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What is the most pain you have ever experienced?

354 replies

Rnm62 · 04/10/2022 03:40

Some say tooth pain is one of the worst pains to have.

What would you say the worst pain is you’ve experienced?

OP posts:
CrampMcBastard · 04/10/2022 05:26

Coming round from a general post an operation to put a pin and plate in a broken ankle. I came round without any pain relief and for a couple of minutes, which felt like a lifetime, it was proper 9/10 writhing in agony, gasping, crying pain. The anaesthetists were really sweet and dryly funny so I wasn’t actually that pissed off about it.

After that it’s:

  • having a coil fitted (8.5/10)
  • recent mystery pain/cramps (8.5/10. Nearly passed out). Ovarian torsion initially suspected, then OHSS. It disappeared, remains a bit of mystery.
Snozzlemaid · 04/10/2022 05:27

Biliary colic from Gallstones.
Undoubtedly the worst I've ever experienced.

RebeccaCloud9 · 04/10/2022 05:29

Kidney stones.
.
I've had a long back to back labour and that was hell, and longer lasting. But the kidney stones, during the worst bit, was more painful. Was scarier too - I knew what was happening during childbirth.

garlictwist · 04/10/2022 05:30

k1233 · 04/10/2022 04:41

Out of all the below, it would be the plantar fascia. That made me scream.

  • Tooth broken in half
  • Tooth abscess
  • broken ribs
  • Tore muscle, ligament and cartilage off ribs and tore a big hole in my pec
  • tore a hole in the muscle over my shoulder blade
  • frozen shoulder
  • tore plantar fascia - it's taken a long time to heal, would have been better if it had snapped apparently

Out of interest, how did you tear your plantar fascia?

A580Hojas · 04/10/2022 05:31

Gallbladder attack, then breaking a toe by stubbing it.

StiggyZardust · 04/10/2022 05:39

The moment my Achilles tendon ruptured. Absolute agony for about an hour.

OldYork · 04/10/2022 05:41

Toothache x 10000000 - way worse than childbirth (induced and put on the dreaded drip thing that makes you have contractions). That was a walk in the park in comparison. Toothache with infected roots and gum is the only moment in my life when the pain was so great, I seriously contemplated death as a positive alternative.

EnormousStuffedMarrow · 04/10/2022 05:45

Gallstones I think. Excruciating and frightening when I didn't know what it was. Definitely thought the pain would kill me.

mickandrorty · 04/10/2022 05:58

kidney stones then tooth ache (why is it called ache? it is not an ache its fucking agony) then childbirth

Fuuuuuckit · 04/10/2022 06:03

Frozen shoulder. The constant un-ending-ness of it. Absolutely broke me physically and mentally.

I'd have both labours again if it would take the frozen shoulder away.

SquishySquashySquishmallow · 04/10/2022 06:06

Scarlet Fever. How I imaging trying to swallow razors over and over would feel .

If I accidentally eat gluten that is a whole night awake in horrific pain with a hot water bottle for company but hasn’t happened for a while thank god.

sarahc336 · 04/10/2022 06:07

Having an exposed nerve after a dental extraction, worse than child birth like a hot poker going up through my eye and head x

Goosygandy · 04/10/2022 06:11

Gallstones and childbirth. With the gallstones I didn't know where to put myself. Awful.

Simonjt · 04/10/2022 06:15

Tonsillitis
Ruptured appendix
Torn glute

LegoFiends · 04/10/2022 06:18

Probably mastoiditis

October2020 · 04/10/2022 06:19

Specifically, the week of pain after having the stent removed after kidney surgery to remove a kidney stone. I genuinely wanted to die when the spasms of pain came and I had a week in hospital on PCA morphine. The kidney stone was sore and the uteroscopy recovery with the stent was bad but the post stent removal colic was indescribable.

Vampirethriller · 04/10/2022 06:21

Abscess in my jawbone that led to sepsis. I was in labour for nearly 3 full days and it was nothing compared to that.

Grumpyoldpersonwithcats · 04/10/2022 06:21

Male - so can't compare childbirth - but Tooth abscess for me, nothing else has ever come near.

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 04/10/2022 06:24

Labour. I passed out repeatedly in labour with my first and had no control over my body. The actual pushing with my second was worse though because I had no pain relief (gas and air does fuck all for me) and I thought I was being torn in half.

I’ve been lucky to never break anything though so nothing extreme to compare the pain to.

BeingATwatItsABingThing · 04/10/2022 06:25

Oh I should add breastfeeding through tongue tie and bad latch which led to mastitis. The pain was unbelievable!

CourtneeLuv · 04/10/2022 06:27

Cluster headaches.

OhWhatFuckeryIsThisNow · 04/10/2022 06:27

When I was much younger, having bone marrow taken. Like someone vacuuming my chest out of a pinprick.

FourTeaFallOut · 04/10/2022 06:29

Childbirth and gallstones. In fact, I was frantic that I was about to become one of those crazy stories of surprise babies when the mother never knew she was pregnant when the gallstones hit.

dontgosummer · 04/10/2022 06:31

OutOntheTilez · 04/10/2022 05:11

Slipped disk in my back 25 years ago. Three weeks of hell before the pain finally started to subside. Every day I thought about crawling in front of a city bus and ending it all. Labor with DS1 lasted about 20 hours and was really really bad, but that at least had a purpose. This back thing, just no.

Same... I used to say if I had a gun I would have shot myself

2 surgeries later .. I'm pain free .. thank god

RobertJohnsonsShoes · 04/10/2022 06:33

Gallstones