Worse pain you've had

[dakel]

So dp suffers from cluster headaches. He suffers from attacks maybe once a year that last for 2 weeks. He describes the pain the most painful thing known to man/woman.

Anyone else suffer from cluster headaches do you agree and also what helps you?

Also what would you say is the most painful thing you have been through?

1. Sciatica. Like having an electric cattle prod rammed in to a nerve in my bum and leg and blasting me every 10 seconds
2. Trigeminal neuralgia (my attacks only last about 10 seconds. If they went on for longer, I'd throw myself off a very tall building. They're off the scale and totally unbearable)
3. Gall stones.

Kindred spirit!!

My period pains can sometimes be as bad as my contractions were. I almost passed out recently from period pains.

Pancreatitis caused by gallstones trapped in the biliary duct. I was in hospital for weeks on morphine and tramadol. It was excruciating. I had no pain relief for my second birth (no through choice) and the pain was similar but pancreatitis lasted much longer!

Dislocated shoulder

Childbirth.

My first wasn't that bad, I would have said tooth pain was worse. My second was excruciating, felt like I was being ripped in two and if you'd handed me a gun I would have ended it all in that moment just to be relieved from that pain.

I do wonder if I just forgot about that in my first birth when I got baby handed to me, where as second he was rushed away.

My second birth induced back to back labour. There was no break in between the contractions just constant. I could feel my body shutting down. I couldn't even open my eyes to communicate just absolute agony.

Second are migraines. There's nothing to be done when one starts just ride it.

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Dawn lost a long post.

Its never been that bad no. That was 15 years ago. Had a few more minor issues but much more aware now. I'm quite inflexible so know if I twang my back then I need to up my exercise to strengthen muscles etc. Usually a few days of walking sorts it.

Miscarriages. Mentally and physically.

Its like a “heavy period “ they said.
It was labour pains for hours at a time in reality.
I needed gas and air and morphine to manage the pain at its peak.

I am hard as nails. Rarely get ill, years between Dr visits, not a lot bothers me.
But that pain was all consuming, total and debilitating.
And I had it multiple times.

39 hour back-to-back Labour on gas and air with a completely separated pelvis was quite the experience 😳😓

But gallstones were 10000x worse. 18months of 3-4 attacks a month. Doctors didn’t believe me because I “didn’t meet the criteria” as I was too young. Refused to give me scans, refused to prescribe pain relief. Was having to work 10 hour shifts in retail on my feet all day during attacks and frequently leaving the shop floor to vomit 😩 Ended up in an emergency surgery at the end of a very long 18m of pain.

I should add - that was an induced labour, on the drip, wearing a mask during covid 😅

Gallstones was still worse for me

The dog scratching my eyeball with her nail. Took to my bed for a few days with morphine.

And back to back labour!

I get hideous migraines. Sometimes they are just dreadful. I've taken an overdose in the past as i just couldn't deal with the thought of having another one. Still here though. Taking one day at a time

I know this sounds pathetic but it's when I had some kind of arthritis flare up in my toe and it swelled so much omg I was in absolute agony!! Luckily the dr understood and gave me a course of anti inflammatories which brought down the swelling but it was very acutely painful for one particular night especially.

My cousin has chronic migraines which mean actual noise cause him pain.

And one of my best mates is an amputee who suffers nerve pain in her leg stump some nights despite gabapentin which is agony, however her pain was worst before the amputation in her early twenties due to venous insufficiency caused by previous surgery for cancer... she was on opiates which did nothing to touch it.

I went on a first aid course some while back and the man doing it said the three most painful things were supposed to be childbirth, gallstones and a heart attack!

The only time I’ve ever seen my DH properly cry was when he had a tooth abscess though-nasty!

Unmedicated labour
Toothache so bad i considered topping myself

Tooth abscess. Never had pain like it. No sleep for 3 days. Ended up in a&e rocking backwards and forwards. Finally got really strong painkillers prescribed.

Endometriosis.

Trigeminal neuralgia. And sciatica spasms.

I have trigeminal neuralgia that is luckily in remission, it's the most painful condition out there as it's electric shocks in your whole face. I can't do anything when it attacks I also have TMJ and my jaw locks up.

I also have EDS where my joints dislocate, I have to put my joints back in on a daily basis it's very very very painful.

I had bad sinuses for months and the headaches were unbearable. Nothing touched them and they just went on and on.

Scratched cornea, wanted to rip my head off

There is a documentary on Netflix about the use of LSD and magic mushrooms and the like to treat depression and chronic pain. Apparently scientists are exploring the potential of such drugs again. There was one chap in France who I think said he got cluster headaches every day. He thought about ending it all. After treatment (under supervision) he hadn't had a headache for weeks. Might give hope for future treatment. The Netflix doc was call something like - how to change your mind.

For me worst pain was probably sciatica.. I have had a few painful experiences e.g. childbirth twice with no pain relief, dry socket, frozen shoulder. Sciatica the worst.

When my bowel perforated due to cancer. The subsequent multiple open surgery abdominal operations and illeostomy were also so painful but the cancer attacking my bowel was the worst I have ever experienced.

HELLP syndrome. I was hallucinating, vommitting in pain, both my liver and kidneys were failing, my heart rate was 220 and my blood pressure was swinging from 230/185-110/60 in a matter of minutes. They kept a nurse with me all the time while they got a surgical team together as they thought the risk of a mother trying to hurt herself and/or her baby was so high. Thankfully delivering the baby cleared it right up, I was drugged up for the rest of the day and by the next morning just normal c-section recovery pain.