What is the most pain you have ever experienced?

[Geano]

Apart from labour

I would say a back injury I suffered as a child , that was painful.

A large Kidney stone that blocked my urethra, bits would crumble off and shred my urethra and I would urinate clots of blood. I had a fever, I couldn't move I was just knelt on the floor cradling myself sweating. I didn't have anyone to take mt to the hospital I was just stuck on the floor for hours.

Oh I forgot when I fell down the stairs and tore the ligaments in my foot. That was the type of pain when you can’t even remember your own name.

Turns out some years later, an X-ray showed I’d fractured it. No wonder it bloody hurt!

@eastlondoner I am squirming thinking about that happening, and I cannot even
imagine the pain. Ouch!

Gallbladder. The relief of getting admitted to hospital after not sleeping for days and having morphine administered was the amazing, can still remember it 15 years later. Had other flare ups after that and before my operation but the first really was the worst pain I have experienced.

@Dollylama yes arterial blood gases.Once would have been OK but after the third try by a junior docter I'm presuming it was horrendous. My wrist up to my elbow was black and blue the next day.

18 months of bilateral frozen shoulders. I would take 100mg of Tramadol at midnight and sleep until about 5am when I would wake up screaming in pain (my Dh said I would be screaming before I woke up). At least with one frozen shoulder you have a 'good side' to sleep on, with 2 it's agony.

Labour definitely top of the list- but I'd say sinusitis for 3 months, followed by abscess in gum, followed by being run over 😂

When I was having IVF, after egg collection (I think) massive sharp pains right up to my shoulders. 'Oh yes', the said 'that can be a side effect' . I was immobile for hours iirc.

I know you said not labour, but the uterine rupture in my second labour blew all previous pain - back to back breech labour, tooth abscess, tendonitis - out of the water.

I know you said not labour, but the uterine rupture in my second labour blew all previous pain - back to back breech labour, tooth abscess, tendonitis - out of the water.

This thread is terrifying

When my bowels perforated , that was awful so painful

Definitely a weird kind of jaw/dental pain I used to get in planes (take-off and descent). Throughout my teens I travelled frequently long-haul to see family.

Felt like my teeth were all being pulled out at once, couldn’t speak, just sat rocking and clutching my face. Nothing helped it, never knew when it would strike. The kind of pain where you just see lightening flashes behind your eyes and struggle to breathe or think.

Years later a dentist finally told me of a condition it could have been, related to the shape of your skull and sinuses reacting badly with sudden changing air pressure. Luckily I grew out of that shaped head?

But no, the duration and ‘work’ of my traumatic 26hr labour was number 1 on the list.

@Fluffypie1 oh wow! I’m sorry you had such a rough time with it 😬

@wasmissd you had sinusitis for 3 MONTHS?! I had it for a week and was ready to rip mine (and everyone else’s) head off!!

Bilateral ear infections.

I was 16 and climbed into my mums bed crying it was so bad. Worse than labour and wisdom tooth pain/removal.

I suffer with chronic cluster headaches (also known as suicide headaches)
I can say the pain is worse than anything I have ever known and I had a ruptured gallbladder and a breech birth and those were no where near bad as my headaches.

I thought breaking my femur was bad, but after reading this I'm really quite thankful that the worst pain I've had was that and at the same time a little anxious that I may experience anything written here!😱

Impacted wisdom tooth on a nerve, breathtaking pain I couldn't get away from.
Anal fissures, years of them. Thanks IBS.

Good God BikeRunSki

For me, nothing comes close to the pain of labour, but my kidney stone wasn't much fun.

I did burn the backs of both my legs whilst in South America, it was so so painful, to the extent that I couldn't stand up for about 5 days, I had blisters the size of golf balls on both ankles! After about 5 days I managed to get up right and hobble to a pharmacy, but I couldn't stand still once moving, so at the traffic lights I kind of had to keep my legs active like an athlete, I did eventually get a spray that cost as much as our hotel room for the night and I gradually got better, but they were damaged for months (pale and peeling) and even 12 years later I have a huge cluster of freckles and paler skin there! I will never forget rolling myself off the bed in agony and pulling myself to the toilet in tears, just to have a wee!

It did teach me to have HUGE respect for the sun and to never go lower than SPF40 I only burnt that day as it was windy and cold and I couldn't find my SPF40 so used my husbands SPF20 never again have I been so foolish!

Gracious, some of these sound terrifying.

My worst pain was herpes. In our innocence, dh and I didn’t know that he had a cold sore, nor did we know that it was transferable during oral sex 😮😬. We were in our 40’s and I am a nurse too!

The pain was unbearable and I really couldn’t cope with it. I needed lignocaine to numb my bits before having a wee to stop me from screaming.

My dm took me to the doctor and I had to discuss my sex life with doctor with my mum in the room!

Labour was a walk in the park compared to that....

I know you said not labour but this was after labour. I had a pph and they couldn't stop the bleeding so they did a bilateral massage - one doctor put his hand in me and massaged from the inside and the other massaged my stomach from the outside to get uterus to contract. I had been in pushing for more than 6 hours (don't ask), had a 4th degree tear and had a forceps delivery in which the doc put the forceps in, missed my contraction/push so had to leave it in until the next contraction hit.

I will never forget the pain. I believed I was jackknifing off the table with each massage, screaming in agony. Dh tells me I just gave a small moan.

Broken toe - I would not have believed how painful that was! Praise the Lord for my super cushioned Clarks " Granny" sandals! And another vote for dry socket :(