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?

Constipation. Or rather the effects of taking Senokat to relieve the constipation. I don't know how to best describe the pain really but basically (warning tmi) I experienced spasms whereby 3 days of impacted 'waste' were involuntarily pushed out of my back passage. It was the worst pain I have ever experienced in my life and labour pains were a walk in the park in comparison. I genuinely thought I was going to pass out or worse as I had no control whatsoever over what was happening. I remember thinking "So this is how it ends. I am going to die on the toilet like Elvis Presley"

I called an ambulance twice in desperation- operator quite rightly told me it was not an emergency- and I screamed so loudly 3 neighbours knocked on my front door. When the waste finally 'exited' I just collapsed to the floor. To this day even the thought of constipation brings me out in shivers.

Nope childbirth was murder! Back to back, 9lb baby after days of labour, no pain relief. I thought I'd imagined the horror of it till I had baby no 2.

Wheelchair bound SPD, 3 hours, no complications, gas and air. It wasn't pleasant and hurt like hell but it was only really bad for 30 minutes. It didn't come and go during that last 30 minutes but she came fast.

I've thankfully not had much other than route canal on my teeth. Now tooth ache on a long haul flight isn't to be sniffed at. The cabin pressure makes you feel like your tooth with explode.

Nothing compared to first childbirth!

Earache and toothache. Earlier this year I had an ear infection and I was just climbing up the walls. Painkillers made no difference and there was just no break from it.
I have also recently had an infection post root canal treatment. Nothing, absolutely nothing compares to this pain. I actually passed out once.

Gallbladder without any doubt. Had 3 attacks before they removed it. Pain was through the roof, thought I was having a heart attack. My friend had to phone an ambulance the last time as I couldn't breathe, crushing agony in my chest.
First labour was long and painful but the pain was manageable, it wasn't the worst pain. Subsequent labours weren't exactly pleasant but nothing like the gallbladder pain.

Torn ligaments and sciatica. Childbirth was a breeze in comparison but I was lucky that baby was in a good position and small.

Bumble I didn't scream one during childbirth I had back to back contractions for two days no pain relief at all not even paracetamol that's why I'd rather give birth than have migraines.

My son was back to back too.

Thanks ladies, this thread makes me feel really chirpy about giving birth can't be worse than my stomach ulcer that exploded

Nothing worse than the pain with DC1.

Kidney infection similar to DC2.

Stubbing toe worse than pain with DC3.

I conclude some labours are more painful than others.

Hemiplegic migraine. Most of the attack is tolerable & merely feels (and looks) like I'm having a stroke, but there's often a period of at least 10 minutes to an hour when it feels like I'm being slowly shot in the head, & can't speak for a while after, or swallow. FWIW, my labour was 29 hours, episiotomy, & the epidural didn't take.

the pain of the thrombosed piles was worse than child-birth, and far less rewarding! at least with dc2, with dc1 i'm on the fence, about equal. I agree, labour pain is for something good & you get breaks but with DC1 I had no idea when it would end and it was the length of the pain that wore me down, like other types of pain

Sweetheart totally agree on the dislocated knee, am currently on rest after doing this.

Tbh I think a lot of time with childbirth, yeah, the pain is awful, but I have forgotten the actual pain part. So I could say that it hurt, but can't actually remember how bad because my brain skips that and goes straight to meeting my dd's, if that makes sense.

Appendicitis!! I had appendicitis before I had my DD (6) (not whilst pregnant) I had a 4.5 hour labour with just gas and air (she was 8lb 4). I would gladly go through that again then have that again (of course I don't have to have it again..) also induction, in my opinion, is a bitch!! I had an emcs for my ds (six weeks) and that was fairly painful too

Manipulation of shattered ankle to get all the bits and pieces slightly better aligned before 8 hour flight was absolutely horrific. But have to say that repeated attempts to get the ventouse cap onto not very far descended baby was excruciating, and almost as bad.

Fracturing my spine and a ruptured ovarian cyst were before childbirth and I would struggle to put them in order of pain levels. Last year I had Rhizolysis, which in laymans terms is where the nerves around an affected area of the spine are cooked so the pain signals cannot get through. I have never experienced such brutality before and I had a really difficult birth to a 10.12 monster!
DH would happily tell anyone who asked that the paramedic told him his kidney stones were worse than childbirth.

Dental abscess which made the entire right side of my face and neck swell up. It was utterly relentless, I screamed if anything touched me anywhere and ended up on a lot of morphine in A&E - morphine didn't touch the pain.

Slapped Cheek disease, weirdly, caught from DS who felt fine. My immune system had a massive overreaction - every joint in my body swelled up and the pain was indescribable. Again because it was unrelenting. I just woke up completely paralysed as anything I tried to move (even a finger or my jaw) was riddled with excruciating pain. It took me 40 minutes to wake my ex screaming. I honestly thought I'd had some kind of brain haemorrhage and was dying or something. Got taken to A&E in an ambulance, they were mystified, took two days to diagnose me while I was admitted, swollen all over and unable to move. I was given a steroid injection and within 12 hours felt completely normal again though a bit traumatised!

I think when I broke my arm, open fracture which required surgery. The morphine didn't touch the pain. Felt way better after surgery!
Labour pains come and go and there is something to look forward to!

My broken wrist was worse pain than either of my 2 labours. I remember crying from the constant pain

Worst pains to date, but I feel they are all just as bad, not worse, just different...

Broken foot
Burst ear drum
Infected wisdom tooth
Sciatica
SPD
Hemiplegic Migraine
And of course, childbirth!

DH says his dislocated shoulder was agony.

Spd is dreadful.

Migraines are dreadful.

Anything to do with gums/teeth is dreadful.

They all seemed like the worst at the time.

I broke my foot on Monday. Much worse than the pain of induced labour with dd.

This is an oldie. Most know that toothache and kidney stone are way worse.
My births were a walk in the park compared to shooting pains in my hand.

Gallstones here too, horrendous! I've had an attack that lasted three days, complete hell, just wanted to die. I'd take childbirth, even with the third degree tear I sustained, over gallstones any day.

I have had migraines and a kidney infection after a hysterectomy that were equal to labour pains, but no pethidine or baby to make up for the pain..

Bumble not everyone screams giving birth. I was pretty silent through labour and birth with the exception of hallucinating goats and polar bears thanks to the gas and air despite it being drip induction no epidural and she was back to back and came out facing sideways the little bugger

But with my appendix I have sobbed like a baby. When it flares up the pain is relentless. I've been on tramadol for three months to try and cope with it. I'd give birth again in a heartbeat.