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.

Nothing will ever beat the pain of labour on the syntocin drip for me - no respite between contractions. It was hell, especially after 3 days of prostin pessaries.

Acute pancreatitis caused by gallstones. I was curled up in the foetal position on my knees on the floor when my mum called the ambulance.

Gallstones that won't piss off!! X

A really bad infected tooth when camping in the pissing rain

Being induced

Having mouth ulcers in every area of gum, mouth and tongue at the start of chemo

A particularly brutal nurse inserting a cannula in my wrist

Having a toenail removed (making my buttocks clench to think about it )

Breastfeeding dd1 with Raynauds

Post c section. Thank god for morphine.

Kidney stones

All painful, but different sorts of pain.

Gallbladder

I kid you not, I thought I was dying

Despite giving birth to 3 large babies I found 3 day long migraines worse.
Also the first few days of emptying bowels after an operation for piles almost made me pass out with pain which carried on for about an hour after each time.
Im really scared after reading the kidney stone stories. About 5 years ago a scan for something else shows i have 2 in one and 1 in the other kidney all too big to pass at 1cm. They dont trouble me at all and i have a yearly scan to check them. In 5 years they havent grown or moved but Im dreading it happening. Especially after recently spending 8 hours with my adult son in a and e wayching him crying and writhing with what turned out to be a kidney stone.

The doctor thought my Crohns was my gallbladder by my description of the pain I was in, it sounds like an evil bastard just like the Crohns!

I forgot one!

Having an earring removed from a very infected earlobe, by them pulling the stud out from the front through the back, as the entire earring was embedded in my very swollen ear. I vomited everywhere.

Dry socket! Also gallbladder attacks are not fun!

Pneumonia combined with pleurisy and strained intercostal muscles. Pain comparible with Labour every time I took a breath for a month.

Dislocated knee, that went back in wrong, sent me home for the night for the swelling to subside. Was hysterical the next day and screamed all the way to the hospital, couldn't get out at the other end, passed out with pain. Doctors / nurses muttering about a fuss I was making, till they cut the bandages off. Was in theatre straight after. Because if it I had to have nearly 3 weeks I. Hospital, 6 months in plaster and then 6 months physio.

I have a disc bulge causing sciatic pain and also over the years caused hip problems. The worst pain was that and also the 3 epidurals I had straight in to the disc. Still gives me nightmares!!!

Having my stomach pumped. Worse than gallstones and labour combined.

@CMOTDibbler I have never 'met' a fellow compartment syndrome survivor. Mine was both lower legs and the acute pain was... Indescribable. Still have flashbacks it was that bad, morphine barely touched it. The years of ongoing neuropathic pain is a bigger deal though.
I've had multiple orthopaedic surgeries since then and the first 24hrs is horrendous but you know it will end. The same with my laparotomy after small bowel obstruction - I was beside myself the first night but it ends.
Thankfully I've a pretty high pain threshold especially as these days it hurts to stand or walk but the first 24hrs postop I am an absolute wimp!

I broke my leg whilst falling down the stairs. I slipped on a step, and then bashed it against the wall. I heard it snap. I got dh to call an ambulance, the guys arrived quickly. The doctor came around, and he looked at the X-rays. He manipulated my leg, and that was the worst. Luckily I had G&A.
I was 2 weeks in hospital waiting for the swelling to go down and ended up with 2 metal plates and 19 screws, to fix my broken tib and fib.

@mogulfield
Yeah, 3 months. I thought I was dying. It made me so sleepy as well- so luckily I slept through it for 20 hours a day. My sister had it for a week but I think hers was a lot more intense pain than mine, which sounds like yours maybe.

Reading this thread, it sounds like a walk in the park compared to some of these things 😰.

Pancreatitis due to a gallstone - unbelievable pain - morphine was the only thing that could take the edge off it. - THIS WAS THE WORST PAIN EVER - couldn't speak, move and thought I was dying

DIEP surgery (fat from belly to create new boob post mastectomy) - horrendous - wouldn't do that again in a hurry

Sinusitis - when teeth ad brain feel as if they are trying to get out of your face

Migraine so bad that can't see or move

Sciatica due to herniated disc / and the disc pain itself - completely and literally crippling

Toothache, but mostly shingles, especially internal shingles. The painkillers, neuralgic and opiate, don't touch the sides. No sleep possible and no position is comfortable.
If you are unlucky, the nerves are damaged and you have post herpetic neuralgia, so it continues to hurt for months/years/ever - I am not sure which of these for me, yet.
I am so paying for the vaccine, hopefully to prevent recurrence....

after having severe food poisoning , gut was still in fragile state afterwards. A loop of my bowel moved / twisted out of place.
Rushed to hospital, 1 dose of morphine didn't touch it, 2nd removed it dimly as long as I didn't straighten my leg and no one touched me.

next day colonoscopy and doc pushed it all back into place, with five nurses holding me still. I screamed pretty loud. pethadine didn't touch pain, just made be vomit and shake from shock afterwards.

labour was not at the same level of pain, and I have given birth to four children with a few whiffs of gas and air. much easier. even the first 9lb forceps son, and the 2nd 10lb 8oz baby was easier than the bowel pain.

Ruptured ectopic pregnancy and subsequent internal bleeding. I very nearly died and was in so much pain I couldn't sign consent forms for my emergency surgery, my poor DH had to make my hand move. I will never ever forget that pain.
A close second was an infection I took after I have four wisdom teeth out. It was weeks of unbearable pain and my face swelled out to the size of a grapefruit.

Gallstone and something I did to my elbow for acute pain and bursitis for chronic

And I forgot the pain caused by eating too many sugar free mints, although that is solved by making an urgent trip to the loo

5 days worth of chronic constipation when I was 35 weeks pregnant with DC2.

I thought I was in the late stages of labour without the urge to push as the pain was coming in waves and it was excruciating! I was eventually given an enema on the maternity ward which sorted everything out thankfully!

In reverse order -
kidney stone - sacroiliac pain - labour - haemorrhoidectomy - rotator cuff tear. I was scraped off the ceiling a few times with the rotator cuff :/
In fairness, I think my kidney stone was very small.

Forgot sinusitis - can put that alongside sacroiliac pain.