Any pains worse than childbirth?

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Wondering if anyone who has given birth feel they have experienced pain that is worse than the pain of child birth?

I also think it's not the worse thing, bad afterpains are worse IME.

Yes to infected teeth etc. Migraines - full blown ones. Lots of the things above I don't even want to think about how much they most hurt.

Having only ever being induced what I think made the pain difficult to manage was that it was relentless whereas with typical contractions they're not until the end.

Ah yes fractured my cccyx and had to get into the car and drive home. Not sure how I ever managed, it was excruciating and nearly vomited. Has taken around 3 years for the paint to be only rare.

twirlypoo I had something like that happen but I was drugged up to the eyeballs and STILL think that was one of the worst pains of my life.

Toothache is another serious pain you just can't get away from it.

Tooth pain - infections post root canal and empty socket post extraction; prolapsed disc & associated sciatica; kidney stones.

As others have said, in labour you do get gaps between the pain and you (hopefully) have a healthy bay. However I had very straightforward deliveries. I know some women have truly dreadful times, and I hate the thought that they might feel diminished by others' 'competive pain' stories. Not suggesting that this thread is doing that tho'

Baby - not a bay (horse?)

A jellyfish wrapped itself around me once in Spain - it was the most fucking awful, agonising experience of my life and ive given birth twice.

Gall bladder attacks.
Ear infection before the drum ruptured.
Headache I had after my epidural led to a spinal fluid leak that took a week to repair itself.

All worse than childbirth.

Abcessed impacted wisdom tooth. I wanted to pull all my teeth out to make it go away.

Impacted wisdom tooth. Anal fissure that went on for almost a year (thanks IBS).

(Disclaimer; I ended up with an EMCS but had a hefty labour and at least you get a minute off every so often).

Endometrial cysts. 2 days of agony each month. I had no pain relief at all during my second labour and it was nothing compared to those 2 days each month for about a year

Kidney stone. Just waves of unrelenting pain. I was actually screaming with each wave. Three labour and deliveries without any pain relief are not comparable in anyway ( in my estimation)

I had my tonsils out and the wound got infected. That was worse....I would have cut my head off if i'd had a saw handy.

Kidney stone

Wisdom teeth with abcess, evil pain and a bad migraine.
Also had a cyst size of an orange growing into my bladder and that was the worst pain, when they lanced it whilst i was having a ct scan, i could feel the wire going through my body to get to the cyst, when it did get there i think i hit the ceiling, well it felt that way!

Migraines. I used to want to actually cut my head off. I'd cry when I got the first symptoms because I knew what was coming. Trepanning was invented partly as a migraine cure- that sums it up for me, people actually thought it was worth drilling a hole in their skull to try and ease migraines.

Labour by comparison was very different- it really did make a difference for me to know that it was supposed to hurt, that each contraction would end, and that I'd get a baby at the end of it.

Dislocated shoulder while up a mountain. The trip back down on the tranneau was bumpy & excruciating. I passed out more than once. Then they popped it back in....

Gosh, either I had a terrible labour or my pain threshold for other stuff is high!

I've had infected teeth, deep fillings without anaesthetic, migraines requiring hospitalisation, three weeks of a catheter with a wider gauge than my urethra, several reconstructive surgeries and trigeminal neuralgia. I'd do all of them a thousand times rather than go through labour again! I guess people must feel different pain in different ways.

For me, the immense pressure of the baby descending was worse than the actual "ouch" pain......I broke my little toe a few weeks ago and would rather have another baby

I think when i had a corneal ulcer it was relentless and probably up there with childbirth. It was certainly more terrifying

Broke my back in an accident, worse than labour.

The ear infection I had over the summer. I was rolling round the bed screaming in agony. Would far far rather have gone through labour again than that.

Gall bladder - I've laboured 5 times but at least the pain comes and goes. With a gall bladder attack it's continuous and relentless.

And also the huge dental abscess that caused the whole right side of my face to swell up. I genuinely wanted not to live for a while there.