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.

Oh and I told a&e I was going to cut my own leg off. They thought this was a little excessive until the MRI came back

My poor gallbladder trying to pass a massive gallstone - worse even than when I slipped a disc in my back.

Botched abortion. RU486 pill. Horrific.

Followed closely by a follicle infection in my bits. Antibiotic drip for four days, couldn't walk.

Followed by constipation with an eating disorder-nothing there to move things along.

Followed by standing on a sewing needle!

Crowning with my first baby, midwife had taken gas and air away so I could focus and push. Felt like being ripped in two (I tore, so I suppose I was) and I honestly felt death would be preferable.

Dry socket, migraines and all the rest of labour are no picnic, but I don’t think anything compares to your fanjo being stretched til it rips without any pain relief!

Tripped down just one step, snapped the ligaments in my ankle and chipped the ankle bone. I nearly puked from the pain and it was agony for weeks afterwards. Eight months on it still plays me up sometimes and is very weak, despite 3 months of physio.

Still not a patch on labour though! Not even close.

A dislocated knee cap! Worse than labour as no reward in the end.

Bizarrely I didn't find dry socket painful
Broken ankle (twice) was sore but nothing will compare to that bloody cauda equina/sciatica. I felt like such a wimp until the MRI came back, was still working etc and drove myself to hospital. Colleague said afterwards I was grey with pain

I had a tumour removed from my tongue - totally painless at the time due to local anaesthetic. Sent home; indeed drove home. What happened when the local wore off you do not wish to know. They had given me no pain killers to take home with me - can you believe that? And by the time it wore off there is no way I could have swallowed a pill.

On the plus side my OH was a GP and was able to provide some proper pain relief when he came home - the downside is he did not come home for 7 hours. I have no words to describe the pain - the tongue is heaving with pain-sensitive nerve ends - it was totally unspeakable and I will never forgive the surgeon who did not think further than the end of his nose.

Hard to say - I've had a lot of very painful experiences! This is so outing but never mind:

• almost amputating my arm with a bathroom sink and having it reconstructed while conscious on only gas and air
• having my eyelid cut open with a fencing sword (and having the swollen to bursting eyelid infected and stitched back up)
• having a Mirena coil dislodge and attempt to escape via my Fallopian tube (and the conscious hour spent trying to retrieve it)
• having a cervical biopsy taken without local anaesthetic
• the 40 minutes and 7 attempts it took to get my spinal in, when the needle kept bending and it felt like my leg was being torn from my body
• severe gallbladder infection and pancreatitis

The arm was probably the worst but at least my body was kind enough to go into shock.

Oh, and more than 20 hospital admissions with endometriosis pain so bad I would fall unconscious. And tearing all the ligaments in my ankle. And breaking my arm in two places trampolining.

But I'd still take all that over the arm, the eye or the spinal.

I had a DOUBLE ear infection in BOTH ears (middle and outer). Had a doctor come out to the house as I was screaming and couldn't move with the pain. He said it was the worst case he'd ever seen. My head was so swollen and bruised, I looked like Sloth from 'The Goonies' because one ear was hanging down near my chin/jawbone. I lost my hearing for quite a while too.

I don't know if it's actually possible to die from ear infections, but I was wishing for it at the time!

I should also add the presence of 4 thrombosed piles - I have no words!

I dropped a full molten cheese lasagne bubbling straight out of the oven onto my bare arm and just couldn't get it off quick enough so had pretty awful burns. It was horrific. Safe to say I'll be wearing long sleeves on my wedding day so I don't have to snow the scar off.

A cyst bursting on my ovaries

Abscesse on wisdom tooth was extremely painful and the recovery after extraction.
Post c section was quite painful I hadn't expected it to be so bad.

Oh and a dry socket after a tooth extraction. That was probably worse than the cyst actually

Oh Summer my god that sounds awful!

Although tbf ... all of these sound pretty horrifying!

Corneal erosion was really bad, as was an ear infection, but the winner is...

Coil insertion before the doctor gave in and admitted I needed the anaesthetic gel I'd requested in the first place.

It was far more painful than childbirth.

Thinking I was having the migraine from hell, my brain felt like it was boiling in my head. Turns out I had blood clots across my brain.

One episode of Constipation was truly truly painful, might have even been worse than one of my births

Dental abscess. Way worse than the nasty infected c-section wound, the shattered ankle and the Bartholins cyst that left me unable to walk or sit down. I'd have sawn my own head off if it had made me feel even 10% better.

Perhaps I had very easy labours, but I gave birth two my two DDs without any form of pain relief, and I would rather give birth to a dozen more children than experience gallstone pain again. I was banging my head on the tiled floor to distract myself from the pain and truly wishing DH would kill me.