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.

Induction
Gallstones
Cluster headache
IBS where I can't even catch my breath because of the pain
Migraine
Pulmonary embolism

Out of all those I'd probably say cluster headache or the 1st gallbladder attack. Wow those were something spectacular!

Terrible toothache
birth of 1st (back to back/length of time/plunger delivery)
liver biopsy
abcess on body
recovery from c section - wish I’d done a hypno birth

stubbing toes- why does that hurt so much!

Migraine
dental abcess
perforated stomach ulcer
sepsis in my groin
childbirth but what wins hands down was breaking my back and seeing stars unable to move

Childbirth
A kidney stone that was stuck
Wisdom teeth pain
Sinusitis

All hideous!

Two weaver fish stings on the same toe. Would have cut my own toe off if I had been given a knife.

I second the sciatica oh sweet divine to even think about a movement brought tears to my eyes, had three children, two really big ones.
lower back pain too when couldn’t get off floor. Hoping none them comes back again.

Gallstones and ankle broken in 4 places were both worse than child birth for me. And I didn't have drugs in childbirth.

@vipersnest1

Why did they not sedate you for your sigmoidoscopy? How awful.

Dislocated knee…it’s like a terror takes over and you can hear yourself screaming, I have dislocated my knee a lot!

it’s worse than endometriosis period pain, dentals abscess, stitches post childbirth without anaesthetic…and they were all severe!

C Section recovery was horrific. The perfect description I heard, likened it to being stabbed with a burning knife.
Though either my miscarriage or when I needed a root canal probably tops it just about.

Ruptured appendix/peritonitis. Proper sweaty dizzy out of body level of pain. Childbirth was uncomfortable by comparison.

I wouldn’t describe labour as painful, just really really uncomfortable and hard work…. Being stitched up after forceps though… that hurt!!

I’ve always thought a dislocated shoulder looks like agony on the A&E programs

I second that dry socket!!! Unreal pain I had 2 next to each other!! 😭😭😭 I need another extraction been putting up with toothache for weeks as I’m scared to get that again!

I did ask, but they said it wasn't routinely offered.
As you said, it was indeed awful (and that word is a complete understatement of what happened and how it made me feel - not that I'm criticising you, of course).
As I said, it was barbaric, and I used that word in my complaint (I've had a lot of interactions with hospitals going back years and have never complained before). My experience and views were completely dismissed, but I do hope that behind the scenes the surgeon was told to be far more careful in future, and - hopefully - to change his technique and the way in which he interacts with patients.

Pancreatitis - had a major acute episode after having my second baby. Ended up with pancreatic cancer and still suffer with flare ups of pancreatitis now.

There is nothing, and I mean nothing, that is comparable to that pain and I've had : abscesses, induction with my first born with no pain relief (at first 😂🤢), pulmonary embolism, whipples operation, c sections, piles in pregnancy (WOW) and trapped wind post c section ( wow again!!!)

Pancreatitis is like someone is kicking fuck out of your organs whilst they've also got lead weights hanging from them.

Pancreatitis
Intussusception

A bowel movement after fissurectomy surgery. Literally thought I would die from the pain

Endometriosis gave me horrendous period pain for up to a week every month until I had a hysterectomy. But worse than that was a miscarriage.

@vipersnest1

Its frightening how treatment varies from person to person. I had one last week and there was no question whether I was going to be sedated or not. I was given 50mcg fentanyl and 2mg of midazolam.

Stomach cramps due to food poisoning -Camoplabacter, - worse than labour contractions.

Plantar fasciitis

Gallstones….I called ambulance twice before I had them out

I feel your pain.....I have fibro too,as well as sciatica,arthritis,and cluster headaches. Life's shit and then you die eh. We just keep.popping those pills and keep keeping on.

A really bad migraine that threw me out of bed.

Childbirth with only contractions in my back would not even come close to the IV drip of antibiotics afterwards. They rushed the drip, every 4 hrs excrutiating pain of feeling the antibiotics burn in my vains to the point I could not even held my head up anymore. Felt like toxics running and burning my blood and vains from the inside.Had to go through that for more than a week and still remember that burning pain.