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.

Kidney stones. Two lots of morphine later pain was finally manageable.

Post dural headache after a lumbar puncture. I was just lay on my back unable to move without vomiting with the explosive pain in my head. Finally convinced them to give me an Epidural Blood Patch but I actually wanted to die. Much worse than labour.

Migraine. The worst lasted 3 days, I was on holiday, was close to being hospitalised.
Still get them but fortunately nowhere near as bad as that one.

Having a tooth extracted with a butcher of a dentist and then developing dry socket.

Having a tooth extracted by a butcher of a dentist and then developing dry socket.

I know we are not including labour however ... Including labour .. Food poisoning , the cramps were unlike anything I'd ever experienced ( iv had stomach bugs etc before ) I thought I was going to die and actually at one point wished I could because I couldn't take the pain . Awful!!!

Gas and air with my 2nd i spent my time giving birth explaining to the midwife how gas and air worked. I was determined to figure it out.
I was obsessed with the clock and fully focused. My understanding of it was that it doesnt take the pain away, it just makes you so high you forget the pain was happening even though you fully feel the pain when it is happening, just 2 seconds later the gas and air has distracted you.

I felt like a genius. It also made giving birth feel extremely easy as my main job at that time was figuring out gas and air.

They took it off me in the end. The bastards

Bad IBS attacks - I writhe, retching, on the bathroom floor, praying for the pain to go.

Wisdom teeth extraction - awful and lasted a whole week. I could barely eat or speak.

Shit wrong thread lol

Gut pain from a reaction to an antibiotic. My bowel had shed its lining and was bleeding.
It wasn't actually the most severe pain I've ever experienced, but was relentless. I honestly thought I was dying.

Side effects from chemotherapy - felt like my body was being crushed in a vice.

The pain was horrendous and relentless not helped by knowing that once the side effects eased it would be time for the next chemo dose and I'd have to go through it all again

Endometriosis - like having a red hot drill stuck in my ovaries, several times a month. I've never been in labour, so can't say whether that would be worse; the hysterectomy I had as a result of the endo was actually less painful though!

Day after gallbladder removal, only for short space of time but it had me in tears.

Nothing has ever come close to childbirth in the pain department, as far as I am concerned. If that scores 10 out 10, then the next most painful thing I have had - a broken elbow - scores about 0.05 out of 10! I have been lucky to be virtually pain free these past 35 years.

Gallstones/Pancreatitis
Sinusitis
Breastfeeding with badly damaged nipples

I dealt with two slipped discs and a trapped nerve for over 2 years after being misdiagnosed during pregnancy. It was constant pain and made my PND a lot worse.

The pain after the anaesthetic wore of following my corneal transplant was unlike anything I've ever experienced. Horrendous

I had a csection so don't know what labour is like, though when the painkillers wore off it was pretty bad.
I got migraines in my teens which felt like I had an axe in my head and nothing more than a couple of paracetamol to manage them (GP told my mum I was just trying to get out of school).
Quinsy and blocked sinuses are no walk in the park either.

Having a colonoscopy whilst having active Crohns, followed by over night Crohns attack!!! Most things to me are a walk in the park in comparison!

But just to add I find emotion pain far more debilitating!

Probably either gall stones or when I first stood up after having my c-section. It felt like I was tearing open and I passed out.

Cauda equina- a herniated disc that crushed a major branch of nerves so I had sciatica and pain everywhere from toe to back

I didn't sleep for 4 nights and was hallucinating with pain

By the time I got to hospital, I had to have an epidural to tide me over til they could get me into theatre
When I came round from the surgery and the pain was gone, I wanted to kiss every single one of the surgical team

As an ex dental nurse, I have seen large strapping men weeping with pain from a dry socket. Many of them wanted their heads taken off it was so bad.

A heavy door closing almost completely on my hand. My hand is still dented 20 years later.
Cystitis so bad I had to leave the doctor’s waiting room to go home and cry in a warm bath. It was literally like sitting on a needle.