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.

Certain types of migraine the worst pain I've ever experienced by far.

A second trimester miscarriage of my darling twins that "went wrong" (thanks for that medical term there!) and led to a severe haemorrhage and almost killed me, the pain was much worse than labour.

The post op complications after EMCS that were first classed as a "wee infection" but when I eventually collapsed in agony and a pool of blood in SCBU were retained tissues the pain was unbelievable and took months of antibiotics and poking around to fix.

IBS can be unexpectedly wicked

Labour in comparison not too bad

Toss up between a Bartholin's access and gall bladder pain. Both awful.

Gallstones 😞

Renal colic from kidney stones. On and off for nearly a year now as well as several UTIs.

Nothing has come close to septic arthritis of the hip. I literally passed out with the pain whilst on a morphine IV in hospital. Labour is a piece of cake in comparison. The lasting pain is difficult, 10 years on I’ve now accepted that it’s permanent, but I’ll nwver forget that agony.

2nd worse physical pain Gullstones whilst abroad and I had no idea what was happening I thought I was dying. But the worst pain I ever felt was when my brother died I seriously thought I was having a heart attack , I have never felt anything like it before or since .

A boil being lanced.

A spider bite being lanced.

Period pains - every now and then I have an awful cycle.

Ruptured disks pressing on my sciatic nerve. I couldn't move from lying down without excruciating agony. I was knocking back oramorph like it was vodka shots.

It fixed itself but I live in fear of it coming back at some stage.

Period pain in my teens. So bad I lost use of my legs, threw up, writhed on the floor. Just horrendous.

It was worse than even gallstone pain or dry socket- bother of which were hell.

Jellyfish sting whilst in middle East
Dental abscess
Frozen shoulder

Still no where near my induced labour!

Oh, and I forgot about my campylobactor food poisoning

Having the ribbon gauze and packing removed from up my nose/sinus cavaties about 12 hrs after a sinus operation. I was bleeding into my face and they wanted to remove the packing urgently to release pressure and so blood could drain down through my nose. One nurse held my head in a vice like grip and the other used a scissor type instrument to grasp the gauze and pull. I honestly thought she was trying to pull my brains out - the pain was horrendous and the amount of packing up there had to be seen to be believed!

Ectopic pregnancy, I collapsed as we got the hospital due to the pain, my partner later said, he had never seen someone so grey. I was so tense from the pain that once treated every muscle in my body aches for weeks!

Ear infection. Have one right now and have taken two types of painkillers and a fair amount of alcohol. Agony.

Another vote for a dry socket..excruciating pain.

I’m very lucky in that I’ve not had any of the top 3 on here but weirdest and worst pain I remember as a child was an infected finger. I removed sobbing in my room. Plus I grown toenail when infected and I knocked it.
Husband said his was torn groin and he’s had a slipped disc and says groin tear was horrific. He was crying

Palindromic Rheumatism. It affected every single joint in my body. The rheumatologist (male) said it was reputed to be worse than any labour pains, and I could definitely confirm that. Fortunately (fingers crossed) I only had one episode, which must have been 15/16 years ago, and hopefully I never get it again!

Kidney stone passing. Went to a and e and threw up with pain whilst waiting.

Pericorinitis - infected wisdom tooth. Couldn’t move my mouth or breathe without searing agony. Went to one dentist who simply sliced off some of my gum (trapping debris apparently) and said it would be fine. It wasn’t. 5 days later a different dentist gave me
Metronidazole and I have never been so grateful.

Recurrent UTI, though the pain more manageable than the constant feeling of being beyond bursting for a wee and not actually able to go.

I’ve broken limbs and this was way worse. Not given birth yet though!

I burned my forearm with steam about 20 years ago. I was hyperventilating with the pain. It was a largish area but fortunately the skin stayed in tact. The pain was very memorable.

Mind you, nothing has ever come close to giving birth to my second son. Without so much as a paracetamol! In fact I recall very clearly being utterly convinced I was about to die, as it's hard to believe you could be in so much pain and have it all be okay!

Forgot one, when a my hoover fell on my big toe, from the top shelf of the airing cupboard. F**king worse than child birth. And child birth ain't for sissies.

Apparently kidney stones are a "10". My dad had them when I was young. I just remember him shrieking for hours and my poor mum not knowing what on earth she could do. We were in the middle of nowhere in Australia as well, so it was literally hours of screaming before he eventually got some pain relief.

Slipped disc - far worse than labour. I was literally mooing like a cow and crawled into A&E on hands and knees!

IVF, egg collection, something went wrong and there was a bleed. The doctor pressing on the bleed to stem it was unbelievable pain - it hadn't helped that the site in question was sore due to the aspiration of so many eggs.

Clearly hasn't put me off IVF though because I'll be signing up to another round some time this year.

Cauda equina (before I went numb!)
It was a 15mm herniation of my L5/S1 disc, I had taken 60mg dihydrocodeine x 4, full dose naproxen, full dose paracetamol, 5mg diazepam then morphine on top. Was pacing up and down to cope with the pain