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.

Slipped disc pressing on my sciatic nerve. Crying out with pain. It felt like someone was holding an electric cattle prod on my leg.

In A&E and was given 2 lots of ibuprofen, paracetamol, codeine, morphine and Valium and I was still in agony.

I pushed a 10lb baby out with just a TENS machine, which was hugely painful, but I'd choose that over the slipped disc any day.

Spd/sciatica when I was pregnant. Every time I sat down I screamed. Labour was worse as the the contractions were on top of each other, he was back to back and he got stuck. After 2 1/2 hours of pushing the consultant put his whole hand inside me during a contraction to ‘see what was going on’ if I’d been able to make a sound I’d have screamed. No wonder it took me so long to do it again.
Other than that probably tonsillitis cos that fucking hurts.

Dry socket after removal of wisdom teeth
Back spams after I ripped my shoulder in a car accident
Third degree rear of the calf muscle- hideous pain that was so acute I was screaming and crying out.
All of them way worse than labour/ c section recovery (although that got a bit hairy when I didn’t stay on top of the painkillers!)

Broken ribs (I fell and landed on the corner of the coffee table) - couldn't believe how much they hurt. And how little you can do to mitigate it other than take painkillers and wait for them to mend.

The one and only migraine I've ever had. I thought I was going to die and it seemed like an attractive option - it was unbearable. And I couldn't see - vision went to hell, which was terrifying.

Second to that was when I had a polyp removed from my tongue. Hurt like a bastard.

Broken ankle. My foot and ankle turned dark purple in the time it took to get to the hospital.
Dental pain is awful because it's so unrelenting.
Back to back labour was up there too.

I win the pain Olympics, for I have stepped on not just one, but TWO pieces of Lego, simultaneously.

Bowel obstruction. Was mistaken for gallstones

Dh has had kidney stones twice. From onset to writhing in pain vomiting in less than ten minutes

I suffered for years as a teenager with pain in my chest. It felt like someone was stabbing me through my ribs and I couldn’t talk or breath. It could last seconds or hours.

I never did get a diagnosis, I think doctors thought I was laying it on a bit thick but it lasted around 6 years before I realised it hadn’t happened in ages

A ruptured cyst in my Fallopian tube was a very close second!

I once had an ear infection so bad that it felt like someone was sticking a needle straight into my ear drum.
I would rather go through labour 100 times than ever have that again.

Also more painful than labour was the time I stubbed my toe on the corner of a chest of drawers & ripped the nail off - makes my eyes water just remembering it!

Appendicitis I would have said, then I experienced gallstones with acute pancreatitis. Ergh

Waking up from 12 hour surgery having had my spinal column straightened several degrees from the base of my skull all the way to my lower back. Spinal cord monitoring during the surgery had flagged up that the surgeon had straightened my spine too much and I had lost the use of my legs so they had to half wake me during the operation so I could tell them when I could feel them stabbing my ankles and knees with sharp instruments, I didn’t know it but I’d chewed through my bottom lip and also due to being face down on the operating table I had massive bruising on my chest.
All in all the pain made me want to die and when I was told that the operation was only a little bit successful and asked if I wanted round two I very firmly told them no.
Pain. So much pain.

Blood gases and dental abcess

Much worse than labour pain was when I sliced my eyeball on a price tag when I was trying on a top in a shop and pulled it over my head.

I have given birth twice to two 9lb + children, had a slipped disc that has ‘impacted’and continues to cause me pain 10 years after the car accident that caused it! Nothing compares to the pain of the only case of sinusitis I have ever had. I could have clawed my face off.

And I gave birth taking only 2 paracetamol so the eye pain was pretty bad compared to that!

When I completely smashed my wrist. Worse than labour.

I’ve had really severe SPD for over 21 years. My pelvis was so mobile it used to slip out of place when I moved which hurt like fuck.

Then I had a pelvic surgeon give me a steroid injection into my very inflamed symphysis pubis, without anaesthetic, to ‘see how much it hurt!’ He found out quite quickly by my language!

I split the bone graft fusion, under the pins and plates, standing up one day. The pain just took my breath away and I couldn’t move.

I suffer with horrendous nerve pain in my legs, which although isn’t the worst pain is the most relentless and I can’t get any relief from.

Any of those, really.

Still recovering from 5 broken ribs and a broken shoulder that damaged the nerve in my breast...I dreamed that someone was stabbing my breast with a white hot pitchfork..morphine didn't touch it but pregabalin was nice!!..When DD came to visit I told her that someone had been screaming all night...it was me!

Post lumbar puncture headache. I was kept in hospital for 10 days on morphine.

Having a drain removed after a c-section. One nurse held me down whilst the other pulled. It felt like 10m were taken out!! Turned out I had a nasty infection

A hornet sting on bottom of my foot.

I've had 3 labours - 1 horrendous with failed epidural, 1 and sneeze and out she popped one and the 3rd also horrendous but stopped prematurely due to emcs.

Worse than all of those however was when I slipped and fell on the stairs while carrying my then 3 year old. Blue-lighted to the hospital on a backboard, dosed up on morphine. In the end nothing was broken - just severe internal bruising around my ribs and coccyx. Hurt like hell and I struggled to breathe let alone move for a good week afterwards.

A close second was a bartholin's abscess. I thought UTIs were bad and then I got the bartholin's - can't even describe the pain. Labour had nothing on that.

Doing a poo post labour with swollen thrombotic haemorrhoids.
I didn’t cry during labour, but I did cry during that poo 💩

V bad tooth - I am scared of dentist, so just waited it out - at times I could barely breathe, not to mind eat or drink even on a cocktail of painkillers. Funny thing was there were other times when it was fine for days on end, but then it would come back with a vengeance.

I had an ectopic pregnancy that pressed against an ovarian cyst. I thought I was dying the pain was so bad.