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.

@Shraree I can't believe you're the only person to have said cystitis! I used to get recurring cystitis and the last time I had it I honestly considered throwing myself in front of an oncoming bus - I think it sent me a little mad. I'd rather have a third C-section than another bout of cystitis, honestly, but a close second was wisdom tooth infection - Christ alive, that was painful!!

Probably a dental abscess.

My third birth. First birth was quite painful, second birth was a breeze and I managed it without any pain relief, but the end stage of my third birth was out of this world pain, I've never felt anything like it. Like my whole body was just pain, everywhere. I remember just screaming and screaming. I couldn't even think, I was just agony.

People who say "Birth isn't that bad" don't understand that birth really can be that bad. Doesn't mean it will be, but it can. I can't imagine ever being in more pain.

Twisted haemmaroid.. I've given birth twice. . Utterly unbearable

C section recovery.
Slipped going up a glass staircase and caught my shin on the edge of a step. Even though it wasn't a serious injury in any way, it was incredibly painful!

Tore something in my back bending down to grab my then 2 year old from running off..

felt a snap and heard a pop and everything, it was weeks and weeks before I was able to stand up straight.

also childbirth in just has and air 🤮

Induced labour was intense and incredibly painful. Not the pushing bit but the contractions and dilating from 5-10cm in a short time. I had a gallbladder infection 5 weeks post birth and I swore at the time that pain and subsequent passing stone were worse. Looking back now I’m not so sure but I remind myself that IV morphine and fentanyl didn’t touch the cholecystitis pain and I laboured with just gas and air.

Headache during hypertensive episode post partum

Dental abscess

For pain that ground me down SPD - not acute but after months of pain preventing movement and sleep I was utterly broken.

I don't mean to laugh but that one got me 🤣

Id say my worst pain was getting a catheter fitted without any pain relief during the birth of my first baby. To this day I have no fucking idea why they did it!
The look on the midwifes face when i screamed an almighty scream when they were inserting it told me it shouldn't have felt like that ..

@raven0007 I had exactly the same experience, I cannot even describe that pain I have never screamed like it.

When I was pregnant with DC4 I had pain radiating up the sides of my bump, it was so bad I would be on the floor crying and not being able to move. They couldn't figure out what was causing it. A yr after he was born I had a hysterectomy, the surgeon said my womb was stuck to all of my other organs so when I was pregnant and he was growing it was pulling and ripping my insides apart hence the pain. Thankfully I won't ever feel that pain again.

A ruptured disc in my cervical spine, the most horrific pain I've ever had. I live in fear of it happening again.

I had to have my facial bones broken and put back together and even that was nothing in comparison. There's something about nerve pain that makes it especially excruciating and traditional painkillers don't work!

Cramp in my stomach muscles when trying to insert a tampon. Omg. I literally thought I would pass out with the pain. Horrific. I knew I had to stretch it, I knew I had to move but the temptation to curl I
Up in a ball and die of the pain....

1. Appendicitis, definitely the worst.
2. Nasal pack removal post sinus surgery
3. Forceps delivery (with pain relief)
4. Recovery from prolapse repair (see above forceps delivery). Greatly assisted with Tramadol but still horrific - especially removing the post surgery packing.

Colonoscopy. Had the sedative offered, plus gas & air; didn't even touch the pain. The endoscopist stopped the procedure and it was repeated under general anaesthetic. Thank god I don't have to go through that again without a GA!!

Acute pancreatitis caused by a gallbladder attack.

Oh and sciatica. Christ that was horrifying.

Back to back labour....the contractions were a walk in the park compared to the pain I was in in between contractions

Birth was pretty bad but I’ve mostly forgotten that.

Recently was an infection in my pancreas, colon, intestines and stomach. All at once.

Broken ankle that heard snap.
When the dentist held a frozen thing against my tooth to test how sensitive it was... Very was the answer.

Both big toenails ingrown, toe red/purple and oozing green pus😖horrific pain with every step and it was in lockdown too so I had to dig them out myself!

Toothache, I was screaming into a pillow, but also had to keep pacing all night as a distraction.

Definitely labour. My daughter was back-to-back and was stuck. I remember being delirious and screaming. I was thinking that I was probably going to die but just get the baby out safely and I don’t care about me. I don’t know if it was extreme pain or not having slept for days that caused these crazy thoughts.

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?

2 assisted deliveries, 3rd degree tear, migraines in pregnancy (I have so much empathy for anyone who suffers with migraines now), toothache that required 2 root canals. The tears would just flow from my eyes with the pain from my mouth.

Cluster headaches, I struggled to breathe and was veering on passing out with the pain. Wish I had when I had them