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?

Broken coccyx. I was suicidal with the pain.

Two broken lumber vertebrae snd two broken ribs.

Don't have the vocabulary to describe the intensity of the pain attempting to move.

This is going to sound like I’m taking the piss but honestly I’m not. I’ve got a high pain threshold and yet, I stubbed my toe so hard I cracked right through it and the pain made me see lights and vomit.

Cluster headaches are horrible though and you literally can’t do ANYTHING else when they happen. I had them when I was pregnant.

Just life sometimes. I have chronic pain, if stbxh wasn't an abusive jerk I'm not sure I'd still be here, but I can't do that to our children. I've been in pain 24/7 for over 20 years now. Not sure I can remember which excruciating day was the worst. Ive been getting excruciating head pain recently, and this pain across my shoulders that feels like I'm being electrocuted.

Ruptured cyst on my ovaries
breaking my back in a car accident
giving birth and baby stuck spine to spine

in that order of pain

The worst pain I’ve ever had was a dislocated pelvis (sacroiliac joint). Was unable to do anything except scream like a wounded animal, couldn’t explain to the paramedics (DH had called 999) what had happened or anything. It took 5mg IV morphine before I was even able to confirm my name and DOB for them.

I have pretty high pain tolerance as I’ve had arthritis and joint issues since childhood, but the dislocated pelvis was like nothing else. Took docs bloody ages to work out what had happened as well! It was a month before it got pushed (very gently and carefully) back in to place, and I was bedbound and off my face on morphine and diazepam for most of that month. Do not recommend.

I’ve given birth, twice, without so much as a paracetamol - and Botha were a walk in the park compared to the pain of kidney stones. I’m not usually given to dramatics but before I knew what it was I genuinely thought I was dying, it was horrendous.

Apart from childbirth, having a magnesium drip. Felt like someone was repeatedly stamping on my arm as hard as they could.

I had a neck/shoulder spasm that lasted for a week. the first 2 days were absolute agony, worse than birthing twins. I was so scared and screamed loudly every time the spasms started. We were on holiday too so no doctor, but did get strong pain killers from the pharmacy. My kids asked my husband if I was dying!

For me gallstones and pancreatitis at the same time, is the worst pain I’ve ever experienced which also left me as a type 1 diabetic.

Cluster headaches sound awful, and it must be difficult knowing that it’s not a one off, that it more than likely will happen again. Big hugs to anyone to experience these.

I've only had two bouts of cluster headache. I have chronic migraine so I'm well used to the pain of that and I've had some horrific experiences.

I've also had kidney stones twice and that was unreal. I've had dental infections which have blown my face up and left me on agony for weeks.

But cluster headache definitely took the biscuit. I was terrified to sleep, as I woke up with them about 2am every night for weeks. Each attack lasted about an hour, but I've never been so exhausted by any other pain and I'm currently sat here exhausted from a 3 day migraine attack which finally lifted yesterday evening.

A slipped disc, I couldn't even put my right foot on the floor. Closely followed by Geniculate neuralgia which is described as "an ice pick in the ear" with good reason.
Pushing a 10lb baby out with no pain relief was also agonising but at least it didn't carry on for months/years unlike the other two.

Ruptured ovarian cyst (at my sisters wedding when I was bridesmaid)
Passing my first poo two weeks after c-section. It was like a rock-solid bowling ball and pitch black

Severe sciatica and pelvic girdle dysfunction during my last pregnancy. Nothing helped it and they were wary to prescribe much. I only really got help when I went to an unrelated ENT appointment and was in so much pain that I vomited absolutely everywhere. It took way too long to sort out painkillers.

I once had a blockage in my sinus in my brain (had to have an MRI) and that gave me the most unbelievable headache I've ever experienced. I literally slept with sunglasses on as I couldn't bare the sunlight through the windows!

But I do think tooth ache is the worst pain you can get! It's utterly unbearable!

Kidney stones/infections. Excruciating. Also the burst abscess in my ear when I was thirteen.

1st place: abscess under a tooth
2nd place: appendicitis
3rd place: tibia broken and sticking out of my leg after being run over

Compartment syndrome - basically crushing my arm inside and cutting off the blood supply. I was blacking out and coming round screaming (I only know about the screaming from the staff complaining about it the next day) then blacking out again.
The long term burning agony of CRPS which was a consequence of this was a near second and that was years

• Bowel Blockage/ impactation a few days after C section with my 2nd born

• Slipped disc

• 4 hours of labour on the drip with no pain relief

1. Kidney stones
2. Dental abscess
3. Torn muscle in thigh

Had two unmedicated labours and births which were nothing in comparison. Sometimes I wonder if that was psychological though.

No cluster headaches.

Me personally breaking my wrist so badly it needed 3 pins and pneumonia came no where near close to the pain/sensation of feeling returning to my arm after it had been fully nerve blocked for the pin surgery (under general, not sure why I had both). Morphine wasn't even touching the sides. If I could have opened the window on the 3rd floor ward I'd have happily jumped out of it just to feel a different pain or nothing at all.

Lumbar puncture. Not the procedure itself. That was a walk in the park compared to the aftermath. A horrendous pain and pressure in my head lPlus I also had a tight band of pain in my upper back and chest. For the first week I could lift my head of the pillow without violently throwing up everywhere. To go to the toilet I'd have to stagger across the room. Get in grab a sick bowl and throw up whilst sitting on the toilet. I don't think I've ever felt pain like it. In fact had someone offered me an axe to chop my head off. I'd have gladly taken it off them.