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Worse pain you've had

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dakel · 03/12/2022 06:54

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?

OP posts:
Montague22 · 03/12/2022 10:25

@Spudlet my periods used to be the same. I remember leaving work if it started and people rolling their eyes. My line manager then asked if I needed smelling salts 😒 I’ve ordered a meal and the abandoned it when I’ve felt the twinge. It would build into the most intense pain and no position was comfortable, then if black out, then vomit. I used to say the strength of it must be like labour. My first labour was exactly like it, even vomited. I did faint in my 3rd. But with my first I arrived at hospital fully dilated and I rated it a 6/10.

My worst pains were periods, labour with no pain relief, then I think the very worst was feeding my 3rd as she sheared my skin totally on 1/2 of each nipple. Those first 30 seconds of every feed equalled labour pain easily.

CourtneeLuv · 03/12/2022 10:30

Yep, I've had them and it was my first thought on reading the title.

They don't call them suicide headaches for nothing.

My cousin has them chronically and I don't know how he does it.

Blossomandbee · 03/12/2022 11:47

My first labour; big baby, waters had gone, back to back, drip induction.... no one told me it was the perfect storm of hell and I tried to brave through it with gas and air. As others have said it wasn't contractions, it was one continuous excruciating pain like nothing I've ever felt. They kept turning the drip up as they wanted him out. All I could do was sit on the edge of the bed rocking, sweating, shaking and vomiting.
I thought I was a wimp until I had two more babies with natural labours that were a walk in the park in comparison.
Also agree with early breastfeeding before your skins toughened up and you're absolutely raw!

christmastreetime · 03/12/2022 11:48

Gallbladder and post gallbladder removal when the tubes went into spasm.

sashh · 04/12/2022 05:19

Montague22 · 03/12/2022 10:25

@Spudlet my periods used to be the same. I remember leaving work if it started and people rolling their eyes. My line manager then asked if I needed smelling salts 😒 I’ve ordered a meal and the abandoned it when I’ve felt the twinge. It would build into the most intense pain and no position was comfortable, then if black out, then vomit. I used to say the strength of it must be like labour. My first labour was exactly like it, even vomited. I did faint in my 3rd. But with my first I arrived at hospital fully dilated and I rated it a 6/10.

My worst pains were periods, labour with no pain relief, then I think the very worst was feeding my 3rd as she sheared my skin totally on 1/2 of each nipple. Those first 30 seconds of every feed equalled labour pain easily.

I used to get horrendous periods, flooding, vomiting when I was in my teens. I've not given birth but I imagine it to be similar.

It's crazy that we send children off to school in what is effectively labour.

gbconfused · 04/12/2022 05:30

Herniated disc in spasm

gbconfused · 04/12/2022 05:30

I've had migraines, tooth abscess and labour and the back pain is worse.

HowCanIPayItForward · 04/12/2022 05:37

Last couple of days, recovering from having a chunk of my spine removed. Honestly i hadn't known it was possible to hurt so much. Thankfully it's slightly improved today but I still can't move an inch without crying.

Orangesandlemons77 · 01/02/2023 19:08

Bowel obstruction, then after that childbirth, then shingles.

OnlyOpenMouthToChangeFeet · 01/02/2023 20:04

I have deeply infiltrating endometriosis throughout my bowel and digestive system, the pain is indescribable. The worst is the rectal pain, how I imagine being disembowelled with a sword, fully conscious, must feel. Makes me vomit and pass out. To put it in perspective, I had a 36 hour back to back labour with my first, then a natural twin delivery, zero pain relief with either. Would happily do the labours every day of the week compared to the endo pain! And unfortunately because of where it is, being in the menopause hasn't made it better in the slightest.

Coming a close second was having a cold sore in my eye. Fucking hell that was painful, I was begging the doctor to take it out.

Compared to both of those, my ruptured appendix was like a tickle in comparison!!

monicagellerbing · 01/02/2023 20:06

1.Epidural failing mid c-section

  1. A cyst bursting on my ovary
monicagellerbing · 01/02/2023 20:06

Oh and 3. Dry socket. Absolutely utterly horrendous pain

DrMadelineMaxwell · 01/02/2023 20:10

Trigeminal Neuralgia.

In my experience, worse than toothache. Worse than sciatica. Worse than labour or a miscarriage. Worse than walking on a broken ankle.

sanityisamyth · 01/02/2023 20:16

Dislocated knee, each of the hundreds of times they went.

MissHoollie · 01/02/2023 20:18

Chronic attacks of pancreatitis cause dby a spasm in my bile duct.
A million times worse than gallstones or childbirth

Derrymum123 · 01/02/2023 20:29

Trigeminal neuralgia. By a country mile , far the most painful. Suicide crossed my mind .
Also Quinsy , shocking pain. Thankfully, now had tonsils removed, so not a problem, fingers crossed.

triballeader · 02/02/2023 21:39

Cluster headaches for me.
Let me put it this way the sheer pain level they can cause has meant I could ignore polynephritis until I collapsed, severe pancreatis with mega gallstones until I collapsed and a dislocated shoulder with torn muscles when I walked myself to A&E much to the horror of the Drs and disbelief of reception as I explained I had had far worse headaches. I live with chronic severe migraine and suspect my pain threshold may have become high from necessity.

GettingStuffed · 06/02/2023 22:47

Torn rotator cuff, not the most intense that's headaches which only last a second or teo, but it went on for months, even moving position in a chair was agony. I've also had bursitis in my hip again really painful.

If say all these were similar.

lobeliasb · 14/02/2023 22:47

Ruptured ovarian cyst. I have migraines, torn cartilage in my knees, deformed hip sockets and EDS, and the cyst was by far the worst pain I've ever felt. I was on a secluded island in Thailand when it happened and I thought I was going to die. I didn't seek medical care as there was none to be had, and resigned myself to die in my bungalow. It felt like I had been stabbed in the gut and I couldn't move for half an hour, and the next day my abdomen was hard as a rock with blood and fluids and it didn't go down for a week.

Poppiesway1 · 14/02/2023 23:05

GettingStuffed · 06/02/2023 22:47

Torn rotator cuff, not the most intense that's headaches which only last a second or teo, but it went on for months, even moving position in a chair was agony. I've also had bursitis in my hip again really painful.

If say all these were similar.

Yes!
I have calcific tendinitis, bursitis and micro tears to my rotator cuff. It’s the sudden shock of pain when you accidentally go to catch something.. jolt it.. I almost feel as though I could be sick with the pain and pass out.. it’s even worse than when I passed kidney stones and had gallstones..
I can only sleep on one side and my dc have to help me get dressed as I can’t lift my arm up to put a jumper on or even brush my hair without the pain

Intemperatefatty · 14/02/2023 23:13

I also suffered with cluster headaches when I was pregnant with DD1. They lasted 6 weeks and I got attacks 3 times a day at exactly the same time every day, first attack came on around 5am, second at around 1pm and the third around 7pm. It was like someone was drilling with something indescribably hot through my right eye socket into my skull at full pelt and it truly was the worst pain I have ever experienced, it was utterly horrific. I’m not proud of it and it still haunts me to this day but I really did seriously consider ending my life then as I just couldn’t see how I could live like that and as bad as it sounds, even being pregnant wasn’t enough. First and only time I have ever been suicidal. I was eventually hospitalised and put on oxygen which helped a bit. Then one day, it just disappeared. That was nearly 16 years ago. I lived in fear for a long time they’d return but try not think about it now. I still get migraines now but will literally take a migraine every day for the rest of my life over even 1 day of clusters.

Deut28 · 14/02/2023 23:19

Gallstones. Worse than drip induced labour on just gas and air.

GettingStuffed · 17/04/2023 11:22

If you'd asked me last year I would have said inflamed cartilage or gallbladder. But over Christmas I had the flu and difficulty breathing, which caused a pain in both my wrists, I would quite happily have let the hospital amputate if it would have stopped the pain.

BreviloquentBastard · 17/04/2023 11:27

I have them, I'm very fortunate that my attacks have gotten more and more infrequent as I've aged but they don't call them suicide headaches for nothing. Basically nothing helps with them for me, I just have to ride them out.

I had an unmedicated natural labour with a pumpkin headed baby and I'd say it was about on par with that, but lasts 10x longer.

Only other thing that's ever come close was when I was travelling in Peru and put my foot in a bullet ant nest. Took a lot of vodka to get through that night.

Sandra1984 · 17/04/2023 11:30

A clinical depression was the worst pain I’ve ever been in, forget root canal or giving birth.