up straight away on CT scans - need more sophisticated scans. After 3 weeks of horror they thought I had a psychiatric illness as was delirious and reluctantly performed another MRI which showed several strokes. It's quite rare but very under diagnosed- pain was like a fire or slicing my head / neck with a hot poker.

I've had natural births which definitely hurt so I thought I knew bad pain, until this!!

I'm ok now though, years later!!

I think I felt more than I should at my c section.

Food poisoning.

It hurt from my forehead to my ankles.

An anula tear (tear in the spine) honestly I couldn’t breathe without screaming seriously painful!

Defo this for me too. With both children I had very short and intense labours. Like nothing else I've ever experienced and I'd say I have a pretty high pain threshold. Thankfully one forgets the feeling of just how bad it is....otherwise why would anyone have more than 1?!

@scoobydoo1971 - that sounds awful. Chronic pain is so hard. I don't think people understand how it can change you.

I particularly dislike saintly coverage of people in the grip of horrific disease, which must hurt like hell, in newspapers. Pain can be very frightening and we gloss over it.

I hope you find relief and pleasure in some things too.

When I hurt my back.

Way, way worse than childbirth.