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.

Had marsupialisation for a Bartholin's cyst (this is when they surgically create an open wound inside your vagina to drain a cyst and they leave it open to continue draining) and then the long strip of dressing adhered to the open wound inside the vagina, a doctor came to pull it out like removing a tampon, which felt like my insides were being ripped out.

3 big babies and am in no way diminishing the pain of giving birth ,but at least there was a prize at the end .

Untreated sinus infection whilst traveling-3 weeks until I could get it seen to and would have happily taken any fucked upped illegal treatment or cure going
Kidney infection -only time (apart from labor )I've puked through pain
Dental abscess -there is just no escape or relief from that one.
Frozen shoulder -when even stepping off a kerb ,or moving in bed, is a nightmare

Giving birth to a back to back baby, who was stuck, with added syntocin at the point the epidural stopped working. I genuinely believed one of us would die.

Closely followed but a ruptured S1L5 disk.

Pancreatitis -worst pain ever, interrupted with bouts of vomiting bile....just horrible

Ectopic pregnancy.

I’ve had two and one was agony, one didn’t hurt at all. I was far further on with the pain free one, too. But the sore one was far worse than labour, broken ankle, c section recovery and migraine put together.

Second would be one particular migraine which lasted four days and I literally had to sit still in a completely dark room with a cold cloth on my full head and neck area for four days. Even the smell of someone cooking on a different floor or the sound of someone flicking a switch felt like daggers. Awful.

I had ankle reconstruction surgery in Feb - with pins, plates & replacement ligaments, total rebuild… so it’s either that or when my ankle broke & exploded in the first place.

I’ve had two kids, but childbirth pain was different as I was prepared; had all the drugs, gas & air, epidural with my first, ect.

But the ankle made me think I might die from pure pain.

Gallstones - Worse than childbirth, that’s natural and c-section!

Cluster migraine: a knife twisting and grinding in the eye socket; absolutely all you can think about at the time is how impressively painful it is. An attack generally kicks in around 3am (good mornin', good mornin' to you!) and lasts for several hours. Leaves you feeling like your brain has been scooped out and replaced by a blood-soaked sponge.

Painkillers? Heh. Normal painkillers have absolutely no effect. Migraine stuff like triptans? Also totally useless. Opiates can get a grip, but that's not a great long-term coping strategy.

I'm lucky: I have the episodic version rather than the constant variety; and now I'm over 50 they have almost disappeared. Almost: I got a shadow of one a week ago, just for old time's sake.

You only tend to get cluster migraine if you've drunk or smoked in your youth. Maybe the Mormons are onto something?

Gallstones, giving birth was a breeze compared to gallstone pain.

Piles 🫣 after I give birth they were definitely more painful than the actual birth.

Mine was getting up from the low bed of a CT scanner when I had a perforated bowel.
I have given birth to twins with gas and air (one breech) but this was much worse.

Cluster headache was like nothing on earth and I have had 2 kids.

marsupialisation

JFC

Gallstones, 1000%
Worse than child birth and I have done that twice!
Wouldn't wish them upon anyone!!

Labour and subsequent c section recovery, tonsillectomy and subsequent hemorrhage and infection, kidney infection

@Soubriquet

I've had a colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy. Had sedation for both. Wasn't painful.

Hope this is your experience too.

Being in labour - the intense labour just before my waters broke and I immediately started to push. I had to have an episiotomy after pushing for 2 hours with no luck and I did the whole thing with no pain relief. I didn't want pain relief by choice but I was too late for an epidural anyway because I didn't arrive at the hospital until just before my waters broke and by then I was 10cm dilated and straight to pushing! The labour before the pushing was the worst bit even though the whole thing was very intense it also felt so natural and incredible. Don't get me wrong it was painful to push and when she was actually coming out but I may of been very lucky to have a high pain threshold for labour/childbirth. I'm really hoping I don't ever have to endure the other things you are all describing.

This, The worse pain ever. I have had a c-section, and ectopic, given birth with no pain meds, and nothing compares to gallstones, I kid you not I thought I was going to die. Went on for months undiagnosed.
I swear too that I have psychological problems from having them because they weren't picked up until I had a private assessment many months after having the pains. Now, 30 years on when I have unexplained pains I get worried that I have something similar & that no one will get what it is. It was the most stressful time

It’s a tie between gallstones and dry socket dental pain - dry socket wins. Post c section and vbac a total breeze (even though I had infections and complications).

root canal fillings with no anaesthetic (due to severe allergies) cluster migraines. Finding out one of your children has a serious health condition.

Childbirth- long labour and literal terror that I couldn’t go on and was gonna die - forceps was a relief! Imbedding my vacuum cleaner plug in the sole of my foot was another one, looking down at blood pouring out thinking shall I just pull it out? Then pulling it out and hearing a horrible sucking noise (no pun intended!) I was rushing down the corridor as I nearly missed the bin men, by the way!

Hysteroscopy with no anaesthetic or pain relief by a male doctor who didn’t bother speaking to me at all, not even a greeting. Kept tutting and sighing that I was struggling to lie still. It was very traumatic. I fainted afterwards.

Crowning with DS2 delivery. His head circumference was 39cms.

That was a stinger.

2 x slipped discs resulting in a spinal fusion

Gallstones

Endometriosis

Pain from Crohn’s disease and erythema nodosum. So painful I couldn’t walk and had to crawl to the bathroom.

close second is getting steroid injections into my spine. That was 10x worse than childbirth, and i had a retained placenta so it got complicated.